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31 March 2019

00:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Christine Ferber

... that jams made by French chocolatier Christine Ferber (pictured) are sold in Tokyo Isetan department stores, each wrapped in red cloth with a white bow?
... that The Marriage is a video game that tries to convey meaning through its mechanics rather than through audio or visuals?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro?
... that the 1923 film The Shepherd King about the Biblical David has an opening scene in Egypt because of King Tut?
... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?
... that the Ussuri shrew feeds largely on earthworms and needs to eat more than twice its bodyweight each day?
... that Hungarian ice hockey referee László Schell set an unofficial record of 22 Ice Hockey World Championship matches officiated in a year?
... that Stackpole Books sold 12,000 copies of Mein Kampf in English before being ordered to stop?

30 March 2019

00:00, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Pink-necked green pigeon

... that the pink-necked green pigeon (male pictured) was one of the first species of bird recorded on Krakatoa after the main island erupted in 1883?
... that Toronto treasure and antique dealer Billy Jamieson discovered the lost mummy of pharaoh Ramesses I when he purchased the Niagara Falls Museum?
... that despite having large molecular gas reservoirs, NGC 3665 has a less than expected star formation rate?
... that when Riko Azuna auditioned to perform the opening theme to the anime series Bloom Into You, all she knew about the series was that it focuses on love between two girls?
... that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by three English men-of-war?
... that Mark Angel produced the first African YouTube comedy channel to reach one million subscribers?
... that Malaysia was stripped of its right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after refusing to allow Israeli athletes to enter the country to compete?
... that Jane Somerville has "Unicorns" all around the world?

29 March 2019

00:00, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Elly Mayday in A Perfect 14

... that when Elly Mayday (pictured) was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she not only continued to model, but appeared in pictorials with a bald head from chemotherapy and surgery scars?
... that the Lutheran Trinity Church in East Melbourne has occupied its site continuously since 1854, with services conducted in German?
... that Sumiko Hennessy, a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver, Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"?
... that the Persian city of Arrajan, built using the labour of Roman prisoners of war in the early 6th century, later flourished as a large settlement by the 11th century?
... that when Barbara Low and Dorothy Hodgkin determined the structure of penicillin in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by X-ray crystallography?
... that a colony of webspinners recently discovered in Surrey was the first new order of insects found in Britain for over a century?
... that after the Great Sichuan earthquake, Ding Yi donated more than 200,000 yuan to his former company to help with reconstruction?
... that the Baseball Rule in American tort law holds that as long as a baseball team has protected seats available, fans injured by foul balls generally cannot hold the team liable?

28 March 2019

01:48, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

The monastery's circular church

... that Portugal's Monastery of Serra do Pilar (church pictured) was designated a World Heritage Site in 1996?
... that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League?
... that a Republican candidate has not won a Chicago mayoral election since 1927?
... that, in rejecting so-called "New Criticism", Robert Kaske argued that medieval poetry needs to be read in context?
... that the Engenho dos Erasmos, built in Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615?
... that in 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival?
... that large moles can live for four years but may fall prey to owls, snakes, or weasels?
... that after China's "tobacco king" Chu Shijian was sentenced to life imprisonment, he became the "king of oranges"?

27 March 2019

00:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Ground billiards

... that modern cue sports games such as snooker and nine-ball can be traced back to the game of ground billiards, played with hoops and mallets (illustration shown)?
... that Brazilian-born Catarina Macario won three American college soccer awards in the same year?
... that the giant spoon worm Ikeda taenioides survived a tsunami that devastated other members of the seabed community?
... that physician Sumant Mehta spent five years in jails for his participation in the Indian independence movement?
... that a visit to The Farm by UNICEF resulted in the development of The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook?
... that horror author Michaelbrent Collings used the pen name "Angelica Hart" for his western romance series?
... that the sheriffs of more than a dozen of the 39 counties of Washington state have announced they will not enforce recently enacted gun-control legislation?
... that Swedish singer Sophia Somajo released her second album via The Pirate Bay?

26 March 2019

00:00, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Edith Munro in uniform

... that after her son, U.S. Coast Guard signalman Douglas Albert Munro, was killed in battle, 48-year-old Edith Munro (pictured) joined the Coast Guard herself?
... that hearing protection fit-testing is used to determine if devices like earplugs or earmuffs are providing the right amount of sound reduction?
... that Hu Peiquan founded the journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University and served as its chief editor for more than 60 years?
... that the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821 is celebrated today?
... that Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake, about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter's opposition to same-sex marriage?
... that the peanut worm Themiste hennahi is a "tentacle breather"?
... that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of St Cuthbert, even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
... that Karta, an orangutan at the Adelaide Zoo, escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?

25 March 2019

00:00, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Circuit of the Americas pit lane

... that the 2019 IndyCar Classic at Circuit of the Americas (pictured) will be the first time that American open-wheel cars and Formula One have raced at the same track during their respective seasons since 2006?
... that actor Jude Akuwudike originated the part of "the Queen" in the first British production of Not About Nightingales?
... that the fiery-browed starling, found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia, forms mixed flocks with the Sulawesi myna and grosbeak starling?
... that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective?
... that the "Weird Al" parody song "Chicken Pot Pie" was not released at the request of vegetarian Paul McCartney, who felt it endorsed eating meat?
... that Walter Wasservogel was the first full-time general secretary of the International Ice Hockey Federation?
... that in 1980, a ribbon worm was implicated in the collapse of the Dungeness crab fishery in central California?
... that an award for women journalists in India is named after a Jain freedom fighter?
... that as he was a teacher by day and bandleader at night, those who knew Bob Bachelder in one role likely were unaware of the other?

24 March 2019

00:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Chapel in Innerberg

... that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle (pictured) in Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor?
... that Rosie Bernard's bar in Monte Carlo, The Chatham, was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
... that Wu Dechang managed the emergency response to large-scale plutonium contamination caused by a failed Chinese nuclear test?
... that the range of Laxmann's shrew extends from Norway to Sakhalin Island in eastern Asia?
... that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse?
... that the burrowing brittle star submerges itself in mud and raises its arms to feed?
... that Washington lands commissioner Hilary Franz was a competitive ice skater as a teenager?
... that Tuvalu could only afford to become a member of the United Nations after selling its Internet country code top-level domain?

23 March 2019

00:00, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Margit Bokor

... that the soprano Margit Bokor (pictured) created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House?
... that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing tundra?
... that Yury Karandin was the first Soviet referee to officiate matches involving National Hockey League players?
... that Sharlene San Pedro and Nash Aguas, the lead actors of the 2018 thriller Class of 2018, worked together on a sketch comedy show when they were children?
... that according to historian An Zuozhang, the governing principle of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China was "doing nothing against nature"?
... that the children's poetry book The Great Migration: Journey to the North reflects author Eloise Greenfield's own childhood experiences?
... that Percy Furnivall, Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
... that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing "From Dixie with Love" because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?

22 March 2019

00:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

United States 24-cent stamps with inverted center from 1869

... that American philatelist William Thorne owned a unique block of four United States 1869 24-cent stamps with an inverted center (pictured) showing the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
... that Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2017 Masters snooker event, despite breaking his cue tip in his semifinal match?
... that Boro Maa created a refugee colony at Thakurnagar for the Matuas, who were displaced due to the 1947 Partition of Bengal?
... that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas?
... that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena?
... that Tobago's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
... that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party?
... that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny, Cocker, and Ball?

21 March 2019

00:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Attic vase-painting of a Scythian archer

... that the Scythian archers (pictured) may have functioned as a police force in ancient Athens?
... that Jonas Noreika is commemorated on plaques and street signs in Lithuania, despite his active participation in the Holocaust?
... that the 23-storey Dusit Thani Hotel, with its distinctive golden spire, was the tallest building in Bangkok when it opened in 1970?
... that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli?
... that the special election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district is the first "do-over" of an election to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974?
... that He Yousheng studied the high-speed hydrodynamics of torpedoes?
... that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
... that the marine worm Echiurus echiurus uses its spoon-shaped proboscis to feed but not to dig its burrow?
... that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique 1-cent magenta, which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?

20 March 2019

00:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Ida Tarbell in 1904

... that a series of articles by investigative journalist Ida Tarbell (pictured) in 1902 led to the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly?
... that as The Big Elk is now the world's tallest statue of a moose, it has been proposed that Mac the Moose be given stilettos so as to reclaim its previous record?
... that aeroelasticity engineer Guan De worked on the development of the Shenyang J-8 and J-8II fighter jets?
... that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles?
... that the graceful kelp crab tends to inhabit the understory rather than the canopy of the kelp forest?
... that the reversal of post-World War II nationalization in Poland resulted in considerable amounts of chaos and fraud?
... that Soediro stole a limousine to be used as Sukarno's presidential car, despite not knowing how to drive?

19 March 2019

00:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

The frog

... that Josiah Wedgwood "was very unwilling to disfigure" his Frog Service with "this reptile" (pictured), but Catherine the Great insisted it appear on all 944 pieces?
... that the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens and the German physician Karl-Josef Kutsch wrote Großes Sängerlexikon, a biographical dictionary of opera singers, with 18,760 entries in 2012?
... that Indo-Russia Rifles is a joint venture licensed to produce 750,000 AK-203 rifles, the latest and most advanced version of the AK-47 firearm?
... that in 1994, Karen became the first orangutan to have open heart surgery?
... that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the J-7 fighters"?
... that the entire town of Agats is elevated above ground level, including the roads?
... that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of "footy's most famous dynasties" – to play top-level women's Australian rules football?
... that after the editor of an Alabama newspaper called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan, he was initially replaced by an African-American woman?

18 March 2019

00:32, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Andy Nisbet

... that mountaineer Andy Nisbet (pictured) created more than 1,000 new winter climbing routes in Scotland?
... that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth, Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, "Christ with me"?
... that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language?
... that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and other artists?
... that Xu Shunshou, chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution?
... that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903?
... that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?
... that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?

17 March 2019

12:00, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Yacare caiman

... that although the yacare caiman (pictured) was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to hunting, its current population in the Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?
... that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut?
... that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk?
... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year?
... that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?
... that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II, and written about those of King Henry VIII?
... that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign?
... that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster?

01:50, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

The Mary Rose, as depicted in the Anthony Roll

... that the boarding net of the Mary Rose (pictured) trapped her crew aboard the ship as she was sinking?
... that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack, Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia?
... that Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
... that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole?
... that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?
... that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine?
... that in 1870, inspectors found that most of the workers at the Peter's Hall sugar plantation in British Guiana were from India and China?
... that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968?

16 March 2019

15:50, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Malala Yousafzai

... that the 2019 book We Are Displaced by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai (pictured) tells the stories of ten displaced girls, including herself?
... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?
... that the Guianan squirrel monkey has a varied diet that includes seeds, eggs, nectar, gum, insects, flowers, lizards, and occasionally bats?
... that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture?
... that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions, he would, according to Plutarch, have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
... that Frant Gwo's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
... that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?
... that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?

00:00, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Coffin of Nedjemankh

... that shortly after purchasing the coffin of Nedjemankh (pictured) for $4 million, the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to return it to Egypt?
... that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?
... that "Das Weizenkorn muss sterben" (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti, deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?
... that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash?
... that Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida, won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles?
... that party pieces may include reciting a poem, performing a dance, singing a song, or performing a trick?
... that Lu Xiaopeng designed a supersonic fighter said to be the lightest in the world, but it never entered service?
... that the black limpet feeds on the black turban snail without harming it?

15 March 2019

12:00, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Oriente warbler

... that until 2002, researchers thought that the two species of Cuban warblers (Oriente warbler pictured) belonged in the New World warbler family?
... that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon's regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War?
... that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine?
... that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle, and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito?
... that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment?
... that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing?
... that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts?
... that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone?

00:00, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Amina Gerba

... that Amina Gerba's (pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso?
... that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles, Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
... that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?
... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?
... that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?
... that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?
... that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard, a planter in British Guiana, led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?
... that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?

14 March 2019

12:00, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Pasqualati House

... that Beethoven composed two symphonies during the eight years he lived in the Pasqualati House (pictured) in Vienna?
... that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor?
... that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?
... that after Huang Zhiqian, chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet Shenyang J-8, died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?
... that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?
... that Amur senza fin is the first-ever Romansh language television film?
... that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?

00:00, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Véronique Aka

... that Véronique Aka (pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council?
... that the binomial name of the coconut lorikeet translates as "bloody hair-tongue"?
... that Byron A. Stover was an American football letterman and forestry major at Ohio State University before moving to Oregon to become a successful businessman and state legislator?
... that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter, his future wife?
... that Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England, said: "during any time of crisis ... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
... that the antisemitic tale "The Jew Among Thorns" was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?
... that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship?
... that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial, even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?

13 March 2019

12:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

HMS Simoom

... that all 15 torpedoes fired by HMS Simoom (pictured) during her career missed their targets, but 3 hit and sank a destroyer instead?
... that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge?
... that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament?
... that Faiz Shakir is the first Muslim and first American of Pakistani descent to manage a United States presidential campaign?
... that spiral galaxy NGC 765 features a hydrogen disk that at 240,000 parsecs diameter is the largest in the local universe?
... that Spinophorosaurus had spikes on its tail, unlike most other sauropod dinosaurs?
... that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill which would have banned Australians from the country?
... that Hulk Hogan was sued for $5 million by Richard Belzer for choking Belzer unconscious with a sleeper hold and dropping him on live TV?

00:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

The Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra

... that the Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra (pictured) in Rio de Janeiro state opened in 1938 as a tourist observation point and lighthouse, but it was abandoned in 1978?
... that pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams?
... that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language—which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants?
... that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
... that at the start of the Battle of Orange Walk the British commanders ran almost naked from their bathtubs?
... that Yasumi Matsuno was an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV before being hired to write a scenario based on his Ivalice setting for the game's expansion, Stormblood?
... that Sam Bass was NASCAR's first officially licensed artist?
... that there were no roads leading to Becontree tube station when it first opened?

12 March 2019

12:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Hutchison's sketch of his Bust of Queen Victoria (1887)

... that Scottish sculptor John Hutchison was commissioned by Queen Victoria to create her portrait bust (sketch shown)?
... that the opening of the Senegambia bridge has eliminated the need for a 400-kilometre (250 mi) diversion to cross the Gambia River when the ferry is out of use?
... that after scientist Qian Lingxi was denounced during the Cultural Revolution, China's nuclear submarine project sought the help of Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available for this strategic program?
... that the solitary coral Heterocyathus aequicostatus often lives in symbiosis with a small worm that moves it around?
... that Spas Wenkoff, first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary Bayreuth Festival?
... that the Battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC was possibly the largest naval battle ever?
... that the Eiss Archive is composed of materials that document the rescue of Jews threatened by the Holocaust through the efforts of Polish diplomats?
... that major general John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux's book The Secret Man, which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the CIA, was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?

00:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Cactus wren on a saguaro cactus

... that the cactus wren (pictured) builds nests shaped like American footballs in spiny cholla and saguaro cactus but, despite this protection, the coachwhip snake still preys on chicks?
... that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career?
... that kerbs in Northern Ireland are sometimes painted to denote the political views of local residents?
... that actor Tom O'Sullivan's first television role was on Home and Away as a journalist who got into a fight with Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher)?
... that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship?
... that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia?
... that Mendelssohn was requested to compose Psalm 100 for the new Hamburg Temple, but probably set it as Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt for the Berlin Cathedral?
... that after stimulating them with electricity, Hans Steinert described the worm-like twitching of his patients' muscles?

11 March 2019

12:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Nao Tōyama

... that Nao Tōyama (pictured), whose solo singles have been used as theme songs for anime series on television and in film, was tone-deaf as a girl?
... that Eco-Link@BKE, the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?
... that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?
... that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek?
... that Qiu Dahong studied the force of sea waves?
... that the Indian organisation Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a case to prevent the commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant?
... that a small group of Holocaust survivors tried to kill six million Germans?
... that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?
... that for Pacific Islanders, the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults?
... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?

00:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

The Chandos Portrait of Handel

... that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by Handel (pictured) as composer in residence at Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"?
... that from age nine, college basketball player Zion Williamson began waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to train?
... that the Invereshie and Inshriach National Nature Reserve forms part of the largest remaining expanse of Caledonian pinewood in Scotland?
... that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established New Power Party?
... that radiation from radon-222 and its decay products is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking?
... that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
... that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament, Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?
... that wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen referred to Grizzly 399 as "An Icon of Motherhood", and 60 Minutes claimed she is "the most famous mother grizzly in the world"?

10 March 2019

12:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Coronula diadema on a humpback whale

... that laboratory experiments suggest that the free-swimming larva of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema (pictured) is induced to settle on a host whale in response to chemical cues from its skin?
... that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom?
... that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II, led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck?
... that Tucson, Arizona, school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
... that the Cinderella starfish normally fasts while brooding its young?
... that the first telephone booth in Ceylon was installed at the Colombo General Post Office on 16 August 1909?
... that Robert Schunk, who performed minor roles at the Bayreuth Festival, stepped in successfully for Peter Hofmann as Siegmund in Die Walküre there?
... that for NHL 96, the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?

00:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Gordon Cooper

... that after astronaut Gordon Cooper (pictured) died, his ashes were launched into space three times?
... that Irish actor Emmet Kirwan hopes that the film version of the play Dublin Oldschool will foster awareness of the homeless and drug addicts?
... that Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw wrote an oratorio in 1974 that used elements of jazz and popular hymns?
... that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines, and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
... that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender?
... that Henry Ward's painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim is based upon The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt?
... that Dutch footballer Leon de Kogel's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
... that red-collared lorikeets sometimes appear drunk at the end of the dry season in Darwin?

9 March 2019

12:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Reconstruction of a Lamellenhelm from Niederstotzingen

... that of the three main types of helmets that proliferated in early medieval Europe, the Lamellenhelm (example pictured) was the only one derived from eastern, rather than Roman, examples?
... that "Old Woden" Frederick Hackwood founded the Wednesbury Strollers football club?
... that the motet Lord, have mercy upon us was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1833, setting responses from the Book of Common Prayer?
... that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight?
... that one of the two hosts of Dopey, a podcast about addiction, died of a drug overdose?
... that Austrian-born Malcolm Mencer Martin was interned by the British at the beginning of World War II, and graduated from King's College, Newcastle, at war's end?
... that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park, Queens borough president Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
... that Yarmouth suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd that had gathered to watch a circus clown in a wash tub being pulled along the River Bure by four geese?

00:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Caroline Katzenstein

... that Caroline Katzenstein (pictured) began campaigning for women's suffrage in 1910 and, once the vote was granted, focused on supporting the Equal Rights Amendment – which is still not ratified today?
... that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton?
... that for Vida, Tanya Saracho assembled an all-Latinx, "heavily queer" writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color?
... that Janell Cannon's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album?
... that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross, though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria?
... that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old vegetarian and vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes?
... that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award?
... that at the height of her opera career Marlise Wendels sometimes sang in up to 300 performances in a single season?

8 March 2019

12:00, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Gun Runner

... that Gun Runner (pictured) won the 2017 Whitney Stakes with another horse's shoe caught in his tail?
... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
... that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop?
... that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar, Senegal?
... that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information?
... that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award-winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan?
... that Wang Yening helped establish China's first specialization in X-ray metal physics?
... that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to the Prince of Wales, played backgammon with Winston Churchill, and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy?

00:00, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Dorsey's bordello on Eleventh Avenue

...that Ida Dorsey built the last standing bordello (pictured) from Minneapolis' three red-light districts?
... that the 2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing, which killed 27 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been reported as one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in years?
... that Heiko Steuer studied mathematics and physics before turning to history and archaeology?
... that the English settlement of Southwark was burned by the Normans in 1066?
... that Mount Ferguson in Nevada was named after geologist Henry G. Ferguson?
... that a crisper drawer can help protect fruits and vegetables from ethylene gas?
... that Stephen Twinoburyo, a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
... that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
... that the staged version of Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt, closely based on a short story by Kafka, premiered at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that Jankaea heldreichii is a relict species that now grows on and around Mount Olympus in Greece and nowhere else?

7 March 2019

12:00, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Christ being handed a model cathedral

... that the 16 plaques called the Magdeburg Ivories (one pictured) were probably made around 968 to decorate an unknown cathedral fixture destroyed in the next century?
... that Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal is a vegan?
... that the 1994 Gambian coup d'état began as a mutiny that was only planned the night before its execution?
... that Yan Luguang and his colleagues built China's first tokamak?
... that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War?
... that the tenor Ewandro Stenzowski went from early competition successes in Brazil to leading roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Landestheater Detmold?
... that the OK gesture can stand for the evil eye, the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a scuba diver is safe?
... that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the American Revolution, but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
... that the unstable limpet is essentially a parasite of the kelp Saccharina dentigera?
... that Philip Hugh-Jones coined the term type J diabetes, where J stands for Jamaica?

00:00, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Ishi

... that the 1961 book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber told the story of Ishi (pictured), the last known member of the Yahi people?
... that the main building in the Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden has the form of a butterfly?
... that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I?
... that four Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first landing on the Moon?
... that first-person shooter Bright Memory was described by critics as having the look and feel of a high-budget game, despite being developed by a single person in his spare time?
... that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, and Anwar Sadat?
... that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table in their own home?
... that The Princess Saves Herself in This One?

6 March 2019

12:00, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Aircraft factory at Flossenbürg

... that slave labor at Flossenbürg concentration camp (pictured) was essential to restoring the production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane after Big Week?
... that in 2017, Polish pool player Wiktor Zieliński became the youngest-ever winner of a Euro Tour event, winning the Treviso Open at age 16?
... that the Greater London Group, a research centre at the London School of Economics, played a major role in the reformation of the structure of London government in the 1960s?
... that when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zutong abandoned his Ph.D. thesis defence in Germany and returned to China to join the war effort?
... that Dua Lipa's character transforms into Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video?
... that Eli Grba was the first player chosen by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 MLB expansion draft and their first starting pitcher?
... that according to the theory of mineral evolution, the number of mineral species on Earth has increased from about 250 to over 5400?
... that Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry?

00:00, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Mary Bulkley

... that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley (pictured) was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"?
... that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2003 Budweiser Shootout stock car race despite starting from the back of the grid?
... that Hou Xun was the chief scientist of a major research project on ultrafast phenomena?
... that Adipicola pelagica was first discovered living on floating whale blubber?
... that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"?
... that the Limburger Domsingknaben, a boys' choir founded in 1967 by Wilhelm Kempf to sing at the Limburg Cathedral, took part in the premiere of Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion?
... that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson, convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist's cerebral angiogram scene?
... that over 200,000 people applied to be part of Oriental Wrestling Entertainment?

5 March 2019

12:00, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

The two "tabletops" are identical parallelograms.

... that in the Shepard tabletop illusion (pictured), identical parallelograms look very different?
... that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917?
... that the modern separation between West Timor and East Timor resulted from a battle in 1749?
... that Ralf Otto, director of the Bachchor Mainz from 1986, conducted world premiere recordings of cantatas by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach?
... that the Electric Telegraph Company operated the Monarch, the first dedicated cable-laying ship?
... that Zhong Wanxie pioneered computational mechanics in China?
... that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker, who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?
... that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds, faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?

00:00, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Debris-covered slopes of the Brenva Glacier

... that when a massive rockfall in 1920 covered part of the Brenva Glacier (pictured), it caused it to lengthen considerably, at a time when nearby glaciers were retreating?
... that Jørgen Hviid is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey"?
... that Texas politician Beto O'Rourke was in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who went on to become the singer of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta?
... that an adult gray whale may be infested by several hundred pounds of barnacles and whale lice?
... that Qian Linzhao's research on the Mohist Canon influenced Joseph Needham's treatment of physics in his Science and Civilisation in China?
... that reports of drones at Gatwick Airport led to the disruption of over 1,000 flights and delays for about 140,000 passengers?
... that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune, and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira?
... that although Durham is considered a rare Old English example of a work in praise of a city, the poem never names the city it is said to praise?

4 March 2019

12:00, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Compagnoni (left) and Lacedelli

... that K2, the world's second highest mountain, was first climbed by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli (pictured) on the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition?
... that John Kirklin's modifications to Gibbon's heart–lung machine allowed blood-free surgery on the human heart?
... that Bajadasaurus had elongated neural spines on its neck, thought to have been used to deter predators?
... that Shutt and Thompson designed All Saints, Harlow Hill, with a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses"?
... that the San Jose Earthquakes won MLS Cup 2001 only one season after finishing at the bottom of the league table?
... that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation?
... that at the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod in Deheubarth, Wales, The Lord Rhys awarded chairs as prizes to the winners of the poetry and music competitions?
... that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see Shakespeare's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?

00:00, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Tempestries for Utqiagvik, Alaska (left) and Death Valley, California

... that The Tempestry Project presents climate change data in knitted form (pictured)?
... that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors, even though others found them first?
... that the peanut worm Aspidosiphon elegans reproduces by transverse fission?
... that Sophie Van De Heuvel competed at the national level in both cricket and Australian rules football during her junior career?
... that ice from the Park Crescent West ice well may have been used to numb dental patients undergoing procedures?
... that the walls of Balboa Park station have "an apparently infinite variety" of patterns?
... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel?
... that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring?

3 March 2019

12:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Bracha Zefira

... that singer Bracha Zefira (pictured) is credited with bringing Yemenite and other Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"?
... that MLS Cup 2007 was the first Major League Soccer championship rematch to be played in consecutive years?
... that Yan Jici, a founder of modern physics in China, has a minor planet named after him?
... that St Peter's Bridge in Burton upon Trent, opened in 1985, is the newest road crossing of the River Trent?
... that cricketer Lionel Collins scored six centuries in ten days in a feat described as "quite without parallel in the history of the game"?
... that the glaucoma medication levobunolol is more than 60 times as active as its mirror image?
... that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works?
... that the 2003 Melbourne runaway train avoided a disastrous collision by less than a second?

00:00, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Seeds of Lens culinaris, the cultivated lentil studied by Barulina

... that Elena Ivanovna Barulina's 1930 paper became a standard guide to lentils (seeds pictured)?
... that Idas simpsoni lives on weathered whale skulls?
... that György Pásztor is referred to as "Mr. Hockey" in his native Hungary?
... that in 914–915 and in 919–921, just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt?
... that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House?
... that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th?
... that Green Bay Packers president Russ Bogda advocated for a public referendum in the 1950s to finance the construction of Lambeau Field?
... that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala?

2 March 2019

12:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Ruined pagoda of the Ta'er Temple

... that the Ta'er Temple (ruined pagoda pictured) is believed to be where the 7th-century Chinese monk Xuanzang preached before he left for India?
... that the crowd-funded Curious Brewery has the names of the most significant funders engraved on one of the fermentation tanks?
... that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages"?
... that the Italian Communist Party blamed Trotskyite agents for carrying out the Schio massacre, which led to an Allied military court trial?
... that bass-baritone Alfred Jerger, who appeared at the Salzburg Festival between 1922 and 1959, created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella, an opera composed by Richard Strauss?
... that in 1905, Montclair Heights station was the site of an outbreak of glanders that led to the euthanizing of seven horses?
... that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship?
... that up to C$250 million in cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga, who was the only person who knew the password?

00:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

University of Farmington logo

... that the University of Farmington (logo pictured) was a fake university set up by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a part of an undercover operation to expose immigration fraud?
... that Rich Sauveur pitched for six Major League Baseball teams across three decades without earning a win?
... that Storybook Dads helps prisoners in the UK read bedtime stories to their children from behind bars?
... that the rapid-fire rifle training implemented in the British Army by Norman McMahon in 1909 proved effective in the opening stages of the First World War?
... that a specimen of the ornate wobbegong was observed to have its full set of teeth and be able to defend itself at one day old?
... that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha?
... that the default tenancy in England and Wales allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason?
... that Agnes Buntine, Australia's first female bullocky, survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?

1 March 2019

12:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Alice Marriott as Hamlet

... that 19th-century actress Alice Marriott (pictured) played Hamlet in doublet and hose in British and American theatre, and "made the female Hamlet respectable in England"?
... that the Dicta Boelcke, written by Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
... that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel?
... that the luminous bay squid can use its light organ to imitate starlight or moonlight?
... that R. Hari Kumar took a staff course at the US Naval War College while serving in the Indian Navy?
... that Rediffusion House in Malta cannot be used for immoral activities?
... that a cardiovascular fitness suite at the UK Army School of Physical Training is named after Edward Henslow?
... that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR under 6 feet (1.83 m) of dirt as part of a rent dispute?

00:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Børge Ring

... that the main award of the Danish Animation Society is named after Børge Ring (pictured), who directed the Oscar-winning animated short film Anna & Bella?
... that Green Jacket Shoal is Rhode Island's largest ship graveyard?
... that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi, a comedy, in 1895?
... that the Pioneer Square pergola in Seattle has been damaged by semi-trucks and Seahawks fans?
... that because of the difficulty of transporting art from Angola, Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?
... that before becoming a football coach, Neil Dewsnip worked as a teacher and taught future professional players and managers including Karl Robinson, Jim Bentley, and Steven Gerrard?
... that the frog-eyed gecko is adapted to the desert conditions experienced by the wildlife of Kuwait?
... that Beverly Gray was able to survive three plane crashes thanks to A. L. Burt?