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31 October 2007

22:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Russian cellist Anatoliy Brandukov (pictured) entered the Moscow Conservatory aged eight?
...that Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of Léon Abel Provancher?
...that the Iroise Sea on the Atlantic Ocean is France's first marine park?
...that High Court judge
?

...that
HMAS Stalwart
was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?

...that the case of rolled her eyes
" under questioning?

...that MP for Carnarvon
despite his active navy career?

...that, in 1987, Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of nuclear weapons by Nigeria?

...that Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army
?

...that Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?

...that Oregon Health and Science University, lives on a houseboat
?

...that The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker's mentor Buster Smith?

13:54, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the first temple to be built in
Western Chalukya architecture (pictured), in Karnataka, India
?

...that it was Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer Richard Savage
?

...that Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom
?

...that the "negro of Banyoles" was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations?

...that most trains stop before reaching the platform at
Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK
, and then reverse away?

...that the ethnic minorities, were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I
?

...that the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?

...that Ian Smith's 24 international tries, scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?

...that the Jews
?

07:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage (pictured)?

...that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?

...that the
Hearst Medical Papyrus, considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian
document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?

...that two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?

...that Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court?

...that Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam?

...that jhana
?

...that Stolen Generation
, died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?

...that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn
and the publication of its scientific description?

...that French-language academic journal
in North America?

...that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?

30 October 2007

23:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's (pictured) lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?

...that the award for
Lux, consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages
and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?

...that due to
legal issues such as the insanity defense
?

...that
Fox
warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?

...that the AIDS
clinics in the US?
...that wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD$100 per bottle
?

...that after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League, Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?

...that when British House of Commons
?

16:04, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
North Koreans
claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?

...that in death penalty
?

...that archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?

...that Bob Odom, Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
...that
Advice and Consent
?

...that the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?

...that Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales?

04:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
medical papyri (pictured) show that ancient Egyptian physicians of the 19th century BC knew about migraines
?

...that news program Gay USA
?

...that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus, the patron saint of Nuremberg, his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution?

...that before U.S.
short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics
, she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?

...that the ethnic minority
-protection regime?
...that before competing in luge, Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?

...that the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible?

29 October 2007

22:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the marine game fish, is not a pompano, but belongs to the genus Alectis
?

...that only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km²) in size?

...that descendants of
Cowles Publishing Company, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company
?

...that at King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling?

...that the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry, street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?

...that fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century
?

...that José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?

15:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the church dedicated to Mary
through history?

...that the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist, Frederick Bayer?

...that visual evidence of the
analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl
?

...that the
rent control program in New York State is America's
longest-running?

...that Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?

...that the
Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit
at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?

...that High Commissioner
to sign it?

07:24, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Culbone Church (pictured) is the smallest English parish church still holding services?

...that Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?

...that the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?

...that Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?

...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?

...that the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis?

...that the Memorial Coliseum
?

...that the lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips
?

...that in 2002,
pubs
along the route?

01:21, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...that a 120-year old
m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in Singapore
?

...that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted?

...that scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?

...that the book best seller
list?

...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?

...that Chris Cosentino, a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal, hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?

...that
Japanese American internment camps during World War II
?

...that near the
Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German
officers?

28 October 2007

18:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Regina Roughriders to the Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I
?

...that
ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże
?
...that
Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe
?

...that in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?

...that pirates
?

...that air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique
in 1986?

...that Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel?

...that
Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race winner Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind Lee Petty
?

09:40, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby (pictured)?

...that from 1955 to 1973, the
scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity
-manipulation technology?

...that intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?

...that former
Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir
was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?

...that
G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary
?

...that artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?

...that wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr's Michigan coaching debut?

...that anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger
?

...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I, Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent?

...that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?

...that the now-Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the "Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII?

27 October 2007

21:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

...that American sports car racing driver Dick Thompson (pictured) was known as the "Flying Dentist"?

...that the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War?

...that sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "Life Underground" subway installation?

...that Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland?

...that Singapore’s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?

...that in his 1968 Declaration of Perth, British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher?

...that the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops?

...that the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?

10:35, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Alexander John Cuza (pictured) in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia
?

...that the
USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung
in Taiwan in the 1970s?

...that fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age
(15th to 12th century BC)?

...that
George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia
?

...that investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
?

...that when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20, it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?

...that a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war?

26 October 2007

21:38, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the conditions at the
St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (pictured) in 1703 protected the unburied Duke Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until 1897
?

...that the
United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith
?

...that
Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
at a meeting?

...that it was John Hollingshead who brought together Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?

...that Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German
troops less than two months later?

...that Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah
?

...that the Shi'a Muslims, commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680
?

...that
Walk of Fame for dogs
?

13:28, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Look at me!

...that Anna Laetitia Barbauld's (pictured) Lessons for Children (1778–79) revolutionized children's literature, introducing what novelist Frances Burney called a "new walk"?

...that
première
more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?

...that the Dallas, is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States
?

...that Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?

...that during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?

...that a prosecution was started against
Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern
in 1693?

...that Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess
?

...that Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva's final film before his death?

...that nine workers died at
Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel
?

06:49, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Communists
, and rebuilt in 1999?

...that Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?

...that Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege
?

...that major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985, 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1996, but lost all five times?

...that George Grossmith, Jr.
?

...that the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams, from Pakistan to China?

...that
Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India
?

...that the
Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman
?

...that the
Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey
?

00:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Delaware and Hudson Canal (pictured) was the first American business with a million-dollar market capitalization?

...that the Yugoslavia
?

...that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?

...that numerous references to Wikiality
as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?

...that in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection, the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?

...that Molly Badham, co-founder of Twycross Zoo, trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements?

...that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?

...that Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?

25 October 2007

15:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Turkish
shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat (pictured) are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a mosque
?

...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?

...that Soviet hits, was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department
at the same time?

...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?

...that "ARIA Music Award
; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?

...that
Hong Kong in international cricket
?

...that the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century?

...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?

...that
Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial
despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?

09:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the book You Don't Need Meat by Peter Cox (pictured), the first chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, is the best-selling vegetarian book of all time?

...that
St Patrick's Marist College, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers, started out as a primary school
?

...that
Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland
?

...that King of Arms, William Dugdale
, travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670 to destroy them?

...that the sugar plantations
in the 8th century?
...that former
Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco
?

...that
2007 Rugby World Cup Final
?

...that a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?

01:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Stevens Arch (pictured) is one of the many geological features formed from
USA
?

...that in St. Sebastian
´s Day to hunt human victims?

...that some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent?

...that
Duchess of Windsor's
wedding dress?

...that Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?

...that Boeing 787
, a commercial airliner?

...that the
Celtic missionary, Ajax, sent by the Visigoths
?

24 October 2007

16:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the megalithic monuments
in Europe?

...that the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841?

...that German
nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule, and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East
?

...that Senator
Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol
?

...that the
White-browed Scrubwren, which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney
?

...that between a half and two million
repatriation of 1944-1946
?

04:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
burlesques
, played over 1,000 roles in his career?

...that
Grammy award
?

...that leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?

...that Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist?

...that Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart?

...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?

23 October 2007

20:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Madras
(now Chennai)?

...that the
dissolution of the USSR
?

...that the
Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush, a flycatcher-like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings
of its own songs?

...that the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?

...that in the anonymous Breton lai Melion, one of King Arthur's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland?

...that
sent off
"?

...that American
flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel
?

14:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that although he was an
Bishop of Porto
?

...that Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs?

...that eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel?

...that the Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka
?

...that University of Damascus
?
...that a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?

...that the
Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide
?

...that Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote
an "unlawful dangerous substance"?

03:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Zoroastrian (Faravahar pictured) religious ceremony Visperad consists of the rituals of the Yasna and is only performed between sunrise and noon on the six gahambar days?

...that in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy?

...that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?

...that CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors
without a college education?

...that Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War?

...that though many
jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
in 1221?

...that
Dick Anderson, who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State
in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?

22 October 2007

21:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

...that mounting blocks (example pictured), stone or wood blocks for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790?

...that John Popper, now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler, once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song "She Blinded Me with Science"?

...that Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil
?

...that the Spanish military engineer Spanish-American War
, pioneered radio technology in his native country?
...that although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit, the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult?

...that
Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis
?

...that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?

...that Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?

14:00, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the festival of Christ
hanging from it?

...that the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori?

...that the first
Iao Theater
?

...that when former
New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks
?

...that occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate
factory for over a decade?

...that many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?

...that Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League?

04:35, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Monument to Diana Turbay in Bogota

...that the
Colombia-USA extradition
treaty?

...that merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London?

...that elementary school
for fighting?

...that Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby
?

...that Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney" for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?

...that the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?

...that Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England?

21 October 2007

22:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that William Wadsworth Hodkinson (pictured) merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films?

...that the
mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands
for twenty years?

...that when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?

...that the
John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer
?

...that before the
ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala
?

...that passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre?

...that the majority of
ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish, the bar jack
, or Caranx ruber?

15:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
sand dunes
about 180 to 225 million years ago?

...that
Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year
honors?

...that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?

...that Craigiehall, a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland?

...that National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places
?

...that
domesticated
?

...that Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland
?

08:44, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?

...that Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia?

...that Rudolf Valentino
?

...that, according to
Hokkaidō Jingū, a Shinto shrine in Sapporo, Japan
?

...that in 2004,
rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn
, the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?

...that the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin
?

...that over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold?

...that the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?

...that the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?

20 October 2007

22:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (pictured) became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?

...that the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?

...that North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?

...that in the
USSR, people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos
to erase them from Soviet history?

...that sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?

...that wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin
?

...that Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?

...that a
chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell lymphoma
?

...that though House of Commons
?
...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

15:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the USA was built by a millwright
who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit?

...that the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London?

...that the Governor-General
?

...that the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?

...that the
extinct crocodile-like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian
known to have existed?

...that
Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War
?

...that the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross, a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga?

...that 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize
in any category?

09:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in an upcoming presentation ceremony at the
War in Afghanistan
?

...that there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial?

...that the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall, offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally constructed as a brewery?

...that when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie?

...that missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus?

...that from 1747 to 1831, present-day
ruled by Georgian Mamluks
?

...that Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?

02:03, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the stock for the captive breeding program of the
Galapagos Land Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island
in the 1930s?

...that the
Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland
, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?

...that in 2004, a
California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship
to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?

...that
low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition
?

...that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?

...that
statewide polls
?

...that early
Roman Catholicism to the country
?

19 October 2007

17:25, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Albrecht Dürer's Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (pictured) is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties?

...that Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?

...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector?

...that
Hole-in-the-Rock
" for the passage of wagons?

...that the development of the Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy
in 1958?

...that Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?

10:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Tower of the Sun

...that the Tower of the Sun (pictured), created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto for the 1970 Expo, has three faces, representing the past, the present and the future?

...that the
U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812
?

...that at trepanations
during his lifetime?
...that chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II
?

...that in Bigby v. Dretke, the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?

...that the automatic
inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck
?

...that Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?

...that Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?

...that Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?

06:00, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

...that archaeological excavations near the Andries DuBois House (pictured) in Wallkill, New York, found evidence that it was built half a century later than previously believed?

...that A Gift to Young Housewives, a Russian cookbook condemned under communism, contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?

...that former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike?

...that in 1959, flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin
?

...that a Viking men chanted in falsetto
?

...that the
New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs
?

...that four
member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs
and do not participate fully in all common policies?

18 October 2007

17:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School (pictured) focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?

...that the wine-producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia?

...that Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?

...that on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?

...that Gunpowder plot
?

...that
matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer
?

09:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Milly Witkop (pictured) and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker were denied admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married?

...that former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience?

...that Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka?

...that Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?

...that the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein's orders in 1971?

...that Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?

...that the
Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii), a hawk of West Africa, was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel
?

17 October 2007

23:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the figures in Johannes Vermeer's The Wine Glass (pictured) are taken directly from Pieter de Hooch's A Dutch Courtyard?

...that the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?

...that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?

...that the
aggravating factor
?

...that
Nobel laureate Doris Lessing
's most important work?

...that everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?

...that Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates?

...that
forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder
victim into a bucket with his bare hands?

14:32, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
backscattering spectroscopy was described by Ernest Rutherford
as "the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life"?

...that the mob violence
only five years after it was built?
...that although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators?

...that
Namibian independence agreement in New York
?

...that
trees pulped using the sulfite process
?

...that the Sporting Clube de Portugal
on 78 out of 86 occasions?
...that by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore?

...that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?

...that Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘bioscope’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?

01:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

...that some experts believe a
Olmec writing system
?

...that the
effective" was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith
in 2003?

...that Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University?

...that the Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London
?

...that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Babylonian Talmud
is studied each day?
...that Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing on insects and popular science
?

...that
"Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town
?

...that a baby
Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation
?

16 October 2007

16:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Southern black bream (pictured), a species endemic to Australia valued for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to salinity and is of possible use for inland aquaculture
in saline dams?

...that United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation?

...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?

...that the medieval
Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars
(stone crosses) in Armenia?

...that Russell Adam Burnham, the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?

...that bromopyruvic acid, a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?

...that Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish?

...that
Sefire
inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?

08:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that John Pegram (pictured) was the first former U.S. Army officer to be captured while in Confederate service?

...that the
Kerguelen Shag, a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands, is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags
?

...that the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known?

...that
Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia
?

...that George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine?

...that
Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps
' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?

...that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom?

...that the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan?

...that in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera?

...that one of the first discoveries of
atmospheric neutrinos was made at India's Kolar Gold Fields
?

01:20, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35 (pictured)?

...that
bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type
used in his other works?

...that in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick's "plasma gun"?

...that Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?

...that despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament, the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?

...that according to the U.S.
landmark court case Rennie v. Klein, an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication
?

...that
amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison
'?

15 October 2007

18:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the US$
100 million for charity since 1983?

...that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager?

...that a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830?

...that the tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs
and other animals?

...that Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?

...that
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley
more often than any other alderman in council votes?

...that Novgorod, Russia
?

...that only twenty
Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal
?

12:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Michael Crabtree making a leaping catch for a touchdown

...that after only six games in 2007, college football player Michael Crabtree (pictured) broke the record for most touchdown receptions in a freshman season?

...that artists
?

...that the
Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905
?

...that an American Revolution-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?

...that in 1975,
lobby group
for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?

...that the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York?

...that
WWII
?

...that
concentric belt of canals
around it?

...that mental institution
?

05:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

...that close studding (example pictured) of timber-framed buildings was a 15–16th century status symbol, due to its lavish use of timber?

...that Chinese Ankang asylum
to a Western country?

...that
decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War
?

...that the town of
buried alive during the reign of Nero
?

...that Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre, became a priest and preached forgiveness
for the massacre's perpetrators?

...that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?

...that in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?

...that literary magazine CIA
scandal?

14 October 2007

23:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae (Eta Carinae
pictured)?

...that £
1,000 reward on his head?
...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?

...that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany?

...that when
European colonial rule in Taiwan
?

...that whiskey
at campaign events?
...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?

16:45, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...Julius Kuperjanov (pictured), a partisan leader in the Estonian War of Independence, died in a successful assault in the 1919 Battle of Paju?

...that in the
erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string
?

...that during the
Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI
to win his support?

...that in
U.S. Senate
nominee?

...that while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?

...that the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons
?

...that the
New Stone Age
?

09:54, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior (pictured) dating from around 500 BC?

...that former
U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite
?

...that the
labour disputes
in the world?

...that US$30
and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
...that automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co
?

...that
Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere
when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?

...that before becoming
French National Assembly
?

03:42, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (detail pictured) to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?

...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?

...that the
Don Cesar beach resort in Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana
?

...that the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War?

...that League Championship
?

...that
Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games
?

...that UN Charter
and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?

13 October 2007

21:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the esophagus (pictured)?

...that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley?

...that the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?

...that the
cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev
?

...that Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?

...that former
mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport
" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?

15:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the glaciers
(pictured) terminating in tidewater?

...that the illicit drug trafficking
?

...that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat?

...that in Registered Historic Places: Union House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House
are all within three blocks of each other?

...that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?

08:49, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot
and certain death?

...that the Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel
in the area?

...that
U.S. President George W. Bush's policies toward United Nations
AIDS programs?

...that the government of
Burma Workers and Peasants Party
?

...that the works of poet September 11, 2001 attacks, and poems about the New York Mets
?

02:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the 1673 history of
Sir Peter Leycester
(pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?

...that in the post-
meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour
lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?

...that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore?

...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?

...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?

...that trigonometric functions
?

...that the events surrounding the
lynching of Willy Brown
28 years later?

...that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?

12 October 2007

19:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the rocket launch site (pictured) at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight
?

...that
C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education
free for all children in the country?

...that African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places
?

...that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?

...that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?

...that the 1945 sinking of
USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy
to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?

...that
'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan
throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?

13:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Vincent Thomas Bridge (pictured) was named after Vincent Thomas, a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during its construction?

...that the
plants
?

...that the reconstruction of the Kaiser Wilhelm II
?

...that the 1832 capture and burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War
?

...that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?

...that
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love
, than with the death itself?

...that the
rail network
of over 2,400 miles?

...that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?

03:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher (pictured) in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal?

...that the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo?

...that Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?

...that the
National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War
?

...that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?

...that pilot in U.S. military history
?

...that the "van" in the name of
Flemish ancestry
?

...that
Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire
and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?

...that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?

11 October 2007

21:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that day flying moth of the Uraniidae
family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895?

...that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?

...that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?

...that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?

...that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?

...that
Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck
"?

...that Swedes during the Thirty Years' War
?

...that
Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello
?

...that future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?

12:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?

...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?

...that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?

...that the demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling
?

...that the
most victorious program
by total wins and percentage?

...that early
Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots
of 1885–1886?

...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?

...that despite a
Poland
?

...that U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation
?

05:23, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

...that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin (pictured), a 16 year old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help?

...that "Welsh Language Society
?
...that Le Conte du Graal
?

...that Outhwaite Park in
Outhwaite family
?

...that in 2000,
co-operative
movement could be modernized?

...that Colonel Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch
?

...that the
New Stone Age
?

10 October 2007

23:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado
in 2003?

...that segregated seating known as Jewish
students?
...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?

...that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?

...that the Hokkaidō
?

...that most land south of
southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana
?

...that
Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache
?

15:12, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health (pictured) is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?

...that in his book Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus
?

...that Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London?

...that
Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War
?

...that a dispute about
court appeal
amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?

...that lairdly
courts and courts of law?

...that an Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire
on the same day?

04:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century
?

...that the Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois
?

...that construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal
was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?

...that
John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin
?

...that plain of Thessaly
?
...that South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?

...that Pre-Raphaelite
artists?

...that the 13th century Teutonic Knights
?

9 October 2007

22:08, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Ebenezer Rhodes (pictured), Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire?

...that
Communists
came to power?

...that Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics
, since 1976?

...that in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?

...that
investigation
of 148 cases?

...that the first ever
Madras
teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?

...that
tape
of it in a garden?

15:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Akhtala monastery (pictured) was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s
?

...that Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's first penitentiary?

...that Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper?

...that the idea of spoofing Soviet radars'
Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12
high-speed aircraft?

...that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese influences?

...that Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s?

...that
Second World War
?

...that English
comparative biochemistry
?

...that
War Minister
for 10 months?

...that
Joseph Holden Strutt
?

...that whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?

08:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Espoo Cathedral (pictured) was built as a church in the 15th century but did not become a cathedral until 2004?

...that life sentence, reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole
?

...that
hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing home
at age 61?

...that both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar proportions?

...that the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?

...that
Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB
?

...that
Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English
in 1971?

...that the
parts per billion
?

...that the first
runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin
one?

01:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-shaped pottery (pictured)?

...that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet
?

...that
Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne, becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance
despite having no particular military ability?

...that Hans Christian Anderson
?
...that the bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984
?

...that a
Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics
?

...that Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines?

8 October 2007

16:23, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?

...that the 1955 novel Teneke by Turkish author Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an Italian opera of the same title by Fabio Vacchi in 2007?

...that the
FIBA Asia Championship 2007
?

...that 16th century
Sufi and Bhakti
musical traditions ?

...that the U.S. Green Building Council
?
...that some editions of Tom Wolfe's first published book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, quoted Kurt Vonnegut, "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius", but omitted the rest of his quote, "who will do anything to get attention"?

...that the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid-20th century, whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism?

10:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish
for space and food?

...that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his youth?

...that the African-Americans
, had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?

...that the
Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
?

...that Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?

...that Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in West Bengal, that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?

...that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world?

...that over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described?

00:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Kalanchoe pinnata (pictured), a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment for high blood pressure?

...that the first
Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois
?

...that the Tsalenjikha Cathedral, a medieval cathedral in Georgia, is decorated with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries?

...that English inventor legislated speed limit
of 4 mph at the time?

...that although Chicago
?

...that Romanov dynasty to be married in Russia
since its fall in 1917?

...that Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross, was nicknamed Macer, French
for "skinny"?

7 October 2007

17:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (pictured) in the Ypres Salient contains 1163 World War I burials, including Private Robert Morrow who won a Victoria Cross, and four men executed for cowardice and desertion
?

...that the
drone instrument in Carnatic music to this day, was introduced during the Vijayanagara era in India
?

...that Baltimore, Maryland, was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War
?

...that
episcopacy in 1606, but became Bishop of Galloway
four years later?

...that the
Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream
to the world?

...that Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar, which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia?

10:16, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

...that notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal (pictured), a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza?

...that
labor racketeering
?

...that Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa?

...that the
Kolkata High Court, in 2005, to life imprisonment
in a case where a mob dragged two persons out of their house and tortured them to death?

...that every autumn more than 23,000
Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia
, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?

...that about 22% of all critically endangered
?

6 October 2007

23:47, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Qing Emperor Qianlong, is the tallest minaret in China
?

...that the once-standing feet
into a tower?

...that soy beans
are used to make car parts and mattresses?
...that Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?

...that in 1986 the
Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the Navarre
Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?

...that sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter, was the first female football referee in Arizona
?

...that in graph theory, a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles?

17:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in April 1802,
Imperial Crown of Russia
?

...that the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?

...that
Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska
can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?

...that Holmöarna, an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia, forms the largest island nature reserve in Sweden?

...that the design for the 1941
Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois
?

...that the seeds of Capparis masaikai found in Yunnan, China contain mabinlins, sweet-tasting proteins more than 100 times sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis?

...that Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group?

11:09, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Singapore's Gallery Hotel (pictured), with its twisted cuboid form and seemingly random and multi-coloured windows, stands like a massive pop art signpost?

...that gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?

...that the ashes of
hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell, Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District
?

...that
aesthetic
movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?

...that the
Egyptian literature
?

...that in April 1999, Australian
Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand
?

...that singer W.C. Handy's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare
?

5 October 2007

23:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?

...that King
Narasaraja Wodeyar II, who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute
or preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?

...that
political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible
in 2006?

...that Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court?

...that a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty, who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles?

...that Atlanta, Georgia
hotel elevator?

...that the
2001 video game Ballistics features a unique reclined seating cabinet
?

15:45, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the First Texas Navy comprised four schooners: Brutus, Independence (pictured), Invincible and Liberty?

...that
Cosa Nostra boss Gerlando Alberti, on his arrest in 1980, claimed that he thought that Mafia was a kind of cheese
?

...that architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank?

...that Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division, the highest level of English football, with Manchester City F.C.?

...that the Global Community Communication Alliance, an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?

...that
Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War
?

...that wood
Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
?

03:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Victoria Mansion (pictured) in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold running water, gas lighting and a servant’s call system?

...that in
1924, the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup
?

...that U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?

...that chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation
?

...that American Romulus
"?

...that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?

4 October 2007

20:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Black Kangaroo Paw (Macropidia fuliginosa; pictured), is a plant native to Western Australia and survives being burned
to the ground?

...that NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?

...that
cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket
?

...that although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?

...that Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African
leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?

...that David Quinn, a first-round selection in the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft, was forced to retire before turning professional due to being diagnosed with Christmas disease?

...that in 1901, Dombrau, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria?

10:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
folktale
about lone sleepers?

...that
Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards, a Christian Scientist, campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered
?

...that the railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town
?

...that the
inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth
?

...that Roman Catholic
priest?
...that female
bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones
?

...that 68 AD
, even when the public was calling for his death?

01:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

100x100px|Man Enters the Cosmos

...that National Historic Landmarks
?

...that in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed
after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?

...that the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?

...that the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower
in Chicago?

...that France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall, a house often attributed to Christopher Wren
, for nearly 50 years?

...that diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?

3 October 2007

19:17, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

...that an easy keeper (pictured) is a term used to decribe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food?

...that bribes, are lawful under U.S. law, but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics
?

...that antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew
?

...that Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury
?

...that the first
£
1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?

12:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

...that
industrialized area in continental Europe
?

...that, prior to English physicist
C.G. Darwin’s 1952 conception of man as a human molecule, in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a "point atom
"?

...that the song "Swanee" was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?

...that the May 1945
Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance
?

...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?

...that billiards
history?

2 October 2007

22:38, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles (pictured) in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's day?

...that fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?

...that actor America
?

...that the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?

...that the Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain
?

...that the German occupation of Czechoslovakia
, and was completed within five days?
...that players had to submit their turns by
play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre
?

...that the Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy
"?

15:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that the
International Plaza (pictured) is the tallest commercial building with residential apartments in Singapore
?

...that
blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand
?

...that the
French army
?

...that Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?

...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans, but none since?

...that an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt, who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?

07:52, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that many of the most famous
Royal Entry
(example pictured)?

...that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?

...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?

...that three
2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup
?

...that
MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee
before securing a safe seat?

...that
Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate
investigating committee?

01:03, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

...that Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site (pictured), and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire?

...that
Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands
?

...that New World, the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore, was known for its striptease, cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?

...that Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
in 2006?

...that some of
Union Stock Yard
which closed in 1971?

1 October 2007

17:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

...that in the late
stenography
?

...that the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?

...that
Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park
?

...that the
air disasters
?

...that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime?

...that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?

...that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?

06:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

...that musical theatre star Phyllis Dare (pictured) published her autobiography in 1907, but continued to perform in Edwardian musical comedy and on stage until 1951?

...that in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?

...that under the 1557 Protestant
city could be put to death?

...that mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?

...that the three-month
Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China
almost ended in a tie?

...that the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan's rule from 815 to 838 CE?

...that
Food Stamp Program
?

...that The Victim, a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?

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