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Did you know...

31 August 2006

14:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater, in Lviv, Ukraine combines details of the Renaissance and Baroque architecture
?

...that the isolated population of the Azores is the only population of dragonflies anywhere in the world known to reproduce by parthenogenesis
?

...that the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim, meaning The Bums' song led to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?

...that the passenger car
ever made?

...that the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running?

...that threatened species
, but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?

04:40, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

...that for over 200 years the Kings of Portugal until its destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake
?

...that Canadian board game similar to Scrabble
, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?

...that according to Czech genius Jára Cimrman
, in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?

...that British child star Joseph McManners, was recorded in Prague
and features music by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?

...that most of the indentured labourers
between 1879 and 1916?
...that on August 26, 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport, Wales?

30 August 2006

16:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the language of the
ethnic group of Maya called Itza, who once ruled over Chichen Itza
, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them?

...that the British
music journalist Everett True introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love
?

...that the veteran Polish actress Irena Kwiatkowska is most remembered for her television series role in which she performed various unusual or absurd jobs?

...that
supersonic jet
?

...that one fan's elaboration of Quake's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra, the longest work of machinima at the time?

...that Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick
?

09:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

...that American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?

...that the USA, menaced the Los Alamos National Laboratory and produced a smoke plume that extended to Oklahoma
?

...that ocean surface waves that are similar to tsunamis
?

...that Witelo
?
...that the
Desert Tree Frog is one of Australia's most widely distributed frogs
?

...that Baron
Karl von Reichenbach, the prolific German chemist who discovered paraffin, creosote and phenol, proposed the existence of a quack physical energy, the Odic force
, that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?

...that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?

...that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?

02:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the choice of location for
Tallahassee, was influenced by a waterfall in what is now Cascades Park
(pictured)?

...that structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?

...that the small Fiat Cinquecento is among the few cars fitted with both transverse and longitudinal engines at the same time?

...that the Spanish used
Puerto Rican
masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?

...that it was feared the broadcast of the Italian 1974 Eurovision song Si, meaning yes would influence a referendum on divorce?

29 August 2006

19:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the 15-puzzle
?

...that Chicago, Illinois
?

...that
Every Song Is A Cry For Love" was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest
?

...that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?

...that Central Sikh Temple was Singapore's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s?

...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?

08:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the supermini
?

...that the
Apollo Program
?

...that the U.S. Army during World War II
?

...that Niigata, Japan in 1990
at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?

...that "Ireland entered the Eurovision Song Contest with a song in Irish
?

...that a lifeboat from the wrecked passenger steamship SS Valencia was found floating in good condition, 27 years after the ship's demise?

01:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Kullen Lighthouse (pictured), a prominent landmark on the Swedish coastline, is the most powerful lighthouse in Scandinavia?

...that architectural elements akin to those of the
Central Railway Station in Sofia
during its latest renovation?

...that Wicketkeeper
in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
...that forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet
?

...that the Conference of Rulers of Malaysia plays an important role in the Malaysian elective monarchy?

...that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?

28 August 2006

18:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Central Sofia Market Hall

...that the
facade of the Central Sofia Market Hall (pictured) in Sofia, Bulgaria features a relief of the coat of arms of Sofia
above the main entrance?

...that Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?

...that
Mathematics Olympiads
?

... that the largely unexplored
Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka
?

...that the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?

...that the
St. James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts
?

11:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

...that
Bonin Petrels (pictured) nesting on Midway Atoll
declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?

...that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?

...that Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?

...that according to
Neanderthal extinction
?

...that Kings of Poland
?

...that the Battle of Maclodio earned the Republic of Venice its largest permanent land area in its 1000-year history?

05:40, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

...that
Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?

...that complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic
Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum
?

...that
Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai
that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?

...that
Bovine Growth Hormone
?

...that a school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus?

27 August 2006

22:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Simca Aronde (pictured) was named after the French word for swallow, a bird which appeared on the Simca logo when the model was presented?

...that African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets
took on an increased role?

...that the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London?

...that Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001?

...that the Catholic priest Neil Horan
ran into the path of the oncoming cars?

26 August 2006

06:37, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

...that Banks' Florilegium is a series of 743 engravings of plants collected by Joseph Banks (pictured) and Daniel Solander on Cook's Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771?

...that the Red Kite
?

...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?

...that the Viceroy of India, Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh
?

...that earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada
desert?

...that surgeon William Brydon was the only European of 16,500 British troops to survive the retreat to Jalalabad from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War?

25 August 2006

07:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the reconstruction of USSR
?

...that, had it been completed, the Trinity Shoal Light would have been among the most exposed lighthouses in the United States?

...that acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening disease of pregnancy that is treated with urgent delivery?

...that Hendren v. Campbell was a forerunner to the 1987 Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard to forbid the teaching of creationism in American public schools?

...that freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?

... that capillary action of molten brass or silver is used to greatly increase the strength of lugged steel bicycle frames?

24 August 2006

23:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

... that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on brass tables called "nails" (pictured), which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?

...that the Mughal emperor Jahangir
?

...that the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854?

...that Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England
?

...that
Beinn a' Ghlo is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI
?

...that the French sports car Matra Murena had an unusual seat configuration of three abreast?

06:27, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

... that Fowlsheugh cliffs attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?

...that one factor in the 1995 assassination of
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef
under Jewish law?

...that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?

...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?

...that the
gravestone of executed murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia
over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?

...that the Jungle Book character
?

00:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the
military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque
relic in the town?

... that the
government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war
?

...that an attack on the flanks of an enemy is known as a flanking maneuver and that this type of attack has been used in both land and naval battles?

...that the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy?

...that black list
?

...that the
right-hand drive Simca 1300/1500 came with floor-mounted gear shifters
having an inverted gear shift pattern?

23 August 2006

03:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

...that there are many unfinished buildings throughout the world that may never be completed or demolished because of the costs involved?

... that Singapore's Police Coast Guard is a coast guard and water police service that is also responsible for maintenance of order on most of Singapore's off-shore islands?

... that the
Kadam Rasul shrines are believed to display stone imprints of the footprints of Muhammad
?

...that the
Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite
?

...that the Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind
indicator?

...that in 1943, avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff?

22 August 2006

21:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

LORAX rover

...that the
LORAX project to build an Antarctic rover shares a name with a Dr. Seuss character
?

...that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?

...that in the papal Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the fish market, in Sant'Angelo?

...that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?

...that the song "
Silvia Night
due to an expletive in the lyrics?

...that Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II?

06:15, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

...that
Ida Lewis (pictured) is, to date, the only American lighthouse keeper
for whom a light station has been named?

...that the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?

...that the Volynia is believed to have been named after a winter palace of Vladimir the Great
that formerly stood on the spot?

...that Józef Zeydlitz served in the Polish Army for 65 years and took part in six wars, yet did not receive a single military award?

...that the Ethiopian, Arab, and Italian
food traditions?

...that when it opened in 1999,
Casino Sault Ste. Marie was Northern Ontario's first full-time charity casino
?

00:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

...that even though Kaaterskill High Peak (pictured) was the first Catskill High Peak to be climbed, there is no official trail to its summit?

...that during the Fremantle prison riot
in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?

...that Banderia Prutenorum is a 15th-century manuscript by Jan Długosz, describing banners collected by Polish forces after their defeat of the Teutonic Order forces in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 AD?

...that Valéry Inkijinoff, a French actor of Russian-Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?

...that warfare, but by a 1646 act of the English parliament to destroy its battlements, lest they be used by Royalists
?

...that Jan III Sobieski
, wrote to each other?

21 August 2006

11:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Peugeot
, and continues production to this day? (pictured)

...that the new Monument to Alexander II in Moscow was built on a slope to symbolize that the emperor was an ordinary man, when the monument is viewed from behind?

...that "dance pop
song?

...that Indian army was awarded India's highest military honour posthumously in error, until it was realized that he was still alive recovering from injuries from the Kargil War
?

...that
Santa Marta Massacre, an event which also featured prominently in his friend Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude
?

...that the cyberpet
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00:42, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

De La Salle University Pops Orchestra

...that the
De La Salle University Pops Orchestra (pictured) is the first pop orchestra in the Philippines
?

...that the Air New Zealand Cup have replaced the National Provincial Championship in New Zealand rugby union
?

...that
break dancing champion of India
?

...that
Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip
to conceal their identity?

...that the
British East India Company ship, the Tryall is the oldest shipwreck in Australia
?

...that a small cottage in the Chester, England suburb of Handbridge inspired the song "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles?

...that Walt Neubrand is one of three men responsible for the safety of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup during its travels around the world?

20 August 2006

06:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

... that
Orlov trotters (pictured) were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American standardbreds in the 1870s
?

...that although related to modern
sharks
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...that ski treks were popular with
Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye
?

...that the canton of Berne
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... that Rank Organisation, was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin's Night and the City
?

...that the Achilles tang was named in honor of Achilles, the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad?

19 August 2006

09:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

File:Simca Ariane - cropped.jpg

...that the four-cylinder engine
from the smaller Simca Aronde?

...that the 1710
Bendery Constitution by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was one of the first state constitutions in Europe
?

...that the death of lighthouse keeper George Worthylake was memorialized in a broadside poem by the young Benjamin Franklin?

...that prisoners in a
Soviet Gulag seized control of their camp for 40 days
, establishing their own government, militia, and propaganda department?

...that
Minn Hinsti Dans", was performed by a former drag queen
?

...that Miss Teen USA 2006
crown?

18 August 2006

22:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

...that King Louis XV of France
?

...that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity?

...that in the late
Polish king or parliament
?

...that Melbourne, Australia
?
...that
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned-Punjabi actor Yograj Singh
?

09:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the image of
U.S. hundred dollar bill was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis
?

...that the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline?

... that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?

...that Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II
?

...that the
Prachandra
to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994?

...that the six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses?

00:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

...that a lost Roman villa was discovered in 1992 when a bulldozer remodeled the sand on a beach at the Rio Alto tourist area (pictured) in Portugal?

...that a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?

... that
coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995
?

...that
radio documentaries, collectively named the Solitude Trilogy, in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue
?

...that director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?

...that France's Ford Vedette was the first car to feature MacPherson struts?

17 August 2006

12:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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...that the Imperial Russia
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...that the first
eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978
?

...that the Claude Glass
was a tinted mirror used by amateur artists in the 18th century in which they turned their back on the subject?

...that Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955, which killed 16 people?

...that the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?

...that Simca 1000, a small French-made car, was manufactured for 17 years and that almost 2 million were produced?

04:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the 18th-century Águas Livres Aqueduct (pictured) was paid for by a special sales tax on beef, olive oil, and wine?

...that in Jordan, two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail?

...that the
Disney
songs?

...that the
Huanghuagang Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising, the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic
?

...that Sakis Rouvas, who performed a sexually-suggestive song "Shake It" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, engaged in an equally sexually-suggestive conversation with Paul de Leeuw while hosting the Contest two years later?

...that Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?

16 August 2006

22:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

...that
salt march to Dandi
?

...that the self-made
1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest
?

...that in June 2001, Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition?

...that the native mammal fauna of Puerto Rico consists exclusively of bats?

...that the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?

08:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

...that Alexander I of Russia acclaimed Peter Wittgenstein as the "Saviour of Saint Petersburg" for his victory at Klyastitsy (pictured)?

...that
an unsolved murder
?

...that the Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan
?

...that
2005
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...that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the solar system
?
...that Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?

15 August 2006

23:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Triumph 1800 Roadster's body was built from aluminium using press tools from the Mosquito bomber fuselage
?

...that 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Felicity Huffman?

...that the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood?

...that People's Republic of Poland
?

...that the Poconos
?

...that
George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler
?

07:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

... that Tropical Storm Helene of 2000 struck Florida just five days after Hurricane Gordon?

...that the most powerful
Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg
?

...that the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson?

...that the popular hymn "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier?

...that when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991
, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?

...that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?

00:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the French car Simca Vedette (pictured) was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?

...that the predators
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...that the song "
Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect
and never answers the question in its title?

...that
Picasso's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle
that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?

...that the Pechenga Monastery, founded in 1533, was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?

...that Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour, who might have been his natural daughter?

14 August 2006

06:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Kamenny Monastery (pictured), the oldest in the north of Russia, was destroyed in 1937 in order to help with the construction of a local palace of culture?

...that the 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris
?

...that the
actress Revathi's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend
was entirely composed of women?

...that Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in Europe?

...that Newfoundland
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13 August 2006

23:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

...that DNA clamp proteins (pictured) keep the DNA polymerase replicating enzyme bound to the template DNA strand, increasing the rate of DNA synthesis up to 1,000-fold?

...that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?

...that the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines recommends appointees to the country's courts, without the "advice and consent" of the Commission on Appointments?

... that
Payload Specialists on board the Space Shuttle
?

...that a substantially complete
Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999
?

04:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Bianchi, tire giant Pirelli and Fiat
?

... that during the
Indian Wars, troops stationed at Fort Harker, Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post-American Civil War
era?

...that the song "
Reise Nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e Seyahat" was the first occasion on which the German Eurovision entry was performed partly in Turkish
?

...that the controversy over the
portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet
?

...that in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?

...that in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean?

12 August 2006

16:04, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Archbishop Jeremiah James Harty

...that
first Christian Brother school in the Philippines
?

...that the Cockpit Theatre was the first theatre in London's Drury Lane?

...that
Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar
?

...that a
Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act
?

...that the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities?

...that the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States, and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West?

06:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

...that Rembrandt's painting Danaë (pictured) was severely damaged when a visitor threw sulfuric acid onto it on June 15, 1985?

...that the
Cheraman Juma Masjid, the oldest mosque in India, was originally constructed in traditional Hindu architectural style
?

...that Brian Killick's novel The Heralds follows the exploits of fictional members of the College of Arms as they vie to be the next Garter Principal King of Arms?

...that the
Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003
?

...that the song Autostop is the only Eurovision Song Contest entry to have been based on the subject of hitchhiking?

11 August 2006

21:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the pet stores, and was described by Theodore Roosevelt
as "delicious eating"?

...that the self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions
?

...that of the three breeding roosts in
Barbastelle bat, the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk's historic Paston Great Barn
?

...that
keicar simply named "i"
?

...that a
Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist
undertones?

...that
alcoholic potter in her debut film Ankur
?

05:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Catalan architect Enric Miralles died before seeing the completion of his largest building: the Scottish Parliament Building (pictured)?

...that, in his novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy described the Battle of Tarutino as little more than a chain of accidents and coincidences?

...that the automobile with the front-wheel drive, transverse engine setup and rack and pinion
steering?

...that much of what is known about the life of blues legend Blind Willie McTell comes from interviews with his wife, Kate McTell, after his death?

...that stadiums such as
Telstra Stadium and Paris' Stade de France use movable seating
to change the layout of the playing area to allow for a wider variety of sports?

...that NFL championship wins and scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl
history?

10 August 2006

23:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

...that Kiev
may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome?

...that, during the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill was so impressed with the brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company that he asked Joseph Stalin to send him several cases annually?

...that the band Crow originally recorded "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)", which was famously covered by Black Sabbath?

... that in August 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas became the first Hispanic female general officer in United States Marine Corps history?

...that the song "
Guildo Hat Euch Lieb!" was performed by a band whose name literally translates as "Guildo Horn
and the Orthopedic Stockings"?

07:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. received ten tons of broccoli from Barbara Bush after it was banned from the White House and Air Force One by George H. W. Bush?

...that between 1977 and 1998, Madame Leprieur from Agon-Coutainville in France sent 80,000 questions to the daily RTL radio show Les Grosses Têtes, making herself famous nationwide?

...that Alberta Vaughn was an American film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in 1992?

...that
2005 Eurovision Song Contest, went through two major strip acts
during her three-minute performance?

...that when the Louis XIV's first cousin, the garden designer André Le Nôtre
's first advice was to "lay low all the woods that are there"?

00:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the largest animal, and that there are numerous Guinness World Records
for the largest human body parts?
...that Légion d'honneur for his books about Joan of Arc
?

...that the International Ski Federation held outside Europe, took place in Lake Placid in the United States
?

...that the Régence style, precursor of the Rococo, had its origins in the interiors designed by Jean Bérain the Elder for Louis, Grand Dauphin at the Château de Meudon?

...that Christian Brothers
' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?

...that Shangwen Fang received a fine for cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?

9 August 2006

09:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

... that
Maria Christina
?

...that there are many examples of unfinished work
in the arts, some of which remain incomplete but others have been finished by other people?

...that the song "hip-hop music
, despite not being in that style?

...that during the time of
National Anthem of a unified Scandinavian
nation?

...that the car with a fiberglass
body?

...that the Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, was named for its spectacular views over the Seine
?

8 August 2006

22:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the invention of the electronic digital
one of the longest federal court cases
in the history of the United States?

...that
Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India
?

...that the Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?

...that the sting of the rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?

...that The Daily Talk, the most widely read news medium in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?

...that Brazilian-born Alberto Cavalcanti directed the 1942 British propaganda war film Went the Day Well?

10:02, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Ph.D. and Doctor of Science
dissertations?

...that Colonel William Nolde was the last official American casualty of the Vietnam War?

...that the expressions "take care of the
William Lowndes
?

...that most buildings of the True Cross Monastery on Patriarch Nikon
?

...that the planned motorway will be the second toll section of the United Kingdom's M4 motorway
, despite being under 10 miles from the first?

...that United States of America
?

7 August 2006

23:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

... that the self-teaching robots
were analyzed playing the game?

...that the British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé
?

...that movie theaters
, earning him the nickname "Sam the Popcorn Man"?
...that the pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903
?

...that Frederick Lorz was greeted as the winner of the 1904 Summer Olympics marathon but later admitted to having travelled by car for ten miles of the race?

...that
Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan
?

08:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the high relief
, but was almost completely destroyed in the 1790s?

...that the
Canadian Arctic islands did not become part of Canada until 1880
?

...that Society of Apothecaries
?
...that the song "Mongol leader Genghis Khan
?

...that civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in Manila during World War II, believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?

6 August 2006

23:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Odessa, Ukraine create an optical illusion
, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?

...that Galileo mission to Jupiter
?

...that murdered British schoolgirl sweetpea
named after her?

...that the
British betting scandal of 1964
?
...that, before becoming famous, both Martha Stewart and Lyle Waggoner appeared in ads for Tareyton cigarettes, telling the audience that "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!"?

...that a group of rock stars formed a
Leninakan Earthquake
?

12:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris was the home of King James II for 13 years after his exile from Great Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

...that the Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek
?

...that the native predators
?

...that Tajikistani refugees
?
...that Flying University was the secret educational conspiratorial enterprise that existed in Warsaw, Poland, in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?

...that Monica Coghlan, at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord Jeffrey Archer, was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of perjury and vindicate her?

5 August 2006

17:07, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the era of the
oil gusher (pictured) came to an end with the development of the first blowout preventer
in 1924?

...that the
Canaanites are a movement in Hebrew culture that seeks to recover its rootedness in ancient Canaanite
civilization?

...that early photographer assassination
—and also photographed the conspirators and their public execution?
...that during the filming of the 2002 film ad libbed, and director Oliver Parker
thought Firth's stunned reaction was so humorous that he kept them in the film?

...that the song "
Zwei Kleine Italiener" references the homesickness experienced by guest workers in Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder
?

4 August 2006

18:29, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

...that nearly 350,000
Soviet and Japanese trawling
fleets in 1965?

...that whole life tariffs
by the Government?
...that Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was one of the first painters to work in an abstract style for his entire career?

...that, according to the Lanercost Chronicle, Richard de Inverkeithing, bishop of Dunkeld, was poisoned by King Alexander III of Scotland so that the king could take the bishop's movable possessions?

...that student newspapers in the Philippines
?

09:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

...that in the
anthropomorphized
as girls (pictured)?

...that pigeons, reindeer and even cats
?

...that within a
juggler
?

...that 96 tropical cyclones have affected the state of Delaware since 1749?

...that Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a mixed language based on Malay, Japanese, English and Australian Aboriginal languages?

3 August 2006

23:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the Organ Pipe Cactus
(pictured) takes 150 years to reach maturity and can reach a height of eight meters?

...that military junta
?

...that the advertisements on the covers of matchbooks
?

...that the parastatal consortium come November 1, 2006
?

...that Ottoman Turkish language
?

08:47, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

...that the division viol (pictured) is a type of viol used for highly virtuosic music, much like its Italian equivalent, the viola bastarda?

...that the chimeric antibody called infliximab
?

...that
Suleiman the elephant, named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, became the first elephant to visit Vienna
in March 1552?

...that Indian film songs that was the most listened to radio program in India
for portions of its 42-year run?

...that the China
?

00:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

...that General Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch during the Russian occupation of Paris in 1814
?

...that the borders of the
13 July 1787
?

...that West Side Story won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 34th Academy Awards?

...that University of Wisconsin, pioneered the American studio glass movement in the 1960s and is responsible for training many prominent glass artists
?

...that the song "French
?

2 August 2006

00:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Tauride Palace

...that the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace (pictured) of Catherine the Great?

...that British
Second World War
?

...that the French clothing brand Cacharel is named after a small bird that inhabits the Camargue?

...that coup that displaced Yakubu Gowon as the leader of Nigeria, and yet went on to be President of the United Nations General Assembly
?

...that the All Blacks traditional haka
performance?

...that conger cuddling was once described as the "most fun a person could have with a dead fish"?

1 August 2006

13:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

...that after the Siege of Boonesborough in the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone (pictured) was court-martialed?

...that the song "
Mama Corsica" is the only song in the Corsican language to have been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest, placing 4th in the 1993 edition
?

...that overacting can be intentional for some roles, particularly when exaggerating the evil characteristics of a villain, but is often the subject of parody and satire?

...that two-time
International Motor Sports Association champion Steve Millen was only able to compete in three of four IROC races in 1995 before he suffered a career ending injury at Road Atlanta
?

...that the sand dunes practiced solely in Northern Portugal
?

...that U.S. Army surgeon Ben L. Salomon was recommended for the Medal of Honor four times before it was posthumously awarded by George W. Bush in 2002?

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