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10 December 2009

10:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the American rodent tribe Oryzomyini includes species living in trees, in the water (including the Marsh Rice Rat, pictured), and on the Galápagos Islands?
... that the Ross Casino in Pichilemu was the first casino in Chile?
... that the gay pornography film studio Corbin Fisher offers contracted actors health benefits and a 401(k) plan?
... that Gordon Bastian, the Second Engineer of the Empire Bowman, was awarded an Albert Medal for rescuing two stokers after the ship was torpedoed by U-404?
... that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen?
... that the oblique cord is a 3.4 cm long ligament in the forearm near the elbow, between the ulnar and radius bones, which has no known function and may be vestigial?
... that Robert Sumrall survived being lost in the Gila National Forest for seven days in winter without food, water, or camping gear?
... that in Teotitlán del Valle, it is possible to "steal" a bride?

02:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the red stingray (pictured) and the Mekong freshwater stingray are characterized by their bright orange undersides?
... that golf was introduced to Singapore by Sir John Tankerville Goldney in 1891 while he was Chief Justice for the Straits Settlements?
... that two of the residents of the Richard Upjohn-designed James and Mary Forsyth House in Kingston, New York, left it after being accused of financial wrongdoing?
... that Jean Nouguès is believed to have written the first opera specifically composed for gramophone recording?
... that in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India, a Mamluk-Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida?
... that from 1765 to 1780 Meshullam Solomon and Tevele Schiff both claimed to be the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom?
... that Davidson Seamount, off the coast of California, is one of the largest seamounts in the world?
... that chef Michael Carlson abruptly closed his restaurant the day after successfully entertaining a gathering of world-famous chefs?

9 December 2009

18:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the globular cluster Terzan 5 (pictured) is likely the core of a disrupted dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way?
... that horn player Neill Sanders commuted from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to London, where he played in the Melos Ensemble?
... that climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions?
... that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries, Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York, still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen?
... that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
... that NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs?
... that James Jones, a pitcher in college, entered the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and was selected in the fourth round as an outfielder by the Seattle Mariners?
... that in 1641, Bristol Corporation concluded a perambulation of the city boundaries with a duck hunt at Treen Mills on the River Malago?

12:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

... that if a Member of the Parliament of Singapore (Parliament House pictured) claims a division during a vote on a motion, MPs are locked inside the debating chamber until their votes have been tallied?
... that the Naval Training Center San Diego was the home of a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy, the USS Recruit, a concrete model of a warship built right into the ground and nicknamed the "USS Neversail"?
... that during his career, comic actor Willie Edouin was said to have portrayed as many as 500 characters?
... that the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Tibet?
... that Berbak National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia, and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species?
... that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty?
... that Marvin Minoff, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost, began his career as a talent agent?
... that the shell of the snail Paryphanta busbyi may explode when dried?

06:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the former Smallpox Hospital (pictured) on Roosevelt Island is New York City's only landmarked ruins?
... that Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels?
... that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his National Hockey League debut with the Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career?
... that the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact?
... that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York, not burned by British troops in 1777?
... that All in the Mind, the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism?
... that in 2009, German actress Stephanie Stumph proposed to her idol, IBF middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham but he declined because he was "too young"?
... that the name of the Chili Line has been attributed to its freight and the gastronomy of its patrons?

00:14, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Native Americans lived at the Canfield Island Site (pictured) on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for thousands of years, and now hold an annual pow wow there?
... that 32% of welding defects are from operator error?
... that the first single from In the Room Up There, Australian band Elora Danan's debut album, was entitled "Door, Up, Elevator" and "inspired by elevator music, and the etiquette that goes on in elevators"?
... that former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city?
... that crystals of campigliaite, first discovered in Tuscany, are transparent with a light or pale blue vitreous luster?
... that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode "Mattress", having previously experienced a fan backlash?
... that Benny Benson created the Alaskan flag while living at the Jesse Lee Home for Children, an orphanage in Seward, Alaska?
... that it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?

8 December 2009

18:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Herne Bay Museum and Gallery contains the prototype Highball bouncing bomb (pictured), precursor of the Upkeep bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambuster raids?
... that William Edward White may have been the first African-American to play Major League Baseball when he appeared in one game for the 1879 Providence Grays?
... that playwright Marisa Wegrzyn dealt with poor reviews by "being sulky and brooding and riding the subway a lot"?
... that the Swiss Alpine Museum has the world's largest collection of raised-relief maps?
... that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a Boy Scouts of America Scout troop that travels the United States promoting the appreciation of American Indian culture through Indian dances?
... that in the capture of Ormuz (1507), Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort?
... that a new Chard Junction signal box was built in 1982 despite the station and junction being closed in the 1960s?
... that in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy?

12:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the Army of Flanders (Siege of Breda (1624) pictured) was the longest standing army in early modern history, operating from 1567 to 1706?
... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?
... that three U.S. states do not accept the guilty plea known as the Alford plea?
... that rather than follow the usual practice of lip synching to prerecorded vocals, Bette Midler sang most of her songs live in the 1993 television movie Gypsy?
... that tabletop Role-playing game pioneer Paul Jaquays was also a designer for the Quake series of video games and co-founder of The Guildhall at SMU video game university?
... that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling?
... that Tsegaye Kebede, an Olympic and World Championship medalist in the marathon, worked as a child for 30 US cents a day so he could afford a daily meal and an education?
... that tail length is not a reliable way to identify the longtail stingray, because its tail is often damaged?

06:21, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

... that arsonists set fire to the Cutts-Madison House (pictured) in Washington, D.C., while Dolley Madison was living there?
... that in 1854 the southern coast of Honshū, Japan, was hit by tsunamis caused by two great megathrust earthquakes on December 24 and 25?
... that Anthony Morabito was the first of thirteen West Australians drafted in the 2009 AFL Draft, when the Fremantle Football Club selected him with their first-round pick?
... that the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan, Canada?
... that Christian music artist Miss Angie began her solo career doing praise and worship sets after Johnny Q. Public concerts?
... that the current Chairman of the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust is John Kidson, former Isle of Man TT Formula 3 World Champion?
... that the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is known as "the world's richest mountain race" because of the large amounts of prize money on offer?
... that Shraddha Jadhav, who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"?

00:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Sir William Sharington (pictured) was pardoned after he was described in a sermon by Bishop Hugh Latimer as "an honest gentleman, and one that God loveth"?
... that Schwa, an upscale restaurant in Chicago, employs no receptionist, waiters, or other support staff?
... that according to legend, Dunan Aula was the burial site of the Viking warrior 'Olaf, son of the King of Denmark'; after he was slain in combat against local Scots?
... that Sathyavani Muthu was one of the first two non-Congress members from Tamil Nadu to serve as a Union Minister in India?
... that the Atlantic torpedo can produce an electric shock of up to 220 volts, and was the namesake of the naval weapon?
... that former Louisiana State Senator Bill Keith authored a creation science law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard?
... that the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway's oil and gas industry?
... that Slaughter County, Iowa, named after William B. Slaughter, was renamed because its citizens were dissatisfied with the name?

7 December 2009

18:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

... that at the Tzintzuntzan pyramids (pictured) huge fires were lit to signal the P'urhépecha kingdom that it was time to go to war?
... that the last empress of the Lý Dynasty, Trần Thị Dung, married her cousin, grand chancellor Trần Thủ Độ, who was responsible for the death of her first husband Lý Huệ Tông?
... that there is an oil field underneath Los Angeles, California, called the Salt Lake Oil Field?
... that Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski, best man to national poet Hristo Botev, was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria?
... that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
... that Philippine real estate company Megaworld Corporation renamed a condominum project from "The Trumps" to "One Central" after threats of legal action from Donald Trump?
... that the music video for alternative rock band Soul Asylum's 1995 song "Just Like Anyone" features actress Claire Danes?
... that an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician?

12:19, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha (pictured) of Shey Monastery is believed to be the second largest such statue in the northern Indian region of Ladakh?
... that Franz Baermann Steiner, whose parents were murdered in Treblinka and who later died of a heart attack in 1952 in Oxford, was called "one of Hitler's victims" by Iris Murdoch?
... that motor coordination enables our movements to be done smoothly but rarely allows the same movement to be done in exactly the same way?
... that Bruce's Beach, which opened in the early 1910s in Manhattan Beach, California, was an African-American resort in an "otherwise lily-white community"?
... that Poland–Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire signed a "perpetual" peace in 1533?
... that although he was the first prince of Trần emperor Trần Thái Tông, Trần Quốc Khang was actually a son of the emperor's elder brother Trần Liễu?
... that Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?
... that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"?

06:07, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

... that for over a century after it was introduced into English the word "landscape" was only used for works of landscape art (example pictured)?
... that Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty?
... that Paul Eggers, the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush, by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats?
... that the Gorgas-Manly Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the University of Alabama by the Union Army on April 4, 1865?
... that because of the Bambi effect, some people will not eat a whole fish?
... that Jean-Claude Biver has been credited with "saving the mechanical watch industry from the quartz movement"?
... that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners?
... that the large weight (55 tons) of the main cannon at the Bijapur Fort discouraged the British from carrying it as a trophy to England?

00:00, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
... that that the fourth floor of Havnelageret in Oslo was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War?
... that Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza, the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy, as well as many of Howard Hughes' properties?
... that according to a mediaeval Icelandic saga, Jarl Gilli dreamt of the violent death of Irish king, Brian Boru?
... that the Peirce Geodetic Monument serves as a geodetic marker which indicates the exact latitude, longitude, and altitude of its location?
... that New Jersey Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr. was the father of Pete Kugler who played in three Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers?
... that the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 covers not only land, but also aircraft and ships?
... that Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?

6 December 2009

18:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

... that during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles (pictured) placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?
... that footballer Roger Helland in 2004 scored Fredrikstad's first goal in the Norwegian Premier League in 20 years?
... that the Gasmouloi were the descendants of mixed Byzantine Greek and Latin unions, and were employed as marines in the Byzantine navy?
... that "Lucky Man", a 1970 song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old?
... that Sara Stockfleth Christie was the second female deputy member in the history of the Parliament of Norway?
... that in 1298, three brothers established the Myinsaing Kingdom after inviting King Kyawswa of Pagan to lead the dedication of a monastery, only to dethrone him and force him to become a monk?
... that Navy Midshipmen's quarterback Ricky Dobbs runs a triple option offense and shares Tim Tebow's record for most rushing touchdowns for a college quarterback in a single season?
... that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid?

12:00, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

... that on the Hindu festival Ratha Saptami, the icons of the Sun-god (pictured) are carried in ceremonial processions in Mysore and Melkote?
... that the Baylor University began its organized football team in 1899, but adopted a mascot only after the completion of the 1914 season?
... that Sword of Aragon, a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
... that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker?
... that an example of the extinct Toy Trawler Spaniel, bred by Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, is preserved at the Natural History Museum at Tring?
... that in an Alford plea a defendant in U.S. criminal court admits there is evidence to support a conviction and enters a guilty plea, while asserting innocence?
... that Arvid Johanson took over as Norway's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
... that the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose the opening sentence for "the worst of all possible novels"?

05:56, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Mexican handcrafts and folk art (example pictured) blend European and native American influences?
... that Freddie Barnes, a wide receiver at Bowling Green, is one of three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff Award?
... that the day after a UCLA art student set the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church afire, the pastor of the church prayed for forgiveness for the arsonist?
... that former Broadway actor Paul Ballantyne was born in a town that today has only about 200 residents?
... that Beau's All Natural Brewing Company of Vankleek Hill distributes its Lug Tread lagered ale to LCBOs throughout Eastern Ontario in German-made ceramic jugs?
... that Harry Hurt created the Hurt Report, described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century"?
... that although in theory a common mineral below the earth's surface, coyoteite has been found at the surface only in one volcanic pipe?
... that Daithí Ó Drónaí and his electronic synthesised fiddle progressed to the final of the first series of The All Ireland Talent Show?

5 December 2009

23:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

... that opium poppy (seed pod pictured) is the source of poppyseed oil, which has several pharmaceutical uses, none related to opium?
... that the Irish Grand National steeplechase is hosted at the Fairyhouse Racecourse?
... that ZumoDrive is a HybridCloud system that allows for an iPhone to act as if it could store gigabytes more data than it actually can?
... that brothers Johan and Werner Christie both obtained the rank of Major General in the Royal Norwegian Air Force?
... that the size of Fish Lake in Oregon, USA, taking water over the Cascade Divide via the Cascade Canal from nearby Fourmile Lake, is now three times larger than it was before 1902?
... that the Himariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standard modern Greek?
... that the world's first offshore oil wells began operations in as early as 1896 when oil was drilled from piers along the coast of Summerland, California, USA?
... that the name of Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Quebec is said to refer to the exuberance of an early settler's wife?

17:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the elaborate Greek Orthodox Malbis Memorial Church (pictured) in rural Malbis, Alabama, has never had an active congregation?
... that Canadian police were called to a riot when "County Leitrim's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965?
... that the floating barnacle Dosima fascicularis sometimes grows on turtles and even sea snakes?
... that Moghul Emperor Akbar became vegetarian, banned slaughter of animals, and gave up fishing and hunting after being influenced by Jain monk, Hiravijaya who preached non-violence?
... that Penzance A.F.C. competed in ten of the first sixteen finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup, winning six of them?
... that when actress Vanessa Marshall learned that she would be playing the character Mary-Jane Watson in the Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Catalysts", she dropped to her knees and began hyperventilating?
... that in 1909, the Thamshavn Line became the first electrified railway in Norway?
... that trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle first imposed them on Paris?

10:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Cleveland S. Rockwell (pictured) used the sketches he made during topographical survey expeditions for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the basis for his landscape watercolor and oil paintings?
... that the Royal National College for the Blind was the subject of the 2007 Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things?
... that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
... that Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Từ was forbidden from taking Le Dynasty's court examination because his father was a folk singer?
... that a 1999 fire in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church caused an estimated $1.2 million in damage?
... that the music on Slut's album StillNo1 has been compared to a variety of different artists, amongst them Radiohead, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, Sigur Rós and The Beatles?
... that David Morehouse, president of the Pittsburgh Penguins, served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry?
... that the Redmond Caves in Oregon were considered for potato storage as early as the 1910s?

04:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Franz Liszt's abandoned opera Sardanapale was in part inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus (pictured)?
... that Pete Heine participated in the Berlin Airlift, then became the crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet, and was later mayor of Baker, Louisiana?
... that initial deliveries of the Polikarpov I-3 in 1929 were to units in the Belorussian Military District, where they replaced the Grigorovich I-2?
... that Jan Leighton played over 1,200 famous persons in television and print advertisements, and 1,800 more on radio?
... that John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, tried to blame the British loss in the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego on William Shirley?
... that Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?
... that the medieval English judge Ralph Basset earned a mention in the 1124 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for hanging 44 thieves?
... that the Phineas and Ferb character Perry the Platypus was made a platypus because of the animal's striking appearance?

4 December 2009

22:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

... that St. Bendt's Church (pictured) in Ringsted, Denmark, where Danish kings and queens of the 12th to 14th centuries were buried, is the oldest brick church in Scandinavia?
... that Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan?
... that a noted 20th century antiquary considered the four most interesting ruinous fortifications on Coll to be Dùn an Achaidh, Dùn Anlaimh, Dùn Dubh, and Dùn Morbhaidh?
... that Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine"?
... that reform of trusts law eventually contained in the United Kingdom's Trustee Act 2000 had been requested since 1982?
... that Émilien Amaury left school at 12 to ride a delivery bicycle, became head of propaganda in the government of Vichy France aged 30, and then founded the Amaury publishing empire?
... that the highest-ranked British casualty in the 1878 Battle of Ali Masjid suffered a gunshot wound that drove a metal locket with his wife's photograph through his heart?
... that ESPN The Magazine's October 9, 2009, Body Issue sold more issues at the news stand than any other issue of the magazine in the prior two years?

16:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

... that although the Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony (pictured) in Montreal is a Roman Catholic church, it features Byzantine architecture and a minaret-style tower?
... that after performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for three decades, Anna Bethell became its Stage Director in 1947?
... that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath, who inspired his play Zoot Suit, "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
... that the Embassy of Poland in London on Portland Place didn't open until ten years after the country became independent?
... that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?
... that the Red Dragon was the flagship of the first voyage of the East India Company?
... that retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican-leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?
... that the Government Cable Office in Seward, Alaska, provided the first telegraph service to the town from the continental United States?

10:02, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the Kingston, New York, zoning code forbids new construction in the Stockade District to higher than 62 feet (19 m), the height of the base of the steeple of the Old Dutch Church (pictured)?
... that the Super Falcon Submersible, which cost $1.5 million, is the world's fastest personal submarine?
... that the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates?
... that Trần Quang Khải was not only grand chancellor of Trần Dynasty for many years but also a famous poet and the creator of a traditional dance?
... that "Moses," the first solo single by Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser, is a tribute to ex-Echo & the Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Drake-Brockman, who had been a close friend?
... the P'urhépecha people of Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico, have been producing hand-hammered copper products since pre-Hispanic times?
... that John Baldwin Neil served as Rutherford B. Hayes' personal secretary before President Hayes appointed him Governor of Idaho Territory?
... that the Saw series has grossed more than one billion dollars, making it one of the highest-grossing fright franchises ever?

02:48, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

... that following court directives, Indian BEST Bus launched limited 'disabled friendly' buses (pictured) on exclusive routes in 2005?
... that as the mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer?
... that during the latter part of the 20th century, Heekin Can was one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of food cans?
... that Joseph Moir built the largest stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere?
... that the Italian ambassador to the United States offered in the 1920s to disband the Fascist League of North America?
... that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green, Ella Halman and Radley Flynn, left in the following years?
... that the poppy seed test is a simple, accurate, and inexpensive medical test for vesicointestinal fistula?
... that Idaho Territory Governor Mason Brayman negotiated the agreement which allowed the Mormons to leave Illinois following the Illinois Mormon War?

3 December 2009

20:40, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Leopold Blaschka, who worked with his son to make detailed glass flowers and marine invertebrates (jellyfish pictured), began his career manufacturing glass eyes?
... that the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
... that sports car racer, yachtsman and rower Robert Hichens was also the most highly decorated officer of the RNVR during the Second World War?
... that Rohr, Inc.'s ROMAG personal rapid transit system used a unique arrangement of linear induction motors to provide both traction power and act as a magnetic levitation suspension?
... that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers?
... that the only known specimen of the early crocodile relative Stegomosuchus was kept in the discoverer's yard for several years before being given over for study?
... that Phil Vassar's high school art teacher painted the cover of his 2009 album Traveling Circus?
... that "elegant, witty and amusement-loving" Bulgarian physician, politician and diplomat Georgi Valkovich was assassinated by people dressed in carnival costumes?

11:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Shanti Stupa (pictured), Ladakh, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 1985, holds the relics of the Buddha?
... that royal visitors to Worthing, West Sussex, have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee?
... that Danish whaler Christian Klengenberg opened trade routes to Copper Inuit territory?
... that American entertainer Eve was asked to guest-star in the Glee episode "Hairography" after Whitney Houston declined to appear?
... that the Alden staRRcar was originally designed as a high-speed four-passenger intercity electric car but emerged in the Morgantown PRT as a bus-like system for short distance travel?
... that the Prince Chiêu Văn Trần Nhật Duật of the Trần Dynasty spoke foreign languages so well that he was once mistaken as a Chinese by a Yuan ambassador?
... that carmaker Audi used the South Korean miniseries You're Beautiful to introduce their new Audi S4?
... that Waldo Hunt, "King of the Pop-Ups," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?

05:28, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

... that both the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO and the North American Free Trade Agreement were signed in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (pictured) in Washington, D.C.?
... that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
... that Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign?
... that cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales, the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain?
... that upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years"?
... that Holocaust survivor Rudy Kennedy led the campaign for compensation to British survivors who had worked for German companies under the Nazi policy of extermination through labour?
... that English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
... that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass?

2 December 2009

23:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

... that solenodons (pictured), the only surviving soricomorphs of the Caribbean, are a distinct lineage that may date back to the Mesozoic?
... that the song "Speechless", by Lady Gaga, was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve?
... that the 47-gun galleon Elizabeth Bonaventure carried 51½ tons of weaponry against the Spanish Armada?
... that Memorial Park Site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, contains prehistoric cultural deposits up to 8,000 years old?
... that a new railway station was built in six days in Workington to enable residents north of the river to access the town centre following floods which split the town in two?
... that in Ancient Egypt, servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?
... that in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?
... that when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states?

17:39, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the ex-monastery of San Francisco in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, has a wax figure of Christ in a glass coffin (pictured), the limbs of which are claimed to be growing?
... that in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship?
... that the captain of U-607 justified the sinking of the neutral Irish merchant vessel Irish Oak by claiming it was a Q-ship?
... that actor and satirical illustrator Thoralf Klouman was among the pioneers of animated film in Norway?
... that the Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building had a tunnel allowing the proprietor to ignore a law prohibiting entrance to a brewery after sunset?
... that Laura Kirkpatrick placed second in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, but was ranked fan favorite in a poll conducted by the show?
... that square root biased sampling was originally developed as a way to sample long sequences of DNA?
... that Winifred Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the GPO in the Easter Rising, entering the building armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver?

11:00, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

... that some Australian rodeo (pictured) shows have been called Bushmen's Carnivals?
... that the Philippine government unsuccessfully auctioned the decommissioned Manila Thermal Power Plant three times before it was sold to a Malaysian company?
... that Sugar Blue, the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist, took his stage name from Sidney Bechet's track, "Sugar Blues"?
... that the Jakub Wujek Bible served as the main Catholic Bible translation into Polish for more than three centuries?
... that the outbreak of Ebola in Bundibugyo District in Uganda in 2007 was caused by a novel strain of the Ebola virus?
... that after litigation filed by former Scientologist Bonnie Woods reached the High Court of Justice, the Church of Scientology admitted it had made false claims about her?
... that decades after its discovery in 1955 in Turkey's Bursa Province, bursaite was officially discredited as a mineral in 2006?
... that The Legarde Twins are a country act from Australia consisting of two twins, Tom and Ted, who left home in 1945 to become cowboys, then started playing country music, and are still performing—64 years later?

03:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church (pictured) might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh"?
... that Kate Nesbitt, the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross for bravery in Afghanistan while attached to 3 Commando Brigade, is just 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) tall?
... that rotating radio transients are among the brightest astronomical sources of radio waves, yet are generally detectable for less than one second a day?
... that U.S. birth control advocate Dr. Bessie Moses gave up her practice as an obstetrician because she became emotionally attached to the outcome of every birth she attended?
... that in 1997 the Law Commission called the Trustee Investments Act 1961 too "cautious and restrictive", suggesting some trusts were under-performing due to difficulty in complying with its terms?
... that the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren decided to research the Australian religious group after discovering its close access to Prime Minister John Howard?
... that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England?
... that during the CU project controversy "bolt weevils" destroyed 14 transmission towers of a power line under construction in Minnesota?

1 December 2009

21:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

... that Prince George Washington (pictured) was Front Palace and Vice King of Siam from 1868 to 1885?
... that the talkshow Skavlan marked the first time ever that Sveriges Television and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation worked together on a television production?
... that after being kicked out of his Michigan Militia, Norman Olson moved to Alaska to attempt to start a militia there?
... that the outdoor sculpture Zephyr is dedicated by its artist to today's youth?
... that the book Blown for Good describes the author's experiences practicing the Scientology technique auditing with actor Tom Cruise?
... that a valid computer program supplied with correct data may still exhibit unspecified behavior?
... that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett?
... that the Battle of Wawon is considered to be Turkey's first real combat action since the end of World War I?

15:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the defense of Allenstein (Olsztyn) (castle pictured) in 1521 against a siege by the Teutonic Knights was successfully organized by the Catholic cleric and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus?
... that Bill Inman was the first medical graduate of University of Cambridge and delivered fifty babies from his adapted wheelchair?
... that among the dead interred at the Calvert Vaux-designed Hillside Cemetery in Middletown, New York, are three Civil War Medal of Honor recipients?
... that the members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford had power to move the college away from Oxford?
... that Uruguayan Isabelino Gradín won South American championships in both football and track and field athletics?
... that a Franco-Hungarian alliance was formed in October 1528 between Francis I of France and Zapolya of Hungary?
... that the Kirkland Hotel in Kingston, New York, is a rare surviving example of a wood-frame urban hotel?
... that of the varieties of retained surgical instruments, the most common item left in the patient after surgery is a sponge?

09:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the precuneus (pictured), a part of the human brain hidden in between the two cerebral hemispheres, is involved with episodic memory, visuospatial processing, reflections upon self, and consciousness?
... that LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
... that Holby City hospital's disabled CEO Vanessa Lytton is played by Leslie Ash, whose own disability resulted from a hospital stay?
... that Đại Việt Emperor Trần Thuận Tông was forced to cede the throne to his three-year old son Trần Thiếu Đế and thus held the title Retired Emperor at the age of 20?
... that the oldest complete document in the National Archival Services of Norway is from 1189?
... that former Louisiana Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle has joined a new company trying to rebuild Six Flags New Orleans, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina?
... that under Jewish views of moral agency a deaf-mute could even commit murder with impunity, as Jewish law forbids legal cases without verbal communication between the involved parties?
... that "the wrong kind of snow" delayed British Rail services during the winter of 1990–1991?

03:21, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

... that the clock (pictured) on St. Nicolas' Church, North Stoneham, Hampshire, England, has only one hand?
... that John W. Reynolds was admitted to practice law in Oregon before he graduated from law school?
... that except for bats, nearly 90% of the native land mammals of the Caribbean, including all sloths and monkeys, are now extinct?
... that Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
... that the Ventura Oil Field is the seventh largest oil field in California, and was at one point the 12th most productive oil field in the United States?
... that despite being only the son of Hát tuồng actors, Dương Nhật Lễ was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt by his impotent predecessor Trần Dụ Tông?
... that one part of Mendelssohn’s operetta Son and Stranger comprises only a few bars, all on the note F, because the composer’s brother-in-law, Wilhelm Hensel, had no ability as a singer?

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