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04:38, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the band Green Day (lead vocalist pictured) has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Music Video Awards?
... that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India, in which they won all the seats they competed for?
... that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army?
... that an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews for use as a prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises?
... that the television broadcast of the 2000 Sugar Bowl was watched by an estimated 18.4 million people?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen, whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci?
... that the gilt-copper Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary?
... that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers?

22:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1923 Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier (pictured) was shot by his lover using the gun with which his wife had shot herself some years earlier?
... that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in Los Angeles incorporates swastikas in its architecture?
... that the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel?
... that the BTR-90, an armoured personnel carrier in service with Russian Internal Troops, is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2?
... that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen?
... that the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper?
... that the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in just their fourth season of Major League Baseball?
... that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
... that Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering, and received the IEEE Edison Medal for his work on electrical communication?

16:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
... that drag racer Bruce Larson hired sprint car racer Maynard Yingst (sprint car pictured) as his crew chief for his 1989 NHRA Funny Car championship season?
... that during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece"?
... that Tang Dynasty warlord Tian Yue was, along with his mother, wife, and children, killed by his cousin Tian Xu, who then took over the circuit that he governed?
... that the original of the 1812 painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin was only recently discovered in Sweden and acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1983?
... that Henry Jolles, who had played Schubert's complete piano music in Heidelberg in 1928, escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry?
... that the construction of the Storm King Highway took 22 miles (35 km) off the drive between Newburgh and West Point, New York, two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?
... that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi, China in the mid 1930s?
... that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department?

11:00, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (listen) was the most popular number from the first successful Broadway show to have an all African-American cast?
... that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna, organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International, was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
... that while growing up in Kentucky, aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?
... that Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
... that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
... that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
... that boy soprano Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice, features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith?
... that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?

05:03, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
... that after 19 years broadcasting from an antenna atop the 42-story DuMont Building (pictured) in Midtown Manhattan, WKCR-FM became the first station to broadcast from the mast on top of the World Trade Center?
... that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives?
... that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor?
... that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?
... that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century?
... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
... that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
... that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?

23:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Dome of the Chain (pictured), a free-standing dome functioning as a prayer house on the Temple Mount, was possibly used as a building model for the adjacent Dome of the Rock?
... that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all time most subscribed in 2008?
... that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland?
... that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art?
... that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime?
... that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?
... the loading coil saved AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside was paid nothing for the idea?
... that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug?

17:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the threadfin jack (pictured) has been found at a number of archaeological sites in Central America, indicating this species has been caught by humans for food for at least three millennia?
... that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
... that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
... that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
... that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
... that Jacopo I da Carrara, signore of Padua, Italy, voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala?
... that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?
... that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
... that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe?

10:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
... that "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?
... that Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
... that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender?
... that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering"?
... that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus?
... that Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
... that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?

04:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Flagellation of Christ first appears in art (example pictured) in the 9th century?
... that Sadamu Shimomura, the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan?
... that the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?
... that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?
... that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets?
... that conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing"?
... that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
... that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?
... that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?

21:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured) spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
... that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne, friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
... that M3 Amphibious Rig, a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
... that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin?
... the San Esteban Chuckwalla can exceed two feet (61 cm) in length, making it the largest member of its genus, and a textbook example of insular gigantism?
... that Warren A. Morton, a Speaker of the Wyoming House, was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania?
... that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?
... that Charlie Hillard was the first American to win the World Aerobatics Championship?

15:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire, England had a Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri?
... that Springfield Armory, Inc. assisted Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in making the United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle by supplying the needed machinery to make it?
... that according to Hansard, Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
... that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia?
... that Slovenian biologist Ivan Regen is considered the founder of modern bioacoustics due to his work on cricket and katydid acoustic communication?
... that in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick?
... that many of the pieces of the anthology Suspiria de Profundis were lost before publication, as its author Thomas de Quincey may have accidentally set them on fire?
... that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?

09:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
... that rains from Tropical Storm Lester (pictured) triggered a mudslide that temporarily buried a man in Mexico?
... that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog?
... that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains?
... that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood, live fencing, fodder, coffee shade, green manure and rat poison?
... that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
... that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives?
... that Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paulo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
... that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?

03:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
... that more than 100,000 Heinkel Tourist (pictured) scooters were sold despite being heavier and more expensive than Vespas and Lambrettas?
... that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon's Made in U.S.A.?
... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
... that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht?
... that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath's album What If We?
... that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
... that on April 17, 1964, Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium?
... that the Oxford Music Hall, opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
... that Prussian-born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?

19:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the magazine Electrician and Mechanic (cover pictured) changed its title six times in two years before acquiring its current title, Popular Science?
... that Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?
... that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?
... that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game?
... that the song "Another Planet" by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds?
... that, after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen, he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
... that Betty Furness, a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate, was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board?
... that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?

09:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
... that David Bowie (pictured) was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Webby Awards?
... that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
... that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote?
... that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?
... that Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
... that Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
... that Cleckheaton railway station was stolen in August 1971?
... that Supreme National Tribunal, a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial?
... that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?

14:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
... that according to writings by missionary Ivan Popov, an 18th-century settlement on Uliaga Island (pictured) was destroyed by a Russian settler at the request of natives on nearby Umnak Island?
... that the Red-backed Kingfisher nests in burrows in riverbanks but not near water?
... that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?
... that Richard Kessel, a consumer advocate who opposed the US$5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority?
... that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?
... that in 2004, Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
... that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?

20:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
... that in August 2007, millionaire businessman Anwar Rashid and his family left Clifton Hall (pictured), their £3.6M home in Nottingham, because they thought it was haunted?
... that John Montague of the Seattle Mariners earned the first save in team history, pitching two scoreless innings to preserve a 5–1 win against the California Angels on April 9, 1977?
... that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel–Hamas military conflict?
... that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?
... that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?
... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets, described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
... that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench?

14:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
... that, at 248.1 metres (814 ft), Midtown Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan?
... that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school, but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
... that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?
... that Sir Francis Gawdy, his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation?
... that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?
... that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?
... that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?
... that the Angel Island Chuckwalla, an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés?

08:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
... that during testing, M247 Sergeant York (pictured) locked onto an exhaust fan, shot into the ground instead of its target, and threatened to fire on the high-ranking review panel in nearby stands?
... that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France, Bohemia, Italy and Burgundy?
... that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
... that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?
... that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
... that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election?
... that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?

02:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
... that after Chief Justice of the King's Bench Robert Tresilian was executed for treason in 1388 (pictured), his wife married a pirate?
... that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA?
... that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj?
... that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?
... that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar?
... that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?
... that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall?
... that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga, meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
... that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?

18:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
... that from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
... that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy, where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
... that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby/Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again?
... that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty?
... that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II, Australia in the War of 1939–1945?
... that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York, with a recessed porch and columns?
... that during the Siege of Paris, French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
... that "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?

12:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (pictured), was born 250 years ago today?
... that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs, coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms?
... that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court, judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
... that during the 2008–2009 television season, the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the first season of 90210?
... that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University?
... that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons, they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig, he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?

06:37, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Chicago Cubs have a tradition of raising a Cubs Win flag (pictured) on the flagpole atop the scoreboard at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home victory?
... that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?
... that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?
... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?
... that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina?
... that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?

00:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq (pictured) provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?
... that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics?
... that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane?
... that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?
... that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?
... that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius?
... that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
... that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?

17:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
... that "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore (pictured) following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name?
... that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue?
... that the current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II?
... that Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
... that SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II?
... that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture?
... that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?
... that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?

12:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Elena Paparizou (pictured), the second choice to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, ended up winning the contest with "My Number One"?
... that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
... that former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
... that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
... that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple, which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
... that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era?
... that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge, appointed in 1993?
... that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager?

05:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka (pictured), Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam?
... that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners, a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels?
... that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical storm, Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated?
... that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci, angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?
... that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course?
... that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association?
... that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate?
... that architect Andrew Rebori once referred to modern buildings as "steel and glass upside-down cakes"?

23:57, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Jabba The Hutt puppeteer Toby Philpott (pictured) began his career as a homeless juggler in the streets of London?
... that Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed, the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season?
... that two weeks before the 1964 bombings of the United States Embassy in Libreville, Gabon, the country had undergone an abortive coup d'etat which overthrew its president, Leon M'ba?
... that Farhad Reza, along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers, was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League?
... that the papal election in 1159 that followed the death of Pope Adrian IV resulted in a papal schism, which lasted until 1178?
... that Michael P.C. Carns, who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star?
... that the Instructions of Shuruppak, first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh, has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian"?
... that J. Clarence Karcher invented the reflection seismograph and founded Geophysical Service Incorporated, which became Texas Instruments?

18:15, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Philip Goldberg (pictured), former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, was the eighth chief of mission in U.S. diplomatic history declared persona non grata and expelled from a country where he was serving?
... that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game?
... that the damaged and demasted brig Polly drifted over six months and more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the Atlantic with its surviving crew?
... that the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks, in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
... that Vihar Lake, the largest in Mumbai, was created in 1860?
... that socialite Hazel Crane's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy?
... that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos, after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans?
... that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?

11:51, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
... that T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" parodies the lyrics of the Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder song "That Mysterious Rag" (song to the right)?
... that Britain's Heather Fell, the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon, had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?
... that Fateh Sagar Lake was re-created in 1888 by re-constructing an earlier earth dam which got washed away?
... that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win at the 1989 contest?
... that The City Sun, a black-owned newspaper, told David Dinkins, New York City's first African American mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?
... that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled?
... that Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?

05:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the young Lord Byron (1813 portrait pictured) shared his mother's violent temper and, during one fit of anger, bit into a saucer?
... that the Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II armoured vehicle has a 0.5-inch (13 mm) thick armour that can provide protection against 7.62mm armour piercing ammunition?
... that new Manchester City F.C. chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was also the man who negotiated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix's inclusion in the 2009 Formula One season?
... that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson?
... that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning, his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
... that the coastal trevally is frequently known under an incorrect Latin name because of a typo in the first volume to describe it?
... that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon, Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?

22:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
... that a simple kite defeated cannons, steamers, and rockets in the bid to lay a line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge (ad pictured)?
... that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"?
... that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?
... that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal?
... that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme?
... that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara, Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands, and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara?
... that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?
... that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?

16:15, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Huletts Landing, New York (pictured) is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?
... that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that "All the Way" by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks?
... that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?
... that photojournalist Stanley Greene's image of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
... that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
... that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers, including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson?
... that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?

10:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the venom of the Beaded Lizard (pictured) has been found to contain several enzymes useful in the manufacturing of drugs to treat diabetes?
... that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?
... that small modelli of works of art were produced for patrons to approve?
... that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay?
... that "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
... that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine?
... that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season, Billy Coutu's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
... that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis, and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?

04:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Hurricane Michelle (pictured), a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?
... that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang?
... that the Pakistan Cricket Board accused Cricket Australia of double-standards when the latter expressed its willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan earlier this year?
... that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses?
... that before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?
... that Azúcar Moreno's song "Bandido" caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
... that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football?

21:23, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
... that American cargo ship MS West Grama (pictured), while in the service of the U.S. Navy in 1919, was the first American-flagged ship to enter Bulgarian waters?
... that Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke drowned when his boat capsized returning to shore?
... that there were several allegations of cheating during the 1994 Formula One season?
... that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?
... that Udo Zimmermann's opera, Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
... that Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums?
... that the Idangai or left-hand is the name of a faction of six castes which existed in Tamil society in ancient times?
... that Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?
... that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria?
... that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild?

13:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
... that to avoid worrying about sound quality for too long, producer Rob Swire of Pendulum (pictured) drafted the demos for the album In Silico using Commodore 64 and Nintendo emulators?
... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?
... that victory in the 1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C. their first major honour?
... that architect Alfred Rosenheim doubted whether modern architecture could strictly be regarded as architecture?
... that the producers of 2008 Hindi espionage thriller film Mukhbiir offered a money back guarantee for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?
... that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?
... that Partenope was the first opera written by an American-born composer?
... that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation?

08:11, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński have been named Righteous Among the Nations for harboring one of many Jewish children of the Warsaw Ghetto (pictured) during the Nazi occupation of Poland?
... that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas?
... that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?
... that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh, future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow?
... that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
... that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and later tried and executed for treason?
... that jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?

02:05, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the thermal imaging camera (pictured) has been called the best advance in firefighting equipment in the last 25 years, and the most expensive?
... that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?
... that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911, a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
... that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao?
... that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff, Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated?
... that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?
... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?

18:27, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
... that in 1817, the previously banned coat of arms of Paris (pictured) was restored to its traditional form?
... that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed?
... that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel, better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
... that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough?
... that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?
... that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?
... that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan?
... that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire?

11:16, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
... that A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States?
... that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?
... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
... that Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?
... that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?
... that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
... that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
... that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet?

05:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Porsche PFM 3200 (pictured) was a version of the Porsche 911's air-cooled engine built for the general aviation market?
... that Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
... that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner?
... that in the Florida Marlins' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris?
... that despite a US$900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
... that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I?
... that Herbert Mayfield, one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band, earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas?

20:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Irving Berlin composed the song "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (cover pictured) more than 30 years before Judy Garland performed it for the 1948 film Easter Parade?
... that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?
... that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
... that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan-branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
... that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England?
... that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
... that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds?

14:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
... that a jokduri (pictured) is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings?
... that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil-controlled Amalgamated Copper, backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller, only to collapse in the Panic of 1907?
... that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing?
... that some believe the pictographs in Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty ritual?
... that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball's 1966 TV special Lucy in London?
... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
... that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?

08:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the old and new One Fathom Bank Lighthouses in Malaysia (pictured) are situated an estimated 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart from each other?
... that Philip Marc, King John's sheriff in Nottinghamshire, should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta?
... that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?
... that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train?
... that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?
... that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet-built SAM network?
... that historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?

02:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Corpus Clock (pictured), a large sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?
... that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
... that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
... that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
... that Paralympic gold medalist swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle, requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
... that Kamio Mitsuomi, an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI?
... that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York, is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
... that the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?

19:24, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
... that an ayam (pictured) is a Korean traditional winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon period?
... that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar?
... that a Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
... that goalkeeper Peter Litchfield donated the man of the match award from his Football League debut to motor neurone disease in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?
... that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa?
... that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$1?
... that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut?
... that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI, led to Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut?

11:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Conrad Gessner's 1551 book Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil illustrations (pictured)?
... that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library?
... that Kitigan Zibi, a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
... that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national business newspaper in the United States?
... that Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
... that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet?
... that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day?
... that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain?
... that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?

05:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
... that heritage turkeys (pictured) are the only domestic turkeys able to reproduce without artificial insemination?
... that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak, a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan, received the "key to the city" of Evansville, Indiana?
... that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
... that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles?
... that the origin of Chicano literature, the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist, which eventually killed him?
... that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?
... that men were forbidden to enter the Palestinian village of Ijnisinya by Helena of Constantinople to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?
... that John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?

22:47, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
... that St. Michael the Archangel Church (pictured) in Kaunas, Lithuania was a military church, built for the Kaunas Fortress garrison?
... that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California?
... that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft?
... that Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
... that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
... that Negro league baseball pitcher Dave Brown disappeared in 1925 after murdering a man in a bar fight, but was rumored to have secretly resumed pitching under the alias "Lefty Wilson"?
... that the Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Richard Mohun was the only white survivor of a three-year expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the River Nile?
... that a Japanese sea spirit named shōjō with red hair and a fondness for sake is featured in Noh and Kabuki plays?

13:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
... that when the King of Scotland told King Magnus of Norway he could have any land he could circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre?
... that the complete, power operated, low recoil force gun turret of the Stingray light tank is used on the LAV-600 light armoured vehicle?
... that Tang Dynasty general An Baoyu received permission to use the imperial surname Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan?
... that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes?
... that architect Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a Christian Science church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
... that Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul, Korea?
... that Australian politician Mick Clough defeated a sitting member of parliament at three different elections?
... that Bridgeport Village, a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon, was built on the site of a former rock quarry?

07:32, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the traditional dress of Hui'an maidens (statue pictured) has been jokingly referred to as "feudal heads, thrifty jackets, democratic bellies, and wasteful trousers"?
... that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal Scrutiny helped F. R. Leavis become an influential literary critic?
... that in 1975, his only full season, Stan Perzanowski's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers?
... that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England?
... that Charles Ancliffe's waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?
... that Rudy Robbins' since disbanded "The Spirit of Texas" was named in 1991 by the Texas State Senate as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?
... that the town of Kalisz was almost completely destroyed during WWI by German forces pursuing the Schrecklichkeit policy?
... that the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Cameroonian investigative journalist Philip Njaru has faced repeated police brutality since 1997?
... that Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship?

01:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
... that dancheong (example pictured) refers to Korean traditional decorative coloring on wooden buildings and artifacts for style?
... that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?
... that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?
... that never having previously taken five wickets in a match, Nikita Miller managed the feat twice in the 2007–08 Carib Beer Cup final?
... that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?
... that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly?
... that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons?
... that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York?

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... that the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge (pictured) has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?
... that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye's first feature film was critical of polygamy?
... that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation?
... that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
... that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann?
... that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868?

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