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Did you know...

30 November 2006

18:04, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

...that furry convention attendees (pictured) often wear ears, tails, badges, or fursuits as identification?
...that "
La Coco-Dance" was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006
?

...that Buddhahood
?

...that car accident
?

...that the city of Thasos held out against an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion?

...that
John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell
?

...that Frances Slocum State Park in Pennsylvania is named for a woman captured by the Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?

08:42, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

A plant

...that plant perception (plant pictured) is a belief that plants feel emotion and can communicate with each other?

...that the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?

...that due to a "defect of birth", Thomas Livingston was forced to receive a papal dispensation to continue working in the church?

...that David Brody is credited with co-founding the field of "new labor history"?

...that
Romanian Revolution of 1989 was not truly a popular uprising but a cover-up for a coup d'état
?

...that Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy gained the nickname "King of the wildcatters" after striking oil thirty-eight times in ten years?

...that the rock formation in Antarctica
?

...that the
Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago
against his government's will?

29 November 2006

23:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Pencho Slaveykov

...that after an accident in his teens, Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov (pictured) could write and speak only with difficulty?

...that
Canyon live oak acorns were a Native American staple food
?

...that the Ristorante Cooperativo in Zürich may be the only restaurant to have been patronised by Benito Mussolini, Vladimir Lenin and Gerhard Schröder?

...that the
Alfred Lane Beit was made an honorary Irish citizen after he donated 17 masterpieces to the National Gallery of Ireland
?

...that the Political Instability Task Force might have predicted over 85% of major state crises occurring in 1990–1997?
...that the
Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York, New Jersey, and New England
?

17:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
Annadel State Park (pictured) is considered by some biologists to have some of the best preserved northern oak woodlands in western North America
?

...that
social anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth's research career spanned 76 years after it began in Polynesia
?

...that Pepe Marchena was a popular singer who created a new palo or flamenco musical form, called colombiana?
...that after
Nazi occupation of Prague
?
...that
Dadoji Konddeo also built the "Lal Mahal" in Pune, the royal palace before the capital moved to Raigad
?

...that Russian apartment bombings
both died in apparent assassinations?

07:08, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the commissioner of El Greco's The Disrobing of Christ (pictured) tried to use the artist's inclusion of the three Marys to avoid paying the full fee?

...that parts of Karnataka gained independence after its Unification, a year later than most of India?

... that 5BX plan to help Canadian Air Force
pilots keep fit?

...that
Sedition Act disregards criminal intent
in passing judgement?

...that the Japanese Sōshi-kaimei policy forced Koreans previously banned from using Japanese surnames to do so?

...that the village of Sharpham in Somerset, is the birthplace of Elizabethan poet Sir Edward Dyer, writer Henry Fielding and cleric William Gould?

...that during construction of the Fort Canning Park
?

00:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Russian actor Yevgeny Samoylov (pictured), known for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Dovzhenko in the 1930s, celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002 acting on the stage of the Maly Theatre?

...that the trees alongside the Falls of Bruar were planted in response to an entreaty from Robert Burns, the Scottish poet?

...that construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?

...that American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill?

28 November 2006

18:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

...that one of only two natural populations of the
critically endangered Kanab ambersnail (pictured) is threatened by discharges from the Glen Canyon Dam
?

...that the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome, along with the adjacent tower, is all that remains today of a Dominican convent dedicated to Catherine of Siena?

...that Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement?

...that the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78
, is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?

...that the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?

11:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

... that American World War II soldier David M. Gonzales was awarded the Medal of Honor (pictured) for digging out three comrades buried alive whilst under enemy fire?

...that American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races, the most by any horse?

... that
Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid-8th century
?

...that in
British settlement in Singapore in order to wrest the throne from his brother with the help of the British, leading to the Malay Peninsula
's colonisation?

...that in
Krakow
International Percussion Festival?

04:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

... that the
Yuri Dolgoruki, were buried beneath the baptistery of the Church of the Saviour at Berestove
(pictured)?

...that studies on whether social desirability bias
?

...that Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
?

... that
United States Congressional committees
?
...that Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?

27 November 2006

21:01, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

...that in 1850, the Harvard Musical Association, a charitable organization in Boston, raised over $100,000 for the construction of the Boston Music Hall (pictured) in under 60 days?

...that the appearance of a Hutch ad campaign doubled sales of pugs in India in 2003
?

...that the prolific
egg densities of six million eggs/m² on submerged vegetation
?

...that American novelist Tracy Quan once served as spokeswoman to the sex worker advocacy group Prostitutes of New York?

13:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

...that although
theories explaining those key events in human history
?

...that Asian American to hold elected office in Minnesota
?

...that in the United Kingdom alone, over £60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks?

... that in
Kiev Pechersk Lavra
?

...that Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?

...that together with the
annuities
?

00:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Makaravank Monastery (pictured) in Armenia served two adjacent churches
?

...that Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school?

...that peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register
?

... that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?

...that numerous specimens of
Dashanpu Formation, first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus
?

...that Kyso) was formed from the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 and was awarded oil rights over the Southeastern U.S.
?

26 November 2006

14:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

... that the supernatural powers
would halt the earth's reverberations?

...that the
Late November 2006 Nor'easter caused winds up to 80 mph in the Outer Banks, the only occurrence of thundersnow on record in Charleston, and the earliest recorded snowfall in Charleston and Savannah
?

...that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?

...that
Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary
?

... that the
New Guinean Quoll is a carnivorous marsupial
that is reported to eat prey bigger than itself?

... that high treason
in 1914?

25 November 2006

18:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Count Catherine II in order to marry her 16-year-old lady-in-waiting
?

...that in 1992, a single $
1,000?
... that Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911
?

...that Theo Osterkamp was the first German reconnaissance pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England during World War I?

...that
based on the painting which was not in fact authored by Leonardo
?

...that for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma received a medal from Pope Paul V?

...that Richard Ferguson joined a gang of highwaymen after recognising the man robbing his stagecoach near London as a former acquaintance?

...that streams of the Columbia Basin
?

07:00, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the first print portrait produced in Europe of a living, identifiable person (pictured) was of artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?

...that Emperor Paul
, as a result?

...that endemic
ranges?

...that the breeding rights for the Thoroughbred racehorse Graustark sold for a record $2,400,000?

...that with over 3,000 participants, the 1884 Meiji period
?

...that U.S. Armed Forces during World War II
?

24 November 2006

17:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the University of British Columbia Library (pictured) holds the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America?

...that the chemically inhospitable for most plant species
?

...that in addition to practising as a lawyer in
nationalist Andon Zako Çajupi wrote a comedy attacking the tradition of arranged marriages
?

...that Jimmy Fratianno was the highest-ranking member of the Mafia to become an informant for the U.S. government until Sammy Gravano in 1991?

...that the
Blood Compact, where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the Philippines
?

...that the Scouting song Ging Gang Goolie was deliberately written in gibberish so that Scouts from different countries could easily learn it without struggling with a language barrier?

05:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the habitat of the
urban development, off-road vehicles
and destruction by road maintenance crew?

...that the first identifiable European print portrait was one of the artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?

...that American soldier Lucian Adams was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying several enemy machine gun emplacements in World War II?

...that
scandal broke out involving an elitist blog
entry made by his daughter?

...that the
Teutonic Knights
on Russia for thirty years?

23 November 2006

16:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the Franciscan monasteries in Ireland, housed only two friars
when it was finally forced to close in 1847?

...that during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary no fewer than 75 Turkish baths were built in the Hungarian eyalets?

...that
smuggled arms to Polish insurgents during the January Uprising
in 1863?

...that in 2003,
Ohel Jakob synagogue cornerstone
ceremony?

...that after resigning from the
far right faction of the party for their alleged branch stacking
tactics?

...that even though John Clough Holmes helped found Michigan State University in 1855, it was not until 1965 that a building was named in his honor?

...that king of a unified Manipur
?

08:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

... that pygmy forests
, as well as a full size tree?

...that Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works?

...that the Battle of Schöngrabern features in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace?

...that Mediterranean Monk Seal
in the Western Mediterranean?

...that
Great War
?

...that after a successful
Order of St Francis, remaining a sister
until her death, aged 99?

01:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

... that the
Roman-developed groin vault (pictured) has been validated by 20th century structural engineering modeling
?

...that the sound of the
Bat out of Hell" is actually a recording of an electric guitar solo by producer Todd Rundgren
?

...that former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?

...that Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?

...that Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time?

22 November 2006

15:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

...that a squircle (pictured) is a variety of superellipse that has properties between those of a square and a circle?

...that
Nicolas Grollier de Serviere invented a type of bookwheel
that allowed many heavy books to be read at the same time?

...that Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula?

...that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?

...that disability rights
advocate?

...that the pinax, an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "art museum", as exemplified by Munich's Alte Pinakothek?

08:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995
?

...that modern
Ion Râmaru
, was himself the son of a serial killer?

...that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?

...that William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?

... that despite projections of producing four times as much power as it used in heating, the Riggatron fusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?

... that soft drinks while he was with American Maize Products
in the 1970s?

21 November 2006

23:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Nordic Classicism (example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements, Art Nouveau and Functionalism?

...that while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?

...that even though American lawman Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?

... that the biological, chemical and nuclear
incidents?

...that the striking of a
Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers
?

14:18, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the only piece of the British Embassy in Berlin
?

...that instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?

...that Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams?

...that the free
Polish
counterpart ?

...that former
heart transplant
?

06:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

...that charcoal merchant Thomas Britton (pictured) ran a series of concerts in his loft at which the most famous musicians in London performed?

...that the blood of the skink Prasinohaema virens is bright green, due to an accumulation of the bile pigment biliverdin?

...that the
chestnut trees
in the area?

...that the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?

...that Hashim Suboh controversially called for the use of force in enforcing the Malaysian social contract?

20 November 2006

22:55, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter (pictured) deposited a 197-foot Venezuelan freighter in the backyard of a Palm Beach, Florida
socialite, where it remained for several months?

...that, as part of the Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth paid 340 Ugandan villagers in livestock
to legally change their names to include "Hornsleth"?

...that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
?
...that journalist Simon Regan established the magazine Scallywag, which did much to propagate baseless rumours that British Prime Minister John Major was having an affair with a Downing Street cook?

16:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

...that every extant individual of the
male
?

...that the soldier in the
prisoner of war camp
?

...that
Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz, a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language, whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems, Germany
?

...that excavations at the village of Runic graffiti
?

...that the
United States Horse of the Year Award
for two consecutive years in the 1920s?

...that the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?

10:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

...that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell (pictured) in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?

...that Brixton riot of 1985
?

...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?

...that the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green
Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus
?

...that the finds at the village of Old Russian language
?

...that the self-taught weapon designer Suomi M-31
?

03:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the barrel vault (pictured) was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture?

...that "
On Again...Off Again" features influences from both dance music and opera, the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest
?

...that Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya
?

...that the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya is the unsanitary flying toilet?

19 November 2006

18:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the painting Queen Elizabeth II, has recently been verified as an authentic Caravaggio
, and not a relatively worthless copy?

...that while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?

...that the site of the early
hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism
?

...that the British Government to create an unpickable
lock and remained unpicked until 1851?

11:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network mural

... that since 1994, the mural arts program of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network has created more than 2,500 murals (pictured) across Philadelphia?

...that at least 3,000
Viking colony
there?

...that the Malays in Malaysia
?

...that the
Desire" was the first Maltese entry in 28 years to have Maltese
lyrics?

04:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
summit of Ben More Assynt (pictured) is the highest point in the Scottish county of Sutherland
?

...that the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?

... that the Ukrainian SSR and an end to "Romanian
occupation"?

... that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts?

... that Laura Callahan, a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6?

18 November 2006

10:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the barndoor skate (pictured) is a species of fish that is threatened with extinction from overfishing despite not being targeted by the commercial fishing industry?

...that the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?

...that, according to the
Teaching and Higher Education Act of 1998, full time workers aged 16 or 17 have the right to paid leave from work in order to pursue training towards a qualification
?

...that in the early
secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland
?

...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Pacific
in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?

01:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the California slender salamander (pictured) has a physique to invade narrow tunnels of earthworms for predation and cover?

...that the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur?

...that 19 July 1919
?

...that the Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe
?

...that the Temple of Jerusalem, the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome
?

17 November 2006

11:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
dollars
?

...that the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders?

...that the screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States
?

...that the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813?

...that 17 days after the
joined the invasion, ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic
?

16 November 2006

20:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Polish Renaissance
, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula (pictured)?

...that the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia, in 1952?

...that Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers, which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature?

...that Koasati
as a treatment for laziness?

...that adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu
, had numerous historical predecessors?

02:18, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the clocks on the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War
?

...that
London-Sydney Marathon
with only 150 miles to go?

...that the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder, in Suffolk, England, was discovered in 1828 after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?

...that the
World Cup event or an Olympic
medal at the distance?

15 November 2006

06:05, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

...that funeral trains (pictured) were once a common method of transporting coffins to cemeteries, but are now almost exclusively used for state funerals?

...that the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films?

...that serf
?

...that United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?

...that the album
City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second-best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States
?

14 November 2006

23:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

"Yeomanettes"

...that the use of the word "
U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F) (pictured) during World War I
?

...that the Great Bulgaria
?
...that Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?

...that Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain?

...that the
Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore
to be mined?

...that banking in Japan
?

17:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

...that while working on the The Principle of Faunal Succession by observing the strata
?

...that in addition to being a
painter, Wolf Huber was active as an architect
, but that no buildings designed by him have survived?

...that a type of car modification named
Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza
?

...that
Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E.
?

...that
chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service
?

...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City?

...that the song "
Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics - one in English and one in Macedonian
?

06:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

...that nineteeth-century entrepreneur Maunsel White (pictured) of New Orleans invented a wine sauce in honor of his friend Andrew Jackson that is still manufactured today?

...that walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees?

...that the USS Hunchback was a steam powered ferryboat converted into a gunboat for the American Civil War?

...that
Richard Harvey
has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments?

...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?

...that the nocturnal
displays?

...that invasion of Poland
in September 1939?

13 November 2006

22:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark
?

...that Calcutta Medical College
was built in 1835?
...that Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel?

...that Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish
ex-servicemen?

...that
dancing
with new people?

...that
John
" in return for pitch and weather reports?

16:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

...that The Greek Slave (pictured), a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War?

...that U.S. military
?

...that according to
White
?

...that the witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?

...that underground bunker for use as a recording studio
?

...that the Hindu castes in West Bengal, India
?

...that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal, and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?

...that via Giulia, projected for Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome?

...that the thriller 2006 César Awards
?

04:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
Monarch of the Glen (pictured), was intended for the House of Lords, but the House of Commons
refused to grant the £150 commission?

...that during the Jewish
quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
...that at nearly seventy percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries?

...that the
Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China
?

...that the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House, which opened in 1860?

12 November 2006

20:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Esplanade Park (pictured), built in 1943, is one of the oldest parks in Singapore, and has a number of historical landmarks which include the former Indian National Army Monument site and The Cenotaph?

...that the 1928 Thames flood was the last time central London was flooded?

...that John Pasche, an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones, has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Judas Priest and The Who?

...that Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November, 2006?

... that
football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team
3-2?

11:53, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe
?

...that Sukhbir is often referred to as the Prince of Bhangra?

...that Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, and spread flooding and tornadoes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States?

...that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?

...that the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence?

...that ex nihilo
of the universe?

11 November 2006

22:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

...that maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California
?

...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?

...that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?

...that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?

...that Carmelite nun
in 1770?

...that the medieval Slavic The Song of Roland
?

12:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Maria Yakunchikova (pictured) was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe?

...that a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?

...that, in the "Tower of the League" at the Wars of Religion are represented in the guise of Olympic deities
?

...that the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor?

...that Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?

... that the suppression of a protest in Nagpur and Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across India to the rebellion?

10 November 2006

22:25, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Henriette, and was one of only two of Louis' children to be married, the other being her brother, Louis, dauphin de France
?

...that Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
, the tallest masonry dam in the world?

...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?

...that the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?

...that the Eastern Rite Catholic Church
?

15:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
prostitute in the United States
?

06:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

...that morganatic marriage secret until the death of her father, Nicholas I of Russia
, in 1855?

...that the
Great Bulgaria, and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II
?

...that John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?

...that
Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula
?

...that before
Central Fire
towards which all objects must fall?

...that Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
?

9 November 2006

23:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?

...that the Fortuna Virilis in Rome
?

...that Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?

...that Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season?

...that the
National Liberal Party-Brătianu, created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania
, became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?

...that a improvised weapon made from folded newspaper
?

15:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis
that still largely reflects his original vision?

...that the
Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian
influence had the reverse effect?

...that R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan
?

...that in the 2004 film Shallow Ground, actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character who is naked for the duration of the film?

...that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?

...that the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Alienor of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France and England
?

...that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?

05:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
Notre-Dame de Boulogne (pictured) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution
?

...that "
Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand
a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?

...that
Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris
contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?

...that the expression "
simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife
?

...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?

8 November 2006

22:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

...that "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?

...that The Drifters' hit "Under the Boardwalk" was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?

...that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?

...that the
Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn, was inspired by the famous cave off the coast of Scotland
?

...that
The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy
?

...that
Walter Abraham, a professor
to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?

12:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage (pictured) have the lowest ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?

...that the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?

...that lily on the gable
of the house of his father's birth?

...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples
?

...that the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?

...that Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?

02:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

...that it is customary in
Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages, kabbalistic
writings, or pictures of holy places?

...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of
Ceaushima
by the Bucharest residents?

...that
shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks
when they perceive they are in danger?

...that the
Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan
, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?

...that
Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California
?

7 November 2006

18:26, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
art collector Rolf de Maré (pictured) created the world's first museum and research institute for dance
?

...that the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?

...that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?

...that when first introduced to
Cardinal de Rohan, the colour roan, or the town Rouen
?

...that Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?

08:39, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Nordic National Romantic Style
into his designs?

...that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion?

...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?

...that the most important source for early
The Chronicle of Ireland
, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?

...that the simultaneous Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921
?

...that the concept of pharmaceutical
industries?

6 November 2006

18:29, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

...that during World War II, the statues Winged Victory of Samothrace and Venus de Milo were housed in the Château de Valençay (pictured)?

...that the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?

... that
Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
?

...that in the Chinook jargon
, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?

...that when the
Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian
who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?

...that at 49, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.
?

08:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the influential architect Wall of the Farmers-General (pictured), was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution
?

...that buddhahood
?

...that Kama River
?

...that the cry independence movements
all over the world?
...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?

00:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Maria Leszczyńska
, died in exile in 1800 having outlived all nine of her siblings?

...that medieval European village
?

...that Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park
in 1951?

...that the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania
?

...that the Polish-Lithuanian Wars
?
...that Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?

5 November 2006

17:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

...that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen (pictured) died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?

...that a hurricane-sized
cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999
?

...that
California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans
?

...that "Splice the mainbrace" is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum?

...that the small herds of
Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton
?

...that the exploitation film Mom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?

...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?

10:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

...that if the 2005 Azores subtropical storm (pictured), identified by the NHC in post-season reanalysis, had been named then Hurricane Wilma would have been named "Hurricane Alpha"?

...that Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland
, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?

...that through Greek trading colonies like
Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece
in the 8th century BCE?

...that the
Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana
?

...that Polish government in Exile, refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three
?

...that adverts for Schweppes
from 1965 to 1973?

4 November 2006

23:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?

...that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?

...that
Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan
observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?

...that guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?

...that
Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society
Sports Award?

...that
Tyburn for forgery
?

17:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel (pictured) at Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?

...that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer?

...that the
Golden Barrel is a popularly cultivated cactus from Mexico
?

...that the libretto for Howard Hanson's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?

...that Nestorianism was one of the first forms of Christianity to be introduced in Mongolia?

... that chemical reactions that take place faster than predicted by collision theory because an electron is "thrown" from one molecule
towards the other?

11:23, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

...that rocks that have evidence of rubbing by mammoths
40,000 years ago?

...that the Taiwan independence
?
...that the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?

...that American League for Peace and Democracy
?

...that the radio controlled model
capable of operation on land, water...and even air?

00:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

...that John F. Mackie (pictured) was the first United States Marine to receive America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor?

...that while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms, tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud?

...that William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?

...that according to
pregnant
?

...that the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London?

3 November 2006

15:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the former owners of the Camondo family, the politician Louis Loucheur, the perfumer François Coty, and the Nissan Group
?

...that in 2001, Auto Racing Club of America
race at the age of 15?
...that John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?

...that Dharti Pakad) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political
career?

...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland, and had seven editions in one year?

08:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the Military Orchids
?

...that the Madonna
, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?

that
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for a time capsule kept by the U.S. National Archives
that will be opened in the 22nd century?

...that the destination hotel
became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?

...that, subject to the resolution of litigation,
Euroleague
?

...that
Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland
(1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?

2 November 2006

23:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

...that
Beckomberga hospital (pictured) in Stockholm was designed according to a strict symmetrical pattern and used to be one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Europe
?

...that the Boston, Massachusetts
could not keep up with the company's demands?

...that the State of the Union Address
?

...that original copies of the $
20,000 when they come up for sale?
...that the electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer
?

...that Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985?

16:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

...that, the Duc de Sully
, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984?

...that
Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali
prose?

...that I Am" was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy
"?
...that
Nils von Dardel
died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?

...that Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden
?

...that the Axis occupying forces
?

10:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

...that the
provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature
to survive in its entirety?

...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?

... that
anarchist and paramilitary
bands?

...that the versus fighting game
and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
...that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature?

...that in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal, the result of a single badly adjusted compass?

1 November 2006

21:58, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Château de Menars

...that, four years before her death, Madame de Pompadour paid almost one million livres to buy the Château de Menars (pictured), selling some pearl bracelets to meet the first payment?

...that
court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan
in early 1942?

...that the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?

...that Ganges
?

...that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?

...that pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands
?

11:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

...that Sigrid Hjertén (pictured), a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?

...that the
Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius
, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?

...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?

...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?

...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?

...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?

...that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?

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