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Did you know...

31 January 2007

21:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Ralphie (pictured), the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison?
...that the Long Lance torpedoes
exploded in the torpedo room?

...that the Paço Imperial, a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?

...that the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle?

...that lyrics from
William H. Pryor, Jr.
?

...that most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?

...that the
Second World War
?

09:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Palala River bluffs in Limpopo province, South Africa have 10,000 year old rock art (pictured) from the Stone Age?

...that Sikh
martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?

...that
Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws
?

...that the
hatches
?

...that JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?

...that
African-American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics
?

...that the
Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction
industry?

...that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?

30 January 2007

21:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

...that one sample of a proposed Toven Specimen
?

...that
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup
after he scored a record 673 runs?

...that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?

...that Jacobite Rising of 1745
, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?

...that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?

... that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well?

09:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard
(pictured)?

...that as an art student,
Chelyuskin steamship
?

...that in
television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network
?

...that the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?

...that the
1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences
for the owners?

...that Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life?

...that Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?

29 January 2007

18:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...that George Pocock invented a kite-drawn carriage (pictured) that could outstrip the horse-drawn mail coach?

...that the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire"?

...that the
stela
?

...that the yaw string, a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers, is still in use today?

...that Roman Catholic Holy Week processions
?

...that in
webs in space
?

...that William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold?

10:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

...that human
amyloid precursor protein (pictured), when cleaved by specific types of proteases, generates the amyloid beta peptide that may be a cause of Alzheimer's disease
?

...that a museum
?
...that although the official cause of the
2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog, the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq
says they shot it down?

...that former
pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God
?

...that the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?

...that Queen band members teased Freddie Mercury for looking like a prawn in the video for It's a Hard Life?

03:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Themba Mabaso

...that according to Themba Mabaso (pictured), the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of the republic is like a written document?

...that the 2002 Bali bombing
?

...that when the Kälvesten Runestone
was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?

...that the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?

...that the Akhurian River
is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?

28 January 2007

19:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation?

...that labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?

...that
Nabokov's Lolita
?

...that Soviet actor
Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert
with both feet amputated?

...that NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?

...that snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead?

27 January 2007

22:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
William Alexander Hammond (pictured) both founded the National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about neurology
?

...that actor Equity
?
...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?

...that Herkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?

...that District Attorney
?

...that Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?

16:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...that parasitic crustaceans
?

...that
the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago
?

...that Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts?

...that La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?

...that criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?

...that 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?

00:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

...that poet and epistolary novelist Ann Eliza Bleecker (pictured) lost three generations of her family fleeing to Albany during Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign?

...that wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements
?

...that former
Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall
?

...that Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?

...that the Heinkel He 50, designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II?

...that sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs
?

26 January 2007

18:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II
?

...that in Malay ruler
?

...that when the
Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde
travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?

...that second century by Artemidorus
?

...that the City of York was a British barque which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island within sight of its destination?

...that there are several
name of Poland
?

08:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Viking memorials, was destroyed at the end of the 18th century
?

...that endangered butterflies
?

...that the first time in
18th Panzer-Division
?

...that the Madagascar Fish Eagle
?
...that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?

...that
J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in Jamaica
?

00:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

...that okiagari-koboshi dolls (pictured) are considered symbols of perseverance in Japan because they never fall down?

...that Japanese
cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph
signing party hosted by his publisher?

...that after an affirmative action dispute, Yale freshman Jian Li was the subject of a controversial parody in the annual joke issue of The Daily Princetonian?

...that polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of U.S. Olympics boxing teams
?

...that results of the
1946 Romanian general election, the first in Romania under universal suffrage, were manipulated by the Communist Party
?

...that amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games
for the past 25 years?

...that the non-Lithuanian ethnic group
?

25 January 2007

15:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

...that William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (pictured) shows a sign for a pie shop with a picture of the severed head of John the Baptist and the words "Good Eating"?

...that the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?

...that
Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers
?

...that the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983?

...that Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School?

...that empress of the Imperial Court System
?

...that the first
U-656
, sunk on 1 March 1942?

24 January 2007

22:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the important
medieval fresco cycle in Castelseprio, Italy, (pictured) was rediscovered only in 1944
?

...that U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi
?

...that the Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests
?
...that the
Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey
?

...that Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua, for the first time in 1009?

15:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

...that poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured), known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?

...that the female lay eggs
?

...that John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?

...that the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands
?

...that the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec, Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?

...that cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?

00:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

European Wild Cat

...that the endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats
(pictured) remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?

...that New York Times
top ten films of 2006?
...that Updown Court, a private residence in England, is valued at over US$120 million?

...that Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus, a treatise of natural science, to Pope Clement IV in 1267?

...that German post-World War II
film?

...that 2003's hurricane of a Pacific hurricane season since reliable satellite observation
began in 1966?

...that the champion
racehorse Corrida, a two-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, disappeared during the Battle of the Falaise Gap
?

23 January 2007

17:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Hortus deliciarum (pictured) was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments of hell?

...that the Finnish Air Force selected the Saab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domestic Valmet Tuuli III?

...that according to the book Civilization One
, there are 366 degrees in a circle?

...that Richard E. Cavazos, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general?

...that a copper mine on Brim Fell in England appears as in the novel The Plague Dogs?

...that the Mayurakshi river in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?

...that Sir Kyffin Williams
in September 2006?

10:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

...that cow toys from the Aizu region of Japan, are believed to ward off disease
?

...that Angels in America: Perestroika
?
...that Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in a McDonald's TV commercial
?

...that although Abkhazia is not recognised by any nation, the Abkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in 2001?

...that the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II?

...that Les Taylor only captained Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final because regular captain Wilf Rostron was suspended?

...that the interaction of drunk or produce poisonous honey
?

...that Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18, 1793?

...that Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks?

22 January 2007

22:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
Ernest "Boots" Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima (pictured), was able to enlist in spite of being color blind
by memorizing the results of another man's test?

...that Acerola Capital" for its agriculture
?

...that Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?

...that Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?

...that fewer than 100 of 500
Starving Time
during the winter of 1609-1610?

...that the
Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner
for post-war service?

...that a
Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt
?

05:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

File:AdamBruce.jpg

...that in 2005, Adam Bruce (pictured) became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?

...that
U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War
?

...that the
Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay
?

...that the Stingray Nebula, discovered in 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula?

...that Edwin D. Hill was the first president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected by secret ballot?

...that an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of
Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826
?

...that the cast spells
?

...that Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
?
...that Filipino musician
, is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran?

21 January 2007

22:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tokyo Big Sight convention center (pictured) looks like four upside-down pyramids?

...that United Nations Environmental Program
?

...that the Viking
sailing vessel?

...that Larin Paraske, a Finnish oral poet, could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?

...that during the Winter War, a Swedish fundraising drive paid for the purchase of a Fokker F.VIII airliner for the Finnish Air Force?

21:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley was one of the first women to become a member of the London Stock Exchange?

...that the king stropharia, a prized edible mushroom, develops spiny cells which kill nematodes?

...that matches were so prized during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition that Alfred Cheetham offered a bottle of champagne for one?

...that Craignethan Castle was the last private fortress built in Scotland?

15:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that in the universities
, new students were dressed up with horns which were then removed with grindstones, axes, and pliers?

...that in his satirical 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum, French physicist Napoleon
never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?

...that model
Rebecca Twigley became a household name in Australia
after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?

...that the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?

...that the Soviet spotter aircraft Sukhoi Su-12, though approved, was never produced due to lack of manufacturing capacity in the USSR?

01:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul (pictured) in Nantes, France
took 457 years to complete?

...that after serving as a
First Texas Legislature
?

...that the Black Fell comprised a chapter in the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of its excellent view?

...that the Soviets
in 1943?

...that the geology of London includes abundant fossilized animal remains?

...that the financial district
?

...that
Battistero di San Giovanni
?

20 January 2007

18:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Sergey Gritsevets

...that the
Hero of Soviet Union
, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes?

...that the
Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate
victory?

...that adult film to be released in the HD DVD
format?

...that Western World
?
...that the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown
by about 36 years?

...that
pen-name
four times, once per year, to match his age?

19 January 2007

22:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Mango

...that more than 500 varieties of mango (pictured) are showcased in the International Mango Festival held in Delhi?

...that at the Kaiser
?

...that make-up, bestowed for his work on the film Cimarron
?

...that "
Kobayashi Hideo
all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?

...that although whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of a canal
built to bypass those same rapids?

10:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

constitutional amendments

...that twenty-seven
civil unions
?

...that 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?

...that the
Shakespeare
-inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy?

...that in 362 AD, the
pagan Emperor
, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?

...that super car
?

05:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

...that praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry
as an adult?

...that Minneapolis, Minnesota
?

...that the anti-submarine
aircraft, before failing altogether?

...that slave
?
...that Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?

18 January 2007

22:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the prefabricated and portable Minneapolis, Minnesota
has had three different locations?

...that Michael Beetham, World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force?

...that horned dinosaur
specimens?

...that the Sakhalin island
?

...that the National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions?

...that
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro
previously worked together as foreign ministers?

...that Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

14:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Australian steamer TSS Kanowna (pictured) was requisitioned twice during World War I, first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship?

...that male
mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism
?

...that Titanic
disaster?
...that the elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act
in 1971?

...that Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs?

...that Russian billionaire, politician and philanthropist Alexander Lebedev started his career as a KGB agent working in London?

...that wallpaper
?

...that Viking runemasters
?

01:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
pirate Cord Widderich
?

...that Tactics
?
...that the schooner Rouse Simmons, known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?

...that
copyright infringment, but is now being sued on the same charge by the Singapore Land Authority
?

...that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?

...that
Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London's last remaining lollipop lady
since 1990?

17 January 2007

19:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Horace Walpole
?

...that the
Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room
of one of its founders?

...that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?

...that the
church tower
his base?

...that future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?

...that many of the
image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology
?

...that the late High Court judge
?

10:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

...that An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (pictured) depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out by Robert Boyle over a hundred years earlier?

...that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?

...that "downloaded song at the iTunes Store
?

...that in the
civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan
magazine?

...that recently-departed High Court judge
?

...that despite having won the
Cricket World Cup batting records
?

...that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon?

16 January 2007

23:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?

...that the Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth?

...that Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?

...that the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?

...that the Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim
members?

...that the first plate of
George III
?

15:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that despite its name, East Kowloon Corridor (pictured) is actually located in West Kowloon District in Hong Kong?

...that
Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus
?

...that the
Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu
?

...that all Barrier Reef Anemonefish
are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?

...that sailplane winglets were first successfully implemented by American inventor Peter Masak?

05:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Fokker Spin (pictured) was the first aircraft built by Anthony Fokker, in which he taught himself to fly and earned his pilot license?

...that the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule?

...that the
Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but the Red Army's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw
rendered such plans obsolete?

...that English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist
?

...that militant Islamic
groups?

...that
NBA
?

15 January 2007

23:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Dash-and-dot goatfish (pictured) bears a stripe and spot that is usually black, but which is red when the same species lives in deeper waters?

...that the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, containing ores bearing uranium-238, is one of many products that have been recalled in the interests of toy safety?

...that
prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold
?

...that Tombo Ati, a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?

...that
U.S. Marines during World War II
?

...that Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6
?

...that the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru?

...that Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston?

16:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
William II
in an open letter?

...that
Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa
as a youth?

...that
Second World War
?

...that two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House, home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?

...that Petru Rareş, who later doomed him to a wretched death in the Yedikule
dungeons?

...that American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper, type design, typesetting, and printing?

01:44, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Darwin Falls (pictured) is the tallest waterfall in Death Valley National Park and features a rare example of riparian greenery in the driest place in North America?

...that president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest football
coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?

...that, in autumn 1934, Amicii URSS, a Romanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writer Alexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to the Soviet Union, as a means to commemorate the October Revolution?

...that Second World War
?

...that William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress?

...that "On the very first of May", a work composed by
singer and organist William Savage, was set to nonsense verses
by his wife?

14 January 2007

14:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

...that renowned brothel-keeper Elizabeth Needham, depicted in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress (pictured), was pelted so severely in the pillory that she died 3 days later?

...that
British and Irish Lions
?

...that the
Barbara Plett's admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally ill Yasser Arafat
led to a controversy?

...that the title of namestnik
?
...that members of the
covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan
?

12:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?

00:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral?

...that American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?

...that superimposed faces on the figurines
to save time?

...that the
world record holder for number of elections
contested?

...that during the
Goethe
was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?

...that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha?

13 January 2007

17:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

...that of
Florian Gate
(pictured) remains?

...that Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars?

...that at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes!"?

...that three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?

...that
Viking woman Estrid
?

...that Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?

01:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
Saint Mina
(pictured)?

...that teenage girls, blamed it on the KGB
?

...that the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare?

...that the artwork
in the world?

...that Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?

...that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?

...that Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II?

12 January 2007

17:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

...that fungi in pine
forests?

...that toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?

...that mythological sea-horses that frolic in the Trevi Fountain
?

...that the
Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history
?

...that
Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him
?

...that Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia?

...that the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant?

...that Louisiana politician Arthur C. Watson lost the use of his legs in infancy?

05:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Egyptian Theater (pictured) in DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by ghosts?

...that the Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria
?

...that Minister of Defence
?
...that
Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, a Munro in Scotland
, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?

...that Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history that caused a national scandal?

...that a protoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase of stellar evolution?

...that
Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working jet engine
?

...that John Casor was the first known slave in the Thirteen Colonies?

11 January 2007

20:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

...that an aircraft's
pitot-static system (pictured) allows a pilot to know its airspeed, Mach number
, altitude, and altitude trend?

...that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?

...that during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?

...that award-winning Japanese novelist Zeami's traditional Japanese Noh
dramas?

...that most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?

...that the Army
?

07:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso
?

...that two
Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden
?

...that the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship
in all three years it entered?

...that the Persia
?
...that insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century
?

...that Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China's Mona Lisa?

10 January 2007

22:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the face of Chicago native Hazel Lavery (pictured) adorned the banknotes of Ireland for seventy years?

...that the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden, a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I?

...that Major Alan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?

...that Grand Duchess
Kira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by her mother-in-law to testify in the case of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia
?

...that there are four
Forth Bridge
?

19:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the inhabitants of Fjuckby, Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?

15:22, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

...that John Pasco (pictured) advised Nelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar?

...that the
Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding
, and having his ears cut off?

...that the 1927
expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni
?

...that the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland's Gathland State Park?

...that Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean?

9 January 2007

22:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Rosersberg Palace (pictured), one of the Swedish Royal palaces, was used as a school of musketry for 101 years?

...that Matador
"?

...that the
2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, which left over 500,000 homeless, was the first tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hit Sri Lanka
since 1978?

...that the
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia, was laid by Yuri Gagarin
?

...that the 1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewide strike by teachers in United States history?

...that the Harald III of Norway, was a totem
believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?

11:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Smokey the Mascot

...that Smokey (pictured) was selected as mascot by the University of Tennessee students after a bluetick coonhound howled during a halftime contest?

...that the
Humani Generis Unitas, which condemned racism and persecution of Jews
, became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?

...that the 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game resulted in the biggest overcome point spread in college football history when the Beavers beat the Huskies, 21-20?

...that David Robinson, who tried to hijack
Qantas Flight 1737 in 2003, wanted to crash the plane into a Tasmanian national park to release the Devil and bring about Armageddon
?

...that
Japanese cinema
, appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?

...that Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom
, resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?

01:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

...that features of
The Jurist in the painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
are composed of fish and poultry?

...that the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift?

...that Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States?

...that 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?

...that U.S. Congressman Cecil R. King of California, deeply involved in the issue of Medicare, ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?

...that the twelfth
sultan of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang
, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?

8 January 2007

18:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

...that about half of the collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (pictured) in Baden-Württemberg was destroyed in a fire following an air raid on Stuttgart during World War II?

...that before
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union
in the city?

...that the removal of President
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe
?

...that
live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970
's?

...that Acallam na Senórach, a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick, is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature?

04:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the German fresco painter Johannes Zick (pictured: self-portrait) started his career as a blacksmith in his father's workshop?

...that the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?

...that the Soviet bloc
?

...that the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?

...that the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?

...that degraded
?

7 January 2007

21:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea
?

...that famed Japanese
Kawabata Yasunari
?

...that after former
real estate broker
?

...that
William Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run
?

...that the sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island
?

...that the carom billiards game,
cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain
?

14:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the
watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I
?

...that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?

...that the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?

...that mathematician Đuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university in Yugoslavia?

...that the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?

03:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

...that whitewall tires
?

...that the
African-American
cast?

...that Edsall class destroyer escort
?

...that ruin
?
...that former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944?

...that the
Crocodile Gena
?

6 January 2007

18:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that approximately one-third of nearby
galaxies contain low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions
?

...that the
McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities
between 1956 and 1966?

...that among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon's robbery from Nagoya Castle?

...that Major Megan McClung, the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq, organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?

...that Queen Elizabeth II
?

...that the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo
urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?

11:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the Hearthstone House (pictured) became the first residence in the world to be lit by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system?

...that for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock?

...that the Decembrists, was organized according to a complex Masonic
style system of rituals and vows?

...that
Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II
?

...that Freedom Rides
?
...that
MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide
?

...that Indian-American state legislator in the USA
?

01:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the African-American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists
?

...that the
mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven Israeli
tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?

...that former
Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970
?

...that sixteen people were killed during a
general strike in Nepal in 1992, an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war
four years later?

...that a infra-red photograph
?

...that
Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery
in 1912?

5 January 2007

15:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

...that those crossing the Fallasburg Bridge (pictured), a Brown truss covered bridge in Vergennes Township, Michigan at a speed faster than a walk may be subject to a $5 fine?

...that Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?

...that the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?

...that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the
1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe
in recorded history?

...that
children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes
has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?

...that Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?

04:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the San Antonio, Texas, as well as the most television viewers ever to watch a bowl game on ESPN
?

...that in Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency
remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?

...that The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?

...that
Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport, New Zealand
?

...that Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?

...that Kurds
?

4 January 2007

21:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

...that some four-leaf clovers are actually ferns in the family Marsileaceae (pictured)?

...that an editor for Rwandan Genocide
?

...that the first radiosonde was made by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov?

...that Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beard ism in the Oxford English Dictionary?

...that in
Frank W. Towey, Jr.
?

...that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?

...that in
African-American U.S. Marine Corps
officer?

13:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Ichikawa Danjūrō I (pictured) was killed onstage by a fellow Kabuki actor?

...that the
Charles X Gustav
?

...that jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell, while in Germany for the U.S. Army, studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony?

...that the Australian punk rock single "(I’m) Stranded" pre-dated the Sex Pistols' debut release?

...that Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004?

...that Plagiostomum vittatum, the "Candy Cane Worm", is a flatworm with red stripes?

...that the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?

3 January 2007

23:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...that World Heritage List
over 1,000 years after it was founded?

...that Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media?

...that the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?

...that Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky?

...that the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?

...that in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?

17:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...that Ford Madox Brown painted most of The Last of England (pictured) outdoors in bad weather?

...that Washburn University's mascot, "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largest wire mill?

...that in Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia can promulgate ordinances
with the force of law?

...that women in some societies may be subject to honor killing for violation of namus?

...that after
Frank W. Towey, Jr. lost his House of Representatives re-election bid, he became assistant to the U.S. Attorney General
?

...that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra?

...that the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev?

03:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

...that
meteor
crash?

...that
MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency
to whom he sold secrets?

...that molecular formula but they have different density, freezing points and boiling points
?

...that despite being a
Communist Romania's secret police
?

...that a brand name
health care products?
...that
Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II
?

2 January 2007

21:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

...that slave
with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sister"?

...that despite
D-Day landings
?

...that
commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese
issues?

... that Leyland Princess
2000 HL?
...that former
illegal aliens in 1976
?

... that the MODIS
?

14:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the several covered bridges in Michigan
in the mid 19th century, and was apparently never used again?

...that
six
?

...that in Federal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted through grandfathering
of pre-independence laws?

...that the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity, containing the earliest corals, form the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, reaching from Tennessee to Labrador?

...that Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers?

...that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life
?

1 January 2007

22:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

...that the history of the carom billiards disciplines,
balkline and straight rail (balkline table pictured), features a veritable billiards evolutionary arms race
, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?

...that former
House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate
scandal?

...that
Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom
after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?

...that sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?

...that sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf?

15:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

...that dust supplied by the Amazon Rainforest
?

...that former
Committee on Education and Labor
?

...that the Axis occupation of North Africa
?

...that David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?

...that the creator of the
snack food Pirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand's cheese puffs
?

...that the Pueblo Indians
?

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