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7 September 2010

12:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes" (pictured)?
... that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
... that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
... that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
... that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
... that Jackson Gillis, a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
... that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo, Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
... that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?

06:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that "sailors' eyeballs" (pictured) is one of the largest single-celled organisms?
... that E. Normus Johnson is a fictional advertising mascot depicted in comic art on Big Johnson T-shirts that use double entendres?
... that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
... that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
... that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University?
... that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
... that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy, the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788?
... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?

00:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maduru Oya (pictured), Wasgamuwa, Flood Plains, and Somawathiya national parks of Sri Lanka were established under the Mahaweli Development Project?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
... that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
... that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire?
… that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?

6 September 2010

18:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that, in the southern counties of Maine, the New England Cottontail (pictured) has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?
... that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
... that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
... that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
... that retitle on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"?
... that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?

12:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dutch publisher Luitingh-Sijthoff was founded in the "city of books" by Albertus W. Sijthoff (pictured), who opposed the Berne Convention because he felt copyright restrictions stifled the industry?
... that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church, Stretham, is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
... that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
... that the 11 provinces of Bắc Giang, Bắc Kạn, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Phu Tho, Quang Ninh, Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang and Yen Bai are part of the 59 administrative provinces and 5 municipalities in Vietnam?
... that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
... that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
... that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance?

06:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that one of Albany, New York's former city halls (pictured) was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
... that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
... that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
... that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse, helped pacify the Marquesas Islands, conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
... that Ottoman rule of Macedonia lasted for roughly 500 years?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?

00:00, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus (pictured) is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
... that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, North Yorkshire, contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
... that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
... that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
... that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
... that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
... that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?

5 September 2010

18:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that former slave Lisette Denison Forth worked as a maid, but willed her life savings to build the St. James Episcopal Church (pictured) in exclusively white Grosse Ile, Michigan?
... that the Manila Police District, with the motto "Manila's Finest," was harshly criticized for its handling of the Manila hostage crisis?
... that the gun turret of the Brazilian Pará-class monitor was manually rotated by four men via a system of gears and required 2.25 minutes for a full 360° rotation?
... that Welsh half-back Jack Newnes was the only footballer ever to be capped at international level while playing for Nelson?
... that Palasë, on the Albanian Riviera, is built around a 100 year-old platanus (plane tree), which is the pride of the village?
... that Sarcoscypha dudleyi was named after the botanist William Russell Dudley?
... that Nathan Redmond became Birmingham City Football Club's second-youngest player ever when he made his first-team debut in August 2010 at the age of 16 years and 173 days?
... that Vuno, a village in the Albanian Riviera, was reported to have shown sympathy for the 1997 rebellion in Albania?
... that Linnaeus once named a plant after fellow Swedish botanist Johannis Browall, but later changed the name after discovering Browall courted his fiancée Sara Lisa while Linnaeus was working abroad?

12:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that webcaps can be yellow (pictured), variable, cinnamon, frosty, bitter, goliath, bruising, gassy, or contrary?
... that Mickell Gladness once recorded 16 blocks which set the NCAA Division I men's basketball single game record?
... that Southland Corp. v. Keating was described as "perhaps the most controversial case in the Supreme Court's history of arbitration jurisprudence"?
... that Ryan Boyle, who holds the Ivy League lacrosse career scoring record, once set the Maryland high school football single-season pass completion percentage record?
... that the father of Oklahoman folk singer Woody Guthrie attended the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son Lawrence in May 1911?
... that Edward Kean coined the word "cowabunga" and tried to put a puppet President in the White House?
... that the manor of Nether Tabley in Cheshire, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost 700 years?
... that the town of Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, is the origin of the Chinelos dance?
... that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?

06:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Krka Bridge (pictured) comprises the longest span of all Croatian A1 motorway bridges, surpassing the Maslenica Bridge span by only 4 m (13 ft)?
... that soprano Gerlinde Sämann performed with La Petite Bande Bach's cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17?
... that the owners of MV Mariam intend to use it to cross the blockade of the Gaza Strip?
... that young specimens of the mushroom Coprinellus impatiens have a powdery stem that eventually sloughs off to leave a smooth surface?
... that Dale Warren was a conservatory-trained violinist whose work as an arranger for Stax Records and others has been a fruitful source of breakbeats?
... that minor league baseball manager Tom Stouch advanced the career of player Shoeless Joe Jackson by signing him to the Greenville Spinners?
... that a British rider at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day whose horse fell on him said that without an automatically inflated air bag vest he "would be in a box or in America for a month"?
... that the Carnegie, a brigantine made almost entirely from non-magnetic materials, covered nearly 300,000 miles measuring Earth's magnetic field and discovered the Carnegie Ridge in 1929?
... that in 1861, a local Cornish farmer proposed to destroy the ancient Zennor Quoit site but was prevented by the vicar who paid him a financial incentive to build his cowshed elsewhere?

00:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Phobjika Valley welcomes the Black-necked Cranes as winter visitors from Tibet, in Bhutan, and in the process the cranes circle the Gangteng Monastery (pictured) thrice on arrival and again on departure?
... that lacrosse goaltender Trevor Tierney has won an NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship and a World Lacrosse Championship gold medal?
... that astronomers have detected as many as seven planets orbiting the star HD 10180, making it the exoplanetary system with the most known planets to date?
... that Bob Latshaw managed minor league baseball for eight seasons, though he only managed three seasons completely?
... that the number-one song "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" performed by Juan Gabriel was featured as the theme song of a telenovela of the same title?
... that Miss Russia 2010 Irina Antonenko presented a set of matryoshka dolls hand-painted with the pictures of the five most recent Miss Universe winners as her gift to the 2010 competition?
... that the Metamora sank near Pointe au Baril in 1907 and that part of the wreck is still visible above the water?
... that in 1929, a crowd of 11,000 people attended an exhibition game between the Waco Cubs and the New York Yankees at Katy Park, which only held 4,000?
... that Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush and Goats Do Roam are examples of wine humour?

4 September 2010

18:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that American photographer Amelia Van Buren was the subject of one of Thomas Eakins' most famous paintings (pictured)?
... that Newton Hills State Park in South Dakota holds an annual pumpkin chunking competition?
... that radio station KRMS in Osage Beach, Missouri, was once partly owned by then-U.S. Senator John Danforth?
... that the 2,485 metres (8,153 ft) long Drežnik Viaduct is the longest viaduct in Croatia?
... that the 1956 Maryland Terrapins lost players to the military draft and jaundice, and The Baltimore Sun called the head coach and quarterback "the biggest fall guys in college football"?
... that on 26 April each year, the 'El Retorno' festival is held in Ibarra to celebrate the return of the inhabitants in 1872, four years after the Ecuadorian town's destruction in an earthquake?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Joe Willie Wilkins, had the childhood nickname of "Walking Seeburg"?
... that two men, Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, wrestled in evening gowns at the WWF's 2000 King of the Ring event?
... that Jurek Wilner, who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, left his notebook of poems with the Dominican nuns in Wilno, where he hid during the early part of Nazi occupation of Poland?

12:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis (pictured) is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
... that nobody was ever convicted for the 1949 Menarsha synagogue attack in Syria, which left 12 people dead?
... that the garden of Caerhays Castle is home to the largest collection of magnolias in England?
... that Major-General Humphrey Atherton's accidental death was seen by the Quakers as a punishment from God for his persecution of them?
... that the book Actors on Acting by Helen Chinoy, collections of essays about theatre, have been used widely as college text and remained in print for more than 50 years?
... that Matt Striebel ranks eighth on the Princeton Lacrosse career assists list and eleventh on the Princeton soccer career assists list?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Pará was so badly damaged after passing the Paraguayan fort at Humaitá on 23 February 1868 that she had to be beached to prevent her from sinking?
... that by winning the 2010 Irwin Tools Night Race, Kyle Busch became the first driver to win a race in all three major NASCAR divisions in the same weekend?
... that Cornish Saint Endelienta, a hermit, is believed to have subsisted solely on the milk of a cow who was also her only companion?

06:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the French ironclad Triomphante (pictured) helped to capture the Pescadore Islands in March 1885 during the Pescadores Campaign of the Sino-French War?
... that Emmanuel Rodríguez's boxing championship at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was Puerto Rico's first gold medal in an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee?
... that the first two chairmen of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City were Frederic Delano (uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Owen Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice?
... that the gulls of Seymour Island breed on raised beaches unlike other Canadian Ivory Gull colonies?
... that cartoonist Suzy Spafford, creator of the whimsical animal characters known as Suzy's Zoo, has been drawing since she was three years old?
... that exploration for geothermal power in Indonesia dates back to the Kawah Kamojang test borings of 1926?
... that in June 2010, a Ming-era tomb near Nanjing was identified as that of Hong Bao, one of the admirals of Zheng He's fleet?
... that Triple-A fill-in umpire Scott Barry ejected three Major League Baseball All-Stars within one week in August, 2010?
... that Arab geographers described the Little Zab and the Great Zab as "demoniacally possessed"?

00:00, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Aqueduct of the Gier (pictured) was one of four Roman aqueducts supplying Lugdunum (Lyon, France)?
... that B. J. Prager has scored overtime game-winning goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship lacrosse games?
... that soon after the creation of the Heu-Aktion, the systematic kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany began?
... that the Parke Lane Road Bridge is a rare cantilevered concrete arch, with two independent half-arches supporting a center slab rather than the full arch of the traditional arch bridge?
... that California cult wine producer Scarecrow is named for its founder's connection to The Wizard of Oz?
... that the term "the war to end war" was first used to describe World War I?
... that the development of the Wikiscanner software by Virgil Griffith in 2007 revealed Church of Scientology editing on Africa Wiki - FiveAfrica.Com?
... that the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was first established in a mosque?
... that mattresses lined the inside of the gun turrets of the Swedish John Ericsson-class monitors in order to catch splinters?

3 September 2010

18:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that with its two-dollar coin (reverse pictured), Newfoundland was the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
... that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World?
... that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine?
... that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
... that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
... that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
... that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
... that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants?

12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner (pictured), Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
... that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953–1954), and Jim Maddock (1954–1956)?
... that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
... that Jon Hess, Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996, 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?

06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Retitle and Production Space Center until 1994?
... that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that both Patrol 35, based in Israel, and Tsagaan Khass, based in Mongolia, are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957–1959), Dave Glinka (1960–1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
... that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
... that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?

00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis (pictured) had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
... that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
... that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?

2 September 2010

18:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, (pictured) stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?

12:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dora Ratjen (pictured) was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
... that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
... that Pedro Almodóvar's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
... that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
... that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?

06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge (pictured) was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
... that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
... that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?

00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the eastern mole (pictured) is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?

1 September 2010

18:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maslenica Bridge (pictured) carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
... that Michael Eisner credited retitle economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
... that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
... that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?
... that Moustache, a French poodle, is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?

12:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
... that Lusia Harris, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
... that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
... that Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
... that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?

06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Giora Romm assumed command of Israeli Air Force 115 Squadron a day before the Yom Kippur War broke out, making his debut flight in the A-4 Skyhawk (pictured) on a combat mission?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China's Yunnan Province?
... that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
... that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
... that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
... that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
... that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
... that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?

00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville (pictured), the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
... that even though the Dollarway Road, Arkansas' first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
... that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
... that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
... that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
... that the Albion River Bridge, the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
... that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?

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