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Did you know...

30 September 2007

16:47, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

...that beets (pictured), bougainvillea, amaranth, and many cacti
?

...that the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?

...that Asia-Pacific, is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls
submerged structures?

...that Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain"?

...that
Nazi official Hans Frank, refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance
?

06:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

...that World's Fair), shortly after part of the land for the Exposition was purchased from that same parish
?

...that Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C.?

...that Polish
Nazis in Soldau concentration camp, became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II
?

...that
First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln
?

...that the ongoing
partition of Belgium
?

...that 17-year-old MP since the Reform Act 1832
?

...that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned, jarred and bottled food products?

29 September 2007

21:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
wall mural on Marine Parade Community Building (pictured) is Singapore's largest piece of installation art
?

...that the
Christ
blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?

...that the
meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska
, paid the ransom request?

...that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?

...that the Philippine island of Dinagat
, that is notorious for a 2002 gun battle with police that left 17 dead?

14:10, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that a 200 m section of wall by
Nový Most
bridge?

...that the
City & South London Railway, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark
?

...that New Jersey's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?

...that Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?

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

...that the People's Republic of China
?

06:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Aston Martin DBR4 Formula One car (pictured) failed to score even a single World Championship point, even though Aston Martin sports cars won many races?

...that neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?

...that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?

...that Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada?

...that supercentenarians
?

...that popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont?

...that in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?

...that you stole the cookie from the cookie jar
?

00:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the small,
marine cleaner fish of the genus Elacatinus (pictured) are known as neon gobies due to their iridescent
stripes?

...that the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde?

...that the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?

...that the 1881 pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede
?

...that the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire
court?

...that the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

...that the upcoming British film
Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell
for nearly ten years?

28 September 2007

17:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Dusky Scrubfowl
?

...that despite being organised on
first official international football match
did not result in a home win?

...that because of its depression
in the world?

...that Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?

...that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?

...that its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as the "Gateway City of the West"?

...that huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star?

10:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Revolutionary Calendar
?

...that Tom Wolfe's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?

...that Forme of Cury
?

...that
Security Log
?

...that the
Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop
?

...that the ritual murders
before being arrested?
...that Mikołaj Hussowczyk's book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?

04:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

...that it is not possible to
inscribed quadrilaterals in the Euclidean plane, but the Möbius–Kantor graph (pictured) describes a solution in the complex projective plane
?

...that the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?

...that Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis?

...that the Sun Ning Railway Company, South China's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?

...that the planned enlistment
was held in 1967?

...that when
U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system
?

...that the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg
has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?

27 September 2007

21:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

...that
naturalist
?

...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?

...that the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes?

...that although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire?

...that the earliest bones of the
rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy
?

...that the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?

...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?

10:48, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Trinitarian Church (pictured) in Bratislava was built on the place of an older settlement which was demolished in 1529 due to the Ottoman wars
?

...that
Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
?

...that the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?

...that plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?

...that a scathing obituary of
Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph
called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?

...that during his
tenure as curator at Université Laval, François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds
from the ground up?

...that the 22,200 meter world's longest tunnel
when it was completed in 1982?
...that even though the
Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker
, he was not present himself?

...that Henri II's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris?

26 September 2007

19:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that tōgyū (pictured) is a bullfighting sport practiced in Okinawa, Japan, in which two bulls wrestle in a ring in a manner compared to sumo?

...that Kiev, was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power
?

...that the British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel
's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?

...that long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?

...that Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress—to exhibitions?

...that a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?

...that an edition of Islamic prophet Muhammad
?

...that after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron, he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant?

...that during the Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars
?

13:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first session of the
Legislative Council of Mysore State in India was held in the Jaganmohan Palace
(pictured) in July 1907?

...that the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?

...that
Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People
?

...that after the defeat of his Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout the United States
?

...that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches?

...that a
PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s
?

...that more than 75% of
pulp is bleached without chlorine
?

01:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Baduanjin qigong (pictured) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise?

...that Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe?

...that San Antonio, Texas
, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?

...that by using cars
in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years?

...that four-time
Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study
composing tourney in 1935?

...that the
Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998
?

...that anatomist
and author?
...that
autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey's 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia
?

25 September 2007

17:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Chick House (pictured) is the only 19th century hotel building still standing in the city of Rockford, Illinois?

...that the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?

...that the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919
were arrested by their intended troops?

...that University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature
?

...that the
bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India
?

...that longest
and most expensive trials in America at the time?
...that
lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water for Vileišis Palace
construction?

...that the
Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy
coast in 1944?

...that
Archbishop of New Zealand, and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
?

07:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams (pictured) is known as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force?

...that by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season, Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott?

...that the
1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery, was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan
, and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?

...that Edward VI
?
...that John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?

...that the
Suevic king Hermeric
abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?

00:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Dick Whittington
's cat?

...that the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel, and was the tallest building in Singapore's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?

...that although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?

...that the concert hall
sound experience?

...that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?

...that the herbs
?

...that Major prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders
?

24 September 2007

14:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Baroque-style palace Dilkusha Kothi (pictured) was once a summer retreat for the nawabs of Oudh but was heavily shelled during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and is today in ruins?

...that Communist mayor
in the United States?

...that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by
Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore
in 1942?

...that the city of
power grid, not the Bolivian
?

...that architect Admiralty in Saint Petersburg
, with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?

...that after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland, the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński?

...that
Roman Catholic
?

...that
Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš
played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?

00:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

... that the name of
Communist government
?

...that KNIK-FM
?

...that the
Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator
?

...that political cartoonist for the Herald Sun, created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia
?

...that in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?

...that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha, Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses?

...that, although only a junior officer, Spanish-American War
?

23 September 2007

17:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

...that John Dement (pictured) served as Receiver of Public Moneys in the U.S. Land Office under five presidential administrations?

...that the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled?

...
indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois
?

...that Peter Adolf Thiessen, who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?

...that
conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: "Arms are for hugging
, not killing"?

...that the 2002
ITC Inferno, a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was started by poor welding
?

09:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

...that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore dresses (example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?

...that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?

...that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh?

...that cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan, also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy
?

...that short track, mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks
?

...that the
Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio
?

22 September 2007

18:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Tirpitz the pig (pictured) rescued after the sinking of the SMS Dresden became a ship's mascot on one of the cruisers that sank the Dresden?

...that estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark
?

...that Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot, of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols?

...that Mzoli's, a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa, started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?

...that the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?

...that the
gorge in China's Flaming Mountains, near the ruins of the once busy oasis city of Gaochang, was an important pass on the ancient trade route, the Silk Road, skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert
?

12:20, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the only remnants of Mecklenburg Castle, a medieval castle located in present-day Germany, are parts of an earthen wall (pictured)?

...that Justice Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus
?

...that the
AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League
game in the United States?

...that Union sacrée national bloc during World War I
?

...that Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?

...that Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia
(1298)?

02:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Francis Stuyvesant Peabody
between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?

...that at the peak of the
1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu
?

...that partially as a result of the mythical "USAF
built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
...that
Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink
which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?

...that the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman?

...that the last
chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army, at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War
?

...that the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary?

21 September 2007

12:59, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the cathedral in Haapsalu Castle (pictured) is the biggest single-naved church in the Baltic countries?

...that Stamford House in Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?

...that Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO?

...that the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants' repeated failure to appear in court?

...that missionary U. S. Supreme Court
?

...that stovepipe hat as the first postmaster
of Omaha?

...that medieval Liubice, the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites, was the predecessor to Lübeck, Germany?

...that the
Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist
?

07:46, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the renovation of
Gardiner, New York's Town Hall (pictured) was criticized because it destroyed a historic outhouse
?

...that poet, film producer and journalist cyber cafe
in 1996?
...that around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation, including the leaders of both main political parties?

...that the suburban street
design?

...that the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?

...that after
anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited
?

...that to further the career of future
Yamamoto Gonnohyoe
, father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?

...that Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional, Territorial, and State governments of Oregon?

...that Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin, the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?

01:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Portrait of Nikolai Yevreinov

...that
Nikolai Yevreinov's (pictured) productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks
?

...that Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?

...that 12,000-year-old
Paleo-Indian artifacts, including a rare fluted point, have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York
?

...that
galaxies
?

...that architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?

...that the handcuffed on his stomach during arrest
?

20 September 2007

16:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Rogers Hall (pictured) served as the headquarters for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest
in 1864?

...that Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?

...that 18-year-old online poker phenom, bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe
Main Event?

...that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius
' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?

...that Fort Runyon, built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon, built 80 years later?

...an inscribed
political dissident, Tan Chay Wa, sparked off a court case in Singapore
which eventually made international news in 1983?

09:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Variegated Fairy-wren (pictured) strongly reflects UV
light?

...that
Fryderyk Chopin
's first job?

...that Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
?

...that mobile starting gate
?
...that wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?

...that the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev?

...that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty
was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?

...that the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?

01:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

...that
National Cathedral but instead opted for interment at her family's plot (pictured) in Cedarville, Illinois
?

...that book smuggling during the Lithuanian
press ban?

...that despite being hit by two
torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens
?

...that Piłsudski's Mound, built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków?

...that the Singaporean cuisine
, despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?

19 September 2007

19:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?

...that scientists are concerned that the Jamuna River
and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?

...that Carnegie Medal-winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas?

...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?

...that director Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?

13:33, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that neither the U.S. nor Canada uses UNESCO-defined mandatory signs (example pictured) for traffic?

...that the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds—more than California and Washington combined?

...that the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?

...that Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak's only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?

...that Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?

05:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

...that doctorate degree
?

...that former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?

...that distillery
?

...that Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, was the first member of the Sikh diaspora?

...that Fox Point State Park, a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River, was built atop a hazardous waste site?

...that zero is even
?

...that the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland?

...that P-61 Black Widow
?

...that in
Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse
that could talk?

18 September 2007

22:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Plano Stone Church (pictured) was constructed in 1868 to serve as the world headquarters for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith III?

...that the British colony
?

...that
Lauenburg
?

...that Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
?

...that African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives
?

...that the planetary nebulae within this galaxy
?

...that
Swan and Maclaren is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore
?

12:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first complete map of Iceland (pictured), based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?

...that the efficient market theory
?

...that
Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us
that she never again sold film rights to her work?

...that the
Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material
?

...that the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley, was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?

...that
St Cuthbert's beads
?

...that one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?

05:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the medical education in Singapore
?

...that Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic?

...that the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2
airborne infantry fighting vehicles?

...that the annual Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe
?

...that hotels in
Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood
?

...that Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?

...that the efforts by
China have their roots in the Cold War
of the 1950s?

17 September 2007

21:05, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the record
?

...that
Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong
is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?

...that the
Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia
?

...that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?

...that after spending a billion dollars developing
US Air Force
realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?

...that the
Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material
?

14:38, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that since 2002,
principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts
and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?

...that
crude oil
reserves?

...that pianist
Bach: The Goldberg Variations
, which had made him instantly famous?

...that the
Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana
middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?

...that in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?

...that the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I?

...that
Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal
?

03:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the clubhouse
?

...that coup d'état
?

...that the supply of
General Strike of 1892
, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?

...that the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus, which includes 38 species from three oceans?

...that the
Plaza film theatre in Bangalore, India was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London
?

...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?

...that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland, was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?

16 September 2007

19:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the popularity of the lens, autofocus camera sold by Konica
in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?

...that personal water craft
?
...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?

...that an
US$
100,000?

...that Colonel disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest
?

...that investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt"?

...that whooping cough
?

13:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

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...that the
6th-century Songyue Pagoda (pictured) is the oldest extant large pagoda in China
and the earliest multiple-eave pagoda known?

...that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?

...that a
court
, signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?

...that Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?

...that between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?

...that
Journal of Finance
best paper awards before winning?

05:21, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

...that
Kazimierzowski Palace in Warsaw (pictured) that he even ordered the window frames to be removed and transported to Sweden during the Swedish invasion
?

...that the pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame
?

...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?

...that pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League
?

...that Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez?

...that the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa?

15 September 2007

14:37, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

...that a variant of the Bulgarian Army in World War II
is still in service?

...that the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels, and won a by-election aged 87?

...that RAAF and its only "ace" who was not a fighter
pilot?

...that Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics
, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?

...that a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?

...that cross-referenced A to Z article indexing, complemented by Charlie Dancey’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration
style?

...that
St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794
?

...that according to "Believe It or Not", The Flight of the Bumblebee
" faster than any known violinist?

05:41, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pictured) was buried in a communal grave?

...that the Desert Bighorn Sheep
and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona?

...that in 1745 sceptic
?

...that Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?

...that cultivated
sudden oak death
?

...that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young?

...that CIA and MI-5
?

14 September 2007

18:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that
Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, became Princess of Albania
in March 1914 (arrival pictured), but had to leave the country just six months later because of nationalist turmoil?

...that the first
public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court in India
was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?

...that after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation, postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls, which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron?

...that Corman Park Council
?

...that each year over 1000
Brattle Prizes
?

...that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?

...that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives?

11:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate
?

...that
Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster
accident, the worst in U.S. history?

...that New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?

...that stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
?

...that Fort Delaware State Park, once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida?

...that though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?

...that Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?

01:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

...that people of the Sonoran Desert in North America value the fruit of the Ferocactus wislizeni (pictured) as emergency food and also as a basis for confectionery?

...that
Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin
?

...that prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909?

...that during Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its four campuses
?

...that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?

...that Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?

...that Germany is the European leader in Christmas tree production?

...that the endemic Beardslee trout
?

13 September 2007

16:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that it cost US$1.4 billion to restore the September 11, 2001 attacks
?

...that the second redaction of Lithuanian Chronicles started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin?

...that Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?

...that
Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize
as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?

...that
Carmelo Soria
?

...that
until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests
?

...that the 17th century razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising
?

...that the Taiwan, is the largest mall in Asia
at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?

08:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the neighbourhood of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram
line (model pictured), opened in 1873?

...that almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative
cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?

...that the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?

...that the Italian sculptor
Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance
works of art?

...that Guillain-Barré syndrome
?
...that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?

...that the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour?

...that the Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
?

01:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

...that volts
or more?

...that an
Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "king
" of the island?

...that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?

...that Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?

...that three different languages that used to be extinct
?

...that because of low rainfall, poor
GDP
?

...that the Puerto Rico Telephone Company
?

12 September 2007

14:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

...that an Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance aircraft (pictured) searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett helped find eight other unknown crash sites?

...that the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch, a canon composed by Mozart, were only rediscovered in 1991?

...that in 1526, with the heirless death of reunited with Poland
?

...that
Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders
?

...that many of the specific
gluten allergies
have not yet been characterized?

...that in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War, American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?

...that the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?

...that while performing the
Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway
?

05:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

...that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings (one pictured) and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of Salvator Rosa's work?

...that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?

...that the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois?

...that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?

...that the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name, which was settled after just four days?

...that the father of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?

...that the Storz, Krug, Willow Springs and Metz breweries were regarded as Omaha, Nebraska's "Big 4" breweries?

...that former
Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau
?

11 September 2007

23:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Singapore's Early Founders Memorial Stone (pictured), a foundation stone for a proposed memorial, became the memorial itself?

...that the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch?

...that the
poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise
for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?

...
WMAP
mission?
...that the Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia
, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?

...that poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?

...that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?

...that swimmer Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II
?

15:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Cape Henlopen State Park (pictured) in Delaware has been public land since William Penn's designation in 1682, yet only became a state park in 1964?

...that the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?

...that
Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award
?

...that
public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale
, for 19 years?

...that crisis, but has now made a comeback as governor of Shanxi
province?

...that
Mahakala, a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, is named after Mahakala, one of the eight protective deities (dharmapalas, "Protectors of the Law") in Tibetan Buddhism
?

...that the Chilean biochemist Augusto Pinochet
?
...that
alphabet books were one of the earliest forms of American literature
?

...that Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?

06:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Canadian province of Ontario has had quality grades for cultivated Christmas trees
(tree farm pictured) mandated by law since 1965?

...that Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?

...that the merged Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
?

...that Deganga, in West Bengal, where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?

...that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?

...that the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians, lasted for three days and ended in a draw?

...that waking dreams as a form of psychotherapy
?

...that the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases?

...that Samuel Rivera, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?

10 September 2007

22:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct (pictured) nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?

...that Filipino descent in the United States
?

...that
Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea
, except for part of its southern wall?

...that the proposed
cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics
?

...that retired
First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat
?

...that the
1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show
?

14:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Valois Tapestries (pictured), recording festivities at the court of Charles IX of France, include portraits of many members of the House of Valois–but none of the King?

...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?

...that Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore?

...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?

...that world records in athletics
?

03:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Australian World War I general Sir Charles Rosenthal (pictured) was the model for a character in one of D. H. Lawrence's novels?

...that judge
Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals
by a Democratic President?

...that the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?

...that
college degree
?

...that during an emergency,
C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System
and used to help fight forest fires?

...that during the
Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway, challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat
?

9 September 2007

17:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

...that in the early 1940s, C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland
?

...that reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
?

...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?

...that the disastrous defeat of
Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav
?

...that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
...that foedus
) between a believer and God?

10:42, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

...that timber
on the estate?

...that the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program?

...that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle?

...that the
Mont St. Quentin
was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?

...that the
Childe Harold Wills
?

...that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?

...that pirate
raid in 1258?

...that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?

...that unlike most
rivers
?

8 September 2007

22:50, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle (pictured) was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria
harbour?

...that Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General, the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?

...that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?

...that while the
Polish-Ukrainian War
?

...that zaojing
, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?

10:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that clinical psychologist
?

...that there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?

...that, at the age of 21, Henry III's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France, with the exception of the Capetians?

...that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?

...that westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads?

...that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?

...that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?

...that the German Communist Martin Hoop, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?

02:44, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand (pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?

...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?

...that
helium balloon
?

...that stained glass in Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard
?

...that the cruise liner
, killing two crewmembers?
...that the real objective of the 1732 Polish throne, was to create a rift between France
and Prussia?

7 September 2007

16:07, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Punggol New Town
(pictured), after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?

...that Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717
?

...that James Dahlman, Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?

...that Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars?

...that
Monomotapa
in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?

...that
Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek
franchise?

...that several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?

08:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole was discovered at the David Dunlap Observatory (pictured) outside Toronto?

...that the
Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university
in defiance of Nazi edicts?

...that in
Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all-Japanese
stranglehold?

...that
Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada
?

...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?

...that
German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska
?

...that the
Manor House
?

...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?

6 September 2007

21:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the Permanent North American Gaeltacht (pictured) is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?

...that former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?

...that
Dancing with the Stars
, admits that he cannot dance?

...that Estonian National Awakening
?

...that as part of
Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted
water potable?

...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England?

...that Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans?

14:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

...that
aiguillettes (pictured) are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats
?

...that Father Nightingale
"?
...that the short-lived syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom
?

...that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?

...that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?

...that photographer abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock
at work in his studio in 1950?

...that Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband?

5 September 2007

22:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the
SEM
image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?

...that the
Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee
crops worldwide?

...that the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?

...that aeronautics engineer
M200G Volantor, a flying saucer
-style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?

...that the Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society
?

...that Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend?

...that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Member of Parliament
to send the interloper to jail?

...that the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency?

...that the first
HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor
and stove in her hull whilst underway?

09:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the
Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun
who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?

...that Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?

...that Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt?

...that inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center
?

...that
British Fourth Army, General Henry Rawlinson, considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war
?

...that although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?

...that the sixteen
eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized
?

4 September 2007

21:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the City Hall
(both pictured)?

...that fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?

...that Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly
?

...that Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?

...that the gulf sturgeon, a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, fasts for eight to nine months each year?

...that the
chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế, Vietnam
in 1963?

...that Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin
?

...that the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison?

...that the
Bank of the Holy Spirit, founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank
in Europe?

14:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were meant to create an impression that the deceased is taking part in the funeral
?

...that during
Shepton Mallet, the oldest operating prison in Britain, was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book
?

...that Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky?

...that the
Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae
?

...that the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford, was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?

...that the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI, during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?

3 September 2007

20:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the cityscapes of water-colorist Floris Arntzenius (self-portrait pictured) were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet asphalt?

...that in 1995-1997 a
history of emerging infectious diseases
?

...that in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?

...that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?

...that the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade?

12:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the MWe in 2005, enough electricity
to supply 2 million average U.S. households?

...that
Florence Baptistry
because he thought it implied John had died as pope?

...that ECGs
in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
...that despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?

...that many of the
Western classical music
?

...that the small population of
Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes
?

00:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

...that the main building of the Krzyżtopór Castle (pictured), a Baroque structure in Poland, has been a ruin since the Swedish Deluge?

...that over 70,000
Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
?

...that in 1847, the
communist
ideals?

...that the deadliest natural fire in United States history
?

...that the first Ludlow massacre
?
...that the siege of Malta, is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta
in June 1940?

2 September 2007

17:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

...that national monument
?

...that the pieces of dougong, an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?

...that
Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory
?

...that the participants of the
programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill
site for three weeks?

...that
romance novelist Nancy Warren wrote real-life NASCAR driver Carl Edwards
into two of her novels?

...that
rue are all members of the family Rutaceae
?

...that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing?

...that Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand
?

...that the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto's electric lighting was interfering with observations?

01:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Count Henry Russell held receptions for princes and notables in a cave on the peak of Vignemale (pictured) in the Pyrenees?

...that WikiPilipinas is the first online encyclopedia based in the Philippines?

...that
ConAgra Foods
?

...that the apparent disparagement of
B.J. Habibie
has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?

...that four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?

...that CMA Music Festival
?

...that though the
Bhadra originate at Gangamoola
, they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?

...that controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning?

...that the Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo
in the eleventh century?

1 September 2007

13:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

...that in 1949, the Swedish dentist Alice Timander (pictured) was considered for expulsion from the Swedish Dental Association after she appeared publicly in a bikini?

...that Manchester accent
until the police arrived?

...that at the time of
Um ar-Rehan, now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone
, held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?

...that Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word "Kurdistan" in it?

...that zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize?

...that in
Estonian ID card
project?

...that
mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini
, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?

...that Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II?

...that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?

02:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

...that Clarence Herbert Smith (pictured), who invented the stump-jump plough under the direction of his brother, later produced the machine for sale because the patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?

...that Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House
at only 19 years of age?

...that
North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin, but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene
?

...that the
grand larceny because the penitentiary
was not equipped to accommodate women?

...that Hasan Saltık, called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?

...that National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin's interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair?

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