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13 March 2010

06:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha (pictured), was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
... that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York, suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
... that Bobbi Trout became the first woman to fly an aircraft all night and broke the previous women's solo endurance record in a February 10, 1929, flight?
... that the Byzantine general Priscus survived the violent depositions of two successive Byzantine emperors and retained high office under their successors?
... that Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
... that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians?
... that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City?
... that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace, Hägar the Horrible, and Funky Winkerbean on the box?

00:00, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

... that witches' butter (pictured) is a jelly fungus that grows parasitically on a crust fungus?
... that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York?
... that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion captures of humans?
... that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?
... that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus, Syria, for 47 years?
... that Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves?
... that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
... that Jan de Jong, the ice master at Thialf, manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?

12 March 2010

18:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that a Mexican Tree of Life sculpture (example pictured) appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album?
... that after retiring from the National Football League, Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
... that the chemist Hugo Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880?
... that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan, carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
... that country music singer David Nail's single "Turning Home" was co-written by Kenny Chesney?
... that George Fielding Eliot's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
... that the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles?
... that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?

12:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the most comprehensive history of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages was composed by Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi, whose tomb (pictured) lies at the base of the Mount of Olives?
... that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving?
... that insurers use the condition of average to reduce insurance claims if they think you are underinsured?
... that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
... that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo, Tatarstan, contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
... that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd, Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
... that "Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams?
... that World War I fighter pilot Les Holden gained the nicknames "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after returning from successive missions with his aircraft riddled with bullet holes?

06:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the royal dynasty at the Maya city of Copán (fragment pictured) in Honduras was founded by a warrior sent from the distant city of Tikal?
... that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
... that the J.W. Knapp Company Building, one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel-covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
... that Bessie A. Buchanan, who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature, previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club?
... that although much of its habitat has been destroyed, isolated populations of the Mexican rice rat Oryzomys albiventer likely still survive?
... that Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
... that following the invasion of Tibet in 1959, the fifth Keutsang incarnation of the Keutsang Hermitage was incarcerated and later sought asylum in India in the 1980s?
... that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text?

00:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Hindu widow goddess Dhumavati is offered liquor, meat, cigarettes and bhang, an intoxicating hashish drink?
... that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule, both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics?
... that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio, lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that sex therapy pioneer Helen Singer Kaplan advocated for people to enjoy sexual intercourse as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
... that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus, a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic?
... that a family in the village of Auchencairn reported stones being thrown, cattle moved and buildings set alight by a poltergeist in 1695?
... that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property?
... that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?

11 March 2010

18:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1686 a thunderstorm damaged the Church of St Lawrence, Alton, blasting a hole in the tower (pictured) and singeing the vicar's eyebrows?
... that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post-Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization?
... that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka?
... that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna?
... that the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
... that Ragnhild was the only ship in convoy KMS 96G?
... that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing "Crucifixion", tears came to his eyes?

12:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (pictured) resigned his offices in Ireland over King George III's failure to support Catholic emancipation?
... that periodic comet 50P/Arend is expected to make its next closest approach to the Sun in 2016?
... that Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting records in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, including the most centuries?
... that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya, Umar al-Aqta, gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire, and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
... that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines?
... that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper, rope, charcoal and traditional medications against cough, sore throat, toothache, gonorrhea and yellow fever?
... that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters?
... that Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?

06:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that according to legend, the 5th century Avukana statue (pictured), a large stone figure of the Buddha, is the result of a competition between a sculpting master and student?
... that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre?
... that the initial letters in Lectionary 187 are decorated with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic motifs (birds, fishes, hands)?
... that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I?
... that in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
... that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods?
... that the Hot and Hot Fish Club was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
... that Thomas Rutherford Bacon, a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut, was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?

00:00, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Augustus the Strong (pictured) lost the Polish crown in the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706), but regained it after the Treaty of Thorn (1709)?
... that downtown Napoleon, Ohio, is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church?
... that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I?
... that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
... that Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?
... that the last inhabitant of drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea was retiree Edmund Reid, previously Metropolitan police head of CID who investigated the Jack the Ripper case?
... that chamberlain Egeberg established a sports prize that was regarded the highest achievement in Norwegian sports?
... that the name of Ouvrage Rochonvillers of the Maginot Line was a state secret until 1971?

10 March 2010

18:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
... that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats?
... that in 2010, Jennie M. Forehand sponsored a bill limiting the ability of judges to sentence criminals to time in local jails if those jails are not reimbursed by the state?
... that Eastern Michigan University's McKenny Union, opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college?
... that Patricia Travers was a child prodigy with the violin but withdrew from public performances at age 23?
... that in Tell Balata, a tell in the West Bank, there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
... that Sri Lanka's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
... that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
... that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics, once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States?

12:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the great Sera Monastery (pictured) in Lhasa, Tibet, has 19 affiliated hermitages, including 4 nunneries: Chupzang, Garu, Negodong and Nenang Nunnery?
... that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes, and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
... that the Museo de la Estampa, along with the Museo Nacional de Arte, manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada?
... that George Matthew Snelson, the first Mayor of Palmerston North, New Zealand, is regarded as the father of his city?
... that English football clubs entering administration have fewer points deducted in the Premier League than in the Football League because they play fewer games?
... that Sir Simon Degge, a barrister in Derby, wrote about glebes and the crime of simony?
... that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity?
... that writer Zahari Stoyanov said of Bulgarian general, regent and Minister of War Sava Mutkurov that "by the time Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up"?

06:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that The Mars Project, written by Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars (artist's conception pictured)?
... that one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
... that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942?
... that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight?
... that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?
... that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors, prior to assuming the throne?
... that American architect Kemper Nomland was a conscientious objector who spent World War II at Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon along with several other artists and writers?
... that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey's best days are ahead of him?

00:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the French battleship Jean Bart (pictured) was hit in the wine store near the forward magazine by a single torpedo, fired by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-12 in the Adriatic in 1914?
... that Early Archaic peoples used the Houserville Site in Pennsylvania ten millennia ago?
... that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr?
... that Minuscule 642, a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle, orientalist?
... that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"?
... that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin, shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
... that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics?
... that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter, a rock cave in South Africa, some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?

9 March 2010

18:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that funeral practices in the Philippines in the past include anthropomorphic jar burials and hanging coffins (example pictured)?
... that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport?
... that 19th-century white churchman Leonard Woolsey Bacon caused controversy when, as a pastor in Savannah, Georgia, he reportedly said he wouldn't mind his daughter marrying an African-American man?
... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
... that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
... that 17th-century ironmaster George Sitwell's vertically integrated business was so successful he exported a rolling mill to the West Indies?
... that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States?
... that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos?

12:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Chrystal Macmillan (pictured) was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords?
... that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled?
... that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper's hair salons included Susan B. Anthony, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Jacqueline Kennedy?
... that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili, written by Julius Caesar, is staple reading among students of Latin?
... that Emma Roberto Steiner, one of the first American women to make a living from conducting, took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska?
... that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead—a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
... that Franjo Mihalić, winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon, set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics?
... that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side?

06:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Wilma B. Liebman (pictured), the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office?
... that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage?
... that Mildred "Micky" Axton, who was the first woman to fly a B-29, died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
... that España y Filipinas (Spain and the Philippines) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress?
... that Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
... that the video for OK Go's single "This Too Shall Pass" features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
... that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK, at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
... that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru, described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack"?

00:00, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Michele S. Jones (pictured) was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?
... that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook?
... that Tenley Albright won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious leg injury two weeks before the Olympics?
... that the zoste patrikia was the only Byzantine title reserved specifically for women, and ranked as one of the highest court dignities?
... that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally?
... that Nick Joaquin’s historical novel, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons?
... that the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
... that Evelina Haverfield, a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver" next time?

8 March 2010

18:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the leading learned women of 1779 (called bluestockings) were painted as the Nine Muses (pictured) by Richard Samuel?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9-millimetre (0.39 in) female specimen?
... that the Bulgarian female runners Zlateva, Yordanova, Pekhlivanova, Shtereva, Tomova and Petrova all won medals in 800 metres at the European Indoor Championships in the 1970s?
... that with most of the British fleet immobilised by the mutiny at the Nore, HMS Adamant was one of only two two-decker warships available to blockade the Dutch fleet in 1798?
... that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election?
... that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
... that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two?
... that by using a shower curtain and sewing machine, Marion Donovan developed what was to become the first waterproof disposable diaper?

12:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Egyptian officer Rawya Ateya (pictured) was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the Arab world?
... that Strobilanthes callosus, a shrub found in the hill forests of India used in folk medicines, flowers only once in eight years before dying off, exhibiting a once in a lifetime mass flowering and mass seeding life cycle?
... that three-time Olympian Albertina Dias was the first Portuguese woman to win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships?
... that Girdap, established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria?
... that the word bluestocking meaning learned woman is said to have derived from a reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet?
... that Ragna Nielsen was the first woman to headmaster a secondary school in Norway?
... that the ancient Romans sacrificed pregnant cows to celebrate Fordicidia, the festival of fertility?
... that in 1928, Viola Gentry flew 8 hours, 6 six minutes and 37 seconds straight which set the first non-refueling endurance record for women?

06:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the tennis ball banksia (pictured) is so named for its inflorescences, which look like tennis balls?
... that the Bacon Deluxe sandwich from Wendy's topped a list of the five most unhealthful gourmet burgers sold by national fast food restaurant chains in the United States?
... that Lieben Prize laureates included chemists Carl von Than (1868), Josef Maria Eder (1895) and Paul Friedländer (1908)?
... that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
... that Masako Katsura's participation in the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament of 1952 was the first time any woman ever competed in any billiards tournament for a world crown?
... that because the Sassanid commander Kardarigan ordered his army's water supplies destroyed prior to the Battle of Solachon, many of his men died of thirst and water poisoning after the battle?
... that Black Chicks Talking is a book, film, play and art exhibition that explores issues related to Indigenous Australian women?
... that Reedy Lake was drained to kill off its carp?

00:00, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

... that printer and engraver Edmund Evans collaborated with Victorian book illustrators Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway to create classic illustrations (example pictured) for children's books?
... that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon?
... that John Brennan, a 201-pound football player, was voted "queen" of the University of Michigan ice carnival after challenging the pulchritude of the school's co-eds?
... that the captured Tiger Tank that was once transported aboard Empire Candida is now preserved in working order at the Bovington Tank Museum?
... that the requirement to teach geometry was removed from the duties of the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford so that Edward Titchmarsh could be appointed to the post in 1931?
... that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia, will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains?
... that the Harelle was a 1382 tax revolt that began in the city of Rouen and was emulated in many other French cities?
... that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem, is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?

7 March 2010

18:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Brougham Castle (pictured) was seized by Henry III of England in 1264 when the castle's previous owner died during a rebellion against the king?
... that Elizabeth Yates' novel Amos Fortune, Free Man won the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award?
... that the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake, that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile, caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand?
... that German high jumper Meike Kröger spent almost a year working in an orphanage in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?
... that, since 2007, the UK government has appointed part-time ministers for each of the nine English regions, to act as "regional champions"?
... that the pygmy whitefish is the most trout-like freshwater whitefish?
... that in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway's first Minister of Local Government?
... that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?

12:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Tengboche Monastery (pictured) is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal?
... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
... that Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
... that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing?
... that Sisko Hanhijoki won 28 Finnish championship titles in the 60, 100 and 200 metres events between 1985 and 1993?
... that Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon, covers 57 square miles (150 km²) and is teeming with brine shrimp, but has no fish?
... that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ in 1947 after being lost for three months near Porto Novo in Benin?
... that of the two competing Polish kings in 1705, one was allied with Russia and the other one with Sweden?

06:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that in August 2001, the Galileo spacecraft flew through the sulfur dioxide gas plume of the Ionian volcano Thor (Io with Thor pictured)?
... that the latest possible date for the construction of the William Lawrence House in Bellefontaine, Ohio, is known from a date carved into a windowsill?
... that the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve contains the only significant remnant of native woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, as it was prior to European settlement?
... that New York Times veteran David Stout received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel Carolina Skeletons, written in his spare time?
... that on April 4, 1981, a tornado struck West Bend, Wisconsin, killing 3 people and injuring another 53?
... that George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon, and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Thomas R. Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon—and all were Congregational preachers?
... that U-2336 sank the last Allied ships lost in World War II on 7 May 1945, when she torpedoed and sank the freighters Avondale Park and Sneland I?
... that Theophobos was a Byzantine general who was declared emperor against his will?

00:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

... that plate reconstructions (example pictured) that use magnetic stripe patterns can only go back to the Jurassic period, as there is no older oceanic crust?
... that Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket"?
... that, although it does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had 250,000, more than any other museum in Lower Saxony?
... that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont?
... that the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
... that Mexican band Camila received a Gold certification for their album Dejarte de Amar in the first day of sales in Mexico?
... that Molsheim's former Jesuit Church is the principal 17th century church building in the Rhine Valley?
... that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under British occupation?

6 March 2010

18:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Holt Manufacturing Company patented the first practical crawling-type tractor (pictured), which was used as an artillery tractor in World War I and inspired design of the first British tanks?
... that Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received a platinum certification in Mexico for her album Loba within a week after its release?
... that Jamison Square, an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon, features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf?
... that in August 1936, British Ambassador to France Sir George Clerk warned Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War?
... that the Honduran archaeological site El Puente was founded by the people of Copán to control the crossroads of two Maya trade routes?
... that the liverwort Pellia epiphylla is monoicous, with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus?
... that Warren Terhune, upon his suicide by gunshot, became the only Governor of American Samoa to die in office?
... that the Venezuelan town Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?

12:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that three of the five railroads that make up the Mountain Railways of India (pictured) are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List?
... that British Assyriologist Donald Wiseman was Cliff Richard's youth group leader at Finchley Crusaders?
... that the only male "sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
... that though she missed out on a British Academy Television Craft Award for her first television film, Pleasureland, writer Helen Blakeman won a British Academy Children's Award for Dustbin Baby, her second?
... that the popularity of the British Landrace pig is partly responsible for the decline of rarer breeds in the United Kingdom?
... that Samuel Wanjiru, the 2008 Olympic marathon champion, won the Fukuoka Cross Country competition when he was only 16 years old?
... that the concept of weak dematerialization suggests the Resurrection of Jesus?
... that game designer Gregory Weir attempted to create one new game in every month of 2009?

06:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Popocatépetl volcano (pictured) occasionally dumps ash on the municipality of Ozumba, Mexico?
... that the Kansas City Royals have never drafted a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican amber, is the only known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater Antilles?
... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler, owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?
... that the British settlement of Black River on the Mosquito Coast of present-day Honduras was turned over to Spanish authorities on 29 August 1787 under the terms of the 1786 Convention of London?
... that lardons prove that the French "do bacon right"?
... that on August 23, 1998, a severe weather outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Door County, Wisconsin, that caused an estimated $6.5 million in damages?
... that in the Battle of Anzen, the Byzantine emperor Theophilos managed to avoid death or capture due to a sudden rainfall that loosened his enemies' bowstrings?

00:00, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the French battleship Courbet (pictured) was twice hit by German Neger manned torpedoes after she had been scuttled as part of a Mulberry harbour during the Normandy Landings of June 1944?
... that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate?
... that Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus is the most abundant species of moss in British lawns?
... that Papias the Lombard wrote "the first fully recognizable dictionary" in the 1040s?
... that the purported paranormal activity in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross in Madison, Mississippi, has been featured in two books?
... that the upcoming video game Scrap Metal, set to be released on XBox Live Arcade, will allow players to customize monster trucks and bulldozers with flamethrowers and rocket launchers?
... that the 1901 musical play Bluebell in Fairyland was the inspiration for Peter Pan?
... that "Ducker" McLean may have lost Oxford a University Boat Race because he did not jump out of the boat?

5 March 2010

18:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Motu Matakohe island is used as a safe location for baby Kiwi (pictured) until they weigh 1 kilogram and are brought to mainland New Zealand?
... that English diplomat John Barker introduced vaccination to the Middle East?
... that a land use conflict is when one sort of land use creates a negative impact on other land uses nearby?
... that the upcoming XBox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
... that although Israeli forces were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?
... that the Leading Edge, a student-run semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen?
... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
... that the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?

12:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that tanbo art (example pictured) is a Japanese practice where giant pictures are created in rice fields?
... that the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation"?
... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?
... that Melek Tourhan, whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt?
... that British soap opera EastEnders celebrated its 25th anniversary with a live episode revealing who killed Archie Mitchell?
... that Mar Papa was the first Catholicos (universal leader) of the Persian Church of the East in the 4th century?
... that the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India is building four new 'X' Class locomotives – a design dating from 1920?
... that Bulgarian writers and screenwriters Moritz Yomtov and Marko Stoychev worked together as the Mormarevi Brothers even though they were unrelated?

06:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Oliver Stone (pictured) based the final combat scene in his 1986 movie Platoon on a real battle that he survived when he was an American soldier in Vietnam?
... that the Museum of Canterbury contains the original 850 AD Canterbury Cross?
... that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana sponsored a "poetry slam" judged by poets and rappers at the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, Mexico?
... that periodic comet 22P/Kopff is expected to next make its closest approach to the Sun on October 25, 2015?
... that Seattle Sounders FC has seven recognized supporter groups and that in 2009 they amassed the largest average attendance in the Major League Soccer with 30,943 fans?
... that John Sanness, who would become professor and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was expelled from his secondary school for protests against the monarchy of Norway?
... that the rare, "almost legendary" Japanese lates was considered to be the same fish as the barramundi until 1984?
... that Danish designer Poul Lange created a children's book about holes which had a hole all the way through it?

00:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

... that five supernovae have been found in the Messier 100 spiral galaxy (pictured)?
... that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II?
... that Minuscule 629, a Latin-Greek diglot manuscript of the New Testament, contains the Comma Johanneum written by the original scribe?
... that in the 2010 gubernatorial elections, Esmael Mangudadatu will be running for governor of Maguindanao even though a rival clan murdered 57 people including his wife and sister in the Maguindanao massacre?
... that the Mountbatten Brailler allows a user to translate Braille into text and vice versa?
... that Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola?
... that an apocryphal tale tells how George Gilbert Scott drew the initial designs for Clifton Hampden Bridge on his starched shirt cuff over dinner?

4 March 2010

18:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Zakynthos Marine Park in Greece is the first national park established for the protection of sea turtles (Loggerhead Sea Turtle pictured) in the Mediterranean?
... that architect Thomas D. McLaughlin designed numerous Lima, Ohio, buildings, including the city's Elks Lodge?
... that Solas fiddler Winifred Horan is a former member of the all-female musical group Cherish the Ladies?
... that the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980?
... that Olga Sedakova won gold medals in all three synchronized swimming events at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships?
... that Oregon Public Broadcasting's popular Oregon Field Guide has featured topics ranging from mountain unicycling to invasive species?
... that Blues Hall of Fame inductee "Sunshine" Sonny Payne received his nickname as a joke by musician Robert Jr. Lockwood?
... that at the Battle of Bathys Ryax, the Byzantines attacked with only 600 men out of an army of 4,000–5,000, leaving the rest to raise much noise so as to simulate the arrival of a far larger force?

12:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that as the commanding officer of HMS Carysfort, Lord George Paulet (pictured) took control of the Hawaiian Islands?
... that the Biblioteca comunale in Ancona, Italy, has a collection of musical manuscripts of more than 50 classical composers?
... that in 2007, champion runner David Lelei tried to be the Orange Democratic Movement candidate for the Eldoret South Constituency seat but lost to the eventual winner Peris Simam?
... that Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers?
... that Roald Dysthe, who was installed as a chief executive during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, was acquitted of treason in 1951?
... that An Nam chí lược, a book published in 1335 during the Yuan Dynasty, is considered the oldest historical work by a Vietnamese that has been preserved?
... that singer-songwriter Madonna made her episodic TV series debut in the Will & Grace episode "Dolls and Dolls"?
... that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?

06:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

...that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 090423 (pictured), whose light took approximately 13 billion years to reach Earth, is the oldest and most distant known object in the Universe?
... that according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege, Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon?
... that suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats, tree rats, and Caribbean giant rats?
... that in just over 14 years of owning Select Medical Corporation, Rocco Ortenzio and his son Robert made an estimated $200,000,000 in profit?
... that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons?
... that Drew Barrymore, Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year?
... that the secret articles of the Peace of Lund, that ended the Scanian War in 1679, were not revealed until 1870?
... that tennis player Johan Haanes spent nine months in a concentration camp for participation in an "illegal" ski competition?

00:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the stargazer (pictured), a widespread coastal fish, is an ambush predator which can deliver both venom and electric shocks, and has been called "the meanest thing in creation"?
... that John Steel, the Ziegfeld Follies tenor who introduced Irving Berlin's song "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", later appeared in staged boxing matches?
... that Messier 58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is one of four barred spiral galaxies included in Charles Messier's catalog?
... that at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada, thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80 unsolved murders were registered every month?
... that James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County executive of Essex County, New Jersey, even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy?
... that Minuscule 546 was bought by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the 1860s?
... that Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football championship in 1923 and was a first-team All-NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs?
... that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate Housewives episode "Lovely", Delaney noticed "crew members on the set that were never there before"?

3 March 2010

18:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Afro hairstyle (pictured) was once banned in Tanzania and Cuba?
... that several families of land gastropods reach a maximum of biodiversity in Turkey?
... that in 1787, British merchant ship Imperial Eagle, commanded by Charles William Barkley, brought fur from the Americas to sell in China without legally required licences, while sailing under the Austrian flag?
... that, to stay above the reservoir the Dexter Dam would make, the Lowell Bridge, in Lowell, Oregon, was raised about 6 feet (1.8 m) in 1953?
... that Cho Jae-hyun, a South Korean actor, is commonly referred to as a persona of director Kim Ki-duk due to his appearances in almost all of Kim's films?
... that America’s oldest private medical society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, displays the conjoined liver of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker in its museum?
... that some of the songs on the 2009 EP Criminal Intents/Morning Star detail the story arc of a group of rebels fighting against a corporation out to rule the world?
... that the Nissan Terranaut concept car has a glass dome over its roof for an easy escape in case of emergency?

12:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the British submarine HMS E13 (pictured) was attacked and destroyed by German warships during World War I after running aground off the neutral Danish island of Saltholm?
... that the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids?
... that the counter-insurgency strategy of clear and hold, widely implemented in the Vietnam War and elsewhere, has also been used extensively in the Iraq War?
... that a 1973 ruling by Sylvia Pressler forced Little League Baseball to begin admitting girls for the first time?
... that Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides, a forger of manuscripts?
... that IGN's Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation?
... that one of the activities that are possible at the Nevado de Toluca National Park is scuba diving in the two volcanic crater lakes?
... that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City?

06:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that when threatened, the blotched fantail ray (pictured) raises its spine-bearing tail over its body and waves it back and forth?
... that the Vedda language is a Creole language based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka rather than a dialect?
... that former baseball player Joe Abreu became an enthusiast of magic after he saw former baseball player and professional magician Carl Zamloch put on a magic show at his high school?
... that Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world executed by the USS Triton in 1960?
... that the original St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church of Woodside, Queens, New York was built by Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.?
... that in the 1885–86 season, West Bromwich Albion became the first team from the English Midlands to reach the FA Cup Final?
... that Bethel Academy in Kentucky was the first Methodist school west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that comedy writer Al Jean, who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons, graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?

00:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

... that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster (pictured) at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)?
... that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver?
... that Minuscule 627 has an unusual order of books, with the Book of Revelation placed between Acts of the Apostles and the general epistles?
... that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
... that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy, even though he considers himself "a very private person"?
... that Levi L. Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
... that the Yeywa Hydropower Dam is the largest hydroelectric power plant and the first roller-compacted concrete dam in Burma?
... that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after it was discovered that the number-one result for the search term "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?

2 March 2010

18:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the self-decapitated Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta (pictured) standing on a copulating couple signifies that life, death and sex are interdependent?
... that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
... that in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon?
... that Viktor Kaisiepo, a Netherlands New Guinean-born advocate of self-determination for West Papua, lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands?
... that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
... that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
... that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County, Nevada, resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208?
... that Letters of Ayn Rand, published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?

12:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the marine slug Aeolidiella stephanieae (pictured) is commonly kept in aquaria to control the anemone Aiptasia?
... that Johan Gustaf Sandberg's frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
... that the cheater plug has been used to remedy ground loops in audio systems, with reckless disregard of electrical safety?
... that Major-General Nick Carter is the current commander of British forces in southern Afghanistan?
... that the origin of the Postclassic K'iche' Maya patron deity Jacawitz has been traced back to a historical event at the city of Seibal?
... that Arthur Crispien, who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
... that Danish Bacon is sliced, packed, and sold in the UK?
... that cross dressing and mooning have been prosecuted as conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the US military?
... that several French international footballers have played for FC Versailles, including Thierry Henry, Jérôme Rothen and Hatem Ben Arfa?
... that Rastafarian hardcore punk band Bad Brains signed to Neil Cooper's ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint, gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie?

06:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin (pictured)?
... that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg?
... that the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape painting?
... that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
... that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel?
... that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey, stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
... that King Philip V ordered that any lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown?
... that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri-based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks?
... that during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse?

00:00, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

... that members of the Sciurini group of squirrels, which includes the eastern gray squirrel (pictured), have been described as living fossils?
... that Johan Søhr was responsible for investigating several espionage cases in Norway during World War I, including the von Rosen and Rautenfels cases?
... that the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
... that during the Great Depression, R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats, including bacon, sausages, hams and smoked turkeys, at little resorts across northern Wisconsin?
... the program STUDENT, written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT, is one of the earliest known attempts at natural language understanding by a computer?
... that Milwaukee elected George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party?
... that during the Ice Hockey European Championship in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured, but the Swiss and Swedish teams agreed to play with five players against them?
... that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?

1 March 2010

18:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the figures in Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga (pictured) are based on real characters, including a former priest, a former soldier and a painter?
... that Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
... that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
... that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980?
... that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert?
... that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography?
... that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University?
... that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army?
... that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon?

12:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that with over 80 mosques and several important gongbei shrine complexes (example pictured), Linxia City is known as "China's little Mecca"?
... that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
... that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board?
... that in Đại Việt sử lược, it was recorded that Khúc Hạo, not his father Khúc Thừa Dụ, was the first of the Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân?
... that Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
... that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti?
... that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that John Singer Sargent's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
... that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth?
... that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon?

06:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the banded archerfish (pictured) is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
... that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon, Harvard guard Francis Burr, Yale end Bob Forbes, Cornell center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"?
... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
... that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
... that the 1983 Queensland election was triggered when Terry White, Angus Innes, and various MLAs of the "Ginger Group" crossed the floor in the Australian state's Legislative Assembly?
... that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica?
... that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City, is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
... that Robert Downey Jr.'s costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan?
... that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa, a local beer made from fermented bananas?

00:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

... that the Beaney Institute (pictured) in Canterbury has a £1,000,000 Van Dyck painting of Sir Basil Dixwell in its collection?
... that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?
... that Henry Bracy was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era?
... that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three quarters of its total length?
... that at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock, the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
... that the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol, missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was denounced by the FBI as a fraud?
... that in the interwar period, the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio?
... that in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera, and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?

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