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9 July 2009

20:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust?
... that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa?
... that Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant, reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language?
... that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC's role in promoting teenage decadence?
... that the 1947 Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim included eleven songs George and Ira Gershwin had written but never used in any productions?
... that the Środa treasure, one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe, was originally lost during the Black Plague?
... that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?

14:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Classic Maya archaeological site of Yaxchilan, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, is known for its preserved sculpted lintels (example pictured) detailing the dynastic history of the city?
... that Tommy Thevenow hit his only two home runs in a six-day span in 1926, but none in his next 12 seasons, setting a Major League record of 3,347 consecutive regular season at bats without a home run?
... that the Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?
... that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble, Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner, and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring, but pleaded not guilty in court?
... that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid"?
... that a lake scene in the Skins episode "Naomi" had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia?
... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
... that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?

08:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Rani Padmini in 1433 AD and Rani Karnavati in 1537 AD led the jauhar or self-immolation ritual by over 13,000 ladies of Rajput warriors who died in battles at Chittorgarh Fort (pictured)?
... that when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said"?
... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?
... that the MCW Heavyweight Championship was won by Jerry "The King" Lawler, who has held over 200 professional wrestling championships throughout his career?
... that Julius Babao was awarded best male newscaster in the 2008 PMPC Star Awards for TV?
... that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
... that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe?

02:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis (pictured)?
... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?
... that Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway?
... that, originally established as the Federation of Crippled and Disabled in 1935, Fedcap Rehabilitation Services switched to its current name in 1992?
... that the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz?
... that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming?
... that Thomas Patch, who painted men on their Grand Tours, had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?

8 July 2009

20:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Nancy Cartwright (pictured) received a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for her performance as Bart Simpson in the Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations"?
... that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?
... that the French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret?
... that McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount?
... that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series?
... that the 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?
... that Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research?

14:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the artillery of France in the Middle Ages (pictured) had a key role in the French victory in the Hundred Years War?
... that in 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya?
... that country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer?
... that Per Jacobsen, a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler, was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period?
... that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003?
... that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth, Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?
... that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova?

08:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that a new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley (pictured) in Flintshire, Wales, was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin?
... that U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?
... that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government?
... that theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber, creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair, met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?
... that following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps?
... that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby?
... that holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt?

02:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
... that the Cheltenham Synagogue still has a prayer for the health of Queen Victoria and her family on its wall?
... that P. Chr. Andersen, a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
... that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment?
... that the fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade?
... that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?
... that the California-based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health-themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?

7 July 2009

20:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the Eyelash Cup (pictured) normally grows on rotten wood, but can sometimes be found on bracket fungi?
... that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States?
... that during World War II, Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand, Egil Reksten, Sverre Midtskau, Einar Johansen, Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service?
... that Kenny Tate, one of college football's top wide receiver recruits in 2008, was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety?
... that Vice-Admiral Sydney Fremantle was assigned to guard the German High Seas Fleet, but had taken his ships out on exercises when the German fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow?
... that in the penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic?
... that the motivation behind the assassination attempt against Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene in 1987 was his signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord a few weeks before?

14:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell (pictured) will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska?
... that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash Zanthoxylum americanum has been used to treat "chronic rheumatism, typhoid and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
... that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
... that passengers mourned the closure of the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line so much that they poured a bucket of water over a double dressed as Richard Beeching, associated with closure of British railway lines in the 1960s?
... that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services?
... that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal, banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany?
... that the flag of New Mexico is designed after the Zia tribe's symbol?

08:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the first official airmail stamp (pictured) issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps?
... that Charles Dickens used his father John Dickens as his inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in his novel David Copperfield?
... that Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?
... that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall?
... that although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York, ten years later the census recorded only two?
... that Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper?
... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?

02:49, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Nils Kjær (pictured) had success on Scandinavian stages with his comedy Det lykkelige valg?
... that film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California?
... that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible?
... that the Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat, 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975?
... that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill, and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?
... that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
... that Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?

6 July 2009

20:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that eleven of the Twelve Heavenly Generals at Shin-Yakushi-ji temple (hon-dō pictured) in Nara, Japan, are made of clay and date to the 8th century while the wooden statue of Haira was made in 1931?
... that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team's Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song "The Victors"?
... that the pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party?
... that Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall?
... that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post-Conquest monastic histories"?
... that the Norwegian coastal steamer SS Barøy replaced a vessel sunk by the Royal Navy during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign and was herself sunk by the Fleet Air Arm the next year?
... that producer Anna Turner, co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris?

14:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured)?
... that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop"?
... that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails?
... that professional wrestler Brain Damage held the CZW Iron Man and the CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championships simultaneously?
... that Sir George Coldstream, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain"?
... that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?
... that William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton's hotels?

08:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the MasterCard International Global Headquarters building (pictured) was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei?
... that Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?
... that the 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine?
... that the Samarkand clan's main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan?
... that Alec Gallup, co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup, was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?
... that the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician?
... that the catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond" from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida?

02:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

... that untreated persistent hypertension can lead to serious complications, such as dementia, strokes, renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy pictured)?
... that John G.F. Francis, who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?
... that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X Division, which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling, has been praised by Kevin Nash?
... that a reed is a comb-like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?
... that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics?
... that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?
... that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club?

5 July 2009

20:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the ruined Craigie Castle (keep pictured) contained one of Scotland's best vaulted halls?
... that German-American saboteur Richard Quirin was described as a "cool, cruel man who would not hesitate to kill anyone to accomplish the mission's objectives?"
... that Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route?
... that William E. Simkin, longest-serving head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
... that officers of the Sarsfield Grenadier Guards were traditionally elected by the men?
... that William Michael Rooke's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire"?
... that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot?

14:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that luminescence of holmium oxide is so bright that the material changes its color from yellow to orange-red under fluorescent light (pictured)?
... that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, including Ralph Warren, John Cranston, Billy Rhodes, Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs?
... that some prints of the Mass of Saint Gregory claimed to offer indulgences of up to 45,000 years?
... that Stanley R. Jaffe, who resigned as president of Paramount Television in 1971, returned to become president of Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures in 1992?
... that the earliest example of humans having the skill to manufacture artifacts with a compound glue was found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa?
... that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park?
... that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school?

08:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that interbreeding with dingoes (pictured) can even occur with dogs that were acquired by their owners to specifically kill dingoes?
... that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy?
... that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade?
... that an extreme derecho that struck the southern portions of the Midwestern United States on May 8, 2009, is considered the worst in at least a decade?
... that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?
... that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States?

02:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

... that in the 1774 speech "On American Taxation", British member of Parliament Edmund Burke (pictured) argued that Britain should reconcile with the thirteen colonies?
... that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm²?
... that since its release in 1978, Space Invaders and its many sequels have been remade for numerous video game platforms?
... that under UNESCO's new biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve?
... that Stephen van Rensselaer III is considered the tenth richest American in history because of his ownership of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck during the 19th century, which he inherited at the age of five?
... that though the Raša River in Croatian Istria is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia?
... that the bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell, had groupies posing as band member's wives?

4 July 2009

20:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed with pens dipped in the Syng inkstand (pictured)?
... that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist?
... that Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991?
... that Irv Hall's 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?
... that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley?
... that Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial?
... that the spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location?

14:49, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that during the Soviet era the only country that fashion designer Slava Zaitsev (pictured) was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist country?
... that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
... that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
... that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
... that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?
... that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly?

08:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

... that despite a large leak since its commissioning in 1992, the Samanalawewa Dam hydroelectric power station (pictured) in Sri Lanka continues to function normally?
... that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley?
... that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts?
... that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?
... that an East German, upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine, reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
... that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu, written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
... that Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector?

3 July 2009

23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?
... that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives?
... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"
... that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father?
... that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
... that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?
... that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?

17:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?
... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
... that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
... that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet?
... that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?
... that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris?
... that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome?

11:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954?
... that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe?
... that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia?
... that the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
... that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent?
... that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University?
... that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?

05:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the velvet belly lantern shark (pictured) has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc?
... that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc?
... that Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
... that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
... that the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
... that the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office?
... that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?

2 July 2009

23:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team?
... that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
... that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence?
... that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration?
... that Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel?
... that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day?
... that Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?

14:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer?
... that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma?
... that the killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death?
... that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
... that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
... that the Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?
... that John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket?

08:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the false earthstar in the fungal family Astraeaceae (pictured) can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity?
... that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
... that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?
... that architect Wilfrid Lacroix, designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons?
... that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery?
... that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?
... that while with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?

02:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
... that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
... that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial?
... that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick?
... that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs?
... that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer?
... that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI, colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office?

1 July 2009

20:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Markus Howell (pictured), broke the 1,500 career yard mark in both kickoff and punt returns in 2008?
... that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto, members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
... that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers, four unelected people became ministers, the highest number since 1936?
... that Ham Hill, a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
... that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season, Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
... that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?

14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Edmonton Eskimos head coach Richie Hall (pictured) is the first African-American head coach in Eskimos history?
... that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication?
... that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, a colonial military force of New France?
... that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement?
... that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid?
... that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?

08:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest?
... that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history?
... that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?
... that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?

02:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?
... that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain?
... that the Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops?
... that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?
... that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication?
... that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
... that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day?

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