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13:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
... that prima ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya (pictured) first performed at the Bolshoi Theater at the age of ten?
... that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves?
... that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
... that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
... that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak, the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy"?
... that Smokey Mayfield, a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford?

07:43, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
... that a failure to correct an aircraft flaw revealed by the "Windsor Incident" with American Airlines Flight 96 (pictured) caused the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 two years later?
... that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?
... that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
... that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?
... that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, England?
... that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?
... that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas?

00:38, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
... that New Zealand band The Trons (pictured) has no human members?
... that Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
... that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack?
... that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi's father?
... that It's About Time, singer Christina Milian's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks?
... that AVIS, the association of Italian blood donors founded in 1927, was asked to include an F for fascist in its acronym by Mussolini?
... that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907, he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?
... that the main tourist attraction in Namaqua National Park in South Africa is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers?

15:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Ananda Ranga Pillai (pictured), famous for his diaries which portray life in 18th-century India, was a dubash in the service of the French East India Company?
... that row houses built in the 1840s for workers at a textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York, are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing?
... that in Norse mythology, Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter?
... that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?
... that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare, Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning?
... that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg, which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award?
... that Sir George Treby was rejected as a possible Speaker of the House of Commons of England because his eyesight was so bad he could not distinguish between different Members of Parliament?
... that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York, have been described as an "Aztec Temple"?

06:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Frederick Roehrig's Castle Green (pictured) in Pasadena, California, was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?
... that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona?
... that Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War?
... that the chart run for George Jones' first chart single "Why Baby Why" was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?
... that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski, one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2, after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?
... that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II, the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812?
... that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks, three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?

23:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Palestinian–Jordanian alliance forged at the Battle of Karameh (house blown up during the battle pictured) is considered by observers to have led to Black September in Jordan?
... that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea?
... that the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?
... that the Osvald Group, led by Asbjørn Sunde, was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
... that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas?
... that U.S. Navy gunners aboard SS West Cheswald during World War II were awarded a battle star after the ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy?
... that China's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand intervened?
... that, in his only full Major League Baseball season, Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?

18:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Victorian English operetta star Emily Soldene (pictured) later became a celebrated gossip columnist?
... that Taiwan's Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison?
... that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site, though the circumstances of his death are disputed?
... that at one time, Toronto's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?
... that in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro?
... that Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
... that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio, the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?
... that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War?
... that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?

12:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
... that St. Volodymyr's Cathedral (pictured) was the first neo-byzantine design approved for construction in the Russian Empire in 1852?
... that the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies is set in an alternate history of the 1930s in which the United States has fractured into a number of smaller, independent nation-states?
... that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis, finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris, other than the Seine?
... that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
... that politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose?
... that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?
... that after manual typewriter expert Martin Tytell accidentally inverted a key on a Burmese language typewriter he built, it became the standard even in Burma?
... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

05:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Nonsuch House (pictured) is the earliest documented prefabricated building?
... that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants, and potentially also animals, as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
... that Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen, after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?
... that the French one-act opera Le trompeur trompé had its première given as 14 Thermidor an VIII, since the French Republican Calendar was still in use?
... that Buddy Fletcher′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing?
... that Vrav, a village in the northwest of Bulgaria, is inhabited by "wet Vlachs"?
... that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?

22:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Camarillo Ranch House (pictured), headquarters for "the largest bean ranch in the world", was renowned for its Arabian stallions that led the Rose Parade?
... that Twin-T topology can be used as a substitute for bridge topology in many electronic circuits when grounding is an issue?
... that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?
... that Alex Garcia, driver of No. 98 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR?
... that the 2008 Indian film Ru Ba Ru is the cinematic adaptation of the Hollywood film If Only?
... that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills?
... that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb, Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?
... that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York?
... that geophysicist Geoffrey Ballard, acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time in 1999?

15:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
... that early claims by European mountaineers to have set world altitude records in the Himalayas have been disproven by the discovery of Inca artefacts on the summit of Llullaillaco (pictured)?
... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?
... that Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Chenghong carried the title of emperor for 12 days after invading Tufan forces captured the capital Chang'an and declared him emperor?
... that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California?
... that one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner?
... that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II?
... that the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium, which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music, soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?

09:13, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Guru Maharaj Ji's followers predicted that extraterrestrials would attend the Millennium '73 in the Astrodome (pictured) and that the festival's failure was a major setback for the Divine Light Mission?
... that American soap magnate Benjamin T. Babbitt held over 100 patents?
... that political opportunity theory explains the rise and decline of social movements by their dependence on outside, political factors?
... that George Halpin's Bull Wall and Bull Island, engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey, enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin, Ireland for the first time?
... that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?
... that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl, his 323rd victory?
... that after the death of Consort Dugu, the favorite concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang, the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?

03:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
... that among the many historic buildings in downtown Cohoes, New York (Ontario Street pictured), is the first textile mill in the United States that manufactured hosiery and other knitwear?
... that a logocracy is government through words?
... that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?
... that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan?
... that besides hosting the canoeing and rowing events for the 1964 Summer Olympics, Lake Sagami is also a popular recreational fishing area for black bass?
... that though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week, it was generally panned by critics?
... that artist Derek Davis met his wife at a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients?

20:44, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the only current British medal to retain the head of Queen Victoria on its obverse is the Service Medal of the Order of St John (pictured)?
... that Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?
... that the winning players in cricket's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?
... that Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget" in 2006?
... that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's, Warwick, with King George I standing as his sponsor?
... that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
... that the phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
... that the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system?

13:07, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata (pictured), initially described by the Tyrolean naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca?
... that Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years?
... that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia's Ewens Ponds?
... that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
... that the 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey, but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven?
... that Egan-Sud, Quebec, a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality?
... that Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions?
... that the earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951?

07:50, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
... that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun?
... that the 1828 Hunterdon County Courthouse was the site of the "Trial of the Century" of Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder?
... that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Empress Dowager Shen, who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion?
... that the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion?
... that London's Novelty Theatre, built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?
... that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships, when she was only 14 years old?
... that 1944 was called the "year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?
... that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter?

01:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
... that although the Byzantine megas doux Alexios Apokaukos (pictured) owed his rise to the patronage of John VI Kantakouzenos, he instigated the Civil War of 1341–1347 against him?
... that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion?
... that Iyothee Thass was a Dalit Buddhist leader from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after whom a hospital was named?
... that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?
... that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Henri Loyrette as the new director of the Louvre Museum?
... that the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?
... that Claude Kirkpatrick, Louisiana public works director in the 1960s, joined with state officials in Texas to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir on the common Sabine River border?
... that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation, Sinthgunt and the personified sun, Sunna, are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse?
... that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy?

18:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
... that there are nearly 100 Registered Historic Places in Pasadena, California, including a 25-foot Space Simulator and the JPL Space Flight Operations Facility (pictured)?
... that crime in the Maldives includes drug trafficking, which according to the UNODC is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?
... that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions?
... that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow?
... that following a 17-year campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully reunited Sri Lanka in 1070, for the first time in more than a century?
... that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
... that the Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American?
... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?

12:47, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Swallow-tailed Gull (pictured) of the Galápagos Islands is the only fully nocturnal gull?
... that Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy during October 1962?
... that medieval donor portraits often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?
... that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory?
... that according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?
... that Isis Tsunami is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model?
... that the Kłodzko Fortress in present-day southwestern Poland took the Austrians and the Prussians 200 years to build?
... that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963?

06:34, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
... that macromolecular crowding (pictured) can make molecules in cells behave in radically different ways than in test-tube enzyme assays?
... that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?
... that the Tampa Bay Storm has appeared in the AFL playoffs 19 of their 22 years?
... that in 1862, Phan Thanh Gian said that France's "wealth and strength are beyond description"?
... that two trains returning from the 1851 Chester races lost adhesion in Sutton Tunnel, and a third crashed into them, killing nine and injuring up to 40 people?
... that Charlotte Guillard was the first European woman printer of history?
... that the WWF Championship match at WrestleMania IX was between Bret Hart and Yokozuna, but Hulk Hogan won the title?
... that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull?
... that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator?

00:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the arts company Artichoke produced The Sultan's Elephant (pictured), the biggest piece of free theatre ever staged in London?
... that in his book The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008), author Bob Woodward alleged that a secret killing program was used by American forces in Iraq?
... that the Manchester and Bolton Railway was originally proposed as a replacement for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal but was eventually built alongside it instead?
... that linguist Asim Peco is an expert in the language of eastern Herzegovina?
... that prior to statehood, negotiations with Indians in Indiana included 13 separate treaties purchasing 2,500,000 acres for white settlement?
... that Sumerian Farmer's Almanac is the first farmer's almanac on record?
... that the Nazi operation Gross Aktion resulted in the destruction of the Jewish population of Warsaw?
... that investor and philanthropist Ray Chambers helped bring the New Jersey Devils to Newark, New Jersey and was named as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria?

16:29, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Austrian Baroque painter Paul Troger was known for his frescoes in Austrian abbeys (example pictured)?
... that the Glacial Gardens of Interstate Park in Minnesota and Wisconsin contain the greatest concentration of glacial potholes in the world?
... that Philippe Suchard was not only the creator of Milka chocolates, but also had an influence on the discovery of a La Tène settlement dating back to 450 BC?
... that the Mobile Tigers, a Negro League baseball team, paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
... that Quebec nationalist Walter-Patrice O'Leary was the younger brother of CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary?
... that the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Diwu Qi ordered the minting of coins valued significantly higher than ordinary coins and was blamed for the subsequent rise in food prices?
... that We Need Each Other was the first Sanctus Real album to feature guest musicians?

10:42, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
... that cosmologists C. B. Collins and Stephen Hawking proposed an infinite number of universes to explain the Flatness problem in the curvature of spacetime (three possibilities pictured)?
... that the 1961 German film The Miracle of Father Malachia was finished only seven hours before its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival?
... that Louisiana piano player Allen "Puddler" Harris, whose career spanned five decades, was inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame?
... that a new Louvre museum is scheduled to be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE?
... that City of Peking and City of Tokio were the largest ships ever built in the United States upon their completion in 1875?
... that actress Marion Terry, a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry, appeared in over 125 chief roles?
... that Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?

03:58, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Tachikawa Airfield (aerial photo pictured) was the military base in Tokyo from which the 1937 original Kamikaze plane to London took off?
... that composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?
... that the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital?
... that the mouth of the disgraced Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuan Zai was stuffed with socks by the executioner when he was executed for corruption?
... that by the time the Wye Valley Railway opened in 1876, a Welsh wireworks it was intended to serve had already closed down?
... that Russian doctor and serial killer Maxim Petrov was caught because he took the names of his twelve victims all from the same list of patients, enabling police to predict whom he would kill next?
... that The Owl Service, a 1969 TV adaptation of the novel, was the first fully-scripted colour production by Granada Television?

22:21, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the newly discovered Baby Boom Galaxy (pictured) is seen producing stars at a rate of up to 4,000 per year, compared to our own Milky Way galaxy that produces an average of just 10 stars per year?
... that in his memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo, William Leeke claimed that the 52nd Light Infantry singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of Napoleon's Imperial Guard?
... that Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania served as the capitol building of the United States from 1790 to 1800?
... that Daniel Dobbins was in charge of the building of the ships that Oliver Hazard Perry commanded in the Battle of Lake Erie?
... that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up?
... that J. D. Chakravarthy's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed?
... that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?

14:12, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Bulgarian modernist painter Ivan Milev (pictured) is depicted on the five Bulgarian leva banknote?
... that Chicago's defunct 58th station must be kept in operable condition because federal funds were used in its renovation?
... that German-Swedish driver Freddy Kottulinsky, who won the 1980 Dakar Rally, was hired only a few days before the start?
... that the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a Carnegie library?
... that Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras?
... that the readership of the new Dow Jones & Company magazine, WSJ., has average household assets of US$2.9 million?
... that after Edwin E. Moise retired from mathematics research he became a literary critic of 19th-century English poetry?
... that cardanol, a substance obtained from a byproduct of cashew nut processing, is used to make vehicle brakes and coatings for concrete floors?

08:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Air Group Six (pictured) was the U.S. Navy's only carrier-based air group to carry out three complete tours of duty during World War II?
... that the main candidate to replace Pope Callistus III died two days before the beginning of the papal conclave, 1458?
... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
... that Tang Dynasty judge Pei Zunqing spared a group of soldiers accused of treason by pointing out they had neither money nor talent to carry out a rebellion?
... that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America?
... that though small in size, the underground drug market in Bahrain is growing?
... that Richard Lawson, a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis?
... that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes?

03:09, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
... that a hose strap (pictured), a piece of firefighting equipment, has a variety of uses including carrying un-charged fire hose, opening and closing doors, and dragging the injured?
... that Cyclone Graham dropped 163 millimetres (6.4 in) of rain at Telfer, Australia in one night, over half the community's annual average?
... that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics?
... that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
... that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women?
... that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most?
... that memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake, made with buckwheat flour and vegetables?
... that as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?

20:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
... that landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting (pictured) was his only known work of maritime art?
... that Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?
... that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?
... that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?
... that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen?
... that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy?
... that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon's Boumba Bek National Park?
... that the science-based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists?
... that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?

14:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
... that All Saints' Chapel (pictured), now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?
... that the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany?
... that John C. Ostlund, a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee, lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs?
... that the Dublin Virginal Manuscript represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music?
... that Singaporean Paralympian Theresa Goh, who is paraplegic, won six gold medals in swimming at the 2003 ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in 2003?
... that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka?
... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
... that actresses Jane Fonda and Liv Ullmann were involved in a campaign for the release of refusenik Ida Nudel from exile?

07:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the city of Chuncheon, Korea is famous for dak galbi (pictured), which is made by stir-frying marinated chicken, vegetables, and rice cake in chili pepper paste?
... that among the effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas was severe damage to the Baylor College of Medicine, including the loss of 60,000 tumor samples?
... that Ralph Sandwich served as the justice at the 1305 trial of William Wallace?
... that there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?
... that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language?
... that the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?
... that King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels?
... that poet David Wagoner's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola?

01:07, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
... that architect Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall (pictured) against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
... that the Arafura Swamp in Australia, the filming location for Ten Canoes, is an important breeding site for crocodiles?
... that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?
... that the Marsala Ship is the first warship known from archeological evidence?
... that Greg Urwin was the first Australian and first non-Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum?
... that MV Westward was modeled after a salmon cannery tender?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent, drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?
... that "Spirit in the Night" was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band?

19:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department (jacket pictured), which responded to the Flight 93 crash during the September 11 attacks, received a memorial made of steel from the World Trade Center?
... that Giovanni Soro was likely the Western world's first great cryptanalyst?
... that the marriage of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé?
... that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway?
... that the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon?
... that in Norse mythology, Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death?
... that adults in septic shock who have low blood pressure despite adequate resuscitation can be treated with hydrocortisone if critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency is suspected?
... that Mike Francesa of Mike'd Up, who co-hosted his last sports radio program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?

13:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Andong jjimdak (pictured) is a Korean steamed dish originated in the city of Andong?
... that Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
... that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
... that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that after the Battle of Chmielnik, a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland, inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?
... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?
... that, because Li Xian would not flatter him, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an on divine displeasure with Li Xian?

01:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)~
... that gejang (pictured) is a variety of jeotgal, fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs in soy sauce?
... that on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?
... that Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest?
... that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London?
... that the Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės, Lithuania, back to the year 1097 or 1171?
... that Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs?
... that the Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human?
... that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling?
... that Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?

16:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the planetary nebula Abell 39 (pictured) is unusually spherical, yet its central star is offset from the center?
... that the beoseon are socks worn with hanbok, Korean traditional clothing?
... that between 1221 and 1244, Robert of Lexinton served as a justice on Eyre on 64 occasions, acting as senior justice for 31?
... that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States?
... that Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile?
... that the 2007 film The Pool was directed by Milwaukee-based Chris Smith in Hindi, a language alien to him?
... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake?
... that the molybdenum mines in Knaben, Norway, were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
... that Brooke Miller, a racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology?
... that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?

10:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
... that a Mantled Howler's (pictured) calls can be heard for several kilometers?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?
...that Lonar Lake was created by the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock?
... that the critical editions of the Classics produced by Giovanni Andrea Bussi between 1468 and 1472 were criticised at the time for inaccuracy?
... that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?
... that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
... that Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed was the largest science fiction bookshop and comic store in Europe during the 1970s?
... that Samuel Johnson's London, his first major work, contains the beginnings of his views on literature, politics and ethics?
... that the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana, honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta?
... that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil, where over 80 percent of people are of African descent?
... that Daniel Kievsky was the first Russian travel-writer?

04:32, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
... that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?
... that Hindu deity Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala?
... that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found?
... that the 110-foot (34 m) fresco The Age of Reptiles is the largest painting on the subject of natural history in the world?
... that Lü Yin grew up in poverty and would not have been able to become a Tang chancellor without the financial support from his father-in-law?
... that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
... that Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?

20:37, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
... that although the mushroom Russula delica (pictured) is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?
... that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment?
... that the Croatian eurodance group Colonia won the first annual Eurodance contest in 2001 with its song "Za tvoje snene oči"?
... that the replica of a Hadrosaurus unearthed in New Jersey in 1858 was displayed at the New Jersey State Museum for decades with an incorrect skull?
... that the 2008 Kerry bogslide was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"?
... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
... that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?

13:59, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
... that carved Romanesque stone heads (pictured) were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century?
... that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union?
... that the Voith Corporate Group claims that its own Voith Maxima 40CC locomotive is the world's most powerful diesel-hydraulic locomotive?
... that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
... that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?
... that in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa"?
... that the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin in 1569?
... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin?

07:19, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Masked Rider mascot (statue pictured), one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?
... that Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo?
... that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication?
... that despite having immigrated from Poland, Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native "Sabra"?
... that incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait?
... that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, about his family's battles with bipolar disorder?
... that Bronco Lane presented his severed toes to the National Army Museum?

01:21, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard (pictured), Minister of State for the Republic of the Congo, is also an acknowledged poet?
... that Tang Dynasty official Miao Jinqing was demoted after he ranked a colleague's son, Zhang Shi, first in the imperial examinations despite Zhang's lack of knowledge?
... that The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz"?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?
... that the massacre of the Acqui Division provided the historical context for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which later became a Hollywood film?
... that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
... that Sylvester O'Halloran suggested in a 1793 book on external injuries to the head that Irish fights were often caused by drinking too much whiskey?

19:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings (example pictured), often treated erotically?
... that Commodore Nutt grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Lin was removed from office due to the political machinations of the Emperor's wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo?
... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
... that Casey Nicholaw received three Tony Award nominations for his first two shows on Broadway as a choreographer and director: The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Monty Python's Spamalot (2005)?
... that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?
... that Simon of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?
... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?

13:20, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
... that La Princesse (pictured), a giant mechanical spider, roamed the streets of Liverpool, England as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations?
... that there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yu was credited with incorporating the custom of burning joss paper into imperial worship ceremonies?
... that the 2008 Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir after a gap of 18 years?
... that Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
... that Australia's second largest gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia?
... that Gilbert of Preston, despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
... that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall, making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?

07:38, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Gothic Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland (pictured), was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque churches?
... that when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
... that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by the British company Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
... that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause?
... that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?
... that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?

00:13, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the vulnerable Queensland shrub Grevillea venusta (pictured) is an easily-grown garden plant and parent of cultivars G. 'Fire Sprite' and G. 'Orange Marmalade'?
... that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland, the Mongols did not occupy the country?
... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
... that the episodes of the BBC 7 sitcom Knocker have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?
... that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
... that worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?

15:50, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath (pictured)?
... that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?
... that Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world?
... that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause?
... that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg?
... that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania?

09:52, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the village of Rezovo (pictured) on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?
... that Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
... that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
... that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
... that Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
... that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
... that Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo?
... that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?

02:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
... that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons?
... that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
... that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation?
... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?

17:33, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby (pictured) of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?
... that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
... that France-Burma relations started as early as the 18th century?
... that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
... that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
... that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?

11:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Frederick Hollyer (pictured) was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
... that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?
... that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
... that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?
... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland?
... that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan?
... that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?

03:51, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf (pictured)?
... that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
... that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?
... that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
... that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
... that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament?
... that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling, Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
... that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?

21:39, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
... that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire (pictured), are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
... that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island?
... that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
... that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
... that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision?
... that William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?

15:28, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the Achenseebahn (pictured) in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway in Europe?
... that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland?
... that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
... that the Lester Apartments in Seattle, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel, were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
... that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem?
... that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
... that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
... that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver?

09:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
... that Clarence Saunders developed the first self-service grocery store (pictured) concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?
... that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
... that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
... that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
... that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?

03:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
... that the resignation of Filipino national police chief Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. (pictured) was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny?
... that Frederick Mann was the first Australian-born Chief Justice of Victoria?
... that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
... that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha, despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment?
... that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
... that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?