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30 November 2007

21:24, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
MS Lindblad Explorer
(pictured), in the region?
...that
open seat
without opposition?
...that
Millfield School
to do so?
...that the red juice
?

...that Italian American
causes?

...that the contiguous United States
?

...that the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon?

11:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the United Overseas Bank's 20-story Bangkok headquarters (pictured) is shaped like a robot?

...that Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby?

...that Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?

...that a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?

...that the new
Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara
?

...that Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity?

...that
Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks
?

05:46, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

...that billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?

...that in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War?

...that safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?

...that Louis XIV of France, was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers, whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard
?

...that no viable solution has yet been found to counteract mission to Mars
?
...that Norma Elizabeth Boyd, founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights?

...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?

29 November 2007

23:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poem "January God" is about a stone sculpture called the Boa Island Janus figure (pictured)?

...that R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?

...that lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry
?

...that
Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse
since 1785?

...that
All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball
team?

...that until 2007, the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor
candidate in over 70 years?

...that during the winter the
Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea
?

...that the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the
Texas Republic in April 1813
?

16:52, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street (pictured)?

...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?

...that although
rushing
championship?

...that certain
biological neuron models are a literally spherical cow, in that the cell
is approximated to be a sphere?

...that Hans Holbein
?
...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?

...that KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?

...that Persian
prince?

08:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Ontario pavilion at Expo 67

...that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?

...that
Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash
title?

...that in 1866
staged an uprising trying to escape to China
?

...that Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?

...that as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament?

...that
Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government
?

...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter
Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $26,000 for charity
in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?

28 November 2007

22:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame (see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?

...that in 1902, 23-year-old
archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus
?

...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-Aryan people, dating back to 8th-7th centuries BC?

...that Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?

...that the
Boston
?

...that the mythical Salmon of Wisdom, is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic
inspiration?

...that
Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, with over 11,500 burials
?

14:16, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

...that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving (pictured) centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?

...that Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library?

...that the homesteading it in the 1860s
?

...that suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction
?

...that Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights
associations and organizations?

...that Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?

...that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?

05:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price (pictured) in October 1945?

...that the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?

...that Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?

...that the Montreal Island, was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War
?

...that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?

...that Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch?

27 November 2007

23:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Queen Elizabeth I (pictured) commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada
in 1588?

...that in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?

...that Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?

...that American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor?

...that the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?

...that African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football
team?

...that the frizzante but has less carbon dioxide
than most sparkling wines?

...that scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?

...that the first
Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy
?

15:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Mahasthangarh (ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?

...that royal excrement
?

...that "Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single
, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?

...that William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom?

...that drafted in 1965
?

...that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?

...that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?

09:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

window

...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include stained glass windows (pictured), iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?

...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?

...that Project Lauren
is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K., and that aircraft have already been acquired?

...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president?

...that spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil
?

...that El Niño-Southern Oscillation
?
...that there are more than 40
Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom
?

01:12, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

...that a
spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn
(pictured)?

...that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?

...that in
Amgen v Hoechst, the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK
?

...that as
staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy
?

...that although Adam Freeland has said that his 2003 song We Want Your Soul is about "the destructive side of consumer culture", Target tried to license the song for use in a commercial?

26 November 2007

17:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the English engraver John Boydell (pictured) founded the fashionable Shakespeare Gallery in London in 1786, but had to sell it in a lottery in 1804 after he was bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars?

...that some types of human
image processing
software?

...that
Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry
till she was 61 years old?

...that the
Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori
?

...that
xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics, such as drugs and poisons
?

...that pregnant by him, and Victorian morality
prevented doctors from physically examining her?

11:14, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the White House Entrance Hall (pictured) had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?

...that a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?

...that Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?

...that Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom?

...that the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?

...that noitulovE, a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout, won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?

...that James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?

...that the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?

00:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Solomon Courthouse (pictured) has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?

...that 1995 NFL playoffs
?

...that seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model, dropped the "-issa
" from her first name because she "didn't need it"?

...that the subject of sex was central to
The Antipodes, an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome, first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre
in 1637?

...that
high school in the ninth grade
?

...that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria?

...that the
Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters
?

...that the
Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004
?

25 November 2007

18:12, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

...that a stone run (pictured) is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?

...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?

...that the
T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington
?

...that during the Vytautas the Great
?
...that a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?

...that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?

...that the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine
and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?

...that U.S. activist FBI
file to become a nurse for children with cancer?

01:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Italian painter Parmigianino distorted nature for his own artistic purposes in the unfinished Renaissance oil painting Madonna with the Long Neck (pictured)?

...that
forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia
until 1981?

...that
flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur
's cry"?

...that the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War?

...that United States Supreme Court
?

...that the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?

...that
Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's
main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?

...that the city of Union Valley, Texas, population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?

24 November 2007

19:15, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Hyde Park Railroad Station (pictured) in Hyde Park, New York was a day away from demolition when it was leased to a local rail historical society
?

...that
football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels
according to ability, activity and age?

...that
Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki
engines?

...that canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American
?

...that the Telefon Hírmondó was the longest-running telephone newspaper?

...that the
predators
?

...that the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny
proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?

...that 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris?

03:36, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Rev. Methodist missionary in Belém, Pará, Brazil
for 45 years?

...that the
2010
?

...that a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?

...that John John Florence was the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing?

...that the Barotse Floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia and also one of the most productive areas for raising cattle in the country?

...that Ashta Lakshmi are a group of Hindu goddesses who preside over eight sources of wealth?

...that Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter-portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?

...that an Australian chief justice Terence John Higgins
dismissed a defamation case alleging "lazy journalism" against an Australian journalist even though he found that the claim wasn't true?

23 November 2007

17:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

...that First World War
?

...that the mills
in its 10 mile length?

...that stock investor Ronald S. Baron has nonetheless been nicknamed "the Count" since his student days?

...that the biological weapons
to harm humans?

...that
Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec has no paved road connection with the rest of Quebec
?

...that the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893?

...that the Ulaanbaatar, the world's smallest by market capitalisation
, is housed in a refurbished children's cinema?

...that a high altitude balloons
that have taken a picture of the earth's curvature from a height of 32 km?
...that, while a legislator in Colorado, Dan Gibbs trained as a volunteer firefighter and was deployed to fight the Santiago Fire during the October 2007 California wildfire epidemic?

03:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Berlinka (pictured) was a partially constructed highway built by Nazi Germany that was intended to span the Polish Corridor from Berlin to Königsberg, Prussia?

...that the wallet of Scottish curate Captain Scott's Antarctic
hut in 1999, about 83 years after Spencer-Smith died in 1916?

...that the Allied convoys to Malta
had to be postponed for two weeks?

...that Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?

...that SantralIstanbul, a modern art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire?

...that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?

...that Rear-Admiral Horace Hood was posthumously knighted following his death in the destruction of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?

...that when
Hugh Randall Syme won the George Cross in 1943 for bomb disposal work, he became the most decorated member of the Royal Australian Navy at that time, having already been awarded two George Medals
?

22 November 2007

20:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

...that, during
anti-submarine boom net (pictured) to defend against torpedoes and submarines spanned the entire length of Sydney Harbour, Australia
?

...that
Sioux Indians
?

...that Austrian film company Wien-Film was given its official mission statement in 1938 by Joseph Goebbels?

...that activist Weathermen with a Bob Dylan
quote?

...that a
Ghostbusters video game is scheduled for late 2008, a quarter-century after the original film
?

...that painter and stage designer George Sheringham was one of the first recipients of the Royal Designers for Industry distinction?

...that the earliest Portuguese description of Malaysia, Tomé Pires's Suma Oriental, lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?

...that tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000 compared to the previous year?

13:49, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Winchester Cathedral (pictured) is the longest of the medieval cathedrals of England?

...that
Chola Dynasty
as an empire?

...that the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements had a combined cricket team from 1906 to 1961?

...that Battle of Rivas
?

...that after World War II, the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft, accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?

...that professor George E. Kimball gave a zero in physical chemistry to Isaac Asimov?

...that
Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng
and received the highest awards in his profession?

...that some birds, including flamingos, display homosexual behavior?

...that the mythological sea creature Aspidochelone is so massive that it is said to have been mistaken for an island?

05:54, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

...that more than 200 species of mammals (male kob pictured) display homosexual behavior including oral sex, genital stimulation, and urolagnia?

...that Angus Purden, regular presenter of the BBC's Cash in the Attic, modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?

...that under the leadership of its
Ministry of Defense, Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons
?

...that Arpiar Arpiarian introduced realism to modern Armenian literature?

...that John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound Grunwick laboratory were posted across the United Kingdom, getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?

...that the frigate HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy, sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$1, and scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?

...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder Harriet Josephine Terry wrote the sorority's hymn, "Hail Alpha Kappa Alpha Dear"?

...that as Burton Abbott was being executed in California's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution?

...that the conflict between
Valentin
decided to marry Borilă's daughter?

21 November 2007

23:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

...that although the Indian Postal department deems them postage stamps
?

...that
Quaker service organization
?

...that oil reservoir in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
areas?

...that one of the first known instances of a composer specifically calling for the use of a bass violin, the predecessor of the modern cello, was in the opera Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi?

...that the medical papyri
, containing substantial amounts of artifacts of the original papyrus?

...that the forthcoming television adaptation of the
Teenage Kicks, originally for BBC Two, has been taken over by ITV
?

...that the United Issarak Front leader Son Ngoc Minh declared Cambodian independence on June 19 1950?

...that Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris?

...that a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?

17:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
landscape and portrait painter Herbert A. Collins (pictured) made several portraits of naturalist John Muir as well as paintings of the evolution of Yosemite Valley
?

...that a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?

...that colonization of southern Vietnam
?

...that
Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation of the history of China and Japan
?

...that at the time of his death, A. Ronald Walton was estimated to have reviewed more language programs than anyone else in the world?

...that the Barasoain Church, where three major events in Philippine history took place, became known as the Cradle of Democracy in the East?

...that Mary Perkins was the first female optician to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire?

...that reclaimed
usages?

...that the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?

04:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the owners of the homesteading
laws?

...that British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum, the Tate Modern, and Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's?

...that in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons of the
Highlanders rugby union team went undefeated at their home ground of Carisbrook
?

...that
John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician, accountant, and police chief before entering the legislature
?

...that the
Korotoa River, a small stream in Bangladesh
, was once a large and sacred river?

...that the term "doomsday cult" can refer to apocalyptic groups that prophesy catastrophe and those that attempt to bring it about?

...that the ancient Kingdom of Nri was one of the few governments that governed its subjects with a taboo system instead of military power?

...that a complete
backstory was constructed by Mike Leigh for Vinette Robinson's character in Vera Drake
, even though the role was minor?

...that the frigate HMS Alarm was the first ship of the Royal Navy ever to have a fully copper-sheathed hull?

...that
Indianapolis
?

20 November 2007

22:21, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

...that 18th century English
premature labour
in cases involving a narrow pelvis or other conditions which endanger the mother's life?

...that in
Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged
?

...that the German national rail strike of 2007 is the largest strike in history affecting Deutsche Bahn?

...that Adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus, related to the common cold, that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States, including at least one healthy young adult?

...that Spencer Campbell regretted producing the year-long fly on the wall series The Living Soap, about students living in a purpose-built house, when some participants started deliberately avoiding the cameras after only a few days?

...that
USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States, Australia, Canada, Dutch East Indies, China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II
?

16:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

...that three out of every seventy-seven rainbow runners (pictured) have five spines in their first dorsal fin, as a result of not being born with the normal six?

...that Valentyn Rechmedin, a Ukrainian journalist and writer, received the Order of the Red Star after World War II?

...that
gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland
's main export?

...that
USNS General R. L. Howze held the record for ships assisting the 1954 mass exodus out of North Vietnam with 38 births on board during Operation Passage to Freedom
?

...that the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, built along the Susquehanna River in the 1830s, had a wooden bridge with a two-tier towpath to allow mules towing cargoboats in opposite directions to cross the river simultaneously without colliding?

...that
Robert Ropner, who built the first trunk deck ship in 1896, was sued for patent infringement because his design was similar to that of turret deck ships
?

...that the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau produced the Soviet Union's only operational nuclear rocket engine?

...that although Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite, he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta
?

08:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the last three piano sonatas by Franz Schubert (pictured), published eleven years after the Austrian composer's death, are often regarded as a trilogy?

...that following his term as
Mayor of Boston, Frederick O. Prince advocated and oversaw the construction of the Boston Public Library's McKim Building in Copley Square
?

...that Julius Garfinckel, founder of the department store Garfinckel's, died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday?

...that reservations 28 days
in advance?

...that
civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister
of his generation?

...that
civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations
?

...that Gautam Adani, a school dropout, is the 13th richest person in India?

...that El Salvador has the highest geothermal energy production in Central America?

...that Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the core of his philosophy of scientific management at Midvale Steel?

01:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the northern whiting (pictured) has been declared an invasive species in the eastern Mediterranean, having passed through the Suez Canal as part of the Lessepsian migration?

...that an offer sheet in the National Hockey League requires compensation in the form of future draft picks if a restricted free agent is signed by a different team in the league?

...that the son of
British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate
10 years earlier?

...that
Order of the Sacred Treasure, the highest possible honor given by Japan
to a foreigner?

...that Galicia started exporting plant cuttings to other European vineyards as early as the 14th century?

...that playwright Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?

...that the town of
Booleroo Centre, South Australia is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines
?

...that Filipino
diplomat?
...that historian Holden Furber was appointed as a social science analyst to the Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered World War II?

...that François Denhaut built the world's first flying boat, or seaplane with a hull?

19 November 2007

19:09, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership has won £1,000,000 of grants to improve and promote six rural railway lines (Looe Valley Line pictured) in south-west England?

...that among the founding members of national poets of Poland
?

...that the establishment of
Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India
?

...that the author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography stated he had to go into hiding after receiving threats related to his yet unpublished book?

...that during
C-47 Skytrain
“Que Sera Sera”?

...
football (soccer) player, despite having been declared unfit and removed from FC Twente
's youth academy at age 18?

...that Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America?

...that the Royal Commissions
?

...that the gardens of the
once thought to be haunted
?

...that in 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon?

11:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

...that 12,000 people paid
landscape painting
exhibited in 1859?

...that according to Jainism, the first Purva of ancient knowledge would take a volume of ink equal to an elephant to write, whereas the last would require the ink volume of 2¹³ elephants?

...that attempts to soften the harsh tannic nature of the Tannat wine grape led to the development of the winemaking technique of micro-oxygenation?

...that in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat?

...that Top 10 novelty songs
in the 1960s, "Hole in the Ground", "Right Said Fred", and "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"?

...that Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?

...that Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?

...that in 1656, tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence
?

04:04, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål in 1775, who mistook it for mackerel
?

...that the
smoke break scene, and a spanking
scene respectively?

...that 1770 famine
?
...that
African-American elected official in the U.S. state of Colorado
?

...that Robert Crouch led the Parliamentary campaign on the Crichel Down affair involving his constituency, which forced the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Sir Thomas Dugdale?

...that defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice
?

...that New Zealand rugby union footballer Jimmy Hunter's 44 tries on the 1905 All Blacks tour is a record that is unlikely to ever to be surpassed?

...that by providing government assistance to vineyard owners so they could replant and redesign their vineyards, the Flurbereinigung restructuring of the late 20th century had a dramatic impact on the German wine industry?

18 November 2007

22:03, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the mosque of Hirami Ahmet Pasha (pictured) in Istanbul is the smallest Byzantine church of Constantinople still extant?

...that The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?

...that 7th-century duke Waldalenus traded off with the Church his firstborn son against his wife's miraculous fertility?

...that
Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes
?

...that the airdate of "2007 Writers Guild of America strike
even if a settlement is reached?
...that since humidity and the cold climate inhibited its
Iberia in the Middle Ages
?

...that Lord Uxbridge's leg became a tourist attraction after the Battle of Waterloo?

...that the
indologist Ernest Bender also published work on the Cherokee language
?

...that after the
Champagne region, the Loire Valley produces more sparkling wine than any other region in France
?

15:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

...that a schoolboy's work gives an insight into life at Thomas Rossell Potter's country school "The Hermitage" (pictured) in 19th century England?

...that James Blake Miller, made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the "Marlboro Marine", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news?

...that Lawrence Olson, who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history, deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy?

...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Pratt Russell is remembered with a building named in her and her husband's honor at St. Paul's College?

...that 1.5 million people logged on to the website of the cheddar cheese Wedginald to watch it mature?

...that Greek temples
went from small structures of mud and wood (9th century BC) to the classical stone monuments widely known today (6th century BC)?

...that relics
were found submerged in water?

09:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

...that it was
Napoleon Bonaparte who recalled Captain Bruix
(pictured), after he was sacked for being a noble, to continue his distinguished naval career?

...that
Seattle, Washington businessman Herman Sarkowsky was a co-founder of both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers
?

...that Clyde Fastlink, a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow's proposed light rail system?

...that the Gerald Loeb Award, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism?

...that Probation Service
?

...that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?

...that cricketer
at the time of his death?

...that the location of the
first mass in the Philippines in 1521
remains a matter of dispute?

00:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

...that mercury(IV) fluoride (model pictured), the first mercury compound ever to have an oxidation state of 4, was synthesized at 4 degrees above absolute zero?

...that Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas, the founder of Columbia University's anthropology department?

...that Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima, Brazil?

...that
war veterans
?

...that
110 meter hurdles
champion?

...that in 2002, an officer of the Wellington Free Ambulance was accidentally shot by police during an Armed Offenders Squad training exercise?

...that Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?

...that Henry Liu out of patriotism, and refused the $
20,000 payout he was offered?

17 November 2007

18:46, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Queen Victoria
, for over forty years?

...that during the five years of fighting in the Cabanagem revolt in Brazil, it is estimated that the population of Pará was reduced from about 100,000 to 60,000?

...that Tu Duc
, was so effective that the French thought Tu Duc had supported him secretly?

...that Senator state song
?

...that US Department of State
?

...that Isocrates developed a personal hatred for Chares of Athens after his closest pupil, General Timotheos, was impeached for refusing to fight in the Battle of Embata during a storm?

...that the South Australian wine industry produces more than half of all Australian wines, including the premium Penfolds Grange and many of the mass produced box wines?

12:44, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

1948 British Grand Prix

...that the 1948 British Grand Prix (pictured) was the first motor racing meeting ever held on the Silverstone Circuit, which until then had been an aerodrome?

...that
Dick Butkus Award as America's top collegiate linebacker, attended Waimea High School, the westernmost high school in the United States
?

...that the
Herrlee Glessner Creel was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army during World War II
?

...that Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?

...that in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15, which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War?

...that orange snow fell in February of 2007 in western Siberia?

...that Michael Garcia has introduced legislation to lower the legislative age of candidacy in Colorado from 25 to 21 after being himself elected at age 26?

...that London Dock Strike of 1889
?

03:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

...that most artists of the Tudor court produced works in many media, including miniatures, panel portraits (pictured), illuminated manuscripts, and decorative schemes for masques and tournaments?

...that
sociologist Ralph Larkin published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice
?

...that the publishers of Hindustan Ghadar are said to have memorised the names of over a thousand of its subscribers to prevent these being known to British Intelligence?

...that
maths
lecturer?

...that a replica of the Old Plantation Flats Light built in 2004 contains the first new lens constructed to Fresnel's patterns in eighty years?

...that there are three one province of mainland Finland
?

...that Felician of Foligno was the first ever bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office?

...that the cost of transporting crushed stone often exceeds its cost at the quarry?

16 November 2007

21:48, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the use of speech scrolls (example pictured) developed independently in European and Mesoamerican art?

...that
Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan
?

...that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?

...that research into attitude polarization
suggests that when people read research that both supports and contradicts their current views, they come to hold their original attitudes more strongly than before?

...that Japanese invasion
?

...that in 1708 the
Bonnington pavilion in Scotland had a "hall of mirrors" designed to give visitors the illusion that they were standing in the middle of the Corra Linn
?

...that the parents of Jewish friend during World War II
?

14:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
Saint Mary of the Mongols (pictured) is the only Byzantine church in Constantinople to have remained Eastern Orthodox
to this day?

...that the Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries
?

...that the
ocelli
?

...that Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove, who died in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939, was the first Royal Navy flag officer killed in the Second World War?

...that the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago, Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters?

...that German lawyer Horst Mahler had for his own lawyer the future Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder?

...that Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?

08:46, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
Poughkeepsie, New York
?

...that though legend says the mid-way bend in
Pittsburgh's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself
in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?

...that the
IgE was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kimishige Ishizaka
?

...that after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, a museum was built in his hometown of Vinnytsia, films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?

...that Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland
?

...that world champion bridge player Paul Soloway earned the most masterpoints in history?

...that before becoming
Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris
and had himself built a special "love seat" there?

02:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century
?

...that
attacked pagodas during the Buddhist crisis and killed a giant carp
that had attracted pilgrims?

...that
Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, in recognition of his work on military intelligence in World War II
?

...that actuaries can use the Schuette–Nesbitt formula to calculate the net single premium for life annuities and life insurances?

...that the main cargo of the indentured servants
?

...that former Swansea mayor Percy Morris called for Swansea Castle to be demolished and redeveloped because it was a "shambles"?

...that global warming
over the last 65 million years?

15 November 2007

20:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

...that one Wal-Mart
in 1995 for use as the top prize in a promotional contest?

...that British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara, the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War?

...that Trafalgar Square's original fountains were made from stone quarried near Boddam in Aberdeenshire?

...that the membership of the Trades Union Congress fell by 58% after a law requiring civil servants
to be members was repealed in 1966?

...that despite British
marginal constituency
by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops?

...that turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?

...that
Sir John Stanier was the first British Chief of the General Staff after the Second World War
who had not seen active service?

...that Pedunculate Oak
trees?

13:19, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

...that aloin (pictured), a natural stimulant-laxative produced by the aloe plant, is no longer deemed safe and effective by the US FDA?

...that an operational
nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia
?

...that strikebreakers are used more frequently in the US than in any other industrialized country?

...that adjoining the house where the
Cumberland and Wellington
?

...that Bob Woodward has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize: in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy?

...that despite a history of identifying Communist intrigues,
Parliamentarian Percy Daines demanded that Marcus Lipton name his sources or withdraw the claim that Kim Philby was a Soviet
spy?

...that one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry, Pavel Jacobi, brother of the painter Valery Jacobi, participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi?

...that Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar
?

05:33, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Flower class corvette HMS Bryony
(pictured) was sunk before she could even be launched?

...that the
coat of arms of Andalusia bears the Pillars of Hercules, the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar
?

...that, by joining the
Democratic caucus in 2007, Rep. Debbie Stafford became the first Colorado state legislator to switch parties
in two decades?

...that shortly after the
socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin
became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?

...that the Sanskrit literature scholar Barbara Stoler Miller, whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita helped to popularise Indian literature in the United States, also translated Spanish poetry?

...that, although sentenced to death during the Great Purge, Soviet politician Sergey Kavtaradze was set free and reinstated by Joseph Stalin, and was eventually his representative in Iran and Romania?

...that
Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells
, UK?

...that Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus?

14 November 2007

23:32, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the covering of the Senne River (construction pictured) created the major boulevards of Brussels?

...that synthetic
Camptotheca acuminata, are being used as anti-cancer drugs
?

...that the
Napoleon
?

...that the
Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany, was sunk north of Bear Island
?

...that brain tumour
?
...that The Big Blowdown, a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos, was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France, Germany and Japan?

...that the nurse or midwife
from practice?

...that when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata, closely resembles an edible mushroom?

15:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
seventh century hermit Goar of Aquitaine (pictured) is said to have suspended his cloak on a beam of sunlight
?

...that symptoms of its poisoning
?

...that Imperial China, was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays
?

...that the Pasig River reverses its flow of water from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay when there is a high tide during the dry season?

...that when Barry Cohen sued under the Hyde Amendment, the U.S. Government was forced to pay a record-setting $2.9 million in legal fees for the "vexatious, frivolous" prosecution of his client?

...that
revolutions of 1848–1849
?

...that J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?

...that African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism
?

...that when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders, as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions?

05:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

...that although flowers of the deciduous tree Tilia tomentosa (pictured) are pollinated by honeybees, the nectar is somewhat toxic to bumblebees?

...that the German scientist Günter Wirths was brought to the Soviet Union after World War II, where he later was awarded a Stalin Prize for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project?

...that Abbadid Seville, was the first Christian governor of Coimbra and Toledo after their reconquest
?

...that
nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac
?

...that Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the "Bruce Lee of the Philippines," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In
?

...that the Romans, Moors, Spanish and English
?

...that Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?

...that
Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented
on the spot and threw himself at his feet?

...that the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke, just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I?

13 November 2007

23:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the brightly coloured shells of the Liguus snails (pictured) are so prized by collectors that some varieties are now extinct?

...that in 2007,
Gorilla advertising campaign
?

...that after Governor of New South Wales, he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania
"?

...that Bonawentura Niemojowski, a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government?

...that Wendy Kaminer's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, was highlighted among The New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?

...that Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for "courtly love"?

...that Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?

15:34, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

...that 4,400 year old
dugout canoes have been found at the bottom of Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park (pictured), a North Carolina state park named for J. Johnston Pettigrew, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg
?

...that
comic
?

...that famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London's Brompton Road while flying his kite?

...that Julia Evangeline Brooks, an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a dean of girls at Danbury High School?

...that skydived
?

...that the civil rights of Panama's Chinese minority, today the largest in Central America, were curtailed from 1903 until they received full citizenship under the constitution passed in 1946?

...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana
history?

03:03, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
D-Day
landings?

...that Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets, helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?

...that Serhii Vasylkivsky was the first painter after Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?

...that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?

...that the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?

...that
Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University
?

...that
global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes
more successfully than what would otherwise be possible?

12 November 2007

20:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?

...that Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.
?

...that centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore
?

...that Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?

...that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he rebelled again?

...that the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian, which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia?

...that Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?

...that wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?

14:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Raphael Cartoons (example pictured), tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years?

...that Bronx
was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?

...that African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha
?

...that Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire
?

...that "Professor Dull is anything but", referring to the historian of
Han China Jack Dull, was a conventional joke on the campus of the University of Washington
?

...that although it was destroyed by the Jordanian
1948 War, the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park
?

...that the militants of the
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang
, but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?

...that Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?

05:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Pterodactyl Ascender (pictured) has been one of the most influential designs in ultralight aviation?

...that East 233rd Street was part of the former New York State Route 22?

...that the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
?

...that in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?

...that the famous
first growth" wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico
grape which is still being used to make wine today?

...that
Château de Chalus-Chabrol, which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges
?

...that
cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s
?

...that when
2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party
candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?

11 November 2007

23:24, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
anti-Semitism, particularly regarding its references to Jewish
moneylenders?

...that actress Ethel Jackson remarried with the lawyer who had obtained her divorce the same month?

...that Rose Bowl in 1942, and six years later, won a professional basketball championship with the Portland Indians
?

...that Flemish Baroque painting (1585–1700) saw many pieces created as collaborations between independent masters, such as Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders?

...that
science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry
?

...that there are over 90 mash-ups of the Kersal Massive's demo song?

...that the expressions '
underdog' may originate with the two sawyers in a saw pit
?

16:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Manuela Beltrán (monument pictured) was a Colombian woman who organized a peasant revolt against excessive taxation in 1780?

...that in 2003, thousands of dead
Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
with their internal organs frozen solid?

...that the firm formed by John Brogden to build Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city?

...that Les Parrott, a professor of clinical psychology, a motivational speaker, and a Nazarene minister, co-created, along with his wife, the eHarmony Marriage program?

...that the resort town
Arniston, an East Indiaman that shipwrecked
in the vicinity in 1815?

...that Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops?

00:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the obelisk in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio (pictured) was erected in 10 BC as a giant sundial gnomon, but stopped keeping accurate time within 30 years?

...that the car combat video game Grudge Warriors was the first PlayStation title by Take-Two Interactive not requiring payment of a licensing fee to Sony?

...that the
offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame
?

...that the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England?

...that
U.S. soldiers considered the silver chevrons awarded for non-combat service in World War I a badge of shame
?

...that despite
managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit
in a fake motorcade?

10 November 2007

15:36, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel
?

...that in 1982, Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham
?

...that the HDTV
movie capture?
...that in 2007, African American AFL-CIO
officer?

...that Monosolenium tenerum is a species of weed that is threatened with habitat loss in Japan?

...that King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his wives
?

...that Agatha Christie's longest book was her autobiography?

...that on November 3 2007, Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?

07:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the orca Springer (pictured) is the only whale in history to have been successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention?

...that the leader of the Le Dynasty in Vietnam in 1516, claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu deity Indra
?

...that the White House has an official position called Chief Floral Designer?

...that despite being made from the same grape variety and less than 10 miles apart, the Barbaresco and the Barolo are two distinctly different Italian wines?

...that cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine?

...that on June 14, 1835, USRC Ingham became the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat?

...that nobody knows the meaning of "Delmo", the subtitle given by Rachmaninoff to his 1899 composition Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor?

...that millionaire's daughter Rose Dugdale joined an IRA active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the British Isles in 1974?

9 November 2007

23:07, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the odds of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (pictured), an eminent judge, also having a eminent grandson were calculated in Galton's book Hereditary Genius as 30 to 1 against?

...that the famous quote "No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad" generally attributed to Leo Rosten was actually first used in 1930 by future war correspondent Byron Darnton?

...that the most famous archeological finding of
Bronze and Iron Age Poland is the Biskupin
fortified lake settlement?

...that the Victoria, Australia, is the sixth largest in Australia by tonnage
?

...that United States visas
?

...that
Teresa Hsu, a 110-year old social worker who teaches yoga and selfless service to the needy, was named 'Hero for Today' by the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest
?

12:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

...that self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society
?

...that Tui bei tu, a banned 7th century prophecy book about China which has been compared to the work of Nostradamus, became a bestseller in the 1990s?

...that the
Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis
?

...that the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley founded his £30,000 1856 church near the small village of Middleton on the Hill?

...that during the 1991 NFL season, Cris Dishman had a seven game stretch where he forced at least one turnover in each game?

...that the largest subway station
?

...that a
quays on the River Tamar
113 feet below?

06:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

...that during the process of maceration (pictured) the clear-grayish color of grape juice gets its red wine coloring?

...that according to the book The World Without Us radioactive waste, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore will be the longest lasting evidence of human presence on Earth?

...that German invasion of Poland
in 1939?

...that Marrack Goulding, a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?

...that Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius, who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures?

...that the Bristol Bloodhound missile, but went on to be Ferranti
's most successful industrial control computer?

...that Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language?

8 November 2007

23:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Greek temples
?

...that border dispute
unresolved since the 19th century?

...that the
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg is scheduled to be sunk in 2008 to form an artificial reef off the Florida Keys
?

...that there is no
academic misconducts such as scientific plagiarism
?

...that Field & Stream Magazine
to be one of the 50 greatest lures of all time?

...that U.S. subprime mortgage crisis
?
...that the
Venetian troubadour Bertolome Zorzi composed songs while a prisoner of war for seven years in Genoa
?

...that
Marcela de Agoncillo, who made the first Philippine flag, was married to the first Filipino diplomat
?

16:22, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Fayum mummy portraits (pictured) are detailed paintings of individuals from 1st to 3rd century CE Egypt, representing a rare survival of ancient Graeco-Roman painting?

...the
informers
?

...that the Bushy-tailed Woodrat
is the original "pack rat" due to its strong affinity for shiny objects such as coins and spoons?

...that French conductor
Louis Antoine Jullien received thirty-six given names
at his baptism?

...that the harvesting of wine grapes can happen every month of the calendar year somewhere in the world?

...that Horace King was the architect of dozens of bridges in the Southern United States in the 1800s, despite being a slave?

...that the
far-right extremist activism
, rising by some 100 to 1,800 involved individuals (0.02% of the total population)?

...that My Left Foot
?

...that
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff
?

07:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
high school and condominiums
?

...that the
Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker
?

...that first names beginning with the letter "M
"?

...that
supported the Zimbabwe African National Union
's fight against British rule in the country and recognized it right from independence day on April 18, 1980?

...that the history of Rioja wine has been greatly influenced by the Bordeaux wine industry with many Riojan bodegas benefiting from the influx of Bordeaux winemakers into the region following the phylloxera epidemic of the 1860s?

...that visitors to the House of the Binns in Scotland can see the table where General Tam Dayell is supposed to have played cards with Satan?

...that Elijah White's only two children drowned in separate instances in Oregon Country during 1838?

...that the principles of learning pioneered by Edward Thorndike nearly a century ago are still widely used in practical instruction?

...that rabbi Balfour Brickner was selected as one of the 50 sexiest New Yorkers at age 77?

...that
MySpace
?

01:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

...that when the
Yucatecan ships to victory over a Mexican fleet in the Battle of Campeche in 1843, it was the only time that steam-driven warships were defeated by sailing ships
?

...that although the first specimen of the smallmouth scad, a tropical fish endemic to northern Australia, was already taken in 1984 and deposited in the Queensland Museum, it was not officially named till 1987?

...that when
third symphony
?

...that in psychiatric drugs
?

...that Julian Howard Ashton, a prominent figure of media and art in Britain and Australia in the 19th and 20th century, won the Sydney sesquicentenary prize for landscape drawings for his art work?

...that the Jews of Lviv
in July 1941?

...that
commandos to raid any shore on Lake Victoria
?

7 November 2007

19:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Great French Wine Blight, caused by the deadly phylloxera (cartoon pictured), destroyed over 40% of France's vineyards in the mid-19th century?

...that measuring the oxidizable carbon ratio is a way to determine the age of charcoal samples up to 35,000 years old?

...that the Ancient Greek art
?

...that Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop?

...that
independence
in 1991?

...that in 1918, the National Federation of Federal Employees became the first labor union in the United States to win the legal right to represent federal employees?

...that Luwian deity of Wilusa (Troy) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology
?

...that the Messiah would appear in 1058
?

12:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Joseph Priestley House (pictured) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania was the site of the first and only laboratory Priestley designed, built and outfitted himself, as well as several American Chemical Society celebrations?

...that Displaced Persons camps
?

...that vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s, typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand?

...that Slovak
Ferdinand Durčanský
was both dismissed by the Nazis as pro-Jewish and later condemned to death for complicity in the murder of Jews?

...that National Gallery
?

...that the golfing
tournament for one-handers?

...that
Viking who returned from England thrice with a share of the Danegeld
?

05:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Brussels-Capital Region
(pictured)?

...that Series III of the
knots
?

...that in 2006, only 79% of the population in Peru had access to electricity, well below the 94.6% average for Latin America?

...that the Habsburg
uprising in the late 17th century?

...that a small
goodwill messages from 73 countries was left on the Moon by the Apollo 11
astronauts?

...that for his part in the
Bir Pratik, Bangladesh's
fourth highest gallantry award?

...that the Viking warriors, whose main purpose was to defend England
against other Vikings?

...that the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj?

6 November 2007

23:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

...that "Professor" Jerry Thomas (pictured), who wrote the first book of cocktail recipes in the United States in 1862, at one time earned more than the Vice President of the United States?

...that the
Freemason
?

...that
Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard
?

...that football (soccer) player Geoff Hurst, adventurer Ranulph Fiennes, actress Tamsin Greig and comedian Arthur Smith
?

...that the highly toxic all-white
toadstool Amanita virosa, one of several species known as the destroying angel, can be confused with the common mushroom
when young?

13:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

...that despite losing almost one third of their men in the Battle of Osuchy (reenactment pictured), Polish resistance in the Zamość region successfully engaged Germans during the nationwide Operation Tempest only a month later?

...that counterfeiting
?

...that the Texan schooner Zavala was the first steamship-of-war in North America?

...that the Gothic king Radagaisus abandoned his forces and tried escaping after a counterattack by the Roman army in 406?

...that
Rev William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand
in the 1840s?

...that your biological chronotype characterizes your morningness or eveningness?

...that Singapore’s Sungei Road, formerly a place designated for affluent Europeans and Asians, is now the largest and oldest flea market better known as the Thieves' Market?

...that at 24, Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force
?

02:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the herbivorous
diet?

...that the slang term brass razoo is speculated to have originated from Egyptian or Indian currency?

...that the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode "Blind Ambition" was originally created for the episode "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire"?

...that conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?

...that the Indian state of Karnataka
and accounts for about 40% of the total power generated in the state?

...that tradition states Bishop of Barcelona
because a pigeon landed on his head?

...that headwaters
?
...that the Valle d'Aosta DOC in the Alps of northwestern Italy is home to the highest elevated vineyards in all of Europe?

5 November 2007

19:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Tran Trong Kim reunified the country in 1945 for the first time since French colonisation
?

...that businessman New Comiskey Park, which was instrumental in keeping the Chicago White Sox
from leaving the city?

...that the
Leovigild, and lost until 1944, was one of only two new cities founded in Western Europe
between the 5th and 9th centuries?

...that United States of America
?

...that the Articulating Propulsion System with
Super Dvora Mk III
to function in shallow waters at drafts of 1.2 meters?

...that the series of unconventional aircraft designed by Jonathan Edward Caldwell may be responsible for reported sightings of flying saucers in the United States throughout the 1950s and 60s?

...that upon completion, the thirteen-volume History of Lithuania will be the largest and the most comprehensive academic publication covering Lithuania’s history ever released?

12:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

...that there is more variation in the design of road sign
?

...that in 2007, the Trinity Tigers threw 15 backward passes in 62 seconds to defeat the Millsaps Majors with the longest play in college football history?

...that the Persians from the time of Adam to the 14th century
?

...that some U.S. commercial airliners are now being equipped with the shoulder-launched missiles
?
...that during the
Édouard Mortier took barely an hour to kill 1,000 Spanish soldiers and take 4,000 prisoners in winning the Battle of the Gebora
?

...that Marseilles
?
...that Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace?

06:14, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

...that French poet Ronsard correctly predicted that Tuileries Palace, one of the many building projects of Catherine de' Medici (pictured), would be deserted within a hundred years?

...that Earth's atmosphere
?

...that the
Nathaniel Levi Gaines in 1996 became the third officer from the New York City Police Department
to be sentenced for committing a crime while on active duty?

...that Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore, in recognition for his contemporary application of Sun Tzu's Art of War
?

...that David Letterman parodied Werner Erhard in the 1978 Mork & Mindy episode Mork Goes Erk?

...that the American Ceylon Mission founded Asia's first all girls boarding school in 1824, in Sri Lanka?

...that ancient Greek architecture as Vitruvius
had written?

00:46, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Howard Greer designed costumes for the Katharine Hepburn films Christopher Strong and Bringing Up Baby?

00:17, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

...that California's 2007 Santiago Fire (pictured) was started deliberately?

...that
Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art
?

...that the
Lwów dialect was one of the first dialects of the Polish language
to be properly classified?

...that the
human mouth is colonized by bacteroides and spirochetes around puberty
?

...that Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?

...that BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?

...that granular cheese is produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curds and whey?

4 November 2007

17:01, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the
UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains some of the finest surviving mosaics (example pictured) from the Macedonian Renaissance
?

...that Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?

...that the
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz
?

...that a
T-54 tank of the Polish Army killed seven children watching on the sidewalk during a military parade in Szczecin
in 1962?

...that 1929 UK general election while imprisoned in India
?

...that Node Magazine, a hypertext version of William Gibson's Spook Country, is a fictional magazine named after a fictional magazine in the novel?

10:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Special Registration
program from which he was supposed to be exempt?

...that the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to "Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark" because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent?

...that Queen
?

...that though it started as a
gay pride parade and festival in the United States
?

...that William Couper is considered one of the first prominent entomologists in Canada?

...that Shoyna, on a peninsula of Russia's Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is more than half buried by sand dunes caused by permafrost and trawling?

...that the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people?

...that
spaghetti harvest
from a phrase used by one of his school teachers in Vienna?

00:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

...that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?

...that the Treaty of Reichenbach signaled both Prussia's first retreat from the policies of Frederick the Great, as well as the beginning of its decline?

...that an explanation for the derivation of Aughanduff, a townland in Armagh, is that it means ford of the ox or Áth an Daimh in Irish?

...that Kim Jong-il
?

...that the
unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons
?

...that the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the then-Governor of Queensland?

...that during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet?

...that Chef Morou Ouattara opened his own restaurant after he lost his job as Signatures Restaurant's executive chef in the fallout of the Jack Abramoff scandals?

...that
bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast
within a matter of days?

3 November 2007

18:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Broadmoor
?

...that the Flash RAM
replacement?

...that in the year 2004, both the Tamil and Telugu language versions of the Kannada novel Parva won the Sahitya Akademi of India's translation award?

...that a church was built in memory of Oaks colliery explosions
which killed over 350?

...that the paddle-wheel cyclogyro aircraft design refuses to die after almost a century of failed attempts to build one?

...that Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?

...that
offensive lineman, Greg Skrepenak
, was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame?

...that Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania?

11:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the 74181 chip (pictured) greatly simplified the development and manufacture of computers during the late 1960s and 1970s?

...that Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected?

...that during the Italian War of 1542–1546, the population of Toulon, France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base?

...that canon priest
when he was only ten years old?

...that John Phillips
was one of the first judges appointed to the Victorian Court of Appeal and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?

...that an aircraft which misses the
bolter
?

...that the exploits of the
Flavius Cresconius Corippus
?

2 November 2007

18:40, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Gladstone's Land (pictured) is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile?

...that
Boston
?

...that Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation?

...that Hare Field was the first all-weather high school football field in Oregon?

...that founder Beulah Burke organized and was the first regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's Midwestern region?

...that
Sardarji jokes are the most popular ethnic jokes in India
?

...that John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine?

...that all known interstellar molecules
were first discovered?

...that there are
seven dialectal groups of the Polish language
, each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?

00:50, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

...that
Stanislavski and Craig's symbolist production of Hamlet in 1911 (pictured) put the Moscow Art Theatre
on the cultural map of Europe?

...that the annual Muslim event in Europe
?

...that Bagrationi Dynasty, was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from Persian literature
?

...that only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States?

...that Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?

...that A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?

...that Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?

...that
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama
?

1 November 2007

16:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

...that Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?

...that Carl Jung
?

...that in 1921, future
USS Constitution from being scrapped
by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?

...that the 1994
Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance
?

...that the Frankfurt, Germany, played host to concerts by Mozart, Schiller and Goethe
, among others?

...that in numerical analysis, the error of an approximation of a function $\textstyle u$ by a polynomial of order at most $\textstyle m-1$ in terms of
derivatives
of $\textstyle u$ of order $\textstyle m$ is bound by the Bramble-Hilbert lemma
?

...that the Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy
?

...that popularity of
German Minority, a party of the German minority in Poland
, has been steadily declining since its establishment?

...that Clímaco Calderón was President of Colombia for only one day?

06:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

...that the Lockheed NF-104A (pictured), equipped with a reaction control system as well as a rocket engine to supplement a jet engine, was a low-cost training vehicle for American astronauts in the 1960s?

...that Buddhist nun
?

...that
President Salvatore Cuffaro
?

...that the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament?

...that according to a
Sugar Loaf
?

...that doomsday cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, with Joseph Kibweteere
?

...that in the United Kingdom, speed limits imposed by variable-message signs are advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?

...that razor manufacturer Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a resonant tone when plucked?

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