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30 April 2018

12:00, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Great Hall at the Strangers' Home

... that in 19th-century London, residents of the Strangers' Home (pictured) were "undefiled by even the shadow of an infidel"?
... that Scott Foster, a 36-year-old accountant, made his professional ice hockey debut as a goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2018 and saved every shot he faced?
... that a train graveyard in Uyuni, Bolivia, has become a tourist attraction?
... that Astrid Medina farms coffee at over 1,800 metres (5,900 ft)?
... that public art at Convention Place station in Seattle includes neon tubes that emulate New York's Chrysler Building and the nearby Paramount Theatre?
... that a male grey-chinned minivet was observed approaching a female while carrying a flower?
... that the Western Union Building is the only surviving example of a 19th-century bank building in Aberdeen, South Dakota?
... that Hungarian mathematician Márta Svéd earned her Ph.D. at age 75?

00:00, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Marlon Bundo

... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay?
... that during the Baltimore Orioles–Chicago White Sox crowdless game, announcer Gary Thorne called an Adam Jones at-bat in the hushed tone of golf announcers like Jim Nantz?
... that Mariya Tsukanova was the only woman in the Soviet–Japanese War to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union?
... that the indie strategy turn-based RPG Halcyon 6 was described as a game that "makes cosmic horror cute"?
... that Henry S. Russell, commander of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry, later served as the first solo commissioner of the Boston Fire Department?
... that during the 2015 Mo Pop Festival in Detroit, heavy rainfall overwhelmed the park's drainage capabilities and formed a standing body of water nicknamed "Lake Mo Pop"?
... that for the production of 47 Ronin, costume designer Penny Rose oversaw the creation of 998 costumes and 400 suits of armour?
... that the binomen of the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax can be translated as "little chief nipple twister"?

29 April 2018

12:00, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Cathinka Buchwieser

... that Franz Schubert dedicated compositions to Cathinka Buchwieser (pictured), a soprano who appeared in Vienna as Mozart's Sesto and Elvira, and as Ferdinando Paer's Achille and Leonora?
... that "the errors of many generations" were said to have been "forever buried" in the footnotes of the 1841 travelogue Biblical Researches in Palestine?
... that Berthe Fraser, a French Resistance agent, helped more than 100 Allied airmen and other agents escape during the Second World War?
... that Chinko Nature Reserve in central Africa provides a habitat with the genetic diversity needed to reestablish animal populations in neighbouring regions?
... that Rodney Legg called the National Trust "an elitist club for art connoisseurs"?
... that on the Ramones' 1987 Halfway to Sanity tour, the group was banned from playing at Boston College and attended a student anti-censorship protest instead?
... that larvae of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus are stimulated to settle on the seabed when they detect traces of certain algae in the water?
... that American baseball player Tyler Kinley's ancestors changed their surname from "McKinley" after the assassination of the 25th President of the United States?

00:00, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Mott's aerial depiction of the General Motors building

... that among American architectural artist Edwin D. Mott's aerial depictions was the General Motors building at the 1939 New York World's Fair (pictured)?
... that the motion sickness of the manga character Natsu Dragneel was based on one of Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima's friends?
... that a proposal was made that the Cauca molly be used in biological pest control of mosquitoes?
... that although New York City's Second Avenue Subway was originally planned in 1920, the first stations did not open for another 97 years?
... that Elizabeth Paston's first husband died in battle fighting for the House of York, and her second husband was beheaded for treason against it?
... that more than 400 clay figures of animals, boats, dancers, houses, and warriors line the garden paths of Heiwadai Park?
... that at the time of his appointment at Stockport County in 1999, footballer Andy Kilner was the youngest manager in the Football League?
... that the Clydesdale Motor Truck Company was named, in part, after a breed of horse?

28 April 2018

12:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Kennedy's speech on the space effort on September 12, 1962

... that President John F. Kennedy (pictured) said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"?
... that Gujarati poet Manilal H. Patel has written poetry touching on his experiences in and around Idar, a town in the Gujarat state of India?
... that Spain abandoned El Piñal, its trading port in China, after encountering hostilities from the Portuguese?
... that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato?
... that the former baggage room of Edmonds station is now used by a model railroad club?
... that 18S rDNA analysis has shown that the green algae genus Golenkinia may belong to a previously unknown sister clade of order Sphaeropleales?
... that Leo Tornikios, a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne, was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
... that a Royal Australian Air Force officer is the head of the UN's rear?

00:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

L. cordifolium flower head

... that plants of the genus Leucospermum (L. cordifolium pictured) are known as pincushions?
... that when Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877, he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
... that the revised edition of John Richard Clark Hall's translation of Beowulf includes a preface by J. R. R. Tolkien?
... that the 1964 Academy Award-nominated short film Breaking the Habit exposes "the danger and the essential silliness of smoking"?
... that Scott G. Borg is credited with helping develop the drilling technology that retrieved the first pure water samples from half a mile (0.8 km) below the surface of an ice-covered Antarctic lake?
... that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme?
... that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth, a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"?
... that the current rivalry between Major League Soccer teams in the Los Angeles area is named El Tráfico?

27 April 2018

12:00, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Surrey Dispensary, c. 1840

... that in 1844, the medical officer of the Surrey Dispensary (pictured) said he frequently visited places where excrement accumulated for months or remained in streets until the rain washed it away?
... that African singer-songwriter and rapper Sampa the Great has performed as a supporting act for Joey Bada$$, as well as Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat?
... that Blackpool were described as the "smallest club to reach the Premier League" after they were promoted by virtue of winning the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final?
... that the wasp Aphelinus mali is a parasitoid of the woolly apple aphid, a pest of apple trees?
... that in a 1974 bench trial connected to the Watergate scandal, Judge John H. Pratt found G. Gordon Liddy guilty of contempt of Congress?
... that St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, one of the first Anglican churches in Madagascar, was designed by William White?
... that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play Cost of Living uses disabled actors to play disabled characters?
... that model worker Sun Jian became China's vice premier during the Cultural Revolution, but was later purged and returned to factory work?

00:00, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Portrait of François de Vendôme

... that François de Vendôme (pictured) lost favour at court by declining to marry brides chosen for him, including a second-generation royal bastard, and was eventually imprisoned in the Bastille?
... that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon?
... that Christopher Little has been described as "the luckiest agent ever" for his association with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling?
... that part of the University of Texas at Arlington campus used to be the site of a home for unwed mothers and orphans?
... that Neville Southall is the most capped Welsh footballer of all time?
... that the Brazilian marsh rat is often preyed on by barn owls but is seldom caught by researchers in their live traps?
... that Katherine Oppenheimer, the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a cousin of German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel?
... that it has been proposed that there are more than 1,000 examples of humor in the Bible?

26 April 2018

12:00, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

A Michigan State drum major performs a backbend

... that a drum major backbend (pictured), performed before many college football games, involves a drum major leaning back to touch their headgear to the ground without the knees also touching?
... that The Times of London described Anthony Lejeune as a man for whom the term "young fogey" could have been invented?
... that all cerumenolytics are equally good at softening ear wax?
... that Junius George Groves was called the "Potato King of the World" in 1902 for producing more potatoes in a single year than anyone else to that point?
... that in the nineteenth century, relics found in India were attributed to Maudgalyayana, a leading disciple of the Buddha?
... that when it opened, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City was the second-longest underwater vehicular tunnel in the world?
... that Godfrid Storms catalogued 86 Anglo-Saxon charms?
... that tail chasing in dogs is a compulsion similar to those seen in humans suffering from OCD?

00:00, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Dermechinus horridus

... that the deep sea cactus urchin (pictured) may be a filter feeder, a very unusual method of feeding for a sea urchin?
... that Amanda Swimmer was one of the first individuals to propose different uses and names for traditional Cherokee pottery?
... that tonight's second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final is the second occasion on which a Canadian team has featured?
... that 98-year-old midwife Sulagitti Narasamma received the Padma Shri award for performing more than 15,000 traditional deliveries free of charge over 70 years?
... that the wreck of the Ohio was discovered 122 years after her sinking?
... that Villa Albergoni, a 16th-century Italian country mansion, was featured in the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name?
... that Rachel Brown, professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music, recorded Private Passion?

25 April 2018

12:00, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Late Roman ridge Berkasovo I helmet

... that Hans Klumbach connected the late Roman ridge helmets (example pictured) to the medieval spangenhelme?
... that a scale model of the Castle of La Mota in the Mudéjar theme park is built with 2,500,000 miniature bricks—approximately the same number as the original?
... that in 1866, the English missionary Joseph Salter tried to help five Punjabis who were stranded in London with their performing bear?
... that the Irish Landmark Trust renovates historic houses, castles, and lighthouses, and then offers them as holiday rentals?
... that Elisabeth Speiser was the first to record Sandrina in Haydn's opera L'infedeltà delusa, and recorded Debussy's Ariettes oubliées?
... that Fresno Yosemite International Airport has a replica of a sequoia forest inside the terminal, reflecting the airport's role as a gateway to three national parks?
... that the actor Jamie Davis asked his former co-star Sunetra Sarker to reprise her role for his departure in Episode 1068 of Casualty?
... that the earliest recorded recipe for fortified rice wine appears in a 1670 Korean cookbook?

00:00, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Parable of the Polygons

... that Parable of the Polygons (pictured), an interactive blog post based on game theory, shows that even a slight demand for diversity can reverse residential segregation?
... that when the first Essex County Executive was elected in New Jersey in 1978, The New York Times described the position as "considered by many to be second in power only to that of the Governor"?
... that former Spanish prime minister Manuel Azaña was arrested after the events of 6 October in Barcelona in 1934, despite having taken no part in them?
... that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society?
... that Levering Smith, a U.S. Navy officer, was credited with assisting the British Polaris programme to finish "on time and on budget, an unprecedented feat in British naval history"?
... that the Eritrean Dahlak Archipelago once housed a thriving trading kingdom, the Dahlak sultanate?
... that an overloaded Kiribati ferry, said to be carrying 88 passengers and 35 tonnes of coconuts, broke in half and sank last January?
... that a letter by Maria Perkins, a literate slave, is the only record of her existence?

24 April 2018

12:00, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Frey in 2006

... that Sarah Frey (pictured) is the United States' most prolific pumpkin grower?
... that the 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws mandate removing communist-era monuments, and renaming places named after communist themes?
... that Georgian era physician Isaac Buxton was known for having "no rowdiness" in his clinics?
... that Malta's Greek community once included slaves, as well as the privateers who captured them?
... that Glen Nelson co-founded the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which Terryl Givens called "a seminal event in Mormonism's coming of age artistically"?
... that Washington Huskies basketball player Matisse Thybulle was the first in the school's history to be named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year?
... that according to Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman, Israel has carried out at least 2,700 assassination operations in the 70 years since its founding?
... that for his role in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs, actor John Ringham was told to "make all the children in the country hate you"?

00:00, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Lovett's book of hours

... that Patricia Lovett created a medieval-style book of hours (pictured) for the BBC production of Wolf Hall?
... that Styling Garage charged luxury car customers almost the cost of the vehicle to convert it to gull-wing doors?
... that soprano Margarete Luise Schick, who performed roles such as Gluck's Iphigenie and Mozart's Zerlina with noted diction and acting, sang for the coronation of Leopold II?
... that Luang Pu Sodh Candasaro set up a "meditation workshop" to practice Dhammakaya meditation in shifts?
... that John A. Kenney Jr. was known as the "dean of black dermatology"?
... that the armored wheel loader Tosun was upgraded to remote-control because militants fired on the operator during the removal of barricades in southeastern Turkey?
... that Gavin Lowe went from being at John's to being at Hugh's, but finally ended up at Catherine's?
... that Yuta Shitara won 100 million yen for breaking the Japanese record at the 2018 Tokyo Marathon?

23 April 2018

12:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Gothic-arch barn purchased from Sears

... that an entire Gothic-arch barn (example pictured) could be ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog?
... that in 1952, mayor Pedro Zaragoza was threatened with excommunication from the Catholic Church for allowing women to wear bikinis in Benidorm, Spain?
... that young Parvulastra vivipara live inside their mother and eat each other?
... that Princess Minkhaung Medaw of Prome was twice married off by her brothers, becoming queen of Hanthawaddy and later of Mrauk U?
... that George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang, was the first British settlement in Southeast Asia?
... that according to Richard Hamming, Nobel Prize winners often discover they can no longer work on small problems?
... that the inspiration for the Philippine thriller Neomanila came from a BBC interview with a married couple who worked as hitmen?
... that on New Year's Day, tens of thousands of Americans take a hike?

00:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Frank Loomis with his motorized paddy wagon

... that Frank Fowler Loomis designed and built the world's first motorized police paddy wagon (pictured)?
... that a coat designed by Andrea Galer and worn by the character of Withnail in the British cult film Withnail and I was included in a charity auction to raise funds for a school in Swaziland?
... that the Samathuvapuram (Equality Village) scheme was started to reduce caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu?
... that Polish Jewish communist activist Eliezer Gruenbaum wrote a memoir about his experiences as a kapo in the Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that J. Slauerhoff's 1930 poetry collection Serenade provoked critical responses ranging from "childish" to "pure lyric" with "refined technique"?
... that Romanian singer Corina portrays a female punk burlesque character in the music video for her 2010 single "No Sleepin'"?
... that the 650 km (400 mi) Jordan Trail, where Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad are believed to have walked, was named one of 2018's best tourist destinations in the world by National Geographic?
... that while Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain was mayor of Kanab, Utah, she passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of slingshots in town?

22 April 2018

12:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

T. lapidator emerging from a Papilio machaon pupa

... that parasitoid wasps in the genus Trogus emerge (pictured) through the side of swallowtail pupae after using liquid to soften the hard casing?
... that in 2015, the then-20-year-old Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, became the youngest person ever to chair a UN Security Council session?
... that the Ayahs' Home in London provided a refuge for Indian and Chinese nannies who had been "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned"?
... that the Staten Island Ferry in New York City, used by almost 24 million passengers annually as of 2017, is free to ride?
... that footballer Hugh Lester was the first non-British player to represent Liverpool?
... that part of Adolf Hitler's Tannenberg compound was used for fertilizer storage after World War II?
... that journalist Joe Hung was the first to translate the works of Taiwanese poet Lai He into English?
... that a blogpost made by David Frum predicting that Obamacare would never be repealed drew so many hits that it crashed the servers within hours?

00:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Charles Jewtraw

... that Charles Jewtraw (pictured) was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games?
... that 98 percent of coffee grown in China comes from one province?
... that Antonello Manacorda, who made an award-winning recording of Schubert's symphonies with his Kammerakademie Potsdam, conducted Mozart operas at La Fenice and Meyerbeer's grand opera at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that among the first papers heard at the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine was one on quarantine from plague and another on the periodic devastation of Scotland by famines and epidemics?
... that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first Congressional campaign?
... that before becoming director of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Dominic Tweddle helped excavate the Coppergate Helmet, and published a chronology of post-Roman helmet types?
... that the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965 was designed to affirm British rule in Southern Rhodesia after its Unilateral Declaration of Independence, but it was largely ignored in Rhodesia?
... that Governor John Volpe sought Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan's removal after Biography of a Bookie Joint showed officers visiting an illegal gambling parlor?

21 April 2018

12:00, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

St. Edward's
Catholic Church

... that locals claimed St. Edward's Catholic Church (pictured) to be the first church in the world to have electric lighting?
... that Colonel Chen Xiaolu publicly confessed and apologized for torturing and persecuting his teachers and school officials, one of whom committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution?
... that archaeologists believe the cultural memory of the burial site at the Alepotrypa cave may have become associated with the mythological entrance to Hades?
... that Jos has been called the "home of country music" in Nigeria?
... that para-alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç has twice been flag bearer for Turkey at the Paralympics?
... that Psalm 84 about God's lovely dwellings was set to music by Heinrich Schütz, by Brahms in the centre of Ein deutsches Requiem, and as Wilhelm Kempff's Op. 1?
... that recording a "ghost" helped lead to Peter van Geersdaele's appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire?
... that Groom Mine has a view over Area 51?

00:00, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Metro bus and light rail passing in the tunnel

... that Central Link trains share a tunnel with buses (pictured) in Downtown Seattle?
... that John Fraser, a young Scottish surgeon, proved Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch wrong?
... that Russia's Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism, compared by proponents to laws against Holocaust denial, was used to prosecute a blogger discussing German–Soviet cooperation?
... that in 1844, Thomas D. Keizur was elected captain of the Oregon Rangers, the first militia unit authorized and formed in the Oregon Country?
... that Koyunbaba Bridge is the longest stone arch bridge in Anatolia built during the Ottoman Empire?
... that Canadian association footballer Liam Millar scored a hat-trick in his debut for Liverpool U18s against Blackburn Rovers U18s?
... that singer Rihanna's Fenty Beauty cosmetics line was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017?
... that the archaeologist Peter Addyman was awarded the right to drive three beasts across a bridge in York?

20 April 2018

00:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Heraclid on 1563 coinage

... that before taking over Moldavia in 1561, Iacob Heraclid (pictured) had been executed in effigy and staged his own death?
... that the Oak at the Gate of the Dead was the first Welsh entry for the European Tree of the Year awards?
... that after his college football career, Psalm Wooching decided to pursue a professional career in rugby union despite receiving significant interest from NFL teams?
... that the Gujarati poetry collection Kusumamala includes a translation of "The Cloud" by English romantic poet Shelley?
... that in South Carolina, the flat bullhead is threatened by pollution and sedimentation, as well as by the introduction of non-native catfish?
... that Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane was praised by critics for its portrayal of strong and healthy sibling relationships?
... that Guido Jung was dismissed from the Royal Italian Army after the enactment of the Italian Racial Laws, despite having served as Minister of Finance under Mussolini?
... that the robot CISBOT once found a baseball under New York City?

19 April 2018

00:00, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Airliner Number 4

... that Norman Bel Geddes claimed that his Airliner Number 4 (design pictured) would be able to fly from Chicago to London in 42 hours using in-air refueling over Newfoundland?
... that the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Phra Dhammakaya broke a Guinness World Record for organizing the longest journey walking over flower petals?
... that Nicholas Muellner was in the Caribbean when he decided to photograph acquaintances in Russia?
... that Puerto Rican anarchists opposed the consumption of alcohol and as a consequence distanced themselves from the European concept of the anarchist "beer hall"?
... that congressman Duan Yihe was executed for blowing up his mistress, in one of the most shocking crimes involving a Chinese official?
... that Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi has a filling station to generate income and train students in business management?
... that Colin Robert Chase's major work on the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf was called "one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English"?
... that the former QBx1 bus route in New York City had ten route variants depending on the time of day?

18 April 2018

00:00, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Dalek

... that the budget for the Doctor Who serial The Daleks allowed for only four Daleks (one pictured) to be made?
... that despite its bright colouring, the firebrick starfish is inconspicuous among the sponges and other organisms in its habitat?
... that Saw Ganesan initiated construction of a temple to the Tamil language?
... that at the conclusion of the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final, acting captain Ellie Blackburn called upon her suspended skipper Katie Brennan to help hoist the team's trophy?
... that da share z0ne is a satirical social media account supposedly run by a skeleton character?
... that in 2015, Kjell Lindgren played a plastic set of bagpipes made by McCallum Bagpipes on the International Space Station?
... that Captain Ruck-Keene's command of HMS Cochrane ended a few days after Admiral Jellicoe wrote that he had become "lazy, lacks energy & has run to seed"?
... that upon hearing the Confederate song "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel", the future King Edward VII requested a repeat performance of "that fine American song with the cuss words in it"?

17 April 2018

00:00, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

King Hussein in 1953

... that Hussein (pictured) started his 46-year reign as King of Jordan in 1952 when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy?
... that the UN Security Council has banned exports of charcoal from the Somali port town of Burgabo?
... that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame, which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?
... that the new Chief Management Officer of the U.S. Department of Defense position outranks the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force?
... that Carolyn McAskie was the first Canadian to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission, post-Cold War?
... that the Double Concerto for oboe and harp was composed by Hans Werner Henze for Heinz Holliger and his wife Ursula, and performed with 18 string players of Paul Sacher's orchestra?
... that Brian Santos was described in 1995 as "the dominant blind skier in the world" after winning nine U.S. Championships and six Paralympic gold medals?
... that Macrobiotus shonaicus, a Japanese water bear, was first found in the parking lot of the apartment building where one of the researchers lived?

16 April 2018

00:00, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

30 Rockefeller Plaza,
within Rockefeller Center

... that the construction of Rockefeller Center (pictured) was the largest private development project ever undertaken for its time?
... that after World War II, filmmaker Miloš Havel, the uncle of Václav Havel, was cleared on charges related to collaboration with Nazi Germany due to lack of evidence?
... that evidence for speciation by reinforcement has been found across a wide range of organisms?
... that the Crawford family were pioneers of tourism in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and have numerous places named after them there?
... that 18-year-old Dominican Street Fighter V player Saul Leonardo Mena "MenaRD" Segundo is investing his winnings from the 2017 Capcom Cup in his local e-sports community?
... that the 1973 Internationales Sachsensymposion included the "theatrical" unveiling of the Sutton Hoo helmet replica?
... that Richard O. Culver, Jr., one of the founders of the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School in Quantico, Virginia, was born on Alcatraz Island?
... that the figure of Jazz from the Transformers toyline Power of the Primes drew controversy because the text on its sticker, when translated from Cybertronian, spelled the acronym MAGA, associated with Donald Trump?

15 April 2018

00:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Diogenes pugilator

... that the hermit crab Diogenes pugilator (pictured) has to make do with the empty shells that Paguristes eremita and Pagurus forbesii don't want?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Kevin Siers began his cartooning career while working in the iron ore mines of Minnesota?
... that the 2010 Mount Meager landslide was one of the largest in Canadian history?
... that in 1963, George Dickinson Hadley introduced the gastrocamera to Britain?
... that the islands in Great Egg Harbor Bay, a habitat for migratory birds, are eroding at a rate of 0.28 in (7 mm) per year?
... that Iggy Brazdeikis is a right-handed athlete who shoots basketballs left-handed?
... that actress Carole Ann Ford described her character in the Doctor Who serial The Keys of Marinus as "pathetic"?
... that elevator operators at New York City's 181st Street station are known to play music in an attempt to cheer up commuters?

14 April 2018

00:00, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Philip Van Horne House

... that at the Van Horne House (pictured) following the Battle of Bound Brook, the owner hosted British General Cornwallis for breakfast and American Generals Lincoln and Greene for supper?
... that biathlete Jakov Fak won a silver medal for Slovenia at the 2018 Winter Olympics, having previously won a bronze medal for Croatia in Vancouver?
... that "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig", a hymn about vanity by Michael Franck, is the basis of a chorale cantata by Bach, and quoted in Mauricio Kagel's Passion?
... that British newspaper editor Ian Stephens may have saved "hundreds of thousands" of lives during the Bengal famine of 1943 by publishing photographs of the victims?
... that some leaves of the South African plant Romulea tortuosa are shaped like corkscrews?
... that R. A. Hardie, a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907?
... that SegaSonic the Hedgehog was desired for inclusion in Sonic Gems Collection, but was left out due to difficulties emulating its trackball controls?
... that Peter Newton founded Sterling Vineyards and Newton Vineyard, and was very proud of his eight-year-old granddaughter, who "discovered" Harry Potter?

13 April 2018

00:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Große Kirche tower in the 1960s

... that on 12 April 1945, a white flag was hung from the tower of the Große Kirche Aplerbeck (pictured), one of two churches after the same design by Christian Heyden, to signal capitulation?
... that Indian-born physician Jainti Dass Saggar was the first non-white person to be elected a councillor in Scotland?
... that when dissenting from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lafler v. Cooper, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Court had elevated "plea bargaining from a necessary evil to a constitutional entitlement"?
... that war veteran Owen Pick carried the flag for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
... that the African-American settlers at Port Cresson were pacifist Quakers who were unequipped to defend themselves when attacked by King Joe?
... that after The Ultra Secret was published, German professor Arthur Thomas Hatto feared being kidnapped by Soviets?
... that the coronate prickly-winkle is a marine mollusk but can be found on limestone cliffs well above high water mark?
... that Brian Wilson is a genius?

12 April 2018

00:00, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Fallen Monarchs, Baker's masterwork

... that William Bliss Baker, a promising Hudson River School landscape painter (work pictured), died a week before his twenty-seventh birthday after being injured while ice skating?
... that fruit flies have been used extensively in laboratory experiments of speciation?
... that Indian high jumper Tejaswin Shankar first broke the national record at the age of 17?
... that NASA's Planetary Missions Program Office manages three of the agency's solar system exploration programs?
... that Lin Hu, a half-Russian orphan, joined the army at age 10 and grew up to become deputy commander of the Chinese Air Force?
... that the small catfish Malapterurus beninensis uses its electric organ to stun the fishes on which it feeds?
... that Bob Nygaard, a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime?
... that although its discoverer committed suicide after it was declared a forgery in 1883, the Shapira Scroll may be a Dead Sea Scroll after all?

11 April 2018

00:00, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Streamlined Ocean Liner, Popular Science Monthly, 1934

... that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini tried to buy Norman Bel Geddes' 1932 design for a Streamlined Ocean Liner (pictured)?
... that violist Konstantin Sellheim recorded fairy tale music with the Sellheim-Kuti Trio, and played the premiere of the piano quartet Skylla and Charybdis by Graham Waterhouse?
... that humans and horses are dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus?
... that Clifford E. Charlesworth was a NASA Flight Director during the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission?
... that the upcoming film Avengers: Infinity War draws inspiration from the 1991 comic book The Infinity Gauntlet?
... that Lega Nord politician Toni Iwobi is the first black person elected to the Italian Senate?
... that Dai Prefecture and County carried on the name of a "barbarian" kingdom and Qin commandery, despite being in a completely different part of China?
... that Liberian president George Weah's son Timothy plays for the United States men's national soccer team?

10 April 2018

00:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Laura Kamhuber

... that Laura Kamhuber's (pictured) rendition of "I Will Always Love You" at The Voice Kids Germany is the most-watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist?
... that the Hennepin County Library has 41 branches in 24 cities and towns in Minnesota, and historically had locations in a sanatorium and a bookmobile?
... that footballer Alex Raisbeck joined Liverpool after Stoke manager Horace Austerberry failed to arrive at an arranged meeting?
... that the 2012 anthology No Straight Lines, edited by Justin Hall, collects queer comics covering a 40-year period?
... that MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Joaquin Avila wrote the California Voting Rights Act?
... that the barbels on the chin of the red mullet are sensory organs and used in locating prey?
... that after Feng Yidai was denounced as a "rightist" during China's Anti-Rightist Campaign, he was recruited by the Communist Party to spy on other "rightists"?
... that Tsamma juice is named after "the Mother of all watermelon varieties"?

9 April 2018

00:00, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

A Petrel carried by a P2V Neptune aircraft

... that aerial torpedo-carrying missiles developed for the US Navy under Project Kingfisher included the Petrel (pictured), Diver, Grebe, and Puffin?
... that violinist David Frühwirth played music from the interwar period for violin and piano at the Salzburg Festival and on a recording titled Trails of Creativity?
... that the passage of a bill exempting Washington state legislators from the state's Public Records Act prompted The Seattle Times to publish its first front-page editorial in 110 years?
... that Ariel Pink is frequently cited as the "godfather" of chillwave and hypnagogic pop?
... that the Franco-German University facilitates the cooperation of over 180 universities and colleges across international borders?
... that Mike Marjama overcame an eating disorder to make it to Major League Baseball?
... that the Battle of Głębokie during the Polish–Soviet War was both a tactical victory and a strategic defeat for the Soviet side?
... that a person of interest in Jamie Fraley's disappearance 10 years ago today was later found dead of heat stroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car?

8 April 2018

00:10, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Red-tailed tropicbird

... that the red-tailed tropicbird (pictured) eats mainly flying fish and squid?
... that at age 16, sport shooter Manu Bhaker became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup?
... that Reki Kawahara, author of Sword Art Online, planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?
... that Leon Tomșa, who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to Wallachia, was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger?
... that the Fulton Center transit complex is the first subway station in New York City to receive a certification for environmental sustainability?
... that London New Zealand RFC is the only rugby team apart from the New Zealand national teams that wears the silver fern symbol?
... that Christian Boros owns an art gallery in a former bunker in Berlin?
... that the tale "Town Musicians of Bremen" by the Brothers Grimm has been connected with the Buddhist legend about four harmonious animals?

7 April 2018

00:00, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

R. Stevie Moore

... that R. Stevie Moore (pictured) pioneered modern indie music, earning him the sobriquet "the godfather of home recording"?
... that according to his memoirs, Howard Marks concluded a drug deal at the Warwick Castle with half a consignment of Thai grass hidden in a car parked outside?
... that generals Yao Xian and Lin Hu were born in the same year, went to the same school, fought in the same war, held the same rank, and died on the same day?
... that a giant landslide took place on Socompa volcano some 7,000 years ago, moving approximately 19.2 cubic kilometres (4.6 cu mi) of rock?
... that Robin Surgeoner, a multiple Paralympic gold medal-winner in swimming, performs as a poet, artist, and musician under the stage name "Angryfish"?
... that the new east platform of Tukwila station in Tukwila, Washington, was built with additional width that was later removed for the installation of a third track?
... that elected at age 39, Sadiq Sanjrani is the youngest-ever Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan?
... that the ashy pink sea cucumber obtains its nourishment from swallowing sand?

6 April 2018

00:00, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Finger clubbing

... that Canadian cardiologist Thomas Forrest Cotton was the first to recognise the correlation between finger clubbing (pictured) and infective endocarditis?
... that eight leaders of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth were convicted of crimes in Czechoslovakia after World War II?
... that Laura Barney Harding once declared she was Katharine Hepburn's husband?
... that Icelandic chess grandmaster Stefán Kristjánsson was also a successful poker player?
... that it took almost five years to rebuild the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station in New York City, which was completely flooded three years after it opened?
... that archaeologist Su Bingqi proposed a heretical multi-region model for prehistoric China which rejected the traditional view that Chinese civilization radiated from the Central Plain?
... that the comic book X-Men Red stars Jean Grey, a character who had been dead for nearly fifteen years?

5 April 2018

00:00, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Min fanglei

... that the 3,000-year-old Min fanglei (pictured) set a world-record auction price for a piece of Asian artwork?
... that George Crowninshield Jr. was the first American yachtsman and owned the first American yacht?
... that prime numbers have been studied since the time of the ancient Greeks, but had few real-world applications until the invention of public-key cryptography in the 1970s?
... that on 14 April 1945, the German town of Friesoythe was deliberately burnt down by the 4th Canadian Division and the ruins bulldozed on the orders of its commander?
... that in 1910, Oliver Toussaint Jackson established the agricultural settlement of Dearfield, Colorado, for black Americans?
... that the mycotoxin phomoxanthone A causes fragmentation of mitochondria within minutes?
... that the tenor Julian Podger, who took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, recorded the title role in Handel's last oratorio Jephtha?
... that the Beach Boys' 1967 album Wild Honey was made partly in response to a critical perception of the group as consisting of "ball-less choir boys"?

4 April 2018

00:00, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Archduke Charles, by Georg Decker

... that Franz Joseph I of Austria gave a portrait (pictured) by Georg Decker to his ten-year-old son?
... that the first issue of the comic book Sideways featured a vertical gatefold cover?
... that in 1938, Emanuel Moravec called for Czechoslovakia to declare war against Germany?
... that even a "benign" blood clot in a superficial vein can lead to serious complications?
... that Jordan Poole's game-winning buzzer beater three point shot in the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament was nearly identical to his shot in the 2017 Dick's National High School Championship Game?
... that in 1969, the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment became the first British research establishment to be granted freedom of a borough?
... that Tooth and Tail's art style was described as a modernized version of 1990s pixel art?
... that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian wrote the novel A True Story, sometimes regarded as the first work of science fiction, in the second century AD?

3 April 2018

00:00, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Moore home after the bombing

... that Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were the only married couple to be assassinated (bombed house pictured) during the civil rights movement era?
... that Ayaka Fukuhara decided to become a voice actress after listening to a radio drama adaptation of the manga series Hunter × Hunter?
... that a fan sued Major League Baseball for $10 million after he was filmed sleeping at a game and the announcers allegedly made unflattering comments about him?
... that the Easter hymn "Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag" (The glorious day has appeared) by Nikolaus Herman inspired other hymns and musical settings of the 20th century?
... that although Zhang Junsheng publicly feuded with Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British governor, the latter offered his condolences when Zhang died recently?
... that the basket star Astrobrachion constrictum is always found living in association with a black coral such as Antipathes fiordensis?
... that Otar Taktakishvili's opera Mindia was based on Vazha-Pshavela's epic poem The Snake-eater and premiered in 1961, the centenary of the poet's birth?
... that Robert Howard Hodgkin was part of a "Quaker dynasty" that included a banker, a Marxist historian, a Nobel-winning chemist, a painter, another Nobel winner, and the namesake of Hodgkin's lymphoma?

2 April 2018

00:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

A relative of Daisy

... that Daisy the dinosaur (relative pictured) lives with Elton John?
... that the United States Navy considered calling on Zeus to defend a battleship?
... that Jigsaw wants to play a game with your computer?
... that Trump is directly connected to Russia?
... that Hillary's portrait is now being printed on the $5 bill?
... that Obama was born in Japan?
... that the United States once sued 43 gallons of whiskey?
... that Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley, a non-existent book by a non-existent author, became a number one bestseller and had two sequels?

1 April 2018

12:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Masked suspect

... that squirrels may be a major cybersecurity threat (suspect pictured)?
... that Robert Bartholomew has been in hysterics for over twenty years?
... that the trial of the "Coughing Major" was interrupted by coughing jurors?
... that Hitler's demands for mobile phone gift cards may have upset some Nazis?
... that James Longstreet was mauled by pelicans?
... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
... that some extinct ants were simply terrible?
... that after many years battling the forces of darkness, the Batcave became a popular venue for underground parties and concerts?

00:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Suffragetto game board

... that the board game Suffragetto (pictured) featured suffragettes trying to storm the House of Commons?
... that Jonah ibn Janah, one of the most important medieval Hebrew grammarians, wrote his major works in Arabic?
... that The Homecoming statue depicts a Canadian sailor reuniting with his daughter and her dog?
... that the script of Who Framed Roger Rabbit originally intended Judge Doom to be the killer of Bambi's mother?
... that London South Africa RFC started as a new club at the bottom of English rugby after the RFU blocked their attempts to buy a National League 1 club and Wimbledon RFC?
... that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, a winner of the Met Auditions, appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival, and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a space mission?
... that the proposed city of Greenhaven, Georgia, would have a population of 300,000, making it the state's second largest city after Atlanta?
... that Shalimar Sharbatly's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre?