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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