Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/February

16 February 2008

• 20:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that water from Tin Brook (pictured) was diverted to create the first canal in New York history?
• ...that
  German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway, then survived Sachsenhausen
  himself?
• ...that Crookham, a village in England, dates as far back as the Domesday Book, but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
• ...that after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
• ...that according to
  heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor
  in over 100 years?
• ...that the
  King Louis XV's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi
  ?
• ...that
  Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II
  ?

• ...that the
  Gomphus floccosus
  (pictured) means 'woolly plug'?
• ...that the
  battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation
  ?
• ...that
  Roman Emperors
  ?
• ...that historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
• ...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
• ...that early plans for
  South Lawn
  ?
• ...that Satoru Kobayashi, one of Japan's most prolific directors, wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962?
• ...that Lambda Sigma, a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?

• 05:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

15 February 2008

• 23:12, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  King over the Water
  ?
• ...that the official cause of the
  Kiev
  , was children playing with fire?
• ...that
  ostriches
  ?
• ...that halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl, having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
• ...that the
  WWII
  service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
• ...that architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born's popular physics book?
• ...that textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as clothing, carpets, and curtains?
• ...that the
  inside joke within the show's narrative
  ?

• 16:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population?
• ...that Lactarius helvus, a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek, was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig, Germany?
• ...that
  Queen Victoria
  ?
• ...that NASCAR official Robin Pemberton's decision concerning the final outcome of the 2007 Daytona 500 resulted in his brother's team finishing second instead of first?
• ...that the 1989
  SS Maxim Gorkiy, a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard
  less than six months before?
• ...that
  series
  folded after one season?
• ...that a
  2003 Estonian European Union membership referendum called on Estonians
  to vote yes "for access to millions of sexier men"?

• 10:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  Métro léger de Tunis (pictured), a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa
  ?
• ...that
  Dr. John Roberton was a pioneer of obstetrics
  ?
• ...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
• ...that the
  Atlantic Marine ecozone, with its dense fog and massive icebergs, has been feared by mariners
  who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
• ...that
  NGO in India, was the main reason for World Bank
  to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
• ...that the 20-year tenure of
  District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion
  ?
• ...that key donors of land to
  Confederate Army and a notorious political boss
  ?
• ...that the old block of the
  Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district, Raffles Place
  , from 1954 till 1974?

• 02:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that upon completion, the
  Mausoleum of Khomeini (pictured), under construction since Ayatollah Khomeini died, will have a tourist center, a university and a shopping mall
  ?
• ...that the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera?
• ...that Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc?
• ...that Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
• ...that every year 70,000 to 80,000
  migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, an artificially created forest in West Bengal, India
  ?
• ...that judge
  Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk
  ?
• ...that the small private rooms called
  English monarchs
  began to discuss matters of state in these settings?

14 February 2008

• 20:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that when the 18th century artist Alexis Simon Belle (pictured) had his son baptized, the godmother was only six years old?
• ...that the
  illegal stamps
  ?
• ...that many villages in Tajikistan received only one to two hours of electricity per day during an on-going energy crisis in Central Asia?
• ...that
  Miś Uszatek, a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish
  TV?
• ...that the
  cocks
  "?
• ...that
  Robert Parker's newsletter The Wine Advocate was the first to widely adopt the 50–100 scale wine rating scale, using it as parallel to the American educational grading system
  ?
• ...that Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky?
• ...that the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?
• ...that an
  ongoing strike by Gaelic footballers and hurlers in County Cork, Ireland, has led to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
  asking for the players and the county board to resolve their dispute?

• 14:24, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that according to his Memoir,
  painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (work pictured) was named after the caesarean section
  which delivered him after his mother fell on the ice?
• ...that
  Olympic
  teams?
• ...the world's longest
  southeastern Turkey
  ?
• ...that
  Château-Chalon, is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel
  ?
• ...that the
  football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses
  ?
• ...that
  POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF
  ?
• ...that in a college prank televised across the United States, spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word "CALTECH" in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field?

• 08:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that paintings by
  Henry Howard (pictured) in the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" in Green Park had to be saved by the cavalry
  from "the multitudes of idle and dissolute spectators"?
• ...that TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed, the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world?
• ...that
  Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$
  3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
• ...that the European fungus Ramaria formosa, found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral?
• ...that English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840, respectively?
• ...that the
  Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad, the second railroad built in the United States, was a major precursor to the roller coaster
  ?
• ...that
  Japanese cinema
  for 42 years for disobeying a director?

13 February 2008

• 23:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that, of the 2.6 million hectares of cultivated land in Peru, approximately 1.7 million hectares have an irrigation infrastructure (example pictured) but only 1.2 million hectares are actually irrigated?
• ...that the
  flying saucers
  ?
• ...that before he became involved in the Ituri conflict, alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
• ...that the
  explosives production to prop up German Bayer's aspirin
  business?
• ...that
  rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or scoring tools
  for tests in education?
• ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?

• 17:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Grey Towers (pictured) is the only U.S. National Historic Site managed by the U.S. Forest Service, since it was the home of its first director, Gifford Pinchot?
• ...that
  invasion of Afghanistan
  ?
• ...that
  gauge network in the North and a meter gauge network in the South of Tunisia
  ?
• ...that
  Hollywood
  ?
• ...that
  virtuosi
  of the 20th Century?
• ...that the
  Windsor-class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas
  in 2007?

• 11:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the SS Charles W. Wetmore (pictured) negotiated the St. Lawrence River rapids in 1891 to become the first whaleback ship to operate outside the Great Lakes?
• ...that
  entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry
  ?
• ...that the New Zealand Railways Department's experimental RM class Westinghouse railcar was the first railcar to enter revenue service in New Zealand?
• ...that Sir
  Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, head of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1900 to the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, is credited with inventing the game of snooker
  ?
• ...that
  German invasion of Poland
  in 1939?
• ...that
  USOC president Doug Roby initially took no action against Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, but expelled them after an IOC threat to expel the entire U.S. track
  team?

• 03:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  Oak marble gall (pictured) contains large amounts of tannic acid, which was used for making iron gall ink
  ?
• ...that while
  swimming briefs
  ?
• ...that William Hogarth's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer?
• ...that Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier made the Bugatti 370 – a $200,000 watch in honour of the supercar Bugatti Veyron – which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year" Award from the Japanese press?
• ...that the
  Central Provident Fund Board, was the site of a silent protest by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore
  ?
• ...that tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition?
• ...that
  Heimir was a Gothic
  hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
• ...that the tide of the
  Texas-Indian Wars was turned at the Battle of Bandera Pass when six-shot revolvers were used for the first time against the Comanches
  ?

12 February 2008

• 20:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Captain
  boarding party from HMS Shannon onto the USS Chesapeake
  (pictured)?
• ...that
  President François Tombalbaye's Authenticité Africanization
  program?
• ...that
  state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly
  ?
• ...that two members of
  POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944
  ?
• ...that
  Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff, Cindy Crawford, Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities is himself a former model
  ?
• ...that during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
• ...that
  headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football
  shorts below the knee with elastic?
• ...that Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?

• 13:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine
  ?
• ...that about 12 million people were
  forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II
  , and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
• ...that after the New Zealand Railways Department's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar's body was used as a private dwelling?
• ...that Margaret Downey's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
• ...that the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
• ...that
  Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute
  ?
• ...that
  dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee
  , USA?
• ...that
  Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British
  company?

• 03:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that fungus Tricholoma pardinum (pictured) was responsible for over 20% of cases of mushroom poisoning in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century?
• ...that a
  Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C.
  ?
• ...that while repelling
  rifles in the Battle of Kelja
  in 1939?
• ...that after surviving the battles at
  Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio
  ?
• ...that Louisville's Union Station was the largest such facility in the southern United States?
• ...that Herbert Armitage James, who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
• ...that when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl, the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?

11 February 2008

• 18:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that during the construction of
  high-rise commercial building in Singapore
  , the building sank on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months?
• ...that the
  Frederick Funston class, the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain
  ?
• ...that
  Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest
  time?
• ...that Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
• ...that French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism" for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
• ...that the
  10 kilometer road race
  with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
• ...that
  legislation
  ?

• 11:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the first
  Rachel's tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations
  requirement?
• ...that the two parts of
  U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state
  ?
• ...that at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the
  river valley on the North American
  continent?
• ...that the Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line?
• ...that the death of
  stress from a 114-day strike
  by his staff?
• ...that award-winning
  Google
  "?

• 05:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that American painter George Cooke's Interior of St. Peter's Rome (pictured), measuring 17 by 23.5 feet, was the largest oil painting of its time, and still ranks among the world's largest?
• ...that the
  chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure
  at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
• ...that during the 2004-2005 vintage, the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
• ...that
  Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement
  to keep it in check?
• ...that
  artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages
  ?
• ...that the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast?
• ...that the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon, was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?

10 February 2008

• 23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that at Traverse des Sioux on the Minnesota River (pictured), Sioux tribes were induced to enter into an 1851 treaty, ceding 24 million acres (9.7 million ha) for seven cents per acre?
• ...that the
  SIA Building, a skyscraper in Singapore, is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines
  ?
• ...that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
• ...that the case of
  hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint
  , was not very glamorous?
• ...that the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth?
• ...that Master of Wines, David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock, inciting a controversy?
• ...that the 1996
  TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America
  go to bed hungry?
• ...that the
  Tumblagooda sandstone
  contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?

• 17:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the first postage stamps of Israel (pictured) were issued on May 16 1948, within 48 hours of the independent republic being proclaimed?
• ...that while only three
  Orenda
  design that followed?
• ...that
  NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II
  ?
• ...that passing the Level 4 diploma program from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is strongly encouraged before taking the Master of Wine examination?
• ...that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature it connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County?

• 10:17, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  Betania Monastery
  ?
• ...that American
  assassination of John F. Kennedy
  ?
• ...that the
  refrigerating
  plants each with a capacity of 300 tons, and 16 control centres?
• ...that Lepoglava prison (Croatian: Kaznionica u Lepoglavi) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia?
• ...that Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power from 1969, about the personalities that shaped The New York Times, is credited with beginning the trend of books that report about the media?
• ...that the first Hillsboro Public Library that opened in 1914 was the only Carnegie library built in Washington County, Oregon?

• 01:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  Fryderyk Chopin
  ?
• ...that Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol?
• ...that Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state?
• ...that
  Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United
  ?
• ...that SGX Centre, a twin building development in Singapore, was built at a location to be the gateway to the new downtown?
• ...that the international ice hockey career of Art Berglund spanned five decades?

9 February 2008

• 15:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters (pictured) from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington?
• ...that 1-methylcyclopropene, a synthetic plant hormone, is used to keep produce from ripening prematurely and to keep cut flowers from wilting?
• ...that the
  National Labor Relations Act
  ?
• ...that
  cashiered in 1815 for failing to have his regiment pick up fascines and ladders, contributing to the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans
  ?
• ...that
  Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America
  , and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
• ...that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?

• 09:55, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Emery Molyneux's 16th-century terrestrial and celestial globes (pictured) were the first to be made in England and by an Englishman?
• ...that the
  USA's first locally designed jet engine, the Lockheed J37
  , spent ten years in development but was never used on a production aircraft?
• ...that Murray Klein, the co-owner of Zabar's food market, sold Beluga caviar at a loss rather than lose a high profile publicity and price war with archrival Macy's, which was later dubbed the "Beluga caviar war" by the press?
• ...that ethnographer Eric Mjöberg, leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
• ...that the first post-war survey of sympathy for Nazism in Germany was conducted in 1947 by the Allensbach Institute?
• ...that the
  Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River
  ?

• 01:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that of the fifty examples of Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Renaissance engraving Battle of the Nudes (pictured) known in modern times, sixteen are in the United States?
• ...that with the
  2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal, 16,000 birds were destroyed in Itahar
  , but health workers retreated from villages that refused to kill their birds?
• ...that a
  attack
  ?
• ...that the
  Kaimai Ranges is the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand
  ?
• ...that butterfly motifs in the textiles of Oaxaca reflect pre-Christian spiritual beliefs among the Mazatec people?
• ...that
  artificial lake
  ?
• ...that
  African-American
  ?

8 February 2008

• 18:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that childless Emperor
  Avalokiteshvara
  handed him a baby son?
• ...that
  single-phase alternating current electric locomotive for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway
  , but a fire destroyed it before it could be tested?
• ...that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish
  labor union Solidaridad Obrera became the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
  ?
• ...that
  Frank G. Zarb
  ?
• ...that the
  Boletus luridus
  may cause nausea and vomiting if consumed with alcohol, or if not thoroughly cooked?
• ...that outspoken British judge
  anaemic
  kind of rape" because the victim was the accused's ex-girlfriend?

• 12:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  Seattle Landmarks
  ?
• ...that
  Donald Cameron ('Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe') ("Black Tailor of the Axe") got his nickname after killing the rival Scottish Highlands clan chief in battle with a Lochaber axe
  ?
• ...that Japanese submarine I-17 was the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in World War II triggering an "invasion" scare along the West Coast?
• ...that Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
• ...that after being captured from the French, HMS Donegal went on to capture two French ships at the Battle of San Domingo?
• ...that
  Prince Gabriel Konstantinovich was saved from execution during the Russian Revolution by the writer, Maxim Gorky
  ?

• 02:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that underneath
  air raid precaution tunnels
  (pictured) totalling 1.8 km (1.1 mi) in length?
• ...that in 1802 John Francis Rigaud published a translation of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting?
• ...that publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure?
• ...that over nine percent of
  British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991
  ?
• ...that among the students of Polish pianist
  International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions
  in 1927?
• ...that Skerryvore, off the west coast of Scotland, considered by some to be the world's most graceful lighthouse, was built by an uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson?

7 February 2008

• 21:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit (pictured) incorporated into its boundary wall?
• ...that American
  film maker John Korty’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area
  ?
• ...that
  gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam
  girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?
• ...that the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town?
• ...that two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
• ...that, at his death,
  Members of Parliament who attended the first session of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda
  in 1981?
• ...that voice
  pilot episode of I Love Lucy, had to re-record his original lines for the show once the episode was rediscovered in the early 2000s
  ?

• 13:56, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that in his Nuova Cronica (illustration pictured), the 14th century Florentine banker Giovanni Villani described the destruction of the original Ponte Vecchio bridge during the flood of November 4, 1333?
• ...that leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
• ...that Noble Ellington, a veteran member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Winnsboro in the northeastern portion of his state, is involved in legal action so that his wife may continue to serve as his legislative secretary?
• ...that
  Omaha Tribe
  ?
• ...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
• ...that the Santa Cruz sheep breed numbers less than 200 individual animals?
• ...that
  Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello
  ?

• 02:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (pictured) was the first British princess to marry a commoner in over five hundred years?
• ...that
  Boletus pulcherrimus, a large red and brown pored mushroom from California and New Mexico
  , stains dark blue when cut or bruised?
• ...that award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?"
• ...that
  Champagne
  ?
• ...that an engineer for the Michigan United Railways devised a special shoe which allowed the motorman to cut ice build-up on the third rail, in response to Michigan's harsh winters?
• ...that the tilted trees in Canada's
  Taiga Shield, caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the shallow soil's permafrost, have been likened to a "drunken forest
  "?
• ...that American Judge Herbert Jay Stern, who served on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, presided over a jury trial in the U.S. court for Berlin, Germany, which was the subject of the book and movie Judgment in Berlin?

6 February 2008

• 19:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that when Canterbury Presbyterian Church (pictured) closed in 2004, its congregants were absorbed by a nearby church that had split from Canterbury twice in its 178-year history?
• ...that director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China?
• ...that the
  WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships
  ?
• ...that Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila?
• ...that Czar
  Peter I of Russia not only stayed as a blacksmith's personal houseguest at what is now called the Czar Peter House in Zaandam
  , but also paid a widow boarding there to move out so there would be room for him?
• ...that Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama?
• ...that Canadian biochemist
  blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates
  ?

• 13:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral (pictured) had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy
  was in debt?
• ...that
  Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre
  of 1940?
• ...that the network of railways in Plymouth, England, once served 28 stations, but today just six stations remain in use?
• ...that the first Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska became the largest Lutheran congregation in the United States by the 1920s?
• ...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
• ...that
  Pandora Jewelry
  's charm bracelets feature a patented thread system that allows beads to be evenly spaced across the band?
• ...that the disappearance of
  Kāne'ohe Bay has generated concerns about maintenance of the local yellowtail scad
  population?

• 02:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  18th-century artist William Peters regretted the erotic works he had painted (example pictured) when he became an Anglican minister
  later in his life?
• ...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
• ...that Gregorio Perfecto High School is named after the politician, Gregorio Perfecto, who signed the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines with his own blood?
• ...that Thomas Masterman Hardy's first command was HMS Mutine, a ship he had himself captured at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
• ...that, according to legend, the
  concubine of the priest
  of the church in which she was buried?
• ...that Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
• ...that model Anna Loginova founded a women bodyguard firm in Russia because male bodyguards are sometimes made to wait outside restaurants while the client is inside?
• ...that the Gough Map, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366?

5 February 2008

• 17:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  Vermont coppers (pictured) were the currency used in Vermont before it became a U.S. state
  in 1791?
• ...that although clansmen or clanswomen of a Scottish clan may wear a Scottish crest badge, the actual crest and motto within the badge are the sole property of their chief?
• ...that the
  zoologist Felipe Poey
  in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
• ...that
  Baguio's flowers and culture but also to prove that the city has recovered from the 1990 Luzon earthquake
  ?
• ...that the Soviet Leningrad Front was subject to a 28 month long blockade in World War II?
• ...that the 1973 Rose Bowl holds the attendance record in American college football bowl games at 106,869?
• ...that Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism?

• 07:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  raided and vandalised by the special forces of President Ngo Dinh Diem
  ?
• ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
• ...that
  the Magic Castle
  ?
• ...that the
  Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was concluded between private citizens and the Comanche, then recognized by the United States
  , and opened 3,000,000 acres (12,140 km²) to settlers?
• ...that in the
  Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union
  ?
• ...the first
  Richard Arthur Blackburn heard the first significant Aboriginal Land Rights case in Australia
  ?

4 February 2008

• 21:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  minnow
  to routinely feed on flying insects by leaping from water?
• ...that Dick Kimball, University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and trampoliner?
• ...that
  Pacal the Great
  , among others, despite a lack of evidence?
• ...that
  wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area
  ?
• ...that 3–5.5 million
  WWII
  ?
• ...that Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
• ...that
  Polish command
  since its creation in 2003?
• ...that the
  Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects
  "?

• 13:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  30 December 1821 that has provided historians with insight into the London
  art world as well as first-hand accounts of important political events of the day?
• ...that
  Leeuwin
  ?
• ...that when Jean-Paul Sartre's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus, still a journalist in Algeria working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger?
• ...that the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
• ...that tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India?
• ...that
  Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry
  ?
• ...that due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating?

• 05:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that in the early 1950s
  Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force
  's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
• ...that despite denouncing
  Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez
  became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
• ...that the
  Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew
  to be described in over a century?
• ...that a discontinued 1980s
  Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet
  ?
• ...that University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
• ...that the strength of the
  Soviet Russia
  ?

3 February 2008

• 23:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
  ?
• ...that the name of Whangaroa Harbour, an inlet on the northern coast of the Northland Region of North Island, New Zealand, comes from the Māori lament "Whaingaroa" or "What a long wait" of a woman whose warrior husband had left for a foray to the south?
• ...that
  bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track used for the 2002 Winter Olympics
  when he reached 86.6 mph (139.5 km/h) in October 2001?
• ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
• ...that
  Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo
  ?
• ...that local
  Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian
  territory?
• ...that epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life have a lower risk of breast cancer?

• 17:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that sixteen ships of the
  atomic bomb
  targets after barely two years of service?
• ...that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
• ...that the Matsés language of Peru has undergone some mixing with other indigenous languages because the Matsés people previously had the custom of capturing women from neighboring tribes?
• ...that
  Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  ?
• ...that
  Nazi collaborators and criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto
  ?
• ...that publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer?

• 11:23, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that Ralph Barton created a number of group caricatures (image map pictured), including one of 139 faces?
• ...that the
  her class
  , had an active service life of less than two years?
• ...that George Nicol organized the 42-day book auction which inspired the influential Roxburghe Club?
• ...that Polish duke Władysław the White gained a nickname of King Lancelot due to his adventurous life?
• ...that
  post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson
  ?
• ...that
  elite Polish commandos during WWII and later, a member of the anti-communist resistance in Poland
  ?
• ...that the easternmost part of
  National Recreation Trail
  ?

• 02:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the
  African American, was sponsored by singer Lena Horne
  and constructed in 42 days from start to delivery?
• ...that Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of Raphael in Urbino, and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?
• ...that residents of
  prisoners of war at Camp Morton
  , providing food, clothing, and nursing?
• ...that the Petit Pont in Paris, France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
• ...that
  Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks
  ?
• ...that the German four-mast sailing ship Herzogin Cecilie, under Finnish flag after 1920, won the "grain race" from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe four times from 1926 to 1936?
• ...that Scottish music publisher Robert Bremner disagreed with Francesco Geminiani's opinion on vibrato, and removed a passage advocating its use from a reissue of one of Geminiani's publications?
• ...that after spending fifteen years building the largest telescope in the world, scientists in the
  Hale telescope
  it was designed to beat?

2 February 2008

• 20:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that La Mojarra Stela 1 (pictured), a 4-ton artifact of the Epi-Olmec culture, features a Mesoamerican ruler and appears to record his ritual bloodletting and a "dripping sacrifice"?
• ...that John B. Harman, father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams?
• ...that the
  railway lines, each in a different U.S. state, and each leased
  by a different company?
• ...that over
  Edouard Deville’s lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom
  ?
• ...that the
  defending the Philippines
  ?
• ...that
  Versace
  in 2007?
• ...that the USS Cortland (APA-75) was the object of a failed Nazi sabotage attempt in World War II?
• ...that
  gut flora
  ?

• 15:05, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

L'Âme de la France

• ...that the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
• ...that
  antibiotics are recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy
  ?
• ...that
  Indian Wars
  ?
• ...that because Fr. Joseph Strub believed the Irish were not seen to be as hard-working as Germans, he specifically requested that Fr. William Power not be selected as the first rector of the Pittsburgh Catholic College?
• ...that in recent years the alcoholic beverage ouzo has been subject of intense scientific study?
• ...that
  Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory
  in the United States?
• ...that production of Lost: Missing Pieces (short mobisodes/webisodes spun-off from the TV series Lost) was delayed several times due to contractual issues with the actors, writers and directors guilds?
• ...that William Revelli, director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?

• 05:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that in 1968, French astronomer Agop Terzan discovered
  Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
  ?
• ...that
  '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway
  ?
• ...that Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
• ...that
  Association Footballer Billy Mosforth
  was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory?
• ...that
  pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection
  currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
• ...that despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the
  Hurricane Naomi
  in 1968?

1 February 2008

• 20:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that the first and only President of London's Oriental Club was the Duke of Wellington (pictured)?
• ...that in
  track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $
  1?
• ...that the 1982 release of the album Juju Music by the Nigerian band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats has been credited with launching the World Beat movement in the United States?
• ...that the
  Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory, located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in Chornohora, was the highest located permanently inhabited building in interbellum
  Poland?

• Denver and New York City
  ?
• ...that
  women in Rome were forbidden to drink wine, under penalty of death or divorce
  ?

• 13:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that a bridge has existed at the site of the Pont Notre-Dame (pictured) in Paris, France since antiquity?
• ...that presidential candidate Barack Obama's chief of staff, Pete Rouse, came to be known as "the 101st Senator" due to his savvy on Capitol Hill?
• ...that the
  chancellor Zhang Jianzhi, despite a long civil service career, did not become a chancellor until age 79, and a year later took part in overthrowing the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian
  ?
• ...that
  grapevine for London gossip and news
  during the 16th and 17th centuries?
• ...that
  High Court justice
  ?
• ...that before the
  bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy was shortened to its current configuration in 1981, it was used as part of the film For Your Eyes Only
  ?
• ...that Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon?

• 05:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

• ...that
  coup and lack of studio
  space?
• ...that David Suzuki: The Autobiography is actually David Suzuki's second autobiography?
• ...that Israeli scholar Charles Liebman pioneered contemporary scholarship on American Orthodox Judaism and argued that "religious extremism is the norm" in Israel?
• ...that Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
• ...that the
  traffic reports
  in the area?
• ...that
  African Atlantis
  ?
• ...that Kenneth Summers pastored four Assemblies of God churches before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?