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18:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait (pictured) by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
... that the 1978 Orson Welles-directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
... that assassinated Israeli mobster Yaakov Alperon was tied to a protection racket in which restaurant owners paid by allowing the gangsters to collect empty returnable bottles from their businesses?
... that Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
... that in addition to being a general in the Union Army, James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
... that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada, 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service?
... that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies?
... that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing, a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro, and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song "Last Mango in Paris"?

12:25, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a siphon (example pictured) is used by some marine snails for tasting, by some clams for reproducing, and by octopuses for jet propulsion?
... that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano, her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
... that SM U-4, commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy?
... that Tropical Storm Becky produced heavy rainfall in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970, causing flood-related losses to 104 families?
... that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24?
... that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal?
... that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne's 2008 hit single "Lollipop" but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III?
... that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum?

06:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1902 discovery of gold in Interior Alaska by Italian immigrant Felix Pedro (pictured) marked the start of the Fairbanks Gold Rush?
... that during the German occupation of Norway, Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU?
... that the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
... that Weraroa, a genus of pouch fungi, may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
... that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe?
... that for his 2004 film Drum, director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs (US$20,000)?
... that Julian Konstantinov, the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov, is an opera singer?
... that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II?

00:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
... that French racing cyclist Lucien Michard won four successive world championships and lost a fifth even though he crossed the line first?
... that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia, are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
... that Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
... that the Interstate Income Act of 1959 prevents a U.S. state from collecting income tax on solicited sales within its borders, as long as the orders are filled or shipped outside of the state?
... that Don Bradman, universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history, made a duck in his final Test innings?
... that the Kamchia biosphere reserve in Bulgaria is a major migratory bottleneck site where at least 60,000 White Storks pass overhead each autumn?
... that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?

18:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Nassak Diamond (replica pictured), pillaged in the 1800s from a Hindu temple where it had resided for 300 years, was later used as a gimmick to attract partygoers to a 1976 benefit?
... that Australian politician John Robertson worked as a construction worker for the New South Wales Parliament to which he was later elected?
... that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
... that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles?
... that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12?
... that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights?
... that Begonia boliviensis, one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England, was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce?
... that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust?

12:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
... that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
... that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
... that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League, Pacific Coast League, and American Association?
... that Anna Vissi, who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
... that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department?
... that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated?

06:00, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

... that William Blake's The Wood of the Self-Murderers (pictured) is based on a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy in which bird-human hybrids feed on the leaves of trees entombing suicides?
... that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill, which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
... that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas, making them effective anti-diabetic drugs?
... that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York, is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
... that Augustin Trébuchon, the last French soldier to die in the First World War, was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
... that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong, eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong?
... that the Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in California, was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?

23:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I (pictured)?
... that though communism was created by an atheist, communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
... that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire?
... that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad?
... that Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney co-invented the three-way catalytic converter, which has cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars by 98 percent since the 1970s?
... that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu, a lingua franca pidgin of Motu, as its working language?
... that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution?
... that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper?

17:50, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

...that George Julian Zolnay (pictured), the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
... that the author of Autism's False Prophets, a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines, reportedly received death threats?
... that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?
... that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO's Institute of Traditional Culture?
... that the music video for Sia Furler's latest single "Soon We'll Be Found" features American Sign Language?
... that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania?
... that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?
... that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid, found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?

11:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Suraj Tal (pictured), the highest lake in India, may be reached by National Highway NH-21, the highest mountain road in the world?
... that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London, England?
... that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22?
... that as Director of the Voice of America, Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English, in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
... that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note?
... that remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today?
... that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act?
... that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?

05:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the critically endangered Golden White-eye (pictured) of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam?
... that actor Don Collier, who co-starred on NBC's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral, played football for the Brigham Young Cougars?
... that in the Ofira Air Battle, at the outset of the Yom Kippur War, two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs?
... that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland?
... that throughout his lifetime, cyclist Reggie McNamara broke his collarbone 17 times, broke his skull, nose, jaw, and leg once, had 500 stitches, and accumulated 47 scars?
... that NASDA's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
... that the 14th-century Hungarian occupation of the Bulgarian city of Vidin was described by contemporaries as a "great pain for the people"?
... that the white suckerfish responds to a touch on its belly by forcefully erecting its pelvic fins?

23:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson (pictured) transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
... that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
... that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan?
... that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals?
... that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
... that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone?
... that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy?

17:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River (pictured), intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
... that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
... that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
... that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
... that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
... that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
... that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a branch line?
... that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?

11:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Manitowoc, Wisconsin, held a "Sputnikfest" in 2008 to celebrate a piece of the Soviet Sputnik 4 spacecraft that crashed near the Rahr West Art Museum (pictured) in 1962?
... that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
... that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
... that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
... that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax?
... that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
... that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
... that John Daly, a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?

05:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
... that in Norse mythology, Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr, a fire jötunn?
... that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
... that the soil-dwelling nematode-killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
... that "Still Alive", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge, was written by Rami Yacoub, who has also written material for Britney Spears?
... that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson, only certain wines can improve significantly with age, and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
... that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle, a concept used in chemical catalysis, is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
... that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City?

23:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
... that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
... that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
... that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland?
... that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick, political activist Emma Goldman, and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
... that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe?
... that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?

17:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that George J. Seabury with Robert Wood Johnson I developed a medicated adhesive plaster (pictured) with a rubber base as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid?
... that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
... that Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition," has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
... that Terence Mitford, who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War?
... that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
... that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?

11:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
... that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?
... that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
... that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings, ending their 84 game winning streak?
... that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
... that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
... that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?

05:00, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Symphony in C by Georges Bizet (pictured) was a completely unknown piece until it was discovered at the Paris Conservatory library in 1933, nearly 60 years after Bizet's death?
... that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
... that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
... that Frank Filchock, Jack Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, John Ralston, and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos?
... that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
... that Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
... that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear?

22:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem (pictured) was awarded the prestigious Collier trophy in 2001?
... that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
... that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist?
... that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan?
... that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
... that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse?
... that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?

16:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
... that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
... that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
... that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War?
... that wine writer Malcolm Gluck has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
... that Eduard August von Regel, a 19th-century German botanist, named and described over 3,000 new plant species?

10:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Li Yong (pictured with Guido Mantega) was the first and second secretary to the United Nations Mission from China?
... that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly?
... that Sir Philip Cohen has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers, and was the third most cited academic in the UK during the 1990s?
... that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness?
... that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin?
... that Zeno Vendler's model of lexical aspect, first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
... that physician William Beierwaltes, a pioneer in nuclear medicine, was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes?
... that John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?

04:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta (pictured), commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway?
... that the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m² (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?
... that Michael Higgins prepared himself for a career in the theater by working to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent as a teenager?
... that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia?
... that Caterpillar Inc. employs 4,000 Central Illinois workers at its Peoria headquarters?
... that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
... that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra?
... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?

22:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the top of the 51-storey Central Park tower (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia sways about 30 cm (12 in) in the wind?
... that French opera singer Gustave Huberdeau performed roles ranging from lead roles to character roles to mute roles?
... that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide?
... that the intricate rococo decoration of the Grand Church of the Winter Palace was recreated in papier-mâché after a fire destroyed most of the original interiors of the Winter Palace in 1837?
... that the proposed Bigeye bomb was designed to spray VX nerve agent over a target area by gliding through the air over it?
... that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean?
... that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student with no scientific education?
... that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar?

16:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Henry Pitkin and his brother produced the first American-designed pocket watches (pictured) with machine-made parts?
... that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta?
... that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond, which is a fjord in Canada?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that the members of Montreal-based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
... that protests by Rev. Abraham Woods about the 1990 PGA Championship at the Shoal Creek country club led the club to admit its first black member?
... that "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born?
... that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris?

10:25, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Richard Maack (pictured) was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East?
... that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
... that Thirumangai Alvar, considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism, was a robber before becoming a saint?
... that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?
... that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16, which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I, was the only boat of the U-10-class to sink during the war?
... that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
... that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials?
... that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season, fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network, hoping to persuade it to renew the series?

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... that the final section of the La Nouvelle branch (pictured), a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi?
... that following In re Bilski, a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
... that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik A