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Did you know...

31 August 2008

19:27, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen (pictured) is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage
"?

... that Los Angeles
?

... that Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?

... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?

... that the
Sundjata
?

... that the novel The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association?

... that Aijalon
?

... that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?

... that African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly
?

14:03, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros (pictured) has led the J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?

... that Flying Finns, was the first man to run 10,000 metres
in under half an hour?

... that the
18th Earl opened a public safari park
in the 20th century?

... that puck
?
... that the
Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre
?

... that, after succeeding Lai Tian,
Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi
built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?

... that the quoins in the Greek Revival style
?

... that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?

... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?

08:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

... that film director and griot Dani Kouyaté (pictured) is the son of one of the first Burkinabé actors, Sotigui Kouyaté?

... that while in service as a troop transport after World War I, SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre, one of which was a homing pigeon?

... that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name?

... that the
2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection
?

... that ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre
?

... that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States?

... that Norwegian Minister of Justice
on four non-consecutive occasions between 1870 and 1879?

... that the Conflict of the Orders which supposedly occurred in the ancient Roman Republic may not have actually happened?

... that Darrin Winston still holds the baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?

... that
British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street
?

02:58, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

... that in Hindu mythology, the demoness Putana (pictured, centre) tried to kill the infant-god Krishna by breastfeeding him poisoned milk?

... that in addition to composing
Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat
?

... that the
Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War
?

... that Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother
?

... that
Los Angeles
?

... that Australian politician
John Hargrave all served in the New South Wales Legislative Council
?

... that an Estonian feature film set the absolute box office record in the history of the Soviet Union?

... that National League Eastern Division
title?

... that the Polish hussars
?

... that after suffering a
Attorney General
in 1863?

30 August 2008

20:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Ryūkyū Kingdom who abdicated when the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan
in 1879?

... that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer?

... that British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery
?

... that some
cypress trees in Louisiana's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto
's explorations of the area?

... that
On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover, a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was described as a treatise of "sociology, psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica
"?

... that following
future Olympic Games
?

... that the
Liberation of Europe
?

... that the Francis David Millet, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle
?

11:35, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1864 Banning House (pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west"?

... that former Olympic champion 2008 Olympics
?

... that people with
Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral
?

... that four
A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button
in 1997?

... that more than 95 percent of the Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina
?

... that despite leaving the
South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats, Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament
?

... that Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?

... that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije?

05:29, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

... that in the
love charm
because of jealousy?

... that Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?

... that 2008 Olympic
All-star team
?

... that Maoist rebels and Nepali government forces engaged in four attacks in Sandhikharka between 2002 and 2005?

... that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch?

... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?

... that
Madhouse
?

... that the position of the
President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence
?

... that the young
Seattle's elegant Butler Hotel
, but was told he needed more experience?

... that
Tang Dynasty generals Li Zhengji, Li Baochen and Tian Chengsi
all ruled Chinese territories effectively independent of the imperial government?

00:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory
(pictured) on school grounds?

... that
Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards
?

... that Ni liv, later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema
?

... that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?

... that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?

... that according to the
semiarid climate
"?

... that trombonist from the Mississippi River delta
country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?

... that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band?

... that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?

29 August 2008

18:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Bhutanatha temples (pictured) in India
have a pillared hall extending into a lake?

... that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston, claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution?

... that the
Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Otsu version) was the first diesel-powered tank to be mass-produced
?

... that
Smallville, believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman
mythology helps his performance?

... that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?

... that a
Philippine beer
market?

... that Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?

... that in 1979, Chicago White Sox pitcher Ron Schueler retired mid-season to replace his own pitching coach who had died earlier that season?

... that the
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
?

... that Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion
?

11:39, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the widely consumed
porcini mushroom is often confused with the fungus Boletus pinophilus
(pictured)?

... that a shattered
pagans to Christianity
?

... that most strong
Hebert boxes
on their way to landfall?

... that Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Hall cites J. R. R. Tolkien as a key influence and re-reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy every year?

... that the
Chinese government revoked the manufacturer's license for diet pill Slim 10 after it was linked to several liver failures
and deaths?

... that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Francis Charles Lawley's attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?

... that the
Los Angeles
?

... that Jack DiLauro's 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?

... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?

... that the
aboriginal Copper Inuit were highly regarded in the Bering Strait
trade network?

... that actor Roger Moore likened his starring role in the 1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?

04:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse (pictured) was built after a grand jury indicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and deeds in the previous courthouse?

... that Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country
?

... that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/s, enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US?

... that the 19th-century fad of footmen by the British aristocracy
?

... that the neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee surrounding the former site of the Baron Hirsch Synagogue, the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in the United States, has become a historic district?

... that Voltaire's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans, was banned in most of Europe?

... that
Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods
?

... that the
Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester
, in the 19th Century?

... that for the
Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism
?

... that the scandals involving the British
Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada
?

28 August 2008

23:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Rome
"?

... that points, and assists in the same season
?

... that patients practice operation in order to prevent pulmonary
aspiration of stomach contents?

... that the talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana
?

... that the
2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water
?

... that Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges
?

... the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables?

... that
involved 94 celebrities
in a 24-year span?

... that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?

... that yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
?

... that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable?

15:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

... that prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars
?

... that
Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California
?

... that Macarena
"?
... that Charles Mears was known as the "Christopher Columbus of the West Coast"?

... that the
prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial
?

... that in the
famines
and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?

... that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

... that third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola
distributors?

... that Bill Ricker, one of the founders of fisheries science, developed the Ricker model, which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery?

10:41, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Great Mosque of Gaza

... that the Great Mosque of Gaza (pictured), completed by the Mamluks in 1344, is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip?

... that Project CHLOE, a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles, was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24?

... that the tower of Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government
?

... that
Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language
?

... that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California, but the company only completed portions at each end?

... that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"—rudimentary flamethrowers—against the defending Parliamentarians?

... that Alfred Merle Norman, whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in London, was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?

... that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia, Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?

... that the U.S. flag, thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States
?

04:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Varanus albigularis (pictured), a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa
, may be able to count as high as six?

... that
Dusty Rhodes
, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?

... that the
papal election, 1280–1281
?

... that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer-to-be Tom Seaver, as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?

... that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes?

... that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?

... that after being declared defeated, St. Louis, Missouri
?

... that 22-year-old
Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten
?

... that Czechoslovakian
director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that at the
Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games
?

00:14, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

... that nearly 10% of dog attacks in the United States were caused by canines trained to be attack dogs (pictured)?

... that in 2006 the
WCAU-TV
?

... that The Football League
?

... that
Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit
?

... that
Gold Hill
?

... that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia, he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics, is of Jamaican origin?

... that the Trent-Severn Waterway
?

... that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa?

... that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II?

27 August 2008

17:09, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Oxford
in 1811 while accompanying the young prince there?

... that 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup
?
... that when the
Memories Off was released for the PlayStation Portable, it shared its opening theme song with the visual novel Memories Off 2nd
for the same system?

... that although Gretna, Scotland in association football, it has never played there, instead playing its home games eight miles away in Annan
?

... that the namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?

... that 1994's Hurricane Gilma is the most intense Pacific hurricane to occur in July?

... that the lyrics of royal anthem of Denmark, first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald
?

11:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Oldham by-election
of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?

... that the Amethyst Initiative, signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?

... that the underground
occupation of Poland
?

... that Nollaig Ó Gadhra's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language?

... that The Gift, the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian, was initially poorly received and partially rejected?

... that Hermitage Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?

... that impotence and premature ejaculation
?

... that a phrase from poet medallion
?

05:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bulgarian village of Petrevene (pictured) celebrates "Watermelon Day" every August?

... that the
bulletproof for the Japanese military deployed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq
?

... that Redruth railway station was only moved to its present site when a viaduct was built 61 feet (19 m) above the streets of the town?

... that seeding trials are a marketing technique, conducted in the name of research, designed to create loyalty and advocacy towards a brand?

... that vegetarian
diet?

... that the
grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King
?

... that former
Kid Durbin, who was a baker at a restaurant after his career, died only one day after his 57th birthday due to coronary thrombosis
?

... that
General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan
?

... that salsa
?

26 August 2008

23:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

... that water body
until 1994?

... that the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum had to auction off the world's largest mastodon skull to pay a defamation judgement after the curator made disparaging Internet comments about former partners?

... that Gabon's national park system takes up ten percent of its land area?

... that obstetrician elected to the New Jersey Senate, was eulogized by The New York Times as the "principal architect" of legislation bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City
?

... that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?

... that Attorney General of Angola
?

... that although routine
annual medical examinations are popular with the public, there is limited evidence of their effectiveness
and they are considered inadvisable by some health organisations?

... that non-government organization headed by president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev
?

... that Kay Cannon, a writer for 30 Rock, appeared in an episode of the series "Episode 209", as a Human Table?

16:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

... that early in
Japanese
warship?

... that while Imperial Rome
?

... that after their success with the
William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad
?

... that the Supreme Court of Christmas Island once said the islanders live in a "legal twilight" because ancient Singaporean law applies to an Australian island?

... that steel guitarist John Hughey was known for the "crying sound" of his playing, which relied heavily on the instrument's upper range?

... that the
Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester
in 1894?

... that Allen Bares, a former member of the Louisiana State Legislature, was awarded the Medal of Merit by France for promotion of the French language?

11:21, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Harlan Kredit

... that Harlan Kredit (pictured) was the first teacher from the U.S. state of Washington to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame?

... that according to
funeral rituals
ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?

... that
World War Two
?

... that mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics?

... that the 12-story Lincoln Tower is the tallest building in Washington County, Oregon?

... that the Oslo City Council bought the city's two private street tram companies in 1924, and merged them into what would become Oslo Sporveier?

... that the steam tugboat William C Daldy is credited with saving the partially constructed Auckland Harbour Bridge during a 1958 storm?

... that while Bruce Springsteen's song "One Step Up" is about a relationship breaking up, the backing vocal was sung by his future wife Patti Scialfa?

05:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

... that perennial plant listed by the Federal Highway Administration for roadside landscaping in Colorado
?

... that
Anglo-Irish baronet Sir Thomas Chapman lived part of his life under the name of Thomas Lawrence and was the father of Lawrence of Arabia
?

... that the 2000-seater
Hyderabad's Lumbini Park is the first of its kind in India
?

... that Steve Grilli is credited as the losing pitcher in the longest professional baseball game after he gave up a run in the thirty-third inning?

... that a type of gladiators in Ancient Rome in a parody of fishing
?

... that Uncle Tupelo's 1990 album No Depression is so associated with alternative country that its title is sometimes used as a synonym for the genre?

... that
Prince Carl of Denmark landed at Vippetangen when he arrived in Norway
to assume the throne in 1905?

... that film producer Shauna Robertson became an assistant to filmmaker Mike Binder after meeting him at the summer camp memorialized in his 1993 film Indian Summer?

25 August 2008

20:35, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the battleship Illinois (pictured), exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, was actually a full scale, detailed replica made of brick and cement?

... that
executed 516 people between 1796 and 1865 on behalf of the Papal States
?

... that the New Paltz, New York
, is the last 18th-century stone house in the area still owned by the same family that built it?
... that Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work?

... that borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump
as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?

... that mycologists as edible, inedible and even poisonous
?

... that the North Baltimore Aquatic Club has produced seven Olympians, including Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff?

... that Sandra Stevens and Nicky Stevens have been with the British pop group Brotherhood of Man since 1973?

... that in the 30 Rock episode "Fireworks", series writers Kay Cannon and Dave Finkel briefly appeared as a married couple?

12:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Obelisk of Theodosius (pictured), installed in Istanbul since 390, was originally erected in Egypt by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC?

... that W. Otto Miessner founded the first public high school band in the United States in Connersville, Indiana?

... that Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?

... that in the
papal election, 1198 the new pope was elected per scrutinium
for the first time?

... that "Comedy Night Done Right
"?

... that after
minor leagues
before returning to the majors?
... that Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei established Scandinavia's first electric tramway in 1894?

... that New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley was a key force behind the creation of the Garden State Parkway, derided by North Jersey legislators as "Farley's Folly"?

06:14, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Meller's Chameleon (pictured) catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue
?

... that Charlie Gardiner is the only goaltender to captain his team to a Stanley Cup victory?

... that in 1935, socialist history documents by Nazi Germany
?

... that during the unusually long 15-day
track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained tropical
or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?

... that the
tides at Kachemak Bay, Alaska
have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?

... that
Brazilian traditional remedies
?

... that
pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America
?

... that Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory?

24 August 2008

19:19, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Clara Fisher (pictured) began her 72 year acting career at the age of six?

... that Guy de Bourgogne was violently disrobed by members of his militia upon his election as
papal election of 1119
?

... that the
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage include five songs by English rock music group No Connection
?

... that reality programme about managing Gaelic football clubs
?

... that one of the African American
woman?
... that to combat China are currently building security barriers at their borders with Bangladesh and North Korea
respectively?

... that
Kasivisvesvara Temple in Lakkundi, Karnataka
faces west?

11:18, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

... that stencils known as Empègue (pictured) were placed by youths on houses in Beauvoisin, France in August 2000?

... that the rare 2 mutations
?

... that the
Russian Tax Code was hastened into legislation in 1998 due to a growing financial crisis
?

... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?

... that the silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history?

... that in 1965 NFL
?

... that Weimar Germany
, caused two of his two lovers, each a German noble woman, to be executed by the axe?

... that the
Convoy ON-67 in 1942 had one working radar between them, lacked sufficient binoculars
and had never operated together before?

03:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

the state insect
?

... that tax rates in Switzerland are set by voters through instruments of direct democracy?

... that newspaper writer Constance Drexel gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of Philadelphia's Drexel family?

... that the Anglo-Zanzibar War, considered the shortest war in history, lasted around forty minutes?

... that New York State Route 192 and its suffixed route, 192A, were two of only three decommissioned routes in Franklin County's section of Adirondack Park?

... that the Israeli mafia have extended their activities to foreign countries like the United States, South Africa, and the Netherlands?

... that clothesline
?

... that England's Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday?

23 August 2008

19:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the 430-foot-tall (131 m) Kyoto Tower (pictured) is the tallest man-made structure in the city of Kyoto, Japan?

... that Temple Beth Israel of Niagara Falls, New York was subject to repeated attacks leading to a federal investigation?

... that mazzatello—a method of execution employed in the Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a mallet into the head of the condemned?

... that Filipino people in the United States, the Philippines and around the world
?

... that the wild mushroom
Lactarius piperatus, which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts
?

... that the
Archdiocese of New York fought unsuccessfully to have the National Museum of Catholic Art and History
remove the word "Catholic" from its name?

... that some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle?

13:02, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Joseph H. Rainey House (pictured), was the Georgetown, South Carolina home of the first black United States Congressman, a former slave?

... that the New Voices Campaign of
PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public policy
?

... that a
Antillean Piculet has been found in 25 million year old amber
?

... that a
insurance fraud scheme, and that the event was adapted as part of the novel Story of My Life
?

... that
Robert Park acted simultaneously as a professor, a college football coach, and a minister
?

... that the sinking of the year-old
raw sugar
in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?

... that The Brunts School
?

... that Da Vinci had painted two Mona Lisas, one of which was in a bank vault in New Jersey
?

06:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Kristiania Sporveisselskab (pictured) established the first tramway in Oslo, Norway, in 1875?

... that the 6th century Mahakuta group of temples in Karnataka, India, exhibit pan-Indian architectural forms?

... that the discovery of 189
molluscs, annelids and brachiopods
?

... that
Operation Strikeback had the first use of single-sideband voice communications for tactical operations by the U.S. Navy
?

... that there are Connecticut River Valley
?
... that the 1298 collapse of the Gran Tavola papal depository bank devastated the economy of Siena for decades?

... that Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?

... that
cardinals
?

... that NCAA Championships in their respective Division I Lacrosse
careers?

... that Tiptree Windmill
has walls that are 4 feet (1.22 m) thick?

... that a laboratory accident by S. Donald Stookey led to the invention of CorningWare?

22 August 2008

22:32, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Scout hut
?

... that photorejuvenation has been successfully used to improve the appearance of rosacea and reduce the redness associated with it?

... that Ratsimilaho established the Betsimisaraka who make up 15% of Madagascar's population?

... that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?

... that the
box huckleberry, but another stand nearby is the oldest plant in the United States
?

... that the Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon, was renamed as the Town Theater in 1956 only to be renamed again as the Venetian in 2008?

... that the Duty to God Award gets its name from passage Alma 7:22 in the Book of Mormon?

... that
fashion designer Tory Burch, who has dated numerous celebrities and socialites, has a mother who dated Steve McQueen and a father who dated Grace Kelly
?

... that the 1964
70mm Todd-AO widescreen process exclusively at the Billy Graham Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair
?

14:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

... that an Spårakoff (pictured) in honour of the 175th anniversary of the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff
?

... that psychiatric illness such as depression may mimic dementia
?

... that the winners of Oxford's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson?

... that in 1937, public office in the United States
?

... that a flower robot mimics the appearance of a common flower and contains simple sensing and home appliance functionalities, thus making it a service robot?

... that Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square
?

... that urban survival syndrome can be seen as a version of the battered woman syndrome?

... that
Mohammed IV drowned in the Agdal Gardens near Marrakesh
in 1873 when his steam launch capsized in the Sahraj el-Hana (Tank of Health)?

07:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

... that SS Dakotan (pictured), a 1910 American cargo ship, was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II and continued sailing into the 1960s?

... that adherents of the physical evidence for Old Testament
events?

... that
poem A Fable for Critics
(1848) made fun of many poets of the day, including himself?

... that the book Passionate Minds is a novel about Voltaire and his mistress Émilie du Châtelet?

... that American physician drug addicts
. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"

... that Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus is being released for the 15th anniversary of the original manga, Dengeki Bunko?

... that one member of the Dughlats, Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, conquered lands belonging to other members of the Dughlat clan?

... that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials?

... that Perth after an argument with his The Black Balloon
co-writer?

21 August 2008

22:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

... that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was challenged, he showed that to understand a text of Pindar he had to know how Mount Etna (pictured) had appeared to a passing sailor?

... that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Nazi
?

... that Willie Mitchell won the Michigan High School basketball championship in 1992 and 1993, but lost to his future Wolverines teammate Robert Traylor in 1994?

... that
Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian
?

... that following eloping
with the player?

... that
plums
?

17:03, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Rufous Songlark (pictured) is an Australian songbird that sometimes ends up as roadkill
?

...that
Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament
?

... that the
Aumond, Quebec, built in 1862, also provided electricity
and remained in operation until 1989?

... that
Tropical Storm Andrew, which caused 50 deaths, was the deadliest storm of the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season
?

... that Elizabeth II's coronation
?

... that
White Mountains
?

... that
Degrassi franchise, had to cancel an appearance in the Next Generation pilot, "Mother and Child Reunion
"?

10:39, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

... that adventurer
crashed into Pinetos Peak, but his wife Osa continued their lecture tour in a wheelchair
despite neck and back injuries?

... that ethnic Dayaks in Borneo resorted to the ancient practice of headhunting to chase away migrant Madurese during the Sampit conflict in 2001?

... that radio broadcasts
?

... that during the Cleveland, Ohio were actually filmed in Battery Park City in Manhattan
?

... that Charles T. Barney, president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, committed suicide after the collapse of his company sparked the Panic of 1907?

... that the
People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games, but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer
?

03:15, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

... that in addition to
Life (1787), Essay (1792), and Thraliana
?

... that the election of
papal conclave, 1378 precipitated the Western Schism
?

... that
E.E. Cummings was inspired to write Santa Claus: A Morality
after reuniting with his daughter, Nancy?

... that
21 April 1967 coup in Greece, after his conviction at the Greek junta trials, enjoyed amenities such as a pond with 21 goldfish while imprisoned
?

... that 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War, which suffered nearly fifty percent casualties at the Battle of the Crater
?

... that Braşov, Transylvania
?

... that
Stewart Sapphire set into the Imperial State Crown in 1838
?

... that the cape of Inamuragasaki was so named for its similarity in shape to a stack of rice at harvest time?

... that in 1895, the
North Star Mine Powerhouse's Pelton wheel
was the largest in the world?

20 August 2008

18:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Robert Johnson, was fundamental to the development of the blues
?

...that Edwin Thumboo's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "Merlion poem"?

... that, on opening night of Samuel Johnson's Irene, audiences cried "Murder!" after seeing the main character strangled on stage?

... that while in Venezuela for the Winter Leagues current Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Gary Glover was robbed at gunpoint?

... that SS Pennsylvanian, an American cargo ship, was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the Panama Canal after it opened in August 1914?

... that Eastbourne Borough is the fifth football club for which Jean-Michel Sigere and Simon Wormull have played together?

... that the population of Brasilia
?

... that New Zealand politician John Key once promised Grey Power, a lobbyist group for people over 50, that he would resign if he ever lowered the superannuation?

12:11, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Inuit diet
?

... that Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, Preston Ware Orem, Thurlow Lieurance, and Carl Busch were among the American composers associated with the Indianist movement?

... that although Paul Gondjout founded the Gabonese Democratic Bloc, Léon M'ba soon overthrew him?

... that the Neotropics have slits in their eyelids so that they can watch for danger without opening their large conspicuous eyes
?

... that
Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1992, was President of the Max Planck Society
from 1996 to 2002?

... that the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
?

... that Alberto Bimboni and Charles Sanford Skilton received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award for American opera for their operas on American Indian subjects?

... that medieval art from Quedlinburg
was discovered in a mineshaft, and stolen by a soldier who had taken art appreciation classes?

05:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

... that unlike other
other birds' nests
?

... that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games?

... that the
1,950 games in 98 seasons
and holds the record for consecutive 20-win seasons, with 31 seasons from 1970 through 2001?

... that
Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg
?

... that native only to New Zealand
?

... that the roller ship was a steamship, raised above the water like a hydrofoil and moving on several large wheels?

... that the pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea
?

... that rising 600 feet above the surrounding plains, prominent
point for 159 miles?
... that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union, Cordtz fired him for insubordination?

... that Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?

... that a antelopes
?

19 August 2008

19:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Scheduled Ancient Monument
?

... that the
Russian flag
?

... that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?

... that
Second World War fighter pilot
?

... that the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike
?
... that when the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia
?

... that the 1998 film My Way
"?
... that in the
Jamnapari goats in India
?

... that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?

... that
summit of Mount Everest in 2003
?

12:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

... that due to disappointing previous tests, the third prototype of Avro 533 Manchester plane (example pictured) was never fitted with engines?

... that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai?

... that digital homes
?

... that classical music
?

... that in 1787–1788, St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris
?

... that
Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school
?

... that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?

... that Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut has been owned and run by seven generations of the same family since 1807?

... that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing "Jack in the Box" at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest?

06:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Spanish AMX-30E (pictured) underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the tank's mobility, firepower and accuracy?

... that Roger Connor, whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds?

... that Episcopal Church
in 1985?

... that, on the day he broke Mark Spitz' 10-year world record in the 100 meters butterfly, Joe Bottom overslept and missed his pre-race warmup swim?

... that in building embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River
?

... that the
colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic
?

... that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation?

... that the
Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered
aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?

18 August 2008

23:15, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
oil-on-canvas that pokes fun at the fashion of the upper class
?

... that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos?

... that public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts
?

... that stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare
's plays?

... that
Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin
's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?

... that the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?

... that as a
Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States
?

16:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Catholic priest from Gabon
?

... that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale, live in Neston Park, an English country house in Wiltshire?

... that proposals in the
2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops
?

... that the
Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine
"?

... that British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?

... that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?

... that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?

10:08, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Carl Rungius (pictured) was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America?

... that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis, Saba and Dominica?

... after being
High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted
?

... that peaceful demonstration
?
... that in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?

... that the American football team the Cardinals has had 36 head coaches?

... that due to the
American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports
increase by a factor of 29.6?

... that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees, flies, Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger?

... that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?

03:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

... that a lantern in the steeple of
St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (pictured) was the rear lamp of the Fort Sumter Range Lights
?

... that Spanish conquest of Peru
and wrote an account of it?
... that according to Pliny the Elder, Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?

... that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?

... that the Moorish Revival
makeover?

... that taxis in Brunei have license plates with white letters on a green background to distinguish them from private vehicles?

... that the FC Büsingen, a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?

17 August 2008

15:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Passer Angelfish (pictured) undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from juvenile to sexually mature
, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?

... that
electrical engineer
?

... that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union?

... that the Barcol hardness test was developed during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps to check that airplane rivets had not been sabotaged?

... that the theater, residence, cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel
?

... that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?

... that delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?

... that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania, William Yardley, moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of shoes?

07:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the yellow flesh of the edible mushroom Russula aurea (pictured) distinguishes it from the peppery-tasting and inedible sickener?

... that Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
?

... that the
Melaka Zoo is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia
?

... that the sudden collapse of the American history
?

... that young people are more literate in Hakha Chin
than their elder counterparts?
... that in 1922, the
Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder
?

... that the
Least Killifish is the smallest fish found in North America
?

... that Steve Brye, in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball, led the Minnesota Twins in doubles?

16 August 2008

23:57, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains (example, Siniolchu, pictured) were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe"?

... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?

... that
Nazis during World War II
?

... that after two previous buildings
flammable
material?

... that female
Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals
?

... that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress?

... that
sitcom, Fawlty Towers
?

... that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington
?

... that Indigenous
Team of the Century"?

17:49, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

... that according to local tradition, on
burial chamber (pictured) in Wales
spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river?

... that during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council?

... that the temperate regions of Europe and North America
?

... that the New Orleans-based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?

... that Cat and Mouse Act
, sometimes helping them to flee abroad?

... that the last
general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma
?

... that the scientific name of Longnose trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys) means "golden eyebrow"?

... that an episode of 30 Rock, "Jack the Writer", contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?

11:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

... that South American llama and alpaca
show?

... that the boiler was the only part of the British steam locomotive 60163 Tornado that could not be made in Britain, and was instead built by the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works in Germany?

... that Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon?
... that New York Times
?

... that
unlike Jesus, the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange
?

... that the "Howell Code", the
legal code enacted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature, was named after Judge William T. Howell
?

... that the cartoon depiction of British model British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy
in 1944?

... that the cage
?

03:24, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

... that stick insect
that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?

... that National Cleavage Day was started in South Africa in 2002?

... that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?

... that Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age?

... that eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?

... that although the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon
?

... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho
died in 1952?

... that the
Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed
in 1912?

... that on
Milwaukee Brewers
, only to return to his original major league team a month later?

... that the
Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov
?

15 August 2008

17:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
white kimchi, Shiitake mushrooms, and rice cakes made with mung beans are elements of Korean temple cuisine
(pictured)?

... that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II?

... that the natural
montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela
?

... that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York?

... that enemies of
priest
?

... that the 10th 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania
?

... that ornithischian dinosaur
?

... that after the First National Bank of Brewster, New York, closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?

... that only one of the cardinal electors in the
papal conclave, 1304–1305, which elected Pope Clement V, who began the Avignon Papacy, was French
?

... that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?

10:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

... that all four remaining species of
island raccoons (examples pictured), found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered
?

... that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson's greatest poem?

... that in 1899, Bill Lange, a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?

... that the protracted
papal conclave, 1314–1316, the first of the Avignon Papacy, was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs
in succession?

... that
a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina
in 1865?

... that the name of
Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River
which disappears underground?

... that ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?

... that
blues piano
?

04:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

... that though the
ivy
?

... that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America?

... that
George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii
?

... that
seized his country's power to prevent Jean Izamo
from doing the same?

... that Kristiania and Aker, Norway
?

... that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state?

... that
Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia
?

... that on July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining?

... that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States?

14 August 2008

22:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

... that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Brewster, New York, had to be rebuilt months after it was finished due to a fire?

... that John Dorewood was Speaker of the House of Commons for the first parliaments of both Henry IV and Henry V of England?

... that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed, stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?

... that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies?

... that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando?

... that
Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus, reinterpretations of an ancient Andean
device?

... that over 96% voted in a
referendum in Latvia for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to initiate a referendum to dissolve parliament
?

... that Larry Gowell′s baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame was his first and only major league hit?

15:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

... that WRNY began television broadcasting in August 1928 to thousands of New York City viewers with home made television sets (pictured)?

... that the developers of the video game Chocolatier took the guided tour of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker's factory to see how chocolate is made?

... that The Johnson Gang are believed to have committed the largest ever domestic burglary in the United Kingdom worth tens of millions of pounds?

... that Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly?

... that
Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt
?

... that runs batted in for the 1925 World Series winner Pittsburgh Pirates
?

... that Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt?

... that Southern Pacific Company
?

... that
quasi-monopolised the world market on fresh pineapples
?

09:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Medical Doctorate in Canada
?

... that the Minnesota Twins franchise has had four managers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?

... that coup d'etat
in 1999?

... that the Berlin Circle in New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?

... that
British Prime Minister Tony Blair
?

... that the
September 11, 2001
?

... that
first lady of the Confederate States of America
?

... that Iraq war
?
... that "satirical college fight song written by a mathematician
?

03:21, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Turin-Milan Hours
(pictured) is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections?

... that Reed Memorial Library is the oldest library building in Putnam County, New York?

... that the shareholding
?

... that 36
Atlantic hurricane season
?

... that Archie McCardell, the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester, later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?

... that it took over 50 years to the next one
kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?

... that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO's Entourage?

... that the Brühl, a single street in Leipzig, accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?

... that the Independence Hall
?

13 August 2008

20:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

... that slave from Saint-Domingue, became a member of the National Convention of France, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to abolish slavery
?

... that the Endicott Pear Tree, located in Danvers, Massachusetts, is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America?

... that the
Protestant views of the role of death
in the later 18th century?

... that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?

... that Max von Stephanitz, creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde?

... that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole?

... that in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?

14:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

... that "
David C. Nevins, Jr. (pictured), was used to make sails and tents in the tropics
?

... that the SC Jülich 1910, record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship, was the feature of a German television documentary?

... that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California?

... that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar?

... that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?

... that the ft (6 m
) taller than the width of the street they face?

... that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul, Turkey?

04:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

... that legend says a
Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains
?

... that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln, New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour, as its governor?

... that Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
, was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?

... that
Union army
?

... that in
Memorial Stadium
?

... that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey, combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?

... that the Roanoke City Market in Commonwealth of Virginia
?

... that Kenny Chesney's 2008 single "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" was initially recorded by George Strait, who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour?

12 August 2008

22:02, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Shirakumo class destroyers (example pictured) were amongst the last destroyers purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy
from overseas shipyards?

... that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?

... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the
1964 Gabon coup d'état, Jean-Hilaire Aubame
was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?

... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?

... that performing artists
a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum?

... that Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?

... that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?

15:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1869
anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev (pictured), portrays the revolutionary
as an amoral avenger?

... that Art Stewart, who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame, was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?

... that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America?

... that Michigan's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?

... that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?

... that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery?

... that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?

08:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

... that flushwork (example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in East Anglia?

... that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit?

... that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada's first interurban multi-use trail system?

... that the Lola Cars International, but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas
was their official importer to the United States?

... that the Unlearned Parliament was so called because lawyers were forbidden to attend as Henry IV felt they were "troublesome"?

... that
papal conclave of 1774–1775
?

... that two
Iaşi's, which resembles Trinità dei Monti
?

... that the Virginids meteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?

02:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Mount Garmo in the Pamir Mountains (pictured) has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?

... that
stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts
?

... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?

... that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I, only to be sunk by one in World War II?

... that the niece of the
Catholicos of Armenia
?

... that the LA
's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?

11 August 2008

18:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Randy Orton (pictured) defeated Rob Van Dam at Armageddon (2003) pay-per-view to begin the longest WWE Intercontinental Championship reign in over seven years at the time?

... that the television adaptation of
Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary
?

... that since drafting water, it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure
?

... that in 1929,
US$125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit
?

... that Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry was founded as Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie by King Ludwig III of Bavaria in 1917?

... that
pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries
?

12:27, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the coat
?

... that the CAFE Foundation holds races in which general aviation aircraft compete for performance efficiency?

... that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses?

... that Michigan's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?

... that Jewish ghetto insurgents
?

... that many types of
tilt fuse
, a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?

... that "Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from the Tunnel of Love
album?

06:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

... that for over a century the
county jail
?

... that according to Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza
was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?

... that the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars?

... that when Olympic truce, the Spartan
attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?

... that the
mental institution
?

... that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label?

00:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the novels of Jane Austen (pictured) became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869?

... that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?

... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?

... that
transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I, only to be sunk by the same method during World War II
?

... that a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house?

... that upcoming film Calvin Marshall's producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?

... that academia dedicated to the principle of open access—information sharing for the common good
—traces its history to 1960s or earlier?

... that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, winning twice?

10 August 2008

18:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the orangespotted trevally
(pictured) is believed to be able to switch between silvery grey and orange-yellow colorations?

... that the Carey Mission was a headquarters for settlers and a point from which the American frontier was extended?

... that organized crime
?

... that
feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC
in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?

... that the German Shepherd Dog
club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?

... that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in
Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District
?

... that endemic to Hawaii
?

... that plans to build the
Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident
?

... that Crisler Arena, its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament
?

11:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bateleur (pictured) is the official symbol of Kiang West National Park in The Gambia?

... that the
US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala
?

... that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra?

... that the Olympia oyster
?

... that although theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture
?

... that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial?

... that L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?

... that after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?

05:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

... that due to an
Pagsanjan Falls stamp (pictured), one of a series supposedly showcasing places of interest in the Philippines, actually shows a waterfall in California
?

... that the
competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying
?

... that symphony orchestra
?
... that iOffer, an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?

... that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah, with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi (138 m) long?

... that
botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland, Australia
?

... that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham-Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?

... that, in Norse mythology, Urðarbrunnr is an important well located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil?

9 August 2008

23:50, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the recently discovered smallest
Leptotyphlops carlae (pictured), is thought to be near the evolutionary
limit of how small any snake could be?

... that
US$
10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?

... that the 125th Napier's Rifles of the Indian Army were named after General Napier, who had commanded them at the Battle of Miani in 1843?

... that the Los Angeles
city hall?

... that Cortinarius semisanguineus, whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes?

... that the citizens of Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?

16:53, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1814, Mary Shelley (pictured) eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe?

... that crop
in the state's history?

... that the Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist
?

... that electrical shock
?
... that
The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut
is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?

... that hip hop producers Cool & Dre
?

10:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (tank pictured) was the first American unit to enter Czechoslovakia in 1945?

... that the pink
parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus
?

... that six of the seven candidates in the 1999 Algerian presidential election
withdrew less than 24 hours before the election?

... that the town of
molting and distributing the meat
to the poor?

... that
Swedish musician Hans Wärmling, co-writer of "Strange Little Girl", left The Stranglers while en route to a gig in North London
?

... that despite the company's claims, World Wrestling Entertainment
event?
... that although male
Kashmir Gray Langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide
?

04:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

... that in addition to
Common Brown Lemur (pictured) includes soil and red clay
?

... that
Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy
?

... that in 1938, the Raja of Aundh voluntarily handed over rule of his Indian state to the people in what became known as the Aundh Experiment?

... that American Olympian John Lysak was banned from the gymnasium of the ship that took him to the 1936 Summer Olympics after he destroyed much of its equipment?

... that the Australian vine Hoya australis, a popular garden plant, attracts butterfly species such as the Common Crow?

... that Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school?

8 August 2008

20:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Dutch palace Huis ter Nieuwburg (pictured) in Rijswijk was demolished in 1790 after years of neglect?

... that in 1979, the Tobacco Institute disputed claims by the Surgeon General of the United States about the dangers of smoking?

... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee?

... that the
bombing of Kure
in July 1945?

... that Q-Flex is the world's largest LNG carrier type currently in service?

... that the Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican
rule?

... that satirist Stephen Colbert has a species of spider called Aptostichus stephencolberti named after him?

14:22, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth
(pictured, right)?

... that Norse paganism
?
... that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball?

... that Fulton County Route 112, the continuation of Adirondacks
?

... that the world's largest
Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Sheikha of Qatar
?

... that alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery, Caduceus Cellars, in rural Arizona?

08:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the pored mushroom Gyrodon lividus (pictured) has been found associated with alder trees in such diverse places as California, Latvia, and Japan?

... that William C. Grimes, who served as Acting Governor of Oklahoma Territory for ten days, helped to establish Kingfisher College?

... that the Naha, Okinawa contains the first educational institution in Okinawa, which later became the first public school
in the prefecture?

... that Milwaukee, Wisconsin
?
... that the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967?

... that
John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Gordon Weld helped form the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
?

... that the "most generous man in Liverpool" was John Cropper?

02:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

... that
Ralphs Grocery Store (location pictured), part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by Ansel Adams
?

... that the Passerines
order?
... that during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun?

... that after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery, Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society?

... that
LA's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes
and 200 varieties of roses?

... that German Shepherd Dog
?
... that according to his memoir Justice Clarence Thomas had his credit card cut up by a car rental
clerk?

7 August 2008

20:04, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the egglayers amongst large breeds of duck
?

... that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?

... that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?

... that the neighborhood of Winnipeg, Canada, was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley
use?

... that although the first type of
panemone
, is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?

... that country singer Philip Claypool's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love"?

13:56, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the African Agricultural Union, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny (pictured), received the support of nearly 20,000 plantation workers shortly after it was established?

... that the
personal computer game by the University of Tokyo
's Theoretical Science Group?

... that as of May 2008, the
International Harvester strike of 1979–1980 is the fourth-longest national strike in the history of the UAW and the longest in the history of International Harvester
?

... that the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?

... that the episode of 30 Rock entitled "Sandwich Day" was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode "Tracy Does Conan"?

... that
Ivorian politician Jean Konan Banny invented a non-alcoholic drink he described as "a wine [made] from pineapples
"?

07:49, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

... that one Benedictine authorities of "embezzlement
of the priory's goods" and of living an "evil life"?

... that author
forensic
book?

... that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?

... that residential lots in the US$
100 to US$250?

... that the final twenty minutes of the 1941 documentary film Kukan shows an air attack by Japanese bombers against Chongqing, the World War II capital of China?

... that in the
Rochester Red Wing
player since 1979?

6 August 2008

23:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Robert Nanteuil's engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre (pictured) was described as "the most beautiful engraved portrait that exists"?

... that creation-evolution controversy
?

... that the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the Silesian Uprisings?

... that Grammy award for restoration of a 1949 performance by Woody Guthrie
?

... that
master contracts
in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?

... that the 79th Street Boat Basin, featured in the 1998 film You've Got Mail, is the only marina that allows year-round residency by Manhattan boat owners?

... that Cinimod Studio in London, United Kingdom, designed a virtual sky ceiling for a Snog frozen yogurt outlet with clouds whose speeds and colors depend upon the time of day?

14:04, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Princes Pier (pictured) in Port Melbourne, Australia, suffered fourteen fires from 2001 to 2004?

... that
Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature
?

... that the
Corfu Channel Incident, involving the United Kingdom and Albania, is considered one of the early episodes of the Cold War
?

... that Canada – United States border, is renowned for its smallmouth bass
fishing?

... that Bronze Star
recipient?
... the pranksters behind the Martian Monkey hoax were fined US$40?

... that the
2002 Algerian legislative election was Algeria
's lowest yet since independence in 1962?

... that jockey Ralph Neves, pronounced dead after a fall in 1936, arrived at the racetrack later the same day demanding to ride?

07:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Tower Hill Water Tower (pictured) in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is reputed to be the oldest remaining water tower in England?

... that Daliyat el-Karmel, disappeared on duty near Haifa and was formally declared to be missing in action
in June 2005?

... that the Las Vegas, Nevada
?

... that in 1993, police officer ventriloquist's dummy
on patrol?
... that after a collision with the
Ville du Havre
sank in only 12 minutes, with the loss of 226 lives?
... that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?

... that Governor of New Mexico Territory
from 1866 to 1869?

01:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Sardonyx Cameo of Claudius

... that the earliest written record of Scotland during the Roman Empire is the submission of the King of Orkney to the Emperor Claudius (pictured) at Colchester in the year 43?

... that Haruji Matsue was the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan?

... that the tugboat Tuff-E-Nuff, built in 1895 by Neafie & Levy, was still working commercially in 2007 after 112 years of service?

... that Swazi police told Gabriel Mkhumane's mother that he would come home "wrapped in a black bag" hours before his death was reported?

... that the mushroom fire-milk Lactarius is so named because of its acrid taste?

... that John Harfield Tredgold who helped slaves in the Cape Colony in the 19th century, was also a chemist?

... that a German Shepherd named Rajah was the first police dog in New Zealand?

... that baseball pitcher Marc Wilkins balked on Rob Ryan's first at bat, on the day of Ryan's major league debut, making the Arizona Diamondbacks score one run?

5 August 2008

19:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

... that "eggs" of the foul-smelling, insect-attracting dog stinkhorn (pictured) have been eaten in West Virginia?

... that British athlete Stan Cox was nearly killed after being struck with a javelin while working as a judge for the British Amateur Athletic Association?

... that the Europe First
policy?

... that Cadbury plc
?

... that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby load-bearing points have separate foundations?

... that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka‎ is the largest meantone organ in the world?

... that kicker
?

... that the
Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway
, but does not operate any trains?

13:00, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

... that a subspecies of
Black Lemur (pictured) is the only primate other than humans
to have blue eyes?

... that U.S.
Consul General in Durban, South Africa
?

... that in
side letters
to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?

... that
scuba divers concerned about the deterioration of the Samuel P. Ely shipwreck worked underwater to install reinforcing tie rods that would hold the hull
together?

... that the upright bugle often interbreeds with its more widespread cousin, the common bugle, producing hybrid offspring?

... that at the Convention of 1836, delegates approved the Texas Declaration of Independence with no debate?

... that
Polish Army in the Battle of Kock during World War II
?

... that Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock, his father's Garrison, New York, mansion, to accommodate his family?

06:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument (pictured) outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?

... that liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis?

... that the geologic features located within the karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario
?

... that before earning a
science writer Mary Batten worked as a library clerk at the New York Public Library
?

... that the
console role-playing games
, other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?

... that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?

... that
Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park is the only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the Vietnam War
?

... that former
rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl
?

4 August 2008

21:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

... that 52 ships of the German
scuttled in Scapa Flow (example pictured) in 1919, but many were later salvaged
?

... that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?

... that according to
class divisions
between conquerors and the dominated?

... that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?

... that although the fisheries
?

... that Ronald Ribman's play The Journey of the Fifth Horse, based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev, won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman?

... that many slogans and several mottoes currently used in heraldry originated as war cries or battle cries?

... that the only trio of brothers to appear in a Major League Lacrosse game as members of the same team are Michael, Gregory, and Stephen Peyser of the New Jersey Pride?

15:15, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Highland Park Police Station, where the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (emblem pictured) once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?

... that 1953 British Expedition
?

... that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?

... that the
Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States
until 1983?

... that what is now the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica according to the SWEAT model?

... that a group of Irish publishers tried to print pirated copies of Samuel Richardson′s final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, before the actual first edition was released?

... that the Eagle Scout
project?

... that the Payne-Desha House in Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the ninth governor of Kentucky?

08:41, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the golf course (pictured) around the buildings of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in Garrison, New York helps preserve their historic rural character?

... that future
admirals Samuel Barrington, George Darby, Hugh Palliser, Thomas Pasley, Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse
?

... that the town of New York Times
in 1922?
... that Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original orphanage in California?

... that John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a composer and scrivener that his son John Milton—author of Paradise Lost—never had to work for a living?

... that the Okinawa Prefectural Museum was originally established under the U.S. Occupation in 1946?

... that
maestro di capella at Padua Cathedral
?

... that the Neutra Office Building, once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?

00:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Chios Massacre
?

... that the first Bahá'í Faith
took place in 1961?

... that the British Columbia mountain search and rescue organization North Shore Rescue was originally formed for responding to an urban nuclear attack?

... that although
£5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom, tickets were touted on eBay
for £250?

... that Burr Caswell built his farmhouse in 1849 out of old driftwood and it is now a museum centerpiece?

... that Tropical Storm Kiko, a tropical cyclone of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, caused at least 15 deaths at sea?

... that gay-straight alliance chorus
in the United States?

... that 19 crewmen of the
King George V of the United Kingdom
for rescuing 102 survivors from a burning ship in October 1913?

3 August 2008

14:22, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the original viewports of the pioneering
Ictineo II
(replica pictured) ended up as bathroom windows?

... that Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's moonshine
business?

... that there are 64 varieties of
Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam and some are on the menu
?

... that the Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was the first floating battery to engage in hostilities during the American Civil War?

... that Felix Mendelssohn walked out in disgust in the middle of the 1827 premiere of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho, and cancelled the remaining performances?

... that fair trade laws that made it illegal to sell wines
at a cheaper price than branded competitors?

... that the natural gas pipelines ever built in North America
?

... that
US$306 when he left Buenos Aires
in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?

06:50, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the type of
veterinary school (pictured) can vary widely, ranging from the Bachelor of Science to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
?

... that organisations such as
Tate Gallery, Penguin Books, and Prudential all have collections of Laura Ford's
sculptures?

... that through Muslims
are the largest single religious group to circumcise males?
... that Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol?

... that the
1995 Iraqi presidential election
?

... that "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for Calocybe carnea, a small pink mushroom of grassy areas in Europe and North America?

... that the Congress
to build it?

... that horse drawn carriage
?

2 August 2008

23:37, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

... that weddings
?

... that emergency room in the state of Oregon
?

... that Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?

... that T-shirts which featured Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, which were seen in a 30 Rock episode entitled "Jack Gets in the Game", were made commercially available by NBC?

13:57, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Jane Meutas (pictured) was drawn by Holbein and engraved by Bartolozzi?

... that during production of the film The Natural, Robert Redford was coached by Major League Baseball pitcher Spec Shea on how to pitch in an old-time style?

... that one of the chief motivations for
anarcho-capitalist revolution is the impossibility of implementing anarchy
through peaceful means?

... that Georgia Institute of Technology, was the founder of the European Robotics Research Network
(EURON)?

... that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco, near Ormond Beach, Florida, is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?

... that the Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders mistakenly wore the Royal Stewart tartan until they arrived in England during World War II and were told to stop?

03:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the Giant Dead Leaf Mantis (pictured) falls to the ground and lies motionless when threatened?

... that the trail
?

... that the Swansea and Welsh rugby duo Dick Jones and Dicky Owen were known affectionately as the Dancing Dicks?

... that the forthcoming
Canadian film Smash Cut will feature a cameo appearance by filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis who invented the splatter film genre
?

... that the highlight of cultural festivals of the Philippines
?

... that the faculty of the
College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize
winner?

1 August 2008

21:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

... that Baltimore and Hampton is Thomas Sully
's Lady with a Harp (pictured)?

... that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?

... that common ancestor of all winged insects
?

... that "Blooddrunk", a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?

... that after a gift of
Rush Limbaugh Show, sales at Wicks n' More
increased fivefold?

... that dugout in the 1930s while working as coach of Aberdeen
?

... that the shooting location for the cult film Spider Baby
?

14:40, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

... that the old Lodge Room at the Highland Park Masonic Temple (pictured) has been preserved with original anaglyphs and cherry wood paneling?

... that the Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?

... that Christopher Smart's two oratorios, Hannah and Abimelech, are based on the story of biblical women who became fertile because of their devotion to God?

... that the Second World War
?

... that the opposition
Parliament
for six months after?

... that World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico
?

08:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

... that John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral (pictured)?

...that the
Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly, convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party
controlled both houses of the state's legislature?

... that Welsh sportsman St Helens Ground
but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?

... that the "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song Asbury Park
boardwalk?

... that while setting a
UFO
?

... that inside left
?

... that Tony Award
?

01:34, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

... that ice hockey goaltender Paddy Moran (pictured) aggressively defended the area in front of his net by using his stick to slash opposing players near his net and exhaling at them while chewing tobacco?

... that the
stages-of-growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations
?

... that power in the military
?

... that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?

... that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear?

... that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon, opened in 1893 and is still in use?

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