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31 December 2007

20:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Navajo rugs
(pictured) sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850?
...that visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks
and maneuvers?

...that Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list?

...that the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train, despite completing a 42-mile (68 km) line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars?

...that a
should not be involved" with the United Nations
?

...that former

St. Louis, Missouri

hockey team at the age of 93?

...that
Christian missionary in Bolivia
?

...that Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac, was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead"?
...that
Tang China had Wu Youji’s wife secretly killed in 690 CE so that he could marry her widowed daughter, the Princess Taiping
?

...that eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?

13:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

...that blackfin scad (pictured) is a popular food fish in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is served fried, steamed or baked?
...that professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law, may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War
?

...that the day
Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital
?

...that the 5th-century

Christian structures

, was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?

...that the federal legislation
regulating mine safety?

...that besides
syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone
?

...that Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946
?

...that Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?

...that English East India Company as "His Majesty
"?

07:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Sturt River before establishing it near the River Torrens
instead?

...that Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain, and a 70-foot waterfall
from roadside turnouts?

...that articulation begins with the junction produced by creating a joint and is defined by the degree joints are seen as a "distinct break" from each other, in contrast to joints that seem fluid and continuous with the whole?

...that Namibia Commercial Aviation has used the former presidential aircraft of Yugoslavia and Zambia for passenger flights?

...that Al Javery, deferred from serving in World War II due to varicose veins, led all Major League Baseball pitchers in 1943 with 303 innings pitched?

...that
Buddhist monk
in order to facilitate his entering and exiting her palace?

...that
carotenoderma
?

01:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Ellenville Middle School (pictured) abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act
standards?

...that, at the time of his death, 111-year-old veteran Mark Matthews was seen as a symbol for the Buffalo Soldiers?

...that the contraceptive
formula and a method to predict the likelihood of a newborn's survival?

...that the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army to see combat in World War II?

...that Section 121 of the
Alexandra Nicole Zapp
Community Notification Program”, after two victims of violent crimes?

...that the
Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during a solar eclipse
?

...that after
Emmys
?

30 December 2007

19:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

...that scenic Joseph B. Strauss, who went on to design the Golden Gate Bridge
?

...that Louis Elbel to write the school's fight song, The Victors
?

...that
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
explains the counterintuitive result that consumers are often more frustrated and anxious with more shopping choices rather than fewer?

...that New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena, the Athenaion?

...that the ancient
Tang Dynasty
(618–907 CE)?

...that Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?

...that some members of the Nazi SS became eligible for their 25-year SS Long Service Awards well before their completion of 25 years of service?

12:56, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the sole surviving
Class D16 4-4-0 American-type steam locomotive (pictured), is preserved and currently on display near the same tracks
on which it operated for many years?

...that the country music band Pearl River was hired as a backing band for Bryan White, a singer who previously sold T-shirts for the band?

...that the current
Slobodan Milosevic
?

...that Wichita, Kansas mayor Russell Jump was, at the time of his death at the age of 105, recognized as one of the longest lived individuals to have held public office?

...that
The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvahkkah" of The O.C.
, a show for which he had previously directed?

...that the Celts and Illyrians introduced winemaking to Slovenia long before it was commonly practiced in France, Germany and Spain?

02:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

...that in March 2007, Solicitor General of the Philippines
?

01:25, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscript
which took an estimated two years to complete?

...that television director and editor Norman Buckley's older sister Betty landed him his first editing job on Tender Mercies, a film she featured in?

...that the
Bassein Fort
in 1739?

...that the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation, debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix?

...that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
?

...that Gustave Ferbert quit his job as head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1900 to prospect for gold in the Klondike Gold Rush and returned home in 1909 as a millionaire?

29 December 2007

18:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command
?

...that the Tigmamanukan, a Philippine mythological bird, can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?

...that the role of Osmin in the
Ludwig Fischer
?

...that in the logwood
?

...that the Australian Test cricketer Colin McCool bowled his leg spin deliveries with a round arm action so pronounced that his arm was almost parallel to the pitch?

...that the Deperdussin Monocoque was the first aircraft to fly faster than 100 miles per hour?

...that American artist Sybil Gibson started painting in 1963, aged 55, using the medium of powdered tempera paints on brown paper grocery bags?

12:15, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

...that studies of the
marine fish small-scale whiting
(Sillago parvisquamis, pictured) suggest the female starts life smaller than the male, but grows faster and is larger than the male within two years?

...that footballer substitute
?
...that Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?

...that the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?

...that the Georgia Tech's racial integration
in the 1960s?

...that despite his never having been
Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong
?

...that during his
Air Force Space Command
?

...that signs of spring trending to earlier arrivals are evidence of season creep?

05:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the plans for renovation of the
Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers (pictured) in Olomouc, the Czech Republic had to be stopped due to the breakup of Yugoslavia
, which owned the property rights?

...that the
Fullback" because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies
a day for dinner during his playing career?

...that the Californian wines
?
...that dual citizenship are ineligible to run for the Australian parliament
?

...that the projected
hypersonic aircraft Ayaks was supposed to use novel "magneto-plasmo-chemical engines" capable of working in the mesosphere
?

...that
Vannimais were feudal divisions of Sri Lanka
?

...that Ilha dos Marinheiros, the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande, Brazil?

28 December 2007

23:27, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Josiah Parsons Cooke (pictured) had little formal education in chemistry, and instead spent eight months in Europe for advanced studies in the subject after he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Harvard in 1850?

...that Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos, a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches, but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece?

...that Seattle, Washington
, USA?

...that irritable hip
is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?

...that the National Aquarium, and White House Visitor Center
?

15:49, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

...that besides
Notre Dame de Paris
?

...that paramilitary loyalist Tommy Herron declared war on the British Army, but called it off after two days?

...that Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant?

...that singer turned model
who is now also venturing into acting?

...that the producer of
Oeil de Perdrix
?

...that
Triple Crown winning victory over England
in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?

...that the
Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in Belgrade where the Serbian version of Chicago, Kiss Me, Kate, A Chorus Line and other musicals
are performed?

09:49, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

...that a hook gauge (pictured) detects irregularities in manufacturer sizing of crochet hooks and knitting needles?

...that Oregon State University’s Wave Research Laboratory has the world’s largest tsunami simulator?

...that the 17th
Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden
in 1746?

...that during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee?

...that in the
trial merely to maintain his competency during trial
?

...that the philosophical question of temporal finitism has never been fully settled?

03:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the closing of Nittany Furnace (pictured) in 1911 marked the end of modern iron-production in Bellefonte, and presaged the decline of the Pennsylvanian town?

...that 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?

...that Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?

...that one of the earliest references to Indian wine was the writings of Chanakya in the 4th century BCE commenting on its prevalence in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya?

...that Seattle
who had come gunning for him?

...that without adequate
Polish
army much larger than expected?

27 December 2007

20:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Hinba, an island in Scotland of unknown location (possible location pictured), was the site of a small monastery associated with the church of St Columba on Iona?

...that Tom Collen resigned over a discrepancy about his résumé a day after becoming Vanderbilt University's women's basketball head coach, but his résumé was correct?

...that the
Mars
?

...that the
Les Mots
, rather than its scheduled date of release?

...that although tall waterhemp is considered a weed in 40 U.S. states, it does not appear on the federal noxious weed list or any state lists?

...that each title of the television series Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku
is the name of a flower seen in that episode?

14:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

...that an
F4U Corsair from Marine Fighting Squadron 441 (insignia pictured) clipped the superstructure of the USS Laffey (DD-724) while chasing a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa
?

...that in the 13th and 14th centuries, the
Muslim Mamluks
?

...that the city of
at-grade intersections
?

...that People's Democratic Party, is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
?

...that there are St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester
?

...that Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy violated a news embargo to break the story of the surrender of the Germans in World War II?

08:19, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

...that during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah (pictured)?

...that the modern war for independence, spying on rival Yugoslav
republics?

...that before becoming the
Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses
?

...that most of
Grade I listed buildings
are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?

...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?

...that the
Josef Stalin on their labels
?

01:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Carlo Orelli (pictured) was the last surviving Italian veteran to see service on Italy's entry into World War I?

...that when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey, England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?

...that in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies, coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773?

...that Silver Ferns
?

...that Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II?

...that
Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane
?

...that
will to the British Museum
?

...that the
Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920
?

...that many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer?

26 December 2007

19:07, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Irish
playwright George Farquhar (pictured) originally planned on an acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow actor severely on stage with a sword
?

...that the four years between the two
no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia
?

...that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy?

...that John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?

...that
center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker
position?

...that according to literary critics, stage play written by Richard Brome, is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England
at the time?

...that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?

...that the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City?

11:58, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the former Seattle, Washington, USA
is now a car park?

...that the Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries
in the West?

...that, after failing to hail a cab on
taxicab
industry?

...that although
execution
, some states allow it?

...that the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo?

...that
called for illegally throwing instead of bowling
an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?

...that in the 17th century,
prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones
?

...that people with patent
more likely to suffer from migraine
headaches?

01:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Christmas kettles have collected not only American Gold Eagles (coin pictured), but also gold teeth
?

...that the Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society, was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea
in 1883?

...that game designer Peter Molyneux
, sold only two copies?

...that Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?

...that Powderfinger's D.A.F. was named after its chord progression, rather than its subject matter like most popular songs?

...that composite honeycomb
in the chassis construction?

...that the skin of the Austrian white wine grape Zierfandler turns red just before it is ready to harvest?

25 December 2007

18:59, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

...that after turning up drunk at an official dinner, crowing cock-a-doodle-doos, and throwing himself on an ambassadress,
J.B. Manson retired as Director of the Tate
gallery and returned to painting flowers (pictured)?

...that the
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
?

...that the 18th century publisher Ralph Griffiths erected a sign outside his shop warning dunces that his Monthly Review would have no mercy in exposing and shaming dull authors?

...that
Shanhua, a township in Taiwan
, is also known as Bakaloan and Tevoran?

...that after scoring the highest score for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1933, Cyril Reed was playing against them for the Straits Settlements the following year?

...that spinning cones are sometimes used to lower the alcohol level of wine made from grapes with a high sugar content?

...that according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year?

12:56, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols (pictured), are also used in Christmas celebrations in Austria, Canada and California?

...that to clear a jammed gun on the
USS Brooklyn, Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba
?

...that wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?

...that development of the 2008 film 20th Century Fox
acquired the rights?

...that in the 1971 film American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff
under the name Cotton Ryan?

...that
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
?

...that in 1971, the
Point Elliott Treaty
?

...that no balled for throwing
in his debut match?

05:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
St. Thomas' Church, Mellor (pictured) contains the oldest wooden pulpit in England
, and possibly in the world?

...that, with Democratic
caucus became majority-female?
...that the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?

...that when the
Duke of Austria, Leopold III, established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla
wine?

...that before the
trial or a conviction
?

...that Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937?

...that Lviv University
?

24 December 2007

22:51, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the world's most extensive deposits of deposited by wind, are located on the southern and western coasts of Australia
?

...that the
Second World War
?

...that cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling, although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems?

...that
video game series on the Game Boy Advance, is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula
?

...that the epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Semantic Web
technologies?

...that after serving as a
Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century
?

...that there is currently significant controversy on
business school rankings
because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading?

16:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo of Hamburg, Germany (pictured) was the first to use moats instead of cages to separate the animals from the public?

...that pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL
?

...that Hector Munro Macdonald graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889?

...that "
talent contest miniseries between celebrity-led amateur choirs that was criticized for a lack of tension and actual judges
?

...that, upon
exhumation, the 10th century saint Rasso
was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller?

...that Frank Parr, an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?

...that Teledyne
, and is now working on a doctoral dissertation on video game players' demographic considerations?

...that the
Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party
?

10:44, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Zinfandel grapes on the vine!

...that Boston long before it made wine in California
?

...that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting?

...that The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death?

...that the writer and diplomat William Butler Yeats at a White House
lunch?

...that the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence?

...that sculptor
?

...that school board, sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives
in 2006?

03:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

...that mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet
?

...that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?

...that Teamsters, spent more than five years in Sing Sing
prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?

...that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?

...that as
Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor
?

...that Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket by three different umpires?

...that the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?

...that Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria, an Italian-made self-propelled 155mm howitzer, ordering 210 units in 1982?

23 December 2007

21:03, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the man intensely reading in the oil portrait The Bookworm (pictured) represents the inward looking attitudes that affected Europe during the time of its creation?

...Robert Hett Chapman was the second president of the The University of North Carolina and instituted the first Bible study classes at the university?

...that the Creusot steam hammer, with its massive 100 ton hammer and 750 ton anvil, was the world's largest steam hammer on its completion in 1877 and is the largest surviving steam hammer today?

...that Mount Urpín is home to 35 endangered animal species, despite its proximity to downtown Banská Bystrica?

...that theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry, his first acting job twenty years prior?

...that
HMCS Esquimalt was the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II
?

...that center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds
lasting only two games?

...that, as of December 2007, more than half of registered players of pre-teens
?
...that recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California, a town he founded?

13:42, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Clinton Thomas Dent made eighteen failed attempts to climb the Aiguille du Dru (pictured) before making the first ascent in September 1878?

...that anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize
laureates?

...that the energy elasticity of India in 2005 was 0.80?

...that the first act of desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta
?

...that the
L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
?

...that cricketer sanctioned for illegal bowling
?

...that two of the four judges depicted in The Bench, a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?

...that the Army Cyclist Corps, which operated the bicycle infantry of the British Army, only existed for four years?

...that after placing fifth in the original
rematch
?
...that
2BR02B is mentioned in his later book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, where it is attributed to Vonnegut's fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout
?

07:40, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

...that served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s
and married a local woman?

...that the 1957
accident on the Saint-Paul ramps claimed twenty-seven lives, making it among Réunion
's deadliest road accidents?

...that fighter planes
?

...that electronic amplifier
?
...that "Majulah Singapura", the national anthem of Singapore, was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?

...that the Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables
?

...that the conventional name of the Darius the Great of Persia
?
...that the community of Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains
?
...that actor
Guru of Sex
?

00:14, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Joshua Hendy Iron Works - a struggling business with only 60 employees by the late 1930s - ended World War II having supplied the engines to almost 30% of America's 2,700 Liberty ships (pictured)?

...that French winemakers in Jurançon once promoted their white Manseng wines with the slogan "Manseng means Jurançon means Sex"?

...that the phrase
dental hygiene is credited to Alfred Fones who founded the first dental hygiene school and whose cousin was the first qualified dental hygienist
?

...that 1974 federal election
?
...that the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Justice was built 65 years after the creation of the department—and 146 years after the creation of the post of Attorney General?

...that German-born
anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln
?

...that the star Arabic for 'elbow', and the name Hinali'i, commemorating a tsunami in Hawaiian folklore
?

...that George Orwell spent a month in September 1931 living rough in a Hopper hut?

22 December 2007

17:30, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

...that apart from extensive action in
observation squadron VMO-6 (insignia pictured) also represented the U.S. Marine Corps in National Air Races
?

...that the
Cattier resurrected its dormant de Brignac brand and it is now known for its distinctive, golden pewter
bottles?

...that the first time that racing promoter Bob Barkhimer went to a midget car race, he wondered what racing had to do with "circus midgets" (little people)?

...that
Russian Imperial Navy
?

...that Mark K. Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver
?

...that over 200 towns and cities in Brazil are served with a sewer system known as condominial sewerage?

...that James B. Craig, an All-American football halfback and quarterback, was the brother of Ralph Craig, a sprinter and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics?

11:23, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

...that handmade lace often begins as crochet thread (pictured)?

...that the
football (soccer) club Ferencvárosi TC
?

...that the
mental illness
?

...that Victorian winemakers sought to capitalize on the French phylloxera epidemic by making enough wine to satisfy the entire British market, but were thwarted when the insect infected their own vineyards?

...that drunken trees result from permafrost thawing?

...that
Jeanette Lee managed both The Cranberries and Pulp while signing The Strokes and The Libertines to her Rough Trade label
?

...that some Tibetans once thought Britain’s Queen Victoria was a reincarnation of Palden Lhamo, the wrathful deity considered to be the principal Protectress of Tibet?

...that the Royal Danish egg is one of eight Fabergé eggs that are currently missing?

21 December 2007

22:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
national musical instruments in Ireland, Wales and Paraguay
?

...that jungle primary
?
...that atomic bomb while acting as President of the Reichspost
, the German postal service?

...that St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?

...that Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?

...that glacial periods, commonly referred to as ice ages, are actually cold intervals within an ice age?

...that Ann C. Noble, inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology?

14:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant?

...that Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story about a group of World War I soldiers who were committed Janeites, that is, fans of Jane Austen novels?

...that three of the four batters faced by Baseball Hall of Fame
?

...that
hip hop
?

...that
Legend
?

...that the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?

...that the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?

...that one of the birth places of punk in the 1970s was a clothing store in Chelsea, London called Acme Attractions?

06:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

German band Grobschnitt

...that German rock band Grobschnitt (pictured) have incorporated pyrotechnics and sketch comedy into their extended performances since the mid-1970s?

...that
epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science
led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors?

...that the very first
AIDS appeared in the New York Native, a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City
?

...that Italian People's Party (1919–1926), collaborated with the OSS
while in exile in the United States?

...that the Stelo (plural: Steloj ) was a monetary unit in the Esperanto movement from 1945 to 1993?

...that former
rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis, Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons
, but three were in a single game?

...that the semantron, intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls?

20 December 2007

23:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Louisville Legion
"?

...that Paul Casanova drove in the winning run in what is considered the longest night game in Major League Baseball history at 6 hours, 38 minutes?

...that Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids
?

...that the Polish side tried to keep the Suwałki Agreement limited in scope so that it would not interfere with the planned Żeligowski's Mutiny?

...that in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight
jails across Italy, supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis
of the Italian Penitentiary Act?

...that
naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species
?

14:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Republic of Turkey, established the first commercial Turkish winery in 1925
?

...that Anarchist Exclusion Act
?
...that the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails, and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent?

...that
Emmit Smith's Nissan Pathfinder for two days when assigned rookie initiation car washing
duties?

...that about one million animals are used every year in Europe in toxicology testing?

...that
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
?

...that
County Route 91 in Onondaga County, New York is signed as County Route 57 for New York State Route 57
, the route it replaced?

...that the
Brown mussel Perna perna aggregates in such large amounts that it is able to sink navigational buoys
?

05:33, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

...that at the age of 102, former
Labour party secretary Haakon Lie (pictured) is still an active participant in Norwegian
public life?

...that
NOAA
Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?

...that
Craftsman Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway
?

...that
Bolshoi Theater
?

...the Queen, was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh
?

...that the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics?

...that 12 of the 23 medals awarded to Egypt at the Olympics so far were given to competitors in combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, judo and taekwondo?

19 December 2007

22:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

...that artist paradichlorobenzene
, which is usually employed as a toilet deodoriser?

...that Google's Knol project is widely seen as an attempt to compete with Wikipedia?

...that Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia?

...that
diplomatic relations on January 19, 1959
?

...that, though records from the era are sketchy, press accounts reported that All-American football player Frank Steketee once kicked a 100-yard punt?

...that after selecting the
cuvee to make a second wine
?

...that the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery?

...that the liwan, a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?

...that a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz?

14:13, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

...that seeds of redtop (Agrostis gigantea, pictured) are long-lived and display a high germination rate even after years of storage in an uncontrolled environment?

...that
NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze
attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?

...that artifacts discovered at Mound Bottom, Tennessee show that the site was part of a vast Native American trading network extending to the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Appalachian Mountains during the Mississippian era?

...that Joseph Finegan, an attorney, politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War?

...that meetings of the
Palais du Louvre
?

...that during her first year in the
bills regarding energy efficiency
standards?

05:58, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jewish American
residence?

...that the occupied Athens
?

...that the
Tribal class destroyer HMS Tartar received the nickname 'Lucky Tartar' due to her numerous escapes from dangerous situations in World War II
?

...that the titles of the television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese
?

...that drag racer Bob Glidden was the top qualifier in 23 straight National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events, including every event in the 1987 season?

...that during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?

...that the Daguin machine was a cancelling machine first used in post offices in Paris in 1884?

18 December 2007

21:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
home plate
umpire?

...that in Hindu mythology, after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar, died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?

...that the title of psychiatrist
psychopath wears to disguise
his inability to feel emotion for others?

...that the fleet of the requisitioned trawler‎s, whalers, drifters, paddle steamers, yachts, tugs
and the like?

...that dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion?

...that in return for reinforcements against the Lombards, Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?

13:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Chukiat Sakweerakul (pictured) intentionally sought to downplay the 2007 Thai film's gay
love story in marketing materials, in hopes of the film reaching a broader audience?

...that the New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks have included Reggie Bush and Archie Manning?

...that
Ploieşti" for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II
?

...that Frederick the Great, was wounded thrice in the Battle of Landeshut, fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War
?

...that "trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing
purposes?

...that John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the man engine, an important reform in Cornish mining?

...that there was once an
New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931
?

06:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

...that according to Hindu mythology, the Tandava, a vigorous dance by Hindu god Shiva (pictured), is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe?

...that The Australian Golf Club, arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th–16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904?

...that
Forest Fair Mall
?

...that Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans?

...that
Roman Catholic Church, only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican
?

...that bestseller
charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?

17 December 2007

23:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

...that following his capture after the
Battle of Badajoz in 1812, Major General Armand Philippon (pictured) was paroled to stay in the Shropshire town of Oswestry
?

...that the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?

...that
Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's
only state park?

...that discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea?

...that though only one melody for every ten songs has been preserved among the work of the
troubadours, a remarkable three-quarters of Berenguier de Palazol's
surviving poems have melodies?

...that the
Afghanistan
on the importance of respecting ancient monuments?

...that the J.C. Staff
?

14:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the cricketers who played in Western Australia
between about 1879 and 1906?

...that the highly prolific paying farmers to uproot
their Carignan vines to help alleviate the problem?

...that the
Mark-Houwink equation
?

...that
English queen consort
?

...that Arabic, is the brightest O-type blue supergiant
and one of the hottest bright stars in the sky?

...that social activists opine that the extension of the Kolkata Metro on pillars on the bed of Adi Ganga will destroy the waterway?

...that once economic advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Christopher Story went on to publish independent intelligence magazines that are considered important reading by many international top agencies?

06:53, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Palaeolithic figures of women (example pictured), made in Eurasia
between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago?

...that Ralph Millet, who brought the first Saab cars to the United States, discussed production of Saabs in the U.S. in the 1950s, but that the idea was only resurrected with the U.S. production of a Saab in the 2006 model year?

...that the
historical basis for the mythical British king, King Arthur
?

...that the tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis) is a noxious weed in the United States, but used as a remedy against leprosy in Pakistan?

...that taxi in Birmingham, England
?

...that unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter?

...that Warren Storm pioneered a South Louisiana musical genre known as swamp pop?

16 December 2007

23:39, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Berlin Foundry Cup (pictured), an ancient Greek drinking cup by the Foundry Painter, depicts the operations of a bronze sculpture workshop?

...that Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period
?

...that at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm, which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792?

...that
Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum
?

...that Luo Binwang wrote a sharply worded accusation against Empress Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor, that impressed her so much that after his death she collected his writings and published them?

...that after the fall of
Napoleon in France, some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama
wilderness?

17:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the only elements of the baby, the ox and the ass
?

...that George K. Gay's house was the first brick house in Oregon and served as the boundary marker between Yamhill and Polk counties?

...that until recently many Sauvignon vert
?

...that
Madeline L'Engle ran writers' workshops and retreats every January at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York
?

...that real estate broker, and rancher
?

...that Georgiana Harcourt, a 19th century English correspondent and translator, was the daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the Archbishop of York?

11:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
public servant Sir Russell John Dumas
?

...that Richard Nolte was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Republic for three weeks in 1967 but never served due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War?

...that
Côte d'Ivoire
?

...that British comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made one of their earliest television appearances in their 1983 television pilot The Crystal Cube, a show the BBC hated?

...that the $2.33 billion in compensation if the Libyans convicted of the Pan AM and UTA
plane bombings are cleared?

...that the Madaba Map is a large Byzantine mosaic from circa 550 CE that depicts the topography of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in great detail?

04:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Wales had one of the highest literacy rates in eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan (pictured), who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"?

...that a symbolic April 1995 boat trip—celebrating the foundation of the Mekong River Commission—was unable to cross the Mekong River because China was filling the reservoir of its Manwan Dam?

...that future
guided-missile program, risked his career by participating in the Revolt of the Admirals
?

...that the lightships
at the same site?

...that during the
sophistry
or exaggeration of trivial errors in a rival's poetry?
...that the California wine industry accounts for nearly 90% of all U.S. production, and if California were a country it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer?

...that Merovingian courtier
to become a hermit?

15 December 2007

22:14, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Lorraine Collett (pictured) was the original model for the girl featured on Sun-Maid raisin packaging?

...that the Schiller
?

...that Aline was an ordinary woman who lived in 1st century AD Egypt, and whose name and portrait were preserved in her grave?

...that Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!"?

...that the Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American?

...that
folktale involving the Monkey King
, a popular Chinese mythical character?

...that Poland
?
...that 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?

14:22, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy (pictured) is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?

...that Tudor, Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia
?

...that Jews in France during the Holocaust
?

...that Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA?

...that John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?

...that Busch Series
?

...that "
gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme
?

...that Princess Stéphanie of Monaco’s song "Ouragan" was a number one hit in France?

04:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
abdicated the throne
?

...that boats crammed with people from both India and Bangladesh, flying the flags of their respective countries, converge on the Ichamati River, the international border, to immerse the idols after Durga Puja?

...that Philip Pullman's novel Clockwork was adapted into an opera for children?

...that
International style
European architects for creating many buildings that nobody likes?

...that Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed?

...that the oasis town of Second Tuareg Rebellion
?

...that
Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance
to augment their bomb loads?

14 December 2007

19:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the tradition of a Christianization of Rus
?

...that shoots of the Almond Willow are used extensively for basket-making?

...that newly named
Pacific Islander American to be head coach at a major college football
program?

...that before the
Muslim Caliphate
from the 6th to the 9th centuries?

...that the
Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological
point of view?

12:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Carolina dayflower (pictured) is actually from India and was named in the United States nearly a century before it was described in its native country?

...that
sending off
three home team players in a single game?

...that there is no such
woofen-poof
?

...that the King-James-Only Movement for convincing some Independent Baptist groups to adopt modern Bible translations
?

...that as a result of his role in the
Peasants' War, the German Renaissance painter Jerg Ratgeb was executed by being torn apart
by four horses?

...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the bankrupted by the Panic of 1837
?

...that twice named
CEO of a Fortune 500
irrigation equipment company?

03:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
green libraries
, using environmentally conscious designs?

...that Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality?

...that in
gas phase decomposition
reactions?

...that Lawrence Turner, who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?

...that
egg yolk
for five days after they hatch?

...even though the United States Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?

...that the Polish
Beatles
?

13 December 2007

20:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

...that early-20th-century alteration of urban terrain
up to that time?

...that kings of the Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda
in 1034?

...that shortly after Captain William Day received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port, at Brest, France, in July 1777, he sailed home and effectively vanished from history?

...that Vietnamese winemakers are trying to cultivate grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon on land that till recently was still covered with landmines from the Vietnam War?

...that in 1607, Spanish priest and professor of music at the University of Salamanca Sebastián de Vivanco published 18 versions of the Song of Mary in the same book?

...that ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony?

...that the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium?

...that in
temperature, and elastic modulus
?

...that Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime?

12:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Ostomachion is a mathematical treatise attributed to Archimedes on a 14-piece tiling puzzle (pictured) similar to tangram?

...that the development of a hydrosalpinx was first recognized in the 17th century as a cause of female infertility by Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf?

...that armwrestling
challenges?

...that several prehistoric
standing stones and natural stone features in Scotland are called Carlin stones, possibly from the term cailleach meaning "old hag" or "witch
"?

...that 78 soldiers of the
25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation
?

...that President of the Congress of Colombia
?
...that every World Chess Champion before Garry Kasparov except Bobby Fischer played at the Hastings International Chess Congress?

01:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

...that since Thomas Jefferson designed his home, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Top Cottage (pictured) has been the only house designed by a U.S. President, although no President has stayed there overnight?

...that
submarine in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica
by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?

...that under the
2049
?

...that the Fabergé invoice for the Nicholas II of Russia
as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
...that
Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl
in the same year?

...that the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?

12 December 2007

19:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares (pictured) was a 1970s fashion fad?

...that 1970
?

...that the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?

...that Health Minister of Bangladesh, worked to eradicate mosquitoes
from that country?

...that when yellow crystals of mosesite, a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury, are heated to 186 °C (367 °F), they become isotropic?

...that governor of Maine, worked on the farm and also as a shoemaker when he was a child
?

18:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

...that systematic
impact basins
, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet?

...that a
team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II
?

...that crystals of Paulingite, a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River, form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron?

...that scarps, ridges, and troughs, such as the 650 km (400 mi) long and 2 km (1.2 mi) high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater, are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury?

...that in
Buddhist
?

10:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the rails
?

...that the
television series consisting of thirteen episodes
?

...that a nutating disc engine is a novel internal combustion engine comprising fundamentally only one moving part?

...that rushing
attempts in a game with 45?

...that the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System?

...that before penning Number Ones for Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts, country music songwriter Neil Thrasher charted a country single in 1997 as half of the duo Thrasher Shiver?

04:11, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a male skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales
?

...that the
Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces
?

...that
Distinguished Service Medal for reorganizing the U.S. Army
's supply system?

...that the
shillings
?

...that when
Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them
?

...that in Steve Morrison's first year as Brother Rice defensive coordinator they won a MHSAA football championship and in his first year as Western Michigan linebacker coach one of his linebackers led the nation in sacks?

11 December 2007

22:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Kuiper crater in the Kuiper quadrangle, named after Dutch American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (pictured), has the highest albedo recorded on Mercury
?

...that recent studies estimated that 34% of total connections and non-payment of electricity
bills?

...that
2000 NFL Draft
?

...that
Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat loss
and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?

...that the
phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners
?

...that the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
?

15:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Garter King of Arms William Segar (pictured) was imprisoned for confirming a coat of arms to someone who was not a gentleman?

...that the 1994 Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties
?

...that the
Caloris Basin on Mercury, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System, is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta
?

...that former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?

...that in 1886, Wilhelm Steinitz won the first official World Chess Championship?

...that the President Manuel A. Odría
?

...that British historian bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag
?

...that the
Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist
views to enter the United States?

07:25, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships
to mount anti-aircraft guns?

...that former Governor Republican
?
...that Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?
...that El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy
?

...that jerrygibbsite ((Mn,Zn)₉(SiO₄)₄(OH)₂) is a rare mineral of which there are only five known samples in the world?

...that the first volume of printed strips from the
Slice-of-life" webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic
Other Literary Work"?

...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice?

01:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?

...that the
World War One
?

...that Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?

...that although army to deploy flamethrowers to eliminate the seaweed breeding grounds for a type of fly
?

...that
1957 NFL Draft
?

...that the south pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Bach quadrangle?

10 December 2007

16:50, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

...that among the Rikbaktsa (pictured), an indigenous people of Brazil, each household traditionally was a separate political unit?

...that the
Old West
?

...that The Prodigal Son by Arthur Sullivan was the first sacred music setting of this story from the Gospel of Luke?

...that
moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder
of four of her five husbands?

...that when the
Christian Casper ten Boom
voluntarily wore one also?

10:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Eddie Hasha's (pictured) death led to board track racing being compared to Roman gladiators, contributing to the sport's demise?

...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?

...that Żeligowski's Mutiny, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania in late 1920, was in fact staged and carried out with the knowledge of Polish leader Józef Piłsudski?

...that Glafira Dorosh is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe?

...that
Peggy Y. Fowler
is blind in one eye?

...that Yoky Matsuoka, a neuroscience and robotics researcher, was once the 21st ranked tennis player in Japan?

...that mariner who urged his fellow-officers to abandon a crowded vessel in stormy seas in 1880, served as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's fictional character Lord Jim
?

...that after the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottomans demolished the Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city?

...that Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?

...that despite being Porsche's primary factory-backed competitor in the World Endurance Championship from 1983 to 1986, the Lancia LC2 won only two races?

03:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

...that crème brûlée (pictured) was invented in the 1690s by François Massialot, who recommended melting and burning the sugar topping with a red-hot fire shovel?

...that the work of Cornificia, a Roman poet of the first century BC, was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?

...that snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?

...that in 1759, François Thurot's ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been defeated before it even left France?

...that
Prince Claus Foundation
?

...that India's Red and White Bravery Awards were renamed the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards after protests claimed it provided surrogate advertising for Red and White brand cigarettes?

...that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?

...that despite the
merchant SS Stalingrad
sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?

...that Bradford Kelleher started the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shop?

9 December 2007

21:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Carolina Bay in Bladen County, North Carolina, has been protected since the 1800s, but the land around it only became Singletary Lake State Park
in 1939?

...that the spread of Tang Dynasty
, where it was known as the Luminous Religion?
...that receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season
?

...that the Pacific Yew, was developed at the Tokyo University of Science
in 1999?

...that one
White-breasted Robin of Western Australia
is much paler than the other?

...that the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?

...that alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks, was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing
in 1979?

...that the dominant feature in the impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10
?

...that spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance
?

...that St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?

15:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

...that a design for the New Orleans, Louisiana
?

...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?

...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain?

...that U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II
?

...that
ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder
's last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?

...that May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle
to power?

...that
Russell Walter Fox, a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory, wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining
?

...that Edward Barrett played rugby union for England, and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States?

...that each time receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown
?

08:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the rehabilitation of the Pioneer Square
?

...that
All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds
two days apart in September 1934?

...that Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award?

...that the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?

...that the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus?

...that ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces?

...that JGTC race at Fuji Speedway
, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?

...that Way of St. James
?

01:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Juliobriga (ruins pictured) was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria?

...that undefeated national champion
rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season
?

...that
Victor Tsoi
?

...that
thin films grow on crystals
?

...that though the
Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles
?

...that former
Havant and Waterlooville
?

...that both former
Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award
?

8 December 2007

19:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
inshore marine fish Malabar jack (pictured) derives its name from Malabar in South India, but can be found in coastal areas as far apart as South Africa, Japan and Vanuatu
?

...that Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton
?

...that the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?

...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?

...that 1948 Arab-Israeli war
?

...that according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon, France?

...that gender-bending
party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue
wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?

12:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Jane Austen's (pictured) novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?

...that due to both lengthening
passing leaders
are controversial?

...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?

...that the dinosaur
hadrosaurs
?

...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?

...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of
SS Pan Kraft
?

...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?

7 December 2007

23:52, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

...that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (pictured) is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?

...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?

...that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?

...that Continental United States
in the past 56 years?

...that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?

...that labor movement
?

...that inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia
than in the rest of the world?

16:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Bronze Age golden hats, including those of Berlin (pictured), Schifferstadt and Ezelsdorf, are tall gold head-dresses from circa 1,000 to 800 BC that also served as calendars
?

...that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?

...that Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas
as a high construction priority?

...that
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook
in some university philosophy courses?

...that TVA
?
...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?

...that according to
Apheca in modern-day Lebanon
?

...that indigenous peoples of the
shaman and as a trickster
?

09:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale (pictured) emphasized how a patient
's environment affects his recovery?

...that
heart attack
) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?

...that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?

...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?

...that Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?

...that the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing
that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?

...that 2007 election campaign
?

...that the first
co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908
?

01:44, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Houston Volunteers signed up to replace those lost aboard USS Houston (pictured) after its sinking in 1942 by the Japanese Navy?

...that
infrared radiation
?

...that William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection?

...that the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine, County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland?

...that
Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team
?

...that the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley?

...that Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?

...that the Civil Aviation Authority
?

...that the zero-g
forms a perfect sphere?

6 December 2007

16:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Mankaded
"?

...that Ahom Kingdom's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids
, but much smaller in scale?

...that
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin
?

...that during
ace pilots
?

...that The Simpsons' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office?

...that in the 1896 peninsula
?

...that the
Saraswati River, a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal
, is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?

10:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined seaplane (pictured), became the first men to circumnavigate Australia
by air in 1924?

...that
center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard
and losing a presidential election?

...that the 1928 movie
Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie, which marked the début of Mickey Mouse
?

...that the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth?

...that after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama-trekking to young people from Sheffield?

...that the Sikh Guru
?

...that during the
1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes
?

...that before
Nazi satanism
in the UK since the late 1960s?

03:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Winnebago (pictured) and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War
?

...that
Alexandra Fyodorovna
?

...that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?

...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?

...that The Diary of Anne Frank
, for their 2001 production?

...that
Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire
?

...that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?

... the Safety Promotion Center, established by Japan Airlines after the worst ever single aircraft accident, displays victims' farewell letters and wreckage to educate employees about safety?

...that the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?

5 December 2007

20:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Fick’s law
?

...that George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?

...that plebeian consul of the Roman Republic
?

...that most Swiss immigrants to Russia, several thousand in all, left after the October Revolution in 1917?

...that Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?

...that
Riley Ann Sawyers
?

...that
botanist John Parkinson
included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)

...that Bengal renaissance
?

14:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

...that bead crochet (pictured) was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?

...that monarchies
?

...that in 1979
Rose Bowl
"Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?

...that the railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand
?

...that
constant
named after him?

...that Mount Harriet, in the Andaman Islands, is named after Robert Christopher Tytler's wife?

...that with the crops farmed
with only 150 paid employees?

...that Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?

...that the
band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley
's songs?

03:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

...that biological parents
?

...that
U.S. Representative Dale Alford awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark
, who later became NATO commander?

...that the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?

...that an elaborate warships
?

...that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?

...that Mel Tolkin, lead writer for Your Show of Shows, served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?

...that Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world?

...that the price of
Côte d'Ivoire
?

...that the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?

4 December 2007

20:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical
disguises (pictured)?

...that Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?

...that
Doris M. Cochran, the Smithsonian Institution
's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?

...that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?

...that Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?

...that the
quantum computers
?

...that Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen
?

...that after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?

12:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Oinochoe

...that the
Oinochoe (pictured) by the Shuvalov Painter is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Greek vase painting
?

...that
urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion
?

...that
coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal
?

...that the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery
opening till 1994?

...that eight small
municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal
?

...that although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy's team records, they all have needed more games to do so?

...that the timepiece, Russian object and Fabergé egg
ever sold?

03:20, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
French-Canadian historian Charles-Honoré Laverdière (pictured) believed that the Jesuits had falsified some of the original works of Samuel de Champlain
?

...that
Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia
?

...that the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?

...that the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State
, was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?

...that Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese?

...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?

...that the Bishopsgate bombing, mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London?

3 December 2007

20:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

...that both the
Korean American community are buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery
(chapel pictured)?

...that it is unclear whether Songtsän Gampo
?
...that
B-26 bomber
over France?

...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?

...that the Seri Indians
?

...that some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts?

...that 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's
mining in South Africa
?

...that Norwegian Minister of the Environment
in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?

14:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

...that
ethnic politics
?

...that Tom Wolfe's 1975 book The Painted Word, which criticized modern and conceptual art, was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?

...that the United States
Customs and Border Patrol may search all travelers' possessions, including in some cases, personal files on their laptops, without a warrant or even suspicion under the border search exception
?

...that the ancient people known as the Oeselians, who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings?

...that Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India, is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu
, the university's namesake?

...that Hurricane Karen
in September 2007 was only classified as a hurricane two months after the storm dissipated?

...that the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda?

02:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

...that curacy
in another church?

...that former
Crisler Arena, the home of Michigan Wolverines
basketball?

...that remnants of ancient
wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC
?

...that in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial, the murderer of a founding father of the United States, George Wythe, went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?

...that Chalan Beel, a wetland in Bangladesh, is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?

...that Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters
in his country?

2 December 2007

19:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Wo Hing Society Hall (pictured) is one of two existing Chinese Society Halls left on the island of Maui?

...that track & field, but was drafted to play professional American football
?

...that Khirbet Qumran
site?
...that the first Trk receptor, which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons, was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin, forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers?

...that in the wake of the
large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked
because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?

...that the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to submit a bid?

13:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the clapotis (illustrated) is a standing wave pattern formed at a vertical shoreline?

...that Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?

...that a statue originally created in 1815 for Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar
?

...that the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan?

...that All-American
honors?

...that seven followers of
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon
?

...that the original plan for Good Friday Agreement
), failed after four years of negotiation?

02:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

...that soldiers of the
150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag
for the well-known photograph (pictured)?

...that the Lincoln Snacks Company, a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn, was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD?

...that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?

...that
offensive line
?

...that the
Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà
shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?

...that in the 1850s the American architect cast iron-fronted buildings
in the world?
...that David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?

...that the first lieutenant 28 June 1942
?

1 December 2007

20:18, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the new
Market Street Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania
is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods?

...that Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism?

...that Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?

...that
football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30, 1905
, the first match of the Dutch national team ever?

...that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?

...that
council housing
system?

...that a daughter of Philip Johnston, the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder, the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?

...that Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?

11:22, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

...that Euphronios (work pictured), Hermonax and the Providence Painter were Greek vase painters of the early 5th century BC specialised in Red-figure pottery and that the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter‎ is one of the earliest works in that style?

...that
Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland
a year later?

...that according to legend,
Christian martyr Saint Getulius
and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?

...that Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?

...that George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?

...that the first
sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia
?

...that the United States Army Chemical Corps
during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
...that
former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh
New Wave" cinema movement?

03:22, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

...that the
slave trade in Havana
?

...that when
snapping
the ball with his left hand?

...that Rhinoceros Iguana
(Cyclura cornuta)?
...that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km²) but only has 75 houses?

...that after the
eat their tired horses
?

...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?

...that 24 April 1778
?

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