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30 June 2012

16:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that St Lawrence's Church, Appleby (pictured), in Cumbria, contains the monuments of Lady Anne Clifford and her mother Margaret, Countess of Cumberland?
... that the Gay Women's Alternative in Washington, D.C., began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971?
... that baseball pitcher Tyler Thornburg has drawn comparisons to Cy Young Award-winner Tim Lincecum?
... that a "powerful chorus" on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount forms the core of Bach's third cantata for Leipzig, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24?
... that while the Oman women's national football team
has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
... that Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville described Casey Elliott as "a super, super kid"?
... that in 2001, BBC One devoted a themed night of programming to text messaging?

08:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
... that Ellen Rosenblum is the first woman ever to serve as Oregon Attorney General?
... that
pace car out of the pits
?

... that Joshua Jefferis, the only male Australian artistic gymnast at the London Games, was initially passed over?
... that caryopilite was named for the Greek words for walnut and felt?
... that Hal Elliott led the National League in games played by a pitcher in 1930, appearing in 48 games for the last place Philadelphia Phillies?
... that
flower pot
?

00:00, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Marie Bankhead Owen (pictured) was the aunt of actress Tallulah Bankhead and helped create the Alabama state motto?
... that Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories are part of what Damian Thompson describes in Counterknowledge as a "pandemic of credulous thinking"?
... that Indonesian songwriter Tjokroaminoto
?

... that the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Georgetown is a former historic industrial building?

... that National Baseball Hall of Fame
who died at the youngest age?

... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the Rigveda?

... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?

29 June 2012

16:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Karlskrona Ropewalk (pictured) is Sweden's longest wooden building?

... that the mountain Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint John of Dukla
is said to have rested?

... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain unstudied?

... that The Twitter Republic is based on Twitter use in the website's fifth-largest market?

... that Emily Little and Larrissa Miller are part of the Australian women's gymnastic team that will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that pilgrims would leap off a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp, near the Chorabari Glacier?

... that
studio album This Is the Six
is titled to reflect the band's connection with their fans?

08:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that 2008 and 2012 Australian artistic gymnastic Olympian Ashleigh Brennan (pictured) drinks coffee before every competition?

... that "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" marked Katherine Heigl's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy?

... that as late as 1945, between 450 and 500
U.S. Army Remount Service bred with over 11,000 civilian-owned mares, producing 7,293 foals
?

... that Chrisye was so disappointed with Pantulan Cita that he took a two-year sabbatical?

... that the Georgia
by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?

... that
Chris Archer pitched USA Baseball
's International Performance of the Year in 2010?

... that the nine-armed sea star can turn its stomach inside out and engulf "mouthfuls" of sediment and detritus?

00:00, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Brown Treecreeper
(pictured) spirals up and down tree trunks while foraging?

... that Dangote Cement's production facility in Obajana, Nigeria, is the largest cement plant in Sub-Saharan Africa?

... that Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire once contained a Norman motte and an RAF Chain Home?

... that theatre director and TV comedy producer Olga Lipińska launched her Cabaret under Soviet-style socialism hoping to make the world a better place?

... that the Marinmuseum acquired some of Johan Törnström's figureheads?

... that Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?

... that pitcher Johnny Gee, sometimes known as the "$75,000 Lemon", was the tallest person ever to play Major League Baseball until Randy Johnson debuted in 1988?

28 June 2012

16:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the
Kolhoi Glacier
?

... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team
is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country?

... that the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., has served heads of state and royalty?

... that piercing points are used by geologists to find out how much a fault has moved?

... that the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the Adriatic Sea?

... that 2012 Australian weightlifting Olympian Seen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?

... that the hypothallus of a slime mold is produced by the plasmodium at the beginning of its fruiting?

08:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy (spectrum pictured) is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins?

... that
SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog personally selected staff for the killing centre in Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Reichsgau Wartheland
and supervised its daily operation from 1941?

... that Tropical Storm Debby is the earliest fourth named storm in the Atlantic Basin on record?

... that Leavine Family Racing is headquartered in Texas but races from a shop in North Carolina?

... that the Football League since relegation
in 2004?

... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?

... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?

00:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1973 completion of the steelhead trout
?

... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team?

... that the venomous box jellyfish (Chiropsalmus quadrumanus) once killed a child within forty minutes of his being stung?

... that General Manfred von Richthofen, like the air ace who was named after him and was his great-nephew, was awarded the "Blue Max" for his service in World War I?

... that Christian rock band Third Day, inspired by their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, aimed to show more of their southern roots in their 2010 album Move?

... that the Three Dikgosi Monument is the most visited tourist destination in Gaborone, Botswana?

... that geologist embalming fluid
for mineral water?

27 June 2012

16:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that alpine skier Kyrra Grunnsund (pictured) was the second person to represent Australia at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?

... that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?

... that the Scandinavian fungus Inocybe saliceticola can grow among mosses such as heart-leaved spear moss?

... that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?

... that William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?

... that the Japanese release of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?

... that six bankers spent more than £44,000 on wine at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?

08:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
Bar Mitzvah
?

... that astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett died when their plane crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being assembled?

... that Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011?

... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?

... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that comedian FOX
about his experiences as a single father?

... that the very rare ghost orchid was once found in Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve, near Monmouth, Wales?

00:00, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

... that a flashing blue light, used to alert local skiers that fresh powder snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area, sits atop the Hotel Baxter (pictured) in Bozeman, Montana?

... that on his tenth album, Adentro, Ricardo Arjona included a song about menstruation?

... that Saint Helena's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross
?

... that by its third volume, the mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?

... that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was recognised as the best coach of the decade despite never winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award?

... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that in 1971, Governor Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?

26 June 2012

16:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to Paris
?

... that Australian Kookaburra Daniel Hotchkis plays his club hockey for the Canberra Lakers in the Australian Hockey League?

... that a
writers' strike in 2008 threatened the international fashion industry by leaving stars with nowhere to wear their red carpet gowns
?

... that Erica Kennedy's first novel, Bling, reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie?

... that the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937
, also called the "Spinach Riot", resulted in one death and 50 injuries and held up a $6 million crop?

... that Church Clothes by Christian rapper Lecrae was controversial because it was hosted by Don Cannon and criticized church hypocrisy?

... that high school
?

08:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Juliet Opie Hopkins (pictured) was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South" and was given a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery?

... that the
open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3
?

... that Laura Basuki washed her hair with bottled water while shooting East of the Sun?

... that double silver Paralympic wheelchair rugby medalist Nazim Erdem became the first person with a spinal cord injury to paraglide solo?

... that National Heroes of Indonesia
?

... that Spanish author
more than 50 books
in his career?

... that Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, in British Columbia, Canada, has one of the world's highest concentrations of mountain goats?

00:12, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Matt Cain (pictured) threw more pitches in his perfect game than any other perfect game pitcher before him?

... that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions?

... that unlike co-star session singer
?

... that the GDP, exceeding that of any other county of Croatia
?

... that While She Sleeps' debut mini-album The North Stands for Nothing was given away free with an issue of Metal Hammer magazine?

... that ongoing Syrian uprising for being a major opposition
stronghold?

... that
fabless semiconductor company, raised US$
137 million, but never made a profit before ceasing to exist?

25 June 2012

16:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that rats treated with animal model of schizophrenia
?

... that the
Duchess of Cambridge live in a rented Anglesey farmhouse on the Bodorgan Hall
estate?

... that Malaysian born Renuga Veeran and South Australian born Leanne Choo will represent Australia in the women's doubles badminton competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that the mineral sonolite is named for the mine in Japan where it was discovered?

... that in June 2012,
Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder
became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?

... that singer
whose only known manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870?
... that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario?

08:42, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the
NOT Tower (pictured) in Kraków was nicknamed Skeletor after it had been abandoned by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations
and left unfinished for 30 years?

... that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell, to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics?

... that after defeating the Vietnamese
Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi
province?

... that upon hearing of Khalid ibn al-Walid's reputation in battle, the Roman-led Arab Christian garrison of Arak peacefully surrendered their fort to his army?

... that Luciano Ercoli's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro?

... that the term Labour Party conference, following his election as leader of the Labour Party
earlier that year?

... that cartoonist Jovan Prokopljević sells chess-themed prints of "gnomish" players at chess tournaments?

00:57, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

... that pale spear-nosed bats (pictured) have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human primates?

... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?

... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?

... that the 1969 Italian film San Quentin State Prison
's gas chamber?

... that the Saint Thomas Christian
community's isolation and resistance to outside influence?

... that German dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?

... that the title of the Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?

24 June 2012

17:12, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Royal Navy's
Kil class gunboats (pictured) were designed to confuse observers in U-boats with their dazzle camouflage
and double-ended hulls?

... that over five hundred
Hokkaidō
?

... that
St. John's Day, is based on Luther's hymn about the baptism of Jesus
?

... that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that Adaptiv can hide a tank from thermal imaging systems, or make it look like a car?

... that
Kyle Larson won the first stock car
race he ever competed in?

... that the slime mold Willkommlangea reticulata
is the only species of its genus?

09:27, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that a Taketomi) helped enforce the Tokugawa policy of "national seclusion
"?

... that
John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War
?

... that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal?

... that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?

... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?

... that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, now part of BNP Paribas, was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?

... that
Nuku Muhammad Amiruddin
had a British ship aid him in attacking the Dutch?

01:42, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

... that State Quarter
in 2003?

... that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single "Black Heart"?

... that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games?

... that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth, Wales, has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?

... that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film
Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate
?

... that professional wrestler Ric Converse, a victim of childhood bullying, was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?

... that the German Sonne radio navigation system proved so useful to the British during WWII that they provided spare parts to keep them running?

23 June 2012

17:57, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that R. L. Holdsworth (pictured) reached the summit of Kamet, the highest mountain climbed at the time?

... that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida?

... that in the
FBI agent
who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?

... that 1972's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
?

... that Book of Spells, an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter?

... that composer Communist Poland
?

... that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone, Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?

10:12, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the
Guinotia dentata
(pictured) prefers shady rivers to sunny ones?

... that Major League Baseball pitcher Bob Glenn later became a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering from the 1920s through the 1950s?

... that the bomb that fell on Nagasaki
?

... that the
Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games
by its country's government?

... that The Chimneys' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?

... that Third Eye Blind's discography includes an album that sold six million copies?

... that
in March 2012
?

02:27, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Byzantine style frescos from 1380 in the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, were destroyed during World War II and finally restored in the 1960s (example pictured)?

... that Moose McCormick was considered the first great pinch hitter in Major League Baseball history?

... that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand wore for good luck in battle?

... that audience laughter during a scene in the Lisa
was muted out in the final cut?

... that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger?

... that Third Eye Blind's song "Blinded" is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?

... that the
St Senara's Church in Zennor
?

22 June 2012

18:42, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Syrian poet and writer literary salons in the Middle East
at the end of the 19th century?

... that the number of Mandaeans in Iraq has fallen by more than 90% since the 2003 invasion due to religious persecution?

... that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club, having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts?

... that a curator at the
Tuskegee Airman, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross
?

... that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?

... that Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, based on Luther's hymn, is part of "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook"?

... that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?

08:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the call of the Red-necked Avocet
(pictured) has been likened to a dog barking?

... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?

... that Crulic: The Path to Beyond, released in 2011, was the first Romanian animated feature film in two decades?

... that LinkedIn was hacked on June 7, 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?

... that "
B-side
?

... that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?

... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes?

00:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

... that twenty Bahraini health workers (some pictured) military court
in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?

... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?

... that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?

... that the judges in Salinger v. Random House
found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?

... that earthenware fragments from calibrated radiocarbon date of as early as 14,500 BC, before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene
?

... that the
Houston College Classic is seen as the beginning of the college baseball season in Texas
?

... that the stable block of Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wales
?

21 June 2012

16:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that it was Giovanni Lusieri who suggested that his employer should remove the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon (pictured)?

... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?

... that two ministers in Kenya's government died in a helicopter crash in June 2012?

... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?

... that Japanese American internment
, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"?

... that the Northern Khmer dialect is spoken by descendants of the Khmer Empire native to the Isan region of Thailand?

... that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?

08:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Cambridge University
in England?

... that players will be able to
tap cell phones, and manipulate traffic lights in order to track and kill a target in Ubisoft's upcoming video game, Watch Dogs
?

... that 1996 and 2004 Olympian Deonne Bridger is currently ranked as Australia's top female recurve archer?

... that Umberto Lenzi's 1972 film Il coltello di ghiaccio features thematic and directorial elements which one reviewer found similar to the works of Lucio Fulci?

... that precocial
and can fly within a month of hatching?

... that boys from a Monmouth, Wales, prep school housed in The Grange won the British under-11 chess championship in 2003?

... that Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree was praised by the The A.V. Club for its sexual writing?

00:00, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Hessentag (pictured), the annual state festival of Hesse held since 1961, attracted more than 1.2 million visitors in Wetzlar in 2012?

... that Johnny Bench Award in 2010, given to the top catcher in college baseball
?

... that the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan connects to the tallest ski flying hill in the world and one of two National Forest harbors in the United States?

... that CEC Bank fell from a 32.9% share of the Romanian banking market in 1990 to 4.03% in 2006?

... that Tom Luckey, creator of multi-story climbing structures known as Luckey Climbers, is paralyzed from the neck down?

... that while South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe
?

... that the inventory of
Dante Rossetti
's teapot?

20 June 2012

16:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Jack Enzenroth (pictured) in 1910 was the captain of the first baseball team to be coached by Branch Rickey?

... that Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria, Germany, was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1990 by UNESCO?

... that
national uprising
began fourteen months ago in February 2011?

... that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hadspen, Tasmania, took over ninety years to complete?

... that Japanese Americans
?

... that the
Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London
?

... that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?

08:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces (pictured) that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?

... that
quasi-probability distribution
?

... that Bo Xilai is the pioneer of the Chongqing model?

... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match?

... that in 1946, French-Australian botanist Albert de Lestang provided the botany world with some rare seeds they had been looking for since 1852?

... that
Newbery Honor novel about a boy who survives on the Canadian prairie with help from a mother badger
, was based on a real event?

... that when William Snyder Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate, he had to be captured before the ceremony?

00:00, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Foxley Wood (pictured) is the largest ancient area of woodland in Norfolk and was mentioned in the Domesday Book?

... that
Ben-Day dots and a speech balloon
?

... that Australian Opal Belinda Snell first played basketball as an eight-year-old on a mixed gendered team?

... that
spy satellite Yantar-2K had two film return capsules which could land
on the ground or on water?

... that Italian actress Ida Galli has also been billed as Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon?

... that according to an Alaskan report, a tribe of Eskimo cook the swamp cranberry with fish eggs and blubber?

... that British swimmer Liam Tancock has taken up ballet in order to improve his medal chances at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

19 June 2012

16:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that All Saints Church, Helmsley (pictured), contains two chapels dedicated to different saints?

... that rain tires
in official competition?

... that
Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in Prague
, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?

... that Australian archer Summer Olympics
since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
... that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning Glendower House?

... that television producer and director Primetime Emmy Award
and been nominated for two more?

... that
You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In is chanted at opponents of pro wrestler Bryan Danielson
?

08:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that, as a U.S. Senator, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (pictured) drafted a statute that authorized punitive, court-ordered dissection of convicted murderers' corpses?

... that Kristi Harrower has won three Olympic silver medals in basketball and is in the running to earn a fourth medal?

... that the stadium at the Maury School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was home to the annual Fredericksburg Dog Mart, which began in 1698?

... that
Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa
?

... that the metal fatigue
?
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?

... that professional baseball player Terry Doyle works as a substitute teacher during the offseason?

00:00, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
St Mary's Church, Whitby (pictured), was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula
?

... that the Yemen women's national football team has four training sessions a week?

... that although Stracimir was the eldest son of Lord Balša, the youngest, Đurađ, became the major figure of the family?

... that World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) builds awareness of suicides, including that one third are committed with pesticides like United Nations-banned organophosphates?

... that the mineral bobfergusonite has been found only in Canada and Argentina?

... that Negro league baseball player Lemuel Hawkins was shot to death while attempting to hold up a beer truck?

... that the upcoming film Anna Karenina will be the third collaboration between director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley?

18 June 2012

16:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the mineral diaboleite (pictured) was so named out of desperation?

... that Stichting Oud Politieke Delinquenten, a Dutch organization of convicted WW2 collaborators, included 1951 founders NSB "judge" Jan Wolthuis and Waffen-SS volunteer Jan Hartman, and Paul van Tienen who turned it into a political party?

... that the name of the 1983
Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge
(What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?

... that Estonian Paralympian Marge Kõrkjas was awarded 100,000 krooni (about 6,400 euros) from the government following the 2004 Summer Paralympics?

... that the U.S. Supreme Court heard six criminal appeals from convicted Mormon polygamists during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (1874–1888)?

... that the A968 in Shetland is Britain's northernmost A road?

... that Fritz Blanding retired from baseball due to "excessive weight" and because he could have "a heap more fun" on his farm?

08:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that during the
Fall Hill (pictured) because it blocked his view of advancing Union Army
troops?

... that
Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning
?

... that high school for black students in Fredericksburg, Virginia
?

... that Japanese tennis player Burma Campaign
?
... that the only medical school and law school in South Dakota are at the University of South Dakota?

... that the tower of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust
had declined consent for earthquake strengthening?

... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Until It Beats No More" was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500?

00:00, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
Sprint Cup Series
race attempt?

... that St John's in Monmouth, Wales, has been described as "one of Monmouth's best-kept secrets"?

... that although linguist principle of linguistic relativity
"?

... that the National Gallery in Berlin has now expanded from its original 1876 building into five others, including a Schinkel church and two palace outbuildings in Charlottenburg?

... that Kat Driscoll's performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics?

... that 57-million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago?

... that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
?

17 June 2012

16:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that three ten-foot-high (3 m) bronze horses (one pictured) in the City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?

... that the Rhodesian Special Air Service was formed during the Malayan Emergency?

... that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?

... that on 13 March 2012, BBC News reported that 17 police stations in South East Wales would close to the public, including the Monmouth Police Station?

... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Goin' In", featuring Flo Rida, is featured on the soundtrack of the dance film Step Up Revolution?

... that the French ice hockey team, the Dragons de Rouen won both the regular season and Coupe Magnus in the 2011–12 Ligue Magnus season?

... that the Modoc County Historical Museum has objects in its collection that date back 8,000 years?

08:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Puneri Pagadi (on head, pictured), a turban, is an intellectual property of the Indian city Pune?

... that the
independent comedy drama film The Taiwan Oyster, co-starring British actress Leonora Moore and shot in Taiwan, has been described as a Texas road film
?

... that Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott worshipped at St Saviour's Chapel in Lyttelton, New Zealand, before embarking on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition?

... that British
member of the Dubai royal family
?

... that the 1976 song "Let Poland be Poland" by Jan Pietrzak became one of the anthems of Solidarity?

... that Jennifer Screen's first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal?

... that, having first occurred in 1698, the Fredericksburg Dog Mart is the oldest dog show in the United States?

00:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the success of the multi-language wall poems (pictured) in Leiden, South Holland, inspired similar projects in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Paris, France?

... that General Ulysses S. Grant held an outdoor council of war with his top generals on pews taken from the Massaponax Baptist Church?

... that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport?

... that although the first two fossils of adapiform
primates?

... that
Bozh, the first Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading Ostrogoths
?

... that The Runaways' second album Queens of Noise features guitar solos from both lead guitarist Lita Ford and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett?

... that chef Daniel Clifford serves garlic and bay leaf ice cream at his restaurant, Midsummer House?

16 June 2012

16:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that National League's 1934 Most Popular Umpire Dolly Stark (pictured) created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?

... that Christian CHR
chart?

... that
Engagement Ring
marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?

... that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?

... that 2012 Australian Olympic archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?

... that the East Bay Vivarium is the oldest and largest retail vivarium in the United States?

... that the third digit in the banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?

08:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that development of the Ten Broeck Triangle (houses on Hall Place, pictured) in Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?

... that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and of Clwyd?

... that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country?

... that USS Maine
?

... that the Jewish Orphanage of Berlin-Pankow was originally intended to be a home for refugee children who escaped pogroms after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia?

... that political boss John H. McCooey opposed the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President of the United States in 1932?

... that the script for British athletics film Fast Girls
had to be re-written to remove all references to the Olympics?

00:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Swedish author Edith Unnerstad (pictured) wrote her first book at age 11 for a sister who had been hospitalized with scarlet fever?

... that the Japanese sea cucumber can aestivate and remain in a dormant state for up to four years?

... that Major Rohde Hawkins built the Royal Victoria Patriotic School as an asylum for war-orphaned girls?

... that while flying accidents were commonplace at RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?

... that Puerto Rican driver to compete in a major NASCAR
event?

... that Panchayat
in Gujarat" title?
... that chef Myron Mixon is nicknamed the "winningest man in barbecue", having won more than 1,700 trophies?

15 June 2012

16:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the molluscs, but the white rock shell is also a cannibal
?

... that Gojko Balšić, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, was Skanderbeg's nephew?

... that Ryan Hanigan hit the first Major League Baseball pitch thrown to him for a double?

... that Xhelal Bey Zogu, and sentenced to hanging
?

... that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme?

... that the Lufilian Arc supplies 80% of the world's cobalt?

... that the family of Miami Zombie victim Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, believed he had died 30 years ago?

08:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the 2012 deployment of
Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier Enterprise
(pictured)?

... that Gravisi-Barbabianca Palace
?

... that the first time the Chase Court considered an appeal from a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit courts, Congress withdrew the U.S. Supreme Court's power to hear those appeals?

... that Steve Waugh was the first cricket player to score 150 runs in an innings against all Test-playing nations, a Guinness record?

... that the mineral Motukorea
, the island in New Zealand where it was discovered?

... that the public house in Monmouth, Wales, now serves as the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club
?

... that
Tim Bainey, Jr. plans to compete in a NASCAR
race held on a track he co-owns?

00:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
Santa Fina was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV
in 1481?

... that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?

... that lorisoids
?

... that the Best Male Vocalist at the 2009
Afgansyah Reza
, never had any vocal training?

... that message passing in computer clusters built with commodity servers and switches is used by virtually every internet service?

... that
Australian aboriginal 2008 silver medal winning Australian Opal Rohanee Cox
started playing basketball again after an absence from the sport in order to inspire her daughter?

... that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman?

14 June 2012

16:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the fungus species Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus (pictured) is nearly extinct in France?

... that Australian 2008 Paralympic swimming bronze medalist stunt double for Charlize Theron
?

... that the PZL SM-4 Łątka never flew, because its engine was not approved for use in flight?

... that
supercard, as a way to promote world peace
?

... that although Duke Huan of Tian Qi murdered Tian Yan to usurp the throne of Qi, the two brothers were buried together in the Two Kings' Cemetery?

... that Black Christmas
in 2001?

... that While She Sleeps won the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomer at the 2012 awards ceremony?

08:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that National Stadium in Warsaw
?

... that Egyptian Olympic pentathlete Aya Medany's father was a member of a panel which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize?

... that water supply for mines in the Galilee Basin was provided as a reason to support the development of the Bradfield Scheme in Queensland, Australia?

... that Justin Timberlake's 2007 single "Summer Love" is about wanting to fall in love with a "lusty seasonal lover"?

... that won a no-hitter on June 8, 2012, in his fourth Major League Baseball
appearance?

... that St Luke's Church in Christchurch, New Zealand, replaced an earlier church that was "ugly and barn-like"?

... that Get Married 3 features characters named after Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Hanung Bramantyo?

00:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the female eggs
during the day and the more conspicuous male (pictured) takes the night shift?

... that according to
ASME, Wyman-Gordon
's 50,000-ton press was the largest machine in the world when completed in 1955?

... that the pinball machines
in storage in a secret location?
... that a
sherd of medieval pottery was unearthed in 1956 at St James House in Monmouth
?
... that
Yelovichnus
were initially believed to be the feeding trails of other organisms?

... that Charles Dennis Fisher, described as one of the "most prominent members of [the] educational staff" of the University of Oxford, died in the explosion of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland?

... that 2010 Australian Junior National archery champion Alice Ingley has ancestors from the same area of England as the historical Robin Hood?

13 June 2012

16:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Fred Tenney (pictured) was described as "one of the best defensive first basemen of all time", while a different Fred Tenney played only six games at the position?

... that Roy Lichtenstein's Golf Ball paraphrases Piet Mondrian's pre-World War I black and white oval paintings such as Composition in Black and White?

... that diners eating at the Table Lumière in the three
Michelin star restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester can select their own tableware
?

... that despite finishing second in
Kalle Björklund and Gunder Bengtsson
were fired after six matches in 2003?

... that the West German Audio Book Library for the Blind made its first recordings at night, in a room covered with egg cartons?

... that the Sugababes song "Gotta Be You", according to band member Keisha Buchanan, is the first use of the crunk genre by a British band?

... that the use of "First Lady
"?

08:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the collection of the
Lady Llangattock
?

... that
unlawful arrests, and street beatings
of peaceful protesters?

... that 5to Piso was the first album Ricardo Arjona released after moving to Warner Music?

... that the Emirates Cup was cancelled from the 2012–13 Arsenal season due to the 2012 London Olympics?

... that
Time's "All-Time 100 Movies"
in 2005?

... that some of the most active parents in the Orthodox Jewish day school founded by Rabbi David Rebibo in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1965 were members of the local Reform temple?

... that muttongrass is eaten by sheep?

00:00, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Port of Póvoa de Varzim (pictured) in Portugal has 1000 years of recorded history and continuous use?

... that Bert Sincock, born in a gold rush boomtown in 1887, was the first British Columbia native to play Major League Baseball?

... that shoe salesman Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death because of an alleged e-mail?

... that an inscription discovered at Milecastle 19 of Hadrian's Wall is one of only 60 known dedications to the mother goddess known in Roman Britain?

... that Albert Einstein once played violin with the Zoellner Quartet, which earlier had played by invitation for Helen Keller?

... that Egyptian writings about the myth of Osiris do not clearly describe Osiris' death because the Egyptians feared that doing so might negatively affect the world?

... that the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad was split along state lines in 1894?

12 June 2012

16:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the disputed van Gogh (pictured), was looted from Germany during World War II and is today held by Russia
?

... that Wes Ferrell leads all Major League Baseball pitchers in home runs hit in a season (9), and in a career (37)?

... that the name for the
new bridge being built alongside the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge
is to be chosen in a public vote in 2013?

... that Bach was "fired up as never before" when he began his second cycle of chorale cantatas with O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, for the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724?

... that Clarence 13X taught that the letters of the word "Allah" stood for "arm, leg, leg, arm, head", indicating the divine status of humans?

... that the most viewed Indonesian film of 2011
was based on a story posted in a blog?

... that British archer Amy Oliver, who is due to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, didn't like the sport when she first tried it?

08:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Centripetal Spring Armchair of 1849 (pictured), one of the first modern office chairs, was unsuccessful outside the US because it was considered immorally comfortable?

... that communist politician Rustam Effendi wrote the first Indonesian stage play?

... that the Japanese art film Megane, described as "an ode to the pleasures of unhurried living", was given its name after the director realized most characters wore glasses?

... that stock car racer Joey McCarthy started racing at age ten?

... that the first three concerts of
Beyoncé Knowles's revue show Revel Presents: Beyoncé Live
sold out within one minute?

... that Leydig cell hypoplasia is a rare genetic disorder that can cause pseudohermaphroditism or delayed or absent puberty in affected males?

... that 2012 Australian Opal Hanna Zavecz earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Wyoming even though the coach had never seen her play?

00:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Copşa Mică
, Romania, together made it one of the most polluted towns in Eastern Europe by the early 1990s?

... that John Hibbard played three years of college baseball for the University of Michigan despite having previously played professional baseball for the Chicago White Stockings?

... that despite São Tomé and Príncipe gaining independence in 1975, the women's national football team did not play their first FIFA recognised match until 2002?

... that Miami Beach was Roy Lichtenstein's first commissioned
public art?

... that British World Champion Modern Pentathlete Mhairi Spence has an ambition to be the host of BBC One's quiz show A Question of Sport?

... that the U.S. Travel Act prohibits interstate or foreign travel to promote, manage or commit extortion, bribery, prostitution and other crimes?

... that the Southern Triangle can't be seen from Europe?

11 June 2012

16:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church
(pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"?

... that the first SCCA E Production class racing championship won in a Mazda Miata was won by Terry McCarthy?

... that silicate perovskites may make up to 93% of the lower mantle and that the magnesium form is considered to be Earth's most abundant mineral?

... that Randolph Scott, the star of China Sky, referred to the film as "disappointing"?

... that Australian 2010 Commonwealth Games team archery gold medalist Taylor Worth is a member of a shadow archery team?

... that in the
Porter subway station there are gloves attached to the escalator and embedded in the floor
?

... that PSIR Rembang players attacked both referees in a match at 2008–09 Liga Indonesia Premier Division?

08:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that No. 7 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF (aircraft of unit pictured) was the only Royal Australian Air Force training unit to be based in Tasmania during World War II?

... that Once, which was directed by John Tiffany and choreographed by Steven Hoggett, has the most nominations at the 66th Tony Awards?

... that Elizabeth Potts was the only woman ever legally executed in Nevada?

... that Australian multiple swimming world record holder Benard Kieran
took up swimming while serving time aboard a reformatory ship?

... that Cheap Trick's song "Southern Girls" is about girls in southern Canada, but the title was changed because writer Rick Nielsen didn't like the sound of "Southern Canadian Girls"?

... that exposed oak beams in the plantation house at Walnut Grove reveal Roman numerals marking where joists are to be attached?

... that Florida watermelon farmer Ross Chastain scored a top 10 finish in his very first NASCAR race?

00:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when Cape Cod's village of Long Point, Massachusetts (pictured) became a ghost town, its residents took their houses with them – by floating them across the harbor?

... that 2011–2012
?

... that Mark Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow was sold on May 8, 2012, for $86.9 million, a world record auction price for contemporary art?

... that Lincoln MacMillan played on Michigan football teams that defeated Notre Dame in each of the first five games between the schools?

... that the television drama drama series
?

... that during the War of 1812, Angus McDonald was commissioned as a captain in the Regular Army following his nomination and appointment by United States President James Madison?

... that Valium
?

10 June 2012

16:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Tim Schendel (2011 car pictured) was the last driver to win the NASCAR Midwest Division Championship?

... that the Swedish hymn En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt is used both as a summer hymn and for funerals, but is rarely sung in its entirety?

... that Anne Henrietta Martin of Nevada was the first woman to run for the United States Senate?

... that No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF graduated over 2,000 pilots under the Empire Air Training Scheme between 1941 and 1944?

... that Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil‎, President of the Principality of Asturias, resigned in 1993 because of Petromocho?

... that
Happy Tears
was acquired in 1964 and not resold until 2002, when it established a new record for the auction price of a Lichtenstein work?

... that actor Alex Papps was still being recognised as his Home and Away character Frank Morgan twenty years after he originally departed the series?

08:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
Madame Moitessier
(pictured)?

... that
sex steroid production in patients with the genetic disorder isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency
?

... that Bozeman, Montana, is home to two breweries – the Bozeman Brewery Historic District and Spieth and Krug Brewery – now listed in the National Register of Historic Places?

... that the simulation video games Cafeteria Nipponica, Dungeon Village, Epic Astro Story, Grand Prix Story, and Hot Springs Story were developed by Japanese video game developer Kairosoft?

... that Walt Hazzard had his number retired by UCLA, but he allowed it to be reissued to Kevin Love?

... that in 2011, Namibia ranked fourth worldwide in uranium production, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia?

... that hero of epic poetry Musa Kesedžija had three hearts?

00:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Jan Matejko created an ironic self-caricature of himself painting one of his works, the Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (pictured)?

... that the Asuka Historical Museum exhibits Asuka-period artefacts from Yamada-dera and the Takamatsuzuka Tomb?

... that Ignacy Krasicki's Pan Podstoli (1778) was one of the first Polish novels?

... that US academic Susan J. Douglas is concerned that depictions of high-powered women in media imply (incorrectly) that feminism has achieved its goals?

... that Taddeo d'Este was given a palace and admission to the Great Council of Venice for foiling an attack on Padua?

... that
2012 Chicago Summit
?

... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown?

9 June 2012

16:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that in The Wedding Dance (pictured), a 1566 oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the movements of the people show that they are acting inappropriately or in an epitome of rustic buffoonery?

... that a previous one's failure
?

... that despite not playing
Tippeligaen
aged 15 years and 261 days?

... that the title of the Japanese-language album 20 [Twenty] by South Korean rock band F.T. Island refers to the average age of the band members?

... that a character in the British farce Simple Spymen remarks he needs "a thin moustache on the top lip and a pointed beard on the bottom" to pass for a Frenchman?

... that Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
in 2007?

... that in social network analysis, a Simmelian tie is the basic relationship in a clique?

08:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that at 53 years and 275 days, Queenie Newall (pictured) is the oldest female athlete to have won a gold medal at an Olympic Games?

... that film director and producer Luciano Ercoli is married to actress Nieves Navarro, star of several of his giallo thrillers?

... that evolutionary history of lemurs
?

... that the only
Winston Cup Series race that Dan Pardus competed in was delayed by both fire and rain
?

... that Iván Guzmán de Rojas created software that could translate multiple languages simultaneously and served as Vice-President of the National Electoral Court of Bolivia?

... that Indonesian director Teddy Soeriaatmadja decided to go into film after seeing Reservoir Dogs?

... that Hamka was accused of plagiarising his novel Sinking of the van der Wijck, described as his best?

00:00, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

... that during his ownership of Andrews Tavern (pictured), Samuel Andrews served as postmaster for the governments of both the Confederate States of America and the United States?

... that when the
Munich Crisis started, Edward Fennessy and Geoffrey Roberts built the famous RAF Fighter Command
plotting room in only 36 hours?

... that "the soundtrack for the 2007 film St Trinian's
?

... that because wood used to build the Koke'e State Park had to be floated in salt water, the buildings avoided termite
damage?

... that crew chief for Rusty Wallace, Dale Jarrett and Bobby Labonte
?

... that the church of La Yesa in the Province of Valencia was burned down in 1840 following the Carlist Wars but was subsequently reconstructed?

... that
candidate Bob Ely
refers to himself as a "jerk" and lists 24 reasons to not vote for him?

8 June 2012

16:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the racehorse Parisot, winner of the 1796 Epsom Oaks, was named after French ballet dancer Mademoiselle Parisot (pictured), whose performance created a stir in London that year?

... that satirist Abdul Samay Hamed was attacked by a knife-wielding man, but succeeded in disarming his attacker?

... that since the Israel national association football team played its first official game in 1934, more than 450 players have represented Israel in international matches?

... that the Spotted Sandgrouse
may travel many kilometres from its feeding ground in order to drink?

... that bad weather was a constant hindrance to operations at No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAAF in Mallala, South Australia, during World War II?

... that according to critics, the
It Ain't Easy" contains compositional elements from "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
?

... that Sydney Cumbers was nicknamed "Long John Silver" because he wore an eyepatch to conceal his missing eye that he lost when he was a child?

08:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that George Vaughan Maddox, architect of Kingsley House and Hendre House (pictured), was a native of Monmouth?

... that
AKC/Eukanuba National Championship
?

... that Michael Roach, an American professional soccer player, played in college with future teammates Kevin Alston and Alec Purdie?

... that it took Stan and Jan Berenstain two years to revise The Big Honey Hunt, the first Berenstain Bears book, to Dr. Seuss's satisfaction?

... that George Strez Balšić was one of several noblemen who renounced their support of Skanderbeg in 1457, and he sold his fortress to the Ottomans?

... that according to heroin addict
?

... that Fred Bonine set the world's record in the 110-yard dash in 1886, and later saw over a million patients in his medical office?

00:00, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Kilbirnie Castle (ruins pictured) in North Ayrshire includes a 15th-century keep with walls that are 7 to 8 feet (2.1–2.4 m) thick?

... that BBC broadcaster and producer Ursula Eason pioneered the use of sign language in television programmes for deaf children?

... that the killing of four policemen in an ambush in Rentería was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1982?

... that the Huites Dam provides irrigation for 89,700 hectares (222,000 acres) of land?

... that in Posthumous Trilogy, a Mate Matišić drama collection, all three plays end in the suicide of the protagonist?

... that
The Hanging of the Sigismund Bell received a golden medal in the Paris World's Fair of 1878
?

... that Frank Bliss, the first Michigan Wolverine to play Major League Baseball, tucked his trousers into long boots for shin protection as a catcher in the early 1870s?

7 June 2012

16:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that an 1888 letter written by Weldy Walker (pictured), the second African American in Major League Baseball, was called "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete"?

... that the remains of the ancient
Near East earthquake of 1759
?

... that Polish historian PhD
degree in modern Europe?

... that
Smithsonian, was originally painted for a women's clothing store in Kansas City
?

... that local tribes have nicknamed the Malagarasi as "the river of bad spirits"?

... that geologist Emperor Hirohito and was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun
?

... that the
crowd funded from the village of Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor
?

08:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012
World University Games
?

... that crude oil
pollution?

... that critics compared the
Never Gonna Dance Again" to "Careless Whisper" by George Michael
?

... that William Wheaton helped draft the first set of baseball rules in 1845?

... that Longkou Mining Group, a subsidiary of Shandong Energy, is the only company in China mining coal under the sea?

... that the species observed in long-tailed tits
?

... that Richard Benjamin Harrison, nicknamed "The Old Man", is co-owner of the Las Vegas pawn shop featured in the reality TV series Pawn Stars?

00:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Masonic Lodges in Monmouthshire
?

... that the
open-wheel racing career of Emerson Newton-John was put on hold for over a decade by the September 11 attacks
?

... that between 1848 and 1981, every director of Liberia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had originally resided in Montserrado County?

... that An Ruzi was made ruler of Qi despite being just a little boy, but was killed by his older brother Duke Dao of Qi after less than a year on the throne?

... that Oakley, a plantation home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a gift for his daughter?

... that Indonesian actress Kinaryosih won four separate awards for her role in Suddenly Dangdut?

... that the design of the Dyott Bomber was modified from an aircraft intended for the exploration of South Africa?

6 June 2012

16:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that one of the world's great
postage stamp error
?

... that Wedlock, a 2009 book by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, the great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II
?

... that the career of
retirement match
in 2008?

... that Hamka's debut novel Under the Protection of Ka'bah promoted orthodox Islam as a path to true development?

... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops?

... that Pakistani cricketers hold the record for the highest number of wins in Twenty20 Internationals?

... that in his tell-all memoir The Bronx Zoo, Sparky Lyle talked about how he enjoyed sitting on birthday cakes naked?

08:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Rhode Island governor and signer of the
Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins (pictured), was also an astronomer who helped take measurements during the 1769 transit of Venus
across the sun?

... that "No Me Ames", a duet by American recording artists Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, is a cover of the Italian hit "Non Amarmi", recorded by Aleandro Baldi and Francesca Alotta?

... that, aside from
Monmouth Town Walls and Defences is attached to a pub
?

... that many geographic features on Campbell Island, New Zealand, were named for members of the French 1874 Transit of Venus astronomical expedition?

... that the most viewed Indonesian film of 1989, Pacar Ketinggalan Kereta, was the last feature film for both director Teguh Karya and star Tuti Indra Malaon?

... that over one thousand shelters were opened to accommodate evacuees from Hurricane Bud?

... that Bronwyn Oliver's 2005 sculpture Vine is over 16 metres (52 ft) high and was assembled by eight Croatian welders?

00:00, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Neltje Blanchan's 1897 book Bird Neighbors used photographs of stuffed birds (red-winged blackbird pictured) because contemporary cameras could not take good photographs of living ones?

... that Australian Opal Tess Madgen's U-18 South Australia Country team beat Victoria 99–61 in one of the biggest wins ever at the Australian national championships?

... that the
transit of Venus of 1639 was predicted by self-taught astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks, and the only recorded observations of it were by him and his friend William Crabtree
?

... that
Ronald Arthur Hopwood was named poet laureate of the Royal Navy by Time
in 1941?

... that the German National Library of Economics, with over 4 million items and 46 kilometers of shelf space, is the world's largest economics library?

... that special trains were laid on for voters returning to
1860 election of the Boden Professor of Sanskrit
?

... that
Ole Kristian Selnæs is a big fan of the Norwegian soap opera Hotel Cæsar
?

5 June 2012

16:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Leicestershire (pictured) are the only team that have been English Twenty20 cricket champions more than once?

... that Blur guitarist Graham Coxon recorded 21 tracks for his 10-track album A+E?

... that cutthroat grass is primarily found in only two counties in central Florida?

... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.6 floatplane trainer was the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's last pusher aircraft?

... that Henk Ten Berge of De Telegraaf described When the Light Comes as "one of the strangest films ever produced by a Dutchman"?

... that in 386 BC Duke Tai of Tian Qi was formally recognized as ruler of the state of Qi, ending over six centuries of rule by the House of Jiang?

... that the 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests were a response by men wearing women's clothing to proposed regulations on beach dress?

08:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that when first noted, arsenoclasite appeared very similar to sarkinite (pictured), but with one perfect cleavage?

... that poet, translator and educator Margaret Diesendorf, born in Vienna and raised in Hungary, was described as "the Conscience of New South Wales"?

... that the successful kidney transplantation to a patient from the UAE in Cleveland led to the annual running of the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in New York?

... that the young-adult novel
Ice Quake by Colin Bateman involves a missing satellite, a double-size polar bear and a cryoseism
?

... that
India, clinching their fifth World Cup
title?

... that Brushstrokes was the first component of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series?

... that a German Summer Olympics
?

00:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Bloomsbury Farm (pictured), built between 1785 and 1790, is one of the oldest surviving privately owned residences in Spotsylvania County, Virginia?

... that more than 600 sacrificial horses and 30 dogs are estimated to be buried in the 2,500-year-old tomb of Duke Jing of Qi?

... that Richard Petty Motorsports swept the front row in qualifying for the 2012 Coca-Cola 600?

... that Superintendent of Otago Province
in New Zealand, "distinguished himself more by an assiduous devotion to duty than by any display of brilliance"?

... that poet
tombstones
?

... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player
Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the Australian Opals
?

... that the interactive website Elf Yourself, an annual tradition where viewers can place personal images into downloadable videos of dancing elves, was first developed by Jason Zada?

4 June 2012

16:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the US Navy has been developing autonomous underwater gliders (example pictured) to track submarines and marine mammals?

... that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century?

... that stock car driver Casey Roderick was described as a "legitimate protege of Bill Elliott"?

... that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman Clement Vallandigham's arrest and trial by military commission by means of habeas corpus?

... that diplomat Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski was executed by an angry mob during the Kościuszko Uprising?

... that Thursday Nights, Channel 5 once almost led to a fight between Chelsea and Manchester City players?

... that comedienne bourgeoise
" characters?

08:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that in State v. Ben Kuhl (mugshot pictured), precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just fingerprints?

... that
Cayla Francis chose to play basketball over netball
because she preferred the contact aspect of basketball?

... that the Second World War
?
... that the hooded oyster is known as Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778)?

... that the wood frame
structure and not built of stone or brick?

... that according to Micronesian mythology, trickster god Olifat created much discord among the gods, but gave humanity the secret of fire?

... that J. K. Rowling agreed to let North Foreland Lodge girls' school perform Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but later withdrew consent as this would have been a world premiere?

00:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

... that an
Anglo-Saxon princess (reconstruction pictured) was buried on a bed with her jewellery in the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery
?

... that Robbie Faggart won two races in five days at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1992?

... that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165, relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?

... that Daresbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, received a supreme award for renovation some weeks after it suffered significant earthquake damage?

... that heavy rain on its grass runway at RAAF Station Amberley in 1940 forced No. 3 Service Flying Training School to institute a 13-hour workday and fly at nearby airfields to maintain schedule?

... that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?

... that Get Married 2 was released not long after its director got married?

3 June 2012

16:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk (pictured), hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson?

... that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II?

... that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction?

... that Fain Skinner won the 1999 World Karting Association national championship?

... that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?

... that Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling was the first book published on health and mental health care for lesbian and gay youth?

... that the 1970 film Le foto proibite di una signora per bene features a bossa nova-influenced score that has been compared to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim?

08:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
wood wasps and their fungal symbionts, Amylostereum
fungi (pictured), may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?

... that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?

... that the
retired the number of Junior Seau
posthumously at his memorial?

... that at age nine,
his father
's newspaper?

... that Roy Lichtenstein's Roto Broil was sold at Sotheby's for $75,000 in 1976?

... that during the
Catholic priests while serving as an editor of the popular Kraków magazine Przekrój
?

... that 1988
St. Leger Stakes winner Minster Son was the first Thoroughbred racehorse to win a British Classic
with its breeder riding as the jockey?

00:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Mexican Talavera
pottery using 16th-century methods?

... that Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase
, has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006?

... that 20% of the authors in various academic disciplines report being the target of coercive citation by scientific journal editors?

... that
Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey
?

... that growing on the shell of the Pacific pink scallop helps the sponge Myxilla incrustans avoid being swamped by shifting sediment on the seabed?

... that the Indonesian film Suddenly Dangdut won 12 film awards, despite being filmed in seven days?

... that the Monmouth Methodist Church in Monmouth, Wales, was set back behind the houses along St James Street by law?

2 June 2012

16:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that landfall
during the month of May?

... that Access2Research is petitioning U.S. President Obama to issue an open-access mandate for publicly funded research?

... that in 1896, baritone Anton Sistermans premiered first Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Berlin, then Vier ernste Gesänge by Johannes Brahms in Vienna?

... that Division I head coach in Texas State Bobcats baseball
history?

... that Titanic 2020: Cannibal City is a sequel to the apocalyptical fiction, Titanic 2020?

... that Andrea Bianchi's Nude per l'assassino follows "the giallo formula almost to the letter"?

... that the Italian Republic of Genoa controlled the Greek island of Rhodes for two years, from 1248 to 1250?

08:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that
Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne
portrait (pictured)?

... that Johan Sørensen was the first publisher of cheap books for the mass market in Norway?

... that cancer cell chromosomes undergo distinctive changes in addition to mutations?

... that 2012 Australia women's national basketball team member Kathleen MacLeod played for a year each in Hungary and France?

... that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?

... that the father–son duo of
college basketball national championship with the UCLA Bruins
after being the top high school player in Los Angeles?

... that
James Wong included several references to their cancelled series Space: Above and Beyond in their script for Millennium's "The Thin White Line
"?

00:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

... that centenarian Sammy Cox (pictured) of Carrick, Tasmania, may not have been as old as he claimed?

... that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation?

... that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?

... that in US Supreme Court
upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?

... that Stafanie Taylor, the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year, is the only player to have scored half-centuries in three consecutive Twenty20 Internationals?

... that
on NBC in 1976 and on TNT in 1994
?

... that street style
"?

1 June 2012

16:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Niels Kaas (pictured) was the chancellor of Denmark during the late 1500s?

... that Action Saybusch was intended to be the first of several German expulsions of Poles from Silesia to the occupied General Government in World War II?

... that renowned German
Expressionist
paintings?

... that Brule Lake in Minnesota is the source of two rivers that enter Lake Superior forty miles apart?

... that after a WNBL game in which Kristen Veal scored 16 points, other players shaved Veal's head to support the Leukemia Foundation?

... that the deluxe cover to Simian Mobile Disco's 2012 album, Unpatterns, is back to front and forms a moiré pattern with the CD image?

... that Arsenal went 995 minutes without conceding a goal in European football?

08:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that the Monmouth Regimental Museum displays a variety of objects, including a mediaeval "crock pot" and a baby gas mask (pictured)?

... that Lucio Fulci's 1977 film Sette note in nero has been compared to the later American film Eyes of Laura Mars?

... that although ROCOSes are visible astronomical objects, it is impossible to determine whether or not they belong to our galaxy?

... that International Ski Federation
for 17 years, from 1934 to 1951?

... that
Sunday Sabbath
?

... that according to 3 CD Collector's Set
is worth the price of the album alone?

... that St. Leger Stakes
for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?

00:00, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

... that Stanisław Klimecki (pictured) served as the President of Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?

... that 12-year-old Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?

... that the song "Si Piensas, Si Quieres" was the third number-one hit for Roberto Carlos and Rocío Dúrcal in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?

... that
Limonana, a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East
, was invented by an advertising agency?

... that Gerard Reve's The Fourth Man, commissioned by the Dutch foundation Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek for the 1981 Boekenweek, was turned down as too controversial?

... that the flowerheads of the fern-leaf spider flower, Grevillea longifolia, look like toothbrushes?

... that Power has been described as powerful?

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