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28 February 2006
- 12:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that three Studion, the largest monastery of Constantinople?
- ...that the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur?
- ...that on Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca"?
- ...that the Skunk worksresearch facility?
- ...that a count room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency?
- 03:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Church of St. Elisabeth in Marburg was one of the earliest purely Gothic structures in Central Europe and served as the model for the Cologne Cathedral?
- ...that the shooting of the government critic Archbishop El Salvador Civil War, in which 75,000 people died?
- ...that the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was first recorded by Perry Como in 1941?
- ...that Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials?
27 February 2006
- 06:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that hyperboloid structures in architecture are doubly-curved surfaces that may be formed entirely from a latticeof straight angle-iron and flat iron bars?
- ...that Tartarsettlers?
- ...that the development of molecular biology was made possible due to the convergence between biochemistry and genetics?
- ...that as a result of t'aarof, it is not uncommon for Iranianemployees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
- 00:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
- ...that ?
- ...that lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
- ...that James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936?
24 February 2006
- 17:45, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that inscriptions?
- ...that Valley of the Wolves Iraq?
- ...that some Australian Aboriginal languages use the aversive case to indicate that an object is feared?
- ...that Blackwoman to win that title?
- 11:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that retired General Counsel Guantanamo Bay?
- ...that "ultra" was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists?
- ...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
- ...that ?
- 05:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw?
- ...that Germany after World War II?
- ...that Malaysian judiciary?
- ...that the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalryunits fought on both sides?
23 February 2006
- 17:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Provençal women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries were known as trobairitz?
- ...that ?
- ...that the heavyweight champion boxer rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
- ...that the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?
- 09:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
- ...that Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya?
- ...that the terms of the People's Republic of Chinatook over 6 years to implement?
- ...that the student organizations in the United States?
- 02:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the to be discovered?
- ...that Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television?
- ...that Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau, was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color?
- ...that until the late tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?
22 February 2006
- 12:31, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that a female Western harvest mouse can potentially give birth to as many as forty to sixty offspring in a single year?
- ...that the ?
- ...that monospaced fonts used by typewriters?
- ...that major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System?
- 00:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Verneuil process, used in ruby synthesis, is considered as the founding step for modern industrial crystal growthtechnology?
- ...that politically incorrect?
- ...that the visas?
- ...that the Teach for America, is now expanding to Manchester and Israel?
21 February 2006
- 06:09, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City went from haven for prostitution to Presbyterian chapel in the span of one year?
- ...that the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
- ...that African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slavesand their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
- ...that between were legal?
20 February 2006
- 16:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
- ...that Aswan High Dam, also built the Führerbunker, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide?
- ...that Viking ruler of East Anglia?
- ...that Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?
- 00:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Russian officer Leonid Gobyato is credited with having invented man-portable mine mortars?
- ...that in ?
- ...that a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari, was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal?
- ...that the Bumiputra students in Malaysia?
17 February 2006
- 17:44, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that a mountain ash growing in the small Australian town of Thorpdale, Victoria once held the record for the tallest tree in the world?
- ...that Maj. Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabrein captivity?
- ...that the Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assemblyplant?
- ...that the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action?
- 07:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the ?
- ...that Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia?
- ...that in bellsare never pealed, but only tolled?
- ...that 1945 UK general election?
16 February 2006
- 17:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that African American architect Wallace Rayfield?
- ...that the failure of the racial rioting?
- ...that Pigeon Post, winner of the first ever Carnegie Medal for children's literature, is the only Swallows and Amazons book that does not feature some sort of sailing adventure?
- ...that the word "Indonesia" was first used in print by Sam Ratulangi, a high school science teacher who briefly held the post of Governor of Sulawesi and was posthumously awarded the title of National Independence Hero?
- 05:52, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that in Thomas Sayers became the first English boxerto fight an international match?
- ...that the longest of the steel construction of such length at that time?
- ...that in the Vatha pagan rising of 1046, Saint Gellertbecame a martyr after being pushed off a hill in a cart?
- ...that Łacinka, the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus?
- ...that African American slave in Macon County, Alabama is known for helping found the normal school which later became Tuskegee University?
15 February 2006
- 17:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the predators to defend hatchlings?
- ...that web comic?
- ...that the text on Nestor's Cup, one of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (c.740 BCE), is believed to be the result of a humorous drinking-party game?
- ...that intelligence crucial to the success of Washington's foray against the Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on December 26, 1776?
- ...that the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat has the power to amend written copies of speeches made by members of the house before they are given verbally?
- 05:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Stalin in order to make room for heavy armored vehicles driving through Red Squareduring military parades?
- ...that Antonio Bosio, the first systematic explorer of the Catacombs of Rome was known as the "Columbus of subterranean Rome" ?
- ...that the KarstadtQuelle AG is the largest department store corporation in Europewith over 100,000 employees?
- ...that before Silverado Squatters?
14 February 2006
- 16:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Imperial Russia, was responsible for introducing the general levy system into Eastern Europe?
- ...that the 1st and Ten System creates the yellow line seen on American football telecasts which shows where a team will earn a first down?
- ...that Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC?
- ...that the pow-wow?
- 04:46, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the ?
- ...that Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first novel in Tamil?
- ...that Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
- ...that basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?
13 February 2006
- 16:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Bolsheviks?
- ...that there are as many as two million Bumiputraprivileges?
- ...that the dress Marilyn Monroe wore on the night she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President was so tight she had to be sewn into it?
- ...that the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilsoncame to power?
- 04:24, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the that are 300 years old?
- ...that the Park Ujazdowski, founded in 1893 by Sokrates Starynkiewicz, features the second bridge in the world built of reinforced concrete?
- ...that concentration camp on Usedomisland?
- ...that the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901?
- ...that the Old Ford Motor Factory, Ford's first assembly plant in Southeast Asia and built in 1941, was the site of the historic surrender of the British to the Japanese in World War II, later described by Winston Churchillas the "largest capitulation in British history"?
10 February 2006
- 17:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that convictlabour?
- ...that the model for the doctor in The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin?
- ...that two out of three most notable monuments by Edward Wittig were destroyed during the World War II, while the third one was not erected until 2001, 60 years after Wittig's death?
- ...that the first fluorescent blacklight paint was invented by Bob Switzerand named Day-Glo?
- ...that the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?
- 02:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Benedictine monastery near Ravensburg, Germany, which was founded in 1056, was once one of the richest monasteriesin Southern Germany?
- ...that the Dewan Rakyat is prohibited from discussing the repeal of certain articles of the Constitution of Malaysia?
- ...that Croatian alphabet?
- ...that the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan?
- ...that the ?
9 February 2006
- 12:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Thor ballistic missilesas the primary mechanism of defeating enemy satellites?
- ...that the traditional ?
- ...that pendatang asing is a pejorative phrase used in Malaysia to imply non-Malays are not welcome?
- ...that Lillian Too, renowned feng shui expert, was once chief executive officer of a bank, and has written over 80 books since her retirement?
- 03:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker?
- ...that Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola?
- ...that "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl?
- ...that the fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship?
- ...that Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, Miss Colombia's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena's first female farm owner?
8 February 2006
- 16:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that William Shakespeare was an avid gardener and that modern Shakespeare gardens cultivate dozens of plant species mentioned in his plays?
- ...that the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
- ...that when the Etruscan bronze Chimera of Arezzo, carefully buried near the city walls of Arezzo some time in Antiquity, was rediscovered in 1553, it was quickly claimed for the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici?
- ...that among many historic landmarks at the King of Englandhad visited the building?
- 04:11, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the North Miami Beach, Florida is a medieval Spanish monastery that was purchased by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, disassembled, and then kept in 11,000 crates in a warehouse in Brooklynfor 26 years?
- ...that civilisations?
- ...that the name "?
- ...that the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war?
7 February 2006
- 18:10, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that George VI during World War II?
- ...that according to aliensexist, and would reveal themselves in the future to enable humans overcome their ecological, spiritual and social problems?
- ...that during the era of Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century?
- ...that Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
- 11:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that three former currently appear on American currencytwo times each (one coin and one bill)?
- ...that the theory of the economic boom after World War II?
- ...that Sonjo, a Bantu language of northern Tanzania, has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
- ...that les ?
- ...that Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes?
- 05:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the expression con men who use false pretensesin order to extract money from the victims?
- ...that in American university?
- ...that Xianxingzhe, China's first bipedal humanoid robot was satirized in Japan for having a joint that resembles a "crotch cannon"?
- ...that Howard Thomas created three of the most popular wartime radio programmes for the BBC and discovered Vera Lynn, but was forced to resign from the company?
6 February 2006
- 17:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that two glazed shopping arcades of the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels— accommodated luxury shops, coffee houses, museums and even theatres?
- ...that a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili?
- ...that Queen Elizabeth II to creating Europe's first commercial television company, Associated-Rediffusion?
- ...that the July 2005 NKF scandal led to a backlash from the donorsto the charity, resulting in the resignation of the board of directors?
- 10:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Roman de Fergus is the earliest piece of non-Celtic vernacular literature to have survived from Scotland?
- ...that the ?
- ...that the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovsky, and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses?
- ...that "La Vie en Rose" is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf?
5 February 2006
- 23:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that an Second World War?
- ...that a DC to DC converter that uses a transformerto step the voltage of a DC power supply?
- ...that the Yolanda Lopez became famous with the painting "Virgen de Guadalupe", which represents Lopez's personal investigation into Virgen de Guadalupe's status in Mexicansociety?
- ...that the actions of saying that they would not fight Australian troops?
3 February 2006
- 17:56, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Giles Mompesson was officially branded a "notorious criminal" by the House of Lords in 1623 after a career of graft and extortion as licensor of inns?
- ...that the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet?
- ...that Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth"?
- ...that Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988?
- ...that only three Super 12?
- 05:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that from 1858 Sydneysiders could set their clocks by the ball dropped at 1 pm each day at the Sydney Observatory and that the observatory replaced Fort Philip which was never needed to be used for defending Sydney?
- ...that the tribal sovereignty?
- ...that Jan Nagórski, Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic, was presumed dead for 38 years?
- ...that, for the Dutch Old Masters, still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects?
2 February 2006
- 22:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Nikolay Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars?
- ...that the 1939 Ballad For Americans" by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party?
- ...that the automobile?
- ...that Owasippe Scout Reservation, established in 1911, is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in the United States?
- 10:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Kiev features a hundred-tonne glass dome over the chamber where the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine convenes to enact legislation?
- ...that parts of ?
- ...that Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
- ...that Winter Holiday, his fourth Swallows and Amazonsbook?
- 04:10, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Robin Miller was a female Australian pilot and nurse who borrowed money to buy a Cessna 182 and then began flying to remote outback areas in Western Australia to vaccinate Indigenous Australian children against polio and thus became known as the "Sugarbird Lady"?
- ...that Polish Secret State, was kidnapped by the NKVDand killed in a Soviet prison?
- ... that Little Leaguebaseball games?
- ...that Communist-era Romaniabecause he caught an American spy?
1 February 2006
- 21:01, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Vladimir Shukhov, often compared to Edison and Eiffel for his innovative work on metallic structures, decided to abandon engineering at the age of 24 and enrolled at a medical school instead?
- ...that jianpu and standard notation?
- ...that during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 more Russian soldiers died in hospitals from contagious diseasesthan fighting on the battlefield?
- ...that the title of the movie I Married a Communistwas so unappealing to audiences that their response led the film to be rereleased under the title The Woman on Pier 13?
- 10:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the physician Marie Equi became an anarchist after being attacked by police, while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World?
- ...that batsman?
- ...that the Polish Armyto wear uniforms based on folk attire?
- ...that in the United Kingdom and Australia a tuck shop is a small food retailer found in schools?
- 04:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Wilno, but the name was changed for political reasons?
- ...that the Russian victory at Molodi in 1572 put a stop to the northward expansion of the Ottoman Empire into present-day Russia?
- ...that more than 100 gamelan ensembles (a musical performance group of Indonesian origin) have been formed in the U.S. since the first was established at UCLA in 1958?
- ...that secret passages have helped people to hide in or flee from a building, or even to enter it without being spotted?