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28 February 2015

  • 12:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

General Sir William Gabriel Davy

  • 00:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Telmatobius ventriflavum

27 February 2015

  • 12:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

The Westinghouse Atom Smasher in 2010

The Square, Wiveliscombe

26 February 2015

  • 12:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Tower House in the Withdean area of Brighton

  • 00:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

25 February 2015

  • 12:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Zephyrette Nellie O'Grady interacting with a passenger in 1956

  • 00:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Aulis Sallinen

24 February 2015

  • 12:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Y. geinitzi worker

  • 00:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

The Dumas Brothel in September 2000

23 February 2015

  • 12:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The Captive Slave (1827)

  • 00:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Castelldefels Castle

22 February 2015

  • 12:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Male mountain trogon

  • 00:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Frédéric de Civry

21 February 2015

  • 12:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Painter Run in its lower reaches

  • 00:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Detail from The Sirens and Ulysses

20 February 2015

  • 12:15, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Chitrakoot Falls

  • 00:30, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Umberto Boccioni, Dynamism of a Cyclist, 1913

19 February 2015

  • 12:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Castaing machine

  • ... that the Castaing machine (pictured), a seventeenth-century device created by Jean Castaing, was said to be capable of applying edge lettering to 20,000 coins daily?
  • ... that Ladislaus III of Hungary reigned less than a year and died before his sixth birthday?
  • ... that "
    Thirty Years War
    , was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight"?
  • ... that
    Wright Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
    ?
  • ... that Serbian writer Oskar Davičo received the literary NIN Award a record three times?
  • ... that
    Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn argues that at the core of Meiklejohn's efforts is "the paradox of Socratic teaching
    "?
  • ... that auctioneer Theodor Fischer was described as "the focal point in all looted art transactions" in World War Two–era Switzerland?
  • ... that the album From the Ages is over an hour long and was recorded in just two days?
  • 01:00, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Mogurnda adspersa

  • ... that Mogurnda adspersa (pictured), a species of fish once thought to be extinct, was rediscovered in 2002?
  • ... that in 2005, Dutch skeptic Rob Nanninga used an Internet spelling error to expose a psychic?
  • ... that Clancy's was once an unassuming neighborhood bar?
  • ... that Jerry Lester was the host of the first successful network late-night television show, Broadway Open House?
  • ... that The Lying Student was written in 1914, but not published until most of the manuscript was rediscovered in 1981?
  • ... that before becoming a film actor, Deepak Tijori worked for a magazine and a hotel?
  • ... that
    first ever final
    ?
  • ... that
    spotted lady beetle
    into a "zombie bodyguard"?

18 February 2015

  • 13:15, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Bonne of Bourbon

  • 01:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Alfred Sisley, The Port of Moret-sur-Loing, 1884

17 February 2015

  • 12:00, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Plaka Bridge in 2011

  • 00:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Agostino Ramelli's bookwheel

16 February 2015

  • 12:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Huda Zoghbi

  • 00:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Le Conte's thrasher

15 February 2015

  • 12:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
  • 01:05, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Reverse, Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar

14 February 2015

  • 13:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Dublin Castle pub, Parkway, Camden Town, London in 2008

  • 00:00, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
  • ... that Lalji Singh (pictured) is popularly known as the "Father of DNA Fingerprinting" in India?
  • ... that
    Tribeca Film Festival
    ?
  • ... that American swimmer Nicole Haislett is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who learned to swim at the age of 18 months?
  • ... that
    race car
    ?
  • ... that Columbia mathematics professor Mu-Tao Wang did not consider himself a particularly good student?
  • ... that Govind Nihalani's Hindi film Tamas (1988) was initially aired as a television series?
  • ... that the family support group
    The Mariposa Trust has been partly funded by charity sky dives
    ?
  • ... that the Hoosier cavefish has its anus directly behind its gills?

13 February 2015

  • 12:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

A diagram of the M15 Halftrack

  • 00:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Cover of June 1921 issue

  • ... that the title of the children's magazine The Brownies' Book (pictured) alludes to black Americans being used as servants?
  • ... that the future poet Yang Jiong was appointed to the prestigious Hongwen College at the age of nine?
  • ... that two men were ambushed while making sugar near the mouth of Hunlock Creek in 1780?
  • ... that Turkish journalist
    Armenian Genocide
    and believes that the Turkish government must reconcile its history?
  • ... that the children's album Pombo Musical is based on the fables of Colombian poet Rafael Pombo?
  • ... that Arthur Phillips composed a setting of "The Requiem, or, Liberty of an Imprisoned Royalist" by Thomas Pierce?
  • ... that both
    boulder star coral are susceptible to coral diseases and bleaching
    ?
  • ... that Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey win horse races with Kittens?

12 February 2015

  • 12:10, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Snail caviar atop a dish

  • 00:25, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Japanese issued Oceania half-shilling (1942)

11 February 2015

  • 12:40, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
  • ... that
    Mir yeshiva, the only Eastern European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust
    intact?
  • ... that the 2012 London Games was Sierra Leone's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics?
  • ... that according to the Atharvashikha Upanishad, Om represents the Hindu Trinity, the Vedic scriptures, Vedic poetic meters and holy fires?
  • ... that a brief conversation with Lawrence of Arabia prompted R. V. C. Bodley to live with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara desert for seven years?
  • ... that the main cast and supporting actors of the film Chotoder Chobi were previously non-actors?
  • ... that the future
    despotes
    for him?
  • ... that four months after
    2015 Fort Bliss shooting
    was described as "a model of how to respond"?
  • ... that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!)?
  • 00:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Green hellebore

10 February 2015

  • 13:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Portrait of an African Man

  • 01:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Synallaxis stictothorax

9 February 2015

  • 13:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Britons: Lord Kitchener Wants You. Join Your Country's Army! God save the King

  • ... that the use of
    Lady Asquith
    began referring to him as simply "the poster"?
  • ... that
    Second Indochina War
    ?
  • ... that the
    Kiev
    in 1240?
  • ... that during a lull in fighting in the
    Armenian Genocide
    ?
  • ... that a Christian education program at the Tarrant County Corrections Center was shut down as unconstitutional?
  • ... that in 1693 Julije Balović wrote a multilingual dictionary on five languages, including Albanian?
  • ... that Yuraygir National Park boasts 48 beaches?
  • ... that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway?
  • 01:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The Abbot's Fish House, Meare

8 February 2015

  • 14:10, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Hans Rosenfeldt

  • 02:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Booker T. Washington

7 February 2015

  • 14:40, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Flag of West Virginia

  • 00:00, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Parker Training Academy Dutch Barn from the southwest, 2013

6 February 2015

  • 12:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Vetch aphids, East Lothian

  • 00:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

5 February 2015

  • 12:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
  • ... that Francisco D'Andrade (pictured) appears in his signature role Don Giovanni in three paintings by Max Slevogt?
  • ... that during the apartheid era, South Africa's National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a "Boerehaat campaign"?
  • ... that despite breaking a
    first FA Cup Final
    ?
  • ... that the New Synagogue, which once served the Russian Jews in Shanghai, has been demolished?
  • ... that video game character Jill Valentine was almost a Jill sandwich?
  • ... that the
    brother
    in 1588?
  • ... that Barbadian singer
    Hot Dance Club Songs
    chart in less than eight years?
  • ... that
    amusement park rides
    ?
  • 00:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

The Market Cross in Cheddar

4 February 2015

  • 12:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Charb

  • 00:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Parisian Women in Algerian Costume, 1872

  • ... that
    Paris Salon
    of 1872?
  • ... that Alexandra Aitken, daughter of former British politician Jonathan Aitken, converted to Sikhism and changed her name to Uttrang Kaur Khalsa?
  • ... that the victors in Operation Diamond Arrow abandoned the battlefield?
  • ... that new colonies of the carpet sea squirt can form by "dripping"?
  • ... that a 2013 study by American neuroscientist
    fMRI
    scan?
  • ... that the
    global military spending
    ?
  • ... that Thomas Reardon was for a time Microsoft's entire Internet Explorer development team?
  • ... that in 1629 a Virginia court sentenced
    Thomasine Hall
    to wear items of both male and female clothing simultaneously?

3 February 2015

  • 12:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

  • 00:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Monacanthus ciliatus

2 February 2015

  • 12:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Exterior of the Lazi convent

  • 00:00, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Portrait miniature of Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn

1 February 2015

  • 12:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Shortia galacifolia in bloom

  • 00:00, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Tannenberg Organ Winston-Salem