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30 November 2011

16:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper (pictured) is a lady's slipper orchid that resembles a sparrow's egg?
... that the scoring in Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, based on Luther's chorale for Advent, is said to be simple because Advent was a "season of abstinence"?
... that although the Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry spans 73 games and dates back to 1922, the teams did not meet in the post season until the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship?
... that the Rajaji Hall in Chennai, India, was constructed to commemorate a British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War?
... that Paralympian Daniel Fitzgibbon was named Sailor of the Year with a Disability in 2008, 2009 and 2011?
... that The Who's "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" has been interpreted as a song about masturbation?

08:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Louisiana State University defeated Alabama (pictured) by a score of 9-6 in college football's latest so-called "Game of the Century", a game that did not feature a single touchdown?
... that many German communists fleeing Nazi persecution who initially found refuge in Moscow's Hotel Lux were killed in Josef Stalin's purges?
... that Bulbophyllum nocturnum, first described in 2011, is the only orchid species known to flower at night?
... that Grand Parade won the 1919 Epsom Derby despite 33 to 1 odds and a treacherous track?
... that both the number and magnitude of foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1969 Yangjiang earthquake were unusually small, considering the size of the mainshock?
... that near the Poplar River, a locomotive, briefly used for logging, lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?

00:00, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

... that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement (pictured) was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"?
... that Reinhard Febel composed an opera on Caspar Hauser, Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, which premiered in 1992 at the Opernhaus Dortmund?
... that skippers, lycaenids and honeybees visit the flowers of Dampiera purpurea?
... that smallmouth bass, introduced into Crescent Lake, have spread to every major lake in the upper Poplar River watershed of Minnesota?
... that the Miller's Tower at Formakin House is dated "1694 DL", with DL standing for "damned lie", as it was built in the 1900s?
... that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina, award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?

29 November 2011

16:00, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

... that despite failing to defend a convoy (engagement pictured), and having one of his ships wrecked, Robert Linzee still rose to be an admiral in the Royal Navy?
... that Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik was the 50th Massey Lecture and occurred on the 75th anniversary of the CBC?
... that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953?
... that Jacque LaPrarie, Eric Hochberg, Tom Tarver, Mike Stephans, and Chas Dodd all led the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team in passing yards?
... that Rollin White was an American gunsmith who invented a revolver with a bored-through cylinder which allowed the use of metallic cartridges?
... that the Belgian Landrace, a breed of domestic pig, is known for its musculature and high quality of pork?

08:00, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Congo Serpent Eagle (pictured) may be one of the few known examples of avian mimicry?
... that the deaths of two residents of the Mathias Sharp House in southwestern Indiana sparked a sensational 1870s murder trial?
... that Russian scientist Mikhail Golant, a sapper during World War II, pioneered the Soviet approach to design of backward-wave tubes?
... that Starry Starry Night was described as a "healthy example" of a China-Taiwan film collaboration?
... that the proposed Redlands Passenger Rail system would connect the University of Redlands with San Bernardino, California?
... that Thelephora palmata is among the stinkiest fungi in the forest?

00:12, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Yale Union Laundry Building (pictured), built in Portland, Oregon in 1904, includes the Italian Revival and Egyptian Revival architectural styles?
... that an English translation of the Hindi hymn "Jaya Ho" has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal?
... that at least two of the four Scott Viking 1 gliders built were impressed into Royal Air Force service during World War Two?
... that "Cherish" became Madonna's sixteenth top-five single, a record in the Billboard Hot 100 history?
... that Ba'athists in Yemen carried out clandestine political activity until 1990?
... that the ravenberry and boreal sagewort are eaten by hoary marmots?

28 November 2011

16:11, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

... that although St Cynfarwy was active in Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him (pictured) cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding?
... that Constantinos A. Patrides, the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition, earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation?
... that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed CEO was reported?
... that Sir Edward Ford donated 2,200 of his own books to the library of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians?
... that during the Second World War, what became the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
... that They Say I'm a Monkey! used leeches feeding to symbolize the rape of a child?

02:20, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the use of fireworks has been investigated as a possible cause of the recent 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 motorway (accident site pictured) in Taunton, Somerset?
... that fossilized microorganisms in the Barberton Greenstone Belt have been dated to 3.5 billion years ago?
... that piano students of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover won more than 100 prizes at piano competitions?
... that Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was engaged when he was 10 years old?
... that research on split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
... that the 21er Haus, located in Vienna, was originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels?

27 November 2011

18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Tamar–Tavy Estuary (pictured), on the Cornwall–Devon border in the UK, attracts over 20% of the British wintering population of the uncommon Pied Avocet?
... that both of American singer Romeo Santos' first two singles, "You" and "Promise", reached the top of the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
... that both the Justice Party and the Indian National Congress lent their support to the 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike?
... that Arab-Israeli Olympic hopeful Jowan Qupty and Jewish-Israeli Olympian Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or were high school roommates and best friends?
... that nobleman and diplomat Michał Radziwiłł Rudy was described as a psychopath by his own cousin, politician Krzysztof Radziwiłł?
... that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?

10:50, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

... that in his two elections as councillor for Christchurch City Council, and four successful elections as Mayor of Christchurch, Charles Louisson (pictured) was always returned unopposed?
... that Auckland's Grafton Volcano was only identified last year, having been buried by a neighbouring volcano soon after it was created?
... that the first Chinese player in the NBA was a Maverick?
... that a Sinclair ZX81 inspired Eric van der Kleij, CEO of Tech City, to go into technology?
... that Christen Pram is regarded as the first Norwegian novelist?
... that it has been suggested that John Thornton Augustine Washington would have succeeded his great uncle George Washington as "king" if the United States had been a monarchy?

03:05, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the pilgrimage site (cross pictured) on the mountain Hülfensberg, popular since the Middle Ages, survived the Reformation, the dissolution by Jérôme Bonaparte, Bismarck's Kulturkampf, and the division of Germany?
... that the Michigan–Michigan State ice hockey rivalry includes The Big Chill at the Big House, the highest attended ice hockey game ever?
... that the law firm Steven J. Baum P.C. closed three weeks after the publication of embarrassing photos of its 2010 Halloween party ridiculing foreclosed homeowners?
... that Yoennis Céspedes was described by Baseball Prospectus as "arguably the best all-around [baseball] player to come out of Cuba in a generation"?
... that hindgut fermenters such as horses extract more nutrition out of smaller quantities of feed than do ruminants such as cattle?
... that the "wedding" of the Miami Maniac, the mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, was televised nationally on ESPN in a ceremony attended by Bud Man, Grimace and McGruff the Crime Dog?

26 November 2011

19:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Brad Ness, Justin Eveson, Shaun Norris, Michael Hartnett, Brendan Dowler, Tristan Knowles (pictured) and Brett Stibners were all members of the gold medal winning Australian 2008 Summer Paralympics wheelchair basketball team coached by Benjamin James Ettridge?
... that Sha'ab was one of several villages in Galilee which rebelled against the Ottomans in 1573 CE (981 H)?
... that John Jenkinson rescued a woman from a burning house in The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand, whilst 13 others died?
... that during a decade of the interbellum, Poland and Germany suffered from a customs war?
... that P. Oxy. 654 and P. Oxy. 655 are two of only three Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas?

08:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Sickle-billed Vangas (pictured) have a polyandrous breeding system, with several males helping a single female raise a clutch of eggs?
... that members of the colonial tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum may glow in response to each other?
... that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets?
... that the extinct Canadian redwood Metasequoia foxii was described from over 10,000 fossils?
... that Captain Edward Sneyd Clay lost his ship when his pilot and master mistook a burning lime kiln for a signal light?
... that the Bangong suture in Tibet was formed by the closure of the former Bangong Ocean?

00:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Mother Zion church (pictured), New York City's first African-American congregation, was also an Underground Railway refuge?
... that the Tory Member of Parliament Henry Thynne taught French and Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer?
... that baseball player Fred Fussell was nicknamed "Moonlight Ace" after he pitched a no-hitter?
... that the People's Library was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park, New York?
... that Allen Shenstone was the only Canadian among the 400 undergraduates who entered Princeton University in 1910?
... that Armijn Pane wrote more idealistic works after the Japanese occupation of Indonesia?

25 November 2011

16:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Native Americans used various parts of the purple prairie clover (pictured) for food and to make tea, medicine, and brooms?
... that Werner Hartenstein was the U-boat commander responsible for the Laconia incident?
... that Hall of Famer George Kelly was nearly suspended by Major League Baseball for playing basketball with Jimmy O'Connell?
... that Bruce Springsteen's song "Point Blank" is one of several songs on The River that deal with the disappointments of working-class family life?
... that Toward the Unknown featured storylines involving both test pilots and brainwashing?
... that, largely due to hunting for traditional medicine, fewer than 250 Delacour's langurs are believed to remain in the wild?

08:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the gonads of jellyfish Bathykorus bouilloni (pictured) have not been observed?
... that Jacqueline Moss guided tours of Joseph Hirshhorn's sculpture garden in Greenwich, Connecticut, before he had the art moved to his museum in Washington?
... that Barbados won its first Pan American medals during the 1963 Pan American Games, held in São Paulo, Brazil?
... that Azwar Abubakar was acting governor of Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?
... that Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98, begins with the same stanza as the earlier chorale cantata, BWV 99, but continues differently and even seems to lack the regular closing chorale?
... that Corporal Punishment went professional in 1993?

00:00, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

... that American painter Frederick Carl Frieseke said he got "much pleasure in shocking the good Church people with the nudes" (example pictured)?
... that the Tupolev ANT-41 torpedo bomber was designed to be flown either with conventional landing gear or as a floatplane?
... that the Pied Monarch of north Queensland binds its nest with spiderwebs and decorates it with lichen?
... that Spec Harkness led the Northwestern League in wins during his first professional baseball season?
... that Australian dual swimming Paralympic gold medallist Sam Bramham once told the media that his leg had been "chomped off by a kangaroo"?

24 November 2011

16:00, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

... that on the first day of World War I, the German light cruiser SMS Breslau (pictured) bombarded the port of Bône in French North Africa?
... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
... that when a DC-7 crashed into a pine forest in France in 1959, rescue workers were hindered by a lack of roads in the area?
... that Unthink and Nextdoor each attempt to challenge Facebook by providing an online social network with greater privacy?
... that Australian Paralympic medalists Karen Farrell and Cameron de Burgh, both seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents, were sponsored by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority?
... that Djan Faridz withdrew his bid for Governor of Jakarta after being selected as Minister of Public Housing?

08:00, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

... that a lake (pictured) in the Langwieder lake district originated as a pit from which more than 2,000,000 cubic metres of gravel were excavated for highway construction was once voted the cleanest lake in Munich?
... that the plot of Sophocles' lost play Tereus incorporates rape, mutilation and infanticide?
... that Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0 in futsal in 2006, the current world record?
... that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in Coahuila, Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
... that Jessica Gallagher, the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics, has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
... that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?

00:00, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Yogo sapphires (pictured) are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch, Montana?
... that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous Serapion Brothers literary group?
... that Tom Fitzgerald has the most wins among Columbus Crew head coaches, with 70?
... that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
... that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
... that before it moved into the Old House of Keys, the Isle of Man's lower house of parliament met in a pub?

23 November 2011

16:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

... that state highway K-143 (shield pictured) near Salina, Kansas, uses three different types of pavement on its 4.6 miles (7.4 km)?
... that Kevin McIntosh was named the Australian Paralympic Committee Coach of the Year three times?
... that the Tian Shan region is a key place to study mountain formation far from continental and tectonic plate boundaries?
... that Leederville Oval was built on part of a series of wetlands north of Perth, Western Australia?
... that during controlled burns of wooded areas, the Japanese climbing fern can inadvertently become a fuel ladder that brings flames into the canopy?
... that Israeli sport shooter Sergy Rikhter was denied a 2011 ISSF World Cup silver medal because he was late?

08:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Paralympic gold medallist Brendan Burkett (pictured) is the director of the Centre for Healthy Activities, Sport and Exercise at the University of the Sunshine Coast?
... that St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen, is one of the few churches in Wales to be lit only by candles?
... that the armored cruiser Admiral Makarov was one of the ships that represented the Russian Empire at the coronation of Nicholas I of Montenegro in August 1910?
... that the interlocking at the Harris Switch Tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, still simulates train movements using timetables from the early 1940s?
... that less than six weeks after winning the 2011 National Rugby League premiership, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles sacked their head coach, Des Hasler?
... that Punta Brava, Cuba, has been the site of a number of notable deaths, including those of Antonio Maceo Grajales (1896) and Quentin Bandera (1906)?

00:00, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Laura Street Trio of buildings (pictured) in Jacksonville, Florida, includes a building that was Florida's tallest when it was built?
... that the Radlock Trainer was built by members of the Hull Experimental Gliding Club in their workshop?
... that the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I Tournament in Jerry Lyne's first season as an assistant coach?
... that according to legend, Saint Boniface chased away a Germanic god named Stuffo from the Hülfensberg in Thuringia, Germany?
... that Paralympian Cobi Crispin was the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team's top scorer in all but the last two matches of the 2011 U25 Women's World Championship of Basketball?
... that Peter Percival collaborated with Arumuka Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, to translate the Bible into Tamil?

22 November 2011

16:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe pelliculosa (pictured) resembles P. washingtonensis so closely that a microscope is needed to reliably distinguish between them?
... that the rove beetle Diochus electrus is the first definite member of the subfamily Staphylininae from the fossil record?
... that foliage from the Australian rainforest tree Grevillea baileyana was used in the floral arrangements handed to medal winners at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
... that the University of Central Florida's women's soccer team has had a winning record in 27 of the 30 seasons the team has played?
... that Nag Hammadi Codex II is the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas?
... that Australian rules football is sometimes referred to as "aerial ping-pong"?

08:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

... that a world map by Gerardus Mercator attributes the Earth's magnetic field to a magnetic mountain (pictured) above the Arctic Circle?
... that St Michael and All Angels' Church in Felton, Northumberland, has a window cut from a single stone that features eight petal flower patterning with geometrical tracery?
... that tectonic subsidence, the sinking of the Earth's crust, can be caused by extension, cooling, or loading?
... that Israeli Olympian Delila Hatuel trains both Jewish and Arab children in fencing?
... that Solonei da Silva was a garbage collector in Brazil in 2009, but went on to win the gold medal in the marathon at the 2011 Pan American Games?
... that to escape burning at the 1393 Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France huddled under the gown of the Duchesse de Berry, while a lord leaped into a wine vat?

00:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

... that during the Spanish–American War, German admiral Otto von Diederichs was ordered to attempt the acquisition of colonial concessions in the Philippines, using SMS Kaiserin Augusta (pictured) as his flagship?
... that Mary Tyler Moore made her feature film debut in X-15, which was also the first film to be directed by Richard Donner?
... that the University of Central Florida's men's soccer team won their first match by a score of 8–0?
... that the disastrous Air Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1939 led to the development of the fast-acting computerized Mark XIV bomb sight?
... that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpf batted .405 in the Northwestern League, higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
... that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough retractions from scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?

21 November 2011

16:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

... that veteran NASCAR promoter Humpy Wheeler is an advisor to the Grand Prix of America, a Formula One race to be run in New Jersey (planned track layout pictured) starting in 2013?
... that teenage prodigy Conrad Tao starred on the TV series From the Top three times: as pianist, violinist, and composer?
... that the students of Chester College helped to build its chapel between 1844 and 1847?
... that former basketball guard Stefon Jackson, who played for the UTEP Miners, is Conference USA's all-time scoring leader with 2,456 points?
... that the plot of the Battlestar Galactica episode "Sacrifice" was influenced by Dog Day Afternoon?
... that the mistletoe species Amyema congener of eastern Australia can grow on non-native peach, plum and pear trees?

08:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the African Wildlife Foundation is helping feed the only remaining West African Giraffes (pictured) in Niger?
... that Kobe Bryant once claimed that Rashad Phillips was the "best player" never selected in an NBA Draft?
... that University of Toledo basketball player Bill Walker was the first official NCAA season assists leader in 1950–51?
... that the extinct maple section Torada is only known from the three Eocene species A. stonebergae, A. toradense, and A. washingtonense?
... that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?
... that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?

00:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the starvation pricklypear (pictured) is eaten by pronghorn and the black-tailed prairie dog?
... that the Fringe episode "And Those We've Left Behind" marked the first time actors and real-life husband and wife Stephen Root and Romy Rosemont had worked together on a creative project?
... that the Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District in Chicago includes the home of President Barack Obama?
... that in 2009, Davon House of the New Mexico State Aggies scored touchdowns on both a fumble recovery and an interception return?
... that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh (The Glove) for cello and speaking voice, after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh, is designed for one performer?
... that the U.S. Forest Service warns hikers in Montana's Beartooth Mountains not to follow the many cairns on the way to Froze-to-Death Mountain because they are useless for routefinding?

20 November 2011

16:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

... that New Jersey governor Chris Christie lost electric power at both his own house and the governor's mansion during the 2011 Halloween nor'easter (snow in Walden, New York, pictured)?
... that the waffle-iron filter from electronics is used on industrial microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
... that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau, had a long friendship with Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
... that in 1983 Brian Reid was the first rider to average over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) during the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man?
... that MercyMe's independent album The Worship Project sold over 60,000 copies and helped them gain a contract with INO Records?
... that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix?

08:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

... that RPS Rajah Soliman (pictured) was sunk by a typhoon with two names?
... that the TV ad "Second Generation" features young basketball players recreating Michael Jordan's most famous moves from memory?
... that in some joint custody arrangements, children reside in one house and the parents move in and out from separate residences?
... that Thomas Eyles's service in the invasion of France brought his promotion to post-captain, despite the expedition's ultimate failure?
... that production of kits of the Robertson B1-RD, a homebuilt ultralight aircraft, was stopped by their manufacturer due to concerns about product liability?
... that Yale history professor John Morton Blum, besides editing the Morgenthau Plan and teaching George W. Bush and John Kerry, appeared in Woody Allen's film Zelig?

00:00, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

... that reefs formed by the developing plume worm (pictured) are sometimes broken apart by the activity of the red boring sponge?
... that Hawaiian chief Boki accused Queen Kaʻahumanu of scheming to place her adoptive son, David Kamehameha, on the Hawaiian throne?
... that when Manasse ǃNoreseb, chief of the Red Nation in Namibia, was to be reburied at his home settlement of Hoachanas, the remains did not contain a skull?
... that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?
... that Nag Hammadi Codex XIII is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia, an early Christian Gnostic text?
... that Welsh goalkeeper Tony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing handstands?

19 November 2011

16:00, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the three-day Wiki Conference India (logo pictured) is running from 18 to 20 November at the University of Mumbai?
... that Huaihai Road, one of the most famous shopping streets in Shanghai, was formerly named after the French general Joseph Joffre?
... that judge Beth Grimes dismissed lawsuits against Keanu Reeves and Ari Emanuel, ordered Jon Voight to pay attorney fees, and was appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to a California Court of Appeal?
... that the 1980s "Gang of Four" consisted of Democratic critics of the Vietnam War who advocated Congressional funding for the Nicaraguan Contras?
... that non-ferrous metals are used because of their desirable properties such as low weight or resistance to corrosion?
... that although his high school basketball career was nearly ended by an accident with piranhas, Kit Mueller is second in Princeton basketball history in points and assists?

08:00, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

... that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Albany, New York, has a Roman brick from the site of its model, St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire?
... that with The Half Brother, Lars Saabye Christensen became the first novelist to win the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize twice?
... that the Pulangi IV Hydroelectric Power Plant provides Mindanao's electrical grid with 23% of its hydropower?
... that Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is a Japanese visual novel video game that was the No. 1 best-selling PC game in Japan in October 2010?
... that Julianne Adams was recruited as a wheelchair basketball player while still in a hospital bed following the accident that severed her spine?
... that the largest political faction in the Frankfurt Parliament was called the Casino?

00:00, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Bugaboos (pictured) were apparently named by disgruntled prospectors?
... that NASCAR "road course ringer" Chris Cook was the youngest chief instructor ever hired by the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving?
... that two of the members of Japanese idol group HKT48 are in elementary school?
... that James McCormack was the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission?
... that the Blacktail triplefin blenny's species name, bahasa, refers to the official language of Indonesia?
... that Stanford University played rugby instead of American football from 1906 to 1917 and had as its first coach a man who had never before played or coached the sport?

18 November 2011

16:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the ruby red beverage called hibiscus tea (flowers pictured) in English-speaking countries is called "water of Jamaica" in Mexico, where it is widely available?
... that professional baseball player Chuck Rose was a league-leader in both hits and pitching wins?
... that the Obedient Wives Club is the publisher of a book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World?
... that the Long-tailed Ground Roller, a species of bird endemic to Madagascar, digs a tunnel in the sand as an entrance to its underground nest?
... that the cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw became a focus of a major controversy in 2010, regarding the relations between church and state in Poland?
... that a flying scene in the music video for Eminem's song "Not Afraid" has been compared to The Matrix?

08:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

... that when Lady Mary Calverley built Oddfellows' Hall (pictured) in Chester, England in 1676, she was fined £20 because it caused the loss of a portion of the Chester Rows?
... that the director of For the Moment described lead actor Russell Crowe as a man who "likes to be a maverick"?
... that T³ was a process for extracting oil from oil shale in Morocco?
... that the 1953 crash of a Vickers Viking in Belfast killed 27 people?
... that Mohammad Natsir wrote that Indonesia's treatment of Islam in the 1970s was similar to how one would treat "a cat with ring-worms"?
... that professional wrestlers Mark Shrader and Corporal Punishment established the first permanent wrestling school in Maryland?

00:00, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

... that, according to Sussex folklore, the Bronze Age barrows known as the Devil's Humps (pictured) were raised over the bodies of defeated Viking marauders?
... that Bubba Monroe, son of Memphis wrestler Sputnik Monroe, was featured in Texas regional and independent promotions during the 1990s?
... that uplift data and tsunami wave heights indicate that the 1703 Genroku earthquake was probably caused by the rupture of three separate segments of the Eurasian–Philippine Sea Plate boundary?
... that D. J. Smith was the first player at Appalachian State University to have more than 500 tackles in a career since NFL Pro Bowler Dexter Coakley?
... that the church Michaelion was a model for hundreds of other churches in Eastern Christianity?
... that the ancient Roman dancer Galeria Copiola reached the age of 104?

17 November 2011

16:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the foliage of the coast myall (pictured) can produce cyanide when cut?
... that a media conspiracy calling itself the Order of the Occult Hand has infiltrated The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Times?
... that Hal Foster's first book was a children's book, and his second was a seminal text in postmodernism?
... that Dorothy Mayhall was the first director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum?
... that during the Siege of Portsmouth, Southsea Castle was captured from a drunken commander?
... that Paralympic shooting medallist Ashley Adams is a cattle grazier who owns a 64,000-acre (26,000 ha) station near Blackall, Queensland?

08:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

... that works of art such as The Proscribed Royalist (pictured) by John Everett Millais have been accepted in lieu of tax by the British Government?
... that the video game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a successor to Age of Chivalry, but while the latter was in Source, the new game will be Unreal?
... that John Stewart, a regular tenor with the New York City Opera and then the Frankfurt Opera, recorded the part of Oronte in Handel's Alcina opposite Cristina Deutekom in Carnegie Hall in 1974?
... that Australia's first Winter Paralympics medallist, Michael Milton, gave one of the gold medals he earned at the 1992 Winter Paralympics to his coach, Steve Graham?
... that Behind the Mosquito Net received six Citra Awards?
... that the Lawson Adit, a tunnel on UC Berkeley's campus, was intentionally dug through the Hayward Fault?

00:00, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Maurice Wilks, who invented the Land Rover, is buried at St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd in Wales (grave pictured)?
... that the 5.6 magnitude earthquake which struck the U.S. state of Oklahoma on November 5, 2011, was the most powerful recorded in state history?
... that there have been only 22 marine isotope stages in the last million years?
... that professional baseball player Simmy Murch worked at a roller skating rink during the winter?
... that the melody of the closing chorale in Bach's cantata Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim, BWV 89, is doubled by the horn, two oboes and the first violin?
... that in 1959, a Douglas Dakota flew into a Spanish mountain and killed 32 people?

16 November 2011

16:00, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Rocky Mountain monkeyflower (pictured) rarely produces flowers outside of a greenhouse?
... that pilot fatigue was a likely factor in the crash of Lufthansa Flight 502 in 1959?
... that Timothy E. Quill admitted in The New England Journal of Medicine to helping a patient commit suicide and later went on to be a party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Vacco v. Quill?
... that the string sections on MercyMe's 2006 album Coming Up to Breathe were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Session Orchestra?
... that men's basketball rivals Princeton and Penn won the Ivy League regular season all but two years between 1963 and 2007?
... that Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player Kurt Epstein survived two Nazi concentration camps?

08:00, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

... that a Czechoslovakian gold medal winner and a Sudanese refugee (pictured) have carried the flag for the United States at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games?
... that the cap of the mushroom Lactarius rupestris is not cracked enough for section Edules?
... that baseball player Rube DeGroff led two different leagues in home runs and was a teammate of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Dutch singer Henk Pleket performed for around thirty years in the group De Havenzangers, singing songs of sailors and the 1990 FIFA World Cup?
... that the Wings song "Beware My Love" includes melodies based on a descending tetrachord?
... that singer Ayu Ting Ting became popular in 2011 with a song released four years earlier?

00:00, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Cornelius Smelt (pictured) was the first royally appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man?
... that in 1935, baseball player Snipe Hansen was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Washington Senators, on to the St. Louis Browns where he faced Washington, and then back to the Senators?
... that 49% of German military losses happened in the last 10 months of the Second World War in Europe?
... that Frank L. Roberts served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly with his daughter and two of his wives?
... that crime novelist P. D. James listed the 2007 series Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested as one of the most embarrassing television programmes the BBC has ever produced?
... that Natalia Tułasiewicz, a Polish teacher, was one of only two lay women beatified among the 108 Martyrs of World War II?
... that Wales international footballer Alexander Jones was killed in a shooting accident on board a train?

15 November 2011

16:00, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Stowe Missal was written c. 750 and given its cumdach or case c. 1030 (pictured), with one new face added c. 1375?
... that as of 2009 the High Court of Singapore's judgment in the Taw Cheng Kong case was the only decision where a statutory provision had been struck down as unconstitutional?
... that Larry Jacobus' 13-year professional baseball career ended when he lost his right eye in a car accident?
... that grapes from Aussenkehr, Namibia, can be harvested up to five weeks earlier than other locations in Southern Africa?
... that the 1976 play The Vietnamization of New Jersey has been noted for its parallels to the United States' involvement in Iraq?
... that the ancient Roman dancer Galeria Copiola reached the age of 104?
... that Australian blues musician Phil Manning is a member of Chain and co-wrote their top 20 hit "Black and Blue" from 1971?

08:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

... that young painted greenlings rest among the tentacles of the strawberry anemone (pictured) and there find protection from predators?
... that racing driver and world champion bobsledder "Suicide Freddie" was an "internationally known Australian playboy" under surveillance by the FBI?
... that the tsunami caused by the 1746 Lima-Callao earthquake destroyed the port of Callao, killing most of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants, and drove two warships nearly a mile inland over the ruins?
... that at 48 metres (157 ft) high, the Cape Wickham Lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Australia?
... that Jewish athlete Lilli Henoch, winner of ten German track and field championships, was murdered with her mother by the Nazis during the Holocaust?
... that the 1992 film Afterburn was inspired by a 60 Minutes report about an F-16 fighter aircraft's crash?
... that Lynne Carter was the first female impersonator to perform at Carnegie Hall?

00:00, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the building at 20–22 Marlborough Place, Brighton (pictured), designed by John Leopold Denman, contains a relief showing Denman holding an architectural plan?
... that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Al Jalama was known in the Crusader period as Gelenna?
... that Australian 2000 Paralympic bronze medalist Casey Redford was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder?
... that LiSA was one of the two vocalists for a fictional band in an anime?
... that excavation at the Ashworth Archaeological Site in Indiana was halted because of the owner's religious beliefs?
... that the rigging of the International Ultralight Banchee could be assembled in 35 minutes?
... that Pharmasset Inc.'s stock return in the first three fiscal quarters of 2011 was 278 percent?

14 November 2011

12:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion (pictured), built in 1935 as a summer residence for Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is on the sea about 70 m (230 ft) offshore?
... that Olympic discus thrower Jules Noël was drinking champagne during the 1932 Games in Los Angeles despite the prohibition and might have won the gold medal if the officials had been paying attention?
... that Mencius once said that the Chinese egoist philosopher Yang Zhu, founder of Yangism, believed that even if "plucking one hair might benefit the whole world", he would still refuse to do so?
... that Paralympic triple gold medalist Evan O'Hanlon was named as a finalist in Cleo magazine's 2008 Bachelor of the Year contest?
... that in his song "Cadillac Ranch", Bruce Springsteen uses the Cadillac Ranch sculpture as a metaphor for the inevitability of death?
... that the reputedly impeccable moral character of Celestyn Czaplic, marshal of the Sejm of 1766 in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, became the subject of a proverb?
... that Ralph Edwards was Ralph Edwards' guest on the 1957 Christmas Day edition of This Is Your Life?

00:00, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

... that in medieval art, angels were often depicted wearing feather tights (pictured)?
... that Dost Mohammad Khan, founder of the Bhopal State in India, was an Afghan?
... that while on the winter death march out of Auschwitz in January 1945, Dario Gabbai claimed he survived the cold by visualising Athens in the sunshine?
... that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three relate to faith, love and hope?
... that Green Bay Packers running back Alex Green attended the same community college as future teammate Aaron Rodgers?
... that the fuel tank of the Brock Avion is built into the ultralight aircraft's pilot's seat?
... that Nicholas Christofilos designed the Astron fusion power machine while selling elevators?

13 November 2011

12:00, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

... that two poppy factories in England and Scotland produce approximately 41 million remembrance poppies (English example pictured) each year between them?
... that Jean Alfred Fraissinet, who was credited with eight aerial victories during World War I, was elected to the National Assembly of France in 1958?
... that corals that live on the Tasmanian Seamounts are among the longest-living organisms on Earth?
... that a 1926 voyage to Java inspired Czech poet Konstantin Biebl for the remainder of his life?
... that the most expensive sculptures ever sold include modern works such as Picasso's Tete de femme, Modigliani's Tête, and Giacometti's Grande tête mince, and ancient statues like Artemis and the Stag?
... that in 1924, baseball player Shags Horan led the International League in batting average before joining the New York Yankees in mid-season?
... that a stillborn, deformed piglet's resemblance to George Spencer led to him becoming the first white man executed in Connecticut?

00:00, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Margie Goldstein-Engle (pictured), who as a child cleaned out horse stalls to pay for riding lessons, became a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year?
... that Hurricane Cindy of 1959 subdued a drought in the Carolinas, bringing more than 9 inches (230 mm) of rain in some areas?
... that Guiding Eyes for the Blind teams senior citizens with elementary school students and also uses prison inmates in rearing the puppies it later trains as guide dogs to the blind?
... that Wilhelm Marckwald went from directing theatre in Germany and film in Spain to working as a boilerman and gardener in England?
... that the Airborne Avenger could be purchased for home assembly or ready to fly?
... that baseball player Tom Raftery set a South Atlantic League record by stealing 80 bases in a season?
... that the Spanish colonial capital of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was founded three times in different locations?

12 November 2011

12:00, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the last residents of Independence, Colorado (remaining buildings pictured), billed their midwinter evacuation to nearby Aspen as a ski club race with an entry fee of one ham sandwich?
... that former Everton and Wales international footballer Charlie Parry fell on hard times and was the beneficiary of three testimonial matches?
... that Bruce Springsteen's 1978 song "The Promised Land" was named in homage to Chuck Berry's song "Promised Land"?
... that Elio Fox's first World Series of Poker finish that earned him prize money was a victory in the 2011 Europe main event?
... that baseball player Jud Daley once had the second-most hits in the Southern Association, behind only Shoeless Joe Jackson?
... that a version of the name of Andrew Barton, a Scottish sea captain considered a "fearless freebooter", is carved into a rock within Embleton Bay?

00:00, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Joshua L. Goldberg (pictured), the first rabbi to serve as a World War II U.S. navy chaplain, was a Russian army deserter?
... that its ability to solve wind drift calculations made the Course Setting Bomb Sight the "most important bombsight" of World War I?
... that before his death in 2011, Tadeusz Sawicz was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain?
... that on Christmas Day 1914, aircraft from the British seaplane carrier HMS Empress participated in the Cuxhaven Raid on hangars housing Zeppelin airships?
... that bandleader Mitch Miller studied at a music school named for David Hochstein, a promising young American violinist killed in World War I?
... that in August 1944, eighty Germans were taken prisoner by a British sergeant of the 2nd Parachute Brigade?
... that chemist Charles Phelps Smyth received the Medal of Freedom for covert intelligence work he did in Europe during World War II, when he was 50 years old?

11 November 2011

12:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Old Royal Library dating back to the Middle Ages (manuscript detail right) was given to the British Museum by George II in 1757, and is now in the British Library?
... that five teams celebrated the opening of the 2011–12 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season with Midnight Madness celebrations?
... that the AHRLAC is intended to be a less expensive manned alternative to reconnaissance drones?
... that in the 2000 battle of Pweto, Rwandan troops forced Congolese government forces to flee to Zambia?
... that Gujarati poet Niranjan Bhagat won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati for his critic Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha?
... that the extinct buthid scorpion Uintascorpio was first placed in the family Vaejovidae?
... that Hans Spialek, after studying music while a Russian prisoner of war during World War I, orchestrated 147 American musicals?

00:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Australian men's wheelchair basketballer Troy Sachs (pictured) has won seven championships in four different club leagues and gold medals at two Paralympic Games?
... that training in Togakure-ryū, an original style of Ninjutsu, is similar to that for judo and aikido?
... that the hit-and-run death of a two-year-old girl has led to a possible "Good Samaritan" law in Guangdong province, China?
... that tenor William Brown, who performed for presidents Kennedy and Johnson, created the role of Lieutenant Jean l'Aiglon in Hugo Weisgall's Nine Rivers from Jordan?
... that box-top software licenses are non-enforceable in the United States if other contract terms have been agreed to?
... that professional wrestler Bob Starr was called to work for World Championship Wrestling but hung up because an ear injury prevented him from knowing who had called?
... that Google keeps giant dessert items on its lawn?

10 November 2011

12:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

... that some of the reliquaries for books called cumdachs (example pictured) were carried into battle as standards in Medieval Ireland?
... that in 1964, California Governor Pat Brown appointed Richard M. Sims, Jr. to the Court of Appeal, and in 1982, Governor Jerry Brown, Pat's son, appointed Sims's son to the Court of Appeal?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180, has been regarded as "perfectly tailored to the idea of the soul dressing itself up in all its wedding finery"?
... that the manga AKB49: Renai Kinshi Jourei features real-life members of the Japanese idol group AKB48?
... that some of the artifacts at Pocahontas Mounds, an archaeological site from the Plaquemine Mississippian culture in Hinds County, Mississippi, were recovered by schoolchildren?
... that Garin Nugroho's family was worried that he could be killed for his reinterpretation of "the wounds of history" in Puisi Tak Terkuburkan?
... that the neo-romantic literary cabaret Zielony Balonik from Kraków was rumoured to be a place of "orgies, nude dancing and all manner of dissipation"?

00:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the New Scotland Avenue Armory (pictured) in Albany is one of only six in the state of New York designed for use by a cavalry unit?
... that Iztok Puc is the only handball player to have represented three different countries at the Summer Olympics: Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia?
... that the first time a circuit court weighed in on the scope of DMCA §1202, which prohibits the removal of Copyright Management Information (CMI), was in the Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC case?
... that the Yakovlev AIR-7, a record-setting prototype high performance light aircraft, suffered a structural failure while being demonstrated before senior officers of the Soviet Air Forces?
... that Donald W. Thomas' research on the ecophysiology of bat hibernation contributed to the understanding of white nose syndrome?
... that Wings' drummer Joe English sang his only lead vocal for the band on "Must Do Something About It"?
... that Bud Weiser was a Major League Baseball player?

9 November 2011

12:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

... that runner Lon Myers (pictured), who set 11 world records, won one race with only one shoe, and another while running sideways?
... that the headstones of New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków were used to pave the courtyard of commandant Amon Göth's house in Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp?
... that Tzaganosuchus fossils were first discovered during a joint paleontological expedition by the Soviet Union and Mongolia?
... that art historian Bruno Adler taught at the Bauhaus before becoming a refugee and writing British propaganda in German for BBC Radio?
... that Thich Nhat Hanh, who has been described as the second most famous Buddhist after the Dalai Lama, founded a sangha in San Diego County?
... that norteño band Duelo launched a radio station to promote their album Solamente Tú?
... that those who believe in toilet gods hold that they can be appeased by praying, eating or offering rice, clearing one's throat, or biting the toilet?

00:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Brighton Wheel (pictured) in Brighton, England, stood in South Africa last year?
... that oil shale deposits in Israel may cover approximately 15% of the country's territory, but only a small part of them are mineable for energy use?
... that the street children in the Indonesian film Leaf on a Pillow were given an education after production finished?
... that the British destroyer HMS Harvester sank one German submarine by ramming on 3 March 1943 whilst escorting Convoy HX 228, but was sunk by another submarine the following day?
... that KRSA, a radio station in Petersburg, Alaska, was sold in December 2010 for the sum of $1.00?
... that a nude picture of 1996 Summer Paralympics gold medallist Gerry Hewson and his pregnant wife was published by Time Out New York?
... that Baker's Hole, near Dartford, Kent, England, contains a site at which Neanderthals made blades?

8 November 2011

12:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

... that a hilya (example pictured) in Islamic calligraphy contains a description of the prophet Muhammad?
... that Henry DeWolf Smyth was the sole member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to vote against revoking J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance?
... that the British seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal is the only aircraft carrier to ever have been fitted with a sail?
... that Matthew Hayden's 380 is the second highest score by a batsman in Test cricket?
... that Hugo Rogers gave no speeches in his campaign for Manhattan Borough President, instead leaving them to supporters and allies?
... that Paul McCartney originally intended to use his song "Little Lamb Dragonfly" in the animated film Rupert and the Frog Song?
... that divers from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology discovered the Mesolithic settlement of Bouldnor Cliff with the help of a lobster?

00:00, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Joseph Wright of Derby had only seen the scene once at night before he painted Dovedale by Moonlight (pictured)?
... that in Bowers v. Baystate Technologies the U.S. Federal Circuit ruled that copyright law does not preempt a "shrinkwrap license" disallowing reverse engineering?
... that Jack Rothfuss contracted dysentery during his first season in Major League Baseball and spent the rest of his career in the minor leagues?
... that Embleton Tower, built after a Scottish raid, contains a belfry whose ring of bells was cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry?
... that all employment for Morphsuits spandex bodysuits is outsourced except for three positions?
... that in the four years before her appointment to California's Third District Court of Appeal, Elena Duarte had served as a judge of both the Los Angeles County and Sacramento County Superior Courts?
... that the costumes for Under the Protection of Ka'Bah, Indonesia's submission to this year's Oscars, were reported to cost as much as an entire horror movie?

7 November 2011

12:15, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

... that, when Ghenadie Petrescu (pictured) was ousted from his post of Metropolitan-Primate, Romania experienced protests and riots?
... that the 2003 historical Chinese TV series Towards the Republic has been subject to significant censorship, and compared to River Elegy, a TV series that influenced the Tiananmen movement of 1989?
... that Lucas Hoge has been nominated for the Inspirational Country Music awards New Artist of the Year 2011?
... that a Canadian engineering consultant firm won an award for the innovative design of the Antamina Tailings Dam in Peru ?
... that Marciano Norman had been in the cavalry, and went on to head Indonesia's intelligence agency?
... that in United States v. ASCAP, the Second Circuit ruled that music downloads do not constitute "public performances"?
... that Fatty Finn was the first Australian-created and produced weekly comic book?

00:30, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi (wreck pictured) capsized on 29 July 1945 as a result of cumulative damage inflicted by American airstrikes on 24 and 28 July?
... that only two competitors have carried the flag for Great Britain at the Olympic Games on more than one occasion?
... that in a concert "Hommage à Liszt" at Munich's Gasteig, pianist Valentina Babor played chamber music by Franz Liszt and Graham Waterhouse scored for piano solo up to piano and string quartet?
... that Jerzy Bielecki escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp with a girl he fell in love with, dressed in a stolen SS uniform?
... that the 9th-century Branimir Inscription is the oldest surviving example of the ethnonym of the Croats?
... that Mason Bennett made his professional football debut aged just 15 years and 99 days?
... that for Indonesian singer Gombloh, Half-Crazy was followed by Crazier?

6 November 2011

12:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the octopus Stauroteuthis syrtensis (pictured) glows but nobody knows for what purpose?
... that the Hilda mega-bonebed is Canada's largest dinosaur bonebed, preserving thousands of the horned dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus across an area of 2.3 square kilometers (0.9 sq mi)?
... that George Flett was a farmer, gold prospector, trader and politician before becoming a missionary?
... that a field study conducted in Beaconsfield Upper found that the Australian buttercup had flowered 78 days earlier in 2006 than it had in 1983?
... that Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán was joined by Moderatto to record a live album?
... that after relinquishing control of the Nixon Library to the U.S. National Archives, the Richard Nixon Foundation objected to plans for an exhibit on the Watergate scandal?
... that the first offices of The Jakarta Post, which has been described as "Indonesia's leading English-language daily", were in a laundry room?

00:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the White-necked Rockfowl (museum specimen pictured), a vulnerable species of bird found in Upper Guinean forests, builds its nests in caves out of mud?
... that Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart, a brother-in-law of Henry Clay and Senator James Brown of Louisiana, was killed in the River Raisin Massacre?
... that the British seaplane carrier HMS Anne was converted from the captured German freighter SS Aenne Rickmers during the First World War?
... that during her active career, Hungarian handball player Beáta Siti obtained victories in the EHF Cup, the EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the EHF Champions League?
... that Christ's Indian paintbrush is one of Idaho's rarest plants?
... that Keith Chatto was the first Australian comic book artist to illustrate a full-length episode of The Phantom?
... that in 1994 the world's oldest Classic was won by "the world's naughtiest horse"?

5 November 2011

12:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Born Free, Out of Africa and Survivor: Africa were all shot at the Shaba National Reserve (pictured)?
... that French 1960s pop star Hervé Vilard was born in 1946 in a taxi which was transferring his mother to the hospital to deliver?
... that both the Roman Emperor Trajan and his successor were caught in the devastating 115 Antioch earthquake?
... that in each episode of the musical documentary series The Dewarists, musicians visit a different place in India, and record a song in a genre which reflects the local culture?
... that St Cuthbert's Church in Elsdon, Northumberland, England, had horse skulls in its bell turret?
... that Jurellana tithonia, dating from the Jurassic, is the earliest known porcelain crab?
... that "Tank" Collins was forced by his mother to play basketball to get over the death of his father and went on to become the American South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year?

00:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Scandinavian influence in Scotland, still evident today (pictured), was probably at its height during the time of Thorfinn the Mighty?
... that Dennis Hopper won four awards for his role in Blue Velvet, while co-star Isabella Rossellini only won one?
... that baseball player Dutch Schliebner replaced a future Hall of Fame member on the St. Louis Browns?
... that the Church of St Michael, built on a Roman camp site in Alnham, England, contains Saxon quoins in the nave?
... that the adventures of the crew of a floatplane from HMS Raven II, after they were forced to make an emergency landing on 21 April 1917 in the Maldives, inspired Rudyard Kipling's story "A Flight of Fact"?
... that All-Star roller derby skater Ronnie Robinson was the son of Sugar Ray Robinson?
... that a solo viola part in Bach's cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 has been described as "the cleansing motions of some prototype baroque washing machine"?

4 November 2011

12:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

... that in the Bellavista housing estate (pictured), designed by Arne Jacobsen in the functionalist Bauhaus style, every apartment has two rooms with views of the sea?
... that cartoon producer Hal Geer successfully campaigned for Bugs Bunny to have his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
... that Bill Smith, who wrote a book considered the "bible" of fell running, died recently, apparently from tumbling into a peat bog while running across a fell?
... that after the two endangered varieties of the Maguire daisy were combined into the one species due to genetic indistinction, it was no longer considered endangered?
... that the music a person hears in childhood may affect that person's musical cognition as an adult?
... that in 1907, professional baseball pitcher John Halla threw a no-hitter and won a career-high 24 games?
... that the Hotel Arctic in Murmansk, Russia, is the tallest building above the Arctic Circle?

00:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

... that despite being located in the Orkney Islands, the sand lining of the Scar boat burial (plaque from site pictured) matches no known Scottish sand?
... that TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Corp. created a new test to determine whether an adjudged infringer can be held in contempt for continued infringement?
... that David Lynch has been awarded two Césars, two Bodils, and a Palme d'Or, yet no Oscars?
... that equestrian Toni Leviste was the first Southeast Asian to compete in the Show Jumping World Cup?
... that the sound of the song "Here with Me" by MercyMe has been compared to the sound of alternative rock band Coldplay?
... that new information can be mistakenly incorporated into a previous memory through the misinformation effect?
... that baseball pitcher Walt Smallwood led two minor leagues in losses before he joined the New York Yankees?

3 November 2011

12:00, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

... that some of the nominally silver Roman coins from the Bredon Hill Hoard (pictured) only have a 1% silver content?
... that the Syrian opposition group the Arab Revolutionary Labour Party was founded in 1966 as a Marxist splinter-group of the Ba'ath Party?
... that the song "Día de Suerte" by Mexican singer-songwriter Alejandra Guzmán is the theme song for the telenovela Una Familia Con Suerte?
... that Wayne Guppy and Rex Kirton, the current and previous Mayors of Upper Hutt in New Zealand, have served their community for over a third of a century?
... that Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG had the highest amount of damages ever awarded in a copyright infringement case?
... that Red Snapp was considered the "king of the minor leagues"?
... that global precedence is the tendency to see the forest, and not the trees?

00:00, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the heart cockle (pictured) is named after the shape of its bivalve shell?
... that the log-Cauchy distribution has been proposed as a model for the progression of HIV in individuals?
... that Finners Quinlan had his professional baseball career cut short when he lost an eye and a leg while fighting in World War I?
... that Young Thor is one of the first Western-developed digitally distributed video games to be released on the PlayStation Network in Japan?
... that independent filmmaker Michael Roemer paid just $5,000 to acquire the rights to use Motown hits for his 1964 film Nothing But a Man?
... that during the British aircraft carrier Argus's 1920 Spring Cruise with the Atlantic Fleet, three of her aircraft were blown over the side of the carrier?
... that despite winning the 2011 ARCA Racing Series championship by 340 points, Ty Dillon lost the series' rookie of the year title by two points?

2 November 2011

12:00, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

... that the Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial (pictured), excavated in 2011, is the first confirmed Viking ship burial to be discovered in mainland Scotland since 1935?
... that Paul Koechlin, winner of the first automobile race ever, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, was a second cousin to Maurice Koechlin, the structural engineer of the Eiffel Tower?
... that CCM singer Matthew West co-wrote half of the tracks on the Casting Crowns's album Come to the Well?
... that physician Robert Martensen has attracted attention for his criticism of end-of-life care in the United States?
... that the British aircraft carrier HMS Perseus was fitted with temporary stands in June 1953 for VIPs and the press during Elizabeth II's Coronation Fleet Review in Spithead?
... that baseball player Tom Tennant led three different minor leagues in hits before appearing at the major leagues?
... that in 1965, Tropical Storm Debbie broke the daily rainfall record in Mobile, Alabama, despite dissipating offshore?

00:00, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

... that a 19th-century rector of St Mary's Church (pictured) in Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Wales, was awarded a gold medal for his attempt to save a boat during a gale?
... that 12 half eagle gold coins were sent from Confederate North Carolina through enemy lines to Philadelphia to be tested by the 1862 United States Assay Commission, and were found to be correct?
... that the Russian battleship Poltava was the only one of her class to survive the Russo-Japanese War?
... that Clyde Goodwin started his professional baseball career at the age of 16?
... that the 856 Damghan earthquake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people in the Persian province of Qumis, also badly disrupted the region's water supplies?
... that hexagonal water, a configuration of water that supposedly stops aging, is a marketing scam?
... that Richard Nixon chose the Wilson desk as his Oval Office desk because he believed it was used by Woodrow Wilson, but it was actually used by Henry Wilson, Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant?

1 November 2011

12:00, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

... that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight (pictured)?
... that Paul McCartney's song "Call Me Back Again" has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles' reunion during the 1970s?
... that in 1924, Francis Alfred Broad MP led a delegation of the birth control movement which included H. G. Wells, Dora Russell and Frances Huxley?
... that the cargo ship MS Ravnaas, owned by Arnt J. Mørland's company, was sunk by Japanese aircraft east of the Samar Island about the same time as the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that according to opinion polls, Gregor Virant's Civic List and Positive Slovenia, two newly formed political parties, already rank among top three for the upcoming Slovenian parliamentary election?
... that baseball player Dave Barbee twice led the Pacific Coast League in home runs?
... that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bassetki statue, which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool?

00:00, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

... that according to folklore, people looking into the eyes of Eternal Silence (pictured) will see a vision of their own death?
... that the United Nations Population Fund has designated today as the Day of Seven Billion?
... that Fowler's Ghost was first seen on the London Metropolitan Railway in 1861, nearly exploded and was never seen again after 1895?
... that the unusual way that John C. Colt disposed of his murder victim's corpse may have influenced Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Oblong Box"?
... that the body of the first person buried at Ute Cemetery in Aspen, Colorado, was later exhumed to be reburied in Texas?
... that Harry Powers said that watching his victims die was more fun than a brothel?
... that Ghost Frogs roam the streams of South Africa?