위키백과:최근 추가/2010/9월

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이것은 DYK(Did you know, DYK)의 일환으로 최근 메인 페이지에 소개된 자료의 기록이다.최근 새로 만든 기사, 과거 스터브 기사 대폭 확대, 최근 홍보된 좋은 기사 등이 대상이며, 참고용으로 제출하면 된다.

아카이브는 일반적으로 메인 페이지 출현 월별로 그룹화된다.(현재 DYK 후크는 메인 페이지에서 꺼낸 날짜와 시간에 따라 아카이브된다.)Did you know에 나타난 사실을 포함하는 아카이브를 찾으려면 문서의 토크 페이지로 이동하여 DYK Talk 페이지 메시지 상자의 아카이브 링크를 따르십시오.

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2010년 9월 30일

2010년 9월 30일 18:00(UTC)

... 배핀섬 북부에 있는 국립공원(사진)의 이름인 "시르밀릭"이 이누크티투트어로 "빙하의 장소"를 의미한다고?
미시간주 그랜드래피즈 남쪽 M-6에서 열린 사우스벨트 셔플 행사에서 말들이 부분적으로 완성된 고속도로에서 탈 수 있었다고?
홍콩 태생인 레베카 놀린이 애틀랜타 비트의 수비수로 활약하며 케네소 주 올빼미 감독을 돕는다고?
... 스미르나 복음주의 학교가 고고학 박물관, 자연 과학 수집품, 도서관을 소유하고 있는 터키 이즈미르에서 가장 중요한 그리스 교육 기관이었다는 것을?
조나스 무튼이 고등학교 축구 안전팀으로 뽑혔지만 3시즌 동안 미시간 울버린스의 약한 측면의 라인배커에서 시작했다고?
'펠리그로소 아모르'가 칠레 가수 미리암 에르난데스의 미국 빌보드 핫라틴 트랙 차트 첫 1위 곡이라는 사실은?
뉴욕 인디언 폭포 근처에 쾌적한 산 농가를 짓기 위해 목수 7명이 필요했다는 사실을?
마이클 폰 멜라스 야드 보안관의 경고에도 불구하고 하인리히 폰 벨레가르드는 안톤 폰 자흐를 참모총장으로 유임시켰다고?
... 노스 메인 스트리트 스쿨이 건설되기 전에 뉴욕 스프링 밸리의 학생들이 지역 소방서에서 수업을 듣고 있었다고?

2010년 9월 30일 12시(UTC)

새뮤얼 콜트가 디자인 특허가 만료된 지 20년 만에 콜트 모델 1878 더블 액션 리볼버(사진)를 생산하기 시작했다는 사실을?
... 제임스 쿡 선장의 사망 그림에 포함된 깃털 달린 헬멧이 쿡 선장이 처음 하와이에 착륙할 때 받은 헬멧이라고 전해지는가?
위스콘신 주 밀워키의 연방 빌딩 앞에 있는 가족 조각품 조각품들을 올라가 다시 정리하도록 대중들에게 권고를 받고 있는가?
뉴사우스웨일스 포트필립지구를 에이커당 1파운드(약 1평)에 구입할 수 있는 특별조사 시스템이 있는가?
소프위드 코브햄 3기 폭파범이 소프위드 항공사가 만든 유일한 쌍발 항공기라고?
캐나다 북극 레이디 프랭클린 베이 탐험대의 유일한 캐나다인이 조지 W. 라이스라고?
두 사람이 독일 챔피언쉽 자동차 경주에서 도요타 셀리카 LB 터보(4위, 8위)에 의해 결승선을 통과했다는 것은 포르쉐 935가 아닌 경주용 자동차에게 최고의 결과를 가져다 주었다고?
가자지구의 이슬람화에는 카드놀이와 데이트에 반대하는 정부의 캠페인이 포함되어 있다고?
햄프턴 콜리세움에서의 출연에 대해 저자세를 유지하기 위해, 록 밴드인 감사드 데드가 "이전 더 워록스"로 광고에 출연할 것을 요청했다.

06:00, 2010년 9월 30일(UTC)

... 비평가들은 토머스 에킨스가 그린 메리 아델린 윌리엄스의 두 초상화(두 번째 초상화)의 차이점이 두 사람 사이의 불륜의 결과인지에 대해 논쟁하고 있다.
스코틀랜드의 축구 선수 존 더킨이 길링엄 FC에서 뛰면서 지역 탄광에서 일했다고?
... K-5 에어코치 항공기의 현존하는 단 하나의 예만 있는 것이 아닌가?
19세기 러시아의 테너 표도르 페트로비치 코미사르체프스키가 이탈리아 산레모 마을로 은퇴하여 장미를 가꾸다가 그곳에서 죽었다는 것을?
2010년 한 경기 동안 필리핀의 보예트 페르난데스 농구코치가 한 선수에게 자유투가 점프볼을 강요하는 동안 그늘진 레인을 일부러 건너라고 말했다고?
…제갈량이 거리 거지에서 당나라 군수로 출세했다는 것?
반 인터넷 음란물 단체 '그만하면 충분해'의 리더로서 전 정치 스캔들 '다른 여자'가 영향력 있는 워싱턴 D.C.의 로비스트가 되었다는 사실이요?
…저 예술가 겸 조각가 사무엘 라빈도 1928년 하계 올림픽에서 레슬링에서 동메달을 딴 전문 레슬링 선수 겸 오페라 가수였단 말인가?
골든 잠수함이 시속 100mph로 달릴 수 있다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 30일(UTC)

... 선구적인 저널리스트 펄 리버스(사진)가 집 근처를 흐르는 강에서 그녀의 명복을 빼앗아 갔다고?
... 그리스 신화에 따르면, 아테나에게 아티카의 지배권을 빼앗긴 후 포세이돈에 의해 레테리아 평원이 범람했다고?
... 2010년 8월 24일에 일어난 타마울리파스 대학살이 멕시코 마약전쟁의 "최악의 잔혹행위"로 묘사되고 있다고?
1493년 피오트르쿠프 트라이부날스키 성에서 열린 세움(Sejm)이 폴란드 최초의 2인 의회였다는 사실이요?
... 빌 에릭슨이 록포드 대학 남자 농구 프로그램을 시작했고 첫 감독이었다고?
필리핀 말넷 베스파 루크토사가 말벌 종들 중 가장 치명적인 독을 가지고 있다고?
… 카메룬 바투팜의 창시자인 F k Kankam이 티카르였다는 사실을?
알프레드 마샬 베일리가 1936년부터 1969년까지 덴버 자연사 박물관의 관장이었다고?
심리학자들은 뇌가 쉽게 처리할 수 있는 감각 정보를 사람들이 해석한다는 이론을 세웠다고?

2010년 9월 29일

2010년 9월 29일, 18:00 (UTC)

... 안다만해에 제임스 본드 섬(사진)이 있다고?
미국의 핵물리학자 레오나르도 마체로니가 핵융합을 일으키기 위해 불화수소 레이저를 사용하는 그의 아이디어에 자금을 대기 위해 미 의회에 로비를 시도했다고?
온타리오 9번 고속도로의 오렌지빌 우회로를 설계하고 건설하는데 26년이 걸렸다고?
뉴욕 타임즈가 리니드 스카이너드의 이름인 레너드 스키너에게 "미국 대중문화에서 가장 영향력 있는 고등학교 체육 교사"라고 부른 것은?
... 티베트 샨난 현의 공가 현에 있는 공가르 쵸이데 수도원, dzong, 그리고 라싸를 섬기는 지방 공항이 있는데, 거기서 약 62km(39mi) 떨어져 있음에도 불구하고?
19세기 알바니아 지도자인 호도 소콜리가 공개적으로 오스만 휘장과 유니폼을 벗고 알바니아 국가 의상을 입었다고?
... 교황 요한 바오로 2세의 1982년 영국 방문이 재위 중인 교황에 의해 그 나라에 처음 만들어졌다고?
오레곤 주 힐즈버로의 시장으로 로돌프 크랜달이 처남을 대신해서 시장직을 맡았다고?
1686년 프랑스의 허드슨 만 탐험대가 알바니 요새를 발견한 것은 영국인들이 해질녘에 대포를 발사했기 때문이라고?

2010년 9월 29일 12시(UTC)

... 케이프타운의 샤본네스 배터리가 옛 서머셋 병원(사진)의 격리 및 회복 날개와 함께 교도소 역할을 한 적이 있다고?
Andrew Jackson호가 90일 이내에 뉴욕에서 샌프란시스코로 항해할 수 있는 두 척의 배들 중 하나라고?
멸종된 몰리벅스속 전자리모코쿠스를 실은 개미의 호박화석이 몰리벅스와 아크로피가 개미들 사이의 공생에 대한 가장 오래된 기록을 나타낸다고?
버드 오그든이 필라델피아 76ers에서 뛰었고, 그의 남동생은 샌프란시스코 워리어스에서 뛰었고, 그들의 아버지는 명예 훈장을 받았다?
이안 타이슨의 노래 "Someday Soon"이 주디 콜린스, 모 밴디, 수지 보거스의 싱글 차트라고?
아미르 미르 기자가 파키스탄 전 대통령의 상을 거절했다는 소식이다.페르베즈 무샤라프, 파키스탄 헌법을 위반한 독재자라고 비난?
... 포르투갈-맘룩 해군전쟁이 16세기 초 이집트의 맘루크 술탄국이 인도양에서 포르투갈군의 확장을 저지하려는 시도였다고?
월리스 터너가 오레곤에서 퓰리처상을 수상한 후 뉴욕 타임즈로 가서 하비 밀크의 살인사건을 취재했다고?
UBS 워버그가 1000단어 이상의 이메일 거부권을 가지고 있다고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 29일(UTC)

이텀비아라 댐(사진)이 엘레트로브라스 푸로아스의 최대 발전소, 브라질에서 6번째로 큰 발전소라고?
20세기 말까지 피치트리 장로교 메가추르크가 미국 어느 교회보다도 큰 장로교 교회를 갖게 되었다고?
영국 영화 연구소의 "75개의 가장 원하는 영화" 중 하나라고?
쿡쿡 찌른 단백질이 항바이러스 성질을 보였다고?
니제르 델타에서 마지막으로 알려진 침팬지 서식지가 에듀마넘 숲 보호구역이라고?
사우스캐롤라이나가 허가한 첫 번째 인양 허가가 SS 조지아나호의 잔해 때문이라고?
…파라코미모네오스 요제프 브레가스(Joseph Bringas)가 일반 나이키포로스 포카스가 비잔틴 왕좌에 오른 것을 반대했지만 콘스탄티노폴리스에서 사흘간의 시가 충돌 끝에 패배했다는 말인가?
미국의 첫 번째 사회 페이지가 뉴욕 헤럴드의 제임스 고든 베넷 주니어의 발명이라고?
기자가 나이지리아 리버스 주의 지도부를 비판하는 기사를 쓴 후 주지사의 보좌관이 그에게 캔을 씌우고 낡은 칼날로 머리를 깎으라고 명령했다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 29일(UTC)

... 빌 맥코운(사진)이 침실 천장에 200대의 모형비행기를 매달고 있던 청년에서 해군 E-2C 호크예 조종사, VAW-114 중대 사령관, 그리고 디펜던트 이글 스카우트가 된 것이?
글리 공동 크리에이터 라이언 머피가 다가오는 에피소드 "Grilled Cezus"가 "지금까지 시리즈 중 가장 논란이 많은 에피소드"가 될 것이라고 예측했다는 것을?
... that Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve of the Dzanga-Sangha Complex of Protected Areas in the Central African Republic form the Sangha Tri National Landscape with Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo and Lobéké National Park in Cameroon?
…'범죄의 색'에서 캐더린 러셀-브라운은 범죄와 젊은 흑인 남성들이 미국인의 마음속에서 동의어가 되어 '범죄자 흑인' 고정관념을 낳았다고 쓴다고?
스코틀랜드의 축구 선수 존 더킨이 길링엄 FC에서 뛰면서 지역 탄광에서 일했다고?
…프랑스의 군주 프란치스코 1세가 코냑 동맹의 전쟁에서 패배를 인정할 수밖에 없었다는 것을?
... 존 로건이 미국 켄터키주의 초대 재무관으로 근무하고 그 후 15년 동안 그 직책을 맡았다고?
... 스크리브의 데뷔 싱글 "Stand Up"/"Not Multi"가 뉴질랜드에서 12주 동안 가장 많은 1위 싱글이었다고?
아메리칸 아이돌 장기자랑에서 탈락한 이안 데이비드 베나르도가 사이먼 코웰의 취업 비자를 보자고 요구했다고?

2010년 9월 28일

2010년 9월 28일(UTC) 18:00

…1992년 프랑스의 산악인 캐서린 데스티블레가 아이거의 북쪽 얼굴(사진)의 단독 등반을 완료한 최초의 여성이 되었다는 것은?
1973년 퀸즈 남 자메이카 총기난사 사건에서 토마스 시아가 근무 중 살인 혐의로 재판을 받은 최초의 뉴욕 경찰이었다는 사실이요?
네팔에서 유엔이 운영하는 7개 수용소에 위치한 부탄 난민들의 지위가 부탄-네팔 관계에 영향을 미치는 주요 이슈라는 것은?
... 미국의 산업가 사무엘 T. 하우저는 옐로우스톤 강을 따라 탐사를 한 후 옐로우스톤 국립공원 조성을 위해 로비를 했다.
... 1527년 로마에서 자해하는 동안 스위스 근위대가 교황의 퇴로를 지키기 위해 희생했다는 것을?
루이지애나 주 하원의원을 지낸 루이지애나 주립대회의원이 주 권리의 만트라를 이용해Shreveport의 Scott Wilkinson은 1950년대에 학교 분리 및 개간지 석유 수입을 주장했는가?
... 가장 작은 성인용 표본이 길이가 8.2cm(3.2인치)나 되는 가장 작은 수막 어류일 수 있다는 것은?
영국의 축구선수 그레이엄 러브트가 3년도 채 되지 않아 두 번의 심각한 도로 교통 충돌에 연루되어 26세의 나이에 은퇴를 강요당했다고?
... 지금은 유타주의 유령도시인 해리스버그가 모세라는 이름의 초기 거주자의 이름을 따서 지어졌다는 것, 그리고 1895년까지 대부분의 거주자들이 메뚜기 전염병과 홍수로 인해 떠났다는 것?

2010년 9월 28일 12시(UTC)

그 제임스 E. 위너 주니어는 '조종할 수 없으면 훔칠 수 없다'는 슬로건을 내걸고 1994년까지 1400만대가 팔린 자동차 도난방지 장치 더 클럽(사용 중 사진)을 만들었다?
… 1869년 노르웨이인 모니터 므줄너가 좌초된 후, 조사법원은 배의 지휘관과 조종사가 수리에 책임이 있다고 판결했지만, 의회는 2년 후에 그 빚을 취소했다고?
네 개의 자유 공원이 심장마비로 죽었을 때 건축가의 주머니에서 발견된 계획으로 지어지고 있다고?
... 레온카발로의 오페라 파글리아찌의 첫 미국 공연은 구스타프 힌리히스가 주세페 캄파나리와 함께 토니오 역을 맡아서 공연했다는 것을?
Wag-Aero CUVy 항공기의 설계자가 자동차 연료를 동력원으로 사용함으로써 증기 잠금을 겪지 않을 것이라는 것을 보여주기 위해 1에서 2만 피트를 비행했다고?
알래스카 주지사 토마스 릭스 주니어가 알래스카에서 알래스카-캐나다 국경선을 조사했던 팀을 태평양에서 북극해까지 이끌었다고?
... 시험에 가르치는 교육적 실습이 창의적이고 추상적인 사고력을 배제한다는 이유로 비판 받아왔는가?
남부 침례교 선교사 크리스 클라크가 승마 종목에 복음을 전한다고? 대부분 켄터키 주에서?
존 스튜어트의 제정신 회복을 위한 집회가 스티븐 콜버트의 공포를 살리는 행진곡과 정면으로 맞선다고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 28일(UTC)

...농장 시대 박물관 프랜시스 랜드 하우스(사진)가 그루지야식 외관이지만 연방식 인테리어를 하고 있다는 것은?
시더노 그룹이 3개 대륙을 넘나드는 마약 이동에 관여했다고?
토미 아마커 감독이 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 미시간 울버린스 남자 농구팀을 지도하여 2004 NIT에서 우승하고 2006 NIT에서 준우승을 차지했다고?
1844년 알바니아어를 사용하는 파샤의 오스만 교체가 반란을 일으켰다고?
컴퓨터 웜 스턱스넷에 감염된 대부분의 시스템이 이란에 있다고 시만텍이 주장하는 것은?
1997년 미네소타 트윈스의 일원으로서 야구선수 맷 로튼이 가족들에게 38장의 티켓을 주어서 아스트로돔에서 열린 휴스턴 애스트로스와의 경기에 참가할 수 있도록?
카메룬의 유네스코 지정 생물권 보호구역인 베누에 국립공원에서 적어도 한 건의 도벽주의 사건이 기록되었다고?
주할 술탄이 17살에 이라크 국립 청소년 관현악단을 창설했다고?
…세계레슬링 연맹의 언포니드(2001년) 종목의 경기가 걸레 파괴로 인해 발생했다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 28일(UTC)

... 개발에 700억엔(5억7천만 달러)이 들어간 ADEOS II 위성(예술가의 그림)이 태양 전지판이 오작동한 후 10개월 동안 임무에 실패했다고?
뉴욕 뉴시티에 있는 H. R. 스티븐스 하우스가 네덜란드와 영국 건축 전통의 융합을 보여준다고?
세라 다 메사 댐이 브라질에서 가장 큰 저수지를 만든다고?
그 린다 G.터커는 흑인 범죄자들의 묘사가 "흑인은 행동의 한 형태만큼 사람이 아니다"라는 관점을 영구화시킨다고 썼다.
... 1892년 작센마이닝겐의 마리 엘리자베트 공주가 요하네스 브람스의 가르침에 영향을 받은 클라리넷과 피아노의 F장조 로만제를 작곡했다고?
브라이언 엘러베 감독이 이끄는 미시간 울버린스 남자 농구팀은 로버트 트랙터 트레이러를 기용했고 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01 팀도 포함시켰다고?
... 도시 토지 위원회를 통해 30만 가구 이상의 베네수엘라 도시 가구가 토지 적정화 프로그램의 혜택을 누렸다고?
제니퍼 러브 휴이트가 자신의 책 "The Day I Shot Cupid"를 홍보하면서 자신의 외음부를 크리스탈 유리로 장식하는 것에 열중했던 것?

2010년 9월 27일

2010년 9월 27일, 18:00 (UTC)

인디애나주 웨스트바덴 스프링스 호텔(내부 사진)의 돔형 아트리움이 1902년부터 1913년까지 50년 동안 미국에서 세계에서 가장 큰 프리 스팬 돔이었다는 사실이요?
로버트 애보트가 논리 미로의 발명가라고?
'마이너큘 482'가 부정확한 카피스트에 의해 쓰여졌다고?
스티브 피셔가 지도한 미시간 울버린스 남자 농구팀은 팹 파이브 스타 주완 하워드, 잘렌 로즈, 크리스 웨버를 등장시켰고 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97팀을 포함시켰다고?
19세기 중엽 아르헨티나가 2년간의 프랑스 해상 봉쇄에 성공적으로 저항했다고?
리나클로타이드(Linaclotide)가 1000만 명에 달하는 미국인에게 영향을 줄 수 있는 변비로 과민성 장 증후군에 대한 치료제로서 임상 실험에서 가능성을 보였다고?
그 코미디언 미키 플래너건이 자신의 캐치프레이즈가 텔레비전 광고를 위해 해제되었다고 주장한 사람?
와나날루아 교회와 푸나호우 학교에서 가르친 후, 윌리엄 해리슨 라이스가 하와이에서 설탕 농장을 위한 최초의 관개 시스템을 관리했다고?
알 라맥치아는 수십 년간 메이저리그 스카우트로서 컴퓨터, 레이더 총, 스톱워치를 스카우트 도구로 사용하지 않았다.지금까지 잘 지내셨어요?"

2010년 9월 27일 12:00(UTC)

... 레지날드 피니(사진) 소장이 1917년 지그프리드 사순의 시 <장군>의 주제가 되어, 부하들에게 "아라스에게 비스듬히 다가서며 웃어준 "치어리석은 옛날 카드"라고?
미시간주 2번 고속도로의 새 구간이 제2차 세계 대전으로 인해 지연되었을 때 컷 리버 다리 주변으로 우회되어 있었다고?
유럽 무역상들은 원래 넴베 왕국을 "브라스"라고 불렀는데, 무역을 거절한다는 지역 구절을 따랐다고?
비데포드 만의 해안선이 60미터 높이의 절벽과 영국에서 가장 큰 모래언덕 시스템을 모두 포함하고 있다고?
미식축구 선수였던 매니 마틴이 1996년 버팔로 빌즈팀에 입단한 사실이 언론에 의해 "장타 중 가장 길다"고 여겨졌음에도 불구하고?
... 1925년 Bully Creek에서 관개용 댐이 고장 나서 오리건 주 베일시에 3피트(1m)의 물이 넘치고 미화 50만 달러의 피해를 입혔다는 사실을?
…사노크 성은 트란실바니아에서 탈출한 후 헝가리의 여왕 이사벨라 자기엘론의 자리였다고?
… 아내를 살해하고 흑인이 그런 짓을 했다고 가장한 백인 찰스 스튜어트의 사례가 인종적 날조 사례로 자주 인용되는가?
... 다윈의 껍질 거미는 케블라보다 10배나 질긴 것으로 알려진 가장 단단한 바이오소재를 사용하여 25미터(82피트)에 이르는 가장 긴 거미줄을 만든다고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 27일(UTC)

... 메이릭 헬멧(사진)이 로마의 보조 헬멧 모양과 켈트 라 테네 스타일의 장식을 결합시킨다고?
'둘릿 개구리입스'가 '큰 개구리입스'와 '초대종'을 형성한다고?
... 12살 때, 새뮤얼 남부와 또 다른 젊은이가 보온스버러 요새의 여자들에게 보내져서, 리틀 마운틴 전투에 손을 대면서 요새를 방어하는 데 도움을 요청했다고?
... 아유브 칸 장군이 주도한 1958년 파키스탄 쿠데타가 "필요의 명령"으로 파키스탄 대법원에 의해 입증되었다고?
캐서린 치펨베레가 말라위 의회에 선출된 첫 여성이라고?
... 고드윈-노울스 하우스가 오하이오 주 이스트 리버풀에 산업가를 위한 보금자리로 지어졌다가 나중에 메소닉 오두막으로 개조되었다는 것을?
... 메릴랜드 출신의 워크온 선수인 미키 망햄이 1959년 슈가볼에서 유일한 터치다운을 기록하여 1958년 LSU 타이거즈 축구팀의 전국 우승을 거머쥐었다고?
1940년에 영국이 15,000마일의 비계관으로부터 보호받았다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 27일(UTC)

…그 황금 꽃무늬의 호주 토박이 데이지 제로크리섬 브락테툼(사진)이 1850년대 독일 아른스타트(Arnstadt)에서 다양한 색깔로 발전했다고?
드 가모 존스 디트로이트 시장이 "대단한 머리를 가진 서부 밴더빌트"로 칭송받았다고?
레바논의 바스킨타 마을 근처에 위치한 73.8미터의 모든 나라들의 십자가가 세계에서 가장 큰 십자가라고?
…2006년 프로 야구 선수 페를란트 렌티니가 전년도 세운 기록보다 1개 많은 13개로 북부리그 단일 시즌 3관왕 기록을 깼다고?
제1차 세계대전의 베테랑인 독일 전함 프레우센의 63m(207ft) 길이의 선체가 어뢰 표적으로 사용됐다가 제2차 세계 대전 중 연합군 폭격기에 의해 폭격을 당해 침몰했다는 사실이요?
루이즈 테루스가 다큐멘터리 영화 '미국에서 가장 미움받는 가족'을 위해 웨스트버로 침례교회의 신도들을 인터뷰하기 위해 캔자스로 갔다고?
피아니스트 겸 세션 음악가 돈 랜디가 300개가 넘는 히트곡을 연주했다고 주장하는 사람?
…월마트의 여성복 화이트 스태그 브랜드가 1930년대 오리건주 포틀랜드에서 활강 스키복을 제조한 회사였다는 사실은?
수갑 채우는 것으로부터 오는 치통근육에 대한 임상연구가 술에 취한 피험자들에 의해 방해받는다고?

2010년 9월 26일

2010년 9월 26일(UTC) 18:00

…뉴욕의 뉴헴프스테드 장로교회(현 건물, 사진)가 영국계 신도들에 의해 허드슨 강 서쪽 식민지에 처음 세워졌다는 것은?
리겔데일 주점이 방앗간 주인에 의해 문을 열었다고?
바흐가 자신의 교회 칸타타 에스 바르트 알레스 오프 디카 BWV 187의 4악장을 G단조인 BWV 235의 미사를 위해 사용했다고?
숏테일 가오리 종은 세계에서 가장 큰 가오리 종이라고?
... 빌 코스비 부부가 연하장에서 자신의 작품을 처음 본 후 코스비 쇼의 세트장에 있는 헉스터블 거실에 아프리카계 미국인의 삶을 보여주는 배넷 허니우드의 예술이 포함되었다고?
... 1868년 템즈강에서 준설된 워털루 헬멧이 유럽에서 발견된 유일한 경적을 가진 철기 시대의 헬멧이란 말인가?
1994년 다큐멘터리 '치킨호크'는 소년들을 사랑하는 남자들, 소아성애자 그룹 NAMBLA에 더 많은 관심을 가져왔는가?
캐나다 북서부 지역에 있는 켄달섬 철새 보호구역이 전통적인 충적수목포경지라고?
... 달 위의 아폴로 16호의 착륙지인 데카르트 고원의 분화구에서 발견된 그 유리는 임무 지휘관 존 영에 의해 마른 진흙의 모습을 하고 있는 것으로 묘사되었는가?

2010년 9월 26일 12시(UTC)

건축가 조지 길버트 스콧 경이 올 소울즈, 핼리팩스, 웨스트요크셔(사진)를 그의 가장 훌륭한 교회로 여겼다고?
클럽의 곰팡이 클라바리아델푸스 리굴라가 보통 끈 산호라고 알려져 있다고?
바흐가 자신의 칸타타 브링게트 뎀 에렌 세인스 나멘스, 트리니티 다음으로 17번째 일요일에 148번 째 일요일에 두 명의 오보 다모어와 오보에 다 카치아에게 알토 아리아를 득점했다고?
... 1809년 그라즈 전투에서 연대가 성공적으로 방어한 것을 기념하기 위해 프랑스 육군 제84보병연대의 휘장이 "UN CONTRE DIX"(One Abort Ten)라는 말을 달고 다녔다는 것은?
… 레와 프라사드 드와베디가 1991년 인도의 민족자유운동을 그린 산스크리트 서사시 스바탄트랴-삼바밤으로 사히타 아카데미 상을 수상했다는 사실이요?
... The Office and Extras에 이어 Ricky Gervais와 Stephen Merchant의 다음 시트콤이 Warwick Davis가 주연을 맡고 쇼비즈 난쟁이의 삶에 관한 <Life's Too Short>라고?
1889년 호주 뉴사우스웨일스주 울라둘라 인근의 등대인 워든 헤드라이트(Wharden Head Light)가 현재 위치로 이전했다고?
... 레이든 대학의 롤프 브레머(Rolf Bremmer) 올드 프리지아 언어 전문가가 죄와 포피와 같은 개념의 기독교적 측면을 설명하는 알파벳 책을 냈다는 것은?
... 하키 명예의 전당 빌 콰켄부쉬가 신사적인 행동으로 Lady Byng Trophy를 수상한 후 즉시 트레이드된 것은 그의 매니저가 그것을 수상한 어떤 선수도 그의 팀에 속하지 않는다고 느꼈기 때문이라고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 26일(UTC)

포식성 곤충인 오리우스 인시디오스(사진)가 번식의 생물학적 통제에 사용하기 위해 대량 사육되고 있다고?
지질학자인 전 가봉 주재 미국대사인 리처드 펑커서(Richard Funkouser)는 "석유업자들은 정부 사람들을 '그들을 위한 것' 또는 '반대하는 것'으로 나누는 경향이 있다"고 말했다.
멕시코시티에 있는 콜로니아 후아레즈가 "리틀 서울"이라는 한인 커뮤니티의 본거지라고?
오늘 인디애나폴리스 UFC 119에서 열린 티아고 타바레스와의 경기에서 팻 "Awesomely Awonder" Audinwood가 UFC 챔피언십에 데뷔했다고?
사원의 산 남벽에 아직도 예수님이 걸으셨어야 할 계단이 있다고?
최근에 묘사된 아르헨티나의 초기 트라이아기의 코일라마수스쿠스 속은 남아메리카에서 가장 잘 알려진 초창기 대공룡이라고?
어떤 마야 도시에서는 가장 초기의 석탑 생산과 왕조 통치의 성립이 일치한다고?
... 에드워드 리드 경이 디자인한 영국의 가슴 공작 감시기가 미리 사두었던 전함과 그 드레드노트의 직접적인 조상이었다는 것을?
한 TV 광고에서 한 여성이 나레이터가 "고콜레스테롤, 고혈압, 심장마비"라고 말한 것처럼 반쯤 먹은 햄버거를 들고 있는 죽은 남자를 슬퍼하고 있다고 한다.오늘 밤, 채식주의자로 만들어라"?

00:00, 2010년 9월 26일(UTC)

... 존 페리 로빈슨 경정(사진)이 처음 당선된 것은 로빈슨이 승리할 수 있으리라고는 전혀 예상하지 못했기 때문에 야당 후보의 지지자들이 멀리 떨어져 있었기 때문이라고?
존 골란 영국 공산당 총재의 오랜 개인 비서인 줄리아 피리가 영국 스파이였다는 사실을?
캔자스주 위치타의 점심 판매대 분리를 초래한 도쿰 약국 농성이 1958년 7월에 시작되었다고? 그린스보로 농성 18개월 전에?
버팔로 빌 코디, 애니 오클리, 시팅 불 서장 등이 출연했던 버팔로 빌 와일드 웨스트 쇼의 현장이라고?
롬실바가 루마니아 전체 숲의 63%를 차지하는 400만 헥타르(990만 에이커)의 숲을 소유하고 관리하고 있다고?
... 제임스 빌링턴이 수감자를 교수형에 처할 때 평소보다 더 긴 드롭을 사용했다는 사실이 C.T.로 불멸하게 만들었다.C.T.를 늘린 오스카 와일드의 발라드 리딩 가올에 나오는 W.11인치 차이로 목은데?
... 멸종된 종 트로코덴드론 드라추키이가 브리티시 컬럼비아주 캐시 크릭 근처에서 발견된 단일 에오세 화석으로부터 알려져 있다고?
Bob Kinney가 BAA, NBA, NPBL에서 뛰었다고?
... 그레이엄 호크스가 심해 탐험가라는 것과 기관총으로 무장한 최초의 로봇을 발명한 제임스 본드 스턴트맨이라는 것?

2010년 9월 25일

2010년 9월 25일 18:00(UTC)

…게스트럼 렙토스페르름, 지쥬레, 지웰위츠키, 지 쿼드리피덤(사진)이 포자낭을 부풀리는 지구별 균류의 종이라는 것은?
... 박사님이... 아치발트 닐 싱클레어 하우스는 오아후 국가역사유적지 등록부에 있는 건물 앞마당에 폭탄 대피소가 있다?
머리핀 리보미가 유전자 정보를 암호화하고 생물학적 반응을 촉진할 수 있는 RNA라고?
...애니 루이자 워커가 Ira D의 말을 들은 후에. 산키의 찬송가 '밤의 코메스'가 그가 자신의 말을 사용했다는 것을 알아챘다고?
바이킹 은 브로치의 펜리스 호더지가 1785년부터 1989년까지 200년 동안 발견되었다고?
M-66이 미시간주 로어 반도의 유일한 주 고속도로라고?
그 회계사 데이비드 J. 포터가 2010년 텍사스 주 철도청장 선거에서 빅터 G. 카리요와 친분을 맺었다고?
... 서머셋 크리켓 선수 로버트 베로지가 윈스턴 처칠의 계부의 사촌이자 정치 작가 월터 베이허트의 사촌이라고?
... 제2차 세계 대전 중에 보잉 2공장이 가짜 거리뿐만 아니라 합판, 천으로 만든 집들로 위장되어 있었다고?

2010년 9월 25일 12시 36분(UTC)

…올해 발견한 크로스비 개럿 헬멧에는 날개 달린 그리핀이 붙어 있는데 반해, 비슷한 리브체스터 헬멧(사진)에는 스핑크스가 붙어 있었을지 모르지만, 뉴스테드 헬멧에는 플룸 홀더만 달려 있었다?
1816년 6월 28일 엘리 및 리틀포트 폭동 때 5명이 사형당했다고?
'체인비어' 제임스 페니모어 쿠퍼가 19세기 미국의 확장주의와 토지 소유에 대한 개념에 대해 매우 강한 비판을 하고 있다고?
라왈핀디 음모가 파키스탄 역사상 최초의 쿠데타 시도였고 시인 파이즈 아흐메드 파이즈가 연루되었다는 사실이요?
IGN의 더그 페리가 모토 레이서 월드 투어가 플레이스테이션의 5대 오토바이 경주 비디오 게임 중 하나라고 느꼈다고?
와이오밍 대법관이 리처드 5세라는 사실을 밝혀냈다. 토머스는 한때 샤이엔에 있는 F.E. 워렌 공군기지에서 법무장관이었나?
치로세팔루스 디아파누스가 영국에서 발생하는 유일한 요정새우 종이라고?
…테바가 운동의 지도자인 하지 모하마드 다네쉬가 국민 아와미당의 부총재 겸 총서기를 지낸 그 공산당 지도자?
록 밴드가 롭 로이를 위해 연주하는 동안 살아남지 못했다고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 25일(UTC)

... 첫 번째 고속도로 중심선(사진)이 K에 의해 마퀘트-네거니 길 위에 그려졌다는 것.1917년 소여?
... 헨리 하워드가 19세기 은행가, 목재업자, 알더만, 디트로이트의 시장이었고, 관련이 없는 헨리 하워드가 19세기 은행가, 목재업자, 알더만, 인근 포트 휴런의 시장이었다는 사실을?
... 4대 복음서의 원고인 마이너스큘 788에서 본문의 일부 구절이 재배치된다는 것(Luke 22:43–44, John 7:53–8:11)?
... 1923년 조지 5세 왕이 그에게 기사 작위를 수여했을 때 헤르만 골랑츠가 기사 작위를 받은 최초의 영국 랍비가 되었다고?
…바바디안 가수 리한나의 새 싱글 "Only Girl (In the World)"이 2007년 싱글 "Don't Stop the Music"에서 "더 강하고 섹시한 버전"으로 불리고 있다.
...러시아의 항공기 산업이 355,300명의 인원을 고용하고 있는 나라 경제의 뒤통수 중 하나라고?
…The Child's Eye가 완전히 3-D와 고화질로 촬영된 최초의 홍콩 공포 영화라고?
쿰브리아 룬의 발레 성 그레고리오 교회가 세워졌을 때 런던과 노스웨스턴 철도는 성서독자를 교회로 보내 그들의 잉글턴 지부를 건설하는 해군에 목회하도록 했단 말인가?
크레이그 "죽음" 노가 자신을 230파운드(104kg)의 몸무게로 "비열하다"고 생각했기 때문에 하루에 6끼와 4,000칼로리 이상의 식단을 채택했다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 25일(UTC)

뉴사우스웨일스의 실록스 근처에 있는 슈가로프 포인트 라이트(사진)가 호주에 있는 단 두 개의 등대 중 한 곳인데 외부 계단이 있다고?
... 그의 유언장에서 금주 운동가 조셉 리비시는 자신의 "말주 강연" 사본을 랭커셔의 프레스턴의 모든 가정에 남겼다고?
20세기 초 옥스퍼드 대학의 기록 보관 책임자는 전임자들이 "끝나면 일을 망친다"고 비판했다고?
… 1903년 6월 14일, 헤프너에 있는 구조물 중 3분의 1이 순식간에 홍수로 윌로우 크릭에 휩쓸려 "오레곤 역사상 가장 치명적인 자연 재해"로 247명이 사망했다고?
... 스코틀랜드의 우체부 겸 균사학자 찰스 매킨토시가 베아트릭스 포터의 <피터 래빗 이야기>에 나오는 맥그리거 씨의 실제 모델이었을 가능성이 높다고?
... 과테말라 티칼의 마야 유적에서 가장 철저하게 복원된 피라미드 2호가 아마도 자소 챈 카와일 1세에 의해 그의 아내인 칼라후언 운 모 부인을 기리기 위해 지어졌을 것이라고?
바로크 작곡가인 Fortunato Celeri의 돈키호테의 음악은 오르가니스트 Kalevi Kiviniemi가 라스 피냐스 대나무 오르간에서 녹음한 곡이라고?
... 쿠바의 사자성어인 엘 니아가라 엔 비시클타가 극복하기 어려운 상황을 묘사하기 위해 사용된다고?
… 바바라 홀랜드가 담배 피우고 스카치 마시는 것을 즐겼으며 브로콜리, 운동, 스타벅스의 등장으로 본 것에 대한 항의로 2007년 책 <술의 즐거움>을 썼다고?

2010년 9월 24일

2010년 9월 24일 18:00(UTC)

… 19세기 켈트족의 부흥에서 중세 초기 아일랜드의 음경 브로치(예: 그림)가 모방되고 모방되었다는 것은?
... 이스라엘에서 기록된 가장 낮은 온도인 -13.7°C (7.3°F)가 1950년 2월 7일 베이트 네토파 계곡에서 측정되었다고?
... 1926년 4월의 하이드바우어 사건에서 철학자 루트비히 비트겐슈타인이 수업 중에 의식을 잃은 11세 소년을 때려눕혔다는 것은?
... 서른 살에 프로로 축구 협회에 복귀한 후에도 불가리아 선수 니콜라이 보조프가 아버지의 철인 사업을 계속 경영하고 있다는 사실을?
... 노스요크셔주 로클리프 성모교회의 서체는 헐 성 삼위일체교회에서 나온 것이고, 조끼 문과 대리석 계단은 요크 민스터에서 온 것이라고?
이 뾰족한 부비알라가 열대우림이나 호주 동부의 습윤 유칼립투스 숲에서 발견될 수 있다고?
1980년대에 스테로이드를 팔았다는 것을 인정했지만 나중에 던지기 코치로서 운동선수들에게 건강상의 위험을 경고했던 캐나다 올림픽 슛퍼터인 Dollegiewicz 주교가?
JPL 과학부의 연구 영역에는 화성의 표면, 오존 파괴와 지구 온난화의 원인과 완화, 생명체와 우주의 자연과 진화를 연구하는 것이 포함되어 있다고?
... 싸움 귀뚜라미는 싸움 전에 여성회사와 함께 제공되고, 싸움 중에 간지럼을 타면서 자극을 받고, 그 후에 은관에 묻힌다고?

2010년 9월 24일 12:00(UTC)

… 라오스 민족 의식인 바시(사진)는 행운을 보존하기 위해 사람의 손목에 줄을 묶는 것을 포함한다?
1869년 워리어 클래스의 철갑상어 HMS 워리어와 HMS 블랙 프린스가 떠다니는 드라이독을 버뮤다로 견인했다고?
'용서받지 못한(2000년)'에서 열린 WWF 하드코어 챔피언십에서 세 명의 레슬러가 우승했다고?
... 킨로스의 교장이 중세 로스 교구의 자리인 포트로스 대성당 지부의 상임이사였다는 사실을?
광고회사 임원인 진 케이스가 "고마워"를 개발했다고 한다.나는 그것이 필요했다." 메넨의 스킨 브레이서 애프터세이브를 위한 페이스 슬래핑 캠페인과 텀즈 제산제를 위한 드래그넷에서 영감을 받은 "툼-타-툼-툼-툼-툼"?
스카렌더 무소가 벨리 콤버타르의 안티파시스트 저항운동 제1대대대의 창시자 중 한 명이라고?
뉴 푸시캣이 뭔데?영국 영화감독 클라이브 도너에게 박스오피스 흥행이 있었지만, 시나리오 작가 우디 알렌은 그의 원작이 왜곡되었다며 이 영화를 싫어했다.
... 1924년 알바니아 6월 혁명의 배후에는 불가리아 태생의 공산주의자이자 개인적인 친구인 솔로몬 골드스타인이라는 것이?
15마일 크릭의 길이가 87km라고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 24일(UTC)

... 아마니타 종 A. 앳킨슨디아나(사진)와 A. 라벤엘리 종은 표백가루와 비슷한 냄새를 가지고 있다고?
…제넨텍의 최고 과학책임자 마크 테시에 라빈느가 록펠러 대학의 총장으로 지명되어, 그 자리에 선출된 최초의 비학사적인 인물이 되었다는 것은?
루마니아에서 45도선 북쪽에 미즈일이 있는 유일한 도시나 마을이라고?
영국 해군 장교 에드워드 니콜라스 켄달이 월라스턴랜드를 발견했다고?
오레곤 주 컬럼비아 카운티의 라디오 방송국인 KOHI가 초자연적인 주제를 다루는 심야 라디오 프로그램을 방송한다고?
... 연쇄 성범죄자 배트맨 강간범이 1991년 이후 배스에서 적어도 17건의 공격을 저질렀으며 영국에서 가장 오래 지속된 연쇄 강간 수사의 대상이라고?
크로아티아의 도브라교에서 2000년에 건설하는 동안 세 개의 주요 스팬 거더가 도브라강으로 붕괴되었다고?
제임스 E를 우승한 최초의 대학 학부생이야 미국 아마추어 스포츠맨으로서 설리번 상은 1941년에 레슬리 맥미첼이 받았다?
9살 가수 윌로우 스미스의 싱글 'Wip My Heart' 유출 사건이 발매 당일 빌보드, 타임, CNN에 의해 보도되었고 유튜브 조회수 10만 건을 돌파했다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 24일(UTC)

…검은 거짓 헬레보어(사진)가 암 치료제일 수도 있는 화장실 청소기라고?
조던 크릭을 따라 영구적으로 거주하고 있는 유일한 인구 센터가 오레곤 주 조던 밸리라고?
루마니아는 유럽연합에서 천연가스 매장량이 세 번째로 많다고?
... 교육 출판업자 겸 금주 운동가인 존 캐셀이 공공 주택에서 자라났다고?
... 다윈주의의 강력한 지지자가 된 토머스 로스코 레드 스테빙 목사가 옥스퍼드 주교 사무엘 윌버포스의 서품을 받았다고? 옥스퍼드의 위대한 반대자 중 한 명인?
2010년 9월 급성 골수성 백혈병 치료제로서 시애틀 유전학에서 약 린투즈맵을 철회한 것은 플라시보 치료제보다 더 큰 효익이 없다는 임상 연구 결과가 나온 후라고?
만화가 프랜시스 윌포드 스미스가 영국 농가에서 블루스 뮤지션들을 고용한 녹음기와 지역 마을 회관에서 빌린 피아노로 녹음했다고?
... 1996년 1월 흑해 인질극에서 파나마 여객선 아브라사야가 친 체첸 반군에 납치되었다는 사실이요?
... 그 이중 다리를 절단한 밥 비엘랜드가 뉴욕시 마라톤을 3일 만에 마치고 3년 8개월 6일 만에 미국을 횡단했는데, 그 모든 것이 그의 손을 밟으며?

2010년 9월 23일

2010년 9월 23일 18:00(UTC)

...포획된 상어가 없기 때문에 어른들의 부드러운 상어(상어)가 어디에 살고 있는지 확실하지 않다고?
... 루키우스 워커는 로널드 레이건에게 니카라과에서 1988년 발생한 콘트라 반군의 강 보트 공격에 대해 "우리 정부의 테러에 직면했다"고 비난했다고?
포틀랜드 하버에서 쿠퍼 키 제독의 특수부대 대대와 함께 러-터키 전쟁 중에 영국 유방조영사 HMS 하이드라가 서비스를 봤다고?
제2차 세계대전으로 인해 미국 대학의 학생회가 고갈되어 딕 아이브스가 17세의 신입생으로서 아이오와에서 농구를 할 수 있게 되었다.
역사학자 A. L. Rowse는 엘리자베스 젠킨스의 전기 엘리자베스 대왕이 "역사상 가장 뛰어난 여성의 비밀을 다른 어떤 것보다도 더 깊이 파고들게 되었다"고 말했다.
나딘 고디머가 자신의 소설 '버거의 딸'이 넬슨 만델라의 반역죄 재판 변론 변호사인 브람 피셔에게 "코딩된 경의를 표한다"고 말한 것?
트라우트 크리크 근처에서 발견된 구덩이 집이 적어도 5,000년 이상 된 것?
... 11.38km (7.07mi) 길이의 파라나 강에 있는 엥 세르지오 모타 댐이 브라질에서 가장 길다고?
... 532년 비잔틴 제국과 사사니드 페르시아 사이에 체결된 영원한 평화가 단 8년 동안 지속되었다는 사실을?

2010년 9월 23일 12시(UTC)

그 폭동은 캐롤라이나주 찰스 타운에서 제임스 무어 주지사의 1702년 성 공성전 실패 이후 발생했다. 아우구스티누스 (운명의 사진)?
... 이제 은퇴한 프로레슬러 아베 제이콥스가 시차 적응에 어려움을 겪고 높은 고도에서 경쟁했음에도 불구하고 요하네스버그에서 다른 레슬링 선수 3명을 물리친 적이 있다고?
북부 베르윅 수녀원의 마지막 전처인 제5대 왕실 친족에게 수녀원의 땅을 넘겼다고?
세르비아의 석유 셰일 매장량은 크지만 개발되지 않은 상태라고?
... 펫터 야콥 비예브가 노르웨이 재무부 장관으로 재직하면서 박사학위 논문을 변호했다고?
영국 유방조영사 HMS 사이클롭스와 그녀 타입의 다른 배들은 G. A. Ballard 제독에 의해 "전장갑이 나귀를 타고 다니는 기사들, 피하기 쉽지만 닫기에는 좋지 않은 기사들"이라고 묘사되었다.
토마스 기네스부르크가 책 편집자로 재키 오나시스를 고용했지만 바이킹 출판사가 테드 케네디 대통령을 암살하려는 가상의 음모에 대해 "대통령에게 말할까?"를 출판한 후 그녀는 떠났다.
미아게 빙하가 유럽에서 가장 큰 잔해로 덮인 빙하이고 이탈리아에서 가장 긴 빙하라고?
... 워터블리에트 셰이커스가 씨앗을 작은 종이 봉투에 포장한 최초의 씨앗 판매자라고 생각하나?

06:00, 2010년 9월 23일(UTC)

…브라질·아르헨티나 국경에 있는 이과수 폭포(사진)에 도달하기 전에 이과수 강이 수력발전소 호세 리차, 살토 오소리오, 살토 산티아고, 네이 브라가, 벤투 문호즈 댐에 의해 방해를 받는다고?
... 1924년 7월 요크셔와 미들섹스의 주 크리켓 경기 이후 요크셔의 아베 와딩턴이 반대파를 야유하기 위해 군중을 선동했다는 혐의를 받고 있다고?
... 자부예 호수가 중국 리튬의 주요 공급원이라고?
... The Ultimate Fighter의 경쟁자인 카일 왓슨: 팀 GSP vs. 팀 코스체크, 주짓수 팀장이 H.I.T. 스쿼드의 주짓수 강사도?
... 미국의 고생물학자 브루스 에릭슨이 고대 화석 100만 점의 표본을 소장하고 있다고?
키클롭스급 모니터에 탑승한 숙박시설들이 영국 해군에서 가장 나쁜 것으로 평가되었고 일반 해병들이 "주철로 된 공기가 있는 오두막"이라고 언급했다는 것은?
... 방글라데시의 건국 지도자 셰이크 무지부르 라흐만이 동파키스탄 르네상스 협회를 공동 설립하여 동파키스탄을 독립국가로 육성했다고?
…530년 사탈라 전투에서 비잔틴 장교가 페르시아 장군의 깃발을 나포하여 페르시아 군을 공포에 떨게 하고 후퇴시켰다는 것을?
홀리 헌터가 1987년 영화 라이징 애리조나에서 전통적인 살인 발라드 "Down in the Willow Garden"을 자장가로 불렀다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 23일(UTC)

…러시아 최북단 도시 페벡(사진)이 동시베리아 해상에 서 있다고?
... 루앙의 대주교인 아미앵의 휴가 레딩의 초대 교장이라는 것을?
이타, 마차디뉴, 바라그란데 수력발전소가 함께 브라질 산타카타리나 주에서 에너지 수요의 127%를 창출할 수 있다고?
알렉산더 볼코프가 M-1 글로벌 동유럽 토너먼트 결승전에 진출했다는 사실은?
... 베컨설 올드 교회인 랭커셔는 마노르 영주가 공급한 수제 벽돌로 지어졌다고?
... 1940년 노르웨이 국고의 성공적인 비행에 오스카 토프가 책임이 있다고?
신석기 시대 초기 스타체보 문화가 서식했다는 것을 보여주는 고고학적 발견은?
… 1908년부터 1940년까지 루이지애나 교육감을 지낸 T. H. 해리스의 이름을 대학 장학금 프로그램, 기술 대학, 중학교가 모두 이름붙여져 있다고?
... 세 아이의 나이를 세 아이의 연령의 합, 제품, 그리고 독특함만으로 계산할 수 있다는 것이 가능한가?

2010년 9월 22일

2010년 9월 22일(UTC) 18:

... 맥스웰 우드헐 육군 장군이 워싱턴 D.C.에 있는 조지 워싱턴 대학교에 자신의 집(사진)을 기증했다고?
... 세인트 앤드루스 대학교의 세인트 앤드류스 이전 신학 학장인 제임스 할덴스턴이 롤라드를 증오한다는 이유로 중세 역사학자 월터 바워로부터 찬사를 받았다고?
... 제1차 세계 대전 전에 건설된 9명의 영국 전투함 중 오직 HMS 타이거만이 1922년 워싱턴 해군 조약의 톤수 제한이 발효된 후 영국 해군에 의해 유지되었다.
…저 미국 외교관 R. 스미스 심슨은 1962년 외무부에 입사하는 데 관심이 있는 많은 학생들이 미국에 대해 거의 알지 못하며 "외교적인 일에 준비가 안 된 사람들"이라고 썼다.
진주굴 핀타다 라디타타(Pinctada radiata)의 범위가 일본에서 빅토리아까지 확장된다는 것은?
'그라운드 제로 모스크'의 배후 이슬람 부동산 개발자인 샤리프 엘 가말 씨가 지역 유대인 주민센터 회원으로서 자신의 프로젝트에 영감을 주었다고 말하는가?
'무법자'로 알려진 온타리오-미네소타 국경의 61번 고속도로에 있는 오래된 다리가 캐나다 정부나 미국 정부의 승인 없이 지역 시민들에 의해 건설되었다고?
스티븐 A라는 사람이요. 스와일은 남북전쟁 중에 연합군 장교로 임관한 최초의 아프리카계 미국인이었을지도 모른다.
2010년 FIFA 월드컵의 공식 곡이 최근 프랑스 음악 차트에서 가상의 노래 마못인 레네 라 타우페의 싱글로 1위를 차지했다고?

2010년 9월 22일 12시(UTC)

...뉴질랜드주 뉴플리머스에 있는 테 레와 다리(사진)가 머스킷워즈 전투의 현장에 있다는 사실을?
팀 스포츠 반도의 기원이 하키, 신티, 밴디와 밀접하게 연관되어 있다고?
노스요크셔 주의 앨러튼 모울레버러 성 마틴 교회의 운울 아치 위에 모세와 아론을 그린 그림이라고?
2010년 하계 청소년 올림픽 다이빙 동메달리스트 마이클 딕슨의 부모가 모두 미국 대학 스포츠의 코치라고?
Fenton Hill Observatory가 RAPTOR 망원경의 본거지라고? 3초 안에 하늘의 어느 지점을 향해 회전할 수 있다고?
토니 블레어가 더블린에서 '늦은 후기 쇼'에 관한 책을 홍보한 다음날 신발과 달걀을 투척당했다고?
레그 하우스가 인디아나 블루밍턴 외곽에 지어졌지만 지금은 인디아나 대학 캠퍼스의 심장부 근처에 있다고?
1985년까지 밥 딜런이 1963년 작 "Lay Down Your Deed Tune"를 발표하지 않았지만, 그 사이에 바이즈(The Byrds)와 다른 아티스트들에 의해 다뤄졌다고?
트릭스가 체셔에서 가장 적합한 개로 묘사된 적이 있다고?

06:00, 2010년 9월 22일(UTC)

랑캐스터 성 요한의 박스피스(사진)가 회사의 사용을 위해 이중 퓨(pew)를 형성하도록 수정되었다는 사실이?
…오페레타를 작곡하고 음악비평을 쓰기로 유명한 퍼시 리브가 시집 <사랑과 음악>도 제작했다는 것?
일본 호위함 오키나와, CD-63, CD-207이 미국 잠수함 본피쉬를 침몰시켰다고?
... 워싱턴 D.C.에 있는 코즈웨이가 거주자라기 보다는 다리 이름을 붙인 사유지라고?
스톤그라운드의 가상의 교구인 E. G. 스웨인의 석지 유령 이야기(Standround, Peterborough)가 스탱라운드(Stanground)에 기반을 두고 있다고? 스웨인 자신이 비카(Vicar)였던 피터버러(Peterborough)?
모토 레이서 DS가 2002년 이후 처음으로 출시된 모토 레이서 비디오 게임이라고?
찰스 그렌 엘리컴베 영국 육군 장군이 최초의 '목욕의 동반자' 중 한 명이 되었다고?
뉴아일랜드 스팅가레가 피부 의치를 가진 유일한 스팅가레인데, 새로운 속종을 대표할 수 있다고?
에버하르트 폰 브라우치츠가 1969년부터 1981년 사이에 자신의 회사가 독일의 주요 정당에 약 2600만 도이체 마크를 기부한 것을 "정치현장을 가꾸는 것"이라고 불렀다고?

00:00, 2010년 9월 22일(UTC)

...표범 채찍자리와 벌집 채찍자리는 어릴 때 크고 어두운 점이 있으며, 어른이면 고리가 된다는 것을?
... 호마지알 왕관이 아마도 폴란드의 브와디스와프 2세의 대관식 왕관일 것이라고?
슈가 그로브 암각화는 오지브라는 암각화 유적지 근처에 살지 않았지만 오지브라는 주제를 보여주는 것으로 해석되어 왔다.
네덜란드에서 패트릭 반 데어 에임과 조란 반 데어 슬루트의 몰래카메라 대화가 TV 방송 기록을 세웠다고?
브라질의 파울로 아폰소 콤플렉스가 폭포를 댐으로 막았지만 폭포의 유출로 인해 폭포가 재현될 수 있다고?
…프로야구 선수 에디 필립스가 메이저리그에서 타선이나 야구를 한 적은 없지만 세인트루이스에서 4점을 득점했다. 1953년 시즌의 루이스 카디널스?
이스탄불에 있는 항공 순교자 기념비의 깨진 꼭대기가 비행 임무의 불완전한 상태를 상징한다고?
루이지애나 공화당의 밥 리스가 말년에 체조 코치와 초상화가였다는 사실이요?
... 1757년 프로이센 수도 베를린을 점령한 후 신성로마제국의 기병들이 도시의 몸값의 일부로 황후에게 십여 켤레의 장갑을 요구했다고?

2010년 9월 21일

2010년 9월 21일 18:00(UTC)

... 베네치아 캄포 데이 그레치(사진)에 있는 플랑기니아 학교가 17, 18세기의 근대 그리스 계몽주의에 공헌한 여러 명의 교사를 배출했다고?
명예훈장 수여자 리처드 엣흐버거의 원래 훈장 지명은 그가 맡고 있던 임무가 기밀이었기 때문에 거절당했다고?
…월트셔 주 올드 사룸에 세워진 노먼 교회인 올드 사룸 성당이 13세기에 솔즈베리의 새 성당으로 대체되었다는 것은?
1989-90 미시간 울버린스 남자 농구팀이 현재 빅텐 회의 단식 경기 골을 기록했다고?
불라트 오쿠드하바가 <부라티노의 모험>의 노래 가사를 썼지만, 그의 작품 중 일부는 너무 철학적으로 여겨져 제외되었다고?
성 요한 침례교회의 장식물인 필링, 랭커셔의 수세미가 더 일반적인 부싯돌과 돌의 재료가 아닌 사암 두 가지 색으로 되어 있다는 것은?
Silver Creek이 200피트(약 60m)가 넘는 벽을 가진 오리건주 라일리 근처의 협곡을 통해 흐른다고?
아삼 총독이 되기 전에 인도 제헌의회에서 인도의 지도자인 야람다스 다울라트람이 동 펀자브를 대표했다고?
... 알빈 아인스가 1928년에 우파 신문인 티덴스 테그에 대한 작업을 시작했는데, 공산당 신문 노르주 코무니스트블라드를 편집한 지 채 1년도 되지 않았단 말인가?

2010년 9월 21일 12시(UTC)

... 폴란드-리투아니아 연방의 반역자로 여겨지는 야누스 랏지위워우가 포위된 타이코신 성(사진)에서 죽었다고?
모튼 코헨이 1995년에 쓴 루이스 캐롤 전기의 이론이 캐롤의 삶에 대한 결정적인 학문적 업적으로 여겨진다고?
…올 빅텐 라인배커 앤디 칸나비노, 폴 기르가시, 로버트 톰슨이 이끄는 1980년 미시건 수비가 시즌 마지막 5경기에서 경기당 평균 1.8점을 내준 것은?
영화 '자객단의 통치'에서 존 우가 그의 딸인 앤젤레스를 주인공으로 한 액션 장면을 연출하는데 일주일이 넘게 걸렸다고?
모잠비크의 프라임이라스와 세군다스 군도가 WWF와 CARE 프로젝트의 초점이라는 것은 그 화려한 암초 시스템을 보존하기 위한 것인가?
볼리바르 켐프 전 루이지애나 법무장관이 카준 유머리스트와 셰프 저스틴 윌슨의 처남이었다는 사실이요?
... 킹덤 하트 캐릭터 록사스와 극도의 육체적 유사성에도 불구하고, 벤투스는 같은 시리즈와는 전혀 다른 캐릭터라고?
... that in April 2010, New Jersey cat sanctuary Tabby's Place received three cats from a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, Japan, marking the organization's first international rescue?
... that Cody McKenzie, who appeared on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, has the second-most guillotine choke victories in the world according to Sherdog.com?

06:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, unlike the drab-coloured wrens of the Northern Hemisphere, the fairywrens of Australasia can be Purple-crowned, Orange-crowned, White-shouldered, or ... Lovely (pictured)?
... that the newly described monkey, Rondon's Marmoset, was named in honor of Amazonian explorer Cândido Rondon?
... that Hinder's lead singer, Austin Winkler, considers the band's upcoming album, The All-American Nightmare, to be the record he is proudest of?
... that the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender plan to make a spinoff called Avatar: Legend of Korra, which is set at least 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai?
... that Eva Maria Mauter wrote that the 1994 children's book The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan gets neglected in treatment about McEwan's works because it is a children's novel?
... that the Kai stingaree has only been collected by the HMS Challenger, in 1874?
... that Sako Chivitchian holds 11 U.S. national judo titles and won his debut mixed martial arts fight in 98 seconds at age 15?
... that the George D. Oakley House on the National Register of Historic Places on Oahu has a window through its lava rock chimney?
... that Canadian artist Will Munro became known for fashioning artistic works out of men's underwear?

00:00, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

... that architect Thomas Lainson's works include a Queen Anne-style hospital, a Second Empire-style furniture repository (pictured) and a High Gothic working men's club?
... that the recently described dwarf black stingray looks like, but is less than a third as wide as, the black stingray?
... that in 1848, James Mathews Leigh founded a popular art school in London, providing training for many leading British artists?
... that Gubazes II, the king of Lazica, was assassinated by two Byzantine generals whom he had accused of incompetence?
... that the extinct fern Wessiea is known from Miocene fossils found at the "Ho ho" locality in Yakima County, Washington?
... that Brian Birdwell, the newest member of the Texas State Senate, was a burn victim of the terrorist attack on The Pentagon on September 11, 2001?
... that Deltaterrasserne, containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures, is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land?
... that John Rudometkin's NBA career was cut short due to his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma?
... that Seymour Pine, who led the NYPD raid that triggered the Stonewall riots, later admitted that such raids were seen as an easy way to improve arrest numbers as the gays "never gave you any trouble"?

20 September 2010

18:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that many prisoners escaped from the Allen County Jail (pictured), which was hailed as the best jail in southeastern Kansas upon its completion?
... that Shantungosuchus, a small, primitive crocodile from the Cretaceous period, was terrestrial instead of aquatic?
... that Manoj Pradhan, an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected from Orissa's G. Udayagiri assembly constituency?
... that former Louisiana Atty. Gen. Fred S. LeBlanc, as a district judge in 1959, signed the letter committing his old rival, Earl Long, to undergo evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia?
... that the UK charity Counsel and Care was one of the first advocates of a "death tax" as a method to fund the care of the elderly?
... that in the first round of the 2004 Grand Prix snooker tournament, Stephen Maguire was docked a frame for not having his chalk at the start of his match against Shaun Murphy?
... that artist William W. Fenn, although blind, was a popular writer for The Magazine of Art (1878–1904)?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that the Aruba Police Force was once stationed in a clock tower at Fort Zoutman, the oldest establishment on the island?

12:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1553–54, while seeking a northern passage from England to the Indies, Richard Chancellor established a trade route to Russia through the White Sea (pictured) instead?
... that, in later life, English illustrator Lawson Wood was a recluse, living in a 15th century medieval manor house he had moved brick by brick from Sussex to the Kent border?
... that Dickie Boon, Stanley Cup champion player with the Montreal Hockey Club of 1902–1903 is credited with inventing the poke check used in ice hockey to knock the puck off an attacking player's stick?
... that Old St John the Baptist's Church, Pilling, Lancashire, has been called "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church"?
... that Charles Folkard created the first British daily newspaper cartoon strip, The Adventures of Teddy Tail, for the Daily Mail in April 1915?
... that the Luiz Gonzaga Dam in Brazil was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga who is known as the "king of Baião" and "Gonzagão"?
... that part of the bed of the Dry River in central Oregon is used as a hiking trail?
... that in 1830, 80% of the residents of Mexican Texas—part of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas—were from the United States or Europe?
... that This Ain't Avatar XXX, an American pornographic film parody of Avatar, is being shot in 3D and is the most expensive film Hustler Video has ever produced?

06:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū (illustrated) performed the world's first operation under general anesthesia in 1804?
... that Bach used recorders and pizzicato of the strings to evoke funeral bells in his cantata Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161, written in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity?
... that during the Nannygate political controversy of 1993, Americans were asked if they had a "Zoë Baird problem"?
... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan's dictum in Cone Hospital that the Federal Arbitration Act applied to state courts later became the central holding of Southland Corp. v. Keating?
... that about 67 powerful and destructive earthquakes occurred in 1985?
... that the Academy Honorary Award and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award are presented at the Governors Awards?
... that Greenland's well preserved archaeological site on Nipisat Island contains some stone artifacts that were previously unknown from the Saqqaq culture?
... that the two Scorpion class ironclads that were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 from a British shipyard were seized in 1863 by the British Government to prevent their delivery?
... that footwraps, pieces of cloth wrapped around the feet in place of socks, are being phased out by the army of Belarus in 2010?

00:00, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

... that from 1980 to 2005, the Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station (pictured) in Russia generated over 600 billion kWh of electricity?
... that radio mogul John Lynch initially played football for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but joined the broadcasting industry after only a few weeks because of a knee injury?
... that the new Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey lays out a roadmap for exploring extrasolar planetary systems and investigating the nature of dark energy?
... that American organist Carl Weinrich performed the premieres of Samuel Barber's Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 6, and Arnold Schoenberg's Variations on a Recitative?
... that after leaving the aircraft by evacuation slide, some of the passengers from Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514 foraged for mushrooms whilst awaiting rescue?
... that the Arkansas River bridge between Johnson and Logan counties in Arkansas is named for Ada Mills, who lobbied 40 years for the project?
... that the Church of Saint Andrew in High Ham, Somerset, England, has a 12th century lead-lined font on a stem with rope moulding?
... that Montana Territorial Governor John Schuyler Crosby fought and subdued a crazed knife wielding valet from his sick bed?
... that ten years after releasing an entire album of 18- to 21-minute songs, progressive rock band Yes won their first Grammy for "Cinema", a two-minute instrumental?

19 September 2010

18:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Norcon pillbox (pictured) has been described as "possibly the most dangerous, cheap and nasty of all pillbox designs"?
... that author and wine educator Karen MacNeil‎'s book The Wine Bible was ten years in the making?
... that Canpotex manages the entire Saskatchewan potash-exporting industry, representing one-third of global capacity?
... that all of mixed martial artist Mairbek Taisumov's documented victories have come by knockout or submission?
... that the first ever UK City of Culture will be Derry in 2013?
... that the detection of supernova SN 2008D on January 9, 2008, by Alicia M. Soderberg using data from NASA's Swift X-ray space telescope marked the first time a supernova was observed as it occurred?
... that the cathedra at Beirut's Saint George Maronite Cathedral is the armchair used by Pope John Paul II during his 1997 visit to Lebanon?
... that Colonia Hipódromo was home to refugees from the Spanish Civil War?
... that after keeping a clean sheet in an FA Cup match against defending champions Manchester United, Bournemouth goalkeeper Ian Leigh was rewarded with a lifetime supply of pizzas from a local Italian restaurant?

12:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the 5,000 year-old Ötzi the Iceman was carrying four pieces of Hoof Fungus (modern specimen pictured) when he was found?
... that two players named John Schultz, one a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and one a catcher for the St. Louis Browns, each enjoyed cups of coffee during the 1891 Major League Baseball season?
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton, Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel?
... that the quilting show Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel has been on the air for more than 30 years?
... that the 7.5 M_w 1985 Pichilemu earthquake lasted about three minutes?
... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
... that the blackedge whipray is known in Tamil as the "salt-like ray"?
... that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Bill Frieder won five consecutive NCAA tournament berths and include the 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, and 1987–88 teams, and 1988–89 national championship team?
... that the Deaf Smith County Historical Museum contains artifacts from a World War II Italian POW camp located near Hereford, Texas?

06:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

... that there are 21 endemic Australian stingarees, including the brown, circular, common, Coral Sea, greenback, Kapala (pictured), lobed, masked, mitotic, patchwork, sandyback, sparsely-spotted, spotted, striped, wide, and eastern, western and yellow shovelnoses?
... that beginning in the 18th century, Tanners' Bridge was used to cross Lanë in Tirana until the stream was redirected in the 1930s?
... that Malcolm, Lord Douglas of Mains was hung, drawn and quartered in 1584 for kidnapping King James VI of Scotland in the Raid of Ruthven?
... that there is some confusion about whether Shigeki Osawa's MMA fight against Katsuya Toida was a no contest or a disqualification win for Osawa due to accidental kicks to the groin?
... that the McBarge, a futuristic floating McDonald's built for Expo '86, has been anchored derelict next to an oil refinery since 1991?
... that the 4th century Roman glass Lycurgus Cup is dichroic; lit from in front it is green, but thanks to surface plasmon resonance it is red when lit from behind?
... that the Rrashbull Tunnel of the Durrës–Tiranë railway in Albania was dug by Bulgarian volunteers, members of the Youth section of their Communist Party?
... that French royal troops attacked the Spanish Netherlands when portions of that province were not ceded to Louis XIV as part of his wife's dowry?
... that American musicologist and critic Joseph Kerman described Puccini's opera Tosca as "a shabby little shocker"?

00:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Robert Clotworthy

... that Robert Clotworthy (voice sample right) is the voice of Jim Raynor in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty?
... that author and wine educator Mary Ewing-Mulligan was the first female American Master of Wine?
... that Route Trident in Afghanistan was the first road to be built by the Royal Engineers during combat since the Dhofar Rebellion in the early 1970s?
... that when Gordon MacInnes won a State Senate seat in 1993 in the 25th Legislative District, he became the first Democrat from Morris County in 18 years to be elected to the New Jersey Legislature?
... that Parque México in Mexico City exists because environmental laws in the 1920s did not allow housing to be built on a former racetrack?
... that in retaliation for Nepal recognising Bangladesh in 1971, Pakistan broke off its ties with Nepal?
... that historian David J. Weber of Southern Methodist University was called "at least a generation ahead of his time in recognizing how entwined Mexico and the United States were and are"?
... that the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball teams coached by Johnny Orr featured Rudy Tomjanovich, Campy Russell, Rickey Green and Phil Hubbard and included the 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1976–77, and 1979–80 teams, and the NCAA Tournament runner-up 1975–76 team?
... that playwright A.R. Gurney promised his parents that his play The Cocktail Hour would not be produced in their hometown of Buffalo, New York, during their lifetimes?

18 September 2010

18:04, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the keels of both British Renown class battlecruisers (HMS Renown pictured) were laid six weeks before the contracts were finalized in 1915?
... that Chile is celebrating its bicentennial on September 18, today?
... that James L. Swauger continued his archaeological work with petroglyphs for fifteen years after his nominal retirement?
... that Dick Button performed the first triple jump in competition at the men's figure skating event at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
... that Krohn Air was started by a local businessman to continue servicing the route from Molde to Trondheim, Norway, after Scandinavian Airlines terminated its service?
... that Frank Perls, who found a copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler, also uncovered a series of forgeries attributed to Degas and Picasso?
... that catcher Rocky Gale made his professional baseball debut with the Eugene Emeralds, a team he watched while growing up in the area?
... that Iraqi television presenter Riad al-Saray was assassinated the same day that Reporters Without Borders announced the Iraq War had killed more journalists than any since the Second World War?
... that Jerusalem's Beit Hadfus Street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the printing houses that were established there?
... that descendants of Wigglesworth Dole included a missionary to Hawaii, a governor of Hawaii, an attorney general of Hawaii, and a "pineapple king"?

12:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Larry Ashmead wrote the book Bertha Venation: And Hundreds of Other Funny Names of Real People, with such people as Stan Dupp, a dentist named Dr. Fang and Jaime Cardinal Sin (pictured) of the Philippines?
... that Don Graham developed the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, the largest outdoor shopping mall in the United States?
... that Colonia Guerrero in Mexico City was part of an old colonial-era indigenous neighborhood?
... that Chicago native Scotty Moylan, who became one of Guam's most prominent businessmen, introduced the first Volkswagen automobiles to the island in the 1960s?
... that, in a storyline, several referees attacked Jim Korderas at the World Wrestling Federation's Unforgiven 1999 event for not joining them in their strike?
... that Deborah and John Coleman Darnell of the Theban Desert Road Survey followed ancient caravan trails to discover a 3,500-year-old site at the Kharga Oasis in the middle of Egypt's Western Desert?
... that the $30 million renovation of Proctor's Theatre in 2007 has been seen as the catalyst for the revival of downtown Schenectady?
... that Alex Caceres' nickname "Bruce Leeroy" is inspired by the character of the same nickname in The Last Dragon?
... that in the 1970s the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was one of the few organisations that could arrange visits from the United Kingdom to China?

06:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue (pictured) in The Bronx has been recognized as the "birthplace of hip hop"?
... that as civil defense director at the height of the Cold War in 1961, Frank B. Ellis pushed for the adoption of fallout shelters to protect civilians from nuclear attack?
... that Antardwand, an Indian film that was based on the practice of groom kidnapping, won a National Award for Best Film on Social Issues?
... that 141 people died when Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed into a mountain in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, making it the deadliest aviation accident ever in Norway?
... that while still the sitting Governor of Alaska Territory, Mike Stepovich appeared on the game show What's My Line?
... that Tanymastix stagnalis is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland?
... that former professional footballer George Catleugh suffered a broken leg on two different occasions?
... that the Wetumpka State Penitentiary was the first state prison established in Alabama?
... that due to his pale complexion and resemblance to a character from the Blade films, Aaron Wilkinson's coaches nicknamed him "The Daywalker"?

00:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the woodlouse Hemilepistus reaumuri (pictured) can only survive in the desert because it looks after its young?
... that M. C. Burton, Jr. of the 1958–59 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first player to lead the Big Ten Conference in scoring and rebounding for a season?
... that the Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain condemned the Int'l Cricket Council's suspension of the three Pakistani cricketers charged with spot-fixing in the 4th Pakistan-England Test?
... that in 1133, the English economy received a major boost when huge silver deposits were discovered near Carlisle?
... that the family of Oskar Höcker, a German writer and a celebrated actor of the Lessing Theater, included three more writers: his brother Gustav, his son Paul Oskar, and his granddaughter Karla?
... that the Inland Customs Line stretched across more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of British India and was compared to the Great Wall of China?
... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?
... that upon completion, the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station was called "a pearl of Soviet water-power engineering" and 349 of its workers were awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour medal?
... that the film Who's That Girl? features a live cougar, which one day escaped from the set before shooting started?

17 September 2010

18:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the meat of the slipper lobster Ibacus peronii (pictured) is considered inferior to that of the Moreton Bay bug because it sometimes tastes of garlic?
... that former world snooker champion Shaun Murphy reached the semi-finals of a ranking event for the first time at the 2004 British Open?
... that each of the five sides of Mitford Castle's keep has a different dimension?
... that the electricity sector in Canada is the world's second-largest producer of hydroelectricity, which accounted for 58% of all electric generation in 2007?
... that during his 60-year career, character actor Leon Belasco appeared in films with the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire?
... that The World of Strawberry Shortcake, the first television special to feature American Greetings' popular character, was rejected by the major U.S. networks and premiered in syndication instead?
... that Satch Davidson was plate umpire when Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run, and also when Carlton Fisk hit his 12th-inning home run to win Game 6 for the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series?
... that Arthur Eaglefield Hull invented the term "mystic chord" to describe the music of Russian composer Scriabin?
... that due to a copy-editing error, The Washington Post inadvertently suggested that Public Enemy's 1990 song "911 Is a Joke" referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks?

12:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Operation Power Flite, in which three U.S. Air Force B-52s flew non-stop around the world (route pictured), was made to show that "the United States had the ability to drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere in the world"?
... that fans threw silver coins onto the field to celebrate Bobby Lowe hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball game, the first player to accomplish that feat?
... that in 1927, at the same time as the Norwegian Labour and the Social Democratic Labour parties reunited, a competing Unified Party of the Working Class was founded?
... that Scottish artist Christine Berrie is known for her industrial-themed illustrations, including gas meters, dials, buttons, switches, machinery, and appliances?
... that Princess Margaret stayed at Fort Belan for the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969?
... that for his book Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Theodore Dalrymple interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide?
... that Theodore Roosevelt called Medicine Rocks in Montana "as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen"?
... that Tony Clunn, a British Army Major looking for Roman coins with a metal detector, discovered the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest?
... that the front porch on the John Shelp Cobblestone House in West Shelby, New York, was probably built as a result of a heating stove fire in the dining room?

06:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Scoresby Sund (pictured) is the world's largest fjord system?
... that within hours of its publication, A Journey, the memoir of Tony Blair, became the fastest-selling autobiography of all time?
... that The Bravo is James Fenimore Cooper's first novel set in Europe and was largely disliked by contemporary American critics?
... that Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, is running to regain the office in the 2012 London mayoral election?
... that the Action of 9 November 1822, fought between the USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners, saw the death of Lieutenant William Howard Allen after he stood up to rally his men?
... that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
... that Michael Johnson has signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship promotion to appear on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck?
... that Norid manages two unused top-level domains, .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and .bv for Bouvet Island?
... that art historian Andrew Ladis has described Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility, painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance?
... that every year, a narrow land pass opens for a few hours between the Modo and Jindo Islands in the Yellow Sea?
... that Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Kitwana Jones was nicknamed "Batman" after chasing down and apprehending a purse snatcher?

00:01, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

... that according to legend, Tomorr Mountain in Berat County (pictured) was personified by a giant who fought his brother for the love of a young woman, who weeped over their deaths to create the Osum River?
... that the Amantaka hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos, used to be a hospital until 2005?
... that John Phillips returned victoriously to mixed martial arts at Cage Rage 28 after being the first Cage Rage fighter to test positive for a banned substance?
... that in April 1952, five Norwegian seal hunting ships disappeared in the West Ice of the Greenland Sea?
... that Earl K. Long in 1956 used humor to derail the candidacy of gubernatorial opponent Fred Preaus, a scrupulously honest, small-town automobile dealer from Farmerville, Louisiana?
... that former World Champion and record holder in weightlifting, Ymer Pampuri, was an acrobat of the Tirana Circus before and after his athletic career?
... that the title of "Darling It Hurts", a top 20 Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, was based on a piece of infamous Sydney graffiti?
... that the Banglabandha inland port is aimed at increasing trade between Bangladesh and Nepal, India, and Bhutan?
... that of his internment in Sachsenhausen, Rabbi Leo Trepp said "I know God was there. In the concentration camp with me. And it was the worst place for it. That's why it was the best"?

16 September 2010

18:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the so-called Hungarian Crown (pictured), part of the Polish Crown Jewels, was modeled after the Holy Crown of Hungary?
... that constable William Piers received a reward for bringing the head of Shane Ó Neill, "pickled in a pipkin", to Sir Henry Sidney?
... that the 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team finished the season ranked in the AP Poll, but unranked in the Coaches' Poll?
... that Henri Gascar painted portraits of many leading ladies at the court of King Charles II of England, including several of the king's mistresses?
... that Jerry Lawler and Ultimate Warrior's match at the World Wrestling Federation's 1996 King of the Ring resulted from an argument over artistic abilities?
... that a song by the 16th c. Bengali Vaishnava padavali poet Govindadasa was included in an opera written under a disguised name by Rabindranath Tagore?
... that for many decades, the schoolhouse in Mississippi known as the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star housed a segregated school for African Americans?
... that on Swedish runestone Sö Fv1948;295, the R rune is represented by the shape of the tongue of a serpent?
... that Tamora, Nebraska, was named for the day after today?

12:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the porcelain Kakiemon elephant (pictured) was made when elephants would not have been seen in Japan?
... that Colorado cowboy artist Arthur Roy Mitchell created more than 160 cover paintings for western pulp magazines?
... that in 1942, seven commandos captured during Operation Musketoon were executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
... that after seeing a map of the U.S. showing higher cancer rates in Northern states, Frank C. Garland did a study which found that increased Vitamin D from sun exposure can reduce colon cancer risk?
... that the executive chef of the Colony in Central London is Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar?
... that the 1962–63 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set the current Michigan Wolverines men's basketball single-game rebound record?
... that illustrator of children's literature Mark Burgess has been noted for his ability to reproduce the style of dead artists such as Allan Curless and E. H. Shepard?
... that the first Klingon language opera, ’u’, premiered at The Hague on 9 September 2010?
... that the LucyPhone service was inspired by the frustration of waiting lengthy periods of time when placed on hold by call center operators?

06:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the former factory and headquarters (pictured) of the Hamilton Watch Company, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was converted into an apartment and condominium complex?
... that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III hosted his grandmother Onneca Fortúnez's Christian daughter, Toda of Pamplona, so his Jewish doctor could cure her grandson of obesity?
... that John Tidwell of the 1960–61 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to average 20 points per game for his career?
... that the design of Amankila, a coastal Balinese hotel, was inspired by the palaces of Ujung and Tirtagangga?
... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
... that Seattle Sounders FC will be defending their U.S. Open Cup title in their home stadium, Qwest Field, in the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew?
... that Alice of Champagne, the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus, married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island, offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
... that Gabriele von Lutzau, the "Angel of Mogadishu", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers?

00:00, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, though originally described as members of the genus Notocactus, cacti Parodia tenuicylindrica (pictured), P. buiningii and P. arnostiana are now considered members of Parodia?
... that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
... that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
... that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology?
... that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) as part of its embarked air wing?
... that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps?
... that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium, 12 drapes can vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehood to only one section?
... that Bògòlanfini, a traditional Malian fabric, is dyed with fermented mud?

15 September 2010

18:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the German battleship SMS Braunschweig (pictured) engaged the Russian battleship Slava during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga during World War I?
... that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, but as a baritone?
... that the 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set a record 17-game home winning streak that stood for the next 11 years?
... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
... that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
... that Sartaj Aziz was the Finance Minister when Pakistan conducted its 1998 nuclear tests, and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with India in 1999?
... that unlike other Eocene crocodilians found in Zamora, Spain, the extinct genus Duerosuchus was primarily a fish eater?
... that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java, Indonesia, is built from local limestone?
... that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?

12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Indonesia is the fifth largest tobacco market (tobacco factory pictured) in the world, and that in 2008 over 165 billion cigarettes were sold there?
... that Gail Koff, one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers, had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
... that the Indian film Mithya marked the singing debut of Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry?
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
... that the 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team earned the University of Michigan its first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four?
... that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House?
... that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, is Australia's longest operating oil refinery?
... that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully?
... that the brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos overthrew their father, the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, only to be themselves removed from power by Constantine VII after a few weeks?

06:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a monument (pictured) erected in an English churchyard to commemorate Finnish prisoners of war whose story inspired a 2007 opera?
... that fullback Ed Shuttlesworth became Michigan's all-time leader in rushing attempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
... that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
... that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting, Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party, which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud?
... that according to Minuscule 782, Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
... that Elton John had a number one in the 1980s with "Nikita"?
... that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
... that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet"?
... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis?

00:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

... that BMW advertising executive Jack Pitney convinced the company to market the Mini (pictured) in the U.S., despite concerns that American buyers would not buy cars that small given the popularity of SUVs?
... that the Mesa Oil Field is within the Sespe and Vaqueros Formations, which together form the second-most-prolific oil-producing geologic unit in Southern California?
... that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik, with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro struck two mines on 2 September 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
... that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
... that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guild to seek retribution?
... that fragrant sachets were used by Queen Isabella of Spain?
... that one species of the extinct wasp Palaeovespa fed caterpillars to its larvae?
... that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?

14 September 2010

18:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the house (pictured) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Charles Ives was born has been moved twice to allow local banks to expand their buildings?
... that Mexico City's first formal horse racing track was built in Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo?
... that the common name Emu-wren of the Southern, Rufous-crowned and Mallee Emu-wrens comes from their emu-like tail feathers?
... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
... that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth?
... that the proposed design of the Albany Convention Center in Albany, New York, includes saving the city's oldest building, which was built in 1728?
... that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishad was created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
... that Charles "Buffalo" Jones, the first game warden at Yellowstone National Park, once roped an unruly bear and spanked the animal on its behind?

12:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Children of the Stars is a documentary about the Beijing Stars and Rain School (pictured), founded in 1993 as the first non-governmental educational organization in China dedicated to serving children with autism?
... that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York?
... that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006 for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
... that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini?
... that the engines of the Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré broke down while she was passing in front of the Paraguayan guns at Curupaity during the War of the Triple Alliance and she had to be towed to safety by the ironclad Silvado?
... that actor Paul Rudd appears as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare's Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest?
... that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake?

06:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the Torre Mayor (pictured) and the Mexican headquarters of HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II?
... that Romstrade is the largest construction company in Romania?
... that Katukurunde Nanananda Thera was the first to point out a unique grammatical shift in a controversial Buddhist Pali passage?
... that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
... that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals, including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera?
... that Dawid Baziak began his professional mixed martial arts career with five consecutive technical knockout victories?
... that every round-robin tournament either has a set of players who win all games against players outside the set, or its graph of wins and losses is pancyclic, having directed cycles of all lengths?
... that, as president of U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?

00:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

... that artist N.C. Wyeth named his Maine home after Winslow Homer's 1886 painting Eight Bells (pictured)?
... that contralto Sonia Prina performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a rocker?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn., Inc. v. Bresler that the use of the word "blackmail" in an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher did not constitute libel?
... that Gene Englund won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball League championship in back-to-back seasons?
... that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?
... that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling Democratic Action party denied the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too leftwing?
... that the village of South Salem, Ohio, was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy?
... that Italian castrato Carlo Scalzi performed at the wedding of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange in London, 1734?
... that the Craig telescope in Wandsworth Common, London, was once the world's largest refracting telescope?

13 September 2010

18:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the main campus of the Polytechnic of Namibia includes Elisabeth House (pictured), Windhoek's former obstetrics hospital?
... that Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving has won the most American Basketball Association awards with five Most Valuable Player awards—three in the regular season and two in the playoffs?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Barroso was hit 20 times between March 26 and 28, 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, but was not significantly damaged?
... that "The Most Unwanted Song" includes bagpipes, a children's choir, and an opera singer who raps about cowboys?
... that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, Chile, was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
... that diplomats from some countries still wear ornate diplomatic uniforms on certain occasions?
... that the Francis Farm Petroglyphs are among Pennsylvania's leading petroglyph sites, even though the culture of their creators is unknown?
... that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?

12:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Daniel Webster (pictured) served in the Florida legislature for 28 years, making him the longest-serving legislator in Florida history?
... that Puritan minister Thomas Tregosse was imprisoned for holding a Conventicle in Budock?
... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
... that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional?
... that C. Joseph Genster of Mead Johnson developed Metrecal in 1959 as part of a weight loss craze that had dieters subsist on nothing other than the 900 calories offered by drinking four cans a day?
... that on his List A cricket debut, Lewis Gregory claimed four wickets against the Pakistanis?
... that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
... that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design, that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?

06:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Parachartergus apicalis (pictured) will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers?
... that the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel is the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece?
... that Māori men achieved universal suffrage in the First Māori elections, midway through the term of the 4th New Zealand Parliament in 1868 and twelve years before the European colonists?
... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
... that the Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo served with the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War?
... that the 11th century Dhuvjan Monastery in Albania contains an icon which includes remains of very important early Christian saints?
... that the Spanish mixed martial artist Daniel Tabera has defeated two opponents in one night on two separate occasions?
... that paper clothing was briefly very popular in the 1960s?

00:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Gothic Revival "Wedding Cake House" (pictured) in Grosse Ile's East River Road Historic District was built over 150 years ago and has never been remodeled?
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
... that the film Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story is a dramatized recreation of Hank Gathers' struggle to leave a North Philadelphia ghetto to become a basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions?
... that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
... that the Podgorica–Shkodër railway, built in 1985, was the first international railway of Albania?
... that in 1905 Edward Mead Johnson established Mead Johnson, maker of Enfamil and other nutrition products, after leaving the Johnson & Johnson firm that he had co-founded with his brothers in 1886?
... that Rena Kubota has been crowned world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments?
... that during the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese Army came close to "annihilating or capturing" the Vietcong leadership but was prevented from doing so by General Hoàng Văn Thái and his successful plan for the escape of the Provisional Revolutionary Government?
... that Wolfgang Krause continued his scholarly work in runology even after he became blind?

12 September 2010

18:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Italian castrato Domenico Annibali (pictured) made a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the title role of Handel's opera Poro?
... that Araneus angulatus was the first scientific name validly published in zoological nomenclature, when it appeared in Svenska Spindlar in 1757?
... that Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat Petar Parchevich was made baron by the Habsburgs?
... that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime, set in the Prohibition-era United States, but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
... that after missing the whole of 2009 through injury, Jan Błachowicz returned at KSW XIII to defeat two opponents on the same night?
... that the earliest Scottish surnames were already hereditary in England, before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Norman settlers in the 12th century?
... that George Alexander Parks was appointed Governor of Alaska Territory after an impressive stint as a tour guide?
... that Bach's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138, was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer?
... that former mayor of Tirana, Qemal Butka, was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë?

12:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Neosho class monitors USS Osage and USS Neosho (pictured) were saved by Bailey's Dam after being trapped at the Mississippi River's Alexandria Falls during the Red River Campaign in 1864?
... that the antifascist and freedom fighter Abaz Kupi was the founder of the Legality Movement, which aimed to return Zog of Albania back to his throne?
... that in 2009, a white boar helped locate the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III died in 1485?
... that Viktor Nemkov is an M-1 Global veteran who was approached by World Wrestling Entertainment to become a professional wrestler?
... that the planned Marvel Comics superhero film, X-Men: First Class is intended to take place during the 1960s and will parallel the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
... that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism, water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy?
... that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans, who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu?
... that Plön Castle was once an elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm?

06:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that scaly ink cap mushrooms (pictured) can attack and consume soil bacteria by growing hyphae that secrete digestive compounds?
... that before becoming a Glossop mill owner, Francis Sumner lived at Glossop Hall after his mother and father died?
... that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus, the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812?
... that the K2K experiment was the first experiment to directly measure neutrino oscillations using a laboratory source of neutrinos?
... that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season, but the Teaneck Armory was booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
... that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson, whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
... that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
... that soprano Ada Adini, a singer of Verdi's Gilda and Leonora, appeared as Brünnhilde in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Walküre at La Scala in 1893?
... that Bajzë Rail Station was completely cleaned up in 2009 from toxic chemicals dumped in 1991–92?

00:00, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Lawrence E. Roberts (pictured) was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, a colonel in the United States Air Force, and the father of newscaster Robin Roberts?
... that in 1931 Aziz Çami tried to assassinate Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera?
... that the Labrador Sea contains the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, one of the world's longest underwater channels?
... that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church?
... that during the 1689 Boston revolt, Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England?
... that quarterback George "Shorty" Chalmers was considered a triple threat man, and alongside Boze Berger, "one of the most dangerous pass–catch combinations in Maryland history"?
... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
... that association football club Bradford City's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that independent musician and podcaster George Hrab has customized his album packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?

11 September 2010

18:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the black-spotted whipray (pictured) was at first thought to be the same as the brown whipray, which itself was at first thought to be the same as the honeycomb stingray?
... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
... that Michigan linebacker Tom Beckman worked more than 30 years for General Motors where he was in charge of new vehicle launches?
... that members of Senostoma kill their hosts when ready to emerge?
... that Puerto Rican-American singer José Feliciano was awarded his sixth Grammy Award for his performance of the song "¿Por Qué Te Tengo Que Olvidar?"?
... that Romanian police officer Virgil Ardelean avoided having to take sides in the 1989 Revolution by feigning deafness when his superior ordered him to become involved?
... that the French ironclad Marengo was on her sea trials in July 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War began and was immediately placed in reserve; she was not commissioned until after the war was over?
... that the nickname of Japanese mixed martial arts fighter Mei Yamaguchi comes from the V1 armlock wrestling move?
... that in 1891, Somerset County Cricket Club regained first-class status, after remaining unbeaten against county sides in 1890?

12:09, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Kelli Scarr (pictured) completed a challenge with Moby by National Public Radio to write and perform a song in less than two days?
... that the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest, Romania, is the largest hotel in Europe with 1,459 rooms?
... that Albanian nationalist Safet Butka killed himself because in Albania the war against fascism was degenerating into a civil war?
... that Åre Old Church remains the only stone church in the Scandinavian Mountains from the Middle Ages?
... that inhibiting protein pigeon homolog may provide a treatment for Alzheimer's disease?
... that Jacob Mayer resigned in 1876 from his position as rabbi of Baltimore's Har Sinai Congregation amid charges that he had been a convert to Christianity who worked as a missionary in Africa?
... that all 17 then-current cast members made appearances in "Respect", the series finale of The Bill?
... that German Admiral Franz von Hipper was vilified as a "baby-killer" in the British press during World War I?
... that the Kucadikadi are a band of Northern Paiute Native Americans, whose names translates to "brine fly eaters"?

07:16, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the 19th-century Danish Golden Age did not just cover painting (example pictured) but a range of other cultural developments in architecture, sculpture, music and literature?
... that the French ironclad Océan was assigned to the Northern Squadron that attempted to blockade Prussian ports on the Baltic Sea during the Franco-Prussian War until recalled on 16 September 1870?
... that guard Pete Ladygo went to Canada to play football for the Ottawa Rough Riders rather than accept a trade to the Detroit Lions?
... that Schenectady, New York's Mont Pleasant neighborhood had a residential vacancy rate of 28% in 2009, the third highest in the US state of New York?
... that Francisco Drinaldo, better known as Massaranduba, is a Brazilian kickboxing champion with an undefeated professional mixed martial arts record?
... that the hipposandal was a metal shoe laced to horse hoofs in Celto-Roman countries?
... that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio, preserves the first dental school in the United States?
... that soprano Nellie Melba and tenor Agustarello Affré made their debut together at the Paris Opéra in 1890 as Lucia and Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor?
... that Cameroon is named after the crustacean Lepidophthalmus turneranus which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the Wouri River in the 15th century?

00:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Bronze statue of Grace Sherwood

... that every year a mysterious dancing light is said to appear over the spot where Grace Sherwood, "The Witch of Pungo", (pictured) was tested by ducking as part of her trial for witchcraft?
... that during the Battle of the Bulge, a gun crew of the American 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion knocked out a Tiger II tank by making it reverse into a house?
... that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I?
... that after the Mill Creek flooded Erie, Pennsylvania in 1915, it was diverted to a tube that is large enough for a pickup truck to drive through?
... that the French ironclad Suffren was assigned to the international squadron gathered at Ragusa in 1880 to force the Ottoman Empire to carry out its obligations under the Treaty of Berlin and turn over the town of Ulcinj to Montenegro?
... that Michigan strong safety Julius Curry in 2006 formed Curry Racing, the first NASCAR racing team with sole minority ownership?
... that historian Hilda Ellis Davidson theorizes that the swastika symbol was used by Norsemen to represent Thor's hammer?
... that in 1881, Florida granted 2.8 million acres of public land to the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad to build a rail line that ended the Panhandle's isolation from the rest of the state?
... that, despite losing a leg in his first term of service, Edward A. Gisburne completed two more war-time stints with the United States Navy?

10 September 2010

18:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Rabbi David Einhorn (pictured) of Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore sermonized in 1861 in opposition to slavery and had to flee to Philadelphia after a mob sought to tar and feather him for his views?
... that the bobsleigh run at the 1952 Winter Olympics was made entirely of snow?
... that the COSMIC cancer database has documented somatic mutations from over half a million tumour samples?
... that Jersey Circus is a webcomic mashup of images from The Family Circus newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV's Jersey Shore?
... that suicide victim Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated?
... that an Australian, Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967?
... that Anthony Roberts is the only other NCAA Division I men's basketball player besides Pete Maravich to score 60+ points in two or more games?
... that Walter Powell ended his term as MP for Malmesbury when he vanished over the English Channel in a hot air balloon?
... that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?

12:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche (pictured) was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
... that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company?
... that United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked targets in and near Singapore on eleven occasions between November 1944 and March 1945?
... that in 1798, artist George Garrard successfully campaigned to introduce the first copyright protection for model-makers in Britain?
... that when completed, the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant in Japan will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world?
... that Gioachino Rossini's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
... that Canadian painter Lorne Kidd Smith designed a poster for Canada's Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors?
... that Reinert Torgeirson managed the publishing house of the Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist?
... that for building the Ukrainian city of Kherson, Empress Catherine II gave Russian General Ivan Gannibal two orders of chivalry, a jewel-encrusted snuff box, and a 20,000 desiatina estate?

06:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that many of the renowned autoethnographic works of Absentee-Shawnee artist Ernest Spybuck (pictured) are held by the National Museum of the American Indian?
... that a round tower was built to house the Kloster Berge school after a schoolmaster hanged himself in the cloister previously used for classes?
... that the 1946 National League tie-breaker series was the first ever tiebreaker for the playoffs in Major League Baseball history?
... that there are eight different ways to earn the Scouter's Key Award?
... that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York, was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
... that the operatic mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo sang the part of Azucena in the French premiere of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1854?
... that Electrica has an electric power distribution network of 116,500 km?
... that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes?
... that the Church of Saint Laud's original, octagonal, Gothic-panelled font is buried under the church floor?

00:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Sir Richard Conyers, who built St Mary's Church, South Cowton (pictured) between 1450 and 1470, also built South Cowton Castle nearby, but destroyed the village of South Cowton?
... that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All?
... that according to the visa policy of South Korea, Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
... that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings?
... that under the 1960 Iraqi Associations Law, Daud as-Sayegh's tiny faction (which published al-Mabda') was accorded recognition as the "Iraqi Communist Party", while the main communist group (which published Ittihad ash-Sha'ab) was denied legal status?
... that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
... that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
... that according to U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening, Alaska Territorial Governor J. F. A. Strong was not reappointed to the post because he was not a United States citizen?

9 September 2010

18:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the "big kiln" at La Graufesenque in Roman Gaul could fire up to 40,000 terra sigillata vessels (example pictured) at a time?
... that in 1935, Irish children's illustrator John Robert Monsell composed the songs and music and designed the sets for an operetta based on Sheridan's The Rivals?
... that Malaysian graphic novel The Kampung Boy was not first published in the country's official language, but later translated back to it instead?
... that in April 1945, Martin Dannenberg, a Jewish U.S. Army intelligence officer, found an original copy of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in a Bavarian bank vault?
... that angiomyolipomas are the most common benign tumour of the kidney and are composed of blood vessels, smooth muscle cells and fat cells?
... that Ukraine is considered to have the greatest freedom of the press of all the former Soviet Union states?
... that after Penryn MP John Bettesworth-Trevanion rebuilt Caerhays as a Gothic-style castle, he fell into debt and fled abroad?
... that the fossil squirrel Lagrivea is characterized by deep basins in its teeth?
... that Arvid G. Hansen edited both Arbeideren and Arbeidet, the latter in a time when Arbeidet struggled because Arbeideren was prioritized by their common owner?

12:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Israeli ace Amir Nachumi scored seven aerial kills while flying the F-4 Phantom II (pictured) during the Yom Kippur War and seven kills flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighting over Lebanon in the early 1980s?
... that Cornish MP Alexander Pendarves was listed as a member of the October Club, a group that posed a threat to the Harley administration?
... that Shoeless Joe Jackson's Black Betsy broke the record for the most expensive baseball bat in history, selling for US$577,610 in 2001?
... that Venezuela's 2006 National Commission on Police Reform proposed a new model of policing with a new police force specifically trained in human rights?
... that Gil Chapman was Michigan's career leader in kickoff return yards and the first African-American elected to office in Elizabeth, New Jersey?
... that the May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were the deadliest to occur in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, since the 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing?
... that Soviet spy Ignace Poretsky was assassinated shortly after he defected?
... that The Right Reverend Bavi Edna Rivera is the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the Episcopal Church?
... that Alban Stepneth lost the 1571 Haverfordwest election despite polling more votes than his opponent John Garnons?

06:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that soprano Erminia Frezzolini (pictured) created the title role in Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco at La Scala in 1843 opposite her husband, Antonio Poggi, as Charles VII of France?
... that to India's dismay, China's Zangmu Dam will be the first on the Brahmaputra River?
... that according to folklore, dwarfs guard treasures hidden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's megalith tombs?
... that competitors of the Hamar newspaper Demokraten (later Arbeideren) refused to mention it by name in their columns?
... that LeFleur's Bluff State Park is named for a French Canadian trader who established a trading post in what is now Jackson, Mississippi?
... that St. Luke's Hospital in Rathgar, Ireland, was awarded an RIAI Gold Medal for architecture?
... that, the week before he was scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II in a pre-game ceremony, University of Maryland football co-captain Gene Alderton lost a tooth—so the university had it replaced to ensure he could smile properly?
... that due to potential tax implications, Governor Wilford Bacon Hoggatt opposed granting territorial status to the District of Alaska?
... that Sverre Krogh, a delegate at the Second Comintern Congress, worked as an informer for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizei many years later?

00:00, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

... that two of the twelve 4-6-0T locomotives (E332 pictured) built for the Réseau Breton have been preserved?
... that Japanese pagodas, with very rare exceptions, have an odd number of tiers?
... that in 2009, Romania cultivated around 12,900 hectares (32,000 acres) of rice fields, ranking third in the European Union?
... that publication of British newspaper Labour Elector was discontinued in 1890 as its editor H. H. Champion travelled to Australia?
... that while historian Fred Bachrach was a Japanese prisoner of war, he was allowed to keep a copy of the works of William Shakespeare by convincing the guards that it was a "holy book"?
... that Bob Topp helped the New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns in 1956 by intercepting radio signals used to relay plays onto the field from the Browns' bench?
... that 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir are for constituencies currently lying in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and thus are officially vacant?
... that HMS Chatham was laid down at Flushing, in Holland, and launched at Woolwich in England?
... that the Treaty of Bonn (7 November 921) was signed on a ship in the middle of the Rhine, the border between kingdoms of the two signatories, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler?

8 September 2010

18:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Appalachian cottontail (pictured) is unique among cottontails because it eats conifer needles?
... that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
... that the 2008 King of the Ring event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama impersonators in a match?
... that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
... that the Plebiscite Front became the principal opposition to the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in the 1960s before merging into the National Conference in 1975?
... that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in Siena, are written in gold?
... that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
... that Glenn Beck introduced a "Black-Robed Regiment" of pastors from various denominations during his Restoring Honor rally in 2010, and launched a news website called The Blaze three days later?

12:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hōshō (pictured) served as a repatriation transport after the end of World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
... that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway, Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament?
... that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
... that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
... that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
... that Mississippi-born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
... that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar?
... that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas?

06:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Alaska Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark (pictured) was interested in rose cultivation and was President of the American Rose Society?
... that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
... that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II, professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag?
... that, despite her party's policy of secularism, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had created an alliance with the Islamist Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish?
... that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship, head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
... that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
... that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
... that Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis renounced his princely rights and title to marry actress Carola Reichenberger in 1913?
... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?

00:00, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream (pictured) "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster?
... that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa, where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that, for protesting the Trial of the Four, Russian academic Grigory Pomerants was barred from defending his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies?
... that, when completed, the Deriner Dam will be the tallest in Turkey?
... that Michael Puntervold, Magnus Nilssen, Arne Magnussen and Olav Kringen were the Norwegian delegates at the Labour and Socialist International founding congress in 1923?
... that there are five different ways to earn the Scouter's Training Award?
... that the Aboriginal Memorial contains 200 coffins, but not a single dead person?

7 September 2010

18:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that St Mary's Church, Lead, North Yorkshire (pictured), is known locally as the Ramblers' Church because it was saved in the 1930s by a local group of ramblers?
... that the Taurus-Littrow valley, the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon, is deeper than the Grand Canyon?
... that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II?
... that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
... that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road"?
... that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair published her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
... that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
... that, in 2009, the Haus des Meeres attracted a record-high number of visitors while attendance at other tourist attractions in Vienna abruptly dropped?
... that after John Cullen's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?

12:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes" (pictured)?
... that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
... that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
... that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
... that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
... that Jackson Gillis, a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
... that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo, Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
... that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?

06:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that "sailors' eyeballs" (pictured) is one of the largest single-celled organisms?
... that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres?
... that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
... that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
... that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University?
... that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
... that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy, the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788?
... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?

00:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maduru Oya (pictured), Wasgamuwa, Flood Plains, and Somawathiya national parks of Sri Lanka were established under the Mahaweli Development Project?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
... that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
... that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire?
... that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?

6 September 2010

18:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, in the southern counties of Maine, the New England Cottontail (pictured) has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?
... that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
... that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
... that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"?
... that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?

12:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dutch publisher Luitingh-Sijthoff was founded in the "city of books" by Albertus W. Sijthoff (pictured), who opposed the Berne Convention because he felt copyright restrictions stifled the industry?
... that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church, Stretham, is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
... that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
... that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang, Bắc Kạn, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam?
... that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
... that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
... that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance?

06:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that one of Albany, New York's former city halls (pictured) was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
... that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
... that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
... that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse, helped pacify the Marquesas Islands, conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
... that Ottoman rule of Macedonia lasted for roughly 500 years?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?

00:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus (pictured) is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
... that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, North Yorkshire, contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
... that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
... that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
... that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
... that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
... that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?

5 September 2010

18:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that former slave Lisette Denison Forth worked as a maid, but willed her life savings to build the St. James Episcopal Church (pictured) in exclusively white Grosse Ile, Michigan?
... that the Manila Police District, with the motto "Manila's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis?
... that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
... that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson?
... that Palasë, on the Albanian Riviera, is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
... that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley?
... that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
... that Vuno, a village in the Albanian Riviera, was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania?
... that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?

12:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that webcaps can be yellow (pictured), variable, cinnamon, frosty, bitter, goliath, bruising, gassy, or contrary?
... that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
... that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
... that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?
... that Edward Kean coined the word "cowabunga" and tried to put a puppet President in the White House?
... that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
... that the town of Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
... that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?

06:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Krka Bridge (pictured) comprises the longest span of all Croatian A1 motorway bridges, surpassing the Maslenica Bridge span by only 4 m (13 ft)?
... that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17?
... that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip?
... that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stem that eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
... that Dale Warren was a conservatory-trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats?
... that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners?
... that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
... that the Carnegie, a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
... that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?

00:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Phobjika Valley welcomes the Black-necked Cranes as winter visitors from Tibet, in Bhutan, and in the process the cranes circle the Gangteng Monastery (pictured) thrice on arrival and again on departure?
... that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
... that the number-one song "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title?
... that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition?
... that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
... that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park, which only held 4,000?
... that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour?

4 September 2010

18:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that American photographer Amelia Van Buren was the subject of one of Thomas Eakins' most famous paintings (pictured)?
... that Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota holds an annual pumpkin chunking competition?
... that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri, was once partly owned by then-U.S. Senator John Danforth?
... that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia?
... that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice, and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football"?
... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins, had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg"?
... that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF's 2000 King of the Ring event?
... that Jurek Wilner, who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno, where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland?

12:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis (pictured) is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
... that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria, which left 12 people dead?
... that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
... that Major-General Humphrey Atherton's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
... that Matt Striebel ranks eighth on the Princeton Lacrosse career assists list and eleventh on the Princeton soccer career assists list?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Pará was so badly damaged after passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
... that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race, Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
... that Cornish Saint Endelienta, a hermit, is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?

06:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the French ironclad Triomphante (pictured) helped to capture the Pescadore Islands in March 1885 during the Pescadores Campaign of the Sino-French War?
... that Emmanuel Rodríguez's boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee?
... that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Owen Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice?
... that the gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies?
... that cartoonist Suzy Spafford, creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo, has been drawing since she was three years old?
... that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
... that in June 2010, a Ming-era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao, one of the admirals of Zheng He's fleet?
... that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
... that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zab as "demoniacally possessed"?

00:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Aqueduct of the Gier (pictured) was one of four Roman aqueducts supplying Lugdunum (Lyon, France)?
... that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
... that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion, the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge?
... that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz?
... that the term "the war to end war" was first used to describe World War I?
... that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia?
... that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque?
... that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson-class monitors in order to catch splinters?

3 September 2010

18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that with its two-dollar coin (reverse pictured), Newfoundland was the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
... that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World?
... that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine?
... that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
... that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
... that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
... that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
... that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants?

12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner (pictured), Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
... that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
... that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
... that Jon Hess, Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996, 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?

06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
... that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that both Patrol 35, based in Israel, and Tsagaan Khass, based in Mongolia, are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
... that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
... that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?

00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis (pictured) had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
... that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
... that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?

2 September 2010

18:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, (pictured) stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?

12:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dora Ratjen (pictured) was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
... that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
... that Pedro Almodóvar's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
... that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
... that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?

06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge (pictured) was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
... that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
... that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?

00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the eastern mole (pictured) is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?

1 September 2010

18:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maslenica Bridge (pictured) carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
... that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
... that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?
... that Moustache, a French poodle, is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?

12:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
... that Lusia Harris, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
... that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
... that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
... that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?

06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Giora Romm assumed command of Israeli Air Force 115 Squadron a day before the Yom Kippur War broke out, making his debut flight in the A-4 Skyhawk (pictured) on a combat mission?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China's Yunnan Province?
... that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
... that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
... that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
... that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
... that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
... that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?

00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville (pictured), the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
... that even though the Dollarway Road, Arkansas' first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
... that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
... that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
... that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
... that the Albion River Bridge, the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
... that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?

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