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28 February 2009

22:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Pollicipes pollicipes (pictured), a goose barnacle found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, is a delicacy in Spain where it may fetch up to €90 per kilogram?
... that U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination
on November 22, 1963?

... that today Rare Disease Day, coordinated by the National Organization for Rare Disorders, is being observed in the United States for the first time ever?

... that Walter A. McDougall received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age?

... that though it never made it on the air, Faze TV was planned as the first television channel in the United Kingdom specifically targeted towards gay men?

... that while a professor at the
University of Wisconsin, future I.C.C. commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer
taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?

... that 2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the trophy
?

... that the Yellow-throated Honeyeater
is known for collecting hair from live animals such as horses, dogs and humans for lining its nest?

15:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the ruined Elizabethan mansion of Rocksavage (pictured) in Runcorn was once the second-largest house in Cheshire?

... that the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania?

... that the Massacre of the Latins occurred in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1182?

... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?

... that the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi, Kenya?

... that
more American astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy
than any other institution of higher learning?

... that the winner of the Ismail Omar Guelleh
, said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?

... that
will
?

09:03, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Orbitron (pictured in restored state), an Ed Roth-built custom car, was feared lost until its 2007 rediscovery in dilapidated condition in front of a Ciudad Juárez adult bookstore?

... that
Auschwitz
?

... that the 1886 Michigan football team had a "goalkeeper" and played games measured in "innings"?

... that Conservative Party of Norway
?

... that a former Kentucky governor
?

... that Peter Schutz saved the Porsche 911 from extinction when he took over the CEO position at Porsche in 1981?

... that the Middle Colonies were the most ethnically diverse British colonies in North America?

... that the plot of the "4-D" episode of The X-Files was inspired by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?

02:28, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Texas Pledge of Allegiance
in 2007?

... that
Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight
?

... that Oppland, is also an honorary member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
?

... that MBM, a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures?

... that Norwegian speed skater Randi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?

... that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska?

... that the Petrobrazi Refinery owned by Petrom is the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4?

... that in February 2008, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Obama: From Promise to Power
?

27 February 2009

19:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Horace Prettyman (pictured) played eight years of "college" football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a student?

... that the heads of some workers are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same species
?

... that an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens?

... that
chancellor
Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?

... that the
protocols, which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias
?

... that Edmund Chojecki co-founded Le Temps, predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, Le Monde?

... that Hebron, now a ghost town in Utah, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902?

14:05, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the predator of prawns on the coasts of Northern Australia
?

... that child actor Robbie Kay made his acting debut in the 2006 film The Illusionist, but was eventually cut from the film?

... that when Typhoon Olive struck Wake Island in 1952, World War II bunkers provided shelters for 700 people, resulting in zero fatalities despite the destruction of 85% of the island's structures?

... that Czech–Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter, chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?

... that the Jimmy Stewart on the cover of LIFE
in 1945?

... that a
cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir, South Yorkshire, England
, after climbing its staircase?

... that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park when it opened in 2003?

... that at the genetic disorders
?

07:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
handball player Joachim Boldsen (pictured) has participated in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars
?

... that Confederate forces won the last battle at the end of the American Civil War?

... that Blue Mountain College
, died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?

... that archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi, West Bengal, small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains?

... that
Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games
?

... that
Frogner Stadion
in 1922 lasted seven years?

... that it took 66 years for an
Boaz mastodon
to be positively identified?

... that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a Chromatron color television set to work properly, prompting Sony to develop the famed Trinitron?

... that publicist Roosevelt Raceway
by placing ads that read "French Trotter Needs Artichokes. Can You Help?"

02:22, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

... that adult land snails in the tropical genera Anostoma and Ringicella carry their oddly-shaped shells (pictured) upside down (i.e. spire down)?

... that
pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS
?

... that
Mongkol Borei District was part of Thailand until the French
demanded it back in 1907?

... that Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini?

... that nearly half the area of Estonia's 342 km² (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?

... that the
Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael
and other prominent critics?

... that Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks?

... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?

26 February 2009

20:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

A sprite

... that
sprites (pictured), large but very brief reddish forms of lightning that occur high over thunderstorms
, were not photographed until 1989?

... that Frozen Four NCAA hockey championship
in 1948?
... that there were almost 50,000 women serving in the Australian military in 1944?

... that the
Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Shaoyang often pillaged the tea-growing hills of neighboring Shou Prefecture
?

... that financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift
?

... that Althea Byfield played collegiate basketball in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional netball in New Zealand, and has represented Jamaica internationally in both sports?

... that
speleothems have been found in the Borra Caves located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
?

... that Leif Tronstad, who helped establish the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork, organized a sabotage mission against it later?

14:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

... that depending on the author, the
stinkhorn mushroom Phallus hadriani
(pictured) has been described as sweet, or fetid?

... that two members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
?

... that the
Second World War
?
... that president of the Institution of Civil Engineers
in 1944 after the death of the president-elect, the second successive year this had happened?

... that in the
2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum, 97.1% of those who voted approved the constitution of Somaliland
?

... that Rear-Admiral
?
... that
AAA's first Triplemanía event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican professional wrestling
event?

... that Kjell Magne Yri, a linguist at the University of Oslo, began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia?

... that despite support from Margaret Thatcher, the 1988 National Health Service Lottery was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?

07:51, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the diet of the
Gold-whiskered Barbet (video shown) includes papaya and lizards
?

... that Japanese-Canadian internment camp, was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of Michigan
sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?

... that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?

... that British East India Company
was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?

... that the
Ghost Riders in the Sky
"?

... that
Newfoundland, Canada, have adopted the euro
as their national currency?

... that
Sengoku Lightweight Championship
?

... that the Walter Hand House, in Cornwall, New York, was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house?

01:38, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
security services by Friedrich Minoux
while he was imprisoned for fraud?

... that the largest shale oil plant in the world uses the Fushun process technology?

... that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War, when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing?

... that
Daewoo Mangalia shipyard
has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?

... that Charles Henry Bell
?
... that the
Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II
?

... that the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area?

... that though trained as a nuclear physicist, Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device, a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?

25 February 2009

16:58, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

... that a Joseon Dynasty, though commoners
could wear it for their weddings?

... that
Northern Nigeria
?

... that prior to the earthquake lights
were sighted?
... that
Air Commodore) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF
when it was formed in 1921?

... that though fruiting as a typical "
little brown mushroom", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores
?

... that
European Indoor Championships
from 1972 to 1977?

... that five
UH-1 Iroquois helicopters of the Experimental Military Unit were shot down by a single Viet Cong soldier armed with an AK-47
rifle?

... that Humphrey Stafford was only Earl of Devon for three months before being killed by a mob?

... that the
pre-Columbian Zapotec storm god Cocijo
was said to have created the world from his breath?

11:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

... that a
Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke's painting of the new bungalow at Sispara in India was published nine years after the Sispara ghat
mountain trail was completed in 1838?

... that, although it is traditionally classified as a
forming compounds the element zinc has similarities to the alkaline earth metals
?

... that John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize?

... that the Grenville Canal on the Ottawa River in Grenville, Quebec, Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the War of 1812?

... that War Cross with Sword for his actions in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage
?

... that following a number of
recent banking controversies, Irish ruling party Fianna Fáil was overtaken in opinion polls by the country's Labour Party
for the first time in history?

... that when Gordon Wilkie and his Michigan Wolverines teammates scored 21 points in a single ice hockey game against Ohio State University, their coach threatened to bench anyone else who scored?

... that some living people claim to have traced their genealogy back to Adam and Eve
?

01:49, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Church of the Transfiguration, Pyecombe, England, has a rare Tapsel gate (pictured), which has a central pivot and was designed to keep cattle out and allow coffins through easily?

... that United States Senator Jim Bunning threw the only perfect game out of the nine no-hitters in Philadelphia Phillies history?

... that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica's four native monkey species can be found?

... that "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union
?

... that the
pilot of Showtime's Dexter was filmed through three hurricanes in 2005
?

... that writer Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism
?

... that an oleum leak at Chevron Richmond Refinery sent 25,000 people to the hospital in 1993?

... that Kenyan
long distance athlete Evans Cheruiyot
and his teammates were stranded in France by their manager without food, money, or shelter?

... that
off-the-air since its transmitter was destroyed by lightning
?

24 February 2009

18:46, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

... that as a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran (pictured) could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords?

... that the
Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles
and blue eye-rings?

... that Hubert de Burgh's takeover of power from Peter des Roches
?

... that in his 1999 book gay rights movement
?
... that Yehoshua Cohen, the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte, later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion?

... that John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places?

... that five members of the Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 world championship team, including Pat Burrell, were also first-round draft picks of the franchise?

... that Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet
?

... that the equines
?

12:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the 1988–89 Swift Current Broncos was the first Western Hockey League team to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup (pictured) without losing a playoff game?

... that the
Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs
was its editor?

... that the Winnipeg, Manitoba
?
... that Ralph Carpenter's restoration of Hunter House, a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition, was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?

... that Ceylon
?
... that the title of the 1960–61
COronado 9 refers to the telephone exchange for the home town of fictional detective
Dan Adams?

... that the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture, Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut, Canada?

... that merchandise, a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement
?

03:26, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

... that 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?

... that a song about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo was sent into space in 1977 as part of the Voyager Golden Record?

... that in 1971, half the houses in Noel Park, London, were still lacking basic facilities such as baths, internal toilets and hot water?

... that Italian architect Ercole Manfredi took up Thai citizenship to overcome nationalist policies pursued by the Thai government?

... that 2005 civil unrest in France
?

... that during the
tarakjuk, a milk porridge, which was served only for the king
and royalty?

... that 18th-century bookseller radical
?

... that the 1862 opening of the second horseback
who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so?
... that suffragette Norah Elam campaigned in 1918 for the internment of enemy aliens but in 1940 was interned herself as an 18B detainee due to her membership in the British Union of Fascists?

23 February 2009

21:05, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the manor at Norwegian Catholic Archbishop
?

... that
2002 Michigan gubernatorial election
?

... that, with an oil-processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes per year, the
Petromidia Constanţa Refinery is the largest Romanian refinery
?

... that it took William Edwards four attempts to build the Old Bridge at Pontypridd in Wales?

... that Quake III Arena's fast inverse square root code uses a "magic number" to generate a quick first approximation to Newton's method of computing roots?

... that the 1955–56
series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television, preceded by Death Valley Days
?

... that tree-ring dating has linked the building of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford to 1179, during the episcopate of Robert Foliot?

... that the bark, but puppies learned to imitate the barking of other dogs when the breed was introduced to Europe
?

14:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

... that an important identifying feature of the Imposter trevally (Carangoides talamparoides, pictured) is its white or pale grey tongue?

... that Scream
"?

... that
City Detective was sold in 1955 for distribution to a then record 171 television
stations?

... that former
political dissident Seth Sendashonga recognized one of his assailants in a failed assassination
attempt as his old government bodyguard?

... that the polypeptide
alveolarin?

... that
Albert Medal
following his rescue of a fourteen-year-old boy during a shark attack?
... that as part of the Gerard, an Archbishop of York, once kicked over chairs and refused to sit until his chair was as high as the Archbishop of Canterbury
's?

... that the career of association football player Mark Maley was ended after he was accidentally shot in the eye by teammate John Oster with an air gun?

07:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

... that several species in the mushroom order Pezizales, such as Geopyxis carbonaria (pictured), Peziza violacea, Peziza praetervisa, and Rhizina undulata, grow on burned-over ground?

... that 18th-century English historian William Rider's 50-volume A New History of England was later described by William Thomas Lowndes as one of the vilest Grub Street compilations ever published?

... that the death of Libby Zion resulted in an New York State
?

... that at an expected cost of US$1 billion, a 3.15-kilometre (1.96 mi) long suspension bridge linking Vladivostok with Russky Island is due to be built in time for APEC Russia 2012?

... that from 14th to 17th century, the Tęczyński family from Lesser Poland had a major influence in the Kingdom of Poland?

... that
Tang Dynasty warlord Wang Chengzong, fearing reprisals after the defeat of his ally Wu Yuanji, offered his sons as hostages and two of his six prefectures to Emperor Xianzong
?

... that the chocolate covered bacon
?

01:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Joseon Dynasty
?

... that the restaurant chain in the United States described as "Hooters with a Scottish
twist"?

... that Erna Hanfstaengl was claimed both to be romantically involved with Hitler and involved in a plot to overthrow him?

... that Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, built by a Forest Service
crew in 1924, is a popular horse camp?

... that the Imperial Japanese Navy's Haruna was one of the first vessels in the world to be equipped with 14-inch naval guns?

... that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?

... that besides delivering
giant electric ray when threatened by a predator includes performing a "somersault
" in the water?

... that live album recorded from Rufus Wainwright's June 2006 tribute concerts to legendary singer Judy Garland
?

22 February 2009

18:58, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

... that 9/11
?

... that India's government launched a programme in 2001 to provide employment for poor people living in rural areas?

... that John Windet published composer Tobias Hume's First Part of Ayres, which contains what may be the earliest examples of pizzicato and col legno?

... that the Perth, Western Australia, traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery, which was founded less than a decade after settlement
?

... that, although she was born in
British record for the pole vault
?

... that thousands of illegal Filipino immigrants are deported from Malaysia every year?

... that Babe Ruth reportedly signed one of his most lucrative New York Yankees' contracts at Jacob Ruppert's Eagles' Rest estate in Garrison, New York, now Saint Basil Academy?

... that
taxidermist Walter Potter's diorama, "The Death and Burial of Cock Robin", created when he was 19, features 98 stuffed British
birds?

12:10, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Tekkiye Mosque (pictured), built by the architect Sinan, has been described as "the finest example in Damascus of Ottoman architecture
"?

... that when the
Tang Dynasty general Tian Hongzheng
was young, his brother Tian Rong battered him after he won an archery contest, believing that he was drawing unnecessary attention to himself?

... that the
Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren's ideal weekend in Los Angeles
?

... that despite claims that
MANPAD was created with Chinese assistance via technology transfers
?

... that
Guy LaFleur
of college hockey", set an NCAA record by scoring three goals in less than one minute?

... that the Kings of England
for concessions and favours?
... that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is the second video game based on the Olympics to star Nintendo's and Sega's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog?

06:08, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

... that with the
Minas Gerais (pictured), Brazil became the third country to have a dreadnought under construction, ahead of traditional powers like France and Russia
?

... that although Robert of Melun disagreed with some of Peter Abelard's teachings, he still defended Abelard against heresy charges?

... that the
clonally
?

... that internet hunting is the practice of hunting via remotely controlled firearms that can be aimed and shot using online webcams?

... that
Tbong Khmom District
?

... that 2009 parliamentary elections
?

... that Negro League star Josh Gibson, who has been called the "black Babe Ruth
?"

... that fashion history and also probably the first to feature a heavily pregnant female presenter
?

21 February 2009

23:46, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
chocolate covered bacon (pictured) is sold as "Pig Lickers" at the Minnesota State Fair, "Pig Candy" in New York City and "Mo's Bacon Bar" in Chicago
?

... that the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway linking Plymouth and Princetown was almost twice as long as the distance between the two cities?

... that the 1952 Revolution
?

... that the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare can reach population densities of 10,000 per square metre?

... that Ed Schock earned an annual salary of just $7,000 as mayor of Elgin, Illinois?

... that the Church of the Assumption in Uzundzhovo, Bulgaria, was initially built as a mosque and was probably commissioned to famous architect Sinan?

... that Norwegian Labour Party organ Social-Demokraten
in 1903, but continued as a prominent party member until 1921?

... that the Family Guy episode "Ocean's Three and a Half" includes the actual audio of Christian Bale's outburst on the set of Terminator Salvation, making it appear to be directed at Peter Griffin?

17:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the European Commission declared the creation of the Folkestone White Horse (pictured) unlawful?

... that
at least seven occasions, and have damaged such landmarks as the United States Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Arboretum
?

... that the
King of France
in 1694?

... that after ceasing operations in New Jersey, the West Jersey Railroad operated in Michigan for several months before being renamed West Michigan Railroad?

... that
Du Huangshang
as an "insane civilian" as Du urged military action?

... that some of the pre-dreadnought USS Connecticut
, may still be in service in Brazil today?

... that John of England
's list of candidates?

... that the hamburgers
?

11:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

... that sculptor Cyprian Godebski lost the commission for the Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków (pictured) to a newcomer, Teodor Rygier, but erected his statue ten years later in Warsaw for 50,000 rubles?

... that after long-standing
FBI raided Chicago's Pui Tak Center
, then known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, in 1988?

... that The Critical Review
?
... that the Hall of Famer Rube Waddell
?

... that
concentration camp
?

... that
Armet & Davis was an architectural firm in California that designed buildings in the so-called Googie architecture
style popular during the 1950s?

... that
Tang Dynasty eunuch Tutu Chengcui was killed after Emperor Xianzong's death over his refusal to support the crown prince Li Heng
as the emperor's successor?

... that marked graves
dating from the 1830s to the 1860s?

04:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the mushroom oak trees
in Europe?

... that when chambers
were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?

... that the identification card in the United States
?

... that the population of Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates declined by 20% in 2008?

... that the largest
is being built in Crawley, where 3.4% of residents are Hindu
compared to 1.1% in England as a whole?

... that the 1881 Michigan Wolverines football team is credited with playing the first intersectional football games against Harvard, Yale and Princeton?

... that extinct until a botanist rediscovered it while taking photos for a book on Texas
wildflowers?

... that Jaime Fonalledas is the President and CEO of Empresas Fonalledas, which owns the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean?

... that
Los Angeles, for The Subliminal Verses World Tour
because their former name was Burn the Priest?

20 February 2009

23:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the LEED Gold certification and the first U.S. courthouse featured at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
?

... that the bioluminescent
?
... that the
World Netball Series is a new international netball competition, with modified rules inspired from Twenty20
cricket designed to make matches faster and more television-friendly?

... that Humphrey Toy financed the publication of the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer?

... that in 1863, the
ten Passaic class monitors, partly because of the fear that the American Civil War would escalate into war between Britain
and Russia?

... that
Albert Medal in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a shark attack
, during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?
... that Top Gun
were filmed there?

... that Battersea Dogs' Home
?

17:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

... that a study of
Xanthoria elegans
(pictured) expands at a rate of 0.5 mm per year for the first century before slowing down?

... that Henry Weinhard, a brewer in Portland, Oregon, offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?

... that six
rail for reassembly at the Austro-Hungarian port of Pola
?

... that the
Syria
—occurs on only two other extant churches in England?

... that 2009 Victorian bushfires
was distributed across the internet?
... that members of
metal band Slipknot found the masks that they wear on stage to be particularly uncomfortable during their Tattoo the Earth concert tour
?

... that Kenneth Gandar-Dower introduced cheetah racing to England?

... that the Super Mario Bros. theme has been listed as one of the top ten most downloaded ringtones in the United States for 226 consecutive weeks?

11:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Black Canadian physician, attended Abraham Lincoln's death bed
?

... that the Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of the two tunnels that make up the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike?

... that
saboteur in World War II
?

... that the Morison equation, an equation in fluid dynamics introduced in 1950, is used in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures?

... that Marshall Loeb, managing editor of Fortune, called his colleague Daniel Seligman, author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness"?

... that children's novel Carnegie Medal in Literature
?

... that in 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the
Muslim Balearic Islands
?

... that Mark Shepherd, who served as CEO of Texas Instruments where he spearheaded development of the firms' integrated circuits, constructed a vacuum tube at the age of six and a radio a year later?

05:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

... that prior to the mid 19th century, the
sweet wine
?

... that when
Elton Wieman moved east to play football for the University of Michigan in 1915, the Los Angeles Times
called it "a calamity of almost national importance"?

... that leaf litter at the base of beech or birch
trees?

... that the National Review called David Mendell's biography Obama: From Promise to Power "the single best source of background information on our new president"?

... that the original mission of the Cini Foundation included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of San Giorgio Maggiore of Venice?

... that José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire, but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?

... that the architecture firm of Sauerbruch Hutton designed the Museum Brandhorst in Munich?

... that
matador Diego Mazquiarán once used his overcoat as a cape to fight a bull that was running wild on the Gran Via of Madrid
?

19 February 2009

23:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

... that according to National Geographic, La Maratona (2008 race pictured), an annual competition held in the Dolomites of the Italian Alps, is "one of the biggest, most passionate, and most chaotic bike races on Earth"?

... that the
Tang Dynasty general Tian Huaijian
was, at age 10, briefly the ruler of Weibo Circuit before he was overthrown?

... that the uncommon
external genitalia
in some recent cases?

... that Albert Bassermann, bearer of the Iffland-Ring, considered the ring cursed after all three of the successors he named died shortly after he named them?

... that the
Skills Like This, created by a first-time director, won the award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 South by Southwest
film festival?

... that Fennemore Craig, founded in 1885, is the oldest law firm in Arizona?

... that the Rylands Papyri held by Manchester University in the UK contain P52, believed by many scholars to be the oldest extant fragment from the Gospel of John?

... that Norwegian Labour Party and the newspaper Dagsavisen
?

... that Football League
"?

14:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Cortinarius triumphans
(pictured) has a cap which is slimy in wet weather and sticky in dry?

... that while serving as Governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844, Henry Hubbard argued for reduced taxes for female property owners?

... that thousands of grooves have been found carved into rock in Northern Europe, but no one knows how or why they were made?

... that attorney
Bill MacFarland had a dislocated knee and six broken teeth after playing 11 seasons of professional ice hockey
?

... that the never-completed Design 1047 battlecruisers were intended to be the first line of defense for the Dutch East Indies?

... that economist capitalist
exploitation?

... that Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative
?

... that
Air Vice Marshal Joe Hewitt began his military career as a thirteen-year-old cadet in the Royal Australian Navy
?

07:31, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

... that "Cappy" Cappon (pictured), known for his "five-man weave" basketball offense, was mentor to Princeton athletes from the 1930s to the 1960s, including Bill Bradley and Frank Deford?

... that so far there have been more than 20 arsons in the Coatesville, Pennsylvania, area
since January 1, 2009, and 15 reported arsons there in 2008?

... that Histria Perla was the 500th ship to receive Emergency Response Service classification from the German company Germanischer Lloyd?

... that Westminster Dog Show
?

... that the Kinetic Energy Recovery System
, which traps energy expelled while braking for later use?

... that French botanist
Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen
, published in 1804–1806, was the first major scientific study of Australia flora?

... that under African American farmers to compensate for 1980s and 1990s racial discrimination
?

... that 2009 Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Mindy Gehrs was called "the best swimmer to ever part the waters of the Atomic City"?

... that the
Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean
?

01:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

... that a
London Clubs International casino hosted the World Series of Poker Europe event in which Annette Obrestad became the youngest person to win a WSOP bracelet
(pictured)?

... that Macintosh line of computers, was praised by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
for being the most accurate film about the company?

... that in 1993, an officer in
VIP
aircraft while in flight?

... that the first discovery of oil off the Texas coast came in 1941?

... that Albert Medal
for his attempted rescue of a pilot trapped in a burning aircraft?

... that
series, Mr. Broadway, featured Liza Minnelli in her first television dramatic
role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale"?

... that Sir Alan Muir Wood worked on the 80 km (50 mi) Orange–Fish River Tunnel, the second-longest water supply tunnel in the world?

... that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road?

... that in 1945, footballer Doug McGibbon scored six goals in one match, one of which was timed at under five seconds from the second half kick-off?

18 February 2009

15:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

... that theatre
?

... that
CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio
?

... that communities of the cowrie shells as an alternate currency, long after they had been replaced elsewhere by the Ghanaian cedi
?

... that on January 22
field manual
?

... that Prince of Moldavia
in 1795?
... that Rascal Flatts' 2009 single "Here Comes Goodbye" was co-written by American Idol season 6 finalist Chris Sligh?

... that unlike the queens of other eusocial species, a queen of the paper wasp Ropalidia marginata is docile and maintains her reproductive monopoly in her colony without physical aggression?

... that former
fashion model Gail O'Neill refused to appear in advertisements for cigarettes or for sponsors with substantial investments in South Africa
?

09:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
Izmir
?

... that the Dayton Triangles, a traveling team, folded after their 1929 season, losing their final seventeen games as a National Football League franchise by a combined score of 301–22?

... that
Governor-General of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack
?

... that detection of fungal infection by the wood-decay fungus Fuscoporia torulosa can be performed in six hours using the polymerase chain reaction?

... that Joe Dini, the owner of Dini's Lucky Club, a casino in Yerington, Nevada, was the longest serving member of the Nevada State Assembly?

... that Apartment Building 63 located in Bucharest is the largest single residential building in Romania with a total of 950 apartments and over 1,600 residents?

... that Luke Smith left video game journalism to work for game developer Bungie, after he had called their game Halo 2 "broken"?

... that, unusually for an eighteenth-century
Charlotte Turner Smith's Emmeline
does not meet the man she marries until half-way through the story?

01:40, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the recipe for chicken fried bacon (pictured) was developed in the small town of Snook, Texas, at Sodolak's Original Country Inn?

... that English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?

... that Jack Kramer was the St. Louis Browns' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1944, the only season the Browns played in the World Series?

... that the new
USA
?

... that the top of the Chapel of Saint-Michel at Parc naturel régional d'Armorique is the highest point in Brittany, France?

... that musician and
Isaiah Jones, Jr.
was named "best songwriter of the year" in 1973 by the Gospel Music Academy?

... that the Permanent University Fund's US$8.8 billion and 2.1 million-acre (840,000 ha) land assets help fund public higher education in Texas?

... that explode, endangering motorists and police officers
?

17 February 2009

19:36, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

... that at RML 64 pounder 64 cwt guns
(pictured)?

... that refugee
scientific papers were published under a pseudonym
?

... that the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the biggest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest?

... that
archers and soldiers of Xiongnu and Xi
ancestry ten times as much as other soldiers, to garner their loyalty?

... that William Close, the physician father of actress Glenn Close, played a pivotal role in stemming the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976?

... that
Stueng Trang District
?

... that after scoring six touchdowns for Michigan against Ohio State in 1902, Albert Herrnstein became the winningest coach in Ohio State football history up to the time he retired?

... that acqua pazza, an Italian herbed broth used to cook seafood, is literally translated as "crazy water"?

13:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Alan Scott (blacksmith)

... that brick ovens and promoted artisanal bread-making techniques and stone flour milling at the Callington Mill
?

... that upon entering the Stadio Olympica at the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the torch bearer tripped over a cable and fell, nearly extinguishing the Olympic flame?

... that transport pilot, was considered by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
to be one of "eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say the world is progressing"?

... that while most cask ales which use fish parts
to clear the finished product—are not?

... that Monroe Sweetland was the first Democrat elected to represent Clackamas County, Oregon, in the Oregon House of Representatives in 20 years?

... that in 114 years of existence the
Constanţa Shipyard in Romania constructed 432 ships with a total of over four million metric tons deadweight
(DWT)?

... that in January 2009, blind person to reach the South Pole
?

... that applying potassium hydroxide to the blue and yellow Australian mushroom Cortinarius rotundisporus will turn it pinkish-purple?

07:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

... that naval tactics expressed in his 1777 book were reflected in Lord Howe's victory in 1794
(pictured)?

... that most buildings damaged in the Wellington, New Zealand were rebuilt with wood, reducing the damage and loss of life in the more powerful Wairarapa earthquake
of 1855?

... that in 1920, Conservative Party politician to serve as mayor of Bergen since Christian Michelsen
in 1893?

... that despite the fact that self-described crocodilians
did not begin until the mid-20th century?

... that the
Huigu
, suffered through Huigu's collapse before she was able to return to the Tang?
... that the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s?

... that 1902
?

... that electrified
?

01:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Evening News in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in 1980 as the "only known treasure ship on the bottom of" Lake Superior
?

... that
communist secret police
in 1947 and died in prison two years later?

... that an outburst by Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation inspired the band The Mae Shi to write the song "R U Professional"?

... that
Andrew Hart was the fastest non-African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
?

... that Joseon Dynasty of Korea
?

... that following his rescue of a swimmer during a
Albert Medal
and gifted £3000?

... that the discography of Lisa Hannigan includes collaborations with Mic Christopher, Mick Flannery, Cathy Davey and members of Snow Patrol and Bell X1, plus her well-known work with Damien Rice?

... that Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel became the first Indians to sign Major League Baseball contracts after throwing a baseball for the first time a year earlier?

16 February 2009

16:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the seafaring adventures of Anne Jane Thornton (pictured) inspired the ballad The Female Sailor Bold?

... that the extreme points of Norway include Rossøya, at 80° North, and arguably the South Pole?

... that Vachana
poet?

... that in 2008 a Vincent Black Lightning sold for £221,500 becoming the most expensive motorcycle sold at auction in the UK?

... that former newspaper editor John W. Grace became the first Privacy Commissioner of Canada in 1983?

... that Grassroots, an organization formed by block club leaders, has had members elected to the Buffalo Common Council, New York State Senate and New York State Assembly?

... that while
World Championships
was fourth place?

... that Mule Bone, a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?

11:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

... that on witch
?

... that New York-Presbyterian Hospital
?

... that fire giant Surtr, is the longest lava cave in Iceland
?

... that Battle of Plattsburg in the War of 1812, and later became Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
?

... that
Prey Chhor District, Cambodia
, is home to an ancient temple built more than a thousand years ago?

... that
Wictor Esbensen, a manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca, is the namesake of Esbensen Bay off South Georgia
island?

... that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office estimates that 80% of undocumented immigrants
?
... that Wild River by director Elia Kazan
after a single day of filming?

04:48, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

... that khan
in the city?

... that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?

... that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in
Srey Santhor District, Cambodia
?

... that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?

... that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound?

... that Nazi occupants in Norway
in 1941?

... that Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a disc jockey to be fired just because she is a woman
?

... that Dr Charles White, co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?

15 February 2009

22:24, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

... that novelist Charlotte Turner Smith
(pictured) condemned her father for forcing her to marry and turning her into a "legal prostitute"?

... that the
Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna, the oldest mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage
?

... that Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu's first anthropologist?

... that the Palestinian Arabs
?

... that NASCAR described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year Steve Addington as the "complementary ice to driver Kyle Busch's fire"?

... that the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?

... that Tom Brumley's performance on "Together Again" for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music"?

... that the Maasai common name for the plant Salvia merjamie is Naingungundeu, which means "smells of rats"?

14:18, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

... that near the altar of the Church of St Mary Magdalene (pictured) in Chewton Mendip, Somerset, England, there is a stone seat for criminals taking sanctuary in the church?

... that although
World Championships
was two fourth places?

... that the
snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis
?

... that actor and environmentalist Ron Hayes worked to establish the first Earth Day in 1970 and to preserve the Grand Canyon National Park?

... that Ponhea Kraek District was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of Cambodia’s oldest man?

... that
hit single with "There but for Fortune" the same week her album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2
reached #8?

... that
Swedish Championships, one World Championship, and one Olympic
gold medal?

... that the
Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky
, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?

08:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Flemish artist Peter Tillemans was one of the founders of the sporting school of painting (pictured) in England?

... that merchants from
Han Dynasty China
?

... that during World War II, Kasper Idland was one of the four saboteurs who entered the Vemork heavy water facility to conduct heavy water sabotage?

... that as
Governor of Madras, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, had Annie Besant arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for India
?

... that John McFarland was taken first overall in the 2008 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection?

... that Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
?

... that the
RTÉ television series The Great Escape follows families as they relocate to countries such as South Africa, Australia, Austria, Italy, France and Spain
?

... that NFL
championships from 1929 to 1931?

01:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Taro and Jiro from Antarctica
in 1958?

... that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies?

... that Bonnie Newman, a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg, had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce?

... that state of West Bengal, includes a mosque
built in 1375?

... that
Emmy Award in 1990 for creating "The Simpsons Theme" and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives
theme?

... that Walter of Albano, a papal legate to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of Pope Urban II by King William II of England?

... that the
tuition
?

... that after their 1951 marital breakup, popular Old Mother Riley actor Kitty McShane filmed her last scenes with husband Arthur Lucan on separate days?

14 February 2009

18:33, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

... that for the 1957 launch of
newscast
graphic?

... that humanitarian mission of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marines
?

... that model gap tooth
smile?
... that the
studio album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart
?

... that Yohannan Sulaqa, to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the Church of the East: traveled to Rome and was there consecrated patriarch in 1553?

... that the
Kamakura, Japan
, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?

... that Sir Donald Luddington was the last person in history to be appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific?

... that an
anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian
era?

11:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

... that in addition to designing
medieval Armenian city of Ani
?

... that Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
?

... that extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene, is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor
?

... that after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?

... that football center while enrolled at the University of Michigan medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to practice
with the team?

... that
charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent
as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?

... that Tang Dynasty, but his mother, a consort
, had to settle for a much lesser honour?

... that
one-woman play, called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy
?

04:11, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
official state locomotive of Kentucky, a "Jim Crow" car, a four-star hotel on rails, and the only gas-powered motor rail car in the southeastern United States
?

... that Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants?

... that when called by the opposition to quit after the
Interior Minister to "desertion
"?

... that the World War Memorial, built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia, was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States?

... that Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest?

... that Elizabeth Hamilton originally published Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 under a pseudonym because "even the sex of a writer may unwittingly bias the reader’s mind"?

... that the architect Maxwell Ayrton co-designed the old Wembley Stadium of 1923 with his partner John William Simpson?

... that, in the
puffins as food is to stuff them with sweet cake dough
, raisins, and spices?

13 February 2009

21:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

... that besides feeding on
transmitting viruses to them, a soybean aphid (pictured) can also injure the plant by interfering with its photosynthetic
pathways?

... that although Abbot King Harold
, the man William deposed?
... that the short-lived Republic of Biak-na-Bato ended after a pact was signed by Emilio Aguinaldo and Fernando Primo de Rivera?

... that
final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms
?

... that Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years?

... that in 2005
Intangible Cultural Heritage
of Mankind?

... that, according to architectural historian Neil Levine, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to hold the 1930 Kahn Lectures for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?

... that fishing for giant clams in the Maldives was banned by the island's government in 1991, just one year after the fishery was established?

14:56, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

... that St. James's Day Battle
?

... that the idea that
Non-Darwinian Evolution
"?

... that Tim Cole was the first person in Texas history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on DNA evidence?

... that Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution?

... that the Hechal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the seashells on the shores of Thessaloniki?

... that Consort Guo
?

... that two species of bird's nest fungi, Cyathus olla and Cyathus stercoreus, have been researched for use in agriculture?

... that stage musical and a pilot for a TV series
?

09:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
Knob Creek Farm
(pictured)?

... that Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies?

... that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing?

... that
Consort Guo
of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?

... that the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham covers the history of Evesham Abbey from 714 to 1539?

... that Berlitz International
?

... that to help promote their single "Showdown", drum and bass band Pendulum released a Space Invaders themed video game?

... that during the vehicle
?

03:08, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

... that The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls (example pictured) form?

... that
exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression
?

... that on its first day of open
player characters in the free online video game Runes of Magic
?

... that because of the strict
Joseon Dynasty created a class of specialist female physicians known as Uinyeo
?

... that His Majesty's Government in Tibet
"?

... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for Linus Pauling's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics?

... that railway carriages
of the time?

... that Lucian Piane created a satirical techno remix, "Bale Out", utilizing a verbal rant actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation?

12 February 2009

21:27, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

... that birth mother
died?

... that Charles Darwin joined the Plinian Society student naturalists' club at Edinburgh University?

... that the
one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called molecular biology
?

... that in 1915, T. V. Seshagiri Iyer founded the Indian Boat Club at Kodaikanal in response to discrimination against Indians at the English Boat Club?

... that Boston is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton which encompasses the entire United States
?

... that some historians argue that barons of the Exchequer
?
... that the
bilateral relation which included strategic and commercial agreements
?

... that USA
?

15:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

... that in insect pollination
?

... that Nancy
?

... that radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society, became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy
?

... that hikers can take a commuter train from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to two request stops near trailheads in Hudson Highlands State Park?

... that
Lakshmikanthan Murder Case
before being acquitted?

... that Olmec-style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico
coast?

... that Shane Hurlbut became the youngest cinematographer ever to have been nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for a debut film, for his work on The Rat Pack?

... that Irish singer Lisa Hannigan did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, Sea Sew?

09:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Hodgenville, Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Statue (pictured) was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?

... that the Orb River
at a height of 12 metres (39 ft)?

... that during the Darwin Centennial Celebration of 1959, religious humanist Julian Huxley delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?

... that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky?

... that illustrator Blair Lent and author Arlene Mosel collaborated on Tikki Tikki Tembo, called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by The New York Times in 1997?

... that three years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer faced the forces of Sitting Bull in battle at Honsinger Bluff?

... that prosody, rhetoric, poetics
and vocabulary?

... that the Belletable House, now located at the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum, is thought to be the largest home built in the Fort Rock Valley during the area's homestead era?

03:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the numerous photographs of Charles Darwin—at least 53 (example pictured)—may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?

... that in his 1970 book
Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling explains primates' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution
?

... that the Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on?

... that the title of Rao Bahadur was bestowed upon Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar?

... that because it is difficult to approach, the
Greek
?

... that Mykhailo Krychevsky, a respected military commander, switched sides during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, joining the Cossacks, and died soon afterwards in the Battle of Loyew?

... that sources indicate that NFL
during its first season in 1920?

... that the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.
?

11 February 2009

21:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

... that travellers in southern Cambodia must stop to pay their respects to the spirit of Yeay Mao?

... that the 1988–1992 Irish television comedy Nighthawks was documented in the first episode of the 2008 Irish television show Boom! Boom! The Explosion of Irish Comedy?

... that rival stock car racing
series?

... that
A Cat in the Brain is based on the reactions of its writer and director, Lucio Fulci, to real-life murders in Rome
?

... that when
Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist
?

... that Palaemon serratus is the British Isles' largest native shrimp?

... that
Edmonton Eskimos
?

... that the Portuguese destroyed Korlai Fort only 73 years after building it because they did not have enough men to guard the fort?

21:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Nymphenburg near Munich, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo
style (example pictured)?

... that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles?

... that prominent Beninese merchant and politician Paul Darboux went missing from 1963 to 1970?

... that the model system for HIV
infection?

... that
concubine from the musuri
slave class?

... that marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet
?

... that as of 2007, Romania has an installed wind power capacity of only seven megawatts?

... that comedian
Jewish
world than anything I've ever heard of"?

15:32, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

... that as CEO of
The Hertz Corporation, Robert L. Stone chose O. J. Simpson (pictured) for a series of car rental ads that featured O.J. running through airports
?

... that the German Mycological Society's fungus
of the year in 2009?

... that Hungarian long jumper and triple jumper Gyula Pálóczi has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the European Athletic Association?

... that Boss Weeks was quarterback of Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" University of Michigan football teams in 1901–1902 that outscored opponents 1,211 to 12?

... that Tamil devotional song "Kurai Onrum Illai" was composed by Indian statesman and Governor-General, C. Rajagopalachari?

... that
Hall of Famer Steve Carlton started 14 Opening Day games for the Philadelphia Phillies
?

... that
Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
categories?

... that inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Oregon, manufacture Prison Blues brand jeans and other denim garments that are sold throughout the United States?

09:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Jewish refugees during the Holocaust
?

... that Knightsville, Utah, a company town owned and operated by Mormon entrepreneur Jesse Knight, was known as "the only mining camp in the United States without a saloon"?

... that in his later years,
British India
?

... that Michael Jackson narrated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film?

... that after an
skicross, and became a double world champion
?

... that singer Ray LaMontagne was nominated for five 2005 Boston Music Awards, including Best Act, Best Male Vocalist, Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Best Song for "Trouble", and Best Album for his debut CD?

... that Turkish bathhouse in Gaza
of the original five that continues to function?

... that college mathematics professor academia
?

03:48, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

... that in the Cossack wagon fort
?

... that
lupus, but the existence of lupus headache
as a specific disorder is contested?

... that a
Bishop of Amasia, was cited twice at the Second Council of Nicaea, an ecumenical council in 787, as evidence supporting the veneration of religious icons
?

... that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie
?

... that Vicente González Lizondo, then President of the Valencian regional parliament, died a few days after collapsing from a fatal heart attack during a parliamentary session in 1996?

... that besides causing
sheep, the blood-feeding fly Melophagus ovinus can also stain the wool
and devalue it?

... that the
Bob Marley & The Wailers lead guitarist Junior Marvin
?

... that students hoping to increase their brainpower before exams made offerings of incense to the body of a two-headed calf in
Koh Sotin District, Cambodia
?

10 February 2009

21:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

... that American football player "Aqua" Allmendinger (pictured), once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews?

... that BCE
?

... that Beninese politician Sourou-Migan Apithy was said to have ended slavery in Benin, although in fact he was not involved with the abolition bill?

... that one episode of Ireland's Project Ha Ha was criticised for featuring mainly Australian and American accents?

... that opera singers Johann Nepomuk Beck, Marie Wilt, and Hans von Rokitansky all performed in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba on 10 March 1875?

... that the St Porphyrius of Gaza was buried, is the oldest active church in Gaza City
?

... that John Adams served as a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?

... that Joseon dynasties of Korea
?

15:56, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

... that courts in Norway
, being used in 23% of cases?

... that
Supreme Court
?

... that male field crickets of the species Gryllus veletis attract sexually receptive mates by acoustic signals, and one changes his "courtship song" when a female enters his territory?

... that Emperor Shunzong of Tang's close associate Wang Pi was described by historians as ugly, lacking ambition, and speaking in Wu Chinese?

... that Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?

... that in the Wii video game Neighborhood Games, when playing with more than one person, player characters can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?

... that "The Peanut Vendor", composed by Cuban orchestra leader Moisés Simons, has been recorded by over 160 bands?

... that in the 15th century, cutting down a La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off
?

10:08, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Golar Spirit

... that Golar Spirit (pictured) is the world's first floating storage and regasification vessel converted from a LNG carrier?

... that cycling world champion Wilhelm Henie was his daughter Sonja Henie's guide and manager in her figure skating career?

... that the price war started by Color Air in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?

... that the restoration of Ifield Water Mill in West Sussex, England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers?

... that
anti-globalization movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, No Logo
?

... that
NFL
history"?

... that Cambodia’s current First Lady, Bun Rany, was once in charge of a Khmer Rouge hospital in Krouch Chhmar District?

... that when
Charles
, "when are you going to set fire to this lot?"?

04:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

... that college sports, died of heart failure at age 34 after a game of squash
?

... that the
luxury yacht built for E.F. Hutton
?

... that People's Republic of China
?
... that fundraiser in Indiana
, USA?

... that to ensure his 1948 reelection, Republican Congressman Richard Nixon cross-filed in the Democratic primary, beating Stephen Zetterberg who ran after Nixon's 1946 foe, Jerry Voorhis declined to run?

... that 467 mass graves containing 32,690 victims were found in the grounds of a
Kang Meas District in Cambodia
?

... that Southampton Football Club between 17 January 1920 and 16 April 1932, a club record that was broken by Tommy Traynor
in 1966?

... that after
WDTW
began playing the song hourly?

9 February 2009

22:48, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Valhalla structure (pictured) on Jupiter's moon Callisto is the largest multi-ring basin in the Solar System?

... that the
BRIT Awards for their debut album
?

... that in the aftermath of the
in 1939, in 1940 and in 1941
?

... that the white Piedmont wine grape Arneis is known as "white Barolo" because it was traditionally blended with Nebbiolo to soften that grape's harsh tannins?

... that civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire
?

... that the grandfather of
Republic of China
?

... that Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway?

... that one critic described the
alcoholic Vietnam veteran
as "a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence"?

16:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Georgette Leblanc (pictured) portrayed the role of Ariane in the original 1899 play Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Maurice Maeterlinck and in the 1907 opera adaptation by Paul Dukas?

... that before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?

... that Nazi nuclear programme
?

... that consecrated
for nine years as it took that long to pay off the construction debt?

... that the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus is less common around Great Britain than the giant squid Architeuthis dux?

... that before he flew the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh's first choice of aircraft was the Ryan M-2?

... that the United Kingdom political party the Liberal Democrats received £456,000 in state political funding in 2006?

... that
stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin achieved two personal career goals within one year: to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman and to host his own Comedy Central Presents
special?

10:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
field marshal, Richard James
?

... that the first dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica was unearthed in 1986 from the Santa Marta Formation?

... that the racing motorcycle was named after Graham Walker's 1928 race win in the Ulster Grand Prix
, the first time a road race had been won at over 80 mph?

... that the zamindar of the estate of Ramnad held the title "Sethupathi" or "protector of the bridge"?

... that the operation of the Adria oil pipeline was stopped in 1991 because of the conflict in Croatia?

Major League Baseball Draft
?

... that Bridgemere Garden World in Bridgemere, Cheshire, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?

... that boy bands in Japan
for more than 40 years?

05:08, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Ma
?

... that the
first English settlement
originated?

... that
AJW built high-end 1000cc motorcycles
in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?

... that former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer?

... that the Nintendo DS video game, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with electricity?

... that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the runway length?

... that in c. 990, Kannada language
?

... that
Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin's Road Records
store before its closure in January 2009?

... that former West Indian cricketer John Maynard gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his fast deliveries?

8 February 2009

23:16, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

... that when the
pre-dreadnought battleship Connecticut (pictured) ran aground in 1907, the U.S. Navy tried to cover it up, prompting Congress
to consider an official inquiry?

... that Joan Bright Astley is believed to be one of the women on whom novelist Ian Fleming based the James Bond series character Miss Moneypenny?

... that although it is now
ʻEua, Tonga
?

... that
Leon Klenicki called the We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah significant in establishing that "the deniers of the Holocaust in Europe now have to deal with the Vatican
"?

... that the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log, created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras?

... that about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall's north coast in the past 200 years?

... that Baptist minister
at age thirteen?

... that spirits
had been legal since 1935?

13:40, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums have included the National Academy of Design's controversial sale of Frederic Edwin Church
's Scene on the Magdalene (pictured)?

... that Rideau was the first Canadian company to be granted its own coat of arms by The Heraldic Authority?

... that according to
Spanish Conquest
?

... that motor launch
whilst the launch was ablaze?

... that on 28 May 1931, a
Bellanca CH-300, fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine
, set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled?

... that RTÉ host Miriam O'Callaghan
, has been named as the channel's Director of Television?

... that in
kings
?

... that Roger Neilson was made the head coach of the Ottawa Senators for the last two games of the 2001–02 season to become the ninth head coach in National Hockey League history to coach 1,000 games?

07:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Abd al-Hamid II
?

... that Sydney Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, accumulated so much debt that his father refused to see him?

... that informed consent for Icos's experimental drug rovelizumab (LeukArrest) was waived during clinical trials if the patient was unconscious and had a high chance of dying?

... that industrialist Sam Eyde, serving as CEO of Elkem
from 1912 to 1950?

... that the government bailout
?
... that two court orders sought to force the Philippine Basketball Association to allow Filipino basketball player Asi Taulava to play in the 2004–05 PBA Philippine Cup despite him being suspended?

... the first bridge over the
Kampong Cham District
?
... that actor
Columbo, was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film Murder, Inc.
?

01:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Cambridge CAP (pictured) was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of capabilities, both in hardware and software?

... that in 1938, Time magazine stated that Carleton Beals is "now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America"?

... that
NATO member states ratify its accession
protocol?

... that Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957?

... that potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish
?

... that International Ski Federation
from 1979 to 1983?
... that during clinical trials of the experimental drug erlizumab (rhuMAb), four patients suddenly started coughing up blood and later died?

... that American wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?

7 February 2009

21:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the well-preserved Khan al-Umdan (pictured), located in Acre, is the largest caravanserai in Israel?

... that Major League Baseball catcher Nelson Santovenia caught Vince Coleman stealing on July 28, 1989, ending Coleman's streak of 50 consecutive stolen bases?

... that the
La Perouse Strait with a loss of 741 lives
?

... that Lord Sydenham, the first Governor of the Province of Canada, also wrote a book on salmon
fishing?

... that Hol, Norway
?

... that
NCAA championships in the uneven bars and was a first-team All-American in the all-around and balance beam
?

... that the 500-year-old title Councilor as the highest government position of "Uijeongbu
"?

... that the sextuplets in the world to live past infancy, were born in Italy six years to the date after the first set
of surviving sextuplets?

14:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Hrelja, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under Serbian suzerainty, built the defensive tower (pictured) in Bulgaria's largest monastery, the Rila Monastery?

... that in the Burn Notice, the main character offers asides on topics such as how to burglar-proof a house or break out of prison
?

... that the King's Police Medal was created to reward the gallantry of three police officers involved in the Tottenham Outrage in 1909?

... that the creation, ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic
verses?

... that according to
Middle East
" in her efforts to remain in the theatre of war?

... that the commercial airline
flight?
... that Tannu Tuva, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva
?

... that Cinderella, as broadcast on CBS in March 1957, is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television?

08:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

... that naturalistic in Mesoamerica
?

... that type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium
?

... that more than 900 different Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were in use to make the GWR's telegraph messages more efficient?

... that CCTV Spring Festival special
?

... that theatrical run
in the U.S. lasted only three days in June 2008?

... that Stephen Báthory of Poland
but later became Báthory's close advisor despite differences in their religions?

... that in Gretchen, a play by W. S. Gilbert based on Goethe's Faust, Faustus hopes to be purified by loving Gretchen, but instead his influence corrupts and eventually kills her?

... that while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador?

02:24, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
gophers were Saskatchewan wildlife of great population which diminished due to massive over-hunting and natural habitat
change?

... that American author Malcolm MacPherson was inspired to become a journalist after interviewing Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru while attending a high school summer program in New Delhi?

... that only 33 Portuguese soldiers survived the 1638 Sinhalese
army?

... that
Spanish
-speaking nations?

... that the seaport in Mexico, handling 20,860,647 tonnes of cargo
in 2008?

... that the
species complex
was split into six related species in 2005?

... that percolating filter sewage treatment
plant?

... that after the cult comedy show Edward the Less
?

6 February 2009

20:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the 5,000-calorie Bacon Explosion (pictured) was created in response to a Twitter challenge to develop "the ultimate bacon recipe"?

... that the didactic
Kannada language
?

... that during the
Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov
?

... that
Sgurr nan Spainteach, a mountain in Glen Shiel, was named after the Spanish soldiers who retreated up it during the Battle of Glen Shiel
?

... that the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs?

... that the Dubois-Sarles Octagon in Marlboro, New York, has a recessed entrance and sidehall interior plan, both unusual in mid-19th century octagon houses?

... that Ugandan 800 metres runner Abraham Chepkirwok missed out on the 2007 World Championships bronze medal by only 0.02 seconds?

... that when
Hayden Edwards asked fellow empresario Stephen F. Austin to support the Fredonian Rebellion
, Austin replied "You are deluding yourselves and this delusion will ruin you"?

14:32, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

... that because he misidentified the mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd
?

... that the recently announced fertile soil
?
... that efforts taken by
religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil
press?

... that the
round towers and a moat
, now ruined and overgrown by trees?

... that
NCAA championship tournaments
after taking over a last-place program in 1990?

... that
command post vehicle
to deal with different threats?

... that advertising executive turned
North Fork of New York's Long Island
?

... that the
railway
had to be constructed to move it?

08:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the anti-tumor
properties?

... that worldwide there are four million commercial fishing vessels, including 1.8 million undecked traditional craft still powered by oars or sail?

... that
Moon Walk, was given the code name "Neil Armstrong
", that of the first "moonwalker"?

... that in a festival at the Norse
sacrificed
by hanging?

... that the
Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River
, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?

... that the Kh-31 was the first supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched by tactical aircraft?

... that former
regular season
record?

... that CD
that is different every time it is played?

02:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the idea for the Pius IX is said to have been given to a French nun by visions of Jesus and Mary
in 1846?

... that rice husk stove, becomes the first Filipino to receive a Rolex Award for Enterprise
?

... that the USA
?
... that the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas, but died before it could be published?

... that various species in the
anticancer
properties?

... that the first ever mission of the
Kampong Siem District
?

... that developmental biologist Aron Moscona's research on growth of embryos into complex tissues and organs led to the discovery of cadherins, which help cells recognize each other and cluster together?

... that in some countries, DJs can legally perform with a laptop
?

5 February 2009

20:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the airline wet leased aircraft (example pictured) from Coast Air
?

... that New York City's Stock Exchange Luncheon Club closed in 2006 after more than a century on Wall Street?

... that former
Sinéad Shepherd returned to Irish television on The All Ireland Talent Show
in February 2009?

... that Haung Falls in the Cambodian district of Dambae have carved out a 1,425 square metre stone crater under the cascade?

... that mountaineer Mount Tronador
in his mid 80s?

... that a
subspecies of the carnivorous plant Drosera stolonifera has only been collected from the summits of two mountains, Bluff Knoll and Toolbrunup in Western Australia
?

... that firefighters had to shut off a fire hydrant in Hawaii after it was struck by a rockslide as a result of heavy rainfall from Hurricane Darby in 2004?

... that
Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac, the first French governor of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
, began his military career at age eight?

15:08, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

... that after being completed in October 2008, Tokyo's Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (pictured) is the second-tallest educational building in the world, at 204 metres (669 ft)?

... that High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion
?

... that
African American president of the United States in popular culture
?

... that in 1953, Jews from Spain
?

... that in
NHL's Florida Panthers celebrated goals by throwing plastic rats on the ice as their team reached its first Stanley Cup
final?

... that in late 2008,
National Theatre of Norway
?

... that after the New York Central Railroad ended service to it, the Milton Railroad Station in Milton, New York, was used by a local winery for tastings?

... that a relative of the culinary herb sage, Salvia involucrata, has been found to contain compounds that can help prevent memory loss?

09:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

... that in 1716,
Richard Phelps cast the hour bell popularly known as "Great Tom" (illustration pictured) still in use at St Paul's Cathedral, London
?

... that of all Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens
has had the best record, winning more than 60% of games in his three seasons coaching the team?

... that British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy?

... that before a
Kamakura all claimed to be the site where Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan, had his hermitage
in a hut in the 13th century?

... that 19th-century English portrait painter Royal Academy
for almost 50 years, and showed a total of 384 works there?
... that Keith Smith was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and '40s?

... that 19th-century French newspaper Le Constitutionnel established the reputation of critics such as Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve?

... that despite what its
scientific name implies, the perennial garden plant Salvia indica is not naturally found in India
?

03:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the indigenous flora of Saskatchewan (example pictured) is used for jellies, jams, pies, herbal teas, medicinal decoctions and technological products?

... that film producers Keith Calder, Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter acquired their first script within a week of forming their production company, Occupant Films?

... that art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp?

... that Frost/Nixon interviews allowed Richard Nixon's staff to convince Nixon to offer a mea culpa
?

... that the
pub
?

... that Carol Hutchins, coach of the first eastern team to win the Women's College World Series, is the winningest coach in the history of the University of Michigan in any sport?

... that taranakite, a mineral formed from the reaction of clays or aluminous rocks with materials derived from bat or bird guano, was first found in New Zealand's Sugar Loaf Islands in 1865?

... that, according to the Crown Prince Li Song because of his Go
abilities?

4 February 2009

21:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

... that some Dartmoor crosses (example pictured) were probably used not for religious purposes, but rather to mark the tracks between Buckfast Abbey, Tavistock Abbey and Buckland Abbey?

... that Back Stage in 1960, considered the "casting bible" for theater performers
?

... that despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?

... that
1972 election
?

... that in 1018,
Byzantine conquest
?

... that although it was founded in 1924, Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California, did not hire its first rabbi until 1963?

... that the monuments of the ancient Maya city of Seibal in Guatemala display an unusual mix of Maya and foreign elements?

... that unlike most other
Collared Brown Lemurs
do not demonstrate female dominance?

15:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

... that it has been claimed that Scots kings Alexander II or Alexander III; and that the clan's heraldry
(pictured) alludes to the office of cup bearer?

... that Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium?

... that in 2008, Unionsexpressen started a luxury intercity train service between Oslo and Stockholm, in competition with the state-owned SJ?

... that
operatic tenor Gustav Walter portrayed the role of Assad in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba
?

... that after
Noel Coward's play cycle Tonight at 8.30 premiered, he added four more plays, including Family Album and Still Life
?

... that H5N1 virus
in 2006?
... that
playoffs with the Timberwolves
?

... that during the reign of
concubine Consort Niu
was one of the key decision-makers?

06:40, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

... that water puppetry (pictured) from North Vietnam dates back to the 11th century CE?

... that First World War
?

... that to survive during
Prohibition, some winemaking families in what is now California's Russian River Valley AVA converted to bootlegging operations that sold a water-based wine known as "jackass brandy
"?

... that caste system
?
... that within the source of the Seine
?

... that American football player Buddy Burris was the first Oklahoma Sooner to be named an All-American three times?

... that Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, Cairo's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?

... that
USA
?

00:48, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the trees that gave Maple Lawn (pictured), a Frederick Clarke Withers-designed house in Balmville, New York, its name were later destroyed in a hurricane?

... that
culinary mother" of Norway
?

... that Isidore de Lara's Messaline was the first opera by an English composer to be produced at La Scala?

... that the prolific author Maxwell Gray, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport, Isle of Wight?

... that, when the München RFC played the Bad Tölz US Army in June 1978, it was the first game of rugby union played in Munich in almost 50 years?

... that the film
Dark Habits was rejected by the Cannes Film Festival
because the organizing committee considered it sacrilegious, blasphemous and anti-Catholic?

... that S. Muthiah Mudaliar spent Rs. 4 lakhs on a propaganda campaign against consumption of liquor in the late 1920s?

... that although it has not been formally assessed by the
critically endangered because it can only be naturally found on one mountain in Trinidad and Tobago
?

... that Derek Forster became the youngest Sunderland footballer to have made a first team appearance when he was 15 years 185 days old?

3 February 2009

18:56, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the pavilions
linked by a central gallery?

... that 11th-century "minister of war and peace" Kannada language version of the Panchatantra, the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables
?

... that the Apalachia Dam in North Carolina has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its hydroelectric powerhouse 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring state of Tennessee?

... that concubine of his great-grandfather Daizong, but as she was young, was instead given to Xianzong's father, Shunzong
?

... that most of U.S. Route 2 in Vermont was originally part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, an early transcontinental North American auto trail?

... that in
Bert Turner became the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final
?

... that
Chamkar Leu District in eastern Cambodia is home to a 6,000-hectare (15,000-acre) rubber plantation
?

... that David Yuile and his brother William attempted to control the Canadian glass manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass?

13:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
Cheung Prey District is famous for fried spiders
(pictured) seasoned with garlic and salt?

... that Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye
?

... that
NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway
in 2005?

... that Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan
?

... that the
Norwegian government
?

... that singer Phil Ochs wrote "The War Is Over" in 1967 to declare that the Vietnam War was over, eight years before the war actually ended?

... that the
Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests bordering India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma) as "Globally Outstanding" in biological distinctiveness
?

... that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?

07:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

... that
Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933
was not ended?

... that Sinuessa, the last town of Latium on the Appian Way, was famous for its springs whose visitors included Horace, Virgil, and Julius Caesar?

... that Reformation age" according to B. B. Warfield
?

... that during the
Palestinian Arab village of Burayr
as "the village of the killers"?

... that Victor Vacquier escaped Russia by sleigh across the frozen Gulf of Finland and went on to pioneer the use of submarine detectors for investigating plate tectonics?

... that Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink?

... that Jewish Museum in New York
?

... that every household in the Dhaniakhali bloc of West Bengal, India, has at least one loom, where handloom saris are made?

01:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Three Crosses (pictured) were built on the same hill in Kalnai Park as the Crooked Castle, destroyed during the Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)?

... that Black New York Renaissance team, led the Rens over the Oshkosh All-Stars to win the first World Professional Basketball Tournament
, held in 1939?

... that the critically endangered
Agila 2 communications satellite
?

... that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?

... that
decriminalisation of prostitution
and equal protection under the law?

... that Senegalese long jumper and triple jumper Ndiss Kaba Badji was the only person from his country to reach a final at the 2008 Summer Olympics?

... that the
Little White Lie followed the attempts of an actor to attract the attention of a television presenter by pretending he was a psychiatrist
?

... that prior to becoming a
eagle owl
?

2 February 2009

19:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

... that crewel work and art needlework
?

... that an episode of the documentary series Hostage detailed Saddam Hussein's placing of two Irish civilians as "human shields" at sites of strategic importance during the Gulf War?

... that the Parc de Belleville is the highest park in Paris and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain?

... that Michael Watson took six days to complete the London Marathon in 2003, an achievement that won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award that year?

... that
Vladimir N. Beneshevich was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and executed because one of his books was translated into German
in 1937?

... that power generators
later in the 1950s?
... that operatic tenor Andreas Dippel portrayed the title role in Alberto Franchetti Asrael in its United States premiere at the Metropolitan Opera?

... that DSV 78/08 Ricklingen, the oldest rugby union club in Germany, was formed under the leadership of 15 year old Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke in 1878?

13:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

... that to open the swing door on the pilots had to climb out of the glider's cockpit and slide down 15 feet (4.6 m) of fuselage
?

... that
world champion
for both the left and the right arms?

... that the endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago consists of 59 plant species, including one that was last collected between 1786 and 1791?

... that Laurie D. Cox performed the first comprehensive tree census in New York City in 1915, finding that most street trees in Manhattan were in bad condition?

... that the first Filipinos to settle in Saudi Arabia arrived in 1973?

... that
pro wrestling tag team matches in the 1970s, as heel (villain) teams such as the Blond Bombers (Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson) faced fellow heels Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy
?

... that a acid-base equilibria
?

... that the largest ship sunk by the Austro-Hungarian U-boat SM U-32 during World War I was carrying onions from Karachi, Pakistan?

07:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the Maxim machine gun
mounted on the handlebars?

... that
Wickland
, was the home of three different U.S. state governors?

... that Thriller – Live is a new West End musical, directed by the creator of a Michael Jackson fansite?

... that the recently defunct Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine
?

... that Federal Reserve System
?
... that the account of the death of 12,000
Dzhurma
has been disproven?

... that the
theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime
?

... that Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?

01:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

... that singer
Grammy Awards won by a British
female act?

... that
due to a sex scandal
?

... that the
hard labor for all firearms
offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?

... that only after the end of World War II was it publicly revealed that the Norwegian ships SS Irma and SS Henry had been sunk by the Royal Norwegian Navy?

... that then-President Bill Clinton's selection to give the 2000 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.'s highest humanities honor, was criticized as a politicization of the National Endowment for the Humanities?

... that
Port of Jakarta
?

... that Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?

... that the television series Use It or Lose It documented the return of former association footballers Niall Quinn and Ronnie Whelan to their respective youth teams?

1 February 2009

19:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the largest kilns for Ancient Roman pottery (example pictured) fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?

... that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the Atlanta Hawks was Roger Potter, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?

... that six prehistoric
astroblemes affecting the geology of Saskatchewan
?

... that the
George Michaels
broke a 74–74 deadlock by switching his vote?

... that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?

... that according to US and Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the illicit drug load?

... that James Brady, who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in Parade magazine, won the Bronze Star Medal for his Korean War service and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-finalist book about his war experiences?

... that landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands?

14:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the burning sensation caused by red hot
ion channels (TRPV1 pictured), which are also thermosensitive
?

... that two members of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
?

... that ruins from
Bradenstoke Abbey in Wiltshire, England, were bought by William Randolph Hearst and used in alterations to St Donat's Castle in Wales
?

... that the GDP of the United States
in 1997?

... that the railroad station
?
... that
Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency
?

... that in Justice Scalia was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with Dick Cheney
, a party to the case?

... that magnum opus
, History of Christianity in India?

08:16, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

... that Salvia fruticosa or Greek sage (pictured) was depicted on a 1400-BCE Minoan fresco on the island of Crete, and is still grown and used widely today?

... that Eddie Tolan, the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the 1932 Olympics, returned home jobless and appeared in vaudeville with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?

... that
milling machines
?

... that
ballerina Nora Kovach's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War
-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?

... that the controversial 1982 anti-racism film White Dog was director Samuel Fuller's last American film due to his disgust with Paramount Pictures' refusal to release the film?

... that the small
Roman Catholic Church, who were also both archbishops of the country's capital Zagreb
?

... that the St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame is the only professional wrestling hall of fame that lets fans select the inductees?

... that in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe?

02:27, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Bocock-Isbell, McLean, Peers and Wright houses, the Sweeney and Sweeney-Conner cabins, the Jones and Woodson law offices, ruins and cemeteries
?

... that Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their organic coating?

... that Maurice Maeterlinck threatened legal action and physical violence against Claude Debussy after he did not cast Maeterlinck's lover, Georgette Leblanc, in the title role of their opera Pelléas et Mélisande?

... that the Willow Creek Transit Center in Oregon has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?

... that celebrated
USSR
?

... that Bob Foster’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT?

... that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?

... that during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane?

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