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4 September 2009

23:16, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal (pictured) on Maine's Kennebec River originally had a bell run by a clockwork counterweight mechanism that had to be wound by hand every four hours?
... that the herald Robert Glover was appointed to the office of Norroy King of Arms jointly with his 82-year-old father-in-law William Flower in 1580?
... that Hamburg's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and used as a student's resident hall from 1964 till 1996?
... that Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur paid to have his book, Oregon Geographic Names, published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today?
... that in the 1894–95 Madagascar expedition, France lost only 25 men in combat, but as many as 4,800 men to diseases?
... that Helga Karlsen, who was the first female Member of Parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party, died only four days before she could be elected for a third term?
... that members of the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature used a glass eye and the services of a prostitute to ensure passage of the session's first act?

17:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

... that knuckle-walking (pictured) is done not only by chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas but also giant anteaters and platypuses?
... that English former footballer David Hamilton was Wigan Athletic's first ever full-time scout?
... that the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library is the oldest chartered public library in Rockland County, New York?
... that Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg became the youngest soldier in the world when assigned to the 15th Mecklenburg Dragoons by German Emperor William I shortly after his birth?
... that in 1987, 13 years after its citizens voted to repeal the city's gay rights ordinance, Boulder, Colorado, became the only American city to adopt a gay rights law through popular referendum?
... that the former actress Sherry Boucher, formerly married to George Peppard, is now a Realtor in Bossier Parish, Louisiana?
... that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder, in a twelve-month span?

11:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

... that Kielder Viaduct (pictured) in Northumberland, England, was built in 1862 in a baronial style and decorated with a battlemented parapet and faux arrow slits in order to gain approval of the local landowner?
... that the former secretary to the French embassy to Constantinople and army officer Étienne Soulange-Bodin set up a horticultural institute near Paris to rival Kew in the early 19th century?
... that Shirley Temple film vehicles Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel were both named to Variety's list of top box office draws for 1935?
... that Old Norse poems attributed to Torf-Einarr describe his defeat of Hálfdan Longlegs?
... that De Eendracht, a smock mill in Anjum, Netherlands, is used as a tourist information office as well as being a working mill?
... that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized, strongly homoerotic" depictions of men appeared in physique magazines?
... that the deepest living demersal fish ever retrieved, Abyssobrotula galatheae, was found in the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)?

05:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

... that John MacBride (pictured) defeated Hercules and Mars in a single battle?
... that Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana was originally formed in 1800 by flooding stemming from a large log jam on the nearby Red River?
... that on New Year's Day in 1980, 60 people were killed by an earthquake in the Azores Islands?
... that when designing The Spectacular Spider-Man, Victor Cook looked at the style of Hellboy: Blood and Iron, which he directed, for inspiration?
... that the RAF Memorial Flight Spitfire Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving Spitfire from the Battle of Britain still flying?
... that Tien Ang Tong is the first Methodist church built in China that provided services in the English language?
... that Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as "cannibals" devouring "a civilized man"?

3 September 2009

23:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the closure of the Tethys Sea 10–14 million years ago led to the sicklefin lemon shark (pictured) and the lemon shark becoming separate species?
... that Sapta Puri represents the seven holy Hindu cities of Ayodhya, Dwarka, Haridwar, Ujjain, Kanchipuram, Mathura and the holiest, Varanasi?
... that many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence?
... that Winnfield, home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, is known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because three governors, Huey and Earl Long and O.K. Allen, were born there?
... that Med Hondo is an award-winning Mauritanian film director who dubbed the voice of Donkey in the French language version of Shrek?
... that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar?
... that after cancelling the political cabaret series Notizen aus der Provinz in 1979, the ZDF did not broadcast a similar show for 28 years?

17:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the cargo of the Dalarö wreck (pictured), sunk in the Baltic Sea, included coal and several Bartmann jugs?
... that three-time All-American Eddie Mahan was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time?
... that William Blake's unfinished manuscript An Island in the Moon contains early versions of three of his famous Songs of Innocence?
... that the waviness of bearing balls and bearing races surfaces is one of the reasons for bearing noise and vibrations?
... that the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania, which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy?
... that Francesco Torniello was the first to define the point as a unit of measurement in typography?
... that the position of Clerk of the Parliaments has existed in England since at least 1315?
... that the rule of the Salt Hotel is "don't lick the walls"?

11:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the 19th-century artillery of Japan (example pictured) utilized widely disparate technologies, from primitive wooden cannon to state-of-the-art breech loaders?
... that Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, despite having never worked in Poland?
... that Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form within the South Pacific Ocean in June?
... that Henry Dorling, step-father of cookery writer Mrs Beeton, was the first Clerk of the Course of Epsom Racecourse?
... that the farmland at Ramstad, Norway, was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18?
... that in 1974, Louis Gaston Mayila became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then President of Gabon, Omar Bongo?
... that the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the International Space Station was named after political satirist Stephen Colbert?

05:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

... that Euanthe sanderiana (pictured), also called the Waling-waling, was proposed in the House of Representatives of the Philippines to replace the Sampaguita as the country's national flower?
... that Robin Hoare received the Albert Medal for removing depth charges from a ship while it was on fire?
... that critics praised The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Natural Selection" for its action and fight sequences?
... that the term surface integrity is defined as the nature of the surface condition of a workpiece after being affected by manufacturing processes?
... that one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec, Canada, is in Lac-des-Écorces?
... that Triangle, the 1967 album by The Beau Brummels, was partially inspired by the Legion of Honor?
... that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?

2 September 2009

23:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the Mansfield State Historic Site in western Louisiana commemorates an 1864 Confederate victory by General Richard Taylor, which prevented a pending Union invasion of Texas?
... that Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland Farm near Dumfries, Scotland?
... that supporters invaded the pitch on three occasions during a football match between West Ham United and Millwall in 2009?
... that the Intimidator roller coaster on the South Carolina side of the Carowinds amusement park takes its name from the nickname of former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt?
... that according to government records in 2006, more than a third of the total number of Chinese residents in Botswana worked in the construction business?
... that the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden, Louisiana, preserves the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871?
... that Giveamanakick's live performances involved gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?

17:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

... that Mount Hope Estate (pictured) is home to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, a winery, a brewpub, and a rare pre-1840 American formal garden?
... that all proceeds from the 2009 Radiohead song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" were donated to The Royal British Legion?
... that Giuseppe Ricciotti's book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and reedited and reprinted several times?
... that as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980, four top players of the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them never capped for Poland again?
... that Alexander Gordon Lyle is one of only two dental officers ever to receive the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor?
... that, predicted to appear in at least 1 in 20,000 humans, the microduplication of a band on chromosome 17 leads to the rare disease Potocki-Lupski syndrome?
... that King Louis IX of France said that he would rather break clods behind a plough than accept the 1264 Peace of Canterbury?

11:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

... that Doryphora sassafras (pictured) of southeastern Australia gains its name from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the Sassafras of eastern North America?
... that the Castilian nobleman Fernando Núñez de Lara became a Knight Hospitaller on his deathbed in exile in Marrakesh?
... that Joginder Singh and Nick Nowicki were twice members of a group nicknamed the Unsinkable Seven after managing to be among the seven survivors of the East African Safari Rally in 1963 and 1968?
... that users in the upcoming MMORPG DUST 514 will be able to interact with users from another game, EVE Online, through mercenary assistance?
... that the Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names determined 32,138 toponyms of Poland inbetween 1946 and 1950?
... that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of the termite, Nasutitermes corniger?
... that William Hutton, François Pierre La Varenne and Benjamin Disraeli wrote about game pie, and Josiah Wedgwood made cooking dishes for it?

05:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

... that French author Honoré de Balzac (pictured) found inspiration for his 1840 novelette Z. Marcas from a sign outside a tailor's shop in Paris?
... that groups considered UFO religions by scholars include Aetherius Society, Heaven's Gate, Order of the Solar Temple, Raëlism, and Scientology?
... that the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris reimagined the Lewis Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French capital?
... that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese adult video director Tohjiro?
... that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon, are criminals?
... that Fuzhou Tanka people in Fujian lived on boats most of their lives?
... that the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement?

1 September 2009

23:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

... that journeyman Paul Bako (pictured) has played for 11 Major League Baseball teams in his 12-year career, and was formerly Greg Maddux's personal catcher?
... that in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account?
... that after The Saturday Evening Post announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
... that Caney Lakes Recreation Area and nearby Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana have been plagued with the giant salvinia fern, which impairs boating?
... that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned?
... that the 1930 musical The New Yorkers received criticism for bad taste, and its song "Love for Sale" was subsequently banned from the radio?
... that Mexico celebrates its Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexico Revolution in 2010?

17:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

... that the Mercury-Atlas 8 spaceflight (pictured) in October 1962 was piloted by a Turtle?
... that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former burial ground in the City of London, elevated above street level?
... that Al Purvis played for the Edmonton Mercurys, an ice hockey team sponsored by a local car dealership, that won the gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
... that the extensive ornamentation on the Haverstraw, New York, post office may be due to the influence of Postmaster General James Farley, a native of the area?
... that the Somali Ostrich faces eradication in the Horn of Africa?
... that the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art?
... that architect Charles Durrett has designed more than 50 cohousing communities in North America?

11:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

... that Titanic's sister ship Britannic (pictured) was one of the hospital ships sunk during the First World War?
... that the documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 gets its name from an actual headline in the Harvard Crimson?
... that Japanese erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?
... that despite leading the New York Giants in tackles in 2004, Kevin Lewis was released before 2005?
... that the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally named areas around the upper Hudson River, near Fort Orange, after the women in his life?
... that Venezuelan performer José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a Grammy Award nomination for his number-one song "Baila Mi Rumba"?

05:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

... that a single bucket of water was used to extinguish a three-alarm fire at the Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, USA?
... that five months after the 2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature created Pah-Ute County most of the county's land was given to Nevada?
... that following the depopulation of the Palestinian village of Bayt Susin in 1948, the moshav of Ta'oz was established just two years later?
... that Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952, was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for taking bribes?
... that the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I?
... that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of turning flax into linen?
... that Bathwick Hill, Bath is the site of a large Italianate villa, built by Henry Goodridge as his own house?

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