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02:30, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that forage fish (anchovy pictured), which feed the world's great marine predators, are now being removed from the oceans on an industrial scale and fed instead to farmed fish, pigs, and poultry?
... that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
... that after executing Caesar Gallus, officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum, and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
... that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states?
... that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
... that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
... that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
... that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair?

20:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Panamanian Night Monkey (pictured) is one of the few monogamous monkey species?
... that Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism?
... that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?
... that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan?
... that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg, founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig?
... that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS AgamemnonTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen, in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
... that John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion?

14:20, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a St. Andrew's cross (pictured) was printed in four positions in place of a stamp on each sheet of the 1850 Austrian stamps so that the price would be an even number of Gulden?
... that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
... that Byron's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Théodore Géricault?
... that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
... that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
... that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
... that Wahsatch, Utah, established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad?

08:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America (pictured) from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag?
... that the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
... that Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
... that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield, .455 Webley, .476 Eley, and .455 Colt all interchange?
... that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire, England?
... that French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War?
... that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?

02:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario (aftermath pictured), was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history?
... that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
... that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
... that the Fremont Canning Company, owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
... that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD, Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass?
... that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
... that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?

14:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that California hunter Seth Kinman (pictured), who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?
... that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture?
... that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York?
... that Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
... that the winning cup for the European club champion of football is now kept by the final winners?
... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS EdgarTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS AgamemnonTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances, ran aground?
... that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?

07:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Ueli Maurer (pictured), the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election?
... that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
... that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
... that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
... that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
... that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government?

01:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

19:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj , a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

13:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Florizel von Reuter (pictured), a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
... that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia?
... that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
... that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
... that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers?

07:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne (pictured) gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States?
... that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean?
... that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
... that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
... that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?
... that Lucie Skeaping, a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music, has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman, historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd?
... that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted?
... that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys, a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?

01:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a blue Rayon I postage stamp of 1850 (pictured) is the most expensive Swiss stamp ever sold at auction?
... that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth NOK 78 million?
... that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes?
... that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game?
... that the radiator layout of the McLaren M20 was initially intended to increase driver comfort, but also led to a more aerodynamically efficient bodywork design?
... that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale?
... that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
... that the Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains?

19:06, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
... that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth?
... that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
... that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
... that Frank Tepedino, former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks?
... that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
... that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs?
... that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas?

13:01, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley (pictured) because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him?
... that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey?
... that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
... that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?
... that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
... that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
... that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia?
... that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?

06:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the border between Wales and England (The River Dee pictured) has followed broadly the line of Offa's Dyke since the 8th century, but was only finally determined in law in 1972?
... that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
... that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
... that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
... that Tom Gish's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining?
... that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi)?
... that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives?
... that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?

00:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
... that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail?
... that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
... that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
... that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
... that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?
... that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer?

18:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Ilse Stanley (pictured), a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938?
... that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
... that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639?
... that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks?
... that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis?
... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?
... that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?

12:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bar-winged Prinia (pictured) is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia?
... that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
... that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals?
... that Exchange Plaza, the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange, is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club?
... that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
... that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba?
... that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
... that in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?

06:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that during the War of the Castilian Succession, the Order of Calatrava supported Isabella (pictured) even though its Grand Master sided with Isabella's opponent, Juana?
... that, on the way to Liverpool, the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
... that Pulicat Lake, a 450 km² (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary, adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1?
... that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
... that Aaron Edlin, an expert in law and economics, co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press?
... that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
... that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 years of its existence?
... that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless, Tennessee?

00:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a parasitic worm of the family Mermithidae (pictured) has been found in a spider preserved in Baltic amber for 40 million years?
... that Phil Ochs described "Power and the Glory" as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
... that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl, Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA, where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl?
... that the Pied Tamarin, an endangered primate of the Amazon basin, is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin?
... that the Woodland Opera House was the first opera house to serve the Sacramento Valley?
... that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York, even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
... that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens, resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
... that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1904 and 1908?
... that a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life"?

18:04, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the larvae (pictured) and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons?
... that Howard C. Belton lost the election to become the Oregon State Treasurer in 1948, only to be appointed to the same office 12 years later?
... that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series?
... that Howard Pyle's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
... that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś, a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś, was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
... that Charles Thomas Campbell, who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota?
... that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin?
... that Democrat Paul J. Carmouche and Republican John C. Fleming face off on December 6, 2008, in one of the final two U.S. Congressional races of the year, delayed due to Hurricane Gustav?

15:32, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the rebuilding of the Kumusi Bridge in Papua New Guinea, destroyed by the flooding of the Kumusi River (pictured) during Cyclone Guba, will cost upwards of K70 million?
... that General Charles G. Boyd, United States Air Force, is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank?
... that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel, sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
... that Vatalanib, an anti-cancer drug currently in clinical trials, inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors?
... that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana?
... that the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis vexillaria was discovered in 1867 by plant collector David Bowman and introduced from Colombia to England in 1873 by a fellow Veitch employee, Henry Chesterton?
... that Hilary Teague served as Liberia's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence?
... that perfluorononanoic acid, an environmental contaminant, has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?

02:40, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

... that John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key were on a mercy mission to get back Dr. William Beanes from British hands, when Key was inspired (painting pictured) to write "The Star Spangled Banner?"
... that Snarøya, a peninsula in Bærum, Norway, was an island until the 19th century?
... that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress, she worked as a model, starting when she was only two and a half years old?
... that mokomokai, the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos, were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand?
... that Morten Wetland was the campaign manager for Gro Harlem Brundtland when she applied for the World Health Organization directorship in 1998?
... that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid, an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
... that Jacques Rabemananjara, former Vice President of Madagascar, was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
... that Bobby Leonard, Jack McKinney, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA?

20:35, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that William Herschel's 40-foot telescope (pictured) was the largest telescope in the world for 50 years?
... that the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981?
... that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport?
... that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin?
... that Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron?
... that the 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
... that publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives?
... that ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles?

14:30, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the chaplain of the Regiment de la Rey (badge pictured) of the South African Army once convinced two German soldiers that World War II had ended and then captured them with his officer's cane as his only weapon?
... that although Antonio Maria Bononcini's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini, composed a more popular version in 1722?
... that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
... that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa?
... that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons?
... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
... that Jeffrey Blitz wrote Rocket Science based on his own adolescence despite claiming to be "allergic" to autobiographical films?
... that Soviet submarines patrolling in the North Atlantic in the 1970s reported mysterious frog-like sounds, dubbed "quackers", which have been classified as Unidentified Submerged Objects?

08:25, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in The Abbey in the Oakwood (pictured) German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich symbolically depicted "the burial of Germany's hopes for resurrection"?
... that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines?
... that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde?
... that Lucky Dragons have not only released 19 albums, but also run an art society called Sumi Ink Club and an internet community called Glaciers of Nice?
... that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?
... that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All-Ivy League in both basketball and baseball?
... that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain?
... that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times, which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?

02:20, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

... that according to Hindu legend, the yogi Visoba Khechara taught his disciple Namdev the omnipresence of God by magically filling a whole temple with lingas—the symbols of god Shiva (pictured)?
... that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California's Santa Ynez Mountains, included an aqueduct, water works, arches, and statues?
... that Donald Finkel, a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
... that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound?
... that seven Caltrain stations have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12?
... that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus, a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy?
... that Abell 2142, a galaxy cluster, is one of the most massive objects in the universe?

20:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the majority of the more than 90 stage works composed by Thomas Arne (pictured) are now lost, probably destroyed in the disastrous fire at Covent Garden in 1808?
... that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II, but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
... that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis?
... that according to the U.S. copyright law, musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
... that Nabi Shu'ayb, Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro", is used in English to refer to the site where