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28 February 2007

21:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the proposals for a new collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design (pictured), which was officially adopted in 1999
?

...that the
England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet, and Paul Terry
's arm was broken?

...that June 1992 produced 100-year floods in portions of southwestern Florida
?

...that
Interior Minister in 1952 after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism
?

...that the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War?

...that BBC Young Musician of the Year
award, at twelve years of age?

12:24, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

...that a sailing boats
designed by John Watkinson?

...that
8 May 1945
?

...that the computer software
?
...that in the Lithuanian calendar, three months are named for birds and two for trees?

...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?

...that the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great?

05:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Louis IX of France resided in the walled city of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (pictured) before departing on the Eighth Crusade, during which he died in 1270 near Tunis?

...that threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology
?

...that the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara?

...that the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war
?

...that despite using sharp needles, bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?

...that Cabelas due to a single blog
post?

27 February 2007

22:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Steam yacht Kanawha

...that African Americans
?

...that the
so rare
that there were only 25 of them left in 1991?

...that
Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy
's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?

...that
Private Member's Bill
to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality"?

...that gas stations in New York City
?

12:53, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

...that one of the statues at the erotic temple
Candi Sukuh (pictured) in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip
?

...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?

...that
1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five
teams?

...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?

...that the lower
American West is thought to be due to fewer glacial refugia in the Eastern United States
?

...that according to legend,
Matryona Nikonova
, who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?

02:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art (pictured), as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?

...that Dembei, a fisherman stranded on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1701 or 1702, is believed to have been the first Japanese person to settle in Russia?

...that when Cree-language
translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?

...that
entrepreneur Carlo Gatti pioneered the sale of ice cream to the general public in London from 1849, and later ran several music halls
?

...that "
Nocturne" is the Eurovision Song Contest winner with the fewest words, the Norwegian language
original having only 25?

...that Russian Central Bank
?

26 February 2007

18:29, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the South Cameroon Plateau (pictured) takes up over half the land area of Cameroon?

...that on
homosexual figures to the nativity scene
at the Italian Congress?

...that fast neutron therapy utilizes neutrons, typically with more than twenty megaelectronvolts, to treat diseases like cancer?

...that the
West Indian cricket team lost only two matches during their three-month tour to England in 1980
?

...that mental illness
treatment?
...that the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in southern San Francisco Bay?

...that
Vakıflı is the only ethnic Armenian village in Turkey
?

00:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

...that in constructing the Via della Conciliazione (pictured), Benito Mussolini ordered the demolition of an entire Roman neighborhood, and the forcible eviction of its residents to settlements outside the city?

...that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken from the pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period?

...that in
killing himself
?

...that Artin Penik, a Turkish-Armenian, set himself on fire in protest of the attacks against Turks by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)?

...that New Orleans playboy and politician, introduced the dice game craps to the United States
in the early 1800s?

...that the common
pocket billiards game of kelly pool
?

25 February 2007

16:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

...that there are over 2,300 local historic districts (pictured) in the United States?

...that
Hurlingham Club
for over 25 years?

...that in order to accommodate the
Broadway Theatre in Manhattan was turned into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, and trapdoors at a cost of US$
800,000?

...that "Battle of the Atlantic
?
...that CoBrA avant-garde
art group?

...that Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI?

...that
sculptors Jacob Epstein and Elisabeth Frink
, both of whom were family friends?

...that the Western Blue-tongued Lizard
displays its tongue to frighten off predators?

05:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the invasion of Poland made its return from the 1939 New York World's Fair
impossible?

...that missions in Africa
?

...that the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, an annual and televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon, was first held in 1995?

...that hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers?

...that King John
, whom Edward deposed?

...that
Martha, the mother of Simeon Stylites, is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist
appeared to her telling her to do so?

24 February 2007

19:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Dethridge wheel (pictured), invented in Australia in 1910, measures the flow of water delivered to farms for irrigation?

...that consecration
?

...that in 1828, Hillfields became the first suburb of Coventry to be located outside of the city walls marking the beginning of a large expansion for the city?

...that road cyclists
but the injuries sustained by the former are less severe on average?

...that the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?

...that retired District of New Jersey judge William G. Bassler is currently teaching at three New York City area law schools?

11:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
United States
?

...that bridges carrying India's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?

...that the effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas were generally unexpected and primarily concentrated on the western portion of Grand Bahama Island?

...that some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?

...that the offices of the Labour Leader, the newspaper of the British Independent Labour Party, were raided in 1915, and editor Fenner Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material?

...that
ProSlide's first water coaster driven by linear induction motors opened at Australia's WhiteWater World
in 2006?

23 February 2007

22:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

...that local
mountaineers have organized daily canoe trips down Dunajec River Gorge (pictured) in Pieniny National Park, Poland
since the early 19th century?

...that Indian poet Gopalakrishna Adiga is known as the pioneer of Navya literature?

...that the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was said by opponents to be part of a Communist, Catholic, Jewish or psychiatric conspiracy to set up concentration camps in Alaska for political prisoners?

...that, after 34 years as
Roman Catholic abbot of Coupar Angus, Donald Campbell converted to Protestantism in 1559, and destroyed the icons and altars of his monastery in Scotland
?

...that 28 civilians were killed in the Bisho massacre in 1992, when soldiers opened fire on marchers demanding that the bantustan of Ciskei be reincorporated into South Africa?

13:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

...that White Australia Policy
?

...that George Crichton's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton?

...that The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts around the Gulf of California, but neither is mentioned by name in the book?

...that as part of a
San Antonio to Austin
?

...that the entire
Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka
?

06:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Anne Lynch Botta (pictured) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions?

...that
modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia
?

...that Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding
?

...that the performance of "Romeo" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, was the first time that a drag queen or any other sexual minority had been openly visible onstage at Eurovision?

...that 2007
Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer
had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?

...that four artillery submarines were among many uncompleted U-boat projects planned by Nazi Germany?

22 February 2007

23:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

...that art being dragged by the hair by Huns
?

...that the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees?

...that Robert Adler invented the Space Command ultrasonic television remote control?

...that John McFee and the late Keith Knudsen were the only band members of the country rock group Southern Pacific to stay for its entire eight-year run from 1983 to 1991?

...that to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the
Camino de Santiago, Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin
instead of using a case?

...that
Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States
?

17:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the
stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan
?

...that large-scale Greek settlement in what is today Bulgaria dates to the 7th century BC?

...that the novel therapod dinosaur, Utahraptor
?

...that Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan?

...that the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo?

...that Professor Józef Łukaszewicz took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia?

09:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Old Sycamore Hospital (pictured), founded in 1899, was designed and funded by the first female doctor in Sycamore, Illinois?

...that the
Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset
?

...that the
Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids
?

...that according to the
framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically
reflected in the last three days of creation?

...that the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands?

...that Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane?

...that an estimated 20 people died after eating
Bradford sweets poisoning
?

21 February 2007

19:31, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the potential for the production of EU
’s capacity for both wind and tidal power generation?

...that although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov, none of her work has been published in English?

...that the
tank warfare
?

...that the bulk of Bulgarians in Hungary descend from gardeners and other professionals who settled in the country prior to World War I?

...that collective religious colony
?

...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?

13:01, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Charles Irving Thornton Tombstone

...that
tombstone of Charles Irving Thornton
(pictured) despite never having met the dead child or his family?

...that Mary of Gueldres
?

...that although the
−1
?

...that Roswell UFO incident
, seen during the summer of 1947?

...that a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives
if the leadership tries to suppress it?

...that children as young as three were employed to hurry around British coal mines?

20 February 2007

23:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Czech alpine skier to win a medal in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
?

...that Robert Coleman, owner of several iron furnaces, was Pennsylvania's first millionaire?

...that the Vorontsovsky Palace in Ukraine was designed by the English architect Edward Blore?

...that the
Axis navies, before being captured by the U.S. Navy
?

...that the
"Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania
?

...that British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India
?

...that the
movie
?

16:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
grade point average
?

...that the Russian émigré group in Manchukuo
in the 1930s?

...that the three-day merchant seamen and led to the founding of the National Maritime Union
?

...that the view that
lovers, considered a blasphemy
, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?

...that the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built to transport artillery ammunition from Balaclava to the Allied troops besiging Sevastopol during the Crimean War?

10:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Sir Edwin Lutyens included a landscaped circular depression in his design for the Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in Flanders, to evoke the mine craters that once surrounded it?

...that the United States Department of Agriculture expects the boll weevil to be eradicated by 2009 as a result of its Boll Weevil Eradication Program?

...that in penny gaffs, theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England, the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?

...that Nabisco's bakery in Chicago Lawn was the biggest in the world when it opened in 1941?

...that the town of
cheese wheel, to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential
electoral victory?

19 February 2007

21:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

...that poverty in France (homeless Parisian depicted) went down by 60% from 1970 to 2001, despite an increase in poverty among the workforce?

...that the term "2006 U.S. midterm elections
?

...that the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?

...that after one group he founded was banned, the
neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen
began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities?

...that the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard?

12:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

...that from 1897 until his retirement in 1908, American cricketer John Lester (pictured) led the batting averages of the Philadelphians?

...that
Shakespeare, to opera
?

...that western hemisphere
?
...that the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?

...that Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season?

...that Salt Lake City, Utah, was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina
?

...that Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania
?

18 February 2007

20:27, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

...that a styrenes
?

...that Wye Valley Brewery’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire-grown hops, but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland?

...that in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?

...that child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF
and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?

...that Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?

...that ice-minus bacteria, a variant of genus Pseudomonas, are useful in agriculture, because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?

13:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Rembrandt collected the works of Hercules Seghers (example pictured) and partially reworked two of his works?

...that Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius
?

...that Joseph Legros, who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?

...that Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier
was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?

...that New York's "Timothy's Law" mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?

...that
South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid
was abolished in 1991?

07:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Eldon Hill (quarry pictured) in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?

...that oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre
?

...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?

...that the non-fiction book Inside Scientology, published in 1972 by Olympia Press, was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?

...that during the Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association
match?

...that Roman Catholic sex abuse cases
?

00:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
2007 NBA Draft
?

...that a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton, England, was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate?

...that Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey, has been in operation since 1924?

...that the Mifflin Street Block Party, which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005, began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War?

...that archaeologists at the rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico, but also the skeletons, femurs, and crania of human infants
?

17 February 2007

17:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Old Walton Bridge was the subject of a painting by Canaletto in which he included an image of himself painting?

...that a
construction project
?

...that the
factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster
forks?

...that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?

...that Virginia Colony
?

...that retired
anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction
?

11:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Great Western Railway's Cornish Riviera Express (pictured) was named following a public competition in The Railway Magazine?

...that one method of Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights
?

...that the
Isaac Varian, mayor of New York City
from 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?

...that
Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC
?

...that Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?

...that acute renal failure in dogs
?

00:14, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Aaron Clark (pictured) was the only Whig Party candidate ever elected mayor of New York City?

...that approximately 10,000 young Germans known as the Ritchie Boys served in the United States Army in World War II helping conduct psychological warfare against Nazi Germany?

...that Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?

...that
Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the month of November
?

...that 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute
?

...that the insanity of Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?

16 February 2007

17:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Isidore van Kinsbergen had to dig and to clean for four months before he could take the first picture of the 9th century Indonesian Buddhist monument of Borobudur (pictured) in 1873?

...that the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two-mile detour inland is required?

...that the town of
Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan
" because of its large Uzbek population?

...that Lyman Reed Blake devised a sewing machine for sewing the sole to the vamp of the shoe?

...that
Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German
army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?

...that the Pianta Grande di Roma by Giambattista Nolli of 1748 was still being used in urban planning in Rome down to the 1970s?

10:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

...that besides founding Phi Tau Sigma, Guy Livingston was also responsible for developing a sanitation certification program for foodservice managers that was later adopted by the federal, state, and local governments in the United States?

...that kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco?

...that
All Blacks
in 1905-6?

...that the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations?

...that Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I?

00:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the original Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured), which was signed on February 16, 1918, is still being searched for by historians?

...that the
subtropical ridge helps steer tropical cyclones
?

...that the national monument in Singapore, was used by the British Armed Forces for strategic planning during World War II
?

...that child labor
in the races?

...over 250,000 pieces of
USD
14 million?
...that
That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
?

15 February 2007

15:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Mark Kellogg (pictured) became the first Associated Press correspondent to die in the line of duty when he was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

...that honey-bees and other arthropods
?

...that the first of the short subjects began as a project to teach students at the University of Southern California movie making before being bought by Warner Bros. for $2500 in 1942
?

...that the Second World War
?
...that RNA-binding piwi proteins are required for the formation of sperm in many animals, including mammals?

...that Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem, which depicts the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia?

09:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
atomic weight
, but his design was ignored by many chemists?

...that a road in toads
to cross safely?

...that opened the batting
for their club, state and national teams in the same season?

...that the 101 female
Blair Babes
?

...that
animal cells
?

...that the Association of American Geographers
?

14 February 2007

20:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Sausenburg Castle (pictured) in Germany was destroyed in 1678 by the army of French Marshall Creque during the Franco-Dutch War?

...that the
Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's application, concerning the patentability of computer programs in the United Kingdom
?

...that Quaker Oats' Life cereal that was aired in the United States
for over 12 years?

...that the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire?

...that the causes and extent of Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures are still being debated long after they were first raised at a conference in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1942?

...that the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?

12:53, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

...that C-130
aircraft?

...that Family Division
?

...that Spanish government
?

...that because the
gall bladder, they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition
?

...that
Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy
?

...that the Dutch barn was the first non-native barn model ever built in the United States?

00:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

...that, as well as being used to clear snow, winter service vehicles (pictured) can be used to repair roads which have melted in hot weather?

...that
Indian Test cricketer Murali Kartik was expelled from the first intake of the National Cricket Academy
due to indiscipline?

...that 16th-century
reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory
?

...that the Brunswick Manifesto, issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?

...that archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?

...that 17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere?

13 February 2007

15:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the relics of
St. Florian's Church were brought to Kraków from Rome
for political reasons?

...that a recent
Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia
?

...that the anti-communist
organization for American housewives in the 1950s?

...that
Stalinization
period?

...that heart transplant
ever?
...that the four corners of the main crossroads in the historic town of Ross in Tasmania are known as Temptation, Recreation, Salvation and Damnation?

...that the Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated with blue lights on April 5, 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of National Poetry Month which is celebrated every April in the United States?

...that Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006?

08:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles Calhoun (pictured), the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, served in the United States Navy during World War II before enlisting in the Coast Guard?

...that the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania?

...that the statue of the
Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell
's troops?

...that
Polish September Campaign
?

...that John Oliver Wheeler and his grandfather Arthur Oliver Wheeler mapped the Selkirk Mountains?

...that George Washington's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn?

12 February 2007

23:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
Louis XVIII of France
?

...that Jablunkov is the easternmost town of the Czech Republic?

...that Daniel Friedmann, Israel's Minister of Justice, is a seventh-generation sabra, a rarity in a country where mass Jewish immigration did not begin until the late 19th century?

...that 49 of Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous's novels have had film adaptations?

...that Caffè Florian, established in 1720, was the first coffeehouse in Venice to admit women?

...that the 7th-century King Christian, is called the son of at least three different fathers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
?

16:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Anstruther Fish Bar (pictured) in Fife has won the accolade "best fish and chip shop" in Scotland, on three occasions?

...that congenital phenylketonuria to be recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists
?

...that the deadly mushroom Clitocybe dealbata is known as the "sweating mushroom" because this is a striking side effect of consuming it?

...that
laminopathies are a diverse group of genetic diseases caused by mutations in nuclear envelope
filaments?

...that a
the first major Polish protest against communism
?

...that oil
could be found there?

...that despite being
Duncan Bàn MacIntyre became one of the most famous Scottish Gaelic
poets?

...that, worldwide, only 9 cases of the genetic disorder atransferrinemia have ever been reported?

02:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Gerhard Schröder sponsored a star for Dieter Hildebrandt on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret (pictured) during his time as Chancellor of Germany ?

...that the advertising campaign "Love in the Afternoon" only became lucrative for ABC when advertisements chronicling the troubled union of Luke and Laura were aired, bringing General Hospital to the top of the U.S. soap opera ratings?

...that Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?

...that even though
tradition
aimed at insulting him?

...that the Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt
?

11 February 2007

19:15, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower
in the world?

...that J.M. Legard's
30 April 1975
?

...that Private Passions, a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3, has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions?

...that Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico?

...that the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?

...that of the world's largest wooden ships
, almost all those longer than 300 feet leaked or were not seaworthy?

12:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

The Palanok Castle in Mukacheve, constructed in the 14th century.

...that the Napoleon I
's troops?

...that Johann Wolfgang Goethe
, but that all of these works are now lost?

...that Australian-born American actor Marc McDermott joined an acting troupe to support his mother and sister after his father's death?

...that current Journal of Food Science scientific editor Daryl B. Lund was a college roommate of future Governor of Wisconsin and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson?

10 February 2007

21:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

...that illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the secret mistress of the Archbishop of Bordeaux
?

...that
Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL
stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?

...that the Jesuits and later through Joseph Needham
?

...that Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India?

11:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

...that a major source for
Vatican Mythographer, survives in a single text in the Vatican Library
?

9 February 2007

23:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

...that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois (pictured) have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?

...that the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?

...that Radishchev Museum in Saratov founded by Russian painter Alexey Bogolyubov was the first museum in the country opened to the general public?

...that the Ganesha Purana is a religious text in Hinduism dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha and was produced by the Hindu sect Ganapatya?

15:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

...that an heterochromia
?

...that
House of Commons when she was convicted for submitting fraudulent election expense
returns, but was later reinstated?

...that John T. Ford was the only American theatre manager to pay Gilbert and Sullivan royalties for H.M.S. Pinafore during its initial U.S. run?

...that Polish Army and constructed fortifications in the decisive Battle of Warsaw
?

...that the Iowa horticultural professor Griffith Buck created over 80 named cultivars of the rose?

...that in 1263 Ludwig the Severe of Bavaria
as a penance for killing his wife?

8 February 2007

22:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the painting by Melchior d'Hondecoeter known as the The Floating Feather (pictured) gained its name from a tiny detail he added to the pool?

...that on February 1, the
Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, replacing the Fujita scale
?

...that
Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez
?

...that in 1965 Belgian federal government minister
?

...that street lighting
became commonplace?
...that the Mr Justice Tomlin
?

06:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Freedom Monument (pictured) in Riga, Latvia
, features a woman lifting three stars, the emblem of a united Latvia?

...that
Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War
, sparking an international incident?

...that
Calabazas Creek in Sonoma Valley cuts through a volcanic watershed with nearby relict hot springs
?

...that national team
?
...that the Louis XIV, the privilege of removing the king's nightshirt, was a great honour only accorded to a high noble
?

...that the Kim Il-sung
?

7 February 2007

21:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Osu Castle (pictured) is the seat of government in Ghana?

...that the Krazy Kat cartoons printed in the San Francisco Examiner prompted a serious physical assault on author Agnes Newton Keith?

...that Norwegian politician Nobel Peace prize
?

...that Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, was signed?

...that First World War
?

...that "DJ scratching
?

10:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the construction of
Basilica Cathedral St. Peter and St. Patern, Vannes (pictured) took seven centuries and featured styles from Romanesque to Neo Gothic
?

...that
U-256 was one of seven German World War II submarines converted into anti-aircraft submarines, and the last German submarine to leave Brest, France
?

...that WorldCom up to its bankruptcy
in 2002?

...that Tony Award
?

...that Western Swamp Tortoise
in 1839, but no further collections occurred until 1953?
...that Kesatuan Melayu Muda was the first Malayan political body to request Malayan independence?

6 February 2007

23:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the the Americas
?

...that Fossil Cycad National Monument, established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
...that English seaman James Caird
?

...that the first class Kaunas Fortress was captured by German forces in 1915 after eleven days of fighting?

...that Hurricane Flossy was the first tropical cyclone to significantly impact oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico?

...that Southern stingrays, originally drawn to an area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize by food from fishermen cleaning their nets, are now a tourist attraction fed by local tour guides?

13:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Roman bronze bust Pseudo-Seneca (pictured), known not to be Seneca since 1813, is probably an imaginary portrait of Hesiod?

...that Třinec Iron and Steel Works produces more than a third of the steel in the Czech Republic?

...that automobiles
than planes?

...that television executive Barry Crane was such an avid contract bridge player his record number of masterpoints was not matched until six years after his death?

...that on Malaita in the Solomon Islands, the mean daily temperature in the warmest month is only 3.4°F warmer than that of the coolest?

...that the lyrics of the debut song of Indian rock musician Rabbi Shergill were written by the 18th century Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah?

06:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City
with more than eleven floors?

...that the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?

...that the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro was the setting for the coronation of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1822 and several other important historical events?

...that the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier?

...that modern dye tracing techniques are capable of detecting concentrations of dye as low as one part per trillion?

...that
U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II
?

...that highwayman Henry Simms invented a plot against the King to try to gain a pardon?

5 February 2007

21:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Château de Clermont (pictured) belonged to the French actor Louis de Funès?

...that the
state flower, the Sego Lily, were an important food source for Native Americans and the Mormon pioneers
?

...that Governor of Florida as a Democrat
in 1966?

...that the Old City of Jerusalem
?

...that
Sumatran Rhinoceros
, a feat not replicated for 112 years?

...that the Palace in the King of Portugal and the two Brazilian Emperors
?

11:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

...that
endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct
in such large numbers that many are not catalogued?

...that free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?

...that the
Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas
?

...that the
Zenn-La, homeworld of the Silver Surfer
, has been destroyed at least three times?

...that the Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?

...that even though the
Albert Mooney's
name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?

...that in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport?

...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali
rhyme?

...that the
Duchy of Veragua, granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus, is a perfect square of land 25 leagues
to a side?

05:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Berlin Stadtbahn (pictured) is built mostly as an elevated railway line with viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?

...that the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?

...that South African Broadcasting Corporation
?

...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?

...that hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works
for cell phones?

...that Lauren Nelson, newly crowned Miss America 2007, is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma?

...that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?

...that the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?

4 February 2007

22:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

...that tourism in Cameroon (bush taxi pictured) centers around wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and gorillas?

...that Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?

...that Canadian currency
?

...that Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw
?

...that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?

...that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole, one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?

...that
National Assembly of France
?

13:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

...that as a
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (pictured) was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery
?

...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?

...that drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes
of $1000 or more?

...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a
Calcutta
, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?

...in
Teutonic Knights
?

...that according to
Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung
to prevent escape?

...that
Sira` Fi al-Wadi
?

3 February 2007

22:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

...that tallest spires in the world
?

...that French soprano Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after World War II for her alleged support of Nazi Germany?

...that Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?

...that the life of
book series
?

...that William Frederick Yeames' painting, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, has been reproduced as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds, London?

...that the discovery of
Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants
should have originated much earlier than previously thought?

10:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

...that John Murray of Broughton was a Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to Lord Lovat's execution for high treason?

...that students who finish a
Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel, a statue in the center of Göttingen
?

2 February 2007

22:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Golden Conure
(pictured) is also known as the Queen of Bavaria conure?

...that Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania's independence in 1918?

...that the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?

...that Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr?

...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?

...that Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States?

...that Member of Parliament
to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?

...that
commune based on humanism and utopian socialism
?

12:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

...that Southern Bald Ibis
?

...that Jacobite rebellion
?

...that the Vikings
?

...that
Lithuanian collective farm workers were 50% more productive than the Soviet
average?

...that the
Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering
his first wife 28 years after the fact?

...that Humshaugh in Northumberland, England, is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?

...that economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism?

...that construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?

03:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

...that the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at Loch Arkaig (pictured) in the Scottish Highlands
?

...that
All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup
?

...that the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, developed into the Prussian Army?

...that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?

...that about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague?

...that the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon?

1 February 2007

21:25, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Banjee

...that a banjee (pictured) is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion?

...that since the first
digital age
?

...that historian Paris Peace Conference
in 1919?

...that the King George III in Prince Edward Island
?

...that balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek
?

14:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

...that St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?

...that a kilograms
?

... that Gandhian economics, centering around the values of trusteeship, human dignity and equality, has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?

...that the Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to Pennsylvania State University?

...that John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington?

...that Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king?

...that New Zealand
Crusaders
between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?

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