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04:38, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the band Green Day (lead vocalist pictured) has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Music Video Awards?
... that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India, in which they won all the seats they competed for?
... that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army?
... that an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews for use as a prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises?
... that the television broadcast of the 2000 Sugar Bowl was watched by an estimated 18.4 million people?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen, whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci?
... that the gilt-copper Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary?
... that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers?

22:42, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1923 Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier (pictured) was shot by his lover using the gun with which his wife had shot herself some years earlier?
... that the main house on the grounds of the city-owned Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center in Los Angeles incorporates swastikas in its architecture?
... that the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel?
... that the BTR-90, an armoured personnel carrier in service with Russian Internal Troops, is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2?
... that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen?
... that the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper?
... that the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in just their fourth season of Major League Baseball?
... that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
... that Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering, and received the IEEE Edison Medal for his work on electrical communication?

16:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that drag racer Bruce Larson hired sprint car racer Maynard Yingst (sprint car pictured) as his crew chief for his 1989 NHRA Funny Car championship season?
... that during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece"?
... that Tang Dynasty warlord Tian Yue was, along with his mother, wife, and children, killed by his cousin Tian Xu, who then took over the circuit that he governed?
... that the original of the 1812 painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion by John Martin was only recently discovered in Sweden and acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1983?
... that Henry Jolles, who had played Schubert's complete piano music in Heidelberg in 1928, escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry?
... that the construction of the Storm King Highway took 22 miles (35 km) off the drive between Newburgh and West Point, New York, two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?
... that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi, China in the mid 1930s?
... that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department?

11:00, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (listen) was the most popular number from the first successful Broadway show to have an all African-American cast?
... that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna, organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International, was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
... that while growing up in Kentucky, aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?
... that Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
... that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
... that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
... that boy soprano Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice, features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith?
... that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?

05:03, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

... that after 19 years broadcasting from an antenna atop the 42-story DuMont Building (pictured) in Midtown Manhattan, WKCR-FM became the first station to broadcast from the mast on top of the World Trade Center?
... that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives?
... that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor?
... that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?
... that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century?
... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
... that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
... that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?

23:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Dome of the Chain (pictured), a free-standing dome functioning as a prayer house on the Temple Mount, was possibly used as a building model for the adjacent Dome of the Rock?
... that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all time most subscribed in 2008?
... that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland?
... that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art?
... that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime?
... that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?
... the loading coil saved AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside was paid nothing for the idea?
... that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug?

17:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the threadfin jack (pictured) has been found at a number of archaeological sites in Central America, indicating this species has been caught by humans for food for at least three millennia?
... that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
... that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
... that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
... that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
... that Jacopo I da Carrara, signore of Padua, Italy, voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala?
... that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?
... that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
... that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe?

10:21, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?
... that Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
... that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender?
... that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering"?
... that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus?
... that Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
... that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?

04:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Flagellation of Christ first appears in art (example pictured) in the 9th century?
... that Sadamu Shimomura, the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan?
... that the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?
... that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?
... that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets?
... that conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing"?
... that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
... that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?
... that Sir Michael Seymour was appointed to command HMS Niemen in September 1809, a ship he had captured from the French that April?

21:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured) spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
... that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne, friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
... that M3 Amphibious Rig, a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
... that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin?
... the San Esteban Chuckwalla can exceed two feet (61 cm) in length, making it the largest member of its genus, and a textbook example of insular gigantism?
... that Warren A. Morton, a Speaker of the Wyoming House, was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania?
... that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?
... that Charlie Hillard was the first American to win the World Aerobatics Championship?

15:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire, England had a Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri?
... that Springfield Armory, Inc. assisted Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in making the United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle by supplying the needed machinery to make it?
... that according to Hansard, Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
... that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia?
... that Slovenian biologist Ivan Regen is considered the founder of modern bioacoustics due to his work on cricket and katydid acoustic communication?
... that in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick?
... that many of the pieces of the anthology Suspiria de Profundis were lost before publication, as its author Thomas de Quincey may have accidentally set them on fire?
... that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?

09:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that rains from Tropical Storm Lester (pictured) triggered a mudslide that temporarily buried a man in Mexico?
... that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog?
... that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains?
... that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood, live fencing, fodder, coffee shade, green manure and rat poison?
... that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
... that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives?
... that Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
... that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?

03:11, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

... that more than 100,000 Heinkel Tourist (pictured) scooters were sold despite being heavier and more expensive than Vespas and Lambrettas?
... that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon's Made in U.S.A.?
... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
... that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht?
... that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath's album What If We?
... that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
... that on April 17, 1964, Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium?
... that the Oxford Music Hall, opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
... that Prussian-born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?

19:03, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the magazine Electrician and Mechanic (cover pictured) changed its title six times in two years before acquiring its current title, Popular Science?
... that Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?
... that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?
... that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game?
... that the song "Another Planet" by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds?
... that, after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen, he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
... that Betty Furness, a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate, was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board?
... that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?

09:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that David Bowie (pictured) was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Webby Awards?
... that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
... that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote?
... that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?
... that Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
... that Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
... that Cleckheaton railway station was stolen in August 1971?
... that Supreme National Tribunal, a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial?
... that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?

14:58, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

... that according to writings by missionary Ivan Popov, an 18th-century settlement on Uliaga Island (pictured) was destroyed by a Russian settler at the request of natives on nearby Umnak Island?
... that the Red-backed Kingfisher nests in burrows in riverbanks but not near water?
... that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?
... that Richard Kessel, a consumer advocate who opposed the US$5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority?
... that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?
... that in 2004, Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
... that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?

20:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in August 2007, millionaire businessman Anwar Rashid and his family left Clifton Hall (pictured), their £3.6M home in Nottingham, because they thought it was haunted?
... that John Montague of the Seattle Mariners earned the first save in team history, pitching two scoreless innings to preserve a 5–1 win against the California Angels on April 9, 1977?
... that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel–Hamas military conflict?
... that New York State Route 146B was decommissioned after as little as 17 years after its initial designation?
... that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?
... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets, described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
... that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench?

14:52, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that, at 248.1 metres (814 ft), Midtown Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan?
... that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school, but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
... that the Portuguese village Cacela Velha was once the site of the Medina of Qast’alla Daraj, an Islamic town dating back to the 10th century?
... that Sir Francis Gawdy, his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation?
... that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?
... that Marguerite Wilson is celebrated in the Golden Book of Cycling for holding all 16 British road records?
... that vaporized hydrogen peroxide was used to disinfect buildings contaminated in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.?
... that the Angel Island Chuckwalla, an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés?

08:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that during testing, M247 Sergeant York (pictured) locked onto an exhaust fan, shot into the ground instead of its target, and threatened to fire on the high-ranking review panel in nearby stands?
... that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France, Bohemia, Italy and Burgundy?
... that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
... that the Korean traditional winter hat nambawi can be luxuriously adorned with gold leaf decoration for women?
... that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
... that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election?
... that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?

02:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

... that after Chief Justice of the King's Bench Robert Tresilian was executed for treason in 1388 (pictured), his wife married a pirate?
... that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA?
... that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj?
... that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?
... that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar?
... that New York State Route 194 was the only state highway in Lewis County removed because of the 1980 state maintenance swaps?
... that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall?
... that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga, meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
... that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?

18:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III (pictured) sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
... that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy, where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
... that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby/Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again?
... that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty?
... that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II, Australia in the War of 1939–1945?
... that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York, with a recessed porch and columns?
... that during the Siege of Paris, French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
... that "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?

12:48, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (pictured), was born 250 years ago today?
... that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs, coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms?
... that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court, judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
... that during the 2008–2009 television season, the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the first season of 90210?
... that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University?
... that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons, they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig, he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?

06:37, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Chicago Cubs have a tradition of raising a Cubs Win flag (pictured) on the flagpole atop the scoreboard at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home victory?
... that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again?
... that the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations was started by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1936 and completed by Jill Paton Walsh over 60 years later?
... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?
... that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina?
... that the Texel Disaster of 1940 resulted in severe damage to HMS Express and the sinking of two other ships who went to her aid?

00:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq (pictured) provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?
... that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics?
... that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane?
... that George Ashley Campbell decided to use loading coils for improving telephone line quality only after he realized that the manholes were the right distance apart to allow this cheaper solution?
... that the Schlesinger Doctrine of 1974 re-introduced the idea of flexible response to U.S. nuclear warfighting policy?
... that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius?
... that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
... that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?

17:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore (pictured) following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name?
... that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue?
... that the current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II?
... that Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
... that SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II?
... that the Menlo Avenue Historic District in Los Angeles reflects the transition to American Craftsman style architecture?
... that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?
... that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?

12:01, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Elena Paparizou (pictured), the second choice to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, ended up winning the contest with "My Number One"?
... that Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
... that former Thai Minister of Education M.L. Pin Malakul created a slide rule for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study Sanskrit rather than mathematics?
... that the Swaminarayan Temple in the London suburb of Willesden is in a converted church?
... that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple, which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
... that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era?
... that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge, appointed in 1993?
... that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager?

05:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka (pictured), Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam?
... that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners, a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels?