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31 December 2010
- 20:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Teresa de Francisci, the model for the depiction of Liberty on the Peace dollar (obverse pictured), was born in a town south of Naples, Italy?
- ... that the administrative offices of the Caprivi Region were once located beneath a giant baobab in Katima Mulilothat today is known as the "Toilet Tree"?
- ... that a lawsuit brought by Cyclone Val in American Samoa yielded penalty payments of $86.7 million?
- ... that the power plant workers union SITRANDE was the first public sector trade union founded in Paraguay after the fall of Stroessner?
- ... that Harry Neal Baum ghostwrote the 1917 novel Mary Louise Solves a Mystery when his ailing father, L. Frank Baum, could not fulfill his obligations to his publishers?
- ... that during Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest?
- ... that the help of could marry?
- 14:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Byzantine silk designs include the tree of life, winged horses, and imaginary beasts, along with fashionable images of hunting and quadrigas (pictured)?
- ... that the Southern Baptistdenomination in the 1970s and 1980s?
- ... that Zakopane Style architecture became so popular that designs inspired by it were built in Warsaw, Łódź, and even a train station in Saldutiškis, Lithuania?
- ... that during its operational history, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade has ranged in size from 1,200 men to almost 10,000?
- ... that baseball pitcher Lefty Herring later became a position player and made it back to the major leagues five years after his first game?
- ... that Terry Bradshaw's daughter Rachel co-wrote Jerrod Niemann's "What Do You Want" and appeared in the song's music video?
- ... that the tower of St Martin's Church, Colchester, Essex, was damaged in 1648 during the Civil War, and has never been repaired?
- 08:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that President of the Royal Academy"?
- ... that Harry Kingman was the first Major League Baseball player to be born in China?
- ... that socialist politician Kiranmoy Nanda has been the Fisheries Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 1982?
- ... that an experience at an auction in the early 1960s led John Rice Irwin to start the Museum of Appalachia?
- ... that the High Virgo ballistic missile was launched from a B-58 bomber at a speed of Mach 2?
- ... that although American surf music group The Astronauts only spent one week on the Billboard Hot 100 in their entire career, they outsold The Beach Boys in Japan in the early 1960s?
- ... that Hannibal killed 15 swans?
- 02:02, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Lower Eissee (pictured), a lake which lies in a shallow cirque in the Dachstein Mountains, was left behind when the Hallstätter Glacier retreated?
- ... that after an unsuccessful debut album, Mexican singer-songwriter Mario Domm formed the band Camila?
- ... that Anubias afzelii, described in 1857, was the first species of the genus of popular aquarium plants, Anubias, known to science?
- ... that Frank Bancroft managed his now-defunct Major League Baseball team, the Providence Grays, to the 1884 World Series championship?
- ... that No. 201 Flight's role was considered so secret by the Royal Australian Air Force that few people outside the unit knew that it even existed?
- ... that Makana?
- ... that ESRB's rating downgrade of a revised version of Manhunt 2from "Adults Only" to "Mature", since that version was still banned in the UK?
30 December 2010
- 20:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that according to a diocesan official of Richmond, Virginia, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (pictured) was the world's only cathedral financed by a single family?
- ... that Basil Cave issued an ultimatum that led to the shortest war in history?
- ... that the aviary Bird Kingdom was once a museum that at one time held the mummy of Ramesses I?
- ... that Michigan Wolverines football running back Michael Shaw was a teammate of Roy Roundtree at Trotwood-Madison High School, where he was coached by National Football League veteran Maurice Douglass?
- ... that the 1957 Philippine electionswas described as "businessman's nationalism"?
- ... that Bob Dylan recorded his song "Gates of Eden" in a single take on January 15, 1965?
- ... that the 1 kg (2.2 lb) Platinum Koalacoin is an official means of payment in Australia?
- 14:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that single cylinder motorcycle racingclass?
- ... that the Saegusa-Ito oxidation?
- ... that the municipalitiesto create their own form of government without legislative approval?
- ... that the communist student organization CGMI ran campaigns against hazing at Indonesian universities?
- ... that Bill James described Mike Mitchell, who set a National League assists record as a rookie, as having the best outfield arm in baseball?
- ... that Tom Derrick received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Sattelberg in November 1943?
- ... that future Rick Baker handled the effects for The Incredible Melting Man, a 1977 horror filmabout an astronaut whose body is literally melting?
- 08:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the extinct Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodilegod?
- ... that Judson Welliver is widely regarded as having been the first presidential speechwriter?
- ... that the Al-Muqaddasi?
- ... that American anthropologist Frank Bessac was fleeing China when his group was attacked by Tibetan border guards, killing three of his party, including the first CIA agent to be killed in the line of duty?
- ... that the Ansbach Grizzlies, one of the oldest American football teams in Germany, played in every one of the first eight editions of the German Bowl?
- ... that in the lyrics of the 2010 song "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead, as well as events in his own life?
- ... that the Scud missiles and Kalashnikov riflebarrels?
- 02:02, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, often attended weekend society gatherings held at Easton Lodge, home of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick(pictured)?
- ... that it was debated in 1896 whether the Simon Legree in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
- ... that the aquarium plant Anubias heterophylla has reportedly been used as a stomachic for children?
- ... that hydro-electric power stations on the Romaine River is called "the biggest construction project in Canada"?
- ... that the Batavia, New York post office is one of only three in the state to be a contributing property to its historic district despite being ineligible for an independent listing on the NRHP?
- ... that sex reassignment surgery planned by his stepdaughter, former New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer, before her mother received the news?
29 December 2010
- 20:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Sempringham Priory (pictured) was built by Saint Gilbert, the only Englishman who ever founded a monastic order?
- ... that the Croix de guerretwice, and died in combat for France in World War I?
- ... that after dropping out of the 1992 Kim Jones suffered from bronchitisand was bedridden for a month?
- ... that Maxim model and reality television contestant Gia Allemand has been selected to play the role of Ava Gardner in an upcoming film about the life of Gianni Russo?
- ... that Mexico's 17th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards?
- ... that since March 2007 there have been controversial discussions about including of parts of the northern Steigerwald Nature Park in UNESCO's World Heritage Programme by turning them into a national park?
- ... that Ralph "Human Ripcord" Savidge invented a baseball pitch called the "finger nail curve"?
- 14:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Jamaica Inn (sign pictured) of Bodmin Moor is the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name?
- ... that the 1999 film The Sixth Sense received six Academy Award nominations, and grossed more than sixteen times its budget?
- ... that Sir Francis Wythens was illegally returned to Parliament after a book containing 700 votes for the opposition "was artificially mislaid and lost by the officers trusted"?
- ... that archaeologist Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedias "a monumental edifice in terms of contemporary architecture"?
- ... that although the bat Myotis alcathoewas only described in 2001, it is now known to range widely across Europe?
- ... that tutor of King's College, Cambridge, after being blamed for the throwing into the college fountain of the "long-haired bounder" Robbie Ross?
- ... that during the Great Depression, the construction of a country estate named for a candy bar was the largest source of jobs in Giles County, Tennessee?
- 08:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Alvingham Priory, active until most of its inhabitants died from the Black Death, has a churchyard (pictured) containing the only church in England dedicated to St. Adelwold?
- ... that though his early later renounced this practice?
- ... that the Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire was built in response to the success of a tram at Cannon Mountain?
- ... that the Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference defines information technology law jargon using legal opinion from case law?
- ... that the name for the Mexican band Jotdog was inspired by the pop art work of Andy Warhol?
- ... that despite having reconstructive Tommy John surgery prior to the season, Zach Daeges was named to the first-team all-Missouri Valley Conference squad as a designated hitterin 2005?
- ... that a decomposing rhino carcass and lack of water led to the establishment of Henties Bay?
- 02:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Schneeferner (pictured) in the Bavarian Alps is Germany's largest glacier?
- ... that, when Thomas M. Carnegie tried to get his brother, Andrew Carnegie, to invest in the Edgar Thomson Steel Works (later a key element in the Carnegie steel empire), Andrew initially refused?
- ... that a signal gas works?
- ... that in 1944, municipaladministration?
- ... that the E.J. Corey described a total synthesis of hexacyclinolas "blatantly wrong science"?
- ... that in the 1932 NFL championship game, Chicago Bears coach George Halas stuck out his foot from the sidelines and tripped Ace Gutowsky while he was returning a kickoff for the Portsmouth Spartans?
28 December 2010
- 20:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that while the origin of recent shark attacks in Egypt (species pictured) is unknown, experts cite overfishing and illegal dumping of animal carcassesas possible causes?
- ... that 37 different contracts were issued for venue construction and renovation among three different governmental ministries for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens?
- ... that, according to Fieldhouse, militant agitation by the Indonesian communist trade union Serbuni during the 1963/1964 confrontation sought to prevent nationalization of Unileverfactories?
- ... that the American painter Order of the Savior by King George I of Greecefor his services?
- ... that W. K. Henderson, the founder in 1925 of KWKH Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana, rallied his listeners against the new Federal Communications Commission and chain stores?
- ... that remains of the largest known stone ship, either 170 or 354 metres long, have been found under the two royal barrows at Jelling in Denmark?
- 14:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that of Andorra's 65 mountain peaks over 6,560 feet (2,000 m), the peak of Coma Pedrosa (pictured) is the highest at 9,652 feet (2,942 m)?
- ... that former Oregon Duck and Detroit Lion George Christensen co-founded a multinational manufacturing company with factories in France, Japan, Canada and the United States?
- ... that the minuscule 801 has an unusual order of books, with the Gospels placed at the end, after the Pauline epistles?
- ... that the tropical marine fish Gillellus inescatus possesses an esca similar to that of an anglerfish, which might be used for luring prey and attracting mates?
- ... that contractor income tax evasion and kickbacks received on buildings that he completed at Louisiana State University?
- ... that the construction of a drug addicts?
- 08:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (signing pictured) extends not only the Bush tax cuts but also tax-reducing aspects of the 2009 Stimulus?
- ... that the selection of Jamshid Amouzegar as Prime Minister of Iran in 1977 instead of Hushang Ansary has been called “one of the shah’s two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution”?
- ... that pitcher minor league baseball games in 1902 and made it back to the major leaguesthe following season?
- ... that award-winning experimental ?
- ... that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruitfly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila?
- ... that as a lobbyist in 1997, former State Rep. Randy Pendleton worked for the constitutional amendment which permits home-equity loans in Texas?
- ... that visitors of the sleigh?
- 02:02, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that William Goyen, whose acclaimed first novel The House of Breath was first published in 1950, was married to Doris Roberts (pictured), who played Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond?
- ... that Australian child murderers John and Sarah Makin were caught after the bodies of two of their many victims were discovered in a blocked drain?
- ... that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio, may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
- ... that Bill Kemmer set a Texas League record with 12 runs batted in during a single baseball game?
- ... that after serving as a teacher?
- ... that New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed his frustration with the overly generous deals Eric Schmertz negotiated with unions, saying that city workers should say "Thank you Mr. Mayor, for the Schmertz"?
- ... that the principal exhibit of the Fabergé Museum in the German town of Baden-Baden is an egg bought for nine million pounds?
27 December 2010
- 20:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the present Alto Vista Chapel (pictured) in Aruba, completed in 1952, stands at the location where the original chapel was built in 1750 by Domingo Silvestre, a missionary from Venezuela?
- ... that Third Day of Christmas?
- ... that Charles Edward Jenkins III retired due to post-traumatic stress disorder from Hurricane Katrina?
- ... that in his first professional baseball season, Lefty Houtz led the Texas League in triples, home runs, hits, total bases, and slugging percentage?
- ... that the German ?
- ... that as the runaway winner of a special election for his late father's seat in the Texas House of Representatives, John Kuempel of Seguin is the 101st Republicanin the 150-seat body?
- ... that a playboy originally was a boy performing in a theatre?
- 12:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that according to a legend of the Pyrenees, witches performed naked dances near Lake Engolasters (pictured) in Andorra?
- ... that since 1989, championships and five runner-up designations?
- ... that Whitney Houston's 1985 single "How Will I Know" was originally written for Janet Jackson?
- ... that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?
- ... that Dratshang Lhentshog is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan?
- ... that diplomat and historian Ignas Jonynas contributed articles to the first universal encyclopedia in the Lithuanian language?
- ... that the Salcombe Lifeboat capsized in 1916 with the loss of 13 lives, and again in 1983, with no loss of life?
- 06:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that buoy tender Prinsendam that sank in the Gulf of Alaskain 1980?
- ... that the 16th-century judge Sir William Dolben was described by biographer Roger North as an "arrant old snarler"?
- ... that 2001 shoe bomb plot?
- ... that Japanese anime?
- ... that the 12th-century Lectionary 303 was taken to Paris and later to America despite a colophon threatening "the wrath of the eternal Word of God" for anyone who removed it?
- ... that Mexican band Jotdog included a cover version of a song previously recorded by Cyndi Lauper on their debut album?
- ... that from 1902 to 1996, Ham Iburg had the most wins in Major League Baseball for a pitcher whose last name starts with the letter "I"?
- 00:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in the 12th-century frescoes (example pictured) of St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton, West Sussex, "a spike-heeled devil riding a large beast separates the doomed from the blessed"?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Puszcza Darżlubska Forest is the second largest site of Nazi mass killings of Poles and Jews in Pomerania?
- ... that Isuzu Yamada was the first actress to receive the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from the Emperor of Japan?
- ... that the Powder Ridge Ski Area was home to the first quad chairlift in New England?
- ... that explorer John Smith?
- ... that although Justices of the King's Bench received salaries from 1278, the first pension provisions were not made until 1799?
26 December 2010
- 18:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that superhard but not supertough?
- ... that Second Day of Christmas, Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57?
- ... that American diplomat, orator, and Harvard professor Edward Everett bought two New Testament manuscripts, Lectionary 297 and Lectionary 298, during a visit to Greece in 1819?
- ... that NFL Championship Games, became the Los Angeles Rams' all-time leading rusher and was considered "a murderous line backer"?
- ... that insertion reactions are integral to the Cativa process, a method used to produce millions of tons of acetic acid annually?
- ... that the only remaining original Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Streetstation?
- ... that Harvey Wells founded the city of Wellston, Ohio, but he never owned his own house there?
- 12:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the stained glass windows at Anykščiai Church (pictured), the tallest church in Lithuania, were made by Anortė Mackelaitė?
- ... that Stephen Venard, a 19th century Nevada City, California lawman and renowned road agent killer, used a Henry rifle?
- ... that Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones was available to premiere at New York City's Metropolitan Opera because an opera by a Jew about a black was not wanted in Berlin in 1933?
- ... that the Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League franchise based in Jacksonville, were Florida's first professional ice hockey team?
- ... that the crest of the Königstein Ridge near Westerhausen, Germany, is dominated by the striking Kamelfelsen rocks whose shape resembles two camels lying down?
- ... that Monte Scheinblum, son of All-Star baseball player Richie Scheinblum, hit a golf ball over 329 yards (301 meters) into a 20 mph (32 kph) wind to win the 1992 U.S. National Long Driving Championship?
- ... that despite attaching an inscription to his first wife's grave implying he would not marry again, British politician Giles Eyre not only remarried but buried his second wife in the same grave?
- 06:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Seven Acts of Mercy?
- ... that mainland China under the Open Door Policy?
- ... that when District of Columbia judge Robert L. Wilkins was recently out of law school, he was stopped by Maryland State Police for "driving while black" and won a landmark racial profiling lawsuit?
- ... that 11 out of 19 species of land snails found on the Samoan island of Tutuila are endemic?
- ... that the drama series Huge, created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman, employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer?
- ... that Jim Cockman is the oldest player to ever make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees?
- ... that the ancient Gambuh dance is performed in Batuan, Bali, every full moon?
- 00:00, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Robert Haven Schauffler book for Christmas 1907 (pictured) included prose by Dickens and Washington Irving and an article on whether there is a Santa Claus?
- ... that after a tsutsugamushi epidemic occurred at Sausapor, research was conducted on the area's rats and mites, using C-rations as rat bait, to better understand the illness's epidemiology?
- ... that Spanish songwriter 2004?
- ... that the world's first quantum machine "literally vibrated a little and a lot at the same time" and was named "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science in 2010?
- ... that when Great Britain lost the 1951 Ryder Cup by a score of 9½–2½, golfer Arthur Lees took part in the team's only two match wins?
- ... that A Christmas Record released in 1981 on the ZE label was described as the first-ever alternative Christmas album and contains both a hit single and a "blasphemous, nearly tuneless piece of skronk"?
25 December 2010
- 18:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Michigan football captain James Van Inwagen (pictured) operated the Tiffany Enameled Brick Co. and the company that made Tiffany Never-Wind Clocks?
- ... that the Latin Grammy Awardfor "Best Traditional Tropical Album" in 2009?
- ... that the Aero HC-2 Heli Baby was the first Czechoslovakian-designed helicopter to go into production?
- ... that although Geographia Neoteriki, written by Grigorios Konstantas and Daniel Philippidis, was welcomed with enthusiasm by western intellectuals, it was largely neglected by Greek scholars?
- ... that after winning a minor league baseball batting title in 1903, Charlie Loudenslagerjoined a major league team but only appeared in one game?
- ... that the on Christmas Day?
- 12:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the first Christmas Day in Leipzig was in 1724 the chorale cantata Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, based on Martin Luther's hymn for Christmas Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ(pictured)?
- ... that in 1874, a 5720 pound copper nugget whose surface had been worked by prehistoric miners was discovered at the Minong Mine?
- ... that Joe Marshall, also known as "Home Run Joe", did not hit any home runs in his Major League Baseball career?
- ... that Dylan Thomas' short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales was first published under its own title two years after his death?
- ... that in 1958 the Public Personnel Association named the Civil Serviceof North America"?
- ... that a election and is voted into Parliamentas a group?
- ... that Dionte Christmas led the 2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team in points per game, three-pointers completed, and total steals?
- 06:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that although first published in the 1582 songbook Unto Us is Born a Son may be derived from 12th and 13th century French organumrepertories?
- ... that the freshman State Rep. Leopold Caspari in 1884 pushed successfully for the creation of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana?
- ... that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala, protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects, by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
- ... that NASCAR Canadian Tire Seriesrace during his first full season on the tour?
- ... that Brace Mountain, the highest peak in Dutchess County, New York, is a popular launch spot for hang gliding and paragliding due to the smooth geography of the area?
- ... that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's first released single was a blues rock cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy"?
- ... that the people of Saukorem produce Korwar figures, which are often made with the skulls of deceased family members?
- 00:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Henry Ramsden Bramley's Christmas Carols, New and Old (pictured), compiled in collaboration with John Stainer, is credited with creating a Christmas carol revival in Victorian England?
- ... that Andrew McKinley, David Aiken, and Leon Lishner created the parts of the Three Kings in the world premiere of Menotti's Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors which was broadcast live by NBC to an audience of millions on Christmas Eve 1951?
- ... that the investigation by the Flight 850accident took 3,005 days to complete?
- ... that Virginiawhen he was 19?
- ... that Jason Aldean's duet with Kelly Clarkson, "Don't You Wanna Stay", is the first duet of his career?
- ... that minor league baseballbatting title at the age of 37?
- ... that the official Chicago Christmas tree was constructed from multiple individual treesuntil 2009?
24 December 2010
- 18:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that four centuries after being aggrieved by Benedict Spinola in a property deal, Magdalene College, Cambridge, avenged itself by erecting a gargoyle of him (pictured)?
- ... that the Rugby League Atlantic Cup, held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, is contested by emerging rugby league nations in North America?
- ... that the Faust II?
- ... that baseball player Farmer Steelman appeared in one game for the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas and was the only rookie to play for that team during the entire season?
- ... that Dexter executive producer Daniel Cerone encouraged the mother of his son's friend not to let her son audition for "Seeing Red" because he would be filmed sitting in a pool of blood?
- ... that the wildlife of Malaysia is some of the most diverse in the world, existing in forests believed to be 130 million years old?
- ... that the Scott Sisters of Mississippiare serving life sentences for their alleged involvement in a robbery in which $11 was stolen and no one was injured, although they had no previous criminal records?
- 12:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Air Vice Marshal F-111 to the RAAFproved "painfully prescient" as the new bomber came six years late and way over budget?
- ... that the ?
- ... that former private security companyafter his retirement from wrestling?
- ... that Torbjörn Fälldincabinet?
- ... that Milwaukee's Bronze Fonz is an $85,000 public artwork of a Happy Days TV show character?
- ... that the crew of the ill-fated slave ship Luxborough Galley became cannibals?
- 06:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that after Joseph Breil's "Lyric Tragedy in One Act" The Legend (libretto pictured) at the Met, she burned her copy of the score?
- ... that professional wrestler Bobby Walker sued World Championship Wrestling for making him look "obnoxious" and "shiftless"?
- ... that the Marlborough White Horse was cut from a hillside in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy?
- ... that Scopes Monkey Trials?
- ... that one of the stages in the Xbox Live Arcade game Faery: Legends of Avalon takes place in a city on the back of a giant beetle?
- ... that Fred H. Mills, Jr., wrote legislation in 2010 to permit pharmacists, such as himself, to administer medication therapy management services?
- ... that Hollis Professor of Divinity has the right to graze a cow on the Harvard Yard?
- 00:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Blood Qur'an, formerly displayed in the Mother Of All Battles mosque in Baghdad (pictured), was written in over 20 litres of Saddam Hussein's blood?
- ... that before his elections in 1944 and 1956 to both houses of the ?
- ... that the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in July 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I?
- ... that one of the largest aboriginal title claims in the United States was rejected based on an interpretation of the Articles of Confederation?
- ... that recent economic crisis, and all were refused?
- ... that Albanian American Anthony Athanas, who rode a donkey en route to the United States, became a multi-millionaire restaurateur in Massachusetts?
23 December 2010
- 18:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that all species of the fruit fly genus Zaprionus (Z. indianus pictured) have the same characteristic white stripes over the head and thorax?
- ... that the former Colfax Riot in 1873 and formed the White Leaguein 1874?
- ... that 40,000 people were involved in the construction of venues for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
- ... that the deindustrialization of Youngstown has had the effect of cutting the population of the Ohiocity in half?
- ... that the Soviet ship German submarineU-250, capturing the commander and five crewmen in July 1944?
- ... that Roald Hoffmann's development of the isolobal principle helped him earn the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
- ... that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium?
- 12:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the three species of the fungal genus Collybia—C. cookei (pictured), C. cirrhata, and C. tuberosa—all grow on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
- ... that Winter Olympicevents?
- ... that the CBC's senior correspondent Neil Macdonald is the brother of comedian Norm Macdonald?
- ... that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi?
- ... that the African-Americanassociation founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?
- ... that the Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? was an honourable mention at Fujimi Shobo's 20th Fantasia Awards?
- ... that before the 62nd Grey Cup, CFL defensive back Tony Proudfoot fired staples from a staple gun into his shoes to improve his traction on an icy football field?
- 06:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Satyavati (pictured) – who initially stank of fish – was blessed with the musk fragrance by a sage, with whom she had premarital sex?
- ... that the award-winning war photographer Yuri Kozyrev, who spent several years working for the American press in Baghdad, lived together with Iraqis in the city?
- ... that newly promoted offensive tackle Michael Oher?
- ... that Hiroshi Ishikawa won the New Montreal Film Festival's Best Director award for Su-ki-da, his second film?
- ... that Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (published 1765–1769) is still cited by the Supreme Court of the United States between 10 and 12 times a year?
- 00:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the bell in the Batavia, New York, was originally acquired for use in a practical joke?
- ... that The Walking Dead was named as one of the top 10 television programs of 2010 by the American Film Institute?
- ... that Louisiana state court judge O. E. Price of Bossier City participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties?
- ... that in 1936, the North Fork Shenandoah River flooded Cootes Store in Virginiaduring the Great Flood which reached four feet high at its worst?
- ... that the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports reporter and narrated by Dustin Hoffman?
- ... that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team, the Zambiangovernment has yet to release a report on the crash?
22 December 2010
- 18:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Sotra Facula (pictured), a prominent feature on Saturn's giant moon Titan, is thought to be an ice volcano that may have erupted water, methane, polyethylene, paraffin waxes or even asphalt?
- ... that a survey conducted in 1993 on the influence of the children's television program Sesame Street found that by the age of three, 95% of all American children had watched the show?
- ... that the English Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, which he had designed himself?
- ... that the Bulgar notable Mauros intended to organize an uprising in Thessaloniki on the night before Easter in order to catch its defenders unprepared?
- ... that Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132, on 22 December 1715 in the Schlosskirche Weimar?
- ... that the brothels?
- 12:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the seeds of Simarouba amara (sapling pictured) are more likely to germinate once they have been eaten by monkeys?
- ... that previous election?
- ... that "The Virgin's Cradle Hymn", a lullaby collected by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Germany in 1799, was derived from a Flemish engraving by Hieronymus Wierix?
- ... that Mark Miodownik is delivering the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures?
- ... that the ironclad class of ships in the Russian Navy?
- ... that the music of songwriter Lincoln Chase, who wrote "Such a Night", "Jim Dandy", and "The Clapping Song", has been described as "like a black Frank Zappa but groovier"?
- 06:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Cuernavaca Cathedral (pictured) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally one of the 16th century monasteries built near the Popocatepetl volcano that have been designated a World Heritage Site?
- ... that the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811, which killed around 72 people, was at the time the worst urban disaster in American history?
- ... that of the great glaciers of the French Oisans, the Glacier Noir descends farthest because of favourable topography and moraines that screen it from the sun?
- ... that though 2000 lay dead on the field of the Battle of Zappolino (November 1325), when forces of Modena routed Bologna, the status quo was re-established afterwards and historians generally ignore the event?
- ... that John Deering volunteered to have his heart monitored by an electrocardiogram while he was shot to death?
- 00:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a large waterbag (pictured) can bring water to California and, according to its inventor, peace to the Middle East?
- ... that Western Wood was preselected for the City of London seat in 1861 in preference to future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone?
- ... that operatic burlesques, written before the Gilbert and Sullivanoperas?
- ... that Frederick S. Lyman's account of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano and 1868 Hawaii earthquake was written from a nearby sheep and goat ranch?
- ... that Plas yn Rhiw house in Gwynedd was originally built in the 10th century to prevent incursions by Vikings into Porth Neigwl, and is reportedly haunted?
- ... that medieval Bulgarian noble Aldimir, the despot of Kran, changed sides to the Byzantines even though he had blinded a rival in order to gain the Bulgarian emperor's trust?
- ... that when mooredin the harbour instead?
21 December 2010
- 18:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that before Dr. Andrea Crestadoro became Chief Librarian in Manchester, he patented improvements to the horse powered locomotive Impulsoria (pictured)?
- ... that actress ?
- ... that a radar station which was active at Grassy Hill Light during World War II included an imitation lighthouse keeper's cottage for camouflagepurposes?
- ... that Stanford and Detroit Lions running back Ernie Caddel, known as the "Blond Antelope," led the NFL in average yards gained per rushing carry for three consecutive years?
- ... that despite his role in the Counter-Reformation, the abbot of Göttweig Abbey David Gregor Corner reluctantly included Protestant hymns in his 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch?
- ... that The Fisherman's Cot in Devon overlooks the River Exe and a bridge which was wrongly thought for many years to be the inspiration for Paul Simon's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water"?
- ... that in 1925, Texas Supreme Courtafter no male judges or lawyers could be found to hear a case?
- 12:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the final term of Mayor of Napier in New Zealand was extended due to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake?
- ... that the investment fraud sweep by the US Government, may have involved over 120,000 victims?
- ... that English-born footballer Ellis Remy made his international debut playing for the Montserrat national football team?
- ... that La Vivandière (1867) was one of the early comedies by W. S. Gilbert that used satiric devices later employed in his famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
- ... that chef Mérite Agricole, learned to cook at the age of five?
- ... that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico?
- ... that in 1863 the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was propelled underground from Holborn to Euston railway station in a parcel capsule to demonstrate the system built by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company?
- 06:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Glacier Blanc (pictured) is the largest glacier in the Southern French Alps with an area of 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi) and a length of 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
- ... that artist Thomas Eakins suggested Anna Willess Williams pose for the depiction of Liberty on the Morgan dollar?
- ... that seven Croatian Army generals were forcibly retired in 2000 for signing an open letter to the Croatian public?
- ... that English artist Chantal Joffe, who sometimes uses pornography for source material, created such large paintings that she required scaffolding to work on them?
- ... that the 2009 NBA Development League Draft?
- ... that when New Zealand-born pop artist Dinah Lee became 'Queen of the Mods' in 1964, her own mother could not recognise her?
- ... that bulletproof vest before he was executed by firing squad?
- 00:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Mongol script was used in Western medieval art (example pictured) as a decoration from the late 13th century to early 14th century?
- ... that six years after passage of the desegregate a restaurant in Baton Rouge?
- ... that adult males of the parasitic wasp, Encarsia perplexa, can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
- ... that country house near Bungay, Norfolk, is the temporary residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his extradition hearings in the United Kingdom?
- ... that in 1878, the old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard sang one of his poems over the grave of Dodge City Marshal Ed Masterson, the victim of a gunfight?
- ... that during the wreck of the Algoma, the worst loss of life in Lake Superior history, victims were literally dashed to pieces?
- ... that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin?
20 December 2010
- 18:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a 1907 USD)?
- ... that Richard Bustillo learned Jeet Kune Do directly from Bruce Lee and went on to instruct Lee's children Shannon and Brandon in the martial art?
- ... that the iOS, selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
- ... that in 1934, the congregation of the St. John's Lutheran Church in New Finland, Saskatchewan, Canada, had their church cut into two halves so as to relocate it by five miles using a tractor?
- ... that Jonah Hex was named "Worst Picture" of 2010 by the Houston Film Critics Society at their 2010 awards ceremony?
- ... that McGaheysville in Virginia was originally named "Ursulaburg" after the wife of the ousted Reverend Charles Lang, who was ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia in 1771 and left Ursula behind?
- 12:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that airport control tower, is the only surviving example of its design in Australia?
- ... that a previous electionbeing overturned due to systematic intimidation?
- ... that the Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall in Hawaii cost twice its original budget, partially due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
- ... that the Admiral Lazarev class monitors had their main armament replaced during their career, allowing them to remain among the most powerful ships in the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet?
- ... that in May 2009, when proposing that MPs"?
- ... that New Zealand explorer and surveyor Charlie Douglas claimed that not being able to swim "had saved his life many a time"?
- 06:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the eccentric Victorian sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas (pictured) believed in fairies and drove around in a Roman chariot?
- ... that a 1977 book by the historian Martin V. Melosi examines the role of partisan politics in delaying public disclosure of events leading to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
- ... that the Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone National Park burned while being demolished in 1960?
- ... that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems, Thrustmaster, and Lattice Semiconductor?
- ... that on December 19, 1981, the entire crew of the Penlee Lifeboat were killed trying to rescue people from a ship in a storm, but sufficient volunteers came forward within a day to form a new lifeboat crew?
- ... that "football nut" "Sturzy" Sturzenegger spent most of his career coaching college football at Michigan, USC and UCLA despite having attended Harvard Law School?
- ... that voodoo witchcraft of West Indies?
- 00:00, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the biological control agent of the invasive Canada thistle?
- ... that Guy Touvron has been called "one of the leading pedagogues of trumpet technique and interpretation France has ever produced"?
- ... that the Duke of Wellington chose not to buy Somerhill House in Kent because he considered the local fox hunting not good enough?
- ... that Sam McMackin died less than six months after making his Major League Baseball debut?
- ... that Carson City is the oldest building still in use by the Episcopal Church in the state of Nevada?
- ... that the Innu word meaning "place where one lies in wait for moose"?
- ... that after a period of retirement which included a stint as a beer delivery man, title in 1983?
19 December 2010
- 18:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Tiergarten?
- ... that the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City was the world's first museum dedicated to watercolor painting?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Florida Reef is the third largest coral barrier reef in the world, and that in the middle of the 19th century there were close to 50 shipwrecks a year on the reef?
- ... that Johann Wilhelm Schwedler preferred other engineering solutions over his own invention, the Schwedler truss, on aesthetic grounds?
- ... that Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskritin 1980?
- 12:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Scottish engineer James Blyth built the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power (pictured) in 1887?
- ... that the ?
- ... that Tell Shemshara in Iraq was once the capital of the "land of the gatekeeper"?
- ... that American yachtswoman J. J. Isler, who competed in both the Olympics and the America’s Cup races, was the first woman named to the Sailing World Hall of Fame?
- ... that Brad Paisley released "This Is Country Music" as a single long before the album was to come out, even though it was "bad timing for his label"?
- ... that Walter Keane, known for paintings of "big-eyed waifs," claimed a sore shoulder and declined a 1986 court-ordered paint-off with his ex-wife, resulting in a US$4 million judgment against him?
- ... that jars uncovered at Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountains contained wine and resin residue which suggested that the inhabitants were making a wine similar to Retsina over 7 millennia ago?
- 06:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that fullback John Bloomingston (pictured), who became one of Chicago's best known trial lawyers, was disbarred from athletics in 1896 for playing professional baseball?
- ... that The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England, dated to 1220?
- ... that Erik Røring Møinichen was a Norwegian Minister of Financefive times?
- ... that when it was built in 1795, fur trading operation in the Spanish Louisiana Territory?
- ... that communist politician Salawati Daud was the first female mayor in Indonesia?
- ... that corrugated iron?
- ... that the Parborlasia corrugatus, fires an adhesive, barbed proboscisas a means of defense, and to capture prey?
- 00:00, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the former Batavia was the first National Historic Landmark designated in Western New York?
- ... that screenwriter and film director Norman Thaddeus Vane referenced the 1931 movie Dracula in his work Shadow of the Hawk?
- ... that xiaochi, or Chinese and Taiwanese "small eats", can include such ingredients as stinky tofu, sheep head, grass jelly or pork intestines?
- ... that Not Worse Than Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov, was described by Vremya Novosteias one of the best Russian books in the field of art in 2007?
- ... that ?
- ... that an obituary for Hughie Hearne stated that he was a "well known baseball star" and "one of the game's best catchers," although he never played a full major league season?
- ... the Hydnaceae family contains mushrooms with "teeth"?
18 December 2010
- 18:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that British East India Company officials to negotiate an end to the First Anglo-Mysore War?
- ... that 1909 and 1910?
- ... that St Mary's Church in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, England, stands a mile away from the village it served, sharing the churchyard of the adjoining parish church?
- ... that the Sir Bernard Lovell?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Harz Mountains are so-named because they supposedly resemble a drude, a German witch-like figure associated with dreams?
- ... that the Westerman Lumber Office and House is now home to Big Honza, who is "bigger, smarter and wiser" than Paul Bunyan?
- 12:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the wasp Megarhyssa macrurus (pictured) paralyzes her prey by injecting it with an ovipositor 4 inches (10 cm) long?
- ... that the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow's 16th-century chronicles were rediscovered in 1729, 1832 and 1973?
- ... that on October 21, 1915, a band of Mexicans invaded the United States and conducted a Plan de San Diego?
- ... that The Skywalk Is Gone was the first short film to ever get a theatrical commercial run in Taiwan?
- ... that the Ottawa, and Comanche?
- ... that Chapultepec Park is the largest urban park in Latin America?
- ... that Italian model and skydiver Roberta Mancino has performed several thousand skydives, including four while completely naked?
- 06:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Les Jackson (pictured), who fought in and later commanded the same squadron as his brother John, became the first RAAF fighter ace of the New Guinea campaign in World War II?
- ... that World Wrestling Federation's Armageddon (1999) event after hitting Vince McMahon, his father-in-law and boss, with a sledgehammer?
- ... that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala?
- ... that in 1922–23, journalist Elmo Scott Watson wrote Stories of Great Indians, an attempt to refute the noble savage concept then popular among writers about the Native American tribes?
- ... that Carinthia?
- ... that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Acumed, a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?
- ... that the Time pyramid, a public work of artbegun in 1993, is scheduled for completion in the year 3183?
- 00:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Michigan football player "Octy" Graham (pictured) at age 16 was called a "young Hercules" after "gripping machines did not register high enough to show his strength"?
- ... that in a plasma antenna, plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional radio antenna?
- ... that Clancy Carlile wrote the novel and the screenplay for Honkytonk Man that starred Clint Eastwood?
- ... that according to legend, Wormy hillock hengeis the burial site of a dragon?
- ... that the surprise about the spying on UN leaders by US diplomatswas not that it was done, but rather who would be doing it, and what information would be required?
- ... that the church Gothic Revival style, after a first building had collapsed?
- ... that John Tyner and Charles Krauthammer don't want you touching their junk, but Michael Kinsley wants you to go ahead and touch his, and Wendy Kaminer thinks Krauthammer just wants you to touch someone else's?
17 December 2010
- 18:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that one in six of all English country houses (Tong Castle pictured) are thought to have been demolished during the 20th century?
- ... that Prince George Alexandrovich Yurievsky as a "true Russian", causing rumors that he was considering giving him dynastic rights?
- ... that Bullacta exarata is a commercially important sea snail in eastern China?
- ... that the traffic reporters and farmers as well as sport pilots?
- ... that visitors to the Wank mountain in Germany can use a Wankpass to ride the Wankbahn up to the Wank-Haus at the summit?
- ... that the hook and ladderplay run by the Bears with less than two minutes remaining?
- ... that of roughly 200 magic spells in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, five are intended to protect the dead from snakes in the afterlife?
- 12:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Wachovia area in North Carolina?
- ... that the Wellington harbouras his base?
- ... that Breslau?
- ... that style of handwriting of lectionaries ℓ 296 and ℓ 1599 have resemblance to Codex Cyprius?
- ... that IGN's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?
- ... that Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings?
- ... that the rainforests of eastern Australia harbour such trees as the yellow bulletwood and veiny lace-flower?
- 06:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Harry Yount (pictured) killed 70 antelope in one day during a hunting competition, but was ashamed because "it went against his heart to kill so many innocent creatures just for the glory"?
- ... that after acquiring the script for Santa Santita, the director did not start production for five years due to the lack of an appropriate lead actress?
- ... that nearly 10,000 quartz artifacts were found at a Neolithic site known as the Scord of Brouster?
- ... that Anne Rouse's poetry often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker, such as the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward?
- ... that San Francisco City Clinic is a specialty municipal sexual health center that opened in 1933 and serves people over the age of 12?
- ... that Sir William Blackstone's A Discourse on the Study of the Law was his only work to survive its various editions without alterations by the author?
- ... that Heaven 17's 1981 song "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan?
- 00:00, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Chicago's La Salle Hotel (pictured) became a de facto White House during U.S. President William Howard Taft's extended stay in its presidential suite?
- ... that La Stazione, a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz, New York, burned down in 1907, killing the station agent's dog?
- ... that the Pluton-class minelayers, built just before World War I, were the first purpose-built minelayers in the French Navy?
- ... that The River was called a "porn movie" by the lead actor's father?
- ... that state capitolbuildings?
- ... that after the Woodlawn Cemeterybuilt a new sales office to meet demand?
- ... that the phrase "more bang for the buck" was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons, rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?
16 December 2010
- 18:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that baseball player Socks Seybold (pictured) held the American League home run record before Babe Ruth broke it in 1919?
- ... that LZ7's 2010 single "This Little Light" is based around the 20th century gospel song "This Little Light of Mine"?
- ... that the science fiction film Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 films list, and was featured in the last episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 broadcast on Comedy Central?
- ... that in August each year, mulberries from the garden at Finsbury Circus?
- ... that the 1896 South Australian referendum was the first referendum to be held in Australia?
- ... that although auto parts worker only for a single summer, he stayed on the job and later became president of the United Auto Workers?
- ... that while most of ?
- 12:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the bee Anthidium manicatum (pictured) scrapes fur from leaves to line its nest?
- ... that both bombings, in May 2008, by Spain's ?
- ... that sprinter Seun Ogunkoya broke the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres before turning 20 years old?
- ... that underwater welding was invented by Konstantin Khrenov in 1932?
- ... that under football coach J. White Guyn, the cash-strapped Kentucky program arranged to play Michigan to generate revenue, but travel costs limited its income and the team lost, 62–0?
- ... that the Minnesota Building became more Moderne as it was being built?
- ... that after losing the Second 2010–11 Ashes Test to England, the selectors for the Australian cricket team thought that Beer could help them in the Third Test?
- 06:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a novel fruit bodies of the golden-edge bonnet(pictured)?
- ... that Minnesota State Legislature?
- ... that controlled thermonuclear fusion are among the long-term goals of the Medvedev modernisation programme in Russia?
- ... that the 1958–59 reality show Confession, hosted by Jack Wyatt, featured criminals discussing the circumstances which propelled them into a life of lawlessness?
- ... that Michigan footballer and Rhodes Scholar James K. Watkins became Detroit Police Commissioner and formed a group in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal"?
- ... that the California towns of La Placita and Agua Mansa, located across from each other on the Santa Ana River, were the largest settlements between New Mexico and Los Angeles in the 1840s?
- ... that during the Baron Dhanisallowed his men to bring their wives, slaves and servants along with his army?
- 00:00, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that 3-D?
- ... that Chris Strachwitz, German-born founder of blues and Cajun music specialist Arhoolie Records, accumulated the largest private collection of Mexican and Mexican-American music in the world?
- ... that Bremo Slave Chapel is the only place of worship known to have been built for slaves in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
- ... that Giovanni Orsini was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III, a legate for Pope John XXII, helped to drive Antipope Nicholas V from Rome, and took part in the election of Pope Benedict XII?
- ... that the Bristol Festival of Ideas, set up in 2005 as part of the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture, now awards one of the most valuable annual book prizes in the UK?
- ... that in 1899, Major League Baseball rookie Jimmy Williams set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record with his 27-game hitting streak?
- ... that New Zealand Army officer Rhys Jones, the next Chief of Defence Force, was told in 2000 that he would receive no further promotions?
15 December 2010
- 18:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that some chemical reactions are used for welding rail tracks (example pictured)?
- ... that Knute Rockne called Thomas A. Barry "the man who laid the football foundation at Notre Dame"?
- ... that the Gruta das Torres is a three-dimensional braided lava tube system, the longest in the Azores?
- ... that film director Tracie Laymon won the 2009 award for Best Short Film from the Women's Image Network for her work directing the short film Inside?
- ... that although it was originally designed as a test machine, ZETAapparently produced fusion?
- ... that Candlemas Massacreof January 1692?
- ... that the Halong Bay, French Indochina, in 1905, only eight months after she was completed, and was a total loss?
- 12:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that access to the 1870 construction site of Sandy Cape Light (pictured) on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, was so steep that materials were raised on a whim?
- ... that the Viveros de Coyoacán was the first tree nursery in Mexico and the first large scale tree nursery in Latin America?
- ... that the physical sciences and initiated the Human Genome Project?
- ... that former Toronto, Canada?
- ... that in St Peter's Church, Kingerby, Lincolnshire, is a slab carved with the effigy of a knight whose lower body and legs have been replaced by a cross?
- ... that basketball player Charlie T. Black won two national championships and was named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year while at Kansas?
- ... that Grover, Utah used to be named "Carcass Creek"?
- 06:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a self-educated Norwegian immigrant farmer built the finest farmhouse (pictured) in Dodge County, Minnesota?
- ... that one of the educational goals of the children's television show Sesame Street was to prepare young children for school?
- ... that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Recordsas the most fraudulent ever?
- ... that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?
- ... that No. 61 Wing RAAF built a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway at Darwin, Northern Territory, in 1944 to accommodate a proposed deployment of 100 USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers that never eventuated?
- ... that, after giving up five runs in his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds, pitcher Martin Glendon quit the team and moved to San Francisco?
- ... that the fungus Entomophthora muscae makes flies climb upwards before killing them, so they are better able to release a shower of spores for the next cycle of infection?
- 00:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Imperial Navy during the majority of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland?
- ... that Bruce DuMont, investigative reporter and host of Beyond the Beltway, is the nephew of the inventor of the first commercially viable television?
- ... that the namesake of the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke, Virginia, is the American Founding Father Patrick Henry?
- ... that Jason Ratcliff was the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion crew chief?
- ... that with the foundation of the Vatopedi monastery, the monastic community of Mount Athos took a leading role in the 18th century modern Greek Enlightenment?
- ... that an oxaziridine rearrangement reaction is the key step in the synthesis of erectile dysfunction medication yohimbine?
- ... that the location of one of the bird sanctuary?
14 December 2010
- 18:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that after RAAF Tomahawk pilots John Jackson (pictured) and Bobby Gibbes shared in destroying a Vichy French fighter plane in 1941, they tossed a coin to see who would take the credit for it?
- ... that over 30,000 eggs were used to prepare the paint and glaze that went into the elaborate decorations of the Šarena Džamija of Tetovo?
- ... that former Florida State Seminoles player Ryan Reid had more wins than any other player in the school's college basketball history?
- ... that there were only two successful Chi Hoa Prison?
- ... that Old Caloundra Light, a lighthouse inactive since 1968, was relocated twice, in 1970 and back in 1999, and was damaged on the second relocation attempt?
- ... that Harry W. Child received a knighthood from the King of Sweden after giving the king a guided tour of Yellowstone National Park?
- ... that in its early years, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra featured a solo performance by Isaac Stern and the premiere of a musical composition about a nuclear reactor?
- 12:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a turning enthusiast built the most elaborate commercial building (pictured) in New Ulm, Minnesota?
- ... that before he co-founded Soundcraft, Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970?
- ... that all 16 episodes from the third season of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreationwill be filmed before the first one is aired?
- ... that 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?
- ... that the scuttled in 1919?
- ... that party leaderby advocating his view that "his community came first and the party next"?
- ... that the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs annual concerts in honor of the birthday of Elvis Presley?
- 06:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Late Cretaceous crocodile relative Simosuchus (restoration pictured) ate plants and had a pug-nosed snout?
- ... that Jeremiah Dummer (1643–1718) was the first American-born silversmith?
- ... that the new Royal Enfield Fury 500cc single is the first Royal Enfield motorcycle in 40 years with twin exhaust pipes?
- ... that it was not until the housing discrimination in the United Statesbecame illegal?
- ... that according to a study by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the civilian casualty ratio in wars fought since the mid-20th century has been 10 civilian deaths for every soldier death?
- ... that the home of Inland Empire?
- ... that both treasonin 1956?
- 00:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the ICBM from Sovietattack but also to act as a platform for launching the missile?
- ... that there were numerous complaints from the contestants over dead rats and appliances floating at the venue for the sailing competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona?
- ... that Seattle's historic counterculture coffeehouse, the Last Exit on Brooklyn, was a noted chess venue frequented by grandmasters Peter Biyiasas and Yasser Seirawan?
- ... that the Lympha is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water?
- ... that Bill Mizeur never batted under .300 until his 14th season in professional baseball?
- ... that one design for a ?
- ... that the span bridge in the United States, was sold in 1986 for one dollar?
13 December 2010
- 18:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 1946 fire at the hotel fire in U.S. history?
- ... that between 90% and 98% of all amputees report retaining all or part of the missing limb in their body schema?
- ... that snowy plovers nest in former salt evaporation ponds in the Moss Landing Wildlife Area?
- ... that the match for the his opponent'sneck?
- ... that Frank "Piano Mover" Smith was the first Chicago White Sox baseball pitcher to throw two no-hitters?
- ... that the Tiger of Pilibhit was responsible for killing and partially eating eight people before being captured?
- ... that the boathouse for the Burnham Area Rescue Boat was built in just three days as part of the Challenge Anneka television series?
- 12:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Charles Ingle, who composed the music for "My Old Dutch" (1899 sample right), gained his pseudonym in a "spirit of waggery"?
- ... that the Mount Baker waxy cap was named after the volcano on which it was first collected?
- ... that as Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge for over 40 years, Christopher Green did "little if any teaching"?
- ... that the Russian monitor Smerch was constructed at the Charles Mitchell shipyard in England, broken down, and shipped to Saint Petersburg for reassembly?
- ... that Helena Bliss married her co-star from the original Broadway production of Gypsy Lady?
- ... that The Big Tree Plant is a new Government-sponsored campaign in England to promote the planting of one million trees in neighbourhoods?
- ... that in 1857, county clerk, registrar of deeds, school board treasurer, postmaster, customs collector, state representative, and a newlywed?
- 06:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the South African Railways?
- ... that after the Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, a daughter of Czar Alexander II, became a professional singer?
- ... that in 2010, Gus and Tavo Vildósola of the Vildosola Racing team became the first Mexican competitors to win the Baja 1000, an annual off-road race held in Mexico?
- ... that Brett Domino's song about Gillian McKeith was inspired by McKeith's exploits on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!?
- ... that German metallurgist Curt Netto was honored by the Japanese Emperor with the Order of the Rising Sun in 1885?
- ... that the speed skating venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was the last outdoor rink to hold Olympic speed skating competitions?
- ... that Constance Ortmayer designed a commemorative coin for the anniversary of an event that never happened?
- 00:00, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York (pictured) on the Upper East Side is the only Christian religious building designed by Emery Roth?
- ... that Rimington's Tigers?
- ... that the Chinese translations of the IS (Infinite Stratos) light novelswere under indefinite suspension because the publisher had entered into overseas contracts without the writer's consent?
- ... that in 1952 the pastor L. L. Clover launched Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary with two students studying from his home in Minden, Louisiana?
- ... that the art of the United Kingdom only dates from 1707 onwards?
- ... that the Pete Rummell when he was President of Disney Development Company?
- ... that until the Spanish Civil War, chocolate was a much more popular drink than coffee in Spain?
12 December 2010
- 18:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that according to Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Lectionary 183 (pictured) probably is the most valuable manuscript he had ever collated?
- ... that the 14th century Englishman Thomas Fastolf is the first known to have reported cases in the papal court known as the Rota?
- ... that the Bremo Plantation at Bremo Bluff, Virginia, provided refuge to the family of General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War?
- ... that the communist Moni Guha was amongst the first in India to criticize the 1956 line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
- ... that Street Racerthe one game he wished he had done differently?
- ... that Katy Munger is known for her writing in the Tart Noir genre?
- ... that the ravens of the Tower of London are enlisted as soldiers of the Kingdom, and can be dismissed for unsatisfactory conduct?
- 12:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Perry Nelson House (pictured) – dubbed the "House of Politics" – was a place where Yankee farmers and politicians discussed issues of the day?
- ... that the oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis, can not only dig a burrow a metre deep but can also swim?
- ... that pastor 12.50 per month?
- ... that silos for the Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile were intended to be 10 times harder than those used by Minutemen?
- ... that Thomas R. Potts, the first mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was a physician?
- ... that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Hormead, Hertfordshire, is particularly noted for its preserved 12th-century ironwork door which depicts a serpentine dragon?
- ... that the 1997 production of its African-American actor to play the role of Jesus?
- 06:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that after Soviet dissident Leon Trotsky and his wife obtained political asylum in Mexico in 1937, they were accommodated in artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's "Blue House" (pictured), now a museum in Coyoacán, Mexico City?
- ... that the truck farming in feeding the urban population of the American South?
- ... that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?
- ... that Swedish emigrants brought kalvdans, a dessert made out of colostrum milk, to North America?
- ... that although the seeds of Cycas rumphii contain a toxic glucoside, they can be made edible by pounding, washing and cooking?
- ... that General Lee and the Confederate Army retreated over the Sachs Covered Bridge after being defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg?
- ... that the historical novel Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist, about the rise of modern physics, inspired a lecture by Steven Weinberg called "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"?
- 00:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Yellow-faced Parrot(pictured) is from Brazil and Bolivia?
- ... that 20 ) in November 1707?
- ... that baseball catcher George Yeager had his best statistical season cut short after 19 games due to a knee injury?
- ... that the Olympic Saddledome venue used for the 1988 Winter Olympics was under construction in 1981 when Calgary was awarded the Games?
- ... that when the Islamic laws against alcohol, and even its trade to enemies like the Russian Empire?
- ... that artist Papantla?
- ... that a pile of junk wooden pallets built up by Daniel Van Meter became a cultural historic monument?
11 December 2010
- 18:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that New York City offered the 5-acre (2.0 ha) UN General Assemblyas a temporary meeting space?
- ... that many Jilin?
- ... that nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is used to kill slug pests?
- ... that L’Anse aux Meadows in 2000, is now displayed in the new Viking World museum in Reykjanesbær?
- ... that after he injured Indianapolis Colts linebacker O'Brien Alston, New York Jets running back Freeman McNeil was so distraught that he "committed a flagrant act of compassion"?
- ... that drugs?
- ... that in 1935, muralist Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Terre Haute, Indiana?
- 12:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 2010 International Player of The Year, for a record third time?
- ... that the , had an original size of 23,040 acres (93.2 km2) but currently is only 3,600 acres (14.6 km2)?
- ... that the Walid Husayin for allegedly blaspheming against Islam on Facebookand in his personal blog?
- ... that under Article 9 of the Singapore Constitution no one may be deprived of life or personal liberty save in accordance with law, which a 1980 case says includes fundamental rules of natural justice?
- ... that to this day, Tulane University and Louisiana State University dispute the results of a football game coached by H. T. Summersgill in 1901?
- ... that the comic series Lips Tullian was selected as the third most significant Czech comic in the history of the genre?
- ... that in Devon a cream tea includes a scone spread with clotted cream and topped with jam, but in Cornwall it is prepared the other way around?
- 06:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company, formed after one of its founders was impressed by a Nazi rotorcraft, beat Sikorsky for the contract to supply the first American military helicopter (pictured)?
- ... that Joseph Levien became Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, after the City Council had gone bankrupt?
- ... that a documentary investigating corruption within FIFA was broadcast in the week that the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup hosts were chosen?
- ... that educator and debate coach E. R. Minchew was himself the winner in 1929 of the state collegiate championship in oratory?
- ... that a woman's spoons sex position?
- ... that although Persier was due to be scuttled as a blockship during Operation Overlord in June 1944, she was returned to service, only to be torpedoed and sunk in February 1945?
- ... that John McKechnie, recipient of a 1987 Coach of the Year award, was winless in college football?
- 00:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1893 a sculpture of Indiana (pictured) by Retta Matthews portrayed an "ideal figure of Indiana" at the Chicago World's Fair?
- ... that in the deepest underwater rescue in history, at a depth of 1,575 ft (480 m) with just minutes of air remaining?
- ... that Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, helped inspire the career of his nephew, singer-songwriter and organizer Si Kahn?
- ... that Creek Indians assisted by English traders defeated a larger force of Apalachee and Spanish fighters in the October 1702 Battle of Flint River?
- ... that research on the gastropods, and has led to the creation of the new clades Euopisthobranchia and Panpulmonatain 2010?
- ... that Walter T. Bailey was the first licensed African-American architect in Illinois?
- ... that despite being a builder of railroad rolling stock, US Railcar has no facilities with which to construct their products?
10 December 2010
- 18:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that at the "Egyptian gods may have reenacted the flooding of the Nile?
- ... that philanthropist a prizein 1990 that has been called "The Green Nobel"?
- ... that the first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, the Jackson Mine, was established where iron ore was found in the roots of a fallen tree?
- ... that this year a U.S. Embassy attaché visited the tomb of Samuel Lucaswho lived to hear the "tidings of the destruction of the slave power in the United States"?
- ... that the reality TV programme Bedsitcomfeatured actors following the producer's instructions, as well as unaware members of the public, leading to it being labelled "morally reprehensible"?
- ... that M-1 Challenge XXIItoday?
- ... that Bill Wiese claims to have spent 23 Minutes in Hell?
- 12:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ?
- ... that Chase Aircraft lost the contract to produce its C-123 transport aircraft due to a scandal involving Henry J. Kaiser, that also resulted in Chase's CEO starting his own company?
- ... that in his last professional baseball season, Bobby Treviño set a Texas League record by hitting safely in 37 consecutive games?
- ... that Indian politician Harihar Narayan Prabhakar began his political career in the Communist Party of India, but later represented the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly of Bihar?
- ... that actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their Thor movie roles in the video game, Thor: God of Thunder?
- ... that in certain organisms sperm stored by females allows for a process called sperm competition?
- ... that Australian actress and filmmaker Elsa Chauvel met her future husband Charles when he scouted her for the lead role in Greenhide?
- 06:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that when the foundations of an old Pictish stone, the Woodwrae Stone(pictured)?
- ... that hand grenade?
- ... that the second CIA spyplane developed under Project Isinglass was designed to fly at Mach 22?
- ... that MP was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Stephenson's Rocket?
- ... that during the creation of the Ottoman Archives in the 19th century, hatt-i humayunswere cut out from their documents without cross-referencing, resulting in great loss of information to historians?
- ... that during the King George III by Benedetto Pistrucciwas met with such public hostility that it was withdrawn?
- ... that the ?
- 00:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets?
- ... that Mexican American to serve on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union?
- ... that the Maya city of Ixkun in Guatemala erected one of the tallest stone stelae in the entire Petén Basin?
- ... that Thomas Benton Cooley was inducted into the Legion of Honour for his work with the children of France during World War I and later discovered "Cooley's anemia"?
- ... that in the mid-1940s Reform services on Friday nights and Orthodoxones on Saturday mornings?
- ... that libeland won, even though the story was fictionalized?
- ... that despite having only one arm, Arthur Lea played international football for Wales?
9 December 2010
- 18:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that during training cruises near Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine whose wreckage confirms that America fired the first shot in their war against Japan?
- ... that Brian Halligan, an executive and author, draws inspiration for marketing from the rock band the Grateful Dead?
- ... that the Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus?
- ... that Daniel O'Brien, senior editor for Cracked.com, was confronted by the FBI and United States Secret Service after writing an article titled "How to Kidnap the President's Daughter?"
- ... that with regards to black history and ice hockey, Grant Fuhr was the first black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
- ... that the extinct sandfly species Lutzomyia adiketis is host to the Paleoleishmania species P. neotropicum?
- ... that Burnham-on-Sea's lifeboat used to be pulled by horses along a railway line from its lifeboat station to the beach where it could be launched?
- 12:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that initially described as devouring children on the sixth day after birth, today the Hindu goddess Shashthi (pictured) is worshiped on this day as the protector of children?
- ... that the most recent no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians, pitched by Len Barker in 1981, and that for the Cincinnati Reds, by Tom Browning in 1988, were both perfect games?
- ... that Cullen Wines' chief wine maker, Vanya Cullen, trained and received a degree in zoology prior to joining the family winery?
- ... that, prior to the 2010–11 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season, the Charlotte 49ers fired coach Bobby Lutz, despite his being the team's all-time wins leader?
- ... that the secular republicanparliament in the Muslim world?
- ... that the jazz history of 1924 included George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, widely regarded as one of the finest compositions of the 20th century?
- ... that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting, the British soap opera EastEnders' set was lit on fire?
- 06:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Salvation Army chose the Zigzag Moderne-style for their Minnesota headquarters (pictured) in order to demonstrate that it was a modern organization?
- ... that British politician Edward Jenkins was best known as the author of satirical political novels?
- ... that many of the venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics were tested when Seoul, South Korea, hosted the Asian Games two years earlier?
- ... that when No. 72 Wing of the Royal Australian Air Force deployed in 1943, it was to what was described as "a desolate marshy little port" in Dutch New Guinea?
- ... that baseball pitcher Ed Kinsella won 144 games in a 10-year minor league career but had only one major league victory?
- ... that Russian Prosecutor General South East Airlines Flight 372?
- ... that in 1955 the Indonesian film workers union Sarbufis launched a campaign to ban American newsreel film?
- 00:00, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton have all topped the bill at the Brighton Hippodrome(pictured)?
- ... that Gustav Jebsen researched, and later oversaw as chief executive, the mid-1910s innovation in production of titanium white?
- ... that the bronze bust of Robert Dale Owen at the Indiana Statehouse was stolen in 1970 and the culprit(s) have never been found?
- ... that Fort Julien near the mouth of the Nile in Egypt was the place where French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799?
- ... that the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is the oldest continuously serving Presbyterian church in the United States?
- ... that Joseph Whittaker, who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum, sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens?
- ... that after Steven Posner filed suit against his financier father Victor Posner, the amount of the settlement was determined based on the result of a golden coin flipped in front of the judge?
8 December 2010
- 18:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the stripes on unknown to scienceat the time?
- ... that, as suggested by Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, Alexander I established the Depository of Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia?
- ... that the worms?
- ... that members of the ?
- ... that while on location in short wave radio?
- ... that unmanned helicopters?
- ... that Italian Americancommunity as a tribute to America?
- 12:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Wolffia arrhiza (pictured) is the smallest vascular plant on earth?
- ... that Al Jacks was the football coach for Williams College for just five days?
- ... that the Şeyh Süleyman Mosque in Istanbul was almost certainly an annex of Constantinople's Monastery of Pantokrator in the Byzantine Age?
- ... that the composer Olof Åhlström, who had parallel careers in the Swedish war office and as an organist in two Stockholm churches, also founded the first larger-scale musical printing press in Sweden?
- ... that, when Australian Aboriginal-owned company?
- ... that Indonesian Minister of Education Prijono received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1954?
- ... that Hudson's Bay Company fur trader John Work fell out of a tree during an 1840 expedition and tore open his abdomen, but pushed his intestines back inside, recovered and continued his journey?
- 06:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that grateful Confederate prisoners commissioned the bust of camp commander Colonel Richard Owen(pictured) in 1913?
- ... that the 2006 homebrew Medieval Mayhem and the 1984 Starpath Supercharger version of Frogger are the only two Atari 2600 games to receive an "A+" rating from The Video Game Critic?
- ... that the 27th Laird of Pitmilly was the joint fastest man in the world in 1892?
- ... that "2010 UK Christmas number-one single?
- ... that the house in which Leon Trotsky was murdered is a museum which hosts yearly exhibits by graffitiartists?
- ... that the sixth generation descendants of Joseph Dodson, one of the early brewers of Nelson, New Zealand, are still in the brewing business?
- ... that 1981 NBA Draft, but none of them ever played in the league?
- 00:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Mike McCullough (pictured) of the Saskatchewan Roughriders was named the inaugural winner of the Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy at the 98th Grey Cup?
- ... that when the Deir ez-Zor Museum in Syria was founded in 1974, its collection consisted of only 140 objects?
- ... that Adam Houghton, a former Lord Chancellor, helped to negotiate the marriage of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia?
- ... that green turtles?
- ... that, in his Major League Baseball debut, Bill Harrelson got involved in a pitchers' duel with a future Hall of Famer?
- ... that a 2010 study found eleven carcinogenic compounds in third-hand smoke?
- ... that Tart Noir, a type of crime fiction, was created by four writers who decided to make the genre while they were drunk at a writer's conference?
7 December 2010
- 18:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Guanajuato contains one of the older sites of Mesoamerica (artifact pictured)?
- ... that 18-year-old Johanna Long became the second woman to win the Snowball Derby?
- ... that the black bean aphid is able to reproduce asexually, giving birth to live offspring through a process known as parthenogenesis?
- ... that in 2010, Aaron Kelton became Williams College's first black varsity coach, and its first football coach to go undefeated in his debut season?
- ... that 1770, Queensland, Australia, was the first to be established in Queensland after Queensland's formation in 1859?
- ... that the British cricketer and politician pig-sticking in Patiala?
- ... that in the spring of 1904, Ed Poole was arrested twice for playing a Major League Baseball game on Sunday?
- 12:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a part of the Croatian A7 motorway near Rijeka that passes only 40 metres (130 feet) away from residential buildings is fully enclosed by noise barriers (pictured) covered by 1,155 solar panels?
- ... that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his poem "To H. F. Brown" to celebrate Horatio Brown's book Life on the Lagoons?
- ... that shells of Achatina vassei are held by only two museums worldwide?
- ... that a Bigger" both "boyish" and "mature"?
- ... that despite being a friend of Lee Kwon Mu was purgedin 1959?
- ... that Charles Chauvel conceived his Australian historical film Heritage in order to maximise his likelihood of winning a £2,500 Commonwealth Prize?
- ... that in 1893, T. L. Bayne coached both sides in a college football game, which prompted the Chicago Daily Tribune to note that "Bayne's Tulane team whipped Bayne's L.S.U. team"?
- 06:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Luxembourghouses photographs of the city taken as early as 1855?
- ... that screenwriter romantic comedy film?
- ... that the most recent no-hitter by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers went into extra innings and concluded with a pinch-hit walk-off home run?
- ... that Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, has 16 New Zealand plants named for him?
- ... that "Down to Earth" is a ballad by Justin Bieberinspired by his parents' divorce?
- ... that the death in June 1945 of the 1945 general election in the United Kingdom?
- ... that Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's book The Five Orders of Architecture from 1562 is considered to be "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written" despite having almost no text?
- 00:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the prow, or ferro?
- ... that fashion model Ann Ward, who was mocked as a child due to her height, was the only contestant of America's Next Top Model to be named best photo five times in a row?
- ... that although "relatively little scholarly attention" was paid to William Blackstone's An Analysis of the Laws of England, its initial success necessitated the printing of four editions in four years?
- ... that director Andrei Konchalovsky stated that "ballet cannot work in cinema very well," and as such, did not include any in his 2010 film, The Nutcracker in 3D?
- ... that Base Cation Saturation Ratio?
- ... that the namesake peak of the 1950 Battle of Battle Mountain changed hands 20 times in two weeks of fighting?
6 December 2010
- 18:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1926, Lise Meitner (pictured), a co-discoverer of protactinium, became Germany's first female full professor in physics?
- ... that the first no-hitter in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise was pitched on October 4, 1891, by Ted Breitenstein in his first major league start?
- ... that when Byzantine co-emperor Heraclius were mutilated, but after Tiberius III was deposed in 705, he and his brother Heraclius were executed?
- ... that in 1846, Ashbourne Hall and its Derbyshire estate were withdrawn from a sale and sold later in 46 lots by a local solicitor?
- ... that composer Rudi Spring accompanied Salome Kammer in songs and chansons at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
- ... that the Furuset and Grorud Lines of the Oslo Metro each serve one side of the Grorud Valley, and several proposals have been made to connect the two?
- ... that the upcoming Just William is the latest in a number of BBC-TV adaptations of the Just Williambooks?
- 12:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that when the Churches Conservation Trust took St Martin's Church, Waithe, Lincolnshire (pictured) into its care, parts of it were close to collapse, it was overgrown, and it contained bat guano?
- ... that Syracuse University dean emeritus William Harrison Mace was a Michigan Wolverines football player in 1882?
- ... that samarium monosulfide changes color from black to golden when scratched?
- ... that a long-range artillery shell killed General Abel Douay on the first day of the first battle of the Franco-Prussian War?
- ... that the 1976 thriller movie Deadly Hero features James Earl Jonesas a mugger named Rabbit?
- ... that electronic spam?
- ... that critic Christopher Gray said the U2 song "Yahweh" could be about Jesus or lead singer Bono's two children?
- 06:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that although the kitplanein production?
- ... that William Lai was named Taiwan's "Best Legislator" for four consecutive years?
- ... that the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia, was built by Benjamin Harrison IVin 1726?
- ... that military airfieldsin Australia, was established in 1925 on a piece of land known as Ham Common?
- ... that African American singers to perform, including Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, and The Mills Brothers?
- ... that the U.S. Army's Parachute Rigger Badge first appeared in action during Exercise Swarmer?
- ... that Peter Shivute, Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of Namibia, spends his office hours on a fault?
- 00:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Papyrus 6 (pictured), manuscript of the New Testament, contains text of the apocryphal First Epistle of Clement in Coptic (Akhmimic dialect)?
- ... that abolitionist from Massachusetts, made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle?
- ... that after the Nürnberger Platz Berlin U-Bahn station was replaced by Spichernstraße and demolished, the Augsburger Straße station had to be built to reduce the distance between stations?
- ... that Daniel D. Badger, with James Bogardus, was one of the major forces in creating cast-iron architecture in the United States?
- ... that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls, traffic collisions and burns?
- ... that from 1914 to 1922 the British ?
- ... that performance of Bach's cantata Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, for the Second Sunday of Advent in Weimar, was not acceptable in Leipzig during Advent?
5 December 2010
- 18:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the quarterbacks for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of the 19th century included a Brigadier General decorated for valor in World War I, the brother of a famous novelist, one of the founders of General Motors, the physician at a Kimberly-Clark mill, the son of the Governor of Wyoming, a steamboat builder, a Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias (pictured) and a sheep rancher from Walla Walla?
- ... that the legacy of the mercantile Gothenburg University?
- ... that Richard Herbert raised a foot regiment and a troop of horse for the king during the English Civil War?
- ... that the archaeological sites of Tell Fray and Dibsi Faraj in Syria were flooded by the rising waters of Lake Assad?
- ... that bar and of its legislature?
- ... that in the 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, the author estimates an overall mortality of 45 million for the Great Chinese Famine, including some 2 to 3 million beaten or tortured to death?
- 12:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the term "PolitiFact.com and the "Most Outrageous" word of 2009 by the American Dialect Society?
- ... that referendum, thereby opting for independence?
- ... that Uspenski Gospels is the oldest dated Greek manuscript of the New Testament?
- ... that Troy, an unincorporated area in the U.S. state of Virginia, is named after the president of the defunct Virginia Air Line Railway?
- ... that the British National Farmers Union supported his Liberalopponent?
- ... that in 2008–09, 64 percent of the 316 million tonnes of iron ore produced in Western Australia was exported to China?
- ... that the US 35th Infantry Regiment guarded a bridge for a week during the 1950 Battle of Nam Riverbefore it was accidentally destroyed by US bombers?
- 06:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that although a recommendation to establish Booby Island Light (pictured) was made in 1873, it was only constructed in 1890, and was the last major lighthouse to be constructed along the Queensland coast?
- ... that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal traced the origin of the concept of equality in Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore to the 40th article of the Magna Carta of 1215?
- ... that the song "11th Latin Grammy Awards even though it was not promoted to radioin the United States?
- ... that special relationship" between his country and Ireland?
- ... that Canada has vowed to boycott the United Nations Durban III conference, calling it a "charade" and a "hatefest"?
- ... that Zimbabwe only played one One Day International cricket series in 2009–10, beating Kenya 4–1?
- ... that after Lieutenant-General Hew Fanshawe was removed from command of the British V Corps in 1916, he was replaced by his elder brother Edward – who was himself sacked in 1918?
- 00:00, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Italian mountaineer Angelo Dibona (1879–1956) has a French mountain (pictured) named for him, and was still making first ascents at age 65?
- ... that pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400?
- ... that Anika Moa has released platinum-certified albums under multiple record labels?
- ... that the opening of Seagram's Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937 drew a crowd of 71,000 people during the week of the Kentucky Derby?
- ... that, only one month after the Berlin Wall was built, two West German aircraft accidentally violated East German airspace, flying to Berlin Tegel Airport on 14 September 1961?
- ... that New York Draft Riots, which protested the American Civil War?
- ... that the Borat?
4 December 2010
- 18:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that modernist writers such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce?
- ... that despite being enveloped by the urban sprawl of Mexico City, the borough of Coyoacán still has areas with the narrow winding roads of rural villages?
- ... that American lawyer New York City Board of Education?
- ... that the role-playing game Shining Hearts features hearts, collectible and usable by the player, that represent the other characters' feelings about the player's actions?
- ... that deputy Polish Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1957?
- ... that Clarence Brown's 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires starring Pauline Frederick is considered a cautionary tale?
- ... that the list of no-hitters by Baltimore Orioles pitchers includes a loss in the 1967 season, with runs given up in the ninth inning on walks, a wild pitch and an error?
- 12:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Yanar Dag (pictured) is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan?
- ... that the Guinean journalist Siradiou Diallo was suspected of being a double agent for President Sékou Touré?
- ... that the attacked in November 2010?
- ... that the Court upheld the Act?
- ... that when the was of a former colony ruling the Portuguese Empire?
- ... that organ donorlaws?
- ... that light emitting diodes?
- 06:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ice cream manufacturer William Wilson Talcott (pictured) killed himself by jumping from an excursion steamer into Lake Michigan with rocks in his pockets after he was unable to extricate his wife from a "love cult" in 1922?
- ... that medieval Bulgarian anti-Bogomil writer Cosmas the Priest was regarded as a saint although there is no data that he was ever canonised?
- ... that the Russian ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky was the first Russian armored ship to leave European waters when she cruised the Pacific Ocean in 1873–75?
- ... that more than 9,000 women were sterilized during the Iron Fist Campaign?
- ... that the Specialized Stumpjumper became the first mass-produced mountain bike when it was first introduced in 1981?
- ... that by the time Jeannie Carson joined Hey, Jeannie! she had become the second highest paid entertainer in the UK, behind Vivien Leigh?
- ... that Lake Burton, Antarctica?
- 00:00, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in addition to conducting minelaying operations in the South West Pacific, No. 76 Wing RAAF (PBY Catalina pictured) dropped over a million propaganda leaflets before the end of World War II?
- ... that Bill Stein hit a home run in his Major League Baseball debut on September 6, 1972?
- ... that by 1962 the communist-led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
- ... that Brock Reservoir in California saves unused water from the All-American Canal that would otherwise be "lost" to Mexico?
- ... that three composers, flutist Jens Josef, cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring, each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig?
- ... that 1973 public hanging?
- ... that in 1899 the Lynmouth?
3 December 2010
- 18:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Japanese-American internment during World War II, later became one of the city's most esteemed business and civic leaders?
- ... that only two new permanent venues were constructed for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
- ... that the first Australian baseball player to sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball organisation, after the dead-ball era, was Neil Page, who signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966?
- ... that the television series The Ford Show referred to the sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, rather than the star, Tennessee Ernie Ford?
- ... that Nels Johnson built Century tower clocks, designed to last 100 years?
- ... that Eugenios Voulgaris, scholar and first director of the Maroutsaia School in Ioannina, Greece, insisted that the Greek intellectual revival should remain theologically and socially conservative?
- ... that the National Docks Secondary freight rail line uses a short tunnel that took eight years to build at twice the originally estimated cost because of a frog war with the Pennsylvania Railroad?
- 12:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Norwegian The blue Kitchen(pictured) from 1913?
- ... that the 2009–10 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was heralded as a success by Zimbabwe Cricket, after the crowd for the final was described as "the biggest for a domestic match in living memory"?
- ... that Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a?
- ... that Guinean Fodéba Keïta was the founder of the first professional African theatrical troupe, Theatre Africain?
- ... the indigenous people of Malaysia, known as the Orang Asal, were originally named as such by communist rebels seeking support during the Malayan Emergency?
- ... that when the William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle?
- ... that the wings of the Rans S-11 Pursuit provide only 20% of the aircraft's lift?
- 06:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1985, Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti (pictured) became the first Hispanic female to attain the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force?
- ... that several days after ambassador the tsar was in "the gravest danger"?
- ... that Grammys for writing much of the show's music?
- ... that periodical devoted to shorthand?
- ... that the Indonesian trade union centre SOBRI decided to join the World Federation of Trade Unions following the death of Stalin in 1953?
- ... that the Michigan Federation of Labor in 1906 wrote that perhaps no individual had done more to "promote the interests of wage-earners than William W. Hannan, the real estate hustler"?
- ... that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite?
- 00:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Kiev, designed the largest glider ever built in the United States (pictured), as well as its first jet-powered transport?
- ... that when Prohibition forced the Kentucky-based Bavarian Brewing Company to stop producing beer, it continued to produce soft drinks as The William Riedlin Beverage Company?
- ... that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri, descendants of French colonistsfrom the early 1700s?
- ... that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India?
- ... that the first no-hitter by an Oakland Athletics pitcher after the Major League Baseball club relocated to Oakland, California, was a perfect game by Catfish Hunter in 1968?
- ... that the US currency?
- ... that DC punk scene?
2 December 2010
- 18:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that 17 species of slime mould (myxomycetes) have been isolated from the bark of the tree Banksia attenuata (pictured)?
- ... that Provino Mosca, the founder of the Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant Mosca's, was reportedly a chef for Al Capone?
- ... that in 1947, baseball player Big State League with 58 home runs and 197 runs batted in?
- ... that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrowmay have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
- ... that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
- ... that British magnetic mines?
- ... that when choosing Suillus pungens mushrooms for the table, one should pick young specimens to avoid "fat, agitated maggots"?
- 12:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the election of William Steward (pictured) as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representativeswas the first time that this position was contested?
- ... that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the venues used for the 1980 Summer Olympics were divided between four of the new sovereign states?
- ... that a good contact-connection between undamaged plain arcing?
- ... that John Keble, founding member of the Oxford Movement, was curate to St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire, and a bridge nearby was named after him?
- ... that Ontario v. Quondecision "almost aggressively unhelpful" to lawyers and judges in electronic privacy cases?
- ... that General Stafford played over 100 Major League Baseball games at three different positions?
- ... that hairy aspen is from the citrus family?
- 06:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Madison Square Presbyterian Church building completed in 1854 was knocked down to become the site of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower(pictured), then the world's tallest building?
- ... that Nelly's first five studio albums all reached the top three of the Billboard 200?
- ... that actor Antonio Te Maioha of the television drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand publicly promotes the recycling organization Xtreme Waste, but resists being called an environmentalist?
- ... that the English historian Walter Alison Phillips was the first Lecky professor in the University of Dublin?
- ... that holders of the position that would become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Geraldine Ferraro?
- ... that NCAA Tournament Final Fours?
- ... that ulcersand helped in healing areas where ulcers had previously occurred?
- 00:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Second World War search and rescue dog Rip(pictured) is credited with saving over a hundred lives during 1940 and 1941?
- ... that Thomas Tropenell built the Manor House at Great Chalfield?
- ... that the first album released by the black metal record label The Ajna Offensive was not part of the metal genre?
- ... that a Welshman, Dai Davies, is the only person to have appeared in both the rugby league Challenge Cup final and the association football FA Cup Final?
- ... that Sextans B is one of the smallest galaxies in which planetary nebulae have been detected?
- ... that porn star Tory Mason was discovered through his dudesnudeprofile?
- ... that professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly once wrestled in almost 40 matches in a period of 72 hours for charity?
1 December 2010
- 18:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the decomposing skeleton of a right whale was found on the underwater volcano Patton Seamount (pictured)?
- ... that Judge Howard Abbott was the captain and quarterback of the first Minnesota Golden Gophers football team in 1886?
- ... that plans to convert the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi on the Mount of Olives, Israel, into a church sparked strong protests?
- ... that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake?
- ... that player of the series?
- ... that the Radioplane RP-77D target drone was planned to be capable of launching target dronesitself?
- ... that baseball pitcher Roy Hitt, a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame, was nicknamed "Rhino" because his shape reminded people of a rhinoceros?
- 12:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Thaddeus P. Mott (pictured), a 19th-century adventurer and soldier of fortune, recruited ex-Union and Confederate veterans for service in the Egyptian Army?
- ... that Transportation Security Administration officials tipped off Covenant Aviation Security employees to undercover tests of their luggage screeners at airport checkpoints?
- ... that German forward after losing his hand in World War II?
- ... that the bottom section of the Burgundy Premier Cru vineyard Clos Saint-Jacques used to be planted with alfalfa instead of grapevines?
- ... that RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Steege was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft in one mission during the North African campaign in 1941?
- ... that the shortest state road in New Mexico is only 0.250 miles (402 m) long?
- 06:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 1919 demolition of "one of the most costly religious edifices" in 1906 Madison Square Presbyterian Church(pictured), was called "a distinct architectural loss"?
- ... that the Italian Burma from 1783 to 1808 to descendants of Portuguesecolonists?
- ... that the first All-Star Game in National Hockey League history was played in 1934 to benefit Toronto's Ace Bailey, who was nearly killed by a violent on-ice hit earlier in the season?
- ... that during the Australian rules footballer Andrew Hooper was described by the Herald Sunas a "cult figure"?
- ... that the warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women defied an order by the Virginia Department of Corrections to ban cosmetics from the inmates?
- ... that anglers using the Motueka River in New Zealand must clean their boots to stop the spread of invasive algae or face up to five years in prison?
- 00:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- ... how to tell which of the two possible Saint Catherines is shown marrying Jesus in a painting of the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine(example pictured)?
- ... that baseball pitcher Russ Christopher's only All-Star appearance was canceled due to World War II?
- ... that halls of famein different sports?
- ... that current President of Bolivia Evo Morales was elected to parliament in 1997 on a United Left ticket?
- ... that Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach, in their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior, concluded that there is a "basic mammalian capacity" for homosexuality?
- ... that Baku's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?
- ... that in 2010, Sudha Ragunathan gave a Carnatic recital at Yaksha despite suffering from a severe bout of viral fever?