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31 October 2008

20:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

... that in Mesoamerican folklore, it is believed that a dog (mythical dog pictured) carries the newly deceased across a body of water into the afterlife?
... that Abandon's music was first discovered when a record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door?
... that
phasmophobia is a fear of ghosts
?

... that Holton Windmill did not have a fantail when it was a working mill?
... that Halloween in the Castro, San Francisco's gay village, started as a children's costume contest in 1948 and was attended by 500,000 people in 2002?
... that Norwegian Constituent Assembly
in 1814, was also a renowned speaker?

... that the Ursula Southeil
on its wings?

... that the high school quiz competition
Brain Game has aired on local television in Indianapolis
since 1972?

... that in dramatist W. S. Gilbert parodied the harlequinade
, a genre that had fascinated him since childhood?

15:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" (pictured), an excellently preserved mummy?

... that the wife of sawmill owner Julius Nicolai Jacobsen was said to haunt their house in Fredrikstad, Norway after she died?

... that some types of vampire moth can bite and drink human blood?

... that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development?

... that millions of children participate in Halloween-related fundraising events for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, a program that has raised over US$188 million worldwide?

... that using the memory of his late sister as motivation, Tyler Sloan made his National Hockey League debut on October 21 after seven years in the minor leagues?

... that Harold Owen claimed the ghost of his brother, the poet Wilfred Owen, appeared to him on board HMS Astraea a week after Wilfred's death?

... that candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween?

09:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

... that in classical mythology, Cerberus (pictured) is a monstrous dog with multiple heads that guards the gates to the underworld?

... that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?

... that The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?

... that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning, who directed the films Dracula and Freaks?

... that the German invasion of Norway
?

... that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England?

... that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York?

... that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick" of 2006?

03:39, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the name of Shichirigahama (pictured), a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?

... that Luther Prentice Bradley, a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade?

... that Captain Abu Raed, Jordan's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?

... that three of the last four
2008 election
?

... that the 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain
?

... that as founder and former chairman of Primedia, Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines, including American Baby, National Hog Farmer, Chicago and New York?

30 October 2008

22:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

... that six of the seven
destinations added by Horizon Air (airplane pictured) in 1982 when they purchased Air Oregon
, are still operated today?

... that the proposed
Macau security law would make treason
punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison?

... that during the
North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong hung buckets of mud with urine in trees to thwart American people sniffers
?

... that key
and a copy made of that key?
... that the winner of the Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands
?

... that despite being built for the Spanish Navy, the frigate Santa Margarita spent just five years in service with them, but served for nearly 60 years with the Royal Navy?

... that among First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan
?

13:47, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Embassy of Germany in Saint Petersburg (pictured), whilst reviled by the Saint Petersburg artistic community, was admired by Adolf Hitler
?

... that Vince Naimoli, founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey?

... that protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era
?

... that
CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer
-husband?

... that during the 1990 ethnic clashes in Osh between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, 5,000 crimes were committed?

... that no
penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw
?

... that 2.2 million people participated in the U.S. 2008 Nickelodeon
TV network?

07:13, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1894, US$20,000 to US$40,000 mysteriously disappeared from the Mississippi Levee Board, of which General Samuel W. Ferguson (pictured) was both secretary and treasurer?

... that musical theater
but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?

... that
Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia
revealed 17 living relatives?

... that the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon, was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders?

... that the Global Health Council is an international membership alliance of public health professionals in more than 100 countries?

... that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky, U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James?

00:44, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

... that yellow-bellied sliders (pictured), popular as pets, are found in a wide variety of habitats, including rivers, floodplain swamps, seasonal wetlands, and permanent ponds?

... that Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?

... that in 1953, the
U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat
?

... that painter Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue
paint?

... that Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao
?

... that between 1874 and 1884,
impeachment
?

... that the
post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola
?

29 October 2008

15:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
parasites
, some of which can infect humans?

... that an intense rivalry between composers Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Emilio Arrieta helped rekindle the popularity of Spanish opera during the mid 19th century?

... that Alaska-class "large cruisers" of the U.S. Navy
, but were canceled prior to construction?

... that dental decay
?
... that the largest group of Asian residents in Germany are Vietnamese, totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?

... that Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees designed to teach players about the plight of refugees
?

... that Dorothy Miner was acknowledged as the person "who helped establish the legal right to designate landmarks" in the U.S. for her role in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City?

09:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the people of Demoiselle Cranes
(pictured)?

... that at any given time, the
illegal immigrants in administrative detention
while they await removal proceedings?

... that in Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea, a road sings the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to passing car drivers on the road?

... that at the time of her completion in 1918,
launched
and the fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?

... that production on the 1969
Man's Fate
was canceled one week before shooting was to begin?

... that Australia Post took over the postal service on Christmas Island in 1993 and promised to issue Christmas stamps?

... that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White?

03:24, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?

... that in 874,
Niketas Oryphas hauled his ships overland over the Isthmus of Corinth in order to catch an Arab fleet
by surprise and defeated it?

... that Stanley Kubrick dismissed his 1953 film Fear and Desire as "a bumbling amateur film exercise"?

... that in 1930/31, John Stephenson made 117 runs and took six wickets for the Europeans cricket team to guide the European side to an innings victory against the Indians cricket team?

... that recessive mutations in the X chromosome
?

... that in 1961,
Kristian Schjelderup ordained the first female priest in the Church of Norway
?

... that many of the tendencies within
Stirnerite
wing?

... that Julio A. Garcia, called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo, Texas, once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court?

28 October 2008

20:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Pioneer Square (pictured) and Pike Place Market
, began as the Beer and Culture Society?

... that up to 78 percent of 1,016 leading political figures in
intelligence services like the KGB
?

... that former
exchange program with the "new" South Africa
?

... that the
poetess-saint Mirabai
was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage?

... that
Palestinian
Council?

... that German invasion of Norway
halted work?
... that before becoming
mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers
, and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?

14:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Hindu ritual, involves walking around a sacred object or place, as Ganesha (statue pictured) walked around Shiva
in legend?

... that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15?

... that the unusual breeding season of the recent discovery
by scientists?

... that in the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball, Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship?

... that the cost of operating underground mine
?

... that prior to Singapore's first Formula One race in 2008, the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973?

... that because
Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle
officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?

... that women
baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India
?

08:04, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Best Alternative Music Performance award twice, for OK Computer in 1998 and Kid A
in 2001?

... that
2002 Arkansas gubernatorial election
?

... that
chancellor Qiao Lin was both born and executed on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar
?

... that three of the Texas Rangers' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?

... that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University?

... that although the
non-indigenous, it is endangered
in some of its native areas?

... that H. Judson Kilpatrick
?

02:02, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

... that after Moses Collyer built his retirement home (pictured) in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?

... that Morelia spilota spilota, the Diamond python, of East Gippsland live at the highest altitude of any python?

... that best-selling author Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women, spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment?

... that the Supreme Court of Israel judge Yoel Zussman was awarded the Israel Prize in 1975 for his contributions to Israeli law?

... that modernism in Norway
?

... that the five-eyed predator Burgess shale
?
... that the
Tang Dynasty official Cui Youfu had a dispute with his superior Chang Gun
over whether a mother cat allowing a mouse to live with her constituted a sign of good fortune or ill fortune?

... that Alaska-class "large cruisers" built for the United States Navy
, but was canceled prior to construction?

27 October 2008

17:43, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
global economic turmoil
?

... that during the
Communist
plot?

... that The Best Little Girl in the World, a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa, was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder?

... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?

... that the earliest references to the
Kodaikanal had been made in works of Sangam literature
?

... that a former White House media manager was hired to make the political television comedy Running Mates more realistic?

... that
Bloodhound SSC is a pencil-shaped car powered by a jet engine and a rocket being designed to travel at approximately 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h
)?

10:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Victorian plant collector Charles Maries introduced over 500 species of plants to England, including Viburnum plicatum "Mariesii" (pictured) which was named after him?

... that
Golden Globe Award in 1964 for his ABC sitcom Mickey
?

... that
Clean Up the World
?

... that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from Perth Airport to Rottnest Island Airport, a distance of 32 kilometres (20 mi)?

... that actress-singer
Anabela, who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music
?

... that
U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin
border?

... that former
Royal Family
?

... that American Student Assistance is the oldest guarantor of student loans in the United States?

04:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies
?

... that Israel Security Agency
?
... that although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?

... that
Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege
by another general, Liu Qia?

... that four of the
Manu'a Islands
?

... that charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times?

26 October 2008

22:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

... that as many as 50–70% of people who survive traffic accidents have facial injuries (X-ray pictured)?

... that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality?

... that
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
?

... that the Lind Coulee Archaeological Site provided the first evidence of ancient human occupation of Washington, U.S.?

... that Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?

... that three 1972
affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania were each awarded an honorary Doctor of Science
degree by the university in 1973?

... that series, was cancelled by ABC
in 1962 after 13 weeks?

... that
King
?

... that the
nominations
in 2004?

17:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

... that in 2008, the
Central American Squirrel Monkey (pictured) from endangered to the lesser risk status of vulnerable
?

... that the current
Governor Tauese Sunia
?

... that
Best Choreography
?

... that busk at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington
?

... that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?

... that First World War while fighting for the German Empire
?

... that the bookstore
in existence?
... that rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang
?

11:02, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the first recorded owner of the
Spanish Inquisition Necklace (pictured) was an Indian Maharaja
?

... that
Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted
?

... that Henry Tsang was the first Asian-Australian to be Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney?

... that Washington State Route 8, which currently runs from Elma to Olympia, originally used the current route of U.S. Route 12 from Elma to Grand Mound, from 1964 until 1967?

... that exhibition
Batmobile from the popular 1966 American television series Batman
?

... that there have been 28 New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty due to a criminal act?

... that the monastic goldsmith Spearhafoc became Bishop-elect of London in 1051, but absconded abroad with a large treasure after his consecration was prevented?

... that SearchFox, a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering?

... that Bill Cunningham's lucky street photograph of Greta Garbo in 1978 has led to a 30-year career with The New York Times?

... that the Prussian state railways was the largest German company by number of employees in 1907?

... that upcoming film Afterwards is shot entirely in English, despite being written and directed by Frenchman Gilles Bourdos, adapted from a French novel and co-produced by a French production company?

05:01, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Napoleon II
?

... that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia, but also the most populous?

... that Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?

... that Animerica, launched in 1993, was one of the first American professional anime and manga magazines, and was one of the most popular throughout the 1990s?

... that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect?

... that Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons?

... that the Division of Altenburg in Saxony led to a war between two brothers in 1446 known as the Bruderkrieg, or Saxon Brother War?

... that
Best Rap Solo Performance
?

... that three
Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York graduated together from the City College of New York
in 1937?

... that William Shay, a ragman in
ornamented
for their time and region?

25 October 2008

23:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Virgin Queen
?

... that Addison Road was the first debut Christian music act to receive a special Napster website stream of their self-titled debut album?

... that Mistras
?

... that state trunkline highway in Michigan
, was truncated in 1960 to one-fifth of its length for 33 years?

... that Baard Iversen, a businessman based in Trondheim, Norway, was nicknamed "the father of the Dovre Line"?

... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Kevin Appier made six consecutive Opening Day starts for the Kansas City Royals from 1992 through 1997?

... that Beth Groundwater's A Real Basket Case was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007?

... that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia's electricity?

17:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

... that homeless
?

... that Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?

... that the United States Department of War was once headquartered in the Munitions Building, a temporary structure built on the National Mall (Potomac Park) in Washington, D.C.?

... that Brahmins
in the party?

... that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?

... that
nominations
posthumously?

... that the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea?

... that
stoker on a Beirut–Marseille steamship
?

11:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

... that there are fourteen
Pacific Robin (pictured) scattered from Samoa to Norfolk Island
?

... that only three
sexual proclivities during the American Civil War
are known to still exist?

... that
Cockle Creek in Tasmania is the furthest point one can drive south in Australia
?

... that communist
militant activity?
... that of the
twenty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, seventeen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
?

... that
Group of the Year
in 1992?

... that Ole Miss
and led to riots?
... that legend describes King James II of England connecting him to King Arthur
?

... that the
Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada
?

... that no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Day
tie game since 1965?

04:29, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

... that The Football League
?

... that Edwardian musical comedies
in the early years of the 20th century?

... that Horatio Nelson's legacy has been celebrated in books, paintings and monuments?

... that the Bulgarian village and architectural reserve Brashlyan was referenced in the "Strandzha Marseillaise", the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising?

... that mission
to Tennessee with her husband, an assignment almost unheard of at the time?

... that the 1997 Qayen earthquake leveled 700 homes in the village of Abiz alone?

... that
concubine
, as her own?

24 October 2008

22:35, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Gothic Revival architecture in American
churches?

... that the People's Republic of China
was overhauled in 2007?

... that by the time of the 1918
chemical weapons
in combat?
... that Alfonsina Strada, nicknamed the devil in a dress, was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia?

... that of the
thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University, seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics
?

... that Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore
?

... that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?

16:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
freshwater snail Viviparus georgianus (pictured), the "banded mystery snail", is native to the southeastern U.S. but is an introduced species in the northern U.S. and Canada
?

... that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia's first government astronomer?

... that George M. Keller added US$1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil, providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?

... that 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In was marked for an English language remake to be directed by Matt Reeves before it was even released in U.S. cinemas?

... that the bells of musical scale
?

... that the name of Operation Defensive Shield, launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer?

10:18, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Golden Monarch (male pictured) is found in New Guinea and New Ireland but not in the large island New Britain
which lies between them?

... that NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming
as an ambitious lawyer?

... that some species of starfish that live in tide pools have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow entire new arms in time?

... that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida"?

... that
Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards
three times but has never won it?

... that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge?

... that in the only
ERA
of 45.0?

00:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Marie Curie (pictured) is the only female Nobel laureate to have won multiple Nobel Prizes?

... that the U.S. Court of Appeals
appellate work?

...that many battles were fought between the
Medveščak
creek?

... that
First Transcontinental Railroad
?

... that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr, which stood in King Völsung's hall?

... that November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District
?

... that Jens Boyesen, who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement, later went on to become a top diplomat?

... that
self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India
?

23 October 2008

17:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the statues of the Two Working Men (pictured) in Cork, Ireland were originally set to be unveiled outside the Liberty Hall in Dublin, but were deemed a traffic hazard?

... that the
Osho movement
?

... that modern experts estimate that around 90% of the
Indiana Gas Boom
was wasted in flambeau displays?

... that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature, music and film?

... that
anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist
era?

... that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?

... that Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg, father of Johan Castberg, served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament and was the first editor-in-chief of Varden?

... that
Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You
?

11:50, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
BRIT Awards
in 2008?

... that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors?

... that the 15th-century
crusade against the Ottoman Turks
?

... that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s?

... that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway, only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?

... that the
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream
speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?

... that
Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay
?

... that the first keeper of the South Bass Island Light was picked up and committed as insane on the same day that his assistant's suicide was reported in the newspaper?

02:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia (pictured) were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order?

... that all of the known hurricanes in the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall?

... that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society?

... that the first
speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line
?

... that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds?

... that R. J. Reynolds marketing executive Ralph Seagraves facilitated using red and white paint on American short track's walls to give the illusion of greater speed?

... that food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce, has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant
?

... that
Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, who was killed in action in World War I, lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War, while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II
?

22 October 2008

19:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Peking Duck
(pictured)?

... that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?

... that Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?

... that Panhandle
history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?

... that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University's selection committee to become its seventh president?

... that the cable channel Z Music Television was a Christian version of MTV until it closed in 2000?

... that Avraham Herzfeld, one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut, was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?

14:12, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Capitol Loop, a state highway in Lansing, Michigan serving the State Capitol
(pictured), was designated in a plan to revitalize downtown?

... that Wilfrid Laurier University's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?

... that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French?

... that news aggregators including Google News and Digg
?

... that Minneapolis – Saint Paul
area in Minnesota?

... that Tropical Storm Rosa
was the first eastern North Pacific tropical storm to develop during the month of November since 2000?
... that, when
Tang Dynasty general Zhang Xiaozhong turned against the warlord Li Weiyue
whom he had served and joined the imperial cause, Li killed Zhang's brothers and sons?

... that all Nobel laureates in Economics
are men?

07:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
buglers (infantry band pictured) required to learn forty-nine separate calls
for infantry alone?

... that while attempting to produce malleable platinum, Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?

... that towards the end of
Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front
?

... that although the food fish, it is mostly caught for use as bait
?

... that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway, proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?

... that Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8?

... that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, John Angus Weir, helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?

... that Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs, only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen
?

21 October 2008

23:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

... that U.S. Navy while on active duty
?

... that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala, India?

... that the Queen Elizabeth II
?

... that a siruv is a contempt of court order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court that can exclude people who do not observe the court's orders from participation in religious services?

... that The Golden Fleece, written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol, was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?

... that high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina
?

... that the
arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati
by 80%?

17:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the flora of Western Australia (floral emblem pictured) comprises 9437 native vascular plant species of 1543 genera within 226 families?

... that the houses built by Abraham and Adolph Brower in New Hamburg, New York have matching porch columns and front doorways?

... that LWT
?

... that the 1937
Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan
?

... that one of sculptor Paul Manship's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan?

... that martyr canonized by a pope
?

... that
Olympic Torch
in 1996?

... that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$125 million to Harvard University, the school's largest gift?

09:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the dome-shaped
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
(pictured) has a cup-shaped depression fake nest to distract attention from the real nest inside?

... that
Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist
"?

... that the Milky Way galaxy
?
... that during a storm in the Dolomites, Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez, who later wrote his biography?

... that the worst ever tram accident in the United Kingdom occurred on the Dover Corporation Tramways system in 1917?

... that The Field Museum, was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal
?

... that Polish law
?
... that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?

03:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Bell System divestiture
?

... that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware, Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean?

... that the
congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism, shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw, an enlarged head
, and even death during infancy?

... that cabinet minister in Japan
?

... that People's Republic of China, is one of the seats of Chinese civilization, with a history dating back to the Neolithic era
?

... that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007?

... that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers?

20 October 2008

20:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate (pictured) picturesque?

... that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan
?

... that Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations
?

... that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama?

... that drug policy reform
in Norway?

... that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?

... that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?

13:47, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the volcanic
meteor impact crater
?

... that Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement, joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War?

... that in Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?

... that the 73 class were the first New South Wales Government Railways locomotives built in Queensland?

... that American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?

... that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck?

... that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana?

... that
Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general
?

07:38, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Sweden's tallest building is Turning Torso (pictured), which rises 190 metres (620 ft)?

... that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper's most famous work, Salem, gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers' Sunlight soap?

... that the Waterford Covered Bridge, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"

... that after his ship was captured by the French,
surgeon's
instruments whilst he was trying to operate on the wounded?

... that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review, even though they were only able to publish a single issue?

... that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology, composed of parts of nine different animals?

... that Clemson University coach William "Dabo" Swinney got his nickname as an infant, when his 15-month older brother tried to enunciate "that boy"?

... that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?

01:22, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Merck headquarters campus (pictured) is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River?

... that Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement
?

... that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?

... that when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?

... that the historic
Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England
was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?

... that the 1993 appointment of Bjørn Skogstad Aamo as director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway drew criticism from the opposition parties?

... that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?

... that lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II
?

19 October 2008

16:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

... that pilot in two pioneering aviation feats, the first circumnavigation of Australia by air, and the first international flight by an RAAF
plane and crew?

... that in the
date palm
?

... that
Hun Zhen was pleased that his requests to Emperor Dezong
were sometimes rejected, believing that it showed the emperor trusted him?

... that the song "
Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter
attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?

... that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War?

... that Ronnie Boon scored all the match points for Wales when their rugby team finally broke the "Twickenham bogey", beating England at Twickenham after 21 years and ten failed attempts?

... that Clarin Mustad, a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son, was also involved in the early automotive industry?

10:04, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
painter Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of purgatory (pictured) shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from tuberculosis
?

... that the San Diego Padres' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969?

... that sports
to be played on Sundays?

... that Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, was awarded the Brage Prize
for non-fiction in 2005?

... that in 1969,
World Series MVP
that season?

... that although having no formal medical training nurse during the 25-day Battle of Hegra Fortress
in 1940, gaining national fame in Norway?

04:02, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

... that missionaries
from the USA?

... that
MTV Video Music Awards
, winning two of them?

... that the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?

... that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards, including Best Toilets?

... that despite failing health, American racer Joe Shear won four of his last five races?

... that the
Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama
?

... that retired
Osirak nuclear reactor
?

... that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord, after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?

... that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind?

18 October 2008

18:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the orchid Masdevallia veitchiana (pictured), which can be found around Machu Picchu, was named after the founder of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sir Harry Veitch?

... that the popular statement that
14"/45 caliber guns
were never fired in anger is a myth?

... that the English of Selim Aga, a former slave from Sudan, was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton?

... that more than a million NSU Quickly mopeds were sold between 1953 and 1963?

... that Admiral U-511, a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler
to Japan in 1943?

... that Courtland Center in Burton, Michigan had three separate JCPenney stores until a new one opened in March 2008?

... that between 1874 and 1884, Hans Mustad co-owned the industrial company O. Mustad & Son with his father Ole Hovelsen Mustad?

... that series set on a New Mexico ranch, provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal
?

... that coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon
logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?

12:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1937 film Chintamani (promotional snapshot pictured) was the first Tamil film to run for a year in a single theatre?

... that New York Draft Riots
, only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes?

... that
great ape
which is regarded as humans' closest relative?

... that
Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £
7,000, but later changed his mind?

... that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel?

... that mission in New Zealand
in 1814?

... that the United States Brewers Association
were promoting "un-American activities"?

... that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
, joined the company in the early 1950s as a dish washer?

06:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the expansion of the New York Central Railroad isolated Main Street (houses pictured) in New Hamburg, New York while making Stone Street more accessible?

... that Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic
?

... that occupied France
?

... that 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act?

... that the
Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government
, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?

... that Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete?

... that the Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits
?

... that carotene can be used to alter the optical properties of carbon nanotubes?

00:18, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Iraqi Army launched an offensive into Saudi Arabia on 29 January 1991, leading to the Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War
(U.S. Marine artillery pictured)?

... that Ntare Mwine is a Ugandan-American actor, playwright and documentarian who has appeared in Heroes and interviewed Idi Amin's brother?

... that the Teatro del Silenzio is an open air amphitheatre in Italy which remains silent for 364 days of the year?

... that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines?

... that Swiss lawyer Georges Brunschvig was first to prove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be false in court?

... that ontological realm in which non-existent objects such as unicorns
, square circles, and golden mountains subsist?

... that after Dale Earnhardt's first win, his crew chief Jake Elder said, "Stick with me, kid, and we'll win diamonds as big as horse turds"?

17 October 2008

16:50, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

... that experiments have indicated that arithmetic operations
?

... that the death of Captain WWII was the subject of one of Ernie Pyle's most famous columns and the basis for the Oscar-nominated film The Story of G.I. Joe
?

... that Borgarting Court of Appeal dates back to at least 1047, at the time organized as a thing?

... that Henry Compton ran away from home three times before his family finally accepted his wish to become an actor?

... that Cloudland Canyon State Park, situated on Lookout Mountain in Georgia, contains many unusual sandstone boulder formations?

... that the enmity between
chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute
?

... that during the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake, over 60,000 reports of the earthquake were received?

... that 41 Park Row, making it the first newspaper in New York City
housed in a building built specifically for its use?

11:12, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog

... that Snuppy (pictured) is the world's first cloned dog?

... that, in his first season as a baseball player, Brian Barber's age of 22 was the youngest on an aging St. Louis Cardinals team?

... that a brutal rape of a
British India
?

... that the media of the Mortal Kombat franchise not only includes the video game series which has sold 26 million copies but also two feature films, a television series, two books, and several comics books?

... that ripple can cause wavy lines on television pictures?

... that after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars, Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus?

... that impeachment in Norway
was used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?

... that USD) in damages and caused heavy rain all the way to Phoenix, Arizona
when it made landfall?

... that historic Sleddale Hall, the filming location for Crow Crag in the 1986 cult film Withnail and I is derelict and has faced demolition in the past?

03:02, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Philippine Folklore
(sample myth pictured)?

... that offset agreements are one of the methods used to ensure a country's balance of trade?

... that after being rejected from
Ottoman Palestine, Yosef Lishansky
founded a rival group called HaMagen, operating in the south of the country?

... that suburban
American family?

... that FESPACO
, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in 2005?
... that when the
Church of St Demetrius was built in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
, a rumour was spread that the saint would come to the city?

... that Rettamalai Srinivasan, Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency, was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass?

... that County Route 41 in Onondaga County, New York, was once part of two state highways and one turnpike?

... that World War II undeterred by public execution of their Ghetto
liaison?

16 October 2008

21:35, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Elizabeth II's jewel collection, while being painted in Franz Xaver Winterhalter
's The First of May (pictured)?

... that over 3,000
participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action
?

... that Orson Welles originally planned to end his film Don Quixote by having Don Quixote and Sancho Panza survive an atomic cataclysm?

... that Dipor Bil reportedly provides its natural resources for the livelihood of 14 indigenous villages (1,200 families) located in its wetland ecosystem in Assam, India?

... that the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory, and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?

... that USS Frank E. Evans, which was thereafter destroyed following a collision
?

... that acquired immune deficiency syndrome
"?
... that
Turkic nations of Central Asia
?

... that all
glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia
?

13:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
heatstrokes
on long marches?

... that "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969?

... that Jason Dozzell is the youngest player to have scored in the Football League First Division when he scored for Ipswich Town aged 16 years and 57 days?

... that growing U.S. military bases in Kazakhstan
and harness its oil resources?

... that alternative rock band The Strokes has been nominated for Best International Band three times from the NME Awards, winning it in 2006?

... that the
Samuel
?

... that
protests at the 2002 meeting of the World Bank in Oslo, Norway
saw the police prepare for large riots, but turned out to be peaceful?

... that the Poughkeepsie, New York
?

07:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Solna Church (altar pictured), a round church in Stockholm from the late 12th century, was originally built for defense purposes?

... that
Polish Righteous
?

... that former screen-printing factory, an art gallery and a sheltered housing
complex, among other things?

... that
St. Mark's Basilica
over six hundred early morning sessions?

... that both the first
Skolfield-Whittier House, now a museum in Brunswick, Maine
?

... that Alfred Philippe Roll was the French government's official painter?

02:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Oscar
ceremonies?

... that until the 1990s, the
Long-beaked Common Dolphin were considered the same species
?

... that
Kanchenjunga when a porter accidentally burned his boots
?

... that the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika?

... that
Beautiful People by arranging a visit from a mobile blood donor unit
?

... that the
wind-induced vibrations
?

... that the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?

... that footballer Peter Stringfellow suffered a dramatic decline in form, which ultimately ended his professional career, after being involved in a car crash in which a team-mate died?

15 October 2008

20:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

... that in 2000, an
River Clun (pictured) in Wales killed its entire population of European bullheads
?

... that after his son was murdered during a
Tom Petters
formed a foundation to provide endowments that would benefit future students at several universities?

... that the first person to learn what is in the United Kingdom Budget, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget Day, is the Queen?

... that South Liberty Street in
assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield
?

... that the
animists who believed that all aspects of the natural world contained spirits
?

... that New Zealand Police Commissioner Howard Broad successfully completed rewriting the policing law and the introduction of tasers to the New Zealand Police?

... that invasive plant native to East Asia, was introduced in the United States as an ornamental plant
?

... that unique versions of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems "Mont Blanc" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" were rediscovered in a notebook 160 years after they were originally composed?

14:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Marguerite Sylva (pictured) modestly told W. S. Gilbert at her sister's audition that she "sang a little" and, after demonstrating, was offered a part?

... that
Scorpène submarines
?

... that despite a 600-year long tradition of being the back garden of the
gang violence
in the city?

... that
Band of Brothers
"?

... that
Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans both received the Donald P. Eckman Award, one of the most prestigious awards in control theory
?

... that All Saints' Church, Childwall is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool, England?

... that American singer
Kuroshitsuji
?

... that Friston Windmill is the tallest surviving post mill in the United Kingdom?

08:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Renaissance
chivalric
ideal of war and graphic details of war wounds?

... that Ronn Reynolds spent parts of six seasons as a Major League Baseball catcher, despite a career batting average of just .188?

... that the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Li Huaiguang saved Fengtian, where Emperor Dezong of Tang was at the time, from falling to the rebel Zhu Ci
?

... that the only print of
Madrid, Spain
?

... that
Larne Gun Running operation, which helped to arm the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule crisis of 1912
?

02:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford
?

... that
Nagi
?

... that Knight of the Shire
for 12 successive parliaments?

... that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
?
... that U.S. ambassador to Saigon during the Vietnam Conflict, because his superior, Frederick Nolting
, wanted a break from duties?

... that cold weather kept the Montreal Expos on the road for their first 19 Opening Day games, until 1988 when Dennis Martínez became the starting pitcher of the team's first opening day home game?

14 October 2008

20:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Fiji Banded Iguanas
(pictured) are descended from illegally smuggled animals?

... that Empress Wang, the wife of Emperor Dezong of Tang, was empress for only three days prior to her death in 786 AD?

... that the
Universal Edit Button is a Firefox add on
supported by many websites that informs users when the web page they are viewing contains editable content?

... that Admiral
in 1825?
... that the
Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations
during their career?

... that Framsden Windmill
was raised by 18 feet (5.5 m) in 1836, and worked for another 100 years?

... that the replacement of stale
Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co.
?

... that Bob McLean, who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, also played first-class cricket and scored a double century in the Sheffield Shield?

12:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the pre-Columbian ruins of bas-reliefs representing ball-players
(pictured)?

... that the power of the Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson claimed "I am the law in Indiana
"?

... that before he became
Chief Scout of South Africa, Nkwenkwe Nkomo was an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela
?

... that in Saskatchewan, Oban was known for having the last Interlocking tower at the CNR and CPR level crossing, until it was closed in 1990?

... that D-Day
veteran?

... that
India has supported Kazakhstan's bid to create a Caspian Sea naval fleet despite Russia
's opposition?

... that Beach Boys' collaborator Van Dyke Parks
?

... that Dick Trickle, billed as the winningest short track driver in history, won his first race outside of his home region at the 1966 National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway?

06:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

... that St George's Church, Everton (pictured) and St Michael's Church, Aigburth were two of the three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg which contained many cast iron components?

... that Jasper Goodwill, later a mayor in Louisiana, was given the middle initial "K" by the U.S. Army during World War I as a way to enhance identification of the soldiers?

... that the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
?

... that during the World War II, English footballer Jimmy Boswell served in the same army unit as four other future Gillingham F.C. players?

... that the day that
Madras, India
?

... that the Victorian painter William Shakespeare Burton was said to have dug a hole in the ground to stand in, so that he could paint the grass and ferns at eye level?

... that Zac Brown Band's single "Chicken Fried" was previously recorded by The Lost Trailers, whose version was withdrawn after Brown changed his mind about licensing the song to that record label?

... that Georg J. Lober′s sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen in New York City's Central Park was funded in part by contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren?

00:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the US Army
?

... that despite being of common birth, the marriage of
Falkes de Breauté made him "the equal of an earl
"?

... that Indian Institute of Technology Madras and their bilateral trade
is expected to reach €30 billion by 2010?

... that Victoria, Australia
?

... that the Bain Commercial Building is the only intact Second Empire-style building in Wappingers Falls, New York?

... that the penitential tone of John Audelay's poetry may have been influenced by his sense of responsibility for his lord's involvement in a fatal brawl?

... that Spain, which placed second at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with "Su canción", was rumored to have given high marks to a competitor so it would not have to host the contest the following year?

... that Millionaire Matchmaker
where he described the type of wife he sought?

13 October 2008

18:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

... that after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (destroyed building pictured), a number of infants were safely rescued from the Juárez Hospital despite being without food and water for seven days?

... that Australian politician Charlie Lynn held the New South Wales 24-hour Ultra Marathon record in 1985 and 1986?

... that the 2008
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was Lorene Scafaria's ninth screenplay
but first novel adaptation?

... that unlike their peers in other Australian states, physiotherapists in New South Wales are subject to discipline by a special Physiotherapists Tribunal?

... that having lost his father early,
founding father of the Norwegian Constitution
?

... that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song "Marching Through Georgia"?

... that the
late night satire show Up Sunday
was described by one of the cast members as "aimed at dirty-minded insomniacs"?

... that RMS Titanic
?

12:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

... that MBA, was put in charge of the $700 billion U.S. Government bailout of financial institutions
?

... that
cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India
?

... that Academy Award-winning screenwriter in Hollywood
, surviving a torpedo attack to get there?

... that pollution has risen in the Sundarijal reservoir in Nepal due to large numbers of tourists who crowd the area every weekend?

... that
Chief Justice
?

... that the SS Schenectady, an oil tanker, broke in two while sitting at the dock in calm weather?

... that the 5th-century classical statues, including that of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
?

... that Jack Montgomery, a Louisiana state senator from 1968 to 1972, was preceded and succeeded in the post by Harold Montgomery, and they were unrelated?

06:04, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

... that after the standardisation of the
Old German Shepherd Dogs which is now the name given to a rare modern breed
(pictured)?

... that television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben
?

... that the
Koreans who do not know the Japanese language
?

... that the Oregon State Bar was the first bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit?

... that Norwegian Parliament
?

... that King's Mill on the River Trent was used to grind flints for the pottery industry?

... that
Satsangi Jeevan, comprises of 19,387 Shlokas
among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes?

... that
Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
in 2008?

00:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

... that on Jackie Robinson Day of 2007, more than 200 baseball players wore number 42 in honor of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's (pictured) major league debut?

... that
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
?

... that the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?

... that Captain William Mounsey, in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne, captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse?

... that
Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season
?

... that
chancellor Chang Gun was demoted over Emperor Dezong's erroneous belief that Chang had falsified signatures from his colleagues Guo Ziyi and Zhu Ci
?

... that technophobes
alike?

12 October 2008

17:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1962–1963
The New Loretta Young Show (Loretta Young pictured) introduced audiences to later stars Dack Rambo and Ted Knight
?

... that genera
and 96 species with about 6,000 plants?
... that Bolivian Mollo culture drinking cups included a built-in straw?

... that Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck?

... that in Shinto, a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?

... that two companies with the name land grants
?

... that
Tang Dynasty official Yang Wan declined a customary stipend
as a senior official of his rank and distributed the stipend to his colleagues?

... that
anarchist collective CrimethInc. to write their manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love
22 years later?

11:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

... that art historian
Olmec
statuette, "among the great works of sculpture of all ages"?

... that
The Atlantic Monthly
?

... that
Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia
?

... that M-67, a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has remained essentially unchanged but the highways connecting to it have changed three times since 1919?

... that Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory, also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament
?

... that Julie Couillard's memoir re-election
?
... that architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed a futuristic synagogue that was later a filming location for the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

05:21, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

... that before Charles Aitken installed electric lighting, the Tate Gallery (pictured) was cleared of visitors on dark and foggy days?

... that anyone who has loaned or borrowed money has participated in the hypothetical loanable funds market that brings savers and borrowers together?

... that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid?

... that the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa
?

... that an oil painting by Ryūsei Kishida was auctioned for 7.731 billion yen, the highest price ever achieved for a Japanese painting?

... that MTA Bus
?

... that Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin, to paint 1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who had died there recently?

... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?

... that William Long, Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles, later became the skipper of a fishing boat?

... that only a few English churches celebrate the ancient custom of "clipping the church"?

... that
Canadian province
?

11 October 2008

23:17, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Fiji Crested Iguana (pictured) was discovered when a scientist saw the lizard in the 1980 film Blue Lagoon
?

... that Clarence D. Wiley, already a 40-year public official in Louisiana, was to have joined his parish governing council when he died in 1976 of a sudden stroke?

... that the 2008 Bangkok gubernatorial election
campaign saw candidates bathing in a canal and punching a journalist?

... that as Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip, Yitzhak Pundak planned to relocate the Palestinian refugees there to a new city in the Sinai Peninsula, but met with opposition from Ariel Sharon?

... that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?

... that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?

13:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
Novaculichthys taeniourus (pictured) are so different in appearance they have distinct common names
?

... that in 1793,
Admiral John Gell captured a Spanish
ship that contained two million dollars and goods worth over 200,000 pounds?

... that satellite towns
?
... that Australian film depicting the search for a missing child, was inspired by indigenous
police tracker Alex Riley's work in the 1930s?

... that
Buddhist monk
?

... that according to a survey by Reader's Digest, the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is New Zealand's second most trusted charity?

... that Owen Thomas, managing editor of New York City-based gossip and news blog Valleywag, writes most of the website's articles?

07:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the 6th-century Michael holding a sceptre and imperial orb, is the largest surviving Byzantine ivory carving
?

... that the United States public debt
passed the $10 trillion mark?
... that a
Jewish First Mayor Herbert Weichmann
?

... that Orson Welles took the role of Hastler in his 1962 film The Trial after comic actor Jackie Gleason turned down the part?

... that, as a teenager, American Civil War Confederate brigadier general Richard Waterhouse ran away from home to fight in the Mexican–American War?

... that presenters Jay Burridge and Mark Speight created all of the art projects for the children's television show SMart?

01:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Manasbal Lake (pictured), with the sobriquet "the supreme gem of all Kashmir Lakes", is the deepest lake in the Kashmir valley?

... that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile, Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?

... that
parallel versions of New York
?

... that
Baltic Finns are considered to be among the early indigenous inhabitants of Europe
according to the Settlement Continuity Theory?

... that Hulk Hogan lost the WWF Championship at King of the Ring 1993 after a ringside photographer's camera exploded in Hogan's face?

... that the constitution of Cyprus broke down in 1963 when Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the government?

... that the liquid natural gas terminal
?

... that
Conservative Party
?

... that British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong
in 1985?

10 October 2008

17:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

... that cargo terminals
?

... that English footballer Glen Thomas came close to losing an eye in 1996 when he stumbled into a tree during a training session and was hit in the face by a branch?

... that after six years as
air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration
?

... that in 2007, the New Zealand initiative eDay saw 415 tonnes (915,000 lb) of electronic waste collected?

... that
WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife
and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured?

... that
US$
3.5 billion?

... that the upcoming film Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain
?

... that
Catholic church
buildings?

11:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

... that Irving Berlin wrote the song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in the United States Army during World War I?

... that
shoemaker
?

... that alpine Lake Wakatipu has a unit of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard?

... that Hurricane Rosa caused 100-year floods at 19 locations in Texas?

... that analgesic nephropathy was a major cause of kidney failure until the analgesic drug phenacetin was banned from markets?

... that the medieval motet Sub Arturo plebs has the name of its composer along with those of 14 fellow musicians, plus instructions on how to perform the piece, written into its own lyrics?

... that the Inspector Javert in Les Misérables
?

... that
Nonghyup, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of South Korea
, provides 48 percent of the country's rural food marketing?

... that General Bronze Star for his successful defense against Japanese counterattacks during the Admiralty Islands campaign in World War II
?

05:08, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

... that evidence indicates that the Common Bottlenose Dolphin
?

... that Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament?

... that a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland" museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville, Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley?

... that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The Media Show, which looks at the current state of the media, is seen as a replacement to The Message, a similar programme axed by the BBC earlier in 2008?

... that only twelve examples survive of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity, a uniquely English subject in late medieval religious art?

... that the 106-kilometre (66 mi) standard gauge
in one night?

... that Norwegian Parliament member and priest Søren Georg Abel was the father of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel?

... that after
insane gunman, he bequeathed 300,000 rubles of his personal money to a psychiatric hospital
he had built?

... that Tournament of Roses
?

9 October 2008

22:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that some hermaphrodite snails and slugs pierce each other with love darts (pictured) during mating?

... that one of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident
which occurred in 1847?

... that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi, with two built-in cameras?

... that Krishnammal Jagannathan, one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award, began her struggle for the rights of the landless after an incident in which 44 people were burnt alive by landlords?

... that
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon
, was built when the city had only 750 residents?

... that, when
Yan under duress, his brother Wang Jin
successfully interceded for him by offering to resign as an imperial official?

... that the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?

... that although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer, he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable?

... that the publication of his Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn led to Angus McDiarmid being called "the world's worst author"?

09:48, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage?

... that the website Techmeme, created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology-related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?

... that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil's path to stardom?

... that the
universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America
?

... that at Somerset Island
in 1825?

... that according to
Booligal, New South Wales
is regarded as being worse than Hell?
... that former
American Idol winner Carrie Underwood
holds the record for the biggest-selling American Idol album?

... that the Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI is considered the most reliable source for those events?

01:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Minthorn Hall (pictured) in Newberg, Oregon, is the oldest building on the campus of George Fox University?

... that Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry
when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?

... that
corporate wellness program in the Philippines
?

... that after Robert Bealknap offended the people of London before the coronation of Richard II they placed a model of his head on a water fountain so that it would vomit wine when the king walked past?

... that the Nerepis River in New Brunswick was exposed to dioxins from the use of Agent Orange and Agent Purple during secret tests in 1966 and 1967?

... that Mexico's largest pawnbroker, Nacional Monte de Piedad, is legally recognized as a charity?

... that in 1967, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas
?

8 October 2008

19:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Swabian-Alemannic carnival, was a 18th-century robber and murderer in Württemberg, Southern Germany
?

... that the existence of a Stroke Belt in the southeastern United States was recognized as early as 1962, but the causes of high stroke incidence in this region have not been determined?

... that
leading man
?

... that the
Tilpa, New South Wales claims to have the only cemetery in Australia
with no burials?

... that bonus baby" by the Detroit Tigers, was the youngest of three 17-year-olds to play in Major League Baseball in the 1953
season?

... that spurge
, or gold?
... that the Masonic Lodges in the Americas
?

... that during the
Catalonian Civil War, three different pretenders were proclaimed against John II of Aragon
?

09:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that noise rock band Jucifer's L'Autrichienne is a concept album about Marie Antoinette (pictured)?

... that scandalum magnatum
?

... that Typhoon Jangmi was upgraded to a category five super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center?

... that architect Gothic revival in England
?

... that upcoming film The Marc Pease Experience has been dubbed "the next Rushmore" as the two films share both similar character traits and Jason Schwartzman in the lead role?

... that the song "master recording
was hidden under the producer's bed?

... that the Campbell's Covered Bridge, built in 1909, is the last remaining covered bridge in South Carolina?

... that Matthew T. Mason, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the first origami-folding robot in 2004?

03:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Martin Luther compared images of the Virgin of Mercy (example pictured) to "a hen with her chicks"?

... that the
United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Northern Ireland and Brazil
?

... that in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen?

... that the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia?

... that the
Liu Yan had, as a child, impressed Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by writing a song dedicated to his sacrifices at Mount Tai
?

... that after black roommate for him, Davis won two championships in four seasons with the Baltimore Colts
?

7 October 2008

21:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the colorful magpie in Korean folklore
?

... that
Not Quite Hollywood, examining the "Ozploitation" B movies of the 1970s–'80s Australian New Wave
?

... that Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow
?

... that Drinkstone Post Mill is the oldest surviving windmill in Suffolk, England, having been built in 1689?

... that comedian and actor
Asi Cohen performed in Mesudarim, an Israeli television show purchased by the Fox Entertainment Group
?

... that Roy Oswalt has been the starting pitcher on six consecutive Opening Days for the Houston Astros from 2003 to 2008?

... that after Tang Dynasty, grew ill after eating
beef, his general Chen Xianqi induced his physician to poison him to death?

... that the 2004 Cairns Tilt Train derailment was the result of excessive speed which may have been caused by the driver leaving his seat?

... that the
aeronautical engineer Roy LoPresti
?

15:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Ain't We Got Fun?

... that
Ain't We Got Fun?" (listen) as representative of post-World War I
working class unrest?

... that War of the Vespers
?
... that, according to Afrikaners were seen as a chosen people
?

... that the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town
in 2008?

... that the distinctive rustic porch trim of the Fish and Fur Club in Nelsonville, New York, which earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, has since been replaced?

... that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory Strømmens Værksted?

... that southern African
Acetosa sagittata is a weed in Australia and New Zealand
, and may smother vegetation it grows upon?

... that Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen
?

08:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Obando Fertility Rites are held annually at the Obando Church (pictured) of Bulacan in the Philippines during the month of May?

... that Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar
"?

... that the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow prison?

... that the Japanese visual novel Twinkle Crusaders received three manga adaptations before its release?

... that Oregon State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson is a first cousin of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening?

... that
Sir Robert Charleton was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
despite having no previous experience in that court?

... that writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school?

... that the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton hosts an annual event honoring girls and women named "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth Ann"?

02:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

That International Rag

... that Irving Berlin stuffed towels into a piano while he was composing "That International Rag" (listen) to muffle the sound because other hotel guests made noise complaints?

... that South Manchurian Railway, sponsored his childhood friend, the famed author Natsume Sōseki on a publicity jaunt to Manchuria
?

... that the World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser
?

... that according to
Richard Morgan
insane?

... that carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems
of modern birds?

... that
Korean composer and violinist Hong Nan-pa is best known for his song Bongseonhwa written in 1919 which was widely sung during the Japanese occupation of Korea
?

... that the Umayyads in 717, is the oldest mosque in Aleppo, Syria
?

... that the opening theme of the
eighth season of the Bleach anime, "After Dark", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation
?

... that in 1947, African American hired to teach in the Seattle Public Schools
, but one of the first married women as well?

6 October 2008

20:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the ancient
Lord of the Rings
?

... that a
Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre-WWII Estonia
?

... that in 878, the Byzantines lost Syracuse in Sicily to the Arabs because the imperial fleet was occupied with transporting marble for the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral?

... that the desegregation in Virginia
?

... that Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, was besieged six times by various armies?
... that in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen?

... the San Esteban Chuckwalla on San Esteban Island contrary to predictions of ecological niche
theory?

... that
El Niño
storm in 1998?

... that there are currently over 1,000 more international chess tournaments per year than there were in 1951?

12:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Rohitha Bogollagama (pictured) represented Sri Lanka at peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at Geneva in 2006?

... that "Back 2 You / Still Grey" was simultaneously the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum to feature either a guest vocalist, or a guest instrumentalist?

... that in addition to being a government aide during the
USSR
and the US?

... that the album title Ordinary Dreamers is about doing extraordinary things with a "dreamer mentality" as an ordinary person?

... that two
summits of Potter Fell in the Lake District are mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland
?

... that musician Cleveland, Ohio
?
... that the
Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai, India was built in 1516 by Portuguese
missionaries?

... that Dutch
Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize
-winning physicist?

... that
Special Women Police Contingent across Bangladesh
?

... that as a result of Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant
contestants?

07:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the first public Swedish
Bromma kyrka (pictured) as control points
?

... that the 1944 genetic material, challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein
?

... that in 1992, when Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour
, no male had yet held this position?

... that the recent series of "Apple Macintosh
computers?

... that Bronze Star
?
... that the opera Les vêpres siciliennes (1885) by Giuseppe Verdi was based in part on the medieval Sicilian tract Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia (1290)?

... that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police first inducted female officers in 1978?

... that
American Australian astronomer Penny Sackett has been appointed as the next Chief Scientist of Australia
and will commence her duties in November 2008?

5 October 2008

23:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that suggestions for rejuvenating the big golf ball
?

... that the press box at the
Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball
games from 1947–1986?

... that former
Chief Justice of Queensland Neal Macrossan
's brother and nephew were also Chief Justice as well?

... that Federalist Papers
?
... that Roger Vanderfield, an Australian doctor, rugby union referee and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the first Rugby World Cup?

... that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?

... that, during the
1994 Major League Baseball strike, umpire Larry Young refereed a match at WrestleMania XI
?

... that Miodio
?

... that Swedish-American
preservatives
used on bird specimens sent to him?

16:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that a garment of traditional hanbok
having been worn by both men and women?

... that publisher Irvin J. Borowsky created TV Digest, America's first television program listing, which was sold to Walter Annenberg and became part of TV Guide?

... that the HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars?

... that
Bob Miller lost his first 12 games with the 1962 New York Mets and played for 10 different teams in his Major League Baseball
career, tying modern-day records for both that have since been broken?

... that painter Peter I of Russia
?
... that
Christopher Munch had to shoot his film The Sleepy Time Gal
over an extended two-and-a-half year period due to a lack of finances?

... that Minister of Industrial Provisioning
for only seven days?
... that the British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions
?

10:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Ochna serrulata is called "Mickey Mouse Plant" because the plant's bright-red sepals (pictured) resemble the face of Mickey Mouse?

... that the
Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan
?

... that John T. David, a small-town Louisiana mayor, was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions?

... that
diplomatic relations
in 1972?

... that fiber optics
?

... that the Supreme Court of Cocos (Keeling) Island
once administered laws described as "Byzantine" in complexity?

... that Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy
?

... that the
bush poet Banjo Paterson was inspired by an outback worker who purchased a bicycle when drought
meant there was no feed for horses?

... that Oklahoma A&M player on Drake University's Johnny Bright
that broke Bright's jaw?

04:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the band
MTV Music Video Awards
?

... that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India, in which they won all the seats they competed for?

... that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army?

... that an island purchased by conservation area for giant tortoises
?

... that the television broadcast of the 2000 Sugar Bowl was watched by an estimated 18.4 million people?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen, whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci
?

... that the gilt-copper cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary
?

... that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers?

4 October 2008

22:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1923 Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier (pictured) was shot by his lover using the gun with which his wife had shot herself some years earlier?

... that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Los Angeles incorporates swastikas
in its architecture?

... that the
Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel
?

... that the Internal Troops, is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2
?

... that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen?

... that the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper?

... that the
fourth season of Major League Baseball
?

... that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?

... that
Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering, and received the IEEE Edison Medal
for his work on electrical communication?

16:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that drag racer Bruce Larson hired sprint car racer Maynard Yingst (sprint car pictured) as his crew chief for his 1989 NHRA Funny Car championship season?

... that during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece"?

... that
Tang Dynasty warlord Tian Yue
was, along with his mother, wife, and children, killed by his cousin Tian Xu, who then took over the circuit that he governed?

... that the original of the 1812 painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin was only recently discovered in Sweden and acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1983?

... that Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry
?

... that the construction of the Newburgh and West Point, New York
, two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?

... that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi, China in the mid 1930s?

... that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department?

10:52, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm Just Wild About Harry

... that the song "
Broadway
show to have an all African-American cast?

... that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in
1932 Los Angeles Olympics
both in number of participants and spectators?

... that while growing up in Kentucky, aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?

... that Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?

... that
plays
have been produced over 2,000 times?

... that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies?

... that boy soprano Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice, features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith?

... that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?

04:56, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that after 19 years broadcasting from an antenna atop the 42-story DuMont Building (pictured) in Midtown Manhattan, WKCR-FM became the first station to broadcast from the mast on top of the World Trade Center?

... that former
Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives
?

... that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor?

... that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?

... that the ruined
henhouse
for many years before being restored in the 19th century?

... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?

... that
canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution
?

... that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?

3 October 2008

23:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Dome of the Chain (pictured), a free-standing dome functioning as a prayer house on the Temple Mount, was possibly used as a building model for the adjacent Dome of the Rock?

... that
Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube
's all time most subscribed in 2008?

... that by 1937, the
Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland
?

... that
art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art
?

... that
first season of the D.Gray-man anime
?

... that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?

... the AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside
was paid nothing for the idea?

... that after the resignation of
Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
?

16:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the threadfin jack (pictured) has been found at a number of archaeological sites in Central America, indicating this species has been caught by humans for food for at least three millennia?

... that
British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament
, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?

... that the U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg
?

... that "Buddhist priest
who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
... that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?

... that Jacopo I da Carrara, signore of Padua, Italy, voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala?

... that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?

... that the Mary in the Arabian Sea
?

... that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe?

10:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Frog Legs Rag

... that "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?

... that Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?

... that the 2002 Palestinian
fighters announced their willingness to surrender?

... that
bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering
"?

... that the Hindus
?
... that Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?

... that the Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
?

04:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Flagellation of Christ first appears in art (example pictured) in the 9th century?

... that Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan
?

... that the NCAA records for both bowl game
appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?

... that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?

... that
botnets
?

... that conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing"?

... that
Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games
at the age of 59?

... that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?

... that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?

2 October 2008

21:06, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured) spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?

... that at the funeral of
Sir Anthony Browne, friends were given mourning rings
engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?

... that M3 Amphibious Rig, a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?

... that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin?

... the insular gigantism
?

... that U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
?

... that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?

... that Charlie Hillard was the first American to win the World Aerobatics Championship?

15:20, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri
?

... that
United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle
by supplying the needed machinery to make it?

... that according to
Colin Moynihan
in a London pub?

... that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia?

... that
katydid
acoustic communication?

... that in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick?

... that many of the pieces of the anthology Thomas de Quincey
may have accidentally set them on fire?

... that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?

08:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that rains from mudslide that temporarily buried a man in Mexico
?

... that knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog
?

... that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains?

... that live fencing, fodder, coffee shade, green manure and rat poison
?

... that
fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish
skins?

... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?

... that Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives
?

... that
São Paolo because a funeral home
was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?

... that in August 1936, the
Sea Scouts
and had been missing for two weeks?

02:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that more than 100,000 Heinkel Tourist (pictured) scooters were sold despite being heavier and more expensive than Vespas and Lambrettas?

... that David Gordon
's Made in U.S.A.?

... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?

... that the
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
?

... that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath's album What If We?

... that following the purchase of
Electricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
have been announced?

... that on April 17, 1964, Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Met player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium?

... that the Oxford Music Hall, opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?

... that
St. Louis, Missouri
around the turn of the 20th century?

1 October 2008

18:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the magazine Electrician and Mechanic (cover pictured) changed its title six times in two years before acquiring its current title, Popular Science?

... that
Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption
in the government?

... that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?

... that although 2008 All-Star Futures Game
?

... that the song "
Another Planet" by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds
?

... that, after the rebellious
Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen
, he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?

... that
consumer advocate, was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board
?

... that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?

09:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that
David Bowie (pictured) was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Webby Awards
?

... that the followers of the Communist Party of Israel
, were known as mopsim?
... that
Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote
?

... that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?

... that Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008?

... that Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?

... that Cleckheaton railway station
was stolen in August 1971?

... that Auschwitz Trial
?

... that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?

02:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that according to writings by missionary
Umnak Island
?

... that the riverbanks
but not near water?

... that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?

... that US$5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority
?

... that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?

... that in 2004, Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?

... that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?

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