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31 December 2006

22:42, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

...that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay (pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
... that partisan society during the Philippine Revolution
?

...that the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?

...that Indian chess player
Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth
device sewn into his cap?

...that retired
road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España
at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González?

...that the site of SSAWS, once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan's first IKEA superstore?

14:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

...that in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD (pictured) software?

...that after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger, a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?

...that Pan Africanist Congress
after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?

...that surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?

...that Virgin Unite, the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?

...that the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?

02:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Thomas Cole painted The Oxbow (pictured) in 1836 after taking a break from working on his famous series of paintings The Course of Empire?

...that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?

...that although
Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico, it first appeared in California
?

...that
Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani
?

...that the
Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages
?

...that 22-year-old
Sri Lanka
?

30 December 2006

19:47, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

...that despite running for only 3 years, Aušra (pictured), the first national Lithuanian newspaper, gave its name to the period between 1883 and 1904 in the history of Lithuania?

...that Kochi
, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?

...that in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a bottle of vodka
resides on almost every table shown in the movie?

...that Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?

...that Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?

...that Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?

12:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the citizens of
Smyrna, Michigan withheld $25 from their deferred payment for Whites Bridge
(pictured) because they were upset that the builders used second hand lumber?

...that "
James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music
?

...that reserve component's creation in 1941
?

...that the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways
?

...that, after having spent much of her 8 years in
Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante
published her recollections in a diary?

...that Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?

29 December 2006

21:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

...that as one of the three original members of the
Royal Philatelic Society's Expert Committee, Edward B. Evans
(pictured) edited most of the Society's early publications?

...that
anti-war agitation in the German Navy
?

...that in 1967,
Mac Hack became the first computer chess
program to defeat a person in tournament play?

...that during the reign of the
St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant
?

...that the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution?

...that the compound blueberries and grapes, is thought to help prevent cancer, cognitive decline, and diabetes
?

11:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Armenian oil magnate Alexander Mantashev (pictured) handpicked 50 talented young Armenians and sent them to study at the best universities of continental Europe and Russia
?

...that the
Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia
from being subject to Article 5(4) of the Constitution?

...that the popular
cosmonauts
?

...that the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield composed of Riggs Stephenson, Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?

00:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

...that in the Cossack-Tatar
alliance?

00:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Sakati syndrome is classified under a group of rare genetic disorders
known as Acrocephalopolysyndactyly?

28 December 2006

21:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The Christmas Story House, post-restoration

...that $
150,000?

...that Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War, a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?

...that singer
?

...that Alhambra decree
?

...that western India
"?

...that place name in the United States
?

...that New Zealand historian stewed rat and albatross
?

14:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Italian mafioso Antonino Calderone (pictured) was the first pentito to provide details on Mafia operations in Catania?

...that the canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry?

...that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?

...that
C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency
?

...that Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil
company?

...that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth's last two career home runs on May 25, 1935, just five days before Ruth retired?

27 December 2006

20:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

...that owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival (example pictured) has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism?

...that the
electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War
?

...that
Jesuit Collegium
?

...that Money No Enough, which earned over S$5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?

...that Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint
when granting licences to speak in public?

...that the automobile model with four-wheel brakes
?

13:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky (pictured) left the Imperial Academy of Arts without a formal diploma, after having refused to paint on a set topic in Scandinavian
mythology?

...that only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States?

...that
de-Stalinization
?

...that
Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated
as a horse?

...that 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?

...that the
Philippine Court of Appeals
?

26 December 2006

23:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum
?

...that there are only two extant populations of the
Tiburon Jewelflower, both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area
?

...that
Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people
?

...that
Empire of Korea
?

...that the See of Sardis, an episcopal see once held by Melito, continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis?

...that the Mon-Khmer, and Indo-Aryan
?

16:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design (pictured) failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837?

...that Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?

...that Malayalam
types being used for printing?

...that
dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture
?

...that
Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island
?

...that Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church?

01:04, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky
?

...that an unknown quantity of loans made to the Columbian exposition
and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?

...that it is a
tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower
?

...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?

...that the
Persia in 1915
?

...that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?

25 December 2006

18:42, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

... that the first U.S. National Christmas Tree (pictured) was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?

...that the two fundamental reference points in the
rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water
, and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?

...that mobile games
?
...that the
Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record
for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?

...that Gesta Tancredi, one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade, was not translated into English until 2005?

...that conductor and
Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967
?

08:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the German invasion of Poland
began?

...that the rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning
people instead of saving them?

...that kick shots
?
...that Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?

...that the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?

...that
Donnie Young, the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor
recipient?

24 December 2006

20:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

...that whipcracking (pictured), the art of using a whip to create a miniature sonic boom, is a competitive sport in Australia, where it was also elaborated into whipboxing?

...that the Consumers Power
for a dollar by a river property owners association?

...that Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team
furnished it, at age 15?

...that the 1931 murders of five Shanghai War of 1932
?
...that the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata, Hodie, by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?

...that the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton, well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family?

14:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
leveled its headquarters?

...that the
Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower
as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?

... that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?

...that
major league debut
?

...that the military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War
and returned to Poland undefeated?

...that the original title of the
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?

06:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman
?

...that Nicaraguan national anthem, was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua
after his death?

...that Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?

...that American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?

...that John G. Downey, Governor of California during the American Civil War, was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger?

23 December 2006

23:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?

...that, unlike normal
lithium ion batteries, the lithium iron phosphate battery
does not explode under extreme conditions?

...that New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize
?

...that the
Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer
patients?

...that a
payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines
?

...that the
Birmingham City
, the two most prominent football teams of the city?

13:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the camouflage of the gorgonian
had been collected and placed in an aquarium?

...that
Oliver Smith is the youngest-ever local party president in British political history
?

...that studio album featured on the MTV series Undressed in 1999
?

...that the writer Austro-Hungarian Empire
, but was pardoned after one year?
...that the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II?

...that Perce Blackborrow's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica
?

22 December 2006

22:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf
(pictured)?

...that the
Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war
lost?

...that Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos, even though the term himbo would have been more technically correct?

...that
T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100
, after teaching for 69 years?

...that
Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley
movies rolled into one"?

...that noted
labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin
, better known as Miss Manners?

15:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the kanclerz Jan Zamoyski
?

...that the Engineer Castle, is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges
?

...that on
burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits
?

...that Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University, following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952
?

...that in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies, nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?

05:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

... that canine hydrotherapy (pictured) was initially used only to treat racing greyhounds?

...that Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect, and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry?

...that Second World War
?

... that the freshwater wetland in Northern California
?

...that the Singer's Bridge, designed by architect Vasily Stasov, was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?

...that the 180-degree turnout, or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?

21 December 2006

22:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the zigzag staircase (pictured) leading to the
Bom Jesus do Monte at Braga was designed so as to encapsulate the Three Virtues
?

...that the treasure of Musée Guimet in Paris
?

...that the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd, and included US$450 million in damage and three deaths?

... that American composer September 11, 2001 attacks
?
... that the 1983
Silicon Dreams trilogy
, contained over 7,000 locations?

...that the Ewing's sarcoma
?

13:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Yorkist
courtier, soldier and diplomat?

...that extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors
?

...that in the Corinthian Gulf to help defeat a Spartan fleet that outnumbered his Athenians
more than 2 to 1?

...that Boulder Dam
?
...that the Nanai language, despite having only a few thousand speakers left, continues to contribute loanwords to languages with even fewer speakers, such as Udege?

...that the
Printing Presses and Publications Act gives the Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia
"absolute discretion" in granting and revoking publication and printing permits?

06:26, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Barbican of Warsaw (pictured) became obsolete almost immediately after its construction in 1548
?

...that
minefield in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
, attempting to save other injured soldiers?

...that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula?

...that Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?

...that the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar?

...that Viennese Waltz
?

...that shortly before
spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small Irish
village?

...that Eugène de Beauharnais returned the territories of the Napoleonic Italy to provisional Austrian rule in 1814 by the Convention of Mantua?

20 December 2006

23:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
St. Michael's Castle (pictured) was built like a medieval fortress for the personal protection of the Russian Emperor Paul I, who ironically was assassinated
in his bedroom shortly after moving in to his new castle?

...that scratch
in order to win?
...that cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms
?

...that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop
to pair with a female figure skater from another country?

...that Richard Tregaskis, American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary, was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?

15:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

...that a church of the Order of the Holy Ghost once stood at the site of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (pictured) in Kraków?

...that Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas
?

...that football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football
, a local variant?

...that Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud?

...that Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the short story "A House to Let"?

...that
Society of Jesus
?

03:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
T-55
), which remains in service?

...that the ancient
2nd century CE
?

... that the
5 Days a Stranger and its sequel won 5 and 2 Adventure Game Studio
awards respectively?

...that "Fast as You Can" is Fiona Apple's only top forty single in the United Kingdom?

...that jeweler, built prestigious trophies such as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award
?

...that American composer Stephen Paulus gained fame with a 1982 opera based on The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of his nine operas?

... that the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976?

19 December 2006

21:08, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting (pictured), with him on coach
journeys in a specially-designed case?

...that in
homosexuals
, resulting in nine expulsions?

...that the creators of the
Alcazaba fortification in Málaga, Spain, reused materials from nearby Roman
ruins?

...that
Second World War
?

...that the Soviet
times?

...that the fictional
Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio
?

...that reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona
?

...that the
Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia
?

13:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the hslVU protein complex (pictured) that degrades damaged proteins in bacteria, probably resembles the evolutionary ancestor of the proteasome, a required component of all eukaryotic cells?

...that the Queen Isabella
?

...that
Eastern bloc
?

...that the American singer Mozarabic
?

...that The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994
?

...that Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia
?

...that W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski
?

...that the
video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus
?

06:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

... that Paul Haenlein was the first to create a dirigible airship (pictured) powered by an internal combustion engine?

...that
Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland's partition
?

...that
Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries
were never used against Japanese invaders?

...that the Silesian-born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi?

...that Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?

...that those who fear bees should know that bee smokers are useless when fending off bee swarms?

...that the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?

...that the coat of arms of Brook Watson featured his leg which he had lost in a shark attack?

18 December 2006

23:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Worlds End State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania is sometimes erroneously known as "Whirls End State Park", its official name for seven years?

...that Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts
?

...that the
racial prejudice, was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S.
more than any other work at the time?

...that Second World War
respectively?

07:58, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Moika River
?

...that between the 10th and 14th centuries, the
Hoysala Empire
?

...that racecourse was built and the island's aviation
history began?

...that one ship had to deal with
Hurricane Tanya twice in two different areas of the North Atlantic Ocean
five days apart in 1995?

...that although 99.8% of the population is
Muslim, there is no official religion in Turkey
?

...that platypus venom is delivered by small spurs on the male's hind limbs?

...that blessed by Odin but cursed by Thor
?

01:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Vix Pervenit, an encyclical promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV (pictured) in 1745, condemned the charging of interest on loans as "illicit and usurious
"?

...that one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?

...that the high-pitched quack of the
Call Duck was used to lure wild ducks into funnel traps
?

...that Roland Winters, who played the role of Charlie Chan in six films, was just over 6 months younger than Keye Luke, who played his son?

...that Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War
?

...that an air tools
?

17 December 2006

15:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Certosa di Pavia (pictured) was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?

...that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?

...that as a
Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people
?

...that the
Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja
rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?

...that the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?

...that on October 5 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?

16 December 2006

12:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Henry H. Rogers
's grandson in 1935?

...that Australian Test cricketer
?

...that in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational?

...that narcotics bust concerning the transporting of heroin
within the covers of the children's book Show-Me-How-I-Can-Paint?

...that Companion of the Order of Australia
?

01:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

...that John Singleton Copley's painting, Watson and the Shark (pictured), was based on a real-life shark attack that occurred in Havana, Cuba in 1749?

...that towns given specific meteorological warnings during storms are known as breakpoints?

...that snowmelt from the Carhuasanta travels farther than water from any other source to reach the mouth of the Amazon River?

...that Henry Percy was killed in a battle against Henry IV of England, whom he had helped to gain the Crown in a coup d'état?

...that former
Bill France, Jr. once used a mule while helping with the construction of Daytona International Speedway
?

...that astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight?

...that Article 10 of the Constitution of Malaysia guarantees citizens certain rights on condition that these rights are not restricted by the government?

15 December 2006

16:08, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Antonio Fontanesi (work pictured) was one of three foreign artists chosen by the Meiji government to oversee Japan's first public art school?

...that Pomo and Wappo
people?

...that Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964
?

...that
funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings
?

...that venturi scrubbers use the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream?

...that
Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone
as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death?

...that six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres are charged with globally tracking tropical cyclones?

...that the support that
racial stereotypes and social Darwinism
in her books was redacted from later editions?

07:14, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Royal Academy of Art and Sculpture in a row over methods of perspective
?

...that cricket team to not lose its first Test match
since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?

...that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is a law passed by the United States Congress in December 2006 for the purpose of protecting the reputation and honor of US military heroism medals due to the larger number of fake military heroes in the USA?

...that the Spanish-American War
?

...that
death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment
?

...that, in addition to the seven-day week, the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?

00:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

...that in
nuclear weapons
?

...that
collector's market
?

...that
flak and fighters
?

...that controversy arose over the
naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona's Heart Attack Grill
?

...that the
Karr-Koussevitzky bass was given to Gary Karr after Koussevitzky's
widow reported seeing his ghost embrace Karr on stage?

...that the Austrian-born writer Gregor von Rezzori acted in several movies alongside stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni or Charles Aznavour?

14 December 2006

18:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Remuh Synagogue (pictured) is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland
?

...that St. James's Park, London
?

...that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?

...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?

...that
Foreign Minister, Grigore Preoteasa, was killed in an aircraft accident after refusing to wear a seat belt
during landing?

01:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

...that, according to
Sergei Ivanov's painting pictured) by 867
?

...that
Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the first member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II
?

...that Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike?

...that the first Academy Award-winning film Norma Rae
?

...that as they don't require
corrosive
or sticky than other systems can?

...that penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963
?

13 December 2006

19:18, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
tissues
?

...that of the 64 women in the 39th Canadian Parliament, only one, former New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough, represents a riding in Atlantic Canada?

...that hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur
?

...that a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain?

...that the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian-speaking immigrants from the Iron Age?

07:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Russian Association of Scouts was founded by Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov
(pictured)?

...that Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall, the first shipwreck in Australian history?

...that the dust storms raised by the Shamal wind bring most travel in Iraq to a halt for several days?

...that Sougdeia
?

...that
calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder
?

...that Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type?

...that the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester, England, was the world's largest single-span arch for 30 years?

00:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

...that there has been a long history of activism at Ohio Wesleyan University (protest pictured), endorsed by the inaugural address of its first president?

...that the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?

...that the Polish town of Dzierżoniów was the venue of a meeting between Poland, Prussia, Holland and Austria during the Great Turkish War?

...that girdle books were popular fashion items between the 13th and 16th centuries?

...that Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area, as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration?

...that one of only five extant
Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi, Vietnam
to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui?

12 December 2006

18:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Thomas Orde-Lees (pictured) jumped from Tower Bridge into the River Thames to prove the effectiveness of parachutes to the Royal Flying Corps?

...that spray towers remove pollutants from exhaust gases by channeling them through a series of chemical sprays?

...that
Libyan-Chadian War
?

...that Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf, as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?

...that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus
?

...that Northern Alliance whilst serving as a Buddhist
priest?

04:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

... that the printmaking technique of mezzotint was invented in 1642 by professional soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig von Siegen? (example mezzotint pictured)

...that restoration
efforts have reversed that trend?

...that Russian
Devanagari
?

... that
nephew of former player Greg Campbell
?

...that eleven Pacific hurricanes have had their names retired, due to the damage they caused and other reasons?

...that history of labor
?

...that Major General Anzac Cove in World War I and was one of the last Australian
soldiers to leave the beach?

11 December 2006

21:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

...that self-expandable metallic stents (pictured) are prosthetic metal tubes inserted by fibre optic cameras in order to treat cancers of the gastrointestinal tract?

...that Bhai Gurdas was the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhism?

...that the
Communist regime
?

...that First World War
?

...that the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge?

...that the
peat bog including two moss lakes of glacial
origin?

...that Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park was the first pet cemetery to also allow people to be buried alongside their pets?

...that the performance of "
I See A Star" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 involved one singer playing a barrel organ with a collection of puppets
on it?

07:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Russian painter Alexandre Jacovleff (pictured) participated in trans-Saharan and trans-Asian (from Syria to China) expeditions organized by the French car manufacturer Citroën?

...that Natural Bridge State Park holds the largest natural arch in Wisconsin?

...that after
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
?

...that Satmar Hasidim, there is daily bus service to the store from Kiryas Joel, a Satmar enclave in Orange County, New York
?

...that U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?

...that the
national monument in Singapore, was given by Sultan Ibrahim of Johor in Malaysia
?

...that actress Jungle Girl
?
...that more hurricanes have struck the Baja California peninsula than anywhere else in Mexico?

10 December 2006

00:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Lumière Brothers
' screening by three years?

...that The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook to be published in the United States?

...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?

...that coral within tropical oceans is being used as a tropical cyclone observation to date past hurricanes, by looking for concentrations of the oxygen isotope O-18?

...that Yakut linguist Semyon Novgorodov adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet for the modern written Yakut language?

...that the Coleman Bridge in Singapore was the second bridge built across the Singapore River, and the first built in masonry?

...that Xavier William Proenza has been announced as the next director of the National Hurricane Center?

17:19, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

...that industrialist Joseph S. Cullinan (pictured) worked in the oilfields of Pennsylvania from the age of 14, but would later help shape the early oil industry in Texas?

...that, in the
Viking
raiders?

...that threatened by transmission line maintenance and new trail
systems?

...that Tokugawa bakufu so that the princess could marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi
, for political reasons?

...that the king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski
?

...that while the
bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis
infection?

07:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Koombana (pictured) in a cyclone off Port Hedland, Western Australia
?

...that the land around the
£
3m?

...that the death of Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance
system?

...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?

...that the Met's new opera The First Emperor by Tan Dun has been in development for ten years?

...that in 2005 the Constitutional Court of Spain ruled that Spanish courts may hear cases regarding genocide in which there were no Spanish victims, thereby reversing a decision of the country's Supreme Court?

...that a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars?

9 December 2006

23:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

... that the Malay palace in Singapore, and was refurbished into the Malay Heritage Centre
in 2004?

...that the Montgomery Worsted Mills, a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery, New York, now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River, rather than the manufacture of textiles?

...that the collisions
?

...that Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival?

...that Biblical
material?

...that
Chris Phatswe committed suicide by crashing his Air Botswana
plane into two other planes belonging to the airline, effectively crippling operations?

16:44, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Kalos inscriptions found on antique Attic vases (pictured), usually contain the author's declarations of love for the young man represented in the vase-painting?

...that the phrase "Goody Two-Shoes" comes from a 1765 children's story?

...that George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia's gold rush?

...that
self in a mirror, was inspired by the work of psychologist Henri Wallon
?

...that left-handed BDO World Darts Champion
?

...that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?

...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?

06:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

...that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta (pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?

...that a swinging column at Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia was used to hide riches?

...that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?

...that until 2006, it was not known that the 1980
Pulitzer Prize-winning image Firing Squad in Iran was taken by Jahangir Razmi
?

...that the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?

...that
Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
?

8 December 2006

23:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (pictured), Bambi and Pinocchio
were produced?

...that in
romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion
entrusted to her?

...that Philipp Jenninger resigned as President of the Bundestag after his speech commemorating Kristallnacht caused a political scandal?

...that five
1 August 1943
?

...that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?

...that
wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait
?

16:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Rodolfo P. Hernandez (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War
for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?

...that nobody buried in a safety coffin is known to have taken advantage of its features?

... that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?

...that the
Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette
of a rat?

...that Dr. nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda
to return to work?

...that the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek, Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?

...that forces of the
11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz
?

06:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Pauline Cushman (pictured), an actress and Union Army spy during the American Civil War, was caught posing as a Confederate soldier, but escaped hanging by three days?

...that Ostap Veresai, a 19th-century blind Ukrainian kobzar, performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia?

...that a Congreve clock uses a rolling ball rather than a pendulum to regulate the time?

... that the first printed and illustrated travel-book published in the West included a 5-ft (1.6 m) long fold-out view of Venice in woodcut by Erhard Reuwich?

...that the abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives
?

...that after the
Lord Clive offered thanksgiving
?

...that the
history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863
?

7 December 2006

23:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Hellenistic type of Aphrodite or Venus (pictured), is known from dozens of Roman
copies?

...that the
crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan
has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?

...that the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires?

...that Abbott Lawrence Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, which maintains the longest-running meteorological record of any observation site in the United States?

...that Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?

... that the
Starshade is a coronagraph designed to aid a space telescope
by blocking bright light from stars by a factor of as much as 10 billion?

...that the HurriQuake nail is around twice as wind resistant as traditional nails and can increase a home's earthquake resistance by up to 50%?

15:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Detroit
?

...that the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) is a 16th century monument in Delhi, India that was named for the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?

...that the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?

...that Hasnoor Hussein was investigated over allegations of sedition concerning his statements on the Malaysian social contract?

... that Maurice, the abbot of Inchaffray who blessed the Scottish army at the Battle of Bannockburn, later became Bishop of Dunblane?

...that the
Clan Stuart
?

...that Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
?

05:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

...that still-life (pictured) since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
?

...that
John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip
?

...that in
assassinate Winston Churchill
?

...that
machine-gun pillbox
?

...that Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651?

...that the Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree
that is over 250 years old?

6 December 2006

22:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

...that ukiyo-e artist Keisai Eisen was famous for his bijin prints of beautiful women (pictured) and claimed to have owned a brothel?

...that the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?

...that Ka Lae on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States?

...that the pioneer
air refueling, the first aerial circumnavigation
and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?

...that the Cleveland, Ohio, is the second largest theater
complex in the United States?

...that physical anthropology
?
...that the world's first all-electronic
Christmas Day, 1926 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi
?

15:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Clement of Dunblane

...that bishopric in the British Isles
?

...that Jewish and German
respectively?

...that the capture and forced march of citywide riot
?
...that citizens of Malaysia, has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution
?

...that The Football League, despite its capacity
of 120,000?

...that
fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried
a chance for escape?

02:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Knickerbocker Hotel (pictured) in New York City was host to the world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" from the window of his room on Armistice Day
?

...that a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen-gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?

...that after being stripped of his
Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses
on his estate?

...that the archeological
studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?

5 December 2006

19:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Russian Jewish painter
St Stephan church (pictured) in Mainz
as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?

...that the World Wars
?
...that Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?

...that American actor "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple
?

16:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the first male rape in prison
?

07:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

...that David O. Cooke (pictured), a civilian administrator in the U.S. Department of Defense for over 45 years, was colloquially known as the "Mayor of the Pentagon" because of his managerial duties?

...that in 1994, doping test
?

...that, in the 1950s,
Communist regime from the University of Bucharest
?

...that the
2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895
with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?

...that Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?

00:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

...that Juan N. Méndez (pictured) took up the post of interim President of Mexico for three months to allow then-President Porfirio Díaz to personally lead his forces against a partisan uprising?

...that, although
Constantine IX
's daughter?

...that in
Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean
?

... that the SR-71B Blackbird
in existence?
...that Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera?

...that Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?

...that the oldest
Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania
?

4 December 2006

17:02, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

...that
Mamane (pictured) wood for thatching poles, spades, spears, sled runners, firewood
, symbols of authority and to ward off evil?

...that many countries afford
protect their sources
?

... that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?

...that the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales?

...that controversy has arisen over the interpretation of
Robert Baden-Powell's opinions on religion in Scouting
?

... that
Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society
?

...that the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót, a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday?

06:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

...that during the Oleg of Novgorod reportedly circumvented the chaining of the Bosporus by putting his ships on wheels and sailing them overland (pictured) to Constantinople
?

...that the town of Kings of Scotland
for several centuries?
...that in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?

...that in the Beti of Cameroon
, one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?

... that at Masa, an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef, Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?

... that the
Tachu Naito
?

...that former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko?

00:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the Southern Islands of Singapore (pictured) are being developed into a getaway for the ultra-wealthy, similar to Dubai's Palm Islands?

...that
no-balled repeatedly for throwing
in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?

...that after the
his political party, Austrian politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography
?

...that
Yongle
's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?

3 December 2006

14:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

...that in the
Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert (pictured) defeated a much stronger British
force?

...that Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?

...that despite the destruction of his fleet by
favourable trade treaty
?

...that the
Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression
?

...that "
De Vogels Van Holland" was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest
?

00:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the
gerbils
(pictured) can have a combined length of over 30 meters and over 18 entrances?

...that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?

... that Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District off the southern coast of Texas contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm?

...that Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby?

...that
Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich
achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?

...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?

...that after being captured by the
Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani
nationalist?

2 December 2006

17:10, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the southern side of Mount Elden (pictured) in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977?

...that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?

...that due to a lack of
bilingual inscriptions, most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method
?

...that Alexander Kazhdan, the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula?

...that, in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch?

...that the first
military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal
?

...that
car battery
?

02:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the secede from the Union until after the Battle of Fort Sumter
?

...that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?

...that motorcar
in 1969?

...that in his only armed clash with the police, bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks?

...that the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?

...that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
?

...that Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem?

1 December 2006

19:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Megazostrodon

...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?

...that the crash of cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes
in several countries?

...that Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato found by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia?

...that
Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial
?

...that
national monuments
?

...that the Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California
?

12:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

...that the three universal Aum, the swastika (pictured), and the Sri Chakra Yantra
?

...that the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?

...that the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama?

...that "Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African
country?

...that Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria?

...that Josquin des Prez's Miserere, a motet of Psalm 51, was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego?

...that
Soviet sniper Roza Shanina
's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?

05:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

...that according to legend, the masons who built Corcomroe Abbey (pictured) in Ireland were killed to stop them from building another masterpiece elsewhere?

...that Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son
would be freed to take the throne?

...that
"She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds
, who later starred in the film?

...that many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower-mass particles?

...that Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?

...that Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?

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