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30 September 2010
- 18:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that "Sirmilik", the name of a Inuktitut language?
- ... that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
- ... that Hong Kong-born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls?
- ... that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir, Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
- ... that weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines?
- ... that "Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chartin the United States?
- ... that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York?
- ... that despite a warning by Heinrich von Bellegarde retained Anton von Zachas Chief of Staff?
- ... that before the construction of North Main Street School, schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York, were attending classes in the local fire station?
- 12:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that on the design had expired?
- ... that the Feathered Helmet that was included in the painting of Captain James Cook's death is said to be the helmet given to Cook when he first landed in Hawaii?
- ... that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
- ... that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £1 per acre?
- ... that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company?
- ... that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic?
- ... that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935?
- ... that the Islamization of the Gaza Strip includes government campaigns against playing cardsand dating?
- ... that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the billing as Formerly the Warlocks?
- 06:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that critics debate whether the differences between Thomas Eakins' two portraits of Mary Adeleine Williams (second portrait pictured) are the result of an affair between the pair?
- ... that Scottish coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
- ... that there is only a single extant example of the K-5 Air Coach aircraft?
- ... that the 19th-century Russian tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky retired to the Italian town of Sanremo and died there while tending his roses?
- ... that during a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball?
- ... that Tang China?
- ... that as a leader of the anti-Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough, a former political sex scandal "other woman" became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
- ... that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
- ... that the Golden Submarine could travel at over 100 mph (160 km/h)?
- 00:00, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the pioneering journalist nom de plume from the riverthat ran near her home?
- ... that according to ?
- ... that the Mexican Drug War?
- ... that the 1493 ?
- ... that Rockford Collegemen's basketball program and was its first head coach?
- ... that the Philippine hornet Vespa luctuosa has the most lethal venom by weight of any known wasp species?
- ... that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam, Cameroon, was a Tikar?
- ... that Alfred Marshall Bailey was Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History from 1936 to 1969?
- ... that psychologists have theorised that people interpret sensory information that their brains can easily process as beautiful?
29 September 2010
- 18:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that there is a James Bond Island (pictured) in the Andaman Sea?
- ... that American U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion?
- ... that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9?
- ... that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
- ... that , despite being located about 62 kilometres (39 mi) from it?
- ... that Hodo Sokoli, a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
- ... that 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope?
- ... that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon?
- ... that a Fort Albany only because its Englishoccupants fired a cannon at sunset?
- 12:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Cape Town's Chavonnes Battery once served as a prison along with a quarantine and convalescent wing of the old Somerset Hospital (pictured)?
- ... that the square-rigged ships to sail from New York City to San Franciscoin under ninety days?
- ... that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
- ... that Bud Ogden played for the Philadelphia 76ers, his younger brother played for the San Francisco Warriors and their father was a Medal of Honor recipient?
- ... that the Ian Tyson song "Someday Soon" has been a charted single for Judy Collins, Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss?
- ... that journalist Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan?
- ... that the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was an attempt by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to stop the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Oceanin the early 16th century?
- ... that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?
- ... that UBS Warburg had an email disclaimer of more than 1,000 words?
- 06:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Itumbiara Dam (pictured) is Eletrobras Furnas' largest power plant and the sixth largest in Brazil?
- ... that, by the end of the 20th century, the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States?
- ... that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most-Wanted Films"?
- ... that pokeweed have shown antiviral properties?
- ... that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta?
- ... that the first SS Georgiana?
- ... that the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople?
- ... that the first proper James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald?
- ... that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria's Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
- 00:00, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Bill McKown (pictured) went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a Navy E-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and Distinguished Eagle Scout?
- ... that Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
- ... that Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon?
- ... that in criminalblackman" stereotype?
- ... that Scottish coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
- ... that after the Battle of Landriano, the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac?
- ... that John Logan served as the first treasurer of the U.S. state of Kentucky and held the office for 15 years thereafter?
- ... that Scribe's debut single "Stand Up"/"Not Many" was the number-one single in New Zealand for twelve weeks, the most by any New Zealand artist?
- ... that, after being rejected for the American Idol talent show, Ian David Benardo demanded to see panel judge Simon Cowell's work visa?
28 September 2010
- 18:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1992, French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face (pictured)?
- ... that Thomas Shea was the first 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens?
- ... that the status of U.N.-run camps in Nepal is a major issue affecting Bhutan–Nepal relations?
- ... that American Samuel T. Hauser lobbied for creation of Yellowstone National Park after he prospected along the Yellowstone River?
- ... that during the the Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves to protect the Pope'sretreat?
- ... that, using the mantra of states' rights, former Louisiana State Rep. W. Scott Wilkinson of Shreveport argued in the 1950s for school segregation and tidelands oil revenues?
- ... that the cartilaginous fish, with the smallest adult specimen measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in) long?
- ... that English road traffic collisionsin less than three years?
- ... that Harrisburg, now a ghost town in Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to grasshopper plagues and floods?
- 12:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that James E. Winner Jr. created The Club (pictured in use), an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
- ... that after the Norwegian parliamentcancelled the debt two years later?
- ... that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
- ... that the first American performance of singing the role of Tonio?
- ... that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000 ft to show that it would not suffer vapor lock from using automotive fuel as a power source?
- ... that Thomas Riggs, Jr. led the team which surveyed the Alaskan–Canadian border from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean?
- ... that the educational practice of teaching to the test has been criticised for excluding creative and abstract-thinking skills?
- ... that the Southern Baptist missionary Chris Clarke carries the gospel to equestrian events, mostly in his home state of Kentucky?
- ... that go head-to-head with Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive?
- 06:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the plantation-era museum Francis Land House (pictured) has a Georgian style exterior but a Federal styleinterior?
- ... that the Siderno Group has been involved in the movement of narcotics across three continents?
- ... that Tommy Amaker coached the 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 and 2006–07 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams, winning the 2004 NIT and finishing runner-up in the 2006 NIT?
- ... that the a rebellion?
- ... that Symantec claims that the majority of systems infected by the computer worm Stuxnet were in Iran?
- ... that as a member of the Minnesota Twins in 1997, baseball player Matt Lawton gave 38 tickets to his family so they could attend one of his games against the Houston Astros at the Astrodome?
- ... that at least one incident of kleptoparasitism was documented at Bénoué National Park, a UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon?
- ... that Zuhal Sultan founded the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq at the age of 17?
- ... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven (2001)event resulted from the destruction of a mop?
- 00:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the yen (US$570 million) to develop, failed 10 months into the mission after the solar panelmalfunctioned?
- ... that the English building traditions?
- ... that the Serra da Mesa Dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil?
- ... that Linda G. Tucker wrote that portrayals of criminal black men perpetuate the view that "a niggeris not a person so much as a form of behaviour"?
- ... that in 1892, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen composed a Romanze in F major for clarinet and piano which had been influenced by the teachings of Johannes Brahms?
- ... that 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01 teams?
- ... that via Urban Land Committees, more than 300,000 Venezuelan urban households have benefited from a land titling program?
- ... that crystal glass while promoting her book The Day I Shot Cupid?
27 September 2010
- 18:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the the worldfrom 1902 to 1913?
- ... that logic mazes?
- ... that Minuscule 482 was written by an inaccurate copyist?
- ... that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Steve Fisher featured Fab Five stars Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber, and include the 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 teams?
- ... that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France?
- ... that linaclotide has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, a condition that may affect as many as 10 million Americans?
- ... that comedian Micky Flanagan claimed his catchphrase was lifted for a television commercial?
- ... that after teaching at irrigation system for sugar plantations in Hawaii?
- ... that as a Major League Baseball scout for decades, Al LaMacchia would not use computers, radar guns or stop watches as scouting tools, saying "I trust my eyes ... Been good so far"?
- 12:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney (pictured) was the subject of Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to Arras"?
- ... that a new section of U.S. Highway 2 in Michigan was detoured around the Cut River Bridge when the latter was delayed due to World War II?
- ... that European traders originally called the Nembe Kingdom "Brass", after the local phrase for turning down a trade?
- ... that the coastline of dune systems in Britain?
- ... that former American football player Manny Martin made the Buffalo Bills team in 1996, despite being considered by media as "the longest of long shots"?
- ... that an irrigation dam Bully Creek in 1925, flooding the city of Vale, Oregon, with 3 feet (1 m) of water and causing US$500,000 in damage?
- ... that the Sanok Castle was the seat of Isabella Jagiellon, queen of Hungary after her escape from Transylvania?
- ... that the case of Charles Stuart, a white man who murdered his wife and pretended that a black man did it, is often cited as an example of a racial hoax?
- ... that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as Kevlar?
- 06:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the auxiliary helmet with Celtic La Tènestyle decoration?
- ... that the Large Frogmouth?
- ... that, at age 12, Samuel South and another youth were sent by the women of Fort Boonesborough to call for help in defending the fort, touching off the Battle of Little Mountain?
- ... that the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état led by General Ayub Khan was validated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan under the "doctrine of necessity"?
- ... that Catherine Chipembere was the first woman elected to the Malawi Parliament?
- ... that the Godwin-Knowles House was built as a home for an industrialist in East Liverpool, Ohio, but was later converted into a Masonic lodge?
- ... that Mickey Mangham, a walk-on player from Maryland, scored the only touchdown in the 1959 Sugar Bowl to secure a national championship for the undefeated 1958 LSU Tigers football team?
- ... that in 1940, England was protected by 15,000 miles of scaffold tubing?
- 00:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that golden-flowered Australian native daisy Xerochrysum bracteatum (pictured) was developed into a wide variety of colours in Arnstadt, Germany, in the 1850s?
- ... that Detroit mayor De Garmo Jones was eulogized as "a sort of western Vanderbilt, with a great big head"?
- ... that the 73.8-metre (242 ft) tall Cross of All Nations located near the Lebanese town of Baskinta is the largest lit cross in the world?
- ... that in 2006, professional baseball player Fehlandt Lentini broke the Northern League's single-season triples record with 13, one more than the mark set during the previous year?
- ... that a 63 m (207 ft) length of hull of the German battleship Preussen, a veteran of World War I, was used as a torpedo target before being bombed and sunk by Allied bombers during World War II?
- ... that Louis Theroux traveled to Kansas to interview members of the Westboro Baptist Church for the documentary film The Most Hated Family in America?
- ... that hit records?
- ... that the downhill skiing apparel in Portland, Oregon, in the 1930s?
- ... that clinical studies of handcuffingare hampered by the inebriated subjects?
26 September 2010
- 18:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that New York's English descent?
- ... that Riegeldale Tavern was opened by an owner of a mill?
- ... that Bach used four movements of his church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187 for his Missa in G minor, BWV 235?
- ... that the short-tail stingray is the largest stingray species in the world?
- ... that art by African American life was included in the Huxtable living room on the set of The Cosby Show after Bill Cosbyand his wife first saw her work on greeting cards?
- ... that the Waterloo Helmet, dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?
- ... that the 1994 documentary, NAMBLA?
- ... that the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Canada's Northwest Territories is a traditional Inuvialuit whaling site?
- ... that glass discovered in craters at the Descartes Highlands, the landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon, was described as having the appearance of dried mud by mission commander John Young?
- 12:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the architect All Souls, Halifax, West Yorkshire (pictured), now redundant, to be his finest church?
- ... that the club fungus Clavariadelphus ligula is commonly known as the strap coral?
- ... that 17th Sunday after Trinity?
- ... that the insignia of the 84th Infantry Regiment in the French Army carried the words "UN CONTRE DIX" (One Against Ten) to commemorate the regiment's successful defence in the Battle of Graz in 1809?
- ... that Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for his Sanskrit epic poem Svatantrya-sambhavam that portrays the Indian national freedom movement?
- ... that following The Office and Extras, the next sitcom from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant is Life's Too Short, starring Warwick Davis and about the life of a showbiz dwarf?
- ... that Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia, was relocated in 1889 to its current location?
- ... that Leiden University's Rolf Bremmer, an expert on Old Frisian language, published an alphabet book explaining the Christian aspects of concepts such as sin and foreskin?
- ... that Lady Byng Trophyfor gentlemanly conduct because his manager felt any player who won it did not belong on his team?
- 06:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the predatory insect Orius insidiosus (pictured) is mass-reared for use in the biological control of thrips?
- ... that U.S. Ambassador to Gabonstated, "Oil men tend to divide government people as either 'for them' or 'against them'"?
- ... that Colonia Juárez in Mexico Cityis home to a Korean community called "Little Seoul"?
- ... that Pat "Awesomely Awesome" Audinwood makes his Ultimate Fighting Championship debut in a match against Thiago Tavares today at UFC 119 in Indianapolis?
- ... that the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount still contains the steps that Jesus "must have walked" on?
- ... that the recently described archosauriform in South America?
- ... that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?
- ... that the British Edward Reed were the direct ancestors of the pre-dreadnought battleship and the dreadnought?
- ... that a TV ad "I'm not lovin' it" has a woman grieving over a dead man holding a half-eaten burger as a narrator says "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian"?
- 00:00, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Superintendent John Perry Robinson (pictured) was first elected because the supporters of the opposition candidatestayed away, as they never expected Robinson to be able to win?
- ... that British Communist Party head John Gollan, was a British spy?
- ... that the Dockum Drug Store sit-in that led to desegregation of lunch counters in Wichita, Kansas, started in July 1958, 18 months before the more widely publicized Greensboro sit-ins?
- ... that Chief Sitting Bull?
- ... that Romsilva owns and manages 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of forests, representing 63% of all forests in Romania?
- ... that James Billington's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?
- ... that the Trochodendron drachuckii is known from a single Eocene fossil found near Cache Creek, British Columbia?
- ... that in his three total professional basketball seasons, NPBL?
- ... that Graham Hawkes is a deep-sea explorer and James Bond stuntman, who invented the first robot armed with a machine gun?
25 September 2010
- 18:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Geastrum leptospermum, G. jurei, G. welwitschii and G. quadrifidum (pictured) are species of earthstar fungi that elevate their spore sacs?
- ... that the Dr. Archibald Neil Sinclair House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a bomb shelter in its front yard?
- ... that the hairpin ribozyme is an RNA that can encode genetic information and catalyze biological reactions?
- ... that after Annie Louisa Walker heard Ira D. Sankey's hymn The Night Cometh she recognized that he had used her words?
- ... that the discovery of the Penrith Hoard of Viking silver brooches stretched over 200 years, from 1785 to 1989?
- ... that state highway that runs the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
- ... that accountant David J. Porter handily unseated Victor G. Carrillo in the 2010 Republican primary for Texas railroad commissioner?
- ... that first cousin once removed of political writer Walter Bagehot?
- ... that during World War II, Boeing's Plant 2 was camouflaged with houses made of plywood, cloth as well as fake streets?
- 12:36, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Crosby Garrett Helmet, discovered this year, has a winged griffin on it, whereas the similar Ribchester Helmet (pictured) may have had a sphinx on top, but the Newstead Helmet only had a plume holder?
- ... that on 28 June 1816 five men were Ely and Littleport riots?
- ... that in American expansionismand concepts of land ownership?
- ... that the Faiz Ahmed Faiz?
- ... that IGN's Doug Perry felt that Moto Racer World Tour was one of the five best motorcycle racing video games for the PlayStation?
- ... that the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne?
- ... that fairy shrimp to occur in Great Britain?
- ... that Communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader in the Tebhaga movement, served as vice-president and general secretary of the National Awami Party?
- ... that a rock band did not survive playing for Rob Roy?
- 06:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the first highway centerline (pictured) was painted on the Marquette–Negaunee Road by K.I. Sawyer in 1917?
- ... that Henry Howard was a 19th century banker, lumberman, alderman, and mayor of nearby Port Huron?
- ... that in Luke 22:43–44 and John 7:53–8:11)?
- ... that King George Vin 1923?
- ... that Barbadian singer Rihanna's new single "Only Girl (In the World)" has been called a "stronger, sexier version of her" 2007 single, "Don't Stop the Music"?
- ... that the aircraft industry of Russia is one of the backbones of the country's economy, employing around 355,300 people?
- ... that 3-D and high definition?
- ... that when Ingleton Branch?
- ... that Craig "Death" Roh adopted a diet of six meals and more than 4,000 calories a day because he considered himself "tiny" at 230 pounds (104 kg)?
- 00:00, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that stairway?
- ... that in his will, temperance campaigner Joseph Livesey left a copy of his "malt liquor lecture" to every household in Preston, Lancashire?
- ... that one Oxford Universityin the early 20th century criticised his predecessors' "fatal inability" to "destroy things when they are done with"?
- ... that one-third of the structures in Willow Creek in a flash floodon June 14, 1903, killing 247 people in the "most deadly natural disaster in Oregon's recorded history"?
- ... that Scottish postman and mycologist Charles McIntosh was very likely the physical model for Mr. McGregor in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
- ... that Jasaw Chan K'awiil Ito honour his wife, Lady Kalajuun Une' Mo'?
- ... that music of the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ?
- ... that the Cuban idiom El Niágara en Bicicleta is used to describe a situation that is difficult to overcome?
- ... that Barbara Holland enjoyed smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch and wrote her 2007 book, The Joy of Drinking, as a protest against what she saw as the rise of broccoli, exercise and Starbucks?
24 September 2010
- 18:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Early Medieval Irish penannular brooches (example pictured) were copied and imitated in the 19th century Celtic Revival?
- ... that the lowest temperature ever recorded in Israel, −13.7 °C (7.3 °F), was measured in the Beit Netofa Valley on February 7, 1950?
- ... that in the Haidbauer incident of April 1926 the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein knocked an 11-year-old boy unconscious during class?
- ... that even after returning to ironmonger's business?
- ... that the ?
- ... that the pointed boobialla can be found in rainforest or wet eucalyptus forest in eastern Australia?
- ... that ?
- ... that the global warming, search for life in and nature and evolution of the universe?
- ... that fighting crickets are provided with female company before the fight, stimulated with tickling during the fight, and buried in silver coffins after it?
- 12:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... the Laotian national ritual of the baci (pictured) involves tying strings around a person’s wrist to preserve good luck?
- ... that the floating drydock to Bermudain 1869?
- ... that three separate wrestlers won the WWF Hardcore Championship in a single match at Unforgiven (2000)?
- ... that the abbot of Kinloss was a permanent member of the chapter of Fortrose Cathedral, seat of the medieval diocese of Ross?
- ... that advertising executive Dragnet-inspired "tum-ta-tum-tum" for Tumsantacid?
- ... that Skënder Muço was one of the founders of the first battalion of the antifascist resistance movement of Balli Kombëtar in Vlorë?
- ... that What's New Pussycat? was a box office hit for British film director Clive Donner, but screenwriter Woody Allen hated the film, saying his original script had been distorted?
- ... that June Revolution of 1924?
- ... that ) long?
- 06:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the bleaching powder?
- ... that Marc Tessier-Lavigne, chief scientific officer of Genentech, was named as President of Rockefeller University, making him the first non-academic to be chosen for the post?
- ... that Mizil is the only city or town in Romania to lie on the 45th parallel north?
- ... that Royal Navy officer Edward Nicholas Kendall discovered Wollaston Land?
- ... that the radio station KOHI, in Columbia County, Oregon, broadcasts a late-night radio program dealing with paranormal topics?
- ... that the serial sex offender Batman rapist has committed at least 17 attacks in Bath since 1991 and is the subject of Britain's longest-running serial rape investigation?
- ... that three main span during construction in 2000?
- ... that the first college undergraduate to win the athlete Leslie MacMitchellin 1941?
- ... that the leak of nine-year old singer Willow Smith's single "Whip My Hair" was covered by Billboard, Time, and CNN the day of its release, as well as garnering over 100,000 YouTube views?
- 00:00, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Black False Hellebore (pictured) is a toilet cleaner which may be a cure for cancer?
- ... that Jordan Creek?
- ... that Romania has the third largest natural gas reserves in the European Union?
- ... that public house?
- ... that the Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, who became a strong supporter of Darwinism, was ordained by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, one of its greatest opponents?
- ... that Seattle Genetics withdrew its drug clinical study found that it offered no greater benefit than placebotherapy?
- ... that blues musicians in his English farmhouse using a hired tape recorder and a piano borrowed from the local village hall?
- ... that the Panamanian ferry Avrasaya was hijacked by pro-Chechen rebels in January 1996, in the Black Sea hostage crisis?
- ... that double leg amputee Bob Wieland finished the New York City Marathon in three days and crossed America in three years, eight months, and six days—all while walking on his hands?
23 September 2010
- 18:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that it is uncertain where adult speartooth sharks (pictured) live, as none have been captured?
- ... that Lucius Walker blamed Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by Contra rebels in Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"?
- ... that the British ?
- ... that depleted student bodies at American universities caused by World War II enabled Dick Ives to play basketball for Iowa as a 17-year-old freshman?
- ... that historian Elizabeth Jenkins"got nearer to penetrating the secret of the most remarkable woman in history than any other"?
- ... that Nadine Gordimer says her novel Burger's Daughter was "a coded homage" to Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer?
- ... that a Trout Creekis at least 5,000 years old?
- ... that at 11.38 km (7.07 mi) long, the Eng Sérgio Motta Dam on the Paraná River is the longest in Brazil?
- ... that the Sassanid Persiain 532, lasted for just eight years?
- 12:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that riots erupted in James Moore's failed 1702 Siege of St. Augustine(fortress pictured)?
- ... that now-retired professional wrestler Abe Jacobs once defeated three other wrestlers in Johannesburg despite suffering from jet lag and competing at a high altitude?
- ... that the last North Berwick nunnery handed the lands of her nunnery over to her kinsman, the fifth Lord Home?
- ... that Serbia has large but undeveloped reserves of oil shale?
- ... that Petter Jakob Bjerve defended his doctorate thesis while serving as Norway's Minister of Finance?
- ... that the British breastwork monitor HMS Cyclops and other ships of her type were described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as being like "full-armoured knights riding on donkeys, easy to avoid but bad to close with"?
- ... that Thomas Guinzburg hired Jackie Onassis as a book editor, but she left after Viking Press published Shall We Tell the President? about a fictional plot to assassinate President Ted Kennedy?
- ... that the Miage Glacier is the largest debris-covered glacier in Europe and the longest glacier in Italy?
- ... that the Watervliet Shakers are thought to have been the first seed sellers to package seeds in small, paper envelopes?
- 06:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that before reaching the ?
- ... that after the county cricket match between Yorkshire and Middlesex in July 1924, Yorkshire's Abe Waddington was accused of inciting the crowd to jeer the opposition?
- ... that China?
- ... that Jiu-Jitsu instructor at the H.I.T. Squad?
- ... that fossils?
- ... that the accommodations aboard the Cyclops-class monitors were rated the worst in the Royal Navy and referred to by ordinary seamen as "ratholes with tinned air"?
- ... that the founding leader of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also co-founded the East Pakistan Renaissance Society which promoted East Pakistan as an independent state?
- ... that in the Persiangeneral's flag, causing the Persian army to panic and retreat?
- ... that Holly Hunter sang the traditional murder ballad "Down in the Willow Garden" as a lullaby in the 1987 film Raising Arizona?
- 00:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the northernmost city of Russia, Pevek (pictured), stands on the East Siberian Sea?
- ... that abbot of Reading?
- ... that the Itá, Machadinho and Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plants can together generate 127% of the energy demand in Brazil's state of Santa Catarina?
- ... that despite turning professional scarcely more than a year prior, Alexander Volkov reached the final of the M-1 Global Eastern Europe tournament?
- ... that Becconsall Old Church, Lancashire, was built with handmade bricks supplied by the lord of the manor?
- ... that Oscar Torp, later Prime Minister of Norway, was responsible for the successful flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
- ... that archaeological finds in Early Neolithic Age?
- ... that a college scholarship program, a technical college, and a middle school are all named for T. H. Harris, who served as Louisiana education superintendent from 1908 to 1940?
- ... that it is possible to calculate the age of three children from just the sum, product and uniqueness of their ages?
22 September 2010
- 18:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Army general Maxwell Woodhull donated his family home (pictured) to George Washington University in Washington, D.C.?
- ... that Lollards?
- ... that of the nine British battlecruisers built before World War I only HMS Tiger was retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922?
- ... that Foreign Serviceknew little about the U.S. and were "wholly unprepared for diplomatic work"?
- ... that the range of the pearl oyster Victoria?
- ... that Muslim real estate developer behind the "Ground Zero mosque", is a member of the local Jewish Community Center, which he says served as an inspiration for his project?
- ... that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario–Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
- ... that African American commissioned as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War?
- ... that the ?
- 12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Te Rewa Rewa Bridge (pictured) in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is located on the site of one of the Musket Wars battles?
- ... that the origins of the team sport bando are closely connected to hockey, shinty and bandy?
- ... that on the chancel arch of St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, is a painting of Moses and Aaron?
- ... that collegiate sports?
- ... that the Fenton Hill Observatory is home to the RAPTOR telescopes, which can swivel to any point in the sky in less than three seconds?
- ... that The Late Late Show in Dublin?
- ... that the Indiana Universitycampus?
- ... that Bob Dylan did not release his 1963 song "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" until 1985, but it was covered by The Byrds and other artists in the interim?
- ... that Triggs was once described as the "the fittest dog in Cheshire"?
- 06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the box pews in St John the Evangelist's Church, Lancaster, (pictured) were modified to form a double pew for the use of the Corporation?
- ... that Percy Reeve, known for composing operettas and writing music criticism, also produced a book of poetry, Love & Music?
- ... that the Japanese escort ships Okinawa, CD-63 and CD-207 sunk the American submarine Bonefish?
- ... that The Causeway in Washington, D.C., is an estate named for a bridgerather than an occupant?
- ... that the fictional parish of Stoneground, setting for Stanground, Peterborough, where Swain himself was Vicar?
- ... that Moto Racer DS was the first Moto Racer video game to be released since 2002?
- ... that British Army General Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe was created one of the first Companions of the Order of the Bath?
- ... that the dermal denticles, and may represent a new genus?
- ... that Eberhard von Brauchitsch called his company's donation of about 26 million Deutsche Mark to all the major German parties between 1969 and 1981 "cultivating the political scene"?
- 00:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the leopard whipray (pictured) and honeycomb whipray have large dark spots when young, that become rings when adults?
- ... that the Homagial Crown was probably the coronation crown of king Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland?
- ... that some of the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs have been interpreted as showing Ojibwe themes, although the Ojibwe never lived near the petroglyph site?
- ... that the hidden camera conversations between Patrick van der Eem and Joran van der Sloot set a television broadcast record in the Netherlands?
- ... that although the Paulo Afonso Complex in Brazil dammed a waterfall, its spillways can recreate it?
- ... that professional baseball player Eddie Phillips never batted or fielded a ball in the major leagues, but scored four runs for the St. Louis Cardinals during their 1953 season?
- ... that the broken top of the Aviation Martyrs' Monument in Istanbul is to symbolize the incomplete status of the flight missions?
- ... that Louisiana Republican figure Bob Reese in his later years was a gymnastics coach and a portrait painter?
- ... that after Empressas part of the city's ransom?
21 September 2010
- 18:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Flanginian School in Campo dei Greci (pictured), Venice, produced several teachers who contributed to the modern Greek Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries?
- ... that Medal of Honor recipient Richard Etchberger's original nomination for the medal was rejected because the mission he was on was classified?
- ... that Old Sarum Cathedral, the Norman church built at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, was replaced by a new cathedral at Salisbury in the 13th century?
- ... that the 1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record of 55?
- ... that Bulat Okudzhava wrote song lyrics for The Adventures of Buratino but some of his work was considered too philosophical and was left out?
- ... that the flushwork decorating parts of St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling, Lancashire, is in two colours of sandstone rather than the more usual materials of flint and stone?
- ... that Silver Creek flows through a canyon near Riley, Oregon, with over 200-foot (60 m) tall walls?
- ... that Governor of Assam?
- ... that Albin Eines started working on the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn in 1928, less than a year after he edited the Communist Party newspaper Norges Kommunistblad?
- 12:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Janusz Radziwiłł, considered by some as the traitor of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, died in the besieged Tykocin Castle (pictured)?
- ... that Morton Cohen's 1995 biography of Lewis Carroll is generally considered the definitive scholarly work on Carroll's life?
- ... that the 1980 Michigan defense, led by All-Big Ten linebackers Andy Cannavino, Paul Girgash and Robert Thompson, gave up an average of only 1.8 points per game in the last five games of the season?
- ... that for the film Reign of Assassins, John Woo spent over a week directing an action scene featuring his daughter Angeles?
- ... that Mozambique's CARE projects aimed at preserving its spectacular reefsystem?
- ... that former ?
- ... that despite extreme physical similarities to the Ventusis a completely different character from the same series?
- ... that in April 2010, Okinawa, Japan, marking the organization's first international rescue?
- ... that Cody McKenzie, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, has the second-most guillotine choke victories in the world according to Sherdog.com?
- 06:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that, unlike the drab-coloured Lovely(pictured)?
- ... that the newly described monkey, Amazonian explorer Cândido Rondon?
- ... that The All-American Nightmare, to be the record he is proudest of?
- ... that the creators of Avatar: Legend of Korra, which is set at least 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai?
- ... that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
- ... that the Kai stingaree has only been collected by the HMS Challenger, in 1874?
- ... that U.S. national judo titles and won his debut mixed martial artsfight in 98 seconds at age 15?
- ... that the lava rock chimney?
- ... that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear?
- 00:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that architect ?
- ... that the recently described black stingray?
- ... that in 1848, James Mathews Leigh founded a popular art school in London, providing training for many leading British artists?
- ... that Gubazes II, the king of Lazica, was assassinated by two Byzantine generals whom he had accused of incompetence?
- ... that the fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington?
- ... that September 11, 2001?
- ... that Deltaterrasserne, containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures, is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land?
- ... that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
- ... that Seymour Pine, who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?
20 September 2010
- 18:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that many prisoners escaped from the Allen County Jail (pictured), which was hailed as the best jail in southeastern Kansas upon its completion?
- ... that Shantungosuchus, a small, primitive crocodile from the Cretaceous period, was terrestrial instead of aquatic?
- ... that assemblyconstituency?
- ... that former paranoid schizophrenia?
- ... that the UK charity Counsel and Care was one of the first advocates of a "death tax" as a method to fund the care of the elderly?
- ... that in the first round of the Shaun Murphy?
- ... that artist William W. Fenn, although blind, was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art(1878–1904)?
- ... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
- ... that the Aruba Police Force was once stationed in a clock tower at Fort Zoutman, the oldest establishment on the island?
- 12:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that in 1553–54, while seeking a northern passage from England to the Indies, Richard Chancellor established a trade route to Russia through the White Sea(pictured) instead?
- ... that, in later life, English illustrator border?
- ... that Dickie Boon, Stanley Cup champion player with the Montreal Hockey Club of 1902–1903 is credited with inventing the poke check used in ice hockey to knock the puck off an attacking player's stick?
- ... that Old St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling, Lancashire, has been called "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church"?
- ... that Charles Folkard created the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip, The Adventures of Teddy Tail, for the Daily Mail in April 1915?
- ... that the Luiz Gonzaga Dam in Brazil was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga who is known as the "king of Baião" and "Gonzagão"?
- ... that part of the bed of the Dry River in central Oregonis used as a hiking trail?
- ... that in 1830, 80% of the residents of Mexican Texas—part of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas—were from the United States or Europe?
- ... that This Ain't Avatar XXX, an American pornographic film parody of Avatar, is being shot in 3D and is the most expensive film Hustler Videohas ever produced?
- 06:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū (illustrated) performed the world's first operation under general anesthesia in 1804?
- ... that Bach used recorders and pizzicato of the strings to evoke funeral bells in his cantata Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161, written in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity?
- ... that during the Nannygate political controversy of 1993, Americans were asked if they had a "Zoë Baird problem"?
- ... that Cone Hospital that the Federal Arbitration Act applied to state courts later became the central holding of Southland Corp. v. Keating?
- ... that about 67 powerful and destructive 1985?
- ... that the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award are presented at the Governors Awards?
- ... that Greenland's well preserved archaeological site on Nipisat Island contains some stone artifacts that were previously unknown from the Saqqaq culture?
- ... that the two Scorpion class ironclads that were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 from a British shipyardwere seized in 1863 by the British Government to prevent their delivery?
- ... that footwraps, pieces of cloth wrapped around the feet in place of socks, are being phased out by the army of Belarusin 2010?
- 00:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that from 1980 to 2005, the Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station (pictured) in Russia generated over 600 billion kWh of electricity?
- ... that radio mogul John Lynch initially played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
- ... that the new extrasolar planetary systems and investigating the nature of dark energy?
- ... that American organist Carl Weinrich performed the premieres of Samuel Barber's Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 6, and Arnold Schoenberg's Variations on a Recitative?
- ... that after leaving the Flight 514 foraged for mushroomswhilst awaiting rescue?
- ... that the Arkansas River bridge between Johnson and Logan counties in Arkansas is named for Ada Mills, who lobbied 40 years for the project?
- ... that the on a stem with rope moulding?
- ... that Montana Territorial Governor John Schuyler Crosby fought and subdued a crazed knife wielding valet from his sick bed?
- ... that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?
19 September 2010
- 18:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Norcon pillbox (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most dangerous, cheap and nasty of all pillbox designs"?
- ... that author and wine educator Karen MacNeil's book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
- ... that Canpotex manages the entire Saskatchewan potash-exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
- ... that all of submission?
- ... that the first ever UK City of Culture will be Derry in 2013?
- ... that the detection of Swift X-ray space telescopemarked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
- ... that the Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the armchair used by Pope John Paul II during his 1997 visit to Lebanon?
- ... that Colonia Hipódromo was home to refugees from the Spanish Civil War?
- ... that after keeping a Bournemouth goalkeeper Ian Leighwas rewarded with a lifetime supply of pizzas from a local Italian restaurant?
- 12:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 5,000 year-old Ötzi the Iceman was carrying four pieces of Hoof Fungus(modern specimen pictured) when he was found?
- ... that two players named John Schultz, 1891 Major League Baseball season?
- ... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
- ... that the quilting show Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel has been on the air for more than 30 years?
- ... that the 7.5 1985 Pichilemu earthquakelasted about three minutes?
- ... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
- ... that the blackedge whipray is known in Tamil as the "salt-like ray"?
- ... that the NCAA tournament berths and include the 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, and 1987–88 teams, and 1988–89 national championship team?
- ... that the ?
- 06:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that there are 21 shovelnoses?
- ... that beginning in the 18th century, Tanners' Bridge was used to cross Lanë in Tirana until the stream was redirected in the 1930s?
- ... that King James VI of Scotland in the Raid of Ruthven?
- ... that there is some confusion about whether no contest or a disqualificationwin for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
- ... that the Expo '86, has been anchored derelict next to an oil refinerysince 1991?
- ... that the 4th century dichroic; lit from in front it is green, but thanks to surface plasmon resonanceit is red when lit from behind?
- ... that the Rrashbull Tunnel of the Durrës–Tiranë railway in Albania was dug by Bulgarian volunteers, members of the Youth section of their Communist Party?
- ... that French royal troops attacked the Spanish Netherlands when portions of that province were not ceded to Louis XIVas part of his wife's dowry?
- ... that American Puccini's opera Toscaas "a shabby little shocker"?
- 00:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Robert Clotworthy (voice sample right) is the voice of Jim Raynor in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty?
- ... that author and wine educator Mary Ewing-Mulligan was the first female American Master of Wine?
- ... that Dhofar Rebellionin the early 1970s?
- ... that when 25th Legislative District, he became the first Democrat from Morris County in 18 years to be elected to the New Jersey Legislature?
- ... that Parque México in Mexico City exists because environmental laws in the 1920s did not allow housing to be built on a former racetrack?
- ... that in retaliation for its ties with Nepal?
- ... that historian David J. Weber of Southern Methodist University was called "at least a generation ahead of his time in recognizing how entwined Mexico and the United States were and are"?
- ... that the NCAA Tournament runner-up 1975–76 team?
- ... that playwright A.R. Gurney promised his parents that his play The Cocktail Hour would not be produced in their hometown of Buffalo, New York, during their lifetimes?
18 September 2010
- 18:04, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the keels of both British Renown class battlecruisers (HMS Renown pictured) were laid six weeks before the contracts were finalized in 1915?
- ... that Chile is celebrating its bicentennial on September 18, today?
- ... that James L. Swauger continued his archaeological work with petroglyphs for fifteen years after his nominal retirement?
- ... that Dick Button performed the first triple jump in competition at the men's figure skating event at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
- ... that Krohn Air was started by a local businessman to continue servicing the route from Molde to Trondheim, Norway, after Scandinavian Airlines terminated its service?
- ... that Frank Perls, who found a copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler, also uncovered a series of forgeries attributed to Degas and Picasso?
- ... that catcher Rocky Gale made his professional baseball debut with the Eugene Emeralds, a team he watched while growing up in the area?
- ... that Second World War?
- ... that Jerusalem's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
- ... that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii, a governor of Hawaii, an attorney general of Hawaii, and a "pineapple king"?
- 12:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Larry Ashmead wrote the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, with such people as Stan Dupp, a dentist named Dr. Fang and Jaime Cardinal Sin (pictured) of the Philippines?
- ... that Don Graham developed the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, the largest outdoor shopping mall in the United States?
- ... that Colonia Guerrero in Mexico Citywas part of an old colonial-era indigenous neighborhood?
- ... that automobilesto the island in the 1960s?
- ... that, in a storyline, several referees attacked World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven 1999 event for not joining them in their strike?
- ... that Deborah and John Coleman Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey followed ancient caravan trails to discover a 3,500-year-old site at the Kharga Oasis in the middle of Egypt's Western Desert?
- ... that the $30 million renovation of Proctor's Theatre in 2007 has been seen as the catalyst for the revival of downtown Schenectady?
- ... that Alex Caceres' nickname "Bruce Leeroy" is inspired by the character of the same nickname in The Last Dragon?
- ... that in the 1970s the China?
- 06:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (pictured) in The Bronx has been recognized as the "birthplace of hip hop"?
- ... that as civil defense director at the height of the Cold War in 1961, Frank B. Ellis pushed for the adoption of fallout shelters to protect civilians from nuclear attack?
- ... that Indian film that was based on the practice of groom kidnapping, won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues?
- ... that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway?
- ... that while still the sitting Governor of Alaska Territory, Mike Stepovich appeared on the game show What's My Line?
- ... that fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland?
- ... that former professional footballer George Catleugh suffered a broken leg on two different occasions?
- ... that the state prison established in Alabama?
- ... that due to his pale complexion and resemblance to a character from the Blade films, Aaron Wilkinson's coaches nicknamed him "The Daywalker"?
- 00:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri (pictured) can only survive in the desert because it looks after its young?
- ... that scoring and reboundingfor a season?
- ... that the three Pakistani cricketers charged with spot-fixing in the 4th Pakistan-England Test?
- ... that in 1133, the Carlisle?
- ... that the family of Oskar Höcker, a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater, included three more writers: his brother Gustav, his son Paul Oskar, and his granddaughter Karla?
- ... that the Inland Customs Line stretched across more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of British India and was compared to the Great Wall of China?
- ... that the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?
- ... that upon completion, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station was called "a pearl of Soviet water-power engineering" and 349 of its workers were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour medal?
- ... that the film Who's That Girl? features a live cougar, which one day escaped from the set before shooting started?
17 September 2010
- 18:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the meat of the Moreton Bay bug because it sometimes tastes of garlic?
- ... that former 2004 British Open?
- ... that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle's keep has a different dimension?
- ... that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
- ... that during his 60-year career, character actor Leon Belasco appeared in films with the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire?
- ... that networks and premiered in syndicationinstead?
- ... that Satch Davidson was plate umpire when Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run, and also when Carlton Fisk hit his 12th-inning home run to win Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series?
- ... that Arthur Eaglefield Hull invented the term "mystic chord" to describe the music of Russian composer Scriabin?
- ... that due to a copy-editing error, Public Enemy's 1990 song "911 Is a Joke" referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
- 12:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that hydrogen bombanywhere in the world"?
- ... that fans threw silver coins onto the hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball game, the first player to accomplish that feat?
- ... that in 1927, at the same time as the Norwegian Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties reunited, a competing Unified Party of the Working Classwas founded?
- ... that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including gas meters, dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
- ... that Prince Charlesin 1969?
- ... that for his book attempted suicide?
- ... that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
- ... that Tony Clunn, a British Army Major looking for Roman coins with a metal detector, discovered the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?
- ... that the front porch on the John Shelp Cobblestone House in West Shelby, New York, was probably built as a result of a heating stove fire in the dining room?
- 06:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Scoresby Sund (pictured) is the world's largest fjordsystem?
- ... that within hours of its publication, A Journey, the memoir of Tony Blair, became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time?
- ... that The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper's first novel set in Europe and was largely disliked by contemporary American critics?
- ... that 2012 London mayoral election?
- ... that the schooners, saw the death of Lieutenant William Howard Allenafter he stood up to rally his men?
- ... that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
- ... that Michael Johnson has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck?
- ... that Norid manages two unused top-level domains, .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and .bv for Bouvet Island?
- ... that art historian Andrew Ladis has described Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility, painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance?
- ... that every year, a narrow land pass opens for a few hours between the Modo and Jindo Islands in the Yellow Sea?
- ... that Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Kitwana Jones was nicknamed "Batman" after chasing down and apprehending a purse snatcher?
- 00:01, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that according to legend, Osum River?
- ... that the Amantaka hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos, used to be a hospital until 2005?
- ... that Cage Ragefighter to test positive for a banned substance?
- ... that in April 1952, five Norwegian seal hunting ships disappeared in the West Ice of the Greenland Sea?
- ... that automobile dealer from Farmerville, Louisiana?
- ... that former World Champion and record holder in Tirana Circusbefore and after his athletic career?
- ... that the title of "Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, was based on a piece of infamous Sydney graffiti?
- ... that the Banglabandha inland port is aimed at increasing trade between Bangladesh and Nepal, India, and Bhutan?
- ... that of his internment in Sachsenhausen, Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?
16 September 2010
- 18:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the so-called Polish Crown Jewels, was modeled after the Holy Crown of Hungary?
- ... that constable Shane Ó Neill, "pickled in a pipkin", to Sir Henry Sidney?
- ... that the Coaches' Poll?
- ... that King Charles II of England, including several of the king's mistresses?
- ... that World Wrestling Federation's 1996 King of the Ringresulted from an argument over artistic abilities?
- ... that a song by the 16th c. Bengali Vaishnava padavali poet Govindadasa was included in an opera written under a disguised name by Rabindranath Tagore?
- ... that for many decades, the African Americans?
- ... that on is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent?
- ... that Tamora, Nebraska, was named for the day after today?
- 12:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the porcelain Kakiemon elephant(pictured) was made when elephants would not have been seen in Japan?
- ... that Colorado cowboy artist Arthur Roy Mitchell created more than 160 cover paintings for western pulp magazines?
- ... that in 1942, seven commandos captured during Operation Musketoon were executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
- ... that after seeing a map of the colon cancerrisk?
- ... that the executive chef of the Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar?
- ... that the 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Michigan Wolverines men's basketball single-game rebound record?
- ... that Mark Burgess has been noted for his ability to reproduce the style of dead artists such as Allan Curless and E. H. Shepard?
- ... that the first ’u’, premiered at The Hagueon 9 September 2010?
- ... that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators?
- 06:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the former factory and headquarters (pictured) of the Hamilton Watch Company, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was converted into an apartment and condominium complex?
- ... that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba ?
- ... that pointsper game for his career?
- ... that the design of Tirtagangga?
- ... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
- ... that 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew?
- ... that Alice of Champagne, the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus, married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island, offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
- ... that Gabriele von Lutzau, the "Angel of Mogadishu", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers?
- 00:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that, though originally described as members of the genus Notocactus, cacti P. arnostiana are now considered members of Parodia?
- ... that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
- ... that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
- ... that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology?
- ... that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM)as part of its embarked air wing?
- ... that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps?
- ... that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium, 12 drapescan vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
- ... that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehoodto only one section?
- ... that fermentedmud?
15 September 2010
- 18:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the German battleship SMS Braunschweig (pictured) engaged the Russian battleship Slava during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga during World War I?
- ... that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, but as a baritone?
- ... that the winning streakthat stood for the next 11 years?
- ... that Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
- ... that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
- ... that Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with Indiain 1999?
- ... that unlike other was primarily a fish eater?
- ... that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java, Indonesia, is built from local limestone?
- ... that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?
- 12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that cigaretteswere sold there?
- ... that Gail Koff, one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers, had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
- ... that the Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry?
- ... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
- ... that the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four?
- ... that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House?
- ... that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, is Australia's longest operating oil refinery?
- ... that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully?
- ... that the brothers Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, only to be themselves removed from power by Constantine VIIafter a few weeks?
- 06:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Tsar prisoners of war whose story inspired a 2007 opera?
- ... that rushingattempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
- ... that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
- ... that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting, Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party, which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud?
- ... that according to Minuscule 782, Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
- ... that number one in the 1980s with "Nikita"?
- ... that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
- ... that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet"?
- ... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis?
- 00:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that SUVs?
- ... that the Mesa Oil Field is within the Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, which together form the second-most-prolific oil-producing geologic unit in Southern California?
- ... that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik, with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality?
- ... that the War of the Triple Alliance, and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
- ... that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
- ... that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guildto seek retribution?
- ... that fragrant sachets were used by Queen Isabella of Spain?
- ... that one caterpillarsto its larvae?
- ... that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?
14 September 2010
- 18:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the house (pictured) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Charles Ives was born has been moved twice to allow local banks to expand their buildings?
- ... that Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo?
- ... that the common name Mallee Emu-wrens comes from their emu-like tail feathers?
- ... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
- ... that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth?
- ... that the proposed design of the oldest building, which was built in 1728?
- ... that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishadwas created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
- ... that game warden at Yellowstone National Park, once roped an unruly bearand spanked the animal on its behind?
- 12:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that autism?
- ... that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York?
- ... that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
- ... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
- ... that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
- ... that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini?
- ... that the engines of the ironclad Silvado?
- ... that actor ?
- ... that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake?
- 06:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the Torre Mayor (pictured) and the Mexican headquarters of HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
- ... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II?
- ... that Romstrade is the largest construction company in Romania?
- ... that Buddhist Palipassage?
- ... that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
- ... that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals, including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera?
- ... that technical knockoutvictories?
- ... that every directed cyclesof all lengths?
- ... that, as president of U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davisonclassified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
- 00:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that artist N.C. Wyeth named his Maine home after Winslow Homer's 1886 painting Eight Bells(pictured)?
- ... that Frankfurt Opera, staged as a rocker?
- ... that the libel?
- ... that NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball Leaguechampionship in back-to-back seasons?
- ... that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?
- ... that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling Democratic Action party denied the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too leftwing?
- ... that the village of South Salem, Ohio, was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy?
- ... that Italian castrato Carlo Scalzi performed at the wedding of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange in London, 1734?
- ... that the Craig telescope in Wandsworth Common, London, was once the world's largest refracting telescope?
13 September 2010
- 18:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the main campus of the Polytechnic of Namibia includes Elisabeth House (pictured), Windhoek's former obstetricshospital?
- ... that regular season and two in the playoffs?
- ... that the War of the Triple Alliance, but was not significantly damaged?
- ... that "?
- ... that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, Chile, was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
- ... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
- ... that diplomats from some countries still wear ornate diplomatic uniforms on certain occasions?
- ... that the Francis Farm Petroglyphs are among Pennsylvania's leading petroglyph sites, even though the culture of their creators is unknown?
- ... that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?
- 12:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that former Florida legislature for 28 years, making him the longest-serving legislator in Floridahistory?
- ... that ?
- ... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
- ... that the El Nacional?
- ... that C. Joseph Genster of Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
- ... that on his Pakistanis?
- ... that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
- ... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
- ... that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design, that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?
- 06:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Parachartergus apicalis (pictured) will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers?
- ... that the undersea tunnel in Greece?
- ... that Māori men achieved universal suffrage in the First Māori elections, midway through the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament in 1868 and twelve years before the European colonists?
- ... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
- ... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
- ... that the Second World War?
- ... that the 11th century Dhuvjan Monastery in Albania contains an icon which includes remains of very important early Christian saints?
- ... that the Spanish mixed martial artist Daniel Tabera has defeated two opponentsin one night on two separate occasions?
- ... that paper clothing was briefly very popular in the 1960s?
- 00:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Gothic Revival "Wedding Cake House" (pictured) in Grosse Ile's East River Road Historic District was built over 150 years ago and has never been remodeled?
- ... that Ancient Church Ordersis a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
- ... that the film basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions?
- ... that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
- ... that the Podgorica–Shkodër railway, built in 1985, was the first international railway of Albania?
- ... that in 1905 Edward Mead Johnson established Mead Johnson, maker of Enfamil and other nutrition products, after leaving the Johnson & Johnson firm that he had co-founded with his brothers in 1886?
- ... that world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments?
- ... that during the escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
- ... that Wolfgang Krause continued his scholarly work in runology even after he became blind?
12 September 2010
- 18:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Italian castrato Domenico Annibali (pictured) made a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the title role of Handel's opera Poro?
- ... that Araneus angulatus was the first scientific name validly published in zoological nomenclature, when it appeared in Svenska Spindlar in 1757?
- ... that ?
- ... that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime, set in the Prohibition-era United States, but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
- ... that after missing the whole of 2009 through injury, Jan Błachowicz returned at KSW XIII to defeat two opponents on the same night?
- ... that the earliest hereditary in England, before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Normansettlers in the 12th century?
- ... that Alaska Territoryafter an impressive stint as a tour guide?
- ... that Bach's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138, was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer?
- ... that former mayor of Tirana, Qemal Butka, was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë?
- 12:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Red River Campaignin 1864?
- ... that the Zog of Albaniaback to his throne?
- ... that in 2009, a white boar helped locate the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III died in 1485?
- ... that professional wrestler?
- ... that the planned Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
- ... that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism, water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy?
- ... that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history?
- ... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans, who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu?
- ... that elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm?
- 06:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that soil bacteria by growing hyphaethat secrete digestive compounds?
- ... that before becoming a Francis Sumner lived at Glossop Hallafter his mother and father died?
- ... that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus, the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812?
- ... that the neutrino oscillationsusing a laboratory source of neutrinos?
- ... that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season, but the Teaneck Armorywas booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
- ... that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson, whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
- ... that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
- ... that soprano in 1893?
- ... that Bajzë Rail Stationwas completely cleaned up in 2009 from toxic chemicals dumped in 1991–92?
- 00:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Lawrence E. Roberts (pictured) was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, a colonel in the United States Air Force, and the father of newscaster Robin Roberts?
- ... that in 1931 Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera?
- ... that the Labrador Sea contains the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, one of the world's longest underwater channels?
- ... that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church?
- ... that during the Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England?
- ... that catch combinations in Marylandhistory"?
- ... that the Point class cutteroriginally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
- ... that 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
- ... that independent musician and podcaster George Hrab has customized his album packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?
11 September 2010
- 18:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the honeycomb stingray?
- ... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
- ... that General Motorswhere he was in charge of new vehicle launches?
- ... that members of Senostoma kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
- ... that Puerto Rican-American singer Grammy Award for his performance of the song "¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar?"?
- ... that 1989 Revolutionby feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
- ... that the French ironclad Marengo was on her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in reserve; she was not commissioned until after the war was over?
- ... that the nickname of Japanese mixed martial arts fighter Mei Yamaguchi comes from the V1 armlock wrestling move?
- ... that in 1891, Somerset County Cricket Club regained first-class status, after remaining unbeaten against county sides in 1890?
- 12:09, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that National Public Radioto write and perform a song in less than two days?
- ... that the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania, is the largest hotel in Europe with 1,459 rooms?
- ... that Albanian nationalist Safet Butka killed himself because in Albania the war against fascism was degenerating into a civil war?
- ... that Åre Old Church remains the only stone church in the Scandinavian Mountains from the Middle Ages?
- ... that inhibiting protein pigeon homolog may provide a treatment for Alzheimer's disease?
- ... that Har Sinai Congregationamid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
- ... that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
- ... that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during World War I?
- ... that the brine flyeaters"?
- 07:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in architecture, sculpture, music and literature?
- ... that the French ironclad Océan was assigned to the Northern Squadron that attempted to blockade Prussian ports on the Baltic Sea during the Franco-Prussian War until recalled on 16 September 1870?
- ... that guard Pete Ladygo went to Canada to play football for the Ottawa Rough Riders rather than accept a trade to the Detroit Lions?
- ... that US state of New York?
- ... that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional mixed martial artsrecord?
- ... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
- ... that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio, preserves the first dental school in the United States?
- ... that soprano Agustarello Affré made their debut together at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Lucia and Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
- ... that Cameroon is named after the crustacean Lepidophthalmus turneranus which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the Wouri River in the 15th century?
- 00:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
- ... that during the Battle of the Bulge, a gun crew of the American 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion knocked out a Tiger II tank by making it reverse into a house?
- ... that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I?
- ... that after the Mill Creek flooded Erie, Pennsylvania in 1915, it was diverted to a tube that is large enough for a pickup truck to drive through?
- ... that the French ironclad Suffren was assigned to the international squadron gathered at Ragusa in 1880 to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro?
- ... that strong safety Julius Curry in 2006 formed Curry Racing, the first NASCARracing team with sole minority ownership?
- ... that historian Thor's hammer?
- ... that in 1881, Panhandle's isolation from the rest of the state?
- ... that, despite losing a leg in his first term of service, Edward A. Gisburne completed two more war-time stints with the United States Navy?
10 September 2010
- 18:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore sermonized in 1861 in opposition to slavery and had to flee to Philadelphia after a mob sought to tar and featherhim for his views?
- ... that the bobsleigh run at the 1952 Winter Olympics was made entirely of snow?
- ... that the tumoursamples?
- ... that newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV's Jersey Shore?
- ... that Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated?
- ... that an Australian, Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967?
- ... that Division I men's basketball player besides Pete Maravichto score 60+ points in two or more games?
- ... that ?
- ... that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?
- 12:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche (pictured) was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
- ... that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company?
- ... that United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked targets in and near Singapore on eleven occasions between November 1944 and March 1945?
- ... that in 1798, artist George Garrard successfully campaigned to introduce the first copyright protection for model-makers in Britain?
- ... that when completed, the pumped-storagepower station in the world?
- ... that Gioachino Rossini's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
- ... that Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors?
- ... that Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist?
- ... that for building the desiatinaestate?
- 06:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that many of the renowned Absentee-Shawnee artist Ernest Spybuck (pictured) are held by the National Museum of the American Indian?
- ... that a round tower was built to house the Kloster Berge school after a schoolmaster hanged himself in the cloister previously used for classes?
- ... that the 1946 National League tie-breaker series was the first ever tiebreaker for the playoffs in Major League Baseball history?
- ... that there are eight different ways to earn the Scouter's Key Award?
- ... that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York, was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
- ... that the operatic mezzo-soprano Théâtre-Italienin Paris in 1854?
- ... that Electrica has an electric power distribution network of 116,500 km?
- ... that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes?
- ... that the is buried under the church floor?
- 00:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Sir Richard Conyers, who built St Mary's Church, South Cowton (pictured) between 1450 and 1470, also built South Cowton Castle nearby, but destroyed the village of South Cowton?
- ... that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All?
- ... that according to the visa policy of South Korea, Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
- ... that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings?
- ... that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law, Daud as-Sayegh's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda') was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab) was denied legal status?
- ... that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
- ... that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
- ... that according to United States citizen?
9 September 2010
- 18:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the "big kiln" at La Graufesenque in Roman Gaul could fire up to 40,000 terra sigillata vessels (example pictured) at a time?
- ... that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on Sheridan's The Rivals?
- ... that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's official language, but later translated back to it instead?
- ... that in April 1945, Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, found an original copy of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in a Bavarianbank vault?
- ... that fat cells?
- ... that Ukraine is considered to have the greatest freedom of the press of all the former Soviet Union states?
- ... that after , he fell into debt and fled abroad?
- ... that the fossil squirrel Lagrivea is characterized by deep basins in its teeth?
- ... that Arvid G. Hansen edited both Arbeideren and Arbeidet, the latter in a time when Arbeidet struggled because Arbeideren was prioritized by their common owner?
- 12:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that F-16 Fighting Falcon fighting over Lebanonin the early 1980s?
- ... that October Club, a group that posed a threat to the Harleyadministration?
- ... that Shoeless Joe Jackson's Black Betsy broke the record for the most expensive baseball bat in history, selling for US$577,610 in 2001?
- ... that Venezuela's 2006 new police forcespecifically trained in human rights?
- ... that African-American elected to office in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
- ... that the May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were the deadliest to occur in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, since the 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing?
- ... that Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky was assassinated shortly after he defected?
- ... that The Bavi Edna Rivera is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church?
- ... that Alban Stepneth lost the 1571 Haverfordwest electiondespite polling more votes than his opponent John Garnons?
- 06:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that soprano Erminia Frezzolini (pictured) created the title role in Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco at La Scala in 1843 opposite her husband, Antonio Poggi, as Charles VII of France?
- ... that to India's dismay, China's Zangmu Dam will be the first on the Brahmaputra River?
- ... that according to folklore, dwarfs guard treasures hidden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's megalith tombs?
- ... that competitors of the Hamar newspaper Demokraten (later Arbeideren) refused to mention it by name in their columns?
- ... that ?
- ... that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Ireland, was awarded an RIAI Gold Medal for architecture?
- ... that, the week before he was scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II in a pre-game ceremony, University of Maryland football co-captain Gene Alderton lost a tooth—so the university had it replaced to ensure he could smile properly?
- ... that due to potential tax implications, Governor Wilford Bacon Hoggatt opposed granting territorial status to the District of Alaska?
- ... that Comintern Congress, worked as an informer for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizeimany years later?
- 00:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that two of the twelve 4-6-0T locomotives (E332 pictured) built for the Réseau Breton have been preserved?
- ... that Japanese pagodas, with very rare exceptions, have an odd number of tiers?
- ... that in 2009, rice fields, ranking third in the European Union?
- ... that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia?
- ... that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
- ... that Bob Topp helped the New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
- ... that 25 seats in the Pakistan-administered Kashmirand thus are officially vacant?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Treaty of Bonn (7 November 921) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine, the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler?
8 September 2010
- 18:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Appalachian cottontail (pictured) is unique among cottontails because it eats conifer needles?
- ... that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
- ... that the World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamaimpersonators in a match?
- ... that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
- ... that the National Conferencein 1975?
- ... that actress Margrethe II of Denmark?
- ... that the first five columns of Biblioteca Communale in Siena, are written in gold?
- ... that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
- ... that The Blazethree days later?
- 12:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Hōshō (pictured) served as a repatriation transport after the end of World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
- ... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
- ... that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway, Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament?
- ... that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
- ... that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
- ... that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
- ... that were shot off?
- ... that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar?
- ... that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas?
- 06:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Alaska Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark (pictured) was interested in rosecultivation and was President of the American Rose Society?
- ... that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
- ... that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II, professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag?
- ... that, despite her party's policy of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish?
- ... that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship, head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
- ... that Alice in Wonderlandwhen it went out of copyright in 1907?
- ... that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
- ... that actressCarola Reichenberger in 1913?
- ... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
- 00:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream (pictured) "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
- ... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster?
- ... that Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa, where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
- ... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
- ... that, for protesting the thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies?
- ... that, when completed, the Deriner Dam will be the tallest in Turkey?
- ... that Michael Puntervold, Magnus Nilssen, Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
- ... that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award?
- ... that the Aboriginal Memorial contains 200 coffins, but not a single dead person?
7 September 2010
- 18:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ramblers?
- ... that the ?
- ... that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II?
- ... that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
- ... that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road"?
- ... that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mairpublished her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
- ... that Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
- ... that, in 2009, the Haus des Meeres attracted a record-high number of visitors while attendance at other tourist attractions in Vienna abruptly dropped?
- ... that after John Cullen's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?
- 12:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes" (pictured)?
- ... that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
- ... that Cuban singer Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artistat age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
- ... that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutchgovernment to be "an insult to the Queen"?
- ... that Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitzain 1789?
- ... that Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
- ... that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
- ... that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo, Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal depositin Norway?
- ... that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?
- 06:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that "sailors' eyeballs" (pictured) is one of the largest single-celled organisms?
- ... that ?
- ... that invoking historical novelists into errors about a Paduanorigin?
- ... that the Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
- ... that tuition when he attended Duke University?
- ... that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
- ... that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
- ... that , to English gardens in 1788?
- ... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
- 00:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Maduru Oya (pictured), Wasgamuwa, Flood Plains, and Somawathiya national parks of Sri Lanka were established under the Mahaweli Development Project?
- ... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
- ... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
- ... that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
- ... that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ringevent led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
- ... that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
- ... that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
- ... that the Aztec Empire?
- ... that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?
6 September 2010
- 18:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that, in the southern counties of New England Cottontail(pictured) has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?
- ... that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
- ... that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
- ... that the first commander of the Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisationagents tortured his senior officers?
- ... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
- ... that curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
- ... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
- ... that Chinese harmonious society"?
- ... that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?
- 12:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Dutch publisher Berne Convention because he felt copyrightrestrictions stifled the industry?
- ... that the 1876 JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
- ... that former extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
- ... that the 11 Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam?
- ... that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
- ... that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
- ... that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
- ... that the Brazilian river War of the Triple Alliance?
- 06:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that one of Albany Plan of Union?
- ... that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
- ... that the heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
- ... that in 1880, Abel Dupetit Thouarsin 1840?
- ... that Ottoman rule of Macedonialasted for roughly 500 years?
- ... that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
- ... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
- ... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
- ... that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
- 00:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus (pictured) is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
- ... that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
- ... that Dissolution of the Monasteries?
- ... that the Brazilian river mooringin 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
- ... that tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonautsand was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
- ... that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
- ... that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
- ... that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
- ... that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?
5 September 2010
- 18:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that former slave Grosse Ile, Michigan?
- ... that the Manila Police District, with the motto "Manila's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis?
- ... that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
- ... that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson?
- ... that Palasë, on the Albanian Riviera, is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
- ... that William Russell Dudley?
- ... that Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
- ... that 1997 rebellion in Albania?
- ... that Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?
- 12:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that ?
- ... that Division Imen's basketball single game record?
- ... that Supreme Court's history of arbitrationjurisprudence"?
- ... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
- ... that the father of lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrencein May 1911?
- ... that Edward Kean coined the word "cowabunga" and tried to put a puppet President in the White House?
- ... that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
- ... that the town of Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
- ... that King of France toilet waterfor his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?
- 06:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Krka Bridge (pictured) comprises the longest span of all Croatian A1 motorway bridges, surpassing the Maslenica Bridge span by only 4 m (13 ft)?
- ... that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17?
- ... that the owners of blockade of the Gaza Strip?
- ... that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stemthat eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
- ... that breakbeats?
- ... that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners?
- ... that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vesthe "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
- ... that the Carnegie, a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
- ... that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?
- 00:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Black-necked Cranes as winter visitors from Tibet, in Bhutan, and in the process the cranes circle the Gangteng Monastery(pictured) thrice on arrival and again on departure?
- ... that Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championshipgold medal?
- ... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
- ... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
- ... that the same title?
- ... that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition?
- ... that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
- ... that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park, which only held 4,000?
- ... that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour?
4 September 2010
- 18:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that American photographer Amelia Van Buren was the subject of one of Thomas Eakins' most famous paintings (pictured)?
- ... that pumpkin chunkingcompetition?
- ... that U.S. Senator John Danforth?
- ... that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia?
- ... that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice, and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football"?
- ... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
- ... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins, had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg"?
- ... that two men, WWF's 2000 King of the Ringevent?
- ... that Nazi occupation of Poland?
- 12:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis (pictured) is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
- ... that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria, which left 12 people dead?
- ... that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
- ... that Major-General Humphrey Atherton's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
- ... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
- ... that assistslist?
- ... that the Brazilian river passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitáon 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
- ... that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race, Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
- ... that Cornish Saint Endelienta, a hermit, is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?
- 06:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Pescadores Campaign of the Sino-French War?
- ... that Emmanuel Rodríguez's boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee?
- ... that the first two chairmen of the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice?
- ... that the gulls of Ivory Gullcolonies?
- ... that cartoonist Suzy Spafford, creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo, has been drawing since she was three years old?
- ... that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
- ... that in June 2010, a 's fleet?
- ... that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
- ... that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zabas "demoniacally possessed"?
- 00:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Aqueduct of the Gier (pictured) was one of four Roman aqueducts supplying Lugdunum (Lyon, France)?
- ... that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
- ... that soon after the creation of the kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germanybegan?
- ... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge?
- ... that The Wizard of Oz?
- ... that the term "the war to end war" was first used to describe World War I?
- ... that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia?
- ... that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque?
- ... that John Ericsson-class monitorsin order to catch splinters?
3 September 2010
- 18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that with its Newfoundlandwas the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
- ... that Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltenderthree years in a row?
- ... that the newly described ?
- ... that ?
- ... that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
- ... that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
- ... that the French occupation of Tunisia?
- ... that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
- ... that Protestants?
- 12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that among Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
- ... that U.S. Navy?
- ... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
- ... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
- ... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
- ... that a newly constructed ?
- ... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
- ... that 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Simsdeveloped as a midfield scoring threat?
- ... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?
- 06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
- ... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centeruntil 1994?
- ... that Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
- ... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
- ... that both neo-Naziorganizations?
- ... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
- ... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
- ... that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
- ... that ?
- 00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the Benthoctopus levis (pictured) had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
- ... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
- ... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
- ... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
- ... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
- ... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
- ... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
- ... that internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
- ... that in mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?
2 September 2010
- 18:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
- ... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
- ... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbertwas described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
- ... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
- ... that owners of the tallest building?
- ... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
- ... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
- ... that in the 1765 slaves?
- ... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?
- 12:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Dora Ratjen (pictured) was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championshipsbecause he was a man?
- ... that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
- ... that 1977 Spanish general elections?
- ... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
- ... that in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
- ... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
- ... that mutations in the mental retardation?
- ... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
- ... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?
- 06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge (pictured) was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
- ... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
- ... that Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
- ... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
- ... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
- ... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
- ... that Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
- ... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
- ... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?
- 00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the eastern mole (pictured) is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
- ... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
- ... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
- ... that a co-founder of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
- ... that the Crescent Limitedtrain to plunge into the river below?
- ... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
- ... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
- ... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
- ... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?
1 September 2010
- 18:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that the Maslenica Bridge (pictured) carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
- ... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
- ... that, in 1944, the U-boatshe had just attacked?
- ... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
- ... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
- ... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
- ... that prior to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
- ... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?
- ... that regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?
- 12:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
- ... that 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
- ... that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
- ... that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
- ... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
- ... that John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekensthat was noted for its "malicious candour"?
- ... that the Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
- ... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
- ... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?
- 06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- ... that A-4 Skyhawk(pictured) on a combat mission?
- ... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
- ... that Yunnan Province?
- ... that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
- ... that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
- ... that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
- ... that while pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
- ... that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
- ... that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?
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- ... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville (pictured), the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
- ... that even though the first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
- ... that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
- ... that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
- ... that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
- ... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
- ... that Steinfeld CupChampionship game?
- ... that the wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
- ... that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Noisthrew a pig's head after him?