User:Victuallers/Did you know
- ...... that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum?
- ... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?
- ... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
- ... that Jonathan Richardson wrote "the first significant work of artistic theory..."?
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User:Victuallers/Did you know/1
- ... that bodies (pictured) buried in Chauchilla Cemetery still retain skins and hair?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/2
- ... that L.C. Lecesne rose to prominence as an activist against slavery after the Government compensated him for his exile from Jamaica?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/3
- ... that you can use a cursor to find hot spots on the Gunpowder Plot image map?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/4
- ... that the cult of the Sussex martyrs (pictured) was started by Mark Lower using James Hurdis's etching of Richard Woodman and nine others burning to death?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/6
- ... that the Scots American War Memorial (pictured) has a poetic line by Ewan Mackintosh who was killed while observing fighting at Cambrai?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/7
- ... that Miró's 1937 Naked woman climbing a staircase is based ultimately on these animated photos?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/8
- ...that Claude Martin who started La Martiniere, Lucknow can be found in Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match (pictured)?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/9
- ... that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden (pictured) travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/10
- ...... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztecs?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/11
- ...... that the Swimming Reindeer (pictured), a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/12
- ... that Bamba Müller was the "Cinderella" who married the Black Prince of Perthshire?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/13
- ...... that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/14
- ... that the rare mineral Matlockite (PbFCl) (pictured) is named after a town in Derbyshire?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/15
- ... that Princess Bamba, the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire, was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/16
- ... that when the future 9th, 10th and 11th Baronets of Cockburn were painted with Augusta Anne, the daughter of Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol Cathedral, she was the only one dressed?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/17
- ...that the Mount Everest article includes an image map showing the routes?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/18
- ... that Joan Waste, blind since birth, was burnt to death in 1556 for being a Protestant in Derby during the reign of Bloody Mary?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/19
- ...that John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/20
- ... that Jonathan Richardson wrote "the first significant work of artistic theory..."?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/21
- ... that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/22
- ...if you like the imagemaps then you can find more here
User:Victuallers/Did you know/23
- ... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/24
- ...that Mary Howitt wrote The Spider and the Fly (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/25
- ... that King's Mill, Castle Donington was a mill for flints and plaster?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/26
- ... that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire had a Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for Lord Byron School in Gyumri?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/27
- ... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/28
User:Victuallers/Did you know/29
- ... that Fanny Burney described George Huddesford's work as a "vile poem" as it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/30
- ... that Richard Allen, a Dublin draper, raised £20,000 for Irish famine relief efforts by writing letters to America
User:Victuallers/Did you know/31
- ... that Lowes Cato Dickinson, portrait painter, painted Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Street?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/32
- ... that Leopoldo Benites, the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador?
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User:Victuallers/Did you know/33
- ... that Admiral John Gell from Hopton Hall captured a ship worth nearly one million pounds?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/34
- ...that Dr. Edward Smith, from Derbyshire, showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/35
- ...that Ebenezer Rhodes, Sheffield's Master Cutler, was bankrupt after publishing books about Derbyshire?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/36
- ...that Samuel Pegge, a Derbyshire antiquarian, published a book compiled by Richard II's cooks called Forme of Cury?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/37
- ... that Koto Hoxhi, who secretly taught students in Albanian, died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/38
- ...that a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting in Derbyshire?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/39
- ... that when Lord Mayor, Sir James Sanderson, died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of William Huntington S.S.?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/40
- ... that the bluestockings) were painted as the Nine Muses by Richard Samuel?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/41
- ... ... that the 14th name on one side of the Eiffel Tower is the engineer Charles Combes?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/42
- ...that Akiko Kobayashi got the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for creating a material that is both organic and metallic?
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- ...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/45
- ... that Antonio Barluzzi, a Franciscan monk, became known as the Architect of the Holy Land due to the number of important churches he designed?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/46
- ... that Frederick Edward Hulme, the only son of landscape artist Frederick William Hulme, painted flowers?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/47
- ... that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/48
- ... that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ after being lost for months near Porto Novo in Benin?}}
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- ... that George Clavering-Cowper went on a Grand Tour and, despite becoming an earl and an M.P., he stayed in Florence and became a prince?
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- ...that Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature was the namesake of Vernon County in Australia?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/51
- ... that the painting (pictured) of Robert Hollond, Monck Mason and Charles Green planning their record-making balloon trip also includes the artist, John Hollins?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/52
- ... that William Sharp, the first science teacher in a British public school, resigned in 1850 and later published papers on homeopathy?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/53
- ... that William Sharp, surgeon to paupers and a princess, commissioned a painting of his family playing music on a barge?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/54
- ... that Walter Conway's Tredegar Medical Aid Society was a model for Britain's National Health Service?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/55
- ... that John Henning's miniature models of the Parthenon Frieze and Bassae Frieze (pictured) took twelve years to complete?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/56
- ... that the Stanchester Hoard, which was found by metal detectors, is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/57
- ... that an exhibition of the work of the Glasgow Girls including Norah Neilson Gray is on display this month (2010) in Kirkcudbright?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/58
- ... that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/59
- ... that Kalulu (pictured), an African boy who died in 1877, was modeled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/60
- ... that for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara (pictured) were carved in Pakistan?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/61
- ... that the Ain Sakhri lovers (pictured), the oldest representation of two people making love, was found near Bethlehem?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/62
- ... that some types of vampire moth can bite and drink human blood?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/63
- ... that James Conder, who collected coins and issued token coins, never knew that there was a hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins buried beneath the doorstep of his house in Ipswich?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/64
- ... that the Iron Age Witham Shield was originally decorated with a wild boar?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/65
- ...that Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/66
- ...that a porcelain plate (pictured) by Mikhail Adamovich features a Russian worker stamping on the forces of "Kapital"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/67
- ...that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/68
- ...that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan Drum (pictured) that was used to "dance the slaves"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/69
- ...that before Dr. Andrea Crestadoro became Chief Librarian in Manchester, he patented improvements to the horse powered locomotive Impulsoria?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/70
- ...that the totem pole which welcomes visitors to the British Museum was documented by Rev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/71
- ...that Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, a Baptist abolitionist from Massachusetts, made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/72
- ...that Joseph Whittaker, who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum, sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/73
- ...that this year a U.S. Embassy attache visited the tomb of Samuel Lucas who lived to hear the "tidings of the destruction of the slave power in the United States"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/74
- ...that William Gullick, designer of the Coat of arms of New South Wales, had a colour photograph of his family as early as 1909?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/75
- ...that Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/76
- ...that Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conquerer, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/77
- ... that Joseph Huddart, who made a fortune from making rope, first worked with his father to process fish that suddenly appeared in Solway Firth?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/78
- ... that Derby's Silk Mill is used as a design theme for the bobbins on the St Alkmund's Way Footbridge and a needle on the nearby swingbridge?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/79
- ... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/80
- ... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral (pictured) was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/81
- ... that after a nervous breakdown Miró started art classes, where he met and painted his friend Vincent in a style that resembled Van Gogh's?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/82
- ... ... that Miró's The Caress of a Bird uses a turtle shell to show that the sculpture represents a woman?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/83
- ... that Joseph Wright of Derby had only seen the scene once at night before he painted Dovedale by Moonlight?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/84
- ... that the Arab governor of Safed offered money to persuade rabbi Joseph Saragossi not to leave the town?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/85
- ... that Miró's Dona i Ocell (pictured), a sculpture in Barcelona, was decorated with colour by ceramicist Joan Gardy Artigas?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/86
- ... that when the 150-year-old Monmouthshire Beacon newspaper moved into Cornwall House, the new office was opened by Princess Margaret?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/87
- ... that Sonja Schlesin was slapped by her boss, Mohandas Gandhiin South Africa?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/88
- ... that William and Ida Belle Wilcox "sacrificed all that they had in solidarity with the South African people"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/89
- ... that Nelson Mandela went especially to Ohlange High School to see a grave and to place his vote in South Africa's first free election?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/90
- ... that the Keen Kutter Building in Wichita is now a hotel that displays a vast collection of Keen Kutter hardware on every floor?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/91
- ... that staff and alumni of Adams College in South Africa have included (future) presidents of Uganda and Botswana, ambassadors, ministers, a Nobel laureate and a past West Indian Cricket captain?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/92
- ... that The Lily newspaper was "published by a committee of ladies" in 1849? ?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/93
- ... that Dr. Agnes Bluhm wrote that the "female psyche" is predisposed towards working for "racial hygiene"?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/94
- ... that the Welsh climber Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, who made the first climb of Aiguille du Moine, retired in 1873?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/95
- ... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/96
- ... that the life story of actress and television presenter Štěpánka Haničincová was the subject of a 2003 documentary?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/97
- ... that during the Nazi era, Hedwig Bollhagen took over a Jewish workshop under "questionable circumstances" to make quality ceramics?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/98
- ... that Vera Bogdanovskaia (pictured) was killed in 1896 while trying to make H-C≡P, a chemical not successfully synthesized until 1961?
User:Victuallers/Did you know/99
- ... that the plaque on the memorial of Czech poet Viktor Dyk shows only his name?
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- ^ The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, Crispiijn van de Passe, National Portrait Gallery, accessed 12 March 2010