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31 July 2009

20:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the 74,500 capacity
governing bodies of sports in Wales
?
... that War in Afghanistan
?

... that in 2008 one of Jamaica's most wanted fugitives evaded police capture when a motorist flashed his headlights to warn of police activity ahead?

... that Wyoming newspaper publisher Charles E. Richardson won a Sharpshooter Medal for his skill with a .38 caliber pistol while serving in the Army in the late 1950s?

... that during the
Rangoon
?

... that European
born in North America?

... that Agaricus albolutescens, unlike other species of Agaricus, turns tawny-brown rather than yellow when bruised?

... that Canadian
coin toss
?

13:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that between 1909 and 1912, soprano Margarethe Siems (pictured) sang leading roles in the world premieres of three operas by Richard Strauss—Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Ariadne auf Naxos?

... that after a massive expansion program in the 1980s, SNC Group, forming one of the largest civil engineering
firms in the world?

... that Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway?

... that T.H.E. Fox, drawn on a C64 KoalaPad and published on CompuServe, Q-Link and GEnie, is among the earliest online comics?

... that "Calexico Kid" NCAA football championship in 1954 and was inducted into the British Columbia
Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2009?

... that during June 1976 protests in Poland, the biggest demonstrations took place in Radom, where workers burned the local office of the Polish Communist party?

... that the clubhouse of the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club was originally the home of its first Commodore, James Chadwick?

... that Sir William Cheyne has been described as one of the most obscure Chief Justices of the King's Bench in the late medieval period?

07:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in 1941, the tower at St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick, West Sussex (pictured) was wrecked by an unexploded bomb which was found embedded in the churchyard two years later?

... that both
Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers
?

... that the
naval battle off Cape Breton during the American Revolutionary War
?

... that in the mid-1880s,
Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey
?

... that Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804?

... that the New Jersey version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship is one of at least five championships that share the same name?

... that the Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions?

... that psychologist Sidney W. Bijou would not punish his 15-year old son for a joyriding arrest as he "had punishment enough", his son recalling that "it can pay off to have a psychologist for a father"?

01:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the State Capitol of Pennsylvania (pictured) is the third capitol building to be in Harrisburg, after the first one burned down in 1897 and the second was deemed "ugly" by its designer?

... that the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?

... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem "Hymn Before Sunrise"?

... that the
1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia
?

... that the distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata, a shrub of the southern Appalachians, is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other?

... that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club?

... that three cardinals during a papal conclave—have gone on to be elected Pope
?

... that French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife?

30 July 2009

19:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that John P. Charlton invented the first private postal card (pictured) in 1861?

... that the ciguatera
poisoning?

... that an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse?

... that Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx, despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times?

... that the
HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley, following a Warship Week
campaign in March 1942?

... that Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act?

... that the cam follower, which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams, was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation?

... that one mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare, Romania, lasted only seven seconds?

13:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when
admirals
should therefore flog captains?

... that the St. Johns River was Florida's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed?

... that when the Four Mile uranium mine commences operations in 2010, it will be the first new uranium mine in Australia for nearly ten years?

... that mayors elected in the U.S.
Military Government before taking office?

... that pocket neighborhood developments have included smaller homes around a landscaped common area to promote neighborly contact while keeping parking out of view?

... that of the 13 named storms in the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
)?

... that Felix Hathaway helped construct the first American-built ship in what is now the state of Oregon?

... that bottlenose dolphin Moko rescued two pygmy sperm whales from possible death?

07:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that molded parts with an undercut can still be molded with the use of a side action (animated)?

... that Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport, and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut?

... that
children's writer Ondřej Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia
?

... that the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Mexico includes one of the largest cave systems in the world, with some openings wide enough to be used as concert halls?

... that Walter O. Bigby, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the 1970s, was called the "Dean of the House" because of his reputation for integrity, fairness, and hard work?

... that the aerial photograph
?

... that the California Proposition 8
?

... that World Wrestling Federation
"into the 21st century"?

01:25, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when the Applegate River was dammed in 1980, the resulting lake (pictured) completely submerged the town of Copper?

... that
Finnian
?

... that in partnership with McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co., the Adelaide Steamship Company developed the world's first purpose built container ship, MV Kooringa?

... that the Renfrew County Courthouse was described as "one of the finest in Canada" by the County Atlas of 1881?

... that after helping
Werner von Braun publish a book in post-war Germany, Heinz-Hermann Koelle joined von Braun's team at the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency, where he worked on Saturn rockets
?

... that the
papal conclave, October 1503 was the shortest papal conclave in history due to the lack of a conclave capitulation
?

... that only one aircraft, a
Bombardier Dash 8 of Amakusa Airlines, uses Amakusa Airfield
?

... that Gordon Brown's independent advisor on ministerial conduct, Sir Philip Mawer who was given a knighthood in 2002, has also been a dame?

29 July 2009

18:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
soccer
team?

... that the
Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km²; 20 sq mi) on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning
on June 29, 2009?

... that in 1904, the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton
, leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting?

... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?

... that in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba, the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana, united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma?

... that the marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York, is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone?

... that in each Summer Olympic Games since 1992, the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition?

... that Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?

12:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles have eight properties of cultural and natural heritage (Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout pictured) listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List?

... that Kentucky State Senate from Murray
, did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old?

... that no footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988?

... that during the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway?

... that the westernmost and easternmost points in the United States
by travel, in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall
?"

... that Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota?

... that Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom" at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration?

... that professional poker player Ilari Sahamies lost over US$3 million playing online poker while drunk, including more than $700,000 in a single day?

06:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the fractal geometry such as the Mandelbrot set
(pictured)?

... that Barbara Margolis, creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot?

... that astronomer William Herschel was the first organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath?

... that the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau serves as the secretariat of the Economic Intelligence Council of India?

... that the first Belmont Shore
by Harold Hofman on September 16, 1951, the same day that his son was born?

... that due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba?

... that Morgan Henry Chrysler was one of only four men who rose from private to major general during the American Civil War?

... that John Ruskin's "wretched rant" influenced architects, artists and ecclesiologists?

00:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a
Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
, survives to this day?

... that
F-1 that powered the Saturn V
to the Moon?

... that in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?

... that 21-year-old professional poker player Sami Kelopuro experiences daily swings of up to one million dollars when playing online poker?

... that many of the world's pelagic fish species are threatened with extinction, including the devil fish?

... that the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?

... that National Football League All-Pro linebacker and Super Bowl champion Cato June was co-class president, salutatorian and a member of the National Honor Society in high school?

... that the
Battle of the Oranges is the largest organized food fight in Italy
?

28 July 2009

18:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when the
public house The Falcon (pictured) was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows
?

... that Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II?

... that
Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity
?

... that in
season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny
accomplished the feat twice in six years?

... that Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?

... that
ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore, who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards
?

... that Unitarian Universalist
congregations in the world?
... that giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734?

12:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Trojan wave packet animation

... that in physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading?

... that French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly?

... that William Blake's poem "The Mental Traveller" went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?

... that Washington Redskins
for attempting to sign two of their players?

... that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia, records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war?

... that African-American
students?

... that
drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach
?

... that the fruit of the
pondberry, an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry
stems?

06:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Kwakwaka'wakw art includes a wide variety of wooden masks (example pictured), some of which can transform
into different figures?

... that as a
thrust reverser
?

... that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received "special consideration
"?

... that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war?

... that a Miami, Florida
, numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?

... that
A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake
that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810?

... that A$
467 million?
... that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven?

00:07, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the
African-American astronaut
?

... that
Bambi, A Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental
fiction novel to be published?

... that Poh Ling Yeow, the runner-up of MasterChef Australia, has appeared in four films?

... that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song "Good Shepherd" is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?

... that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam, today the Netherlands' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?

... that when hired as CEO of Rocket Chemical Company, John Barry changed its name to WD-40 to match its primary product, whose name came from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"?

... that three armies surrounded the
papal conclave, September 1503, held during the Italian Wars
?

... that Xavier Petulengro, known as "The King of the Gypsies", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?

27 July 2009

18:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Grice
, a somewhat aggressive pig?

... that 23% of the world's uranium reserves are held in Australia?

... that
Czech violinist Karel Hoffmann was the only permanent member of the Bohemian Quartet
throughout its 42-year existence?

... that
team captain
?

... that the ancient Tzippori Synagogue in Israel was discovered by workers building a parking lot?

... that the 1995 Mayfest Storm was the costliest hailstorm ever to hit the United States when it occurred?

... that Nick Cave requested all television cameras be switched off during his performance of the song "Into My Arms" at the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence?

... that
flew with their ears when visibility was poor
?

12:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel (pictured) in Washington, D.C. has been described as a miniature Gothic gem?

... that the
Somali pirates, is a 24-year old Turkish
woman?

... that U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?

... that the Manggahan Floodway in the Philippines was built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River but in turn contributed to flooding along the shores of Laguna de Bay?

... that professional wrestler Pablo Fuentes Reyna took the ring name "MS-1" from the highest rank of a Mexican Antiterrorist corps?

... that
Under Your Spell, director Otto Preminger's first English language film, was a remake of the Spanish language
release Las fronteras del amor?

... that two
Umbeyla Campaign led by Neville Chamberlain
in 1863?

... that an ad campaign for the
MMORPG Evony
featured depictions of scantily clad women and the tagline "Save the Queen!", despite the fact that there is no queen to save in the game?

06:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the rough skin of the nursehound (pictured) was once used as an abrasive called "rubskin", which cost a hundred times more than sandpaper?

... that quarterback Lindy Berry played in a game one week after suffering a broken jaw, and since it was the era before football helmet facemasks, he wore a hockey mask instead?

... that the first expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ended disastrously, when the bishop and several others died of malaria?

... that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it?

... that Elizabeth Shaw
?

... that in one of his Jews
"disappear from the Earth"?

... that the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?

... that
prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker
?

00:07, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

... that St Julian's Church in Kingston Buci, West Sussex, has the well-preserved remains of an anchorite's cell (hagioscope pictured), in which a hermit would have been walled up for life?

... that as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890?

... that coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay
?

... that the
Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park
?

... that Polish law
?
... that the O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?

... that in
Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge
?

... that
professional wrestler Pirata Morgan
lost his right eye in a mid-match accident?

26 July 2009

18:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a comet over Africa saw the birth of a small country (map pictured) on July 26, 1882?

... that the movie studio
?

... that an
defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany
?

... that school superintendent
there as well?
... that the
Gurgaon Metro will be India's first privately owned and operated metro
?

... that sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell?

... that the aluminum
?

... that Spanish Harlem
?

12:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the possibility of
domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria
?

... that when confronted by a
Valagamba
promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army?

... that founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet?

... that F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies?

... that Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
within a year?

... that the
Finance Minister
?

... that a year after the
one of the worst race riots in U.S. history
?

... that
German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking, under the pseudonym Collofino
?

06:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that SS Archimedes (pictured), built in 1839 by Henry Wimshurst, was the world's first propeller-driven steamship?

... that most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America?

... that no services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist, the oldest church in Somers, New York, for almost 80 years?

... that Nguyen Van Tuong
helped install and depose three Vietnamese emperors in the space of a year?

... that, for a period of 100 days, families featured on the
television series The 100 Mile Challenge
were not allowed to consume any food or drink grown or produced more than 100 miles from their home?

... that female
Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring
because she had a match afterward?

... that on 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River?

... that Judge William C. Conner ruled that $2 million in lost cash was worth $634.90?

00:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?

... that when Umayyad-built palace near the Sea of Galilee, was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort
?

... that at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another?

... that the players selected for the end Larry Lutz, Ohio State end Merle Wendt, Princeton second-generation All-American Gilbert Lea and Walter Winika, the first Rutgers varsity athlete killed in World War II
?

... that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal?

... that surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink?

25 July 2009

18:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the largest known
extinct seed ferns
?

... that
Rayo de Jalisco, Sr.
, found out?

... that when the horse in her first
The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill's ranch to her studio in New York
?

... that the
intelligence lapses during the Kargil War
?

... that
constituents "stuck in the red tape
of government"?

... that the first pulsar was discovered as a result of an experiment designed to study interplanetary scintillation?

... that Mercedes Benz
SL65?

... that Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton
taught rats to come to her table for food?

12:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Annette Nelson's performance (pictured) as The Mountain Sylph in Washington, D.C. in 1837 was highly appreciated by a group of Native American chiefs?

... that
Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry
?

... that humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn?

... that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited?

... that biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hirschmann did not?

... that the Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad
?

... that Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun?

06:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that an uncommon sentry tower (pictured) at Banashankari temple is a mélange of Vijayanagara Hindu and Islamic architectural styles?

... that end at LSU, set an NFL
record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?

... that before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so?

... that the automated firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo
launch?

... that in 1957,
fascist
" and "leading Nazi functionary"?

... that the Italian American
population?
... that professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as "Batman"?

00:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

... that there are many diverse sea dragons (pictured) camouflaged to look like floating seaweed
?

... that the artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump?

... that Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"?

... that
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
?

... that in the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot?

... that in
legal relations created
in a social context are not considered binding?

... that while playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?

24 July 2009

18:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured)?

... that Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?

... that Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms?

... that paved road in the state of Utah
at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level?

... that
Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day
?

... that
Buddhist monks
?

... that Lorraine Sneed, partner for 15 years of blade server inventor Christopher Hipp, said she had "got him" on their first date after asking "if he wanted to come see my SGI"?

12:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II?

... that the ringlegged earwig gets its common name from the noticeable dark bands around the middle of its six legs?

... that Swedish film director Tomas Alfredson stated that he had grown tired of the Swedish film industry after finishing Let the Right One In?

... that in 1988, a
Federal Republic of Germany
?

... that NFL Draft
?

... that Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?

... that
German occupation in World War II
, wrote a series of novels later called The Teutonic Trilogy?

06:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Banaue Rice Terraces (pictured) of the Philippine Cordilleras are part of a World Heritage site, which was recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in 1995?

... that 2008 Independent Spirit Awards
ceremony?

... that Judy and Alfred were two 90-inch (2.3 m) tall steam locomotives specially designed to fit under a bridge at Par that was only 96 inches (2.4 m) high?

... that the farming of celery was first introduced to the United States by George Taylor in 1856?
... that
1997 Jamaican general election
?

... that during the
Admiral Adam Duncan
had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships?

... that cyclones: subtropical, tropical, and extratropical
?

00:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

... that with a total weight of over 100
tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite
ever found on Earth?

... that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace?

... that the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom
?

... that Montreal hockey club, was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup
in 1893?

... that the Hutchinson County Historical Museum, which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927?

... that New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake?

... that
Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde
to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?

23 July 2009

18:05, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (commemorating stamp pictured) were cancelled during 1962–1963?

... that the Victorian-style White-Pool House, built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa, Texas?

... that Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings?

... that antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s?

... that Robert Isabell had four tons of glitter dumped on the floor of Studio 54 for a 1970s New Year's Eve party, which owner Ian Schrager described as like "standing on stardust"?

... that the Celesty
?

... that in 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream?

12:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine (pictured) 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone?

... that Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis?

... that actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo?

... that the
night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue
?

... that Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
?
... that the unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie, India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916)?

... that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"?

06:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that annual budget
?

... that if a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system?

... that legend tells of how 15th-century
William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop
?

... that amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest?

... that Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?

... that the closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska?

... that four-time U.S.
The New Yorker
?

00:00, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?

... that for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal?

... that as a member of the
public television
to his state?

... that the mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey?

... that the
tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower
?

... that the loss of television reception—caused by the
Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
?

... that wealthy newspaper publisher prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz
, at the age of 49?

22 July 2009

18:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
£1
?

... that singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt, formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt, has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon?

... that the Prevention of Terrorism Act
?

... that Dartmouth Conferences
is one of the longest ongoing bilateral unofficial dialogues between American and Soviet (now, Russian) representatives?

... that during the first recording session of Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90° F and "nobody wanted to be there"?

... that academic and diplomat
who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?

... that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate?

12:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks (pictured) from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition
?

... that Montacute Priory was a dependency of Cluny Abbey from its foundation around 1100 until 1407?

... that Santa Fe Railroad
yard?

... that
professional wrestler Black Warrior was forced to unmask after losing a match to Místico
?

... that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union, Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?

... that the incorporation of terms in English law requires a party to take "reasonable steps" to bring a term to the other party's attention?

... that rancher
committed to rural development?

... that nude weddings have become a $440 million dollar industry?

06:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the fall of a meteorite (pictured) was first documented in 1766 by Domenico Troili?

... that Hebrew National's kosher hot dogs, three-quarters of which are bought by non-Jews, have been advertised for decades under the slogan We answer to a higher authority?

... that Charles Lock, British consul in Naples, hated the British ambassador's wife Emma Hamilton, and wrote widely read scabrous letters back home denouncing her and her lover Lord Nelson?

... that unless HR 2267 passes, there will be no federal or state regulatory agency protecting US citizens or ensuring "standards of integrity and fairness" on certain interstate activities?

... that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp?

... that "Mr. Tambourine Man" was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?

... that photographer Fred Hartsook went from driving a mule-drawn mobile darkroom around California to taking pictures of Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford?

00:00, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Colorado-class battleships (USS Maryland pictured) did not undergo a significant modernization prior to the Second World War despite various proposals that had been circulating since 1933?

... that Albert Midlane wrote over 700 hymns, his best known being "There's a Friend for Little Children"?

... that the cardinals
?

... that Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy
?

... that the
Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago
?

... that Abhayagiri monastery for following Mahayana
teachings?

... that Helen Callaghan of the AAGPBL and son Casey Candaele are the only mother/son duo to play professional baseball, with Candaele having a career batting average seven points lower than his mother's?

21 July 2009

18:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that according to the chronicler
Mszczuj from Skrzynno was the Polish knight who killed the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Ulrich von Jungingen (pictured), during the Battle of Grunwald
?

... that the U.S. surrender
?
... that David L. Cole served in the labor mediation field under every US President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon?

... that in 2007 the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, took part in Thevar Jayanthi celebrations, after shunning the event for two decades?

... that
philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison
?

... that
Milwaukee held the 2009 Great Circus Parade
after a six-year hiatus?

... that the next Finnish Chief of Defence Lieutenant-General Ari Puheloinen, is a son of an electrician, while the four preceding chiefs-of-defence have come from officer families?

12:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that rich Halifax mill-owner Edward Akroyd had everything except children, so he illustrated his home, Bankfield Museum, with images of babies (example pictured)?

... that Edward R. Tinsley, who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association?

... that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice?

... that the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York's stockade to be settled?

... that the
Poland
and refusal to pay taxes?

... that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?

... that at the
safety, in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech
?

08:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that one theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows (pictured) were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings?

... that the tutor of
Peter the Great, Nikita Zotov, became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters
?

... that before the
AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament
crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981?

... that Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction?

... that the 1850
Squatters' Riot in Sacramento, California, effectively ended land speculation
in the region?

... that Princess Firyal
Map Division?
... that the idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages?

00:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the octagonal Roof-top synagogue (cupola pictured) in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock?

... that State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana, when Earl Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche?

... that footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute?

... that at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675?

... that plug and feather, still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone?

... that Martin Siem was among the leaders of the naval intelligence organization RMO in Norway during World War II?

... that
Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance
"?

20 July 2009

18:00, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas?

... that the President's Surveillance Program, authorized by George W. Bush, included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified?

... that Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart?

... that the
MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle
launch?

... that in 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap"?

... that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip?

... that nurses have been alarmed by
brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus
?

11:59, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that ice calving (pictured) in Greenland results in over 12,000 icebergs each year?

... that hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans
to prevent it being used against them?

... that
La Sombra
made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen?

... that the first College of the Pacific
?

... that after 30,000 people visited the
Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center
opened?

... that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history?

... that during the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death?

05:56, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Gothic Revival-style Jones House (pictured) is the second oldest brick house in Pontiac, Illinois?

... that the funding for the German König-class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's threat of resignation?

... that Donold Lourie, a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?

... that the
1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors
for the first time?

... that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the JJ
" were shot at the show's own offices?

... that fascists
escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
... that Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German?

19 July 2009

23:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Adur district of West Sussex
—has an 11th-century tower with the only Rhenish helm (pictured) in England?

... that United States Olympic Committee
?
... that in 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted?

... that in 2009 the folklorist J. Frank Dobie
to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor?

... that Carl Daniel Ekman, who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house?

... that the skin colour of the
Jynx
was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist?

... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?

17:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
two tornadoes in six days
in 1948, the second of which (damage pictured) was heralded by the first tornado forecast in history?

... that the Italians
?

... that Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?

... that Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977?

... that the authorship of the twelfth dynasty
?

... that although the design of the fireproof
qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915?
... that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl
?

11:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
calendering become the thin, glossy and papery fabric known as moire
(pictured)?

... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?

... that the first point of the
1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania demanded to put Kazys Skučas, Minister of the Interior, and Augustinas Povilaitis
, Director of the State Security Department, on trial?

... that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Son of a Gun"?

... that while governor of
Muhammad Abu-Nabbut initiated the city's fortification, the erection of two public fountains, and renovation of the Mahmoudiya Mosque
?

... that in 1893, The Philadelphia Record "held its own" as "one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States" despite a troubled economy?

... that
Leonardo Carrera who wrestles
as Damián 666 is nicknamed "The Beast of the Apocalypse"?

05:56, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

... that George Lycurgus (pictured), who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?

... that in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of
Greenethorpe, New South Wales, has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$
1 per week?

... that Nuclear Assault's EP The Plague includes mocking references to singer Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe?

... that the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae, which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California, turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?

... that
motorcyclist helmet
law?

... that the first
flag was handed over by the French President in the small Vosges town of Darney
?

... that
contracts
?

18 July 2009

23:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Northern sennet (pictured) is the smallest of the barracudas, with many adults growing to less than 1 foot in length?

... that to save money, new
studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud
in 2000?

... that, being created in 1934, the Mexican National Lightweight Championship is one of the oldest professional wrestling championships still in use today?

... that V.V. Whittington was a Louisiana state senator from 1928 to 1932 and later president of the Louisiana Bankers Association?

... that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott?

... that the Russell
?

... that in 1990,
Islamic Democratic Alliance
?

17:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the
scientific name
for four decades after its discovery?

... that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world?

... that in 2009, theater students performed a series of old-style radio dramas on WNJR, Washington & Jefferson College's radio station?

... that the Quartet has supported election reform in Palestine through a UN-sponsored Elections Reform Support Group?

... that in Marcel Bellefeuille's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win?

... that the SS Ferret was stolen from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name?

... that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues?

11:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Conrad Hubert (pictured) was the first commercial vendor of flashlights?

... that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours?

... that the killing of Supreme Court of Ingushetia
, was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?

... that the national income
?
... that over ten million people watched Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2009 final through Sveriges Television's online service compared to only 3,592,000 who watched the actual television broadcast?

... that during his tenure as West Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice, Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law?

... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops?

05:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

... that some audience members fainted while others fled the 350-seat Grand Ducal Theatre in
Furies in Jean-Georges Noverre's (pictured) 1763 ballet Jason et Médée
?

... that rough hits from Michigan's Richard France induced Wisconsin star Pat O'Dea to slug France, leading to O'Dea's ejection from the 1899 Western Conference championship game?

... that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor?

... that the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa, Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?

... that Howiesons Poort, a Middle Stone Age culture in South Africa, shows evidence that humans used symbolism in the form of ground ochre 25,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic?

... that
considered one of the worst video games of all time
?

... that the diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats
caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?

17 July 2009

23:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that after overcoming Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, K-Bob's Steakhouse (sign pictured) still operates in mostly smaller cities in the cattle country of New Mexico and Texas?

... that later Verdens Gang editor-in-chief Oskar Hasselknippe was a sub-editor in the newspaper Ringerikes Blad under editor Kaare Filseth before an intermezzo in Milorg?

... that the Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city?

... that the Aztec
shrine?

... that in summer 2008, future
draft pick Sam Young, then a player for the University of Pittsburgh, slept at the school's basketball arena
for a month?

... that a woven or knitted fabric
that does not fray or come unraveled?

... that
Oscar G. Mayer, Jr.
?

17:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Canary Islands are one of the few places left where there are still substantial numbers of angelsharks (pictured), once common all around Europe?

... that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?

... that
Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana
?

... that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary, a diary he kept until three days before his death?

... that the
radio station now called KARP-FM was launched in 1968 as the FM sister station to KDUZ in Hutchinson, Minnesota
?

... that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?

... that James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?

11:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate?

... that the doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes?

... that almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay, Japan, have both male and female organs?

... that Chinatown in Los Angeles
in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?

... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?

... that Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?

... that today, most Muslims, although some practice Hinduism or Christianity
?

05:56, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

... that feet per day, making it the fastest-growing organism on Earth
?

... that
pre-Civil War American South
?

... that the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975?

... that the time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future?

... that the bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum?

... that courts applying the dominant factor test have determined that poker is not gambling?

... that Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar
camp?

16 July 2009

23:56, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
telescope in Chile
(pictured) named after him?

... that "Racing in the Street" commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen's home town of Asbury Park?

... that in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?

... that the Justice of the Peace Roy Bean
and his son, Sam?

... that some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward?

... that, although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot, and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term?

... that the Gangavaram Port is the deepest port in India?

16:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that King Kot aMweeky of the Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard (pictured) was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life?

... that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover!'s anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?

... that The New York Times said Paul Hemphill's first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written"?

... that the Hetaireia, the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners?

... that Carlisle Indian School
in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980?

... that much of the Roman columns
?

... that assassin
to use a gun?

10:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that before
Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s first game, Computer Bismarck (screenshot pictured), most computer games were packaged in zipper storage bags
?

... that Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire, lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot
around 1069?

... that during
Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts
?

... that physiotherapist of the Scotland national rugby union team
?

... that oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world
?

... that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah, the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance?

... that the
distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct
?

03:51, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

... that more than $200 million in US currency was burned at both a
HAWAII Overprint Notes ($20 Note
pictured)?

... that
labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois
decadence?

... that spores
?
... that the opera companies, founded in 1954, moved into its first permanent house
only in 2008?

... that the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Robert E. L. Taylor's 1963 contempt conviction for refusing to reveal sources in a corruption case as his actions were protected by the state's shield law
?

... that after their defeat at the Battle of Arnhem, 138 men were able to escape German occupied territory in Operation Pegasus?
... that the levels in the
Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid are in 2.5D while the characters remain in 2D
?

15 July 2009

21:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in non-sexual images of two women, the presence of the homoerotic
subtext?

... that research done by D. Mark Hegsted in the 1960s on the effects of diet on cholesterol levels led to recommendations to reduce consumption of the saturated fats found in meat and eggs?

... that the World Uyghur Congress's activities have been described as "cyber-separatism"?

... that television program American Experience
?

... that
People's Republic of China
?

... that a recent court case in South Carolina dealt with an 1802 law that makes Sorry! and Monopoly illegal?

... that taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell has opened a brothel to fund his bid to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

15:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the electric flash-lamp (pictured), a photographer's light source, was used as an underwater mine detonator fuse?

... that
Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania was host and chief mediator at the peace conference ending the Northern Seven Years' War
?

... that the
1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, following silent
versions in 1907 and 1917?

... that the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, which is tasked with drafting the bills of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, is staffed by 61 lawyers?

... that Aubrey Epps of the Pittsburgh Pirates had three hits in four at bats in the final game of the 1935 season, but never played another major league game, ending his career with a .750 batting average?

... that the
passionflower bee, but this bee species is not known to pollinate
this flower?

... that according to different versions of his legend,
witches, Mughal
soldiers, or his own sister?

09:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
killer whales
(pictured) travel primarily with their mothers throughout their lives?

... that the Emmy award
for the song "I Ain't Got Rhythm"?

... that
Insadong is a district of Seoul consisting of galleries and antique shops, known for "culture
of the past and the present"?

... that the location for the Prophet Muhammad, has Jahaz Mahal
(Ship Palace) built on its eastern edge?

... that U.S. flag from Corregidor
now displayed at the West Point Museum?

... that
Anchor Church in Derbyshire had its caves extended to be a summerhouse for Sir Francis Burdett
?

... that, although the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes has announced the induction of three sets of "brothers", only George and Sandy Scott are actually related?

03:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Letters on a Regicide Peace, by Edmund Burke (pictured), criticises the British government for seeking peace with the Directory of revolutionary France when France threatened to invade Britain?

... that bullfighting
in 2006?

... that all twenty of David Bowie's solo studio albums from Hunky Dory (1971) to date have reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart?

... that the
Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad was the last railroad in America to use steam locomotives exclusively in common carrier
freight service?

... that during World War II, Jan Dahm, Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed "Theta"?

... that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections?

... that Carlisle Indians
and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?

14 July 2009

21:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that William Blake's The French Revolution calls for the destruction of the Bastille (pictured) and sees the revolution in apocalyptic terms?

... that three species of
Hawksbill turtle, visit the Hikkaduwa coral reef
?

... that the four
rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York
, are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward?

... that People's Republic of China
?

... that the 1954
Emmy
?

... that Pacific hurricane season
since 1949?

... that
tonsilitis
?

15:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that France: An Ode, by Samuel Coleridge (pictured), describes his support of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror but not the invasion of Switzerland?

... that despite being an
fullback at Northwestern
?

... that the Christian elections in Iraq
?
... that singer-songwriter Tatsuo Kamon began studying with rakugo master Tsuruko Shōfukutei at age 16?

... that
Intel
and 20 years later purchased a division of Intel?

... that the
Sci Fi Channel
?

... that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney, Australia, wearing a red ten gallon hat?

09:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Robert Southey's contributions in The Fall of Robespierre praise Robespierre (pictured) as a liberator of mankind and a destroyer of despotism?

... that Carlisle Indians football team, ran back three kickoffs for touchdowns in an 1896 game against the University of Illinois
?

... that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India's only surviving opera house?

... that Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest?

... that
Polish Academy of Learning
in 1898?

... that the restaurant of the hotel
Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star
in 2009?
... that radio and TV announcer Electric Company, spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life
?

03:35, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

... that although neodymium(III) chloride itself does not have strong luminescence, it serves as a source of Nd³⁺ ions for Nd:YAG lasers (pictured)?

... that in 1925,
American Old West
?

... that the Soviet Peace Committee, a peace movement created and sponsored by the Soviet Union, criticized Western policies but defended Soviet ones?

... that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique?

... that under modern principles of vicarious liability in English law, employers are answerable for the intentional wrongdoings of their employees?

... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Three Men and Adena" was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest television moments?

... that although
slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley
wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?

13 July 2009

21:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the
edible fungus Polyozellus multiplex (pictured) has attracted research interest as a possible chemopreventative agent against stomach cancer
?

... that Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional?

... that those villages defeated by the betel nut trees to their conquerors
?

... that composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach?

... that the 13th-century armoury before becoming a masonic
hall?

... that Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960?

... that Charles Boit's enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?

15:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that while perinatal mortality of twins that share the same placenta is fairly low, the survival rate of twins that share the same amniotic sac (example pictured) within their mother's uterus is less than 60%?

... that Anthony Haswell, Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic, was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts?

... that threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed?

... that electrocardiograph
machines?

... that
'H'. Jones in the Falklands War
?

... that
Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm
by local officials?

... that Dutch children's literature," euthanized
herself a day after her 84th birthday?

09:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy
(pictured)?

... that the 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname?

... that weft
can go through?

... that the
Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture
?

... that on July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991?

... that the
Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker
Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize?

... that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu, inspiration for M. Butterfly, had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"?

03:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

... that every major street in New York's Downtown Albany Historic District (17th-century map pictured) has a major building as a focal point?

... that
suicide bomber
in 2008?

... that the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications was cited as "a major driving force" behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom?

... that an 11-time
African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court
?

... that despite being
excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV, Prospero Colonna
was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope?

... that
a Soviet ultimatum
?

... that Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration
, first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?

12 July 2009

21:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that former
Chief Justice Isaac Blackford (pictured) described the court's decisions in an eight-volume work that earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone
"?

... that the Ducati 98, called the racy motorcycle brand's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s?

... that Fernand, Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders?

... that heart disease and diabetes
?

... that the British
reaching the top ten
with their first two releases?

... that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize?

... that Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed "American Express" in reference to the credit card company?

15:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the rowhouses (pictured) anywhere in Albany, New York
?

... that Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II
?

... that suppressed in the Soviet Bloc, while flourishing in the West
?

... that the
South Dakota-class battleships are considered to be the best "treaty battleship
" ever built?

... that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s?
... that
John Wesley Harding album, but covered "All Along the Watchtower
" from the same album instead?

... that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?

09:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Shanhua Temple (pictured) in Datong, China, contains a hall that is over 900 years old?

... that the
earthquake of 1348 in the Alpine region of Friuli hit at the same time as the plague in Italy
and it caused odours to come up through the earth?

... that the
Yamato class battleships' main battery
to the shipyards where they were being built?

... that Bob Dylan's song "Joey" is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo?

... that after affixing blame for the death of
Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yang Guangxian
took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy?

... that in 2004, there were 1.8 million dugouts and coracles
?

... that nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith?

03:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Diorhabda carinata (pictured), D. sublineata and D. elongata, three species of leaf beetle in Eurasia and North Africa, are used as biological pest control agents against invasive tamarisk trees in North America?

... that in designing a new New York City Library
?

... that
pencil bombs
to sabotage Allied shipping?

... that Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison?

... that the wild
genome sequenced in India, a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
?

... that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site?

... that Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?

11 July 2009

21:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the spread of
red palm mite (pictured) is the biggest mite explosion ever observed in the Americas
?

... that in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate?

... that track and field
, and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915?

... that during the early 20th century, the depopulated
Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East
?

... that the brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center
?

... that a priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers?

... that the glamorous
actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth
than Hayworth herself?

15:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Hyperion
, was partly based on his attempts to woo Frances Appleton (pictured) who later became his wife despite disapproving of her depiction in the book?

... that after the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus"?

... that Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902)?

... that although baitfish for sailfishes and marlins, they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies
?

... that
Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka
?

... that Trans-Alaska Pipeline
?
... that
jazz singer Grace Knight, ex-Eurogliders, organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq
?

08:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
campaign
?

... that according to
neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe
about one second after the Big Bang?

... that in the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission's ban on women's wrestling?

... that the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate, built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta, was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect?

... that
Mexican-American War
?

... that the eruption of BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology
?

... that, while filming
Skins episode "Katie and Emily", actress Kathryn Prescott
genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene?

02:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

... that American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s?

... that Imperial Navy
?

... that Washington Star
after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?

... that at least eleven of the twenty electors of the
papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France
?

... that De Schoolmeester, a smock mill at Westzaan, Noord Holland, is the only wind powered paper mill in the world?

... that in 2008, the
bearing balls
?

... that 27 years after
Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart
?

10 July 2009

20:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the family of Holocaust
?

... that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus, used in Traditional Chinese medicine?

... that in 1975 professional wrestlers Sandy Parker and Jean Antoine had the first legal women's wrestling match in Oregon in 50 years?

... that the 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy?

... that convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry?

... that much of the recorded
Lafayette Circus
?

... that the Armed Forces killed in action or as a result of a terrorist
attack?

14:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the stained glass windows (pictured) of Alois Plum, found in many German churches in Germany, integrate the architecture of the church's space with the liturgy?

... that Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle?

... that the Wabash College Little Giants were the only football team to defeat Notre Dame at home during a period of 29 years and 125 games?

... that Sugarland's 2009 single "Joey" was co-written by Bill Anderson?

... that a 1977 memo by welfare
savings on each unwanted child?

... that although its fossils were first discovered in
pliosaurid genus Gallardosaurus was not declared a valid taxon until 2009
?

... that KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck?

08:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in 2005, researchers at the
square microns of silicon, using local oxidation nanolithography
(process pictured)?

... that Sunday paper comics supplement
in color?

... that the People's Republic of Poland
?
... that Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970?

... that Irish playwright tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel
?

... that the
plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent
?

... that Alfred Henningsen, three-term member of the Storting, has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?

02:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

... that so many Chinese actresses have gained recognition from starring with Stephen "Sing Yeh" Chow (pictured), they are collectively known as Sing girls?

... that London's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue?

... that Robert Brown was only 22 when he was commander of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1864?

... that in 1926,
Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun
?

... that horse and buggy driver in New York City's Central Park
?

... that of the 81
Weston, Toronto, Ontario
?

... that The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz?

9 July 2009

20:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust?

... that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa?

... that
his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant, reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language
?

... that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC's role in promoting teenage decadence?

... that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?

... that the
Środa treasure, one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe, was originally lost during the Black Plague
?

... that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?

... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?

14:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Classic Maya archaeological site of Yaxchilan, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, is known for its preserved sculpted lintels (example pictured) detailing the dynastic history of the city?

... that Tommy Thevenow hit his only two home runs in a six-day span in 1926, but none in his next 12 seasons, setting a Major League record of 3,347 consecutive regular season at bats without a home run?

... that the Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?

... that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble, Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner, and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring, but pleaded not guilty in court?

... that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid"?

... that a lake scene in the
Skins episode "Naomi" had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia
?

... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?

... that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?

08:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Chittorgarh Fort
(pictured)?

... that when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said"?

... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?

... that the championships
throughout his career?

... that PMPC Star Awards
for TV?

... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?

... that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe?

02:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis
(pictured)?

... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?

... that assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway
?

... that, originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992?

... that the
Auschwitz
?

... that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming?

... that homosexual
act?

8 July 2009

20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for her performance as Bart Simpson in the Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations
"?

... that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?

... that the
superfiring
gun turret?

... that McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount?

... that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series?

... that the 2002 Redditch Council election
saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?

... that Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research?

14:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Hundred Years War
?

... that in 2005
Gruziya
?

... that
professional golfer
?

... that Natzweiler, was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period
?

... that the 2003
?
... that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth, Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?

... that
grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova
?

08:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley (pictured) in Flintshire, Wales, was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin?

... that U.S. President
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet
's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?

... that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government?

... that theater
Westbury Music Fair
, met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?

... that following the revelation of the
Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German
death camps?

... that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby?

... that
libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt
?

02:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales
?

... that the Queen Victoria
and her family on its wall?
... that
P. Chr. Andersen, a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics
?

... that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment?

... that the
fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade
?

... that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?

... that the
donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health
-themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?

7 July 2009

20:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the bracket fungi
?

... that
seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States
?

... that during
Secret Intelligence Service
?

... that strong safety
?

... that
scuttled in Scapa Flow
?
... that in the
penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic
?

... that the motivation behind the J. R. Jayawardene in 1987 was his signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
a few weeks before?

14:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when
Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
?

... that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash typhoid
and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
... that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?

... that passengers
closure of British railway lines
in the 1960s?

... that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services?

... that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal, banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany?

... that the flag of
Zia
tribe's symbol?

08:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the first official special delivery
stamps?
... that
David Copperfield
?

... that hill fort in Cheshire
, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?

... that Peter Marshall
?

... that although a
the census
recorded only two?
... that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?

... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?

02:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Nils Kjær (pictured) had success on Scandinavian stages with his comedy Det lykkelige valg?

... that
real estate developer in Southern California
?

... that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible?

... that the Indian Emergency
on June 26, 1975?

... that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill, and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?

... that the
Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon
?

... that America
with another woman?

6 July 2009

20:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that eleven of the
Nara, Japan, are made of clay
and date to the 8th century while the wooden statue of Haira was made in 1931?

... that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team's Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song "The Victors"?

... that the pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party?

... that Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall?

... that medieval historian
Conquest
monastic histories"?

... that the Norwegian coastal steamer Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm
the next year?

... that producer communicated
with a spirit named Lazaris?

14:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured)?

... that the album
Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway
's "king of pop"?

... that hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails
?

... that
Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships
simultaneously?

... that Sir George Coldstream, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain"?

... that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?

... that
William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton
's hotels?

08:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the modernist architect I. M. Pei
?

... that
Rāg Lalit
was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?

... that the 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine?

... that the Samarkand clan's main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan?

... that The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup
, was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?

... that the traditional account of the
papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician
?

... that the
autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida
?

02:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that untreated persistent
renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy
pictured)?

... that
John G.F. Francis, who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors
of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?

... that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X Division, which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling, has been praised by Kevin Nash?

... that a reed is a comb-like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?

... that
track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics
?

... that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?

... that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club?

5 July 2009

20:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the ruined
Craigie Castle (keep pictured) contained one of Scotland's best vaulted
halls?

... that
saboteur Richard Quirin was described as a "cool, cruel man who would not hesitate to kill anyone to accomplish the mission's
objectives?"

... that
spice route
?

... that Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
, first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
... that officers of the Sarsfield Grenadier Guards were traditionally elected by the men?

... that
repertoire
"?

... that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot?

14:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
fluorescent light
(pictured)?

... that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, including Ralph Warren, John Cranston, Billy Rhodes, Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs?

... that some prints of the Mass of Saint Gregory claimed to offer indulgences of up to 45,000 years?

... that Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures
in 1992?

... that the earliest example of
glue was found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa
?

... that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park?

... that the first
La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school
?

08:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
interbreeding with dingoes (pictured) can even occur with dogs that were acquired by their owners to specifically kill dingoes
?

... that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy?

... that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site?

... that magistrates and Southern Cross University
's Alumnus of the Decade?

... that an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?

... that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?

... that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States?

02:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in the 1774 speech "thirteen colonies
?

... that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm²?

... that since its release in 1978, video game platforms
?

... that under
biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve
?

... that
Manor of Rensselaerswyck
during the 19th century, which he inherited at the age of five?

... that though the
Raša River in Croatian Istria
is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia?

... that the bus for Australian
jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell
, had groupies posing as band member's wives?

4 July 2009

20:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that both the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed with pens dipped in the Syng inkstand
(pictured)?

... that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist?

... that Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991?

... that Irv Hall's 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?

... that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley?

... that
Kentucky Fried Chicken
commercial?

... that the spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location?

14:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that during the
Slava Zaitsev (pictured) was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist
country?

... that communist
era?
... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?

... that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?

... that in 1973, Tony Awards
for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?

... that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?

... that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly?

08:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that despite a large leak since its commissioning in 1992, the hydroelectric power station (pictured) in Sri Lanka
continues to function normally?

... that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley?

... that the Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts
?

... that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?

... that an
antipersonnel mine
, reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?

... that the last
Hodgkin's lymphoma
, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?

... that Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector?

3 July 2009

23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?

... that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives?

... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"

... that former
an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father
?

... that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?

... that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?

... that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?

17:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?

... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?

... that the first person to die in Australia from the
Kiwirrkura
at the time of his birth?

... that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet?

... that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?

... that launderette in Paris
?

... that bowel, nor a syndrome
?

11:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954?

... that
en pointe
?

... that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia?

... that the British officer Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun
for his services?

... that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent?

... that it was speculated that
T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University
?

... that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?

05:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc
?

... that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc?

... that Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?

... that following the
Coeur d'Alene Mines
share prices increased by over five percent?

... that the works of
communist-era phenomena, such as the working class
practice of stealing state property?

... that the in trust
for it by the State Land Office?
... that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?

2 July 2009

23:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team?

... that the house where
Voorbode
exploded in 1944?

... that dissertation on the country's struggle for independence
?

... that several
consecration
?

... that
Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder
before publishing his first novel?

... that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day?

... that
Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German
authorities?

14:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer?

... that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma?

... that the killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death?

... that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?

... that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?

... that the German-created ghettos in occupied Poland
to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?

... that
John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago
with 71 cents in his pocket?

08:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the
Astraeaceae (pictured) can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity
?

... that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?

... that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?

... that architect Canadian House of Commons
?

... that in 1739, the
kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery
?

... that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?

... that while with the
Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda
was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?

02:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the inukshuk, a traditional Inuit
monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?

... that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?

... that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial?

... that the
2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL
, the team traded the pick?

... that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs?

... that Canadian
championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer
?

... that even after Germany lost its
colonies during WWI, colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office
?

1 July 2009

20:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that punt returns
in 2008?

... that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto, members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?

... that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers, four unelected people became ministers, the highest number since 1936?

... that Musk Orchid
grows?

... that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season, Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?

... that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?

14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
African-American
head coach in Eskimos history?

... that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication?

... that in 1992, the
Compagnies Franches de la Marine, a colonial military force of New France
?

... that
socialist movement
?

... that species in the
dextrinoid
?

... that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?

08:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that
Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest
?

... that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?

... that one of a series of hotels called the Kilauea
volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?

... that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Canadian peacekeeping history
?

... that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?

... that according to
Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli
"plays as if his hair is on fire"?

02:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?

... that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain?

... that the Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops?

... that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?

... that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication?

... that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?

... that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day?

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