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31 March 2007

16:24, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
...that the Palladian and Rococo
styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?

...that the
French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army
?

...that a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms?

...that in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?

...that on April 29, 1899, trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?

...that the
sex scandal
?

...that Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit, even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?

06:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the outlying islands
?

...that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?

...that by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously?

...that Essex University
?

...that the
gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war
?

...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?

...that
Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army
unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?

30 March 2007

23:45, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

...that competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial (pictured) in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?

...that on
Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin
, but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?

...that Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?

...that "
the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution
?

...that there are significant breeding populations of 35
mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List
?

...that the Marsanne
grape variety?
...that G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka?

17:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the watershed is home to a historic round barn (pictured), one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California
?

...that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia?

...that rap
?

...that
Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania
?

...that a 1968 court challenge to the right of baronetcy rested on the question of his gender
?

...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?

...that
Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II
?

10:58, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the passing of the Galileo
argued that comets were merely optical illusions?

...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?

...that, according to human rights organizations,
Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government
?

...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger
Levina 1
, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?

...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?

...that in the 1850s
Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains
to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?

...that Second World War
?

05:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
Eremitage Palace (pictured) originally had a hoisting apparatus able to lift the dinner table from the basement to the dining room, allowing Christian VI of Denmark
to dine without any waiters present?

...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?

...that
Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat
?

...that in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania?

...that mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai
in the 1930s?

...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria
died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?

29 March 2007

23:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India
?

...that
polyphonic music from the Catholic Church
?

...that
New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface
's early rap videos?

...that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the
Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass
windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?

...that the Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War
?

...that after the
Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese
, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?

16:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the records of English herald Thomas Hawley (pictured) contain the first preserved account of a heraldic visitation?

...that, during the Great Depression, the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency?

...that the
borough of Downton
to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?

...that
Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava
?

...that it was recently discovered that about 10,000
Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam
?

...that
Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End
that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?

06:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Fiske (pictured) was torpedoed and sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting?

...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?

...that the
Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan
?

...that the term T.N. Srikantaiah
?

...that the U.S. Camel Corps
?
...that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?

28 March 2007

23:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
burning of Columbia
in 1865?

...that Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal
for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?

...that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?

...that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?

...that
Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology
beliefs, was murdered by him?

15:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

...that an
area enclosed by a parabola
?

...that because of liberal
Riverside Hotel in Reno
catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?

...that Law Day
?
...that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds?

05:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?

...that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?

...that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?

...that the
extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores
do now?

...that the
Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police
and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?

...that the
dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world
?

27 March 2007

19:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

...that when the
actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (pictured) took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London
theatre?

...that
telegram
?

...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?

...that American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo
?

...that during the
Moscow Patriarchate
?

...that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?

12:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the flood stage of Belize
's largest river?

...that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?

...that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?

...that the
coloured city councillor in 1904
?

...that the publishers of the American music magazine Option once launched a spin-off fashion magazine, UHF?

...that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?

03:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

...that American Viticulture Areas
?

...that
Red Nose Day in 2005
?

...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?

...that draft
, never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?

26 March 2007

19:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in
World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff (pictured), Australia
?

...that the
Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov
?

...that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?

...that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?

11:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
USS Menges (pictured) was hit by an acoustic torpedo
in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained afloat?

...that Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna
?

...that the Yahoo!
Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
...that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?

25 March 2007

23:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Eilley Bowers (pictured) is one of the most researched, written and talked-about women in Nevada history?

...that during
intelligence
reports back to England?

...that
West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976
, but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?

...that Brooklyn, New York
?

...that following the 1886
Chinese
government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received nothing?

09:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland (pictured) was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?

...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?

...that
Mt. Everest
in 1999 at the age of 25?

...that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?

...that the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America?

01:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Tom Short

...that traveling evangelist Tom Short (pictured) once matched wits with the Cult Awareness Network?

...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?

...that The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?

...that when the
teen, he had already written eleven technical computer
books, published around the world in several languages?

...that further coup
fourteen months later?
...that the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?

24 March 2007

18:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch (pictured) was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?

...that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?

...that the Western ones
?

...that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"?

...that
The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder
?

...that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize?

11:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy
?

...that English
Sir Thomas Phillipps
acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?

...that the plant
Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America
each year?

...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?

...that Irish Potato Famine
, including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?

...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Comintern
?

...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?

05:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the American merchant William Conner (pictured) helped maintain the Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body of Tecumseh following the Battle of the Thames?

...that 1939's Indramalati, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the second ever Assamese language film?

...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?

...that on
attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi
, killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?

...that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?

...that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor?

23 March 2007

20:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Palanga Amber Museum (pictured) in Lithuania holds a collection of about 28,000 items of amber, including about 15,000 pieces that contain insects, spiders, and plants?

...that over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II?

...that
Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957, when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom
?

...that the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?

...that in the 2001 Grand National, only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?

...that Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America?

...the
equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross, London
in 1633?

13:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?

...that Kodokan judo
?

...that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere?

...that Blackadder II, the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?

...that the opening sequence to the 1983
Thai film Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol
, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?

...that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?

06:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Empire style mansions in Moscow
(Khrushyov House pictured)?

...that the
anticlericalism and heretical
views?

...that the
labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk
musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"?

...that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?

...that
merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States
?

22 March 2007

23:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

...that, thanks to a secret
POWs at Batu Lintang camp in Borneo knew about the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II
before most of their guards?

...that radiodermatitis
?
...that the retired
Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003
after 34 years of military service?

...that the
Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk
railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?

...that a Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit
word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?

17:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean
species?

...that the identical twins who are both professional opera
singers?

...that the
Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language
film?

...that five states have declared independence during the territorial history of Mexico, and all but Texas returned to Mexico?

...that in
Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus
, killed Acis with a boulder?

08:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS Mindanao (pictured) was severely damaged and almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944?

...that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley?

...that Peter Thorneycroft
in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?

...that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of India's elusive history?

01:58, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

...that plants in the
herbal remedy
?

...that the Qing Dynasty
?

...that the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania?

...that the green algae and euglenids
are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?

...that illegitimate child
of her lover?

...that Rur
river in November 1944?

21 March 2007

16:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

...that USS Luzon (pictured) was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines?

...that according to the controversial Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical
aids?

...that, in
iron is often associated with blood, or used as a protective or lucky charm
?

...that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee?

...that
Japanese Academy Awards
?

09:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq
in 2004?

...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?

...that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621?

...that 1959
?

...that the
Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway
in 1964?

...that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?

00:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
pocket billiards game cribbage (balls pictured), named after the card game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking
configurations?

...that more than six thousand repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean
governments?

...that Second World War, was killed in an air crash
in 1954?

...that Ashoka
's edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
...that the tailwheel undercarriage, was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II
?

20 March 2007

14:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1977
United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
?

...that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?

...that Noah Lottick
?

...that, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians?
...that
famine events
that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine?

01:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Napoleonic wars
as a sign of resistance against "French fashion foolishness"?

...that aviator
to earn a pilot's licence?

...that Jehovah's Witness
?

...that an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?

...that
gagging order on the song "Jihad" by American thrash band Slayer
during its live U.S. network broadcast?

19 March 2007

17:10, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
United Nations Headquarters
?

...that Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history?

...that the
Tâmpa in Transylvania
was never captured by an enemy force?

...that the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?

...that beverage, wages a vodka war
in support for vodka's traditional ingredients?

...that Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths?

10:59, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
translucency and color changing crypsis for underwater camouflage
?

...that the charity song "The Magnificent" became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti-Milošević resistance?

...that the
pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli
being his native place?

...that following sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition
?

...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?

...that the 1989
secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance
?

02:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992
?

...that during the 72 day session of the Russian government
were filed, but only two laws were passed?
...that the Phyllodon, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?

...that in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War, preparing for a possible Soviet invasion?

...that Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montreal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features?

...that the
La Anam
was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996?

18 March 2007

18:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
State Bank of the Russian Empire
?

...that the
narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges
?

...that copies of the 1982
U.S. National Archives
?

...that grapefruit juice effect
"?

...that swimwear
manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?

...that solar activity
?
...that Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?

10:07, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the railway viaduct in Scotland
and one of the oldest in the world?

...that
Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan
Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?

...that the
Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
?

...that
Chagall
"?

...that the island
sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger
than their mainland relatives?

...that when builders told
her own house
, that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?

...that the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg, a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?

02:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial (pictured), dedicated to the missing British dead killed in the first few months of World War I, was built on land donated in memory of the 19th century French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau?

...that Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War?

...that during the 1690 Battle of Québec, a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?

...that forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?

...that a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese?

17 March 2007

17:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture
?

...that silent film star Grauman's Chinese Theater
?
...that the Commandeur of the
Légion d'honneur, Géraud Réveilhac
ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?

...that until 1947 in
demonic possession
?

...that Nazi rule
?

06:24, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
pagan temple, a ruined monastery (pictured) that gave its name to the local mountain range and province and the tallest TV tower in Poland
?

...that hydroelectric station in Europe
as it produces 2541 MW?

...that the
life raft, allows submariners
to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?

...that Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House
?

...that the 14 July 1944
?

00:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

...that
invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
(pictured)?

...that the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?

...that Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?

...that Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878
for "bad attendance"?

...that
B-17 that he rammed
in 1944?

...that the Billboard top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?

16 March 2007

16:05, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm
?

...that Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution?

...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?

...that 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad, Pakistan
?

...that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David?

...that Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?

07:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

...that English cannon batteries (pictured) required artillery crews of twelve per gun?

...that the
Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians
?

...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?

...that the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?

...that the Comintern
activists?

...that at the time of his
Saint Charalampus
was 113 years old?

...that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms
?

15 March 2007

22:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Regal Mountain (pictured), an eroded stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains, is the third highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska?

...that
Saint Louis World's Fair
?

...that more is known about prostitute in classical antiquity
?

...that
taxicab
, which was carrying a working miner?

...that the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany, near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein?

...that "urban Indian" activist Bernie Whitebear was the brother of groundbreaking health care administrator Luana Reyes and of sculptor, curator and memoirist Lawney Reyes?

12:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

...that parti-coloured clothes, divided into different colours on the left and right when viewed from the front (pictured), became popular in late 14th century fashion
, especially in England?

...that the
Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party
officials?

...that the award-winning
Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003
?

...that WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?

...that the
Kannada language
?

06:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the icons and faces incised into pantheon
?

...that a small
invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae
?

...that the case of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States
?

...that George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816?

...the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-57 °C) at Rogers Pass, Montana?

...that Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?

14 March 2007

21:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Gomateshwara monolith (pictured) at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit
literature?

...that theater "Chauve-Souris" (bat
) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?

...that Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria?

...that Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel
owner?

...that a 2005 compendium of
The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman
?

...that the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?

...that the block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles
?

09:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

A medical research scientist

...that the work of radioactive materials and dangerous organisms
?

...that missions
?
...that when the
Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster
, killing six people?

...that "E depois do adeus" was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974?

...that during a 90-minute period on
Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset
due to icy platform conditions?

13 March 2007

19:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the historical medical campus medicinal herbs
?

...that pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C.
?

...that the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly
?

...that during his Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan
travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?

...that content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge
?

...that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A?

13:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge (pictured)?

...that the main tennis court at the
Stade de Roland Garros, the home of the French Open in Paris, was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier, a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation
from 1977 to 1991?

...that Brigadier Member of Parliament, accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire
construction?

...that
Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket
?

...that the
Jewish
origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?

06:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Italian-Australian hermit Valerio Ricetti (pictured) shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own utopia at Hermit's Cave near Griffith, New South Wales?

...that interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania
in the first half of the 18th century?

...that
Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb
?

...that short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public
?

...that eight of Australia's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II, in the so-called Morotai Mutiny?

12 March 2007

19:44, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Gavroche (pictured), a character from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris?

...that most of
cadastral units
?

...that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?

...that the
Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum
?

...that the 1966 Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow
?

...that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill?

12:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the style church, is now lavishly decorated with Ukrainian Baroque
style ornaments?

...that two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?

...that in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?

...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?

...that the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?

...that Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?

...that the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?

03:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the enzyme neprilysin (pictured) degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease?

...that
1951
?

...that
Emma Hamilton
?

...that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?

...that the London
cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture
?

...that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?

11 March 2007

20:58, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (pictured), where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev?

...that a electrical current
flow?

...that the
nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's
first nurses?

...that some
slaves to drink an infusion of black haw to prevent abortions
?

...that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?

...that at the
world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999
?

14:29, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (pictured), where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev?

...that Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City, the largest community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains?

...that William Clowes
to court?

...that the Japanese
Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows
?

...that the superconductors
and lasted until 3:15 AM?

05:46, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (pictured) in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?

...that the
doping test
?

...that since 1978, countries including
government reports on groups referred to as cults
?

...that the Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?

...that early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?

...that Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz's The Laws of Pesach—considered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jews—started as a privately distributed newsletter?

10 March 2007

22:29, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

...that millibars
?

...that
Giovanni Dominici was initially refused admittance to the Dominican Order because of a speech impediment that was later reportedly cured after intercession by Catherine of Siena
?

...that one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called the Emperor of China?

...that bottle pool, a hybrid game combining elements of pocket and carom billiards, was played by world-renowned quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling?

...that Wa-Wan Press was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions?

15:06, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

...that after a 1731 fire, the Bastard brothers were responsible for the reconstruction of Blandford Forum (rebuilt town hall pictured) in a vernacular Baroque style?

...that Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France, to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army?

...that one of the Hindu epic Mahabharata
?

...that
Whuppity Scoorie is a traditional celebration in Lanark, Scotland during which children run around a church
three times swinging paper balls over their heads?

...that William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now the U.S. state of Washington?

09:18, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

...that chocolate box art (example pictured) started in the late 19th century as box decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe sentimental pictures?

...that the
stateless person
?

...that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?

...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?

...that
Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America
?

...that the Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India
?

07:22, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the Portland Brownstone Quarries, which once provided brownstone to many landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National Historic Landmark and a regional scuba diving destination?

01:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
training ships Golden Bear
(third ship pictured) since 1946?

...that two members of the outlaw lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27, 1841
?

...that Malayan campaign of World War II
?

...that a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?

...that the McLaren F1 GTR, based on the production McLaren F1 supercar, won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year against purpose-built Le Mans Prototypes?

...that the Jain monk Kumudendu Muni, is written entirely using Kannada numerals, without the use of any alphabets
?

9 March 2007

17:39, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Fountaingrove Lake (pictured) in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?

...that Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?

...that Governor of Pennsylvania
?

...that Luan Jujie is the only East Asian person to have won an Olympic gold medal in the sport of fencing?

...that Joseph Ingraham, an American sailor who discovered several of the Marquesas Islands, was lost at sea in 1800?

...that
Romanian Revolution of 1989
?

11:25, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

...that at the Matthias Corvinus
was struck by three arrows and almost died?

...that after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt, the Athenian assembly considered executing the entire male population of Mytilene?

...that during the Intetsu Akaboshi that lasted four days, Jowa made three unorthodox moves that were reputed to have been suggested to him by ghosts
?

...that a Spokane, Washington, television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests of Gonzaga University basketball player Josh Heytvelt and his teammate?

02:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the locality of Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne
?

...that Mayurasharma was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi, the earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today Karnataka state, India?

...that the
platform framing
method?

...that the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount?

...that American music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine is the son of English documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine, the maker of the 1984 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip-Hop History?

...that the
Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile
, died in a mysterious fall from his fifth floor apartment?

8 March 2007

18:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

...that former
3 March 2007
?

...that
Sammy Davis, Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.
?

...that The Apprentice UK
?
...that the
Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos
?

...that sex reassignment
?
...that the Ottoman Bank, established as a private bank in 1856, became a central bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until 1931?

14:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

...that lexicographers
for centuries afterwards?

...that after the publication of the non-fiction book Cults of Unreason, other writers used the title to refer to strange groups, including UFO cults?

...that the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?

...that the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was the first of six Frank Lloyd Wright designs to use spiraling ramps?

... that American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters?

...that Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America?

...that the Sound Effects Choir can imitate the sounds of a car using only the mouth or other body parts?

05:13, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

... that "1840 United States presidential election
?

...that Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic preservation in the United States?

...that
New York Times Best Seller list, and was the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
in 2000?

...that the
Area Boys are a gang of Nigerian street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos
extorting money from passers-by?

...that Expressionist
paintings to a museum unless it would also display his collection of curiosities?
...that the
Van Wert County, Ohio
in 2002?

...that the
Good Night aired April 19 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family
on television?

7 March 2007

22:59, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

...that cafés
?

...that Kasongo Ilunga, incumbent Minister of Foreign Trade for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is widely believed to be a non-existent person?

...that the best-selling
adventure novels, including the Norman Conquest and Ironsides Cromwell serialized novels, under several pseudonyms
?

...that Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University
?

...that Gresik
?

15:05, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Governor of Iowa, almost always posed in profile with the left side of his face showing, because the right side was disfigured in a childhood gun
accident?

...that many
regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily
?

...that Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French writer Colette to English readers?

...that
pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940 and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements
that tied down several German divisions?

...that Spiegelman Monster
?
...that the oldest known remains of
anatomically modern humans in the world were excavated in the Klasies River Caves
?

...that employee
?

06:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences (pictured), founded in 1751 by King George II of Great Britain, is the second oldest of seven academies of sciences in Germany
?

...that Hindu sect, as the major religion in Assam
in the early 18th century?

...that the main force of the Operational Group held out for a month defending the Modlin fortress
?

...that the nearly circular shape of Lukanga Swamp, a wetland covering 2,600 km² in Central Province, Zambia, has led to speculation that it may be a crater formed by the impact of a meteorite?

...that the mass extinction of large North American mammals toward the end of the most recent ice age
?

...that a
28 March 1944
?

6 March 2007

23:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Pantheon, Moscow

...that the Moscow Pantheon (proposal pictured) was a Soviet project to construct a monumental memorial tomb for prominent Communist figures?

...that the Sir Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service
?

...that America's oldest family-owned premium cigar
maker?

...that the
fascist politician Ion Sân-Giorgiu at first considered Antisemitism to be "an act of poverty of a failed intellectual", but soon changed his position calling Jews
a "national cancer"?

...that the mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical
features, speed and power?

...that the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries?

18:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

...that one of the victims of convicted Balcony Rapist Paul Callow was awarded damages of $220,000 against the Toronto police force because it failed to warn women in her neighbourhood after four earlier rapes?

13:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

...that kulintang music (kulintang pictured), a form of Filipino gong music, is said to have existed in North Maluku for centuries?

...that
Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith founded the Landmark Trust
in 1965?

...that a part of
Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage
channel?

...that NBA
?

...that the "Mohawk Valley formula," a
Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937, was declared by the National Labor Relations Board
to be "a battle plan for industrial war"?

...that the military engineers of World War I
, of whom more than a thousand were killed?

...that
British House of Commons
at the time of her death?

02:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the exuberant "Smiling Faces" figurines (pictured) from the Remojadas archaeological site are likely related to the local cult of the dead?

...that the
U-777
was sunk in October 1944, less than 7 months after being launched?

...that George Patterson's score of 271 is the highest total in a single innings for a cricketer from a non-Test nation?

...that
Silesia Stadium in Poland
has hosted crowds of over 100,000 people, but its capacity was reduced below 50,000 to comply with international safety standards?

...that
bombing of Darwin
in February 1942 with his career undamaged?

...that "
Follow My Heart", performed in five different languages at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, was the fourth consecutive song by Poland
in multiple languages?

5 March 2007

17:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at the Chicago Theatre (pictured)?

...that the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage?

...that the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint Columba", which reputedly never runs dry?

...that in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar Hammerstein I received over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera?

...that Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder?

...that
Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine
?

...that
pedophiles
?

04:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

...that in his
recitals baritone David Bispham (pictured) often sang English versions of songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert
, and others?

...that despite finishing its first season with a profit of $53,000, the Damrosch Opera Company was forced to close due to mounting deficits after only six years in business?

...that six
Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911
?

...that the
communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain
?

...that in the
Singhasari kingdom
, was deified into three deity forms?

...that
Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise
without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?

4 March 2007

20:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the pirate
attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by pirates while it was being constructed?

...that
Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon
?

...that the
ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974
?

...that
U-F2 was a French submarine that was taken as a prize by the Germans in 1940 from a dockyard, and was later converted for German
usage?

...that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida?

...that the
Diogo Boitac
?

10:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

File:Kiev art museum.jpg

...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?

...that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois?

...that the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu, the sixth largest city in the country?

...that for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth?

...that the
St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, England, was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram
" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893?

...that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey?

02:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Saturn Devouring His Son (pictured), by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition?

...that
Monastery of Batalha
?

...that the September 11, 2001 attacks
?

...that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?

...that the Russian Revolution
?

3 March 2007

19:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the last Hungarian inhabitants of Niedzica Castle, Poland, (pictured) remained there until 1943 when the coming of the Soviet front in World War II inspired the last countess to abandon it with her children?

...that the
mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History
for $2,000?

...that the
home plate, runs and is played to nine innings
?

...that Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film Black Girl was one of the first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim?

...that of the 95
Auk class minesweepers used in World War II only one was sunk by an enemy submarine
and only 11 were lost in total?

...that the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, which opened in 1973, was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty?

12:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1918 the issue of
Lietuvos Aidas (pictured) containing the text of the Act of Independence of Lithuania was confiscated by the German authorities
?

...that "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?" received three perfect scores at the start of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth, making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting?

...that a fabricator
?

...that Dr. Colin Skinner, a British molecular biologist, is attempting to walk around the world?

...that wandering spleen is a rare medical disease caused by the loss or weakening of the ligaments that help to keep the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen?

...that the selling of pieces of it, as small as an inch
?

04:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the
bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls (pictured) after sunset may be shot with a longbow
, has never been officially repealed?

...that the New York State
?
...that the heart of
Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw
?

...that the Inuit languages
?

...that retired
William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks
?

...that
declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO
?

2 March 2007

22:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

...that modern
silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks
and a chemist friend in 1897?

...that
To Nie Ja" in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994
, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?

...that Nara, Japan
, famous for its controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage?

...how patients with
classified
over the course of their medical treatments?

...that prehistoric
peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?
...that the illumination method used in modern
light microscope design was invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler
in 1893?

13:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

...that Abel summable but not Cesàro summable
?

...that sea stacks and offers viewing of marine natural arches
? ...

...that Lou Ye's film Summer Palace was the first Chinese film to feature both male and female full-frontal nudity?

...that
saints of the Russian Orthodox Church
?

...that Vitamin C megadosage is an alternative medical practice which advocates huge doses of vitamin C to cure a wide range of diseases?

...that John I of Denmark
?

...that 16-year-old Cory Kennedy became an "Internet It girl" in 2006 without her parents even knowing?

07:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the timepiece in the United Kingdom, after Big Ben
?

...that the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins?

...that Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?

...that
Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar
?

...that many WWII soldiers accepted Crown land
in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?

...that the Life Assurance Act 1774, still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling?

1 March 2007

23:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Spartan cruiser

...that the mailplane and even flew a test flight to Karachi as such, but was then transformed into a passenger airplane in 1932
?

...that Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia
in 1476?

...that when it was shown at the
Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed a petition
demanding that it be removed from the repertory?

...that Beata Brookes, Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?

...that the actions of Captain
Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship
?

...that the 22
Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John
?

15:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

...that the floral emblem of the state of Western Australia
?

...that The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?

...that
MP Norman Miscampbell turned down a knighthood
because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics?

...that the former
CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected
?

...that Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union
?

...that Baroness Russia
in 1917?

05:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Veniamin Kagan

...that in
anti-Semitic
practices there?

...that, when first built, the Chicago Board of Trade Building became the second structure located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard to bear, for a time, the title of tallest building in Chicago?

...that just 51 days after Adam Air's loss of Flight 574, Adam Air Flight 172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties?

...that George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks?

...that approximately 300 pieces of
ZIP code assigned to the former World Trade Center
complex?

...that the legend of the smuggler Robert Stephen Hawker
when he published it in 1866?

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