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Did you know...

30 September 2008

20:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in August 2007, millionaire businessman Anwar Rashid and his family left
Clifton Hall (pictured), their £3.6M home in Nottingham, because they thought it was haunted
?

... that California Angels
on April 9, 1977?

... that the
Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel–Hamas
military conflict?

... that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?

... that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?

... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets, described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?

... that the 15th-century figure Chief Justice of the King's Bench
?

14:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that, at 248.1 metres (814 ft), Midtown Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan?

... that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school, but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?

... that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?

... that Sir Francis Gawdy, his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation?

... that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?

... that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?

... that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?

... that the Sea of Cortés
?

08:19, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that during testing, exhaust fan
, shot into the ground instead of its target, and threatened to fire on the high-ranking review panel in nearby stands?

... that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France, Bohemia, Italy and Burgundy?

... that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?

... that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?

... that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?

... that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the
a 1964 legislative election
?

... that
Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader
?

01:59, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that after
pirate
?

... that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA?

... that the Isra and Mi'raj
?

... that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?

... that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar?

... that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?

... that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall?

... that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga, meaning "completely blocked by sand"?

... that the Constanţa, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery
as well in 2001?

29 September 2008

18:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?

... that the cause of the
Svenskehuset Tragedy, where 17 men died on Svalbard
in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?

... that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby/Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again?

... that a Joseon Dynasty
?

... that official history of Australia's involvement in World War II, Australia in the War of 1939–1945
?

... that the columns
?

... that during the
microfilms
to send messages across German lines?
... that "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?

12:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
(pictured), was born 250 years ago today?

... that the 17th-century gardeners of the silk worms
?

... that after filing to run for a seat on the
Jason Lee
had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?

... that during the
eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the first season of 90210
?

... that
Catholic University
?

... that in the
Toronto Blue Jays seasons, they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day
?

... that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig, he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?

06:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Cubs Win flag (pictured) on the flagpole atop the scoreboard at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home
victory?

... that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?

... that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?

... that the Blue Ribbon School
?

... that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina?

... that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?

00:22, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq (pictured) provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?

... that
qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics
?

... that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane?

... that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?

... that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?

... that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius?

... that unlike most other
Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue
were farmers rather than resort operators?

... that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?

28 September 2008

17:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore (pictured) following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name?

... that brain tissue
?

... that the current Aztec emperor Moctezuma II
?

... that Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?

... that SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II?

... that the Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman
style architecture?

... that
doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics
?

... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?

... that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?

11:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Elena Paparizou (pictured), the second choice to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, ended up winning the contest with "My Number One
"?

... that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?

... that former
Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit
rather than mathematics?

... that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?

... that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple, which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?

... that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era?

... that High Court judge
, appointed in 1993?

... that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager?

05:44, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam
?

... that California Angels
?

... that six hours after it had been
Hurricane Joyce
unexpectedly dissipated?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci, angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao
's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?

... that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course?

... that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association?

... that
under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate
?

... that architect Andrew Rebori once referred to modern buildings as "steel and glass upside-down cakes"?

27 September 2008

23:44, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Jabba The Hutt puppeteer Toby Philpott (pictured) began his career as a homeless juggler in the streets of London
?

... that
Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed, the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season
?

... that two weeks before the Leon M'ba
?
... that Farhad Reza, along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers, was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League?

... that the schism
, which lasted until 1178?

... that
Michael P.C. Carns, who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star
?

... that the Instructions of Shuruppak, first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh, has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian"?

... that Geophysical Service Incorporated, which became Texas Instruments
?

17:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that chief of mission in U.S. diplomatic history declared persona non grata
and expelled from a country where he was serving?

... that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game?

... that the damaged and demasted brig Atlantic
with its surviving crew?

... that the
Duchy of Trent from the Franks
, in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?

... that Vihar Lake, the largest in Mumbai, was created in 1860?

... that socialite Hazel Crane's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy?

... that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos, after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans?

... that Diocesan School for Girls
students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?

11:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

That Mysterious Rag

... that
T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" parodies the lyrics of the Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder song "That Mysterious Rag
" (song to the right)?

... that Britain's Heather Fell, the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon, had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?

... that earth dam
which got washed away?

... that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win at the 1989 contest?

... that African American
mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?

... that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled?

... that rural
people of the recent past?

05:40, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
young Lord Byron (1813 portrait pictured) shared his mother's violent temper and, during one fit of anger, bit into a saucer
?

... that the armour piercing ammunition
?

... that new
2009 Formula One season
?
... that U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson
?

... that when a
concubine
Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?

... that the typo
in the first volume to describe it?
... that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon, Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?

26 September 2008

22:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a simple kite defeated cannons, steamers, and rockets in the bid to lay a line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge (ad pictured)?

... that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"?

... that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?

... that officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal
?

... that the ceiling of the
burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme
?

... that in the fictional
Sword of Shannara
?

... that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?

... that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century
Thomas of Canterbury
?

16:23, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Huletts Landing, New York (pictured) is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?

... that
British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics
?

... that "All the Way" by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks?

... that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?

... that
champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall
?

... that when Britain took the dispute over the
sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina
declined to cooperate?

... that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers, including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson?

... that when
All Blacks
they were both still schoolboys?

10:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Beaded Lizard (pictured) has been found to contain several enzymes useful in the manufacturing of drugs to treat diabetes
?

... that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?

... that small modelli of works of art were produced for patrons to approve?

... that
British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay
?

... that "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?

... that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the
native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine
?

... that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season, Billy Coutu's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?

... that the works of German artist WWII
his work became appreciated?

03:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua
?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang
?

... that the
willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan
earlier this year?

... that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses?

... that before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?

... that Azúcar Moreno's song "Bandido" caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?

... that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football?

25 September 2008

21:24, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that American cargo ship MS West Grama (pictured), while in the service of the U.S. Navy in 1919, was the first American-flagged ship to enter Bulgarian waters?

... that
capsized
returning to shore?

... that there were several 1994 Formula One season
?

... that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?

... that
Nazis
for leading a non-violent resistance group?

... that Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums?

... that the Tamil society
in ancient times?

... that Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?

... that the first
Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria
?

... that in 1998,
Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
?

13:34, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that to avoid worrying about sound quality for too long,
In Silico using Commodore 64 and Nintendo emulators
?

... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?

... that victory in the
1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C.
their first major honour?

... that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?

... that the producers of
money back guarantee
for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?

... that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?

... that Partenope was the first opera written by an American-born composer?

... that
Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation
?

08:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

... that Nazi occupation of Poland
?

... that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas?

... that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?

... that as captain of the cruiser
bow
?

... that
Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling
ale?

... that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and later tried and executed for treason?

... that jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?

01:59, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the thermal imaging camera (pictured) has been called the best advance in firefighting equipment in the last 25 years, and the most expensive?

... that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?

... that
9-1-1
callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?

... that the Battle of Tsingtao
?

... that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff, Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated?

... that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?

... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?

24 September 2008

18:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1817, the previously banned coat of arms of Paris (pictured) was restored to its traditional form?

... that
9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed
?

... that the Otto Zobel, better known for his work on constant-resistance networks
to equalise amplitude?

... that the
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough
?

... that
systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference
where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?

... that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?

... that 13th-century
Hulagu Khan
?

... that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire?

11:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Mormon films in the United States
?

... that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?

... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?

... that Member of Parliament
despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?

... that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?

... that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?

... that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?

... that
Tsangpo River in Tibet
?

05:09, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the air-cooled engine built for the general aviation
market?

... that Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?

... that Conrad Gesner
?

... that in the
start twice or more on Opening Day
?

... that Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris?

... that despite a
US$900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos
opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?

... that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I?

... that feedlots in West Texas
?

23 September 2008

19:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Irving Berlin composed the song "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (cover pictured) more than 30 years before Judy Garland performed it for the 1948 film Easter Parade?

... that
Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal
Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?

... that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?

... that U.S.
dumbbells
for his sixth birthday?

... that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England?

... that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?

... that professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds
?

13:55, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a jokduri (pictured) is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings?

... that Amalgamated Copper, backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller, only to collapse in the Panic of 1907
?

... that British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing
?

... that some believe the
Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty
ritual?
... that
London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball's 1966 TV special Lucy in London
?

... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?

... that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?

07:53, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the old and new One Fathom Bank Lighthouses in Malaysia (pictured) are situated an estimated 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart from each other?

... that sheriff in Nottinghamshire, should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta
?

... that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?

... that
So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau
that allowed him time to train?

... that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?

... that Soviet-built SAM
network?

... that historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?

01:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Corpus Clock (pictured), a large sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?

... that
African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess
, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?

... that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?

... that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?

... that
Nyree Lewis
are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming?

... that the
Prima Paint decision created the separability principle, requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses
be decided by the arbitrator?

... that Battle of Tsingtao in WWI
?

... that the 18th-century city of Newburgh police K-9
unit?

... that the fictional character Lex Luthor
was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?

22 September 2008

19:43, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

... that an Joseon period
?

... that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar?

... that a
Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman
as "sexist"?

... that
motor neurone disease
in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?

... that the
Western Africa
?

... that
NZ$
1?

... that the
Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut
?

... that the
Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut
?

10:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Gesner's fossil illustration, 1551

... that
Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil
illustrations (pictured)?

... that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library?

... that Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin
Nation in Canada, in both area and population?

... that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national business newspaper in the United States?

... that
Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team
in 1989?

... that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet?

... that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day?

... that
Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain
?

... that when
Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman
lore?

04:50, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

... that heritage turkeys (pictured) are the only domestic turkeys able to reproduce without artificial insemination?

... that in 2005, key to the city" of Evansville, Indiana
?

... that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?

... that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles?

... that the origin of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
?

... that
Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist
, which eventually killed him?

... that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?

... that men were forbidden to enter the
Helena of Constantinople
to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?

... that black nationalist journal Negro World
while still in high school?

21 September 2008

22:48, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
St. Michael the Archangel Church (pictured) in Kaunas, Lithuania was a military church, built for the Kaunas Fortress garrison
?

... that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California?

... that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft?

... that chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion
industry?

... that world records
for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
... that Negro league baseball pitcher Dave Brown disappeared in 1925 after murdering a man in a bar fight, but was rumored to have secretly resumed pitching under the alias "Lefty Wilson"?

... that the
Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
?

... that River Nile
?
... that a Japanese sea spirit named shōjō with red hair and a fondness for sake is featured in Noh and Kabuki plays?

13:27, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that when the
circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre
?

... that the complete, power operated, low recoil force gun turret of the Stingray light tank is used on the LAV-600 light armoured vehicle?

... that
Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan
?

... that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes?

... that architect Milwaukee, Wisconsin
?

... that
Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul, Korea
?

... that Australian politician Mick Clough defeated a sitting member of parliament at three different elections?

... that Bridgeport Village, a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon, was built on the site of a former rock quarry?

07:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the traditional dress of Hui'an maidens (statue pictured) has been jokingly referred to as "feudal heads, thrifty jackets, democratic bellies, and wasteful trousers"?

... that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal
literary critic
?

... that in 1975, his only full season, Stan Perzanowski's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers?

... that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England?

... that Charles Ancliffe's waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?

... that Texas State Senate
as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?

... that WWI by German forces pursuing the Schrecklichkeit
policy?

... that the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Cameroonian investigative journalist Philip Njaru has faced repeated police brutality since 1997?

... that British citizenship
?

01:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Korean traditional decorative coloring on wooden buildings and artifacts
for style?

... that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?

... that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?

... that never having previously taken five
Carib Beer Cup
final?

... that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?

... that the attempt to fly
?

... that
Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons
?

... that
state highways in Hamilton County, New York
?

20 September 2008

19:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge (pictured) has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?

... that
Ben Diogaye Beye's first feature film was critical of polygamy
?

... that starting in 2009, certain
corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
?

... that although
March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II
, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?

... that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann?

... that burlesque
to America in 1868?

13:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Bolshoi Theater
at the age of ten?

... that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves?

... that the 1898
Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California
underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?

... that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?

... that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak, the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy"?

... that Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford
?

07:24, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a failure to correct an aircraft flaw revealed by the "Windsor Incident" with American Airlines Flight 96 (pictured) caused the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 two years later?

... that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?

... that in 1935, the
Palestinian city of Nablus
after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?

... that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?

... that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, England?

... that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?

... that British justice Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
?

00:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

... that New Zealand band The Trons (pictured) has no human members?

... that automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur
model displayed in Stamford's city park?

... that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack?

... that at one point, the powerful
grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi
's father?

... that September 11 attacks
?

... that Mussolini
?
... that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907, he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?

... that the main tourist attraction in wildflowers
?

19 September 2008

14:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

... that dubash in the service of the French East India Company
?

... that
textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York, are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing
?

... that in Norse mythology, Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter?

... that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?

... that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare, Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning?

... that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg, which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award?

... that Members of Parliament
?

... that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York, have been described as an "Aztec Temple"?

05:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Frederick Roehrig's Castle Green (pictured) in Pasadena, California, was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?

... that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona?

... that
First World War
?

... that the chart run for George Jones' first chart single "Why Baby Why" was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?

... that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski, one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2, after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?

... that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II, the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812?

... that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks, three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?

18 September 2008

23:52, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

A house blown up during Operation Asuta

... that the
Black September in Jordan
?

... that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea?

... that the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?

... that the Osvald Group, led by Asbjørn Sunde, was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?

... that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas?

... that
Invasion of Normandy
?

... that
China's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand
intervened?

... that, in his only full Major League Baseball season, Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?

18:01, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Victorian English operetta star Emily Soldene (pictured) later became a celebrated gossip columnist?

... that
Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison
?

... that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site, though the circumstances of his death are disputed?

... that at one time, Toronto's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?

... that in 2004, circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro
?

... that Muslim debaters in the Norwegian
public sphere?

... that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio, the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?

... that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War?

... that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?

12:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
St. Volodymyr's Cathedral (pictured) was the first neo-byzantine design approved for construction in the Russian Empire
in 1852?

... that the
nation-states
?

... that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis, finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris, other than the Seine?

... that the Hungarian
immigrant workers?

... that politicians have proposed replacing the red
cape Barren Goose
?

... that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?

... that after manual
Burma
?

... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

05:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Nonsuch House (pictured) is the earliest documented prefabricated building?

... that therapeutic
value?

... that
Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen, after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an
disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?

... that the
French Republican Calendar
was still in use?

... that dog racing
?
... that Vrav, a village in the northwest of Bulgaria, is inhabited by "wet Vlachs"?

... that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?

17 September 2008

23:08, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Rose Parade
?

... that Twin-T
topology can be used as a substitute for bridge topology in many electronic circuits when grounding
is an issue?

... that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?

... that NASCAR Nationwide Series, is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR
?

... that the
Hollywood film If Only
?

... that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills?

... that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb, Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?

... that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York?

... that
Geoffrey Ballard, acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time
in 1999?

15:05, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that early claims by European
Inca artefacts on the summit of Llullaillaco
(pictured)?

... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?

... that
Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Chenghong carried the title of emperor for 12 days after invading Tufan forces captured the capital Chang'an
and declared him emperor?

... that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California?

... that one of the characters from the
Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
winner?

... that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II?

... that the expensive and ornate art exhibits and classical music, soon turned to circus acts and music hall
instead?

09:04, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Guru Maharaj Ji's followers predicted that extraterrestrials would attend the Millennium '73 in the Astrodome (pictured) and that the festival's failure was a major setback for the Divine Light Mission?

... that American
patents
?

... that social movements
by their dependence on outside, political factors?

... that George Halpin's Bull Wall and Bull Island, engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey, enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin, Ireland for the first time?

... that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?

... that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl, his 323rd victory?

... that after the death of concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang
, the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?

03:03, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

... that among the many historic buildings in textile mill in the United States that manufactured hosiery and other knitwear
?

... that a logocracy is government through words?

... that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?

... that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan?

... that besides hosting the
black bass
?

... that though the 2004
sweeps week
, it was generally panned by critics?

... that artist Derek Davis met his wife at a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients?

16 September 2008

20:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the only current British medal to retain the head of Queen Victoria on its obverse is the Service Medal of the Order of St John (pictured)?

... that Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?

... that the winning players in cricket's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?

... that Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget
" in 2006?

... that baptized at St. Mary's, Warwick, with King George I
standing as his sponsor?

... that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?

... that the phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?

... that the
Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning
system?

13:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata (pictured), initially described by the Tyrolian naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca?

... that
Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker
during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years?

... that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the
Ewens Ponds
?

... that
Golden Pen of Freedom
, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?

... that the 1756
Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey, but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington
have been disproven?

... that
Egan-Sud, Quebec, a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality
?

... that Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions?

... that the earliest
fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda
in 1951?

07:52, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun?

... that the 1828 Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping
and murder?

... that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Anshi Rebellion
?
... that the scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion
?

... that London's Novelty Theatre, built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?

... that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships, when she was only 14 years old?

... that
year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army
won during that year?

... that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter?

01:41, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

... that although the
Civil War of 1341–1347
against him?

... that a
deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion
?

... that Iyothee Thass was a Dalit Buddhist leader from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after whom a hospital was named?

... that Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase
in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?

... that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Louvre Museum
?

... that the island of
Formosan
warriors in 1636?

... that Sabine River
border?

... that in the
charms
to heal a wounded horse?

... that
Daytime Emmy
?

15 September 2008

18:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that there are nearly JPL Space Flight Operations Facility
(pictured)?

... that drug trafficking, which according to the UNODC
is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?

... that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions?

... that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow?

... that following a 17-year campaign,
Vijayabahu I successfully reunited Sri Lanka
in 1070, for the first time in more than a century?

... that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?

... that the
Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American
?

... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?

12:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the nocturnal gull
?

... that P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy
during October 1962?

... that medieval donor portraits often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?

... that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory?

... that according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?

... that reality series America's Next Top Model
?

... that the Kłodzko Fortress in present-day southwestern Poland took the Austrians and the Prussians 200 years to build?

... that only three out of 32
Big Freeze of 1963
?

06:36, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

... that test-tube enzyme assays
?

... that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?

... that the
Tampa Bay Storm has appeared in the AFL
playoffs 19 of their 22 years?

... that in 1862,
Phan Thanh Gian said that France
's "wealth and strength are beyond description"?

... that two trains returning from the 1851 Chester races lost adhesion in Sutton Tunnel, and a third crashed into them, killing nine and injuring up to 40 people?

... that printer
of history?

... that the
Yokozuna, but Hulk Hogan
won the title?

... that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull?

... that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator?

00:34, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

The Sultan's Elephant

... that the arts company
Artichoke produced The Sultan's Elephant (pictured), the biggest piece of free theatre ever staged in London
?

... that in his book American forces in Iraq
?

... that the Manchester and Bolton Railway was originally proposed as a replacement for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal but was eventually built alongside it instead?

... that
linguist Asim Peco is an expert in the language of eastern Herzegovina
?

... that prior to statehood, negotiations with Indians in Indiana included 13 separate treaties purchasing 2,500,000 acres for white settlement?

... that Sumerian Farmer's Almanac is the first farmer's almanac on record?

... that the
Jewish population of Warsaw
?

... that investor and philanthropist United Nations Secretary-General
's Special Envoy for Malaria?

14 September 2008

16:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Austrian Baroque painter Paul Troger was known for his frescoes in Austrian abbeys (example pictured)?

... that the Glacial Gardens of glacial potholes
in the world?

... that chocolates, but also had an influence on the discovery of a La Tène
settlement dating back to 450 BC? NOTA BENE: Milka was created after the death of Philippe Suchard

... that the gate was good and a keg
of lemonade when it wasn't"?

... that Quebec nationalist Walter-Patrice O'Leary was the younger brother of CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary?

... that the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen?

... that
minting of coins valued significantly higher than ordinary coins and was blamed for the subsequent rise in food prices
?

... that We Need Each Other was the first Sanctus Real album to feature guest musicians?

10:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
curvature of spacetime
(three possibilities pictured)?

... that the
German film The Miracle of Father Malachia was finished only seven hours before its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival
?

... that Louisiana piano player Allen "Puddler" Harris, whose career spanned five decades, was inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame?

... that a new Louvre museum is scheduled to be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE?

... that
City of Tokio were the largest ships ever built in the United States
upon their completion in 1875?

... that actress Marion Terry, a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry, appeared in over 125 chief roles?

... that Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?

03:49, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Tachikawa Airfield (aerial photo pictured) was the military base in Tokyo from which the 1937 original Kamikaze plane to London took off?

... that composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?

... that the
future capital
?

... that the mouth of the disgraced
chancellor Yuan Zai was stuffed with socks by the executioner when he was executed
for corruption?

... that by the time the Wye Valley Railway opened in 1876, a Welsh wireworks it was intended to serve had already closed down?

... that Russian doctor and serial killer Maxim Petrov was caught because he took the names of his twelve victims all from the same list of patients, enabling police to predict whom he would kill next?

... that Granada Television
?

13 September 2008

21:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the newly discovered Milky Way galaxy
that produces an average of just 10 stars per year?

... that in his memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo, William Leeke claimed that the 52nd Light Infantry singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of Napoleon's Imperial Guard?

... that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
served as the capitol building of the United States from 1790 to 1800?

... that Daniel Dobbins was in charge of the building of the ships that Oliver Hazard Perry commanded in the Battle of Lake Erie?

... that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up?

... that
Oscar-winning film The Departed
?

... that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?

14:28, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Bulgarian modernist painter Ivan Milev (pictured) is depicted on the five Bulgarian leva banknote?

... that
58th
station must be kept in operable condition because federal funds were used in its renovation?

... that German-Swedish driver Freddy Kottulinsky, who won the 1980 Dakar Rally, was hired only a few days before the start?

... that the
Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a Carnegie library
?

... that
Madras
?

... that the readership of the new
US$
2.9 million?

... that after literary critic of 19th-century English poetry
?

... that cashew nut processing, is used to make vehicle brakes and coatings
for concrete floors?

08:29, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Air Group Six (pictured) was the U.S. Navy's only carrier-based air group to carry out three complete tours of duty during World War II?

... that the main candidate to replace
papal conclave, 1458
?

... that the
England
?

... that
Tang Dynasty judge Pei Zunqing
spared a group of soldiers accused of treason by pointing out they had neither money nor talent to carry out a rebellion?

... that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America?

... that though small in size, the underground drug market in Bahrain is growing?

... that Richard Lawson, a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis?

... that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes?

03:10, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a firehose
, opening and closing doors, and dragging the injured?

... that Cyclone Graham dropped 163 millimetres (6.4 in) of rain at Telfer, Australia in one night, over half the community's annual average?

... that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics?

... that according to legend, the
King of Scots
?

... that in discriminate against women
?

... that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most?

... that
memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake, made with buckwheat
flour and vegetables?

... that as special counsel investigating loans made to
Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President
under oath in an investigation of that president?

12 September 2008

20:26, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting (pictured) was his only known work of maritime art
?

... that Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?

... that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?

... that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?

... that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen?

... that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy?

... that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon's Boumba Bek National Park?

... that the
panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists
?

... that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?

14:25, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that All Saints' Chapel (pictured), now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?

... that the large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany
?

... that seeing-eye dogs
?

... that the keyboard music
?

... that
ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games
in 2003?

... that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka?

... that cheese cultures
?

... that actresses
Liv Ullman were involved in a campaign for the release of refusenik Ida Nudel
from exile?

07:12, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the city of
stir-frying marinated chicken, vegetables, and rice cake in chili pepper paste
?

... that among the tumor
samples?
... that Ralph Sandwich served as the justice at the 1305 trial of William Wallace?

... that there are more than 1,200
historical markers in Ohio
?

... that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language?

... that the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?

... that
King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels
?

... that poet David Wagoner's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola?

01:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

... that architect
Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall
(pictured) against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?

... that the Arafura Swamp in Australia, the filming location for Ten Canoes, is an important breeding site for crocodiles?

... that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?

... that the archeological
evidence?

... that Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum
?

... that MV Westward was modeled after a salmon cannery tender?

... that
chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent
, drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?

... that "Spirit in the Night" was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band?

11 September 2008

19:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department (jacket pictured), which responded to the Flight 93 crash during the September 11 attacks, received a memorial made of steel from the World Trade Center?

... that cryptanalyst
?

... that the marriage of
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé
?

... that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway?

... that the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon?

... that in Norse mythology, Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death?

... that adults in
critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency
is suspected?

... that
Mike'd Up, who co-hosted his last sports radio
program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?

13:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Andong jjimdak (pictured) is a Korean steamed dish originated in the city of Andong?

... that
neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor
?

... that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?

... that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?

... that after the Battle of Chmielnik, a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland, inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?

... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?

... that, because chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an
on divine displeasure with Li Xian?

07:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the construction of the Berne, Switzerland
, triggered a war?

... that Roy Staiger played for both New York Major League Baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, but for no other Major League teams?

... that the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?

... that the village of Byzantine-era qanat
?

... that the Far Hills Races has hosted the Breeders' Cup Grade 1 Steeplechase, which has been called "steeplechasing's richest race"?

... that
comedienne Gladys Morgan
was renowned for her toothless, ear-splitting, infectious laugh?

01:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

... that marinating fresh raw crabs in soy sauce
?

... that on
nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland
?

... that
Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
?

... that
Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London
?

... that the
Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės, Lithuania
, back to the year 1097 or 1171?

... that MPs
?
... that the
Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human
?

... that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling?

... that Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?

10 September 2008

16:15, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Abell 39

... that the
central star
is offset from the center?

... that the beoseon are socks worn with hanbok, Korean traditional clothing?

... that between 1221 and 1244, Robert of Lexinton served as a justice on Eyre on 64 occasions, acting as senior justice for 31?

... that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States?

... that Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile
?

... that the
Hindi
, a language alien to him?

... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake?

... that the
B-17
bombing raid in 1943?

... that racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology
?

... that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?

10:21, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

... that a kilometers
?

... that
Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company
's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?

...that meteoritic impact crater on basalt
rock?

... that the critical editions of the Classics produced by Giovanni Andrea Bussi between 1468 and 1472 were criticised at the time for inaccuracy?

... that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?

... that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?

... that comic store in Europe
during the 1970s?

... that
ethics
?

... that the musicians of the Mississippi delta
?

... that African descent
?
... that Russian travel-writer
?

04:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?

... that in 1902,
Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican
mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?

... that
Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala
?

... that
Galicia with the outbreak of World War I
in 1914 and was never found?

... that the 110-foot (34 m) fresco The Age of Reptiles is the largest painting on the subject of natural history in the world?

... that chancellor
without the financial support from his father-in-law?

... that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?

... that Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?

9 September 2008

20:29, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that although the mushroom Russula delica (pictured) is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?

... that in 1998, English writer hearing impairment
?

... that the Croatian eurodance group Colonia won the first annual Eurodance contest in 2001 with its song "Za tvoje snene oči"?

... that the replica of a Hadrosaurus unearthed in New Jersey in 1858 was displayed at the New Jersey State Museum for decades with an incorrect skull?

... that the 2008 Kerry bogslide
was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"?

... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?

... that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?

14:04, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that carved Romanesque stone heads (pictured) were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century?

... that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union?

... that the
diesel-hydraulic locomotive
?

... that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?

... that
honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States
?

... that in the 1890s, rubber areas of Africa
"?

... that the
Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin
in 1569?

... that the
White-headed Capuchin
?

07:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

100x100px|The Masked Rider mascot

... that the Masked Rider mascot (statue pictured), one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?

... that
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
?

... that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication?

... that despite having immigrated from
Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native "Sabra
"?

... that incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait?

... that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, about his family's battles with bipolar disorder?

... that Bronco Lane presented his severed toes to the National Army Museum?

01:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (pictured), Minister of State for the Republic of the Congo, is also an acknowledged poet?

... that
Tang Dynasty official Miao Jinqing was demoted after he ranked a colleague's son, Zhang Shi, first in the imperial examinations
despite Zhang's lack of knowledge?

... that Auschwitz
"?
... that
Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company
's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?

... that the Hollywood film
?

... that
Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games
?

... that whiskey
?

8 September 2008

19:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings (example pictured), often treated erotically?

... that Commodore Nutt grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?

... that
wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo
?

... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?

... that Monty Python's Spamalot
(2005)?

... that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?

... that Simon of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?

... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in
Buffalo Trace
to settle the state?

13:20, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that European City of Culture
celebrations?

... that there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?

... that
chancellor Wang Yu was credited with incorporating the custom of burning joss paper
into imperial worship ceremonies?

... that the
Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir
after a gap of 18 years?

... that addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge
?

... that
gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia
?

... that Gilbert of Preston, despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?

... that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall, making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?

07:18, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland (pictured), was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque
churches?

... that when one of the rare recordings of "
78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon
that supposedly sat on it?

... that the new
Shire plc
, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?

... that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause?

... that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?

... that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?

... that the
chancellor Zhang Gao
, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?

... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?

00:14, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
garden plant and parent of cultivars G. 'Fire Sprite' and G. 'Orange Marmalade'
?

... that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland, the Mongols did not occupy the country?

... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?

... that the episodes of the
sitcom Knocker
have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?

... that
philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet
, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?

... that worldwide
resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections
since the 1970s?

7 September 2008

15:42, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath (pictured)?

... that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?

... that Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world?

... that in U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause
?

... that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg?

... that the
stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
?

09:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the village of Rezovo (pictured) on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?

... that high school alma mater
?

... that
Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous
and coils into a ball when threatened?

... that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?

... that
Dom Pérignon
for research on the cipher?

... that
1 July 1969
?

... that Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo
?

... that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?

02:02, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg
?

... that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?

... that the women were persons
?

... that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?

... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?

... that after Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation
?

... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?

6 September 2008

17:34, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym
"Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?

... that in 1929, the
SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean
?

... that France-Burma relations
started as early as the 18th century?

... that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?

... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?

... that
Viking
history?

... that visitors to the Queen Marie of Romania
?

11:10, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite
paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?

... that
modernist architecture
?

... that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?

... that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?

... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of
RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland
?

... that the
Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan
?

... that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?

04:00, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf (pictured)?

... that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?

... that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?

... that heart attack
?

... that the two auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II
?

... that New South Wales Parliament
?

... that although not a member of
Haakon VII of Norway
to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
... that the larger and more distinctively coloured female
Black-breasted Buttonquail mates
with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?

5 September 2008

21:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in Jacobite rebellion
?

... that
opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera
?

... that the Thorn Island
?

... that the Peshekee River Bridge
was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?

... that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?

... that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision?

... that CIA
in the late 1940s?

15:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the
Achenseebahn (pictured) in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway
in Europe?

... that General Sir Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland
?

... that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?

... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?

... that the B-50 Superfortress
crashed into it in 1951?

... that both
al-Khader near Bethlehem
?

... that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?

... that Michigan Heritage Route
in 1995?

... that the Denver
?

09:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Clarence Saunders developed the first self-service grocery store (pictured) concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?

... that the
directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi
?

... that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?

... that in the 1996 case Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest
payments?

... that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?

... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?

03:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the resignation of Filipino national police chief
Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. (pictured) was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny
?

... that Frederick Mann was the first Australian-born Chief Justice of Victoria?

... that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?

... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?

... that
Sony Computer Entertainment
?

... that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?

... that swimmer Paralympian
with more than 40 gold medals reported?

... that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?

4 September 2008

21:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that, in a video released by the Iron Sheik (pictured) challenged Seinfeld character Kramer
to a match?

... that
ancient astronauts
?

... that while
Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo
headed for another ship?

... that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann?

... that the Sydney, Australia
was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?

... that
master of laws
?

15:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in the
sand dune
?

... that the only
salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)
?

... that gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross
?

... that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion?

... that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese
was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?

... that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?

09:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the 33-room land boom
that never occurred?

... that the vascular plants
?

... that after winning a
2005 World Championships
?

... that
artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin
?

... that, besides books, in 1950 the phonograph records
in its circulating collection?

... that
world's longest snowmobile race
four times?

... that it is accepted that
Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome, after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime
?

... that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?

... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?

00:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

... that about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire
Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948
?

... that tennis player 2008 US Open
?

... that the Los Angeles County
?
... that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the
his event at the 2008 Olympic Games
?

... that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon, is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County?

... that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?

... that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater?

3 September 2008

18:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

... that prehensile
tail that can support its entire body weight?

... that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?

... that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?

... that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza?

... that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work "Engineer Rerberg"?

... that the periodical wargaming hobby industries in the UK
?

... that the cancellation of the
Nassau agreement
?

11:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, what a charming thing's a battle!

... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?

... that Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia
?

... that the drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States
?

... that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?

... that
Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing
?

... that the state of
Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi
and forced him to commit suicide?

... that
Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique
's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?

... that
Fort Myers Miracle in 2007
?

06:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

... that 19th-century American actor and playwright Steele MacKaye (pictured) invented a variety of theatrical devices, including folding theatre seats?

... that the book United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love
teen industry?

... that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, professional wrestler
at the invitation of a co-worker?
... that 16th-century noblewoman Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval
, as punishment for an affair?

... that speech pathology
?
... that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?

2 September 2008

22:23, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?

... that Holocaust
, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?

... that MetroStars / Red Bulls
?

... that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?

... that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?

... that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?

... that Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War
?

... that the
Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan
?

16:41, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that of the ninety historic Jewish
house of prayer?

... that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K?

... that
State Coach Britannia
?

... that Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina
?

... that
Fort Lauderdale
campus?

... that after six terms in the
Norwegian Maritime Directorate
from October 2009?

... that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?

... that although
fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
", she was never arrested in real life?

10:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Andrew Carnegie (pictured) founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?

... that Namibian War of Independence
?

... that the
Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands
, which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?

... that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?

... that Galapagos Islands
was killing the sharks?

... that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?

... that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?

01:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

... that two future
kings stood sponsor at the christening of the daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and "Queeney" Thrale (pictured), herself a child prodigy and friend of Dr Johnson
?

... that the refractive errors
?
... that the Rose Museum's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall?

... that sentenced to death
for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?

... that Malcolm Fraser, a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment?

... that pop star Bill Drummond
, never records its music, or performs for audiences?

... that Denver Rockets
just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?

1 September 2008

18:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the largest sheet of mica (example pictured) ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada?

... that
vigilantes, was murdered in Mexico
and his body fed to hogs?

... that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?

... that members of the FBI
?

... that major camel jockeys
?

... that the first passenger
Madison Square, New York City
in 1859?

... that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering, others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?

... that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg?

... that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history?

12:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Sunset Tower (pictured) in West Hollywood, California was home to gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?

... that a play by Empress Zewditu
to ban all theatre in the country?

... that according to U.S. law
for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?

... that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford?

... that the mudslide
?

... that American
lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus
?

... that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?

... that the only
three point shot field goal percentage
was not his best season?

... that when the navvies
used 24 simultaneous working faces?

07:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina (pictured) has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?

... that
National Academy of Sciences
?

... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark?

... that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?

... that Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan
?

... that Sir General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles
?

... that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?

... that President of the Norwegian Parliament
for ten terms?

01:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

... that
Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo
?

... that
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?

... that
Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike
by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?

... that thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?

... that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at
Balthazar Foster
had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?

... that nominee
, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?

... that Cooleemee, a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?

... that former Mayor of Auckland Colin Kay was also twice the New Zealand triple jump champion?

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