Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/December

24 December 2011

• 16:00, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  folding
  and weaving four identical strips of paper?
• ... that
  Motorbike Concerto, and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella: one in four parts, singing Praetorius
  , and the other in eight parts?
• ... that baseball pitcher Brad Boxberger was named to the Arizona Fall League's 2011 Top Prospects Team?
• ... that prior to its passage of the Human Rights Act 2003, Nunavut was the only Canadian jurisdiction without protections against discrimination for its gay, lesbian and bisexual residents?
• ... that the New York Yankees traded for Allie Reynolds on the advice of Joe DiMaggio?
• ... that the lesser long-tongued bat can extend its tongue for up to 50% of its own body length – even when its jaws are closed?

• ... that the
  The Family of Darius before Alexander (detail pictured) by Paolo Veronese sparked a debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
  ?
• ... that Kyra Markham, whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
• ... that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
• ... that Nemo Gaines is the only graduate of the United States Naval Academy to play in Major League Baseball?
• ... that in 2002 the Norwegian Poodle Topscore Contradiction was the first foreign dog to win Best in Show at the Crufts dog show in the UK?
• ... that Emmaus United Methodist Church has helped survivors of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi resettle in Albany, New York?

• 00:00, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that according to
  Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, Karol Hubert Rostworowski
  (pictured) is most remembered for his tragedy about the killing of an unrecognised son?
• ... that Egor the Animator, an early computer animation program released on February 6, 1996, by Sausage Software, was the first commercial software Java applet?
• ... that the lecture notes of Marcel Riesz were dubbed by physicist David Hestenes "the midwife of the rebirth" of Clifford algebras?
• ... that members of the Moldavian Kogălniceanu family contributed to the abolition of serfdom (1749), the abolition of slavery (1855), and several land reforms?
• ... that the seeds of poverty grass can remain in the soil for decades before they germinate?
• ... that according to New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the killing of Gadzhimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan, Russia, is "a lethal blow to press freedom"?
• ... that when George Harrison's song "Awaiting on You All" was originally released on his All Things Must Pass album, lyrics critical of the Pope were omitted from the lyric sheet?

23 December 2011

• 16:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the banded wedge shell (shell pictured) is consumed by gulls that later regurgitate the shell fragments in "gobbets" on the beach?
• ... that the Mayan archaeological site Baking Pot covered a 9-square-kilometre (3.5 sq mi) area?
• ... that 2011 Ohio Mr. Basketball Trey Burke has won both an Ohio High School Athletic Association State championship and an Amateur Athletic Union national championship?
• ... that over 110 species of vascular plants have been discovered on the small Eastern Isles, of the Isles of Scilly, UK?
• ... that
  DNA sequences
  at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
• ... that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a gulag and banishment to Kazakhstan, and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
• ... that Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Mocetto was long thought to have been born a generation before he actually was?

• 08:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the only death in the Action of 5 November 1813 (pictured) was accidental?
• ... that Polish actor and singer-songwriter
  Righteous among the Nations for helping Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman escape the Warsaw Ghetto
  ?
• ... that the life cycle of the no-brand crow may pass through several generations in a year?
• ... that over a 26-year span the Illinois Central Railroad's Land O'Corn used self-propelled cars, steam and finally diesel locomotives?
• ... that the Westminster Psalter contains what may be the earliest representation of Saint Christopher in English art, from about 1250?
• ... that Danish marathon champion Henning Larsen took up pigeon racing after his retirement from athletics?

• 00:00, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the extinct Miocene age maple Acer smileyi has been classified as closely related to the living Acer nipponicum (pictured)?
• ... that the
  Viking
  treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
• ... that the U.S.
  Patent Office 1836 fire
  occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
• ... that in 1907, statues of the Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
• ... that the Mountaineer was the first passenger train Amtrak operated over the Norfolk and Western Railway?
• ... that the head of the
  Indonesian Communist Party addressed Wongsonegoro
  so softly that other people had to "be his microphone"?

22 December 2011

• 16:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the songs of the
  Pied Butcherbird (pictured) have inspired and been incorporated into musical compositions of Henry Tate, Olivier Messiaen, Elaine Barkin, John Rodgers, and John Williamson
  ?
• ... that the
  King of Spain to the Spanish autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla
  ?
• ... that a band or singer can only qualify for the
  UK Indie Breakers Chart
  if they have never had a Top 20 hit on the UK's mainstream charts before?
• ... that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the Zambezi, the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill?
• ... that some 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Haiti in 1804 in an
  ethnic cleansing that targeted white people
  ?
• ... that what Matthew Morrison calls "the most spectacular [marriage] proposal I've ever seen" is scheduled to occur on Glee in January 2012?

• 08:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  California quail
  ?
• ... that Wilopo, in office only 26 days, is the shortest-serving Foreign Minister of Indonesia to date?
• ... that Arthur Duncan was a small Backscratcher in Chicago?
• ... that Gholhak Garden, a British diplomatic compound in northern Tehran, has been at the centre of diplomatic controversy between Britain and Iran?
• ... that The Naval and Military Magazine warned that people might not like the cut of Sir Henry Heathcote's jib?
• ... that a Russian state prosecutor
  proposes to put a commented translation of the Bhagavad Gita on the same list of banned materials as Hitler's Mein Kampf
  ?

• 00:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the British
  Convoy SC 122 through the largest convoy battle of World War II in March 1943 and was unsuccessfully attacked by U-441 and U-608
  ?
• ... that the version of
  The Met was said to be mostly painted by Henry Treffry Dunn
  ?
• ... that Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding featured Papa Celestin's final recording session before his death?
• ... that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping visually impaired people?
• ... that the
  ISPs
  to block access to suspect Web sites?
• ... that Captain Joseph Spear married two women named Grace Grant?

21 December 2011

• 16:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that when architect
  Salford, Greater Manchester (pictured), he re-used his design for St Mary's Church
  in Bryanston Square, London?
• ... that Ania Bien's 1986 photographic installation on the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam, which was destroyed in a fire that killed 33 people, included images alluding to the Holocaust?
• ... that the extinct Eocene maple Acer republicense is known from only one fossil seed?
• ... that brothers
  New Zealand Parliament in 1922 and defeated in 1928
  ?
• ... that the seeds of Bigelow's sedge can remain viable for two centuries?
• ... that Swedish hip hop artist Roffe Ruff has kept his identity secret to make listeners concentrate more on his music than his personality?

• 08:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the native swamp thistle (pictured) of eastern North America is the sole food source for the caterpillars of the swamp metalmark butterfly?
• ... that although Verle A. Pope was nicknamed "The Lion of St. Johns" for his oratory skills, he didn't start speaking until age seven?
• ... that the writs for the next New Zealand general election must be issued no later than 24 December 2014?
• ... that the mustache that Frenchy Bordagaray grew in 1936 is likely to have been the only mustache worn in Major League Baseball between 1914 and 1972?
• ... that the British destroyer HMS Havelock and her sister Hesperus attacked the wreck of U-246 on 30 April 1945 thinking that it was another German submarine which had been spotted earlier that day?
• ... that Euripides' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?

• 00:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the Théâtre de la Mode is an exhibit of small-scale fashion mannequins (examples pictured) crafted by Paris fashion designers to help revive the French fashion industry after World War II?
• ... that Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler bought the historic Newberry House so they would have a place in Aspen, Colorado, to watch televised Lakers games together?
• ... that Karl Marx's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism?
• ... that although William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, he was not even a delegate when the convention started?
• ... that Theodore M. Stuart, an end and halfback for the "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan in 1904 and 1905, was also the university's tennis champion?
• ... that the
  Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki contains an illustration of the regent
  extorting poems from two ladies?

20 December 2011

• 16:00, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that, when he died in Monte Carlo in 1962, the 16th Marquess of Winchester (pictured) was the oldest-ever member of the House of Lords?
• ... that the king of the Mataram Sultanate during the First Java War used the reconstruction of a terrace as an excuse for not providing soldiers?
• ... that architect Peter Beaven founded New Zealand's first heritage lobby group?
• ... that the application
  Read It Later
  obtained venture capital investments totaling $2.5 million in 2011?
• ... that the
  Princeton University alumnus
  in its membership in every year since it was established in 1789?
• ... that despite its name, the long-stolon sedge does not form stolons?

• 08:00, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Cherokee and other Native American tribes used river cane (pictured) to make items including blowguns, spears, flutes and candles?
• ... that The Wall Street Journal called the scandal involving Olympus Corporation "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history"?
• ... that although St Silas' Church in Blackburn, Lancashire, was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
• ... that mezzo-soprano Martina Koppelstetter has recorded Lieder by Rudi Spring for BR, Bavarian Radio?
• ... that
  Very Fast Death Factor
  , which leads to fast death by paralysis?
• ... that
  reason of insanity
  , later received a "hero's funeral"?

• 00:00, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  George III (pictured) shows the king with an adoring spaniel
  ?
• ... that a small volume 2 of The Young Men's Magazine written by a teenaged Charlotte Brontë sold for £690,850?
• ... that the seeds of six-weeks grama grass are eaten by desert kangaroo rats?
• ... that Gavin Bryars's Doctor Ox's Experiment is the third opera to be based on Jules Verne's science fiction novella "Dr. Ox's Experiment"?
• ... that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole Stefan Banach?
• ... that one of the highest-ranking generals in China was injured in battle nine times?

19 December 2011

• 16:00, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Rossetti overpainted the face of his former mistress in his painting of Lady Lilith (detail pictured) with the face of one of his later models?
• ... that a
  initial interest confusion
  "?
• ... that the vulnerable buttercup Ranunculus allenii was first collected from Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula in 1881?
• ... that the music video for the Tanglish song "Why This Kolaveri Di" had more than 10 million YouTube hits in the two weeks after its posting?
• ... that Perry Dorrestein's first start for the Michigan Wolverines football team was in a Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game?
• ... that Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints' Church, Hertford, as "completely alien" in Hertfordshire?

• 08:00, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that in zoos the
  Scarlet Ibis (pictured) is often fed beetroots and carrots to maintain its plumage coloring, which in the wild comes from carotenoid
  pigments in shrimp and shellfish?
• ... that the galaxy
  very high energy gamma rays
  ?
• ... that after directing several episodes of Glee, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed large choreographed musical television advertisements for Chevrolet and T-Mobile?
• ... that The Relaxation Response describes two steps as essential: a passive attitude and a mental device to keep the mind from wandering?
• ... that
  Stalin's secret police
  at age 23?
• ... that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?

• 00:00, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that General George S. Patton (pictured) praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II?
• ... that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
• ... that Jean-Claude Bajeux was Haiti's culture minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him?
• ... that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii?
• ... that
  USA Today All-USA second team selection along with fellow Michigan matriculant Ryan Mallett
  ?
• ... that the ancient Greek drama
  Broadway musical titled Lysistrata Jones
  about a basketball team and its cheerleaders?

18 December 2011

• 16:00, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that lithographer Adolph Friedländer's printshop produced over 9,000 posters (example pictured) for artists, magicians and circus and vaudeville performers?
• ... that in
  murder
  of crows?
• ... that the dance performed during the Kundum Festival of the Ahanta people of Ghana originated from dwarfs?
• ... that the
  Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of show trial
  transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
• ... that Euripides' posthumously produced lost play Alcmaeon in Corinth was part of a trilogy that won first prize at the Dionysia in Athens?
• ... that decisional balance sheets are used to help people with addictive behaviours decide to make changes in their lives?

• 08:15, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that 26 new
  MPs were elected to the 50th New Zealand Parliament, including Julie Anne Genter (pictured) and Denise Roche (both Greens), Rino Tirikatene (Labour), Maggie Barry, Paul Goldsmith and Alfred Ngaro (National), and Richard Prosser and Denis O'Rourke (both NZ First
  )?
• ... that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean?
• ... that comedian Graham Norton won his first comedy award after standing in as a guest presenter on The Jack Docherty Show while Docherty was on holiday?
• ... that after suffering from
  polio as a youth, Maria Farida Indrati went on to become the first female justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
  ?
• ... that a month after its launch, the Facebook game CastleVille had amassed 26.6 million players?

• 00:30, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Michelangelo's Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (pictured) is believed to be the earliest existent European drawing of a nude female model?
• ... that, in 1987, German ice hockey executive
  Green Book
  ?
• ... that former Indonesian Minister of the Interior Hazairin released his own currency?
• ... that in 1963, a whole farm—including machinery, staff and a pedigree herd of
  Beeching Axe
  ?
• ... that
  blackfellows hemp is associated with turpentine
  ?
• ... that according to The People's Book of Records, the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?

17 December 2011

• 16:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Dutch clergyman
  Dutch colonialism
  and slavery in the East and West Indies?
• ... that the British destroyer HMS Hurricane rescued 451 survivors from the passenger-cargo liner SS City of Nagpur and landed them at Greenock, Scotland, on 1 May 1941?
• ... that the aerial photograph of
  Srivijaya archaeological park
  ?
• ... that
  NASCAR East Series
  champion, started racing at the age of 8?
• ... that the perennial herb Frasera caroliniensis can take up to thirty years to flower?
• ... that "Red Lipstick" was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and "Wait Your Turn"?

• 09:00, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Yongjia Xuanjue (pictured) is believed to have written the 8th-century Song of Enlightenment, a text still popular with Zen practitioners nowadays?
• ... that the ideology of Ba'athism was developed mostly in Syria by Zaki al-Arsuzi, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Michel Aflaq, who is considered the founder of Ba'athist thought, as a way to unite the Arab world into one nation?
• ... that Jerry Blackwell's Southern Championship Wrestling was the last "territorial" wrestling promotion in the U.S. state of Georgia?
• ... that
  Bill Bellamy, who was awarded the Military Cross
  for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
• ... that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million?
• ... that
  E4 television series The Inbetweeners
  ?

• 00:00, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that in
  Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu (relief sculpture pictured) were sent by the god Enki, from Dilmun
  to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
• ... that poet W. H. Auden said of the letters of Vincent van Gogh "there is scarcely one ... which I ... do not find fascinating"?
• ... that Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy?
• ... that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
• ... that Koji Mitsui was unsuccessfully posted to Major League Baseball twice in one offseason?
• ... that Kenneth Stewart Cole, an organizer of the Biophysical Society's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics"?

16 December 2011

• 16:00, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the resilience of coral reefs may be improved to the point where they can resist coral bleaching (example pictured) if they are seeded with thermally-resistant zooxanthellae?
• ... that Lost in Paradise is considered Vietnam's first gay film?
• ... that the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake badly damaged the Sans-Souci Palace built by Henri Christophe?
• ... that the 2013 United States federal budget may impose a 23% cut on the defense budget due to the Budget Control Act of 2011, according to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta?
• ... that Canadian mystery writer Eric Wilson based the formula for his Tom and Liz Austen books on the preferences of his eighth-grade students?
• ... that the
  screw propeller
  ?

• 08:00, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  arid zone mangrove forests
  in the world?
• ... that Dolphin D. Overton became a flying ace in just four days during the Korean War, the fastest in history for a jet fighter pilot?
• ... that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street, the Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
• ... that Michigan Wolverines American football linebacker Kenny Demens had 11 tackles in the 2007 Michigan High School Athletic Association championship game?
• ... that livestock eating white locoweed develop a neurological syndrome known as locoism?
• ... that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to be "channelling" Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper Neneh Cherry on "Cockiness (Love It)" in a "pseudo-melodic" impersonation?

• 00:00, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that of the 800 men who received
  Battle of Aubers Ridge
  ?
• ... that the song "Cosas del Amor" has been performed by several female singers including Vikki Carr, Ana Gabriel, Milly Quezada, Jenni Rivera, Olga Tañón and Yuri?
• ... that Adolphe Braun, whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
• ... that the failed 2010 Brown–Kaufman amendment aimed to break up the largest U.S. banks based on Alan Greenspan's idea that "If they're too big to fail, they're too big"?
• ... that Besar Mertokusumo has been called the first Indonesian advocate?
• ... that Paleodictyon nodosum made use of a new source of energy not dependent on the Sun?

15 December 2011

• 16:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the annual European
  theatre festival Ruhrfestspiele (main venue pictured), which collaborates with companies such as The Old Vic
  , originated in a coal shortage in 1946?
• ... that Ryan Van Bergen was ranked among the top-20 high school football players nationally as both a tight end and defensive end?
• ... that
  Dutch colonialism in his thesis on the agrarian system of Surakarta
  ?
• ... that Count Grog's Southern Championship Wrestling once promoted a benefit show in Louisburg, North Carolina, from which all the proceeds went to a seriously injured wrestler?
• ... that the ideas of 17th-century Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
• ... that architects Fisher & Fisher, the sibling partnership of Arthur and William Ellsworth Fisher, designed the oil company town of Parco, Wyoming, in a unified Spanish colonial style to foster community?

• 08:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  Portrait of Balthasar Castiglione (pictured) was admired and copied by Titian, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens and Henri Matisse
  ?
• ... that the coastline from
  Large Blue
  butterfly, which was declared nationally extinct in 1979?
• ... that
  Thomas Crawford captured Dumbarton Castle with ropes and scaling ladders
  under cover of darkness?
• ... that future Minister of Justice
  Dutch seized Yogyakarta
  ?
• ... that in December 2011, the Home Affordable Refinance Program was expanded so many U.S. homeowners can refinance their mortgage even if their home value is underwater?
• ... that Michigan Wolverines American football cornerback J. T. Floyd made his first two interceptions against Notre Dame, but in different seasons?

• 00:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Georgia O'Keeffe praised her art teacher John Vanderpoel, whose book The Human Figure is a standard reference for art students (example drawing pictured), as "one of the few real teachers I have known"?
• ... that some music critics hear echoes of work by
  Leslie Gore in Selena's song "Missing My Baby", which was featured on Entre a Mi Mundo
  ?
• ... that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro, who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
• ... that Chief Wahoo McDaniel came out of retirement in 1996 to wrestle Death & Destruction in a tag team match?
• ... that, while still a schoolboy, Rhys Morgan led an effort to raise awareness of the risks of the alternative medicine product Miracle Mineral Supplement?
• ... that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana, is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?

14 December 2011

• 16:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the rare magic mushroom Psilocybe tampanensis (pictured) was found after its discoverer skipped a "boring taxonomic conference" to go mushroom hunting?
• ... that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
• ... that Yad Sarah, the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
• ... that the cliffs and offshore rocks from
  Black-legged Kittiwakes in Cornwall
  , UK?
• ... that
  FBI
  informant?
• ... that
  Bargain" and 1981 song "Don't Let Go the Coat" were both inspired by Indian mystic Meher Baba
  ?

• 08:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  2011 general election
  ?
• ... that before Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
• ... that after giving seven days of speeches before 500
  Jagadguru
  (world teacher) at the age of 34?
• ... that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
• ... that Three Sisters, a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, played for only two months in London in 1934, and didn't debut in America until 2011?
• ... that 30-to-120-centimetre (12 to 47 in) tall hairy pagodas can be found throughout eastern North America?

• 00:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that an abolitionist pastor at New York's First Baptist Church of Tarrytown (pictured) was succeeded by a Confederate veteran who had walked to the church from Alabama?
• ... that Kazimierz Karwowski holds the record for being elected to the most Sejms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
• ... that the leaves of the beard-heath Leucopogon amplexicaulis surround the stem?
• ... that the Glee episode "Hold On to Sixteen" featured covers of songs by Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and The Jackson 5?
• ... that the sea whip, a colonial soft coral, produces chemicals which prevent algae, barnacles and bryozoans from growing on it?
• ... that the
  mixed-breed dog Tich was awarded the animal's Victoria Cross for devotion to duty with the King's Royal Rifle Corps
  during the Second World War?

13 December 2011

• 16:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Ghirlandaio's An Old Man and his Grandson (detail pictured) portrays a man with a deformed nose sympathetically, in contrast to theories of the era by which external deformities imply character defects?
• ... that the Left Column theater troupe left Germany on the eve of Nazism only to lose many members to the Stalinist purges?
• ... that Wroniec, a dark fairy tale by Jacek Dukaj, was a taboo-breaking take on martial law in Poland, which was in effect from 13 December 1981?
• ... that
  religiously observant Jew who was born in the West Bank
  ?
• ... that during Royce White's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive basketball, he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the piano?
• ... that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin?

• 08:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Miró's Dona i Ocell (pictured), a sculpture in Barcelona, was decorated with colour by ceramicist Joan Gardy Artigas?
• ... that
  player-coach
  ?
• ... that jewel beetle larvae live in galls on the stems of the Australian shrub Daviesia corymbosa?
• ... that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake?
• ... that Juan Martínez de Recalde was second-in-command of the Spanish Armada?
• ... that
  double-crossing
  his own wrestlers?

• 00:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  flotsam and even whales
  ?
• ... that the
  Grammy Award-winning album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra brought bachata music
  into the mainstream in the Dominican Republic?
• ... that seven of the twenty-nine times when
  AP Poll
  ?
• ... that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, opened in 1889, is the oldest purpose-built museum of portraits in the world?
• ... that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from debate moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News?
• ... that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company's slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?

12 December 2011

• 16:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Thomas Harrison's first commission was for Skerton Bridge (pictured), the first large public bridge in England to have a flat roadway, and his last commission was for Grosvenor Bridge, which has the longest masonry arch in Britain?
• ... that singer
  Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song "Dear Jessie
  "?
• ... that efforts by
  water reuse
  ?
• ... that Dutch Antillean sprinter Churandy Martina would have won silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics if he had not been disqualified?
• ... that
  engraver
  for the state of Rhode Island?
• ... that several pelagic gooseneck barnacles were once found attached to an American crocodile?

• 08:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Voltaire's tragedy Olimpie premiered in 1762 and Henze's opera Elegie für junge Liebende in 1961 at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen (pictured)?
• ... that the
  rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens
  ?
• ... that
  industrial designers
  felt affronted by an earlier draft?
• ... that the
  Tonhalle, a concert hall in Zurich praised for its acoustics, was inaugurated by Johannes Brahms
  conducting in 1895?
• ... that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs annually receives $1.7 billion of research and development funding for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development?
• ... that the mother of
  Korean American composer Donald Sur was a picture bride
  ?

• 00:00, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Major General Alfred K. Flowers (pictured) is the longest serving airman in United States Air Force history?
• ... that the Harrington Hump has been built for railway stations in the United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
• ... that the Rihanna song "Where Have You Been" contains compositional elements of Geoff Mack's "I've Been Everywhere"?
• ... that the Jacksonville headquarters of the Atlantic National Bank was the tallest building in Florida when it was completed in 1909?
• ... that the seeds of
  bushfire
  ?
• ... that the
  Four Square Laundry in Belfast was a front company for a British Army
  intelligence unit?

11 December 2011

• 16:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the coloration of the veins on flower petals of the wood shamrock (pictured) is intensified at lower elevations?
• ... that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup?
• ... that Wyoming's Secretary of State Max Maxfield won an award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Web Development' from WebAwards in 2009?
• ... that Tadeusz Wrona, who safely landed LOT Flight 16 from New York to Warsaw after the landing gear failed to deploy, was awarded one of Poland's most prestigious awards?
• ... that the Supreme Court of
  2011 presidential election and barred its winner
  from running again?
• ... that although award-winning Indonesian director
  right
  ?

• 08:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  Pulitzer Prize-winning book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is often compared to Walden, a work on which author Annie Dillard
  (pictured) based her master's thesis?
• ... that
  250cc World Champion after a 0.007 second win over Fonsi Nieto at Phillip Island
  ?
• ... that the role of football coach
  Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk
  while shopping?
• ... that the 2000 concert recorded for Ravi Shankar's live album Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 occurred 62 years after his first performance at Carnegie Hall?
• ... that the 1971 Łódź strikes were the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist Poland that ended with workers' success?
• ... that a junior officer on the USS Ancon refused King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot"?

• 00:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that since its 16th-century closure, Bilsham Chapel (pictured) in West Sussex has been two cottages, a shed and now a house?
• ... that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi) of water routes in the Congo Basin?
• ... that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
• ... that the British destroyer HMS Basilisk evacuated a total of 695 men on 31 May 1940 from Dunkirk before she was sunk by German aircraft the next day?
• ... that ablastin, a rat antibody, prevents the parasite Trypanosoma lewisi from reproducing, yet keeps it in adult form?
• ... that Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Chesbro received his nickname "Happy Jack" while working in a psychiatric facility?

10 December 2011

• 16:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the giant plumose anemone (pictured) can grow to a height of one metre (39 inches)?
• ... that
  Papon appeared on music documentary TV series The Dewarists with Rabbi Shergill
  and recorded a song "Khule Da Rabb"?
• ... that the newly discovered Puhinui Craters form the only cluster of three small maars in the Auckland volcanic field?
• ... that
  Russian Revolution of 1917 up to the Polish–Soviet War
  ?
• ... that
  Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government
  by some Hawaiian chiefs?
• ... that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song "
  Madonna
  's memory of her mother's funeral?

• 08:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Caractacus (pictured), winner of the 1862 Epsom Derby, avoided disqualification because of the weight of his bridle?
• ... that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
• ... that Jermain Street in Albany has the largest contiguous group of Lustron houses in New York state?
• ... that eating seeds of the
  chukar partridge
  to have diarrhea?
• ... that
  field goal in a NCAA college football
  game?
• ... that the electoral system for the
  1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid
  ?

• 00:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that French photographer Constant Puyo was an advocate of pictorialism, aiming to emulate painting in his photographic images (example pictured)?
• ... that the just-world hypothesis is a cognitive bias that has negative social effects but positive mental health effects?
• ... that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
• ... that when Mitch McGary committed to be a member of the 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team their recruiting class jumped from below 25th to 5th?
• ... that The Who songs "Getting in Tune," "Going Mobile" and "Love Ain't for Keeping" were all originally conceived for Pete Townshend's abandoned Lifehouse project?
• ... that the first words of the first radio broadcast in Swedish history, transmitted from Boden Fortress Radio Bunker, were the profanity "jävlar anamma"?

9 December 2011

• 16:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that painter and poet Fritz Graßhoff (pictured) published the collection of poetry Halunkenpostille in 1947, made money with hits for singers Lale Andersen and Hans Albers, and translated poems from Latin and Swedish?
• ... that the song "
  UK Singles Chart
  ?
• ... that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
• ... that Heinrich Wiegand refused an appointment as State Secretary for the Colonies to remain head of the Norddeutscher Lloyd?
• ... that Sevmorput is the only nuclear-powered cargo ship currently in service?
• ... that the dark-scaled knight is in danger of extinction in the Netherlands?

• 08:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the mansion that became the Weehawken Public Library (pictured) was spared demolition during construction of the Lincoln Tunnel?
• ... that 94 known Category 4 hurricanes have occurred in the Pacific Ocean since 1900?
• ... that the 10,000 year old
  peat bog
  ?
• ... that the
  AP Poll
  , leaving only seven schools that have never been ranked in it?
• ... that the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake was a result of west–east extension within the NW Himalayas?
• ... that The Who sang about a tattoo of "a lady in the nude"?

• 00:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel (pictured) in East Sussex
  , so stables for 40 horses were built at the back?
• ... that Ed Walker, who reenlisted in the U.S. Army specifically to go to Alaska, was the last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats?
• ... that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as Fanø, Læsø, and in parts of Western Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
• ... that in 1972, foggy conditions meant rescue crews at
  involved in a crash
  until 28 minutes after the accident?
• ... that the granite gilia can grow in lava-based soils?
• ... that the builder of
  Countess of Northumberland of materials from the demolished Warkworth Castle
  to build it?

8 December 2011

• 16:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that some important "bronzes" (example pictured) aren't bronze at all, but copper electrotypes?
• ... that
  Poland and Lithuania, also wanted to establish a Protestant national church
  ?
• ... that Paris Mountain was named for the Indian trader Richard Pearis?
• ... that East German politician Gustav Sobottka lost both of his sons; one died in a Communist prison and one shortly after liberation from a Nazi concentration camp?
• ... that the Gazi Race, named in honor of Gazi Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Turkish Republic, was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar?
• ... that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing
  palazzo trousers or culottes
  as evening wear?

• 08:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Norwegian skiing pioneers Fritz R. Huitfeldt and Karl Roll were both active members of the exclusive ski club Ull, named after the Norse deity Ullr (pictured)?
• ... that
  electrical engineer, taught Morse code
  to thousands of sailors free of charge?
• ... that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball?
• ... that an airliner version of the supersonic B-58 bomber was expected to carry 52 passengers at over Mach 2?
• ... that a study conducted by the
  Jesus Christ
  would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"?
• ... that controversial American entomologist Alexandre Arsène Girault once described a new species of wasp from the planet Jupiter?

• 00:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the Glenorchy Parish Church (pictured) and the burial place of the Macgregor clan are both located on an islet in the River Orchy?
• ... that
  NCAA Division II college football
  ?
• ... that the "unassuming" villain of The X-Files episode "2Shy" has been compared to those from the earlier episodes "Squeeze" and " Irresistible"?
• ... that American composer William Arms Fisher was called "a worthy pupil and disciple of Antonín Dvořák" in the February 1927 issue of The Crisis?
• ... that in 1938, the
  alleged Hitler Youth Conspiracy
  , which was later found baseless?
• ... that the roots of the bean flower alpine sweetvetch are edible and taste like young carrots?

7 December 2011

• 16:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  Cornish Chough
  (pictured)?
• ... that Indian cricketer Ibrahim Khaleel recently set a record for the number of wicket-keeper dismissals in a first-class match, taking 14 of his team's 20 wickets?
• ... that the progressive feminist magazine
  On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights
  ?
• ... that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
• ... that
  prisoners of war
  from abuse at the hands of their British captors?
• ... that the
  Arab governor of Safed offered money to persuade rabbi Joseph Saragossi
  not to leave the town?

• 08:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  All Saints Episcopal Church (pictured) is the oldest wooden-framed church in the city of Chicago
  ?
• ... that Dick Attlesey set two world records in the 110-meter hurdles in 1950 and was the gold medalist in this event at the first Pan American Games?
• ... that one pair of tickets for Children in Need Rocks Manchester was auctioned by BBC Radio Jersey for £2010?
• ... that, in 1986,
  U.S. policies in Central America
  ?
• ... that
  point
  performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
• ... that according to ancient rhetorician
  Amphiaraus
  , a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?

• 00:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  D.E. Frantz House (pictured) is the only Victorian house in Aspen, Colorado, that still has its oriel window
  ?
• ... that the
  architectural revival
  described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?
• ... that although the
  Michigan–Michigan State basketball rivalry
  has had 167 games, the two teams have never played while both were ranked in the top 10?
• ... that when you can see a person speaking, sometimes you hear something different than what is being said because the brain cannot tell whether it is seeing or hearing speech?
• ... that Lance Dunbar led the North Texas Mean Green football team in rushing yards in 2009 and 2010?
• ... that Bart Millard intended the music to the song "Word of God Speak" to mirror its overall lyrical theme?

6 December 2011

• 16:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the
  Guadalquivir river
  ?
• ... that the
  red sheep of the Maasai
  have been studied for their potential to save farmers hundreds of millions of dollars?
• ... that four judges were chosen in the
  2011 election for the International Court of Justice, but the UN General Assembly and Security Council
  deadlocked on the fifth?
• ... that engineer and inventor
  William Mason worked for Remington, Colt, and Winchester
  in the 19th century and patented 125 inventions?
• ... that TAT Technologies Ltd. was established in 1969 in response to a French arms embargo that principally affected Israel?
• ... that the black velvet bolete is not the false one?

• 08:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that fish-knives inscribed with Elokeshi's name were sold after her husband decapitated her with a fish-knife (pictured) following her adulterous affair with a Hindu head-priest?
• ... that Vice President Garret Hobart not only advised President William McKinley, but also invested part of his salary for him?
• ... that Rabbi
  dynasty
  more than 13 years after the death of the previous Rebbe?
• ... that "Talk That Talk" is the third musical collaboration between Rihanna and Jay-Z?
• ... that
  Scottish League XI
  ?
• ... that
  ultrahigh energy gamma-rays can be detected by MAGIC
  ?

• 00:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that
  maté tea served in a traditional gourd cup (pictured) should never be stirred with the straw according to Argentine tea culture
  etiquette?
• ... that
  brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War
  ?
• ... that
  1943
  ?
• ... that adolescents with Excessive Internet video Game Play (EIGP) addiction have high reward dependence scores?
• ... that the bicolor lespedeza and Chinese bushclover are invasive species that can suppress growth of native plants in some areas of the United States?
• ... that Peaches Golding, the first black High Sheriff of Bristol, England, is the daughter of Charlie Brady Hauser, who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in North Carolina?

5 December 2011

• 16:00, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that if eaten by a pregnant cow, the silky lupine (pictured) can cause the unborn calf to be deformed?
• ... that
  bar mitzvah
  , and remained there for nearly 70 years?
• ... that baseball historian John Thorn has credited Doc Adams with inventing the concept of the shortstop position?
• ... that Chrisye faced accusations of plagiarism due to similarities between the title song of his album Hip Hip Hura and "Footloose"?
• ... that Rajinikanth was given the "Superstar" title through the film Bairavi?
• ... that the U.S. Navy's Sparoair sounding rocket could be launched by any aircraft capable of launching the Sparrow air-to-air missile?

• 08:00, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that General of Division Samuel-François, Baron Lhéritier (pictured) was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo while leading a combined division of cuirassiers and dragoons?
• ... that the Great Fire of Pittsburgh in 1845 destroyed a third of the city, including a bank that was thought to be fireproof?
• ... that
  Navajo cradleboards are made with a Ponderosa pine frame with buckskin
  laces?
• ... that Red Moor in Cornwall, UK, was likely to have been named for the loose tin-bearing gravels found and mined in the area?
• ... that
  Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year
  award, despite being too young to compete at the start of the season?
• ... that the Glee episode "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" shares its title with an original song performed in the episode?

• 00:00, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the central
  cage in M. C. Escher's 1948 woodcut Stars has the shape of a compound of three octahedra
  (pictured)?
• ... that Roger Craig holds the record for largest one-day winnings on the regular version of Jeopardy! and is thought to have won the largest single Daily Double prize in the show's history?
• ... that the use of
  Persian poetry
  means that a text may have a surface meaning different from the one actually intended?
• ... that
  Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
  ?
• ... that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?
• ... that while normally associated with rockets and jet engines, shock diamonds can also be produced by artillery, volcanoes, and quasars?

4 December 2011

• 16:00, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that in the 16th century the
  Caffa in Crimea
  ?
• ... that an
  Today Is A Beautiful Day
  ?
• ... that 49 people died and 135 were injured in the 1979 Warsaw gas explosion?
• ... that
  Eng Foong Ho v. AG held that the Singapore Constitution was not breached when a Chinese temple was compulsorily acquired
  and an Indian mission and a Christian church nearby were not?
• ... that the extinct
  vine maple
  ?
• ... that after HMS Porcupine was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS Pork and HMS Pine?

• 08:00, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that bird's nest ferns (pictured) grow in trees?
• ... that a critic's calling The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song "Garageland"?
• ... that the false toadflax has an orange drupe?
• ... that when Jimmy Iovine asked will.i.am who he wanted to collaborate with on "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)", will mentioned Mick Jagger because he felt it would never happen?
• ... that
  One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, called "the funniest book you will see this year", has references to works by Charles Dickens and Samuel Pepys
  ?
• ... that
  Great Britain football squad for the 1956 Olympic Games
  , for which, as a professional, he was ineligible?

• 00:00, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the dotted gayfeather (pictured) is a source of nectar for the rare Pawnee montane skipper butterfly?
• ... that anarchists from the
  1999 Seattle World Trade Organization Conference
  ?
• ... that 211 hectares (520 acres) of woodland near Peterborough, UK, has recorded 462 species of plants?
• ... that a 2007 analysis of
  devastated in 2011
  ?
• ... that the late Miocene whale Joumocetus shimizui is the third oldest Cetotheriid known?
• ... that Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first female driver in Formula One, finished in a career best of last place despite being told by five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio that she was "too fast"?

3 December 2011

• 16:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the Red Cross (pictured) is a kitchen stove?
• ... that the acoustics at Tarrytown Music Hall in Westchester County, New York, are so good that the Canadian Brass did not need amplification for a 2009 concert?
• ... that Josh Romanski's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer the same day he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team?
• ... that the stone fireplace that
  Mary Jane Colter designed for the Bright Angel Lodge incorporates the rock strata of the Grand Canyon
  in correct order?
• ... that Polish fashion blogger Glamourina participated in the Warsaw Fashion Weekend?
• ... that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the
  AFL–CIO President George Meany
  stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
• ... that
  ribbon worm found in a recreational fishing pond in Lancashire, England, is the county's only endemic
  species?

• 08:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the historic Lake of the Woods Ranger Station was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps at the north end of Lake of the Woods (pictured) near the crest of the Cascade Range in southern Oregon?
• ... that upon the death of
  St. Louis, Missouri, in October 2011, the institution of Chief Rabbi
  of a city in the United States came to an end?
• ... that the extinct Eocene maples Acer hillsi and Acer stewarti are distinguished by how inflated the nut is?
• ... that the
  4th district special election of 2003 as the most fraudulent in the history of the Philippines' Isabela province
  ?
• ... that
  2002 Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament
  championship game?
• ... that the earnings from Isha Life's Chennai Wellness Centre are channeled into supporting education in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
• ... that in the first phase of the defunct
  Straight, Incorporated, teenage clients were led around by their belt
  loops?

• 00:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the Jurassic conifer Araucaria mirabilis (cone pictured) of Argentina may have been a primary food for sauropods?
• ... that otium, a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
• ... that
  Colt Peacemaker, later became chair of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University
  ?
• ... that the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced subduction for over 200 million years?
• ... that Australian Paralympic medalist Elizabeth Wright published a paper about her prosthesis?
• ... that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of Hotel Lux?
• ... that "
  Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", described as one of Squeeze
  's catchiest songs, is based on a band member's experiences at a holiday camp?

2 December 2011

• 16:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Siegfried Strohbach composed a program of music for Advent for the Knabenchor Hannover, performed today at the Marktkirche (pictured)?
• ... that in 506 BCE,
  Shen Yin Shu, wounded battling against Wu general Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War
  , asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
• ... that the key inspiration for
  Palestinian-American performance poet Remi Kanazi was seeing Def Poetry Jam on Broadway
  ?
• ... that during the
  armoured cruiser Bayan was hit by a shell from the dreadnought SMS König
  , starting a fire that was not extinguished until the next day?
• ... that South Africa were coached by former New Zealand international Paul Matete at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup?
• ... that the
  native Africans from taking strike action
  ?
• ... that Dude Harlino's given name is derived from his birthdate, 2 December?

• 08:00, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Manuel Belgrano handed the command of the Army of the North to José de San Martín in 1814 (meeting pictured)?
• ... that the 1936 movie Speed was the first film in which James Stewart had a major starring role?
• ... that the
  made tea to treat diabetes also provides ingredients for modern pharmacology
  ?
• ... that Russell J. Rickford moved into his parents' garage to write a biography of Betty Shabazz?
• ... that the
  Brooklands
  will effectively be wiped off the map?
• ... that, according to activist
  Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin promised self-determination to the Romanians of Transnistria
  , provided they "drown the hell out of the Romanian king"?
• ... that Australian Paralympians Karni Liddell, Branka Pupovac and Hamish MacDonald were all photographed for a nude calendar?

• 00:10, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the anti-religious campaign culminating in the
  Polish Roman Catholic
  priests in just one year?
• ... that, according to Ho v. Taflove, ideas are not subject to protection under the copyright law of the United States?
• ... that Samoilă Mârza took the only photographs of the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia that proclaimed the Union of Transylvania with Romania on this day in 1918?
• ... that You Are the Apple of My Eye is the directorial debut of Taiwanese author Giddens Ko, who also wrote the story on which this film is based?
• ... that Sam Nujoma, first president of the Republic of Namibia, spoke at the funeral of Michael Hishikushitja?
• ... that a year after the
  Kiev, some of its troops were reluctantly holding the Trans-Siberian Railway for the Whites
  ?
• ... that
  Odie, Saint John the Baptist, The Pink Panther, and a porn star
  ?

1 December 2011

• 16:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that Gerrit Beneker's 1918 poster "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" (pictured) sold over three million copies?
• ... that, when
  Democratic Union Party
  was the only local group to campaign for the abolition of regional autonomy?
• ... that Mark Antony aided Herod the Great's siege of Jerusalem?
• ... that Rodion Markovits became "the best-known Transylvanian writer" with his account of World War I captivity and survival in the Russian Far East?
• ... that although
  points six times during the 2010–11 college basketball season
  , he also scored 0 points three times?
• ... that
  Odessan Jews targeted by Romanian troops during the 1941 Massacre
  ?
• ... that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid, about Sid Vicious trying to convince Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?

• 08:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that, six years after shocking the public with his primitivist paintings in 1910, Ion Theodorescu-Sion (self portrait pictured) was employed to depict the Romanian Armed Forces in action?
• ... that HMS Blanche was the first British destroyer sunk by the Germans during the Second World War?
• ... that Nicolae Fleva, who helped prepare Romania's independence in 1877, allegedly sold his loyalty to the Central Powers in 1915?
• ... that Lee Patterson portrayed newspaper editor Joe Riley as a member of the original cast of the American soap opera One Life to Live?
• ... that the 1949 MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 crash was, at the time, the worst civil aviation accident in Western Australia and the third-worst in Australia?
• ... that the
  Cathedral of the Unity of the People in Alba Iulia was built to commemorate the Union of Transylvania with Romania
  , in the city where the union was proclaimed?
• ... that Australian wheelchair racer Angie Ballard was named the Female Athlete of the Games for the 1999 Australia Junior Wheelchair Nationals?

• 00:00, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

• ... that the invertebrate amphioxus (pictured) serves as a model organism for studying the development of vertebrates?
• ... that Australian Paralympic medalist Marayke Jonkers won Cosmopolitan's "fun fearless female award" in 2007?
• ... that publisher and collector George Arthur Plimpton is the namesake of "one of the world's most famous mathematical artifacts"?
• ... that the
  Austro-Hungarian scout cruiser Helgoland was ceded to Italy on 19 September 1920 as part of the peace settlements that ended World War I
  ?
• ... that CNN Radio news anchor Stan Case was also a licensed attorney in the U.S. state of Georgia?
• ... that in 1998,
  Wings' 1976 songs "She's My Baby" and "Warm and Beautiful" for string quartet for concerts in memory of his late wife Linda
  ?