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09:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Little Pied Cormorant (pictured) lays eggs that are covered in lime?
... that in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award, which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station?
... that among other methods, archaeoparasitologists study historical human parasites by looking for references to them in art and literature?
... that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes 36 miles (58 km) of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns?
... that Tropical Depression One-C of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season caused minor flooding on the Island of Hawaii?
... that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch?
... that HMS Hinchinbrook was Horatio Nelson's second navy command, and his first as post-captain?
... that editor Kenneth P. Johnson, who ran a story that led to the article subject's suicide as threatened, stated that "if a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish"?

03:15, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the first platform scale was built in 1830 by Thaddeus Fairbanks (pictured) to measure large loads accurately?
... that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love?
... that Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was the last Francoist mayor of Valencia, Spain and secured the transfer of the Turia River gardens from the Spanish crown to local administration?
... that in November 1864, Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
... that actor David Morrissey gained 2 stone (28 lb; 13 kg) for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal?
... that only nine goaltenders have scored a goal in a National Hockey League game?
... that Ernest Peixotto′s 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" in writing?
... that American Joe Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball when he was selected to manage the Hiroshima Carp in 1975?

21:10, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

... that when completed in 1988, the 52-storey BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia (pictured) was the eighth tallest concrete skyscraper in the world?
... that Henry Fitz was the first American to make refractor telescopes and constructed the largest refracting telescopes in America on five different occasions?
... that BOHICA is an acronym that means "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again"?
... that Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association?
... that during the history of San Diego State University some students joined the armed forces during World War II and assisted in the Doolittle Raid over Japan?
... that Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
... that Edi Gathegi fell into acting when he took up an undergraduate acting class as an "easy course" after sustaining a basketball injury?
... that actor Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler in both high school and college?

15:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

... that U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech (pictured) from behind 2 inches (51 mm) of bulletproof glass?
... that Ludvík Čelanský was the founder and the first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra?
... that historian Richard C. Lukas estimated that upwards of one million Poles were involved in the rescue of Jews by Polish communities during the Holocaust?
... that ballerina Rosella Hightower received critical acclaim in 1947 after filling in for the sick Alicia Markova and learning the role of Giselle in five hours, having never danced the part before?
... that the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England?
... that David G. Booth gave US$300 million—the largest ever gift to a business school—to his alma mater, now renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business?
... that Henri Joseph Fenet, a soldier in World War II, was awarded both the Croix de Guerre by France and the Knight's Cross by Germany?
... that the historic Charles Shorey House mixes both gambrel and gable roofs?
... that Polish-Armenian Roman Catholic priest, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was ordered to be silent by the Krakow Curia because of his clergy lustration activities?

12:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of Strengthen the Arm of Liberty (Lady Liberty statue pictured)?
... that Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch, an uncle of later Norwegian Prime Minister Kåre Willoch, was lost with his ship in 1940 during the Battles of Narvik?
... that in 2008, the biofuel company Mascoma received a US$26 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a cellulosic fuel production facility?
... that Eugene Vaulot of the Waffen SS destroyed eight tanks during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, earning himself a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross days before he was killed in action by a sniper?
... that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama?
... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?
... that when cellist George Sopkin auditioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 18, conductor Frederick Stock looked at him and remarked "so we're taking Boy Scouts now?"
... that Foggerty's Fairy by W. S. Gilbert included a plot device that anticipates modern fantasy and science fiction stories like the film Back to the Future?
...that B.P. Newman, a business entrepreneur from Laredo, began operations with a dairy distributorship but branched into restaurants, subdivisions, apartments, and ranches throughout much of Texas?

02:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

... that at age 14, Jack Dorsey (pictured) developed software that is still used to dispatch taxicabs and inspired him to create Twitter?
... that the Connecticut River Museum is located in a restored 1878 steamboat warehouse?
... that, though there is no evidence for it, Louis Rocca is credited with having coined the name Manchester United?
... that a digital time capsule "A Message From Earth" was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
... that ballet impresario George de Cuevas faced Serge Lifar in a 1958 duel with swords, that was described as "the most delicate encounter in the history of French dueling"?
... that Jheryl Busby, once President and CEO of Motown Records, was a major shareholder of the first African-American-owned national bank in the U.S. along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson?
... that Pacific University's first building at its Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, attained LEED gold status in 2007?
... that in 784, due to wars and famine in the capital Chang'an region, Emperor Dezong of Tang sent the official Liu Zi to Nanchang to conduct imperial examinations for examinees from southern China?

10:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

... that according to musical analyst Sir Donald Tovey, every page of Opus 20, composed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn (pictured), is "of historic and aesthetic importance"?
... that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
... that in 1919, Poland tried to overthrow the Lithuanian government, but the Sejny Uprising resulted in the plan's failure?
... that pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism?
... that most of the information available about English novelist Phebe Gibbes is derived from an application to the Royal Literary Fund for financial support in 1804?
... that the Michigan Tech Huskies, from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, have won three NCAA Division I championships in ice hockey, with players such as Tony Esposito?
... that in 1966, Vin Denson became the first British rider to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia?
... that William Jay Bolton was the first artist in the United States to design and manufacture figural stained glass windows?
...that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Alexander Cameron worked as a newspaper publisher?

06:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Kohler-Andrae State Park (pictured) consists of two separate state parks, one donated by an electric company president and another by Kohler Company?
... that SM U-5, ceded to Italy in 1920 as war reparations, was the only member of the U-5-class submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to survive World War I?
... that Manny Harris was the first player to start for three consecutive Detroit Public School League Basketball Champions since Jalen Rose and Voshon Lenard?
... that bilateral trade between India and Poland has grown by more than seven times from 1992 to 2007?
... that William Louis Abbott, American doctor and philanthropist, went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island?
... that an initial €1 million was allocated for the new political foundations at European level in 2007–08?
... that the historic ranger's residence in the Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District, no longer needed by park rangers, is now used mainly by recreational visitors?
... that the subprime mortgage crisis, among several other factors, led to a negative demand shock in the U.S. economy, which causes demand for goods and services to decrease?
... that Terence Tolbert, Nevada state director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, died of a heart attack at age 44, two days before the 2008 U.S. presidential election?

03:38, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bert Bolle Barometer (pictured) in Denmark, Western Australia, is the largest barometer in the world?
... that after serving in the Norwegian Parliament for four terms, Ingvald Godal involved himself in solidarity work for Chechnya?
... that the Urakami class destroyer Kawakaze of the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in Scotland, sold to the Regia Marina of Italy and sunk as a ship of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany?
... that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield, Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates?
... that SM U-10 and SM U-11, which were U-10-class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I?
... that Thomas Paton worked on the construction of the Owen Falls Dam which was responsible for the first complete stoppage of the White Nile in history?
... that Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man was founded by the Norse king Magnus III in the 13th century and used today as a museum and lawcourt?
... that the "Valley of Tears" in the Golan Heights was so named after it became the site of a major battle in the Yom Kippur War?
... that Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that General James Deshler was killed instantly by a Union cannon's artillery shell at the Battle of Chickamauga?

19:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the CZ 2075 RAMI (pictured) was named by combining the first two initials of the two people who originally designed it?
... that William Munroe was the first manufacturer of pencils in the United States?
... that Subtropical Storm One in 1978 is the only Atlantic subtropical cyclone to develop in the month of January?
... that David Jeaffreson served as Commissioner of ICAC before retiring from the Hong Kong government in 1991?
... that the restoration of the Tithe Barn, Pilton in Somerset, England was supported by profits from the Glastonbury Festival?
... that Zaki Tun Azmi became the Chief Justice of Malaysia after serving just over one year in the superior courts of Malaysia?
... that director Peter Ustinov instructed Richard Burton not to blink during his performance as the sociopath in the 1972 film Hammersmith is Out?
... that Tang Dynasty official Li Mian kept places at feasts for two deceased subordinates for three years after their deaths, offering meals and wine to their spirits?
... that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War?
... that Ylon Schwartz, main event finalist at the 2008 World Series of Poker, has gambled on backgammon, darts, horses, and his ability to toss lemons across a street onto the roof of a Burger King?

15:52, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hart-Cluett Mansion (pictured) in Troy, New York, is the only intact example of the luxury homes commonly built in early–19th century New York City?
... that veteran Tour de France commentator Daniel Mangeas has been called a "talking encyclopedia of cycling" because he never needs notes?
... that the steamboats Enterprise and Maria once had a monopoly on transport along the Fraser River in British Columbia?
... that al-Karmil, an Arabic language newspaper first published in Haifa in 1908, was founded with the express purpose of "opposing Zionist colonization"?
... that Joseph C. Hare, American politician and lumberman, has a railroad station, railroad stop, and valley all named after him?
... that Meare Pool was an important source of fish for Glastonbury Abbey before being drained between 1500 and 1750?
... that Policeman Bluejay, a children's novel by L. Frank Baum of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fame, was first published in 1907 under the pen name "Laura Bancroft"?
... that Schloss Vollrads claims to be the oldest winery of Germany?
... that the Mediterranean land snail species Papillifera bidens lived in England for over 100 years before being discovered?
... that Franz Burgmeier became the first Liechtensteiner to play football in England after being signed on the advice of a club chairman's twelve-year-old grandson?

11:09, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the threatened noonday globe land snail (pictured) is known only from a two-mile-long area inside the gorge of the Nantahala River in North Carolina?
... that when Australian cricketer Jack Massie fought at Gallipoli, he wore a scarlet rag on his right arm to distract snipers from his bowling arm?
... that William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, also helped calculate the solar cell's Shockley-Queisser limit?
... that Rear-Admiral Charles Austen′s family included Admiral of the Fleet Francis Austen, and the novelist Jane Austen?
... that Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan, was named for William Ford, father of Henry?
... that Zhang Yanshang, his father, son, and father-in-law were all Tang Dynasty Chinese chancellors?
... that Kentucky's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
... that the meaning of "Der Pleier", the pseudonym of the 13th-century author of the romance Garel, is unknown, though it might refer metaphorically to glassblowing?
... that Milan Bandić was elected in 2005 as the mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, with the support of only a seventh of eligible voters?
... that country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy?

06:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

... that art historian Albert Boime theorized that Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (pictured) was based on positions of celestial objects at 4 a.m. on June 19, 1889?
... that Amasa Holcomb was the first in the United States to manufacture telescopes?
... that Nemattanew, a renegade Powhatan captain dubbed "Jack-of-the-Feather" in 1611 for his extravagant regalia, believed he was invincible to English bullets?
... that the Fodder Scam involved the alleged embezzlement of about Rs. 950 crore (US$ 199 million) from the treasury of the Indian state of Bihar?
... that the silhouette artist S. John Ross had a 60-year association with the Sydney Royal Easter Show, and created portraits of Vivian Leigh and Nicole Kidman?
... that broadcaster Tony Dean was eulogized by a South Dakota Senator for striking a balance in "his advocacy on behalf of conservation and sportsmen alike"?
... that Ingres painted Jupiter and Thetis to fulfill his obligations to the French Academy in Rome, a body famous for the patriarchal attitude that the work seeks to repudiate?
... that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?

02:48, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

... that William Blake's painting The Ghost of a Flea (pictured) caused some contemporaries to believe that he was a madman?
... that Jacob Earl Fickel is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?
... that India's Kanjli Wetland, a manmade wetland created in 1870, has been recognised by the Ramsar Convention for its rich biodiversity?
... that the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in New Zealand?
... that Scotsman Adam Menelaws became the de facto leading architect of the Russian Empire when he was around seventy years old?
... that Clärenore Stinnes was the first person to circumnavigate the world by automobile in an Adler Standard 6?
... that the California Milk Processor Board spent US$1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the Latin American drink licuado as a way to promote milk consumption?
... that an outer jacket, magoja was introduced to Korea after the king's father, Heungseon Daewongun, returned from Manchuria in 1887?
... that horror novelist Anne Rice has cited the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter as an inspiration for her own homoerotic vampire fiction?

20:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the cruise ship MS Astor (pictured) was ordered in 1985 as an ocean liner for Safmarine's UK–South Africa service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed?
... that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
... that India's Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar was the first President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council?
... that the LAPD Air Support Division in Los Angeles is the nation's largest municipal airborne law enforcement organization?
... that after his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tributes to Allan Rosenfield included a song dedication by Bono at a U2 concert?
... that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics?
... that in 1917, baseball managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson were arrested after a game for playing on Sunday?
... that the Egyptian Communist Organisation was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning apricot in Arabic?
... that the Wishram Indian Village Site is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?

15:47, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the original owner of the diamond Star of the South (replica pictured) sold it for a mere £3,000, and the buyer later deposited it in the bank of Rio de Janeiro for £30,000?
... that the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control was runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award?
... that the Observer Group was the first joint-United States Army/Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance?
... that for building a giant reservoir, King Mahasen, who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
... that Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
... that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford?
... that the state of Wisconsin proposed the route of Wisconsin Highway 57 as an Interstate Highway corridor in the 1950s?
... that Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
... that James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people?

11:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the British War Office placed orders for the Norton 16H (pictured) longer than for any other single make of motorcycle?
... that Symantec was originally founded by Gary Hendrix to focus on AI-related projects such as natural language processing?
... that the Valencian regional parliament, the Corts Valencianes, has its origins in assemblies established in the thirteenth century by King James I of Aragon?
... that Byron recorded seeing the "tigers sup" at the Exeter Exchange menagerie in central London owned by Edward Cross?
... that the Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth, one of the oldest youth film festivals, included over 500 films from 52 countries in 2008?
... that in 2004, The Hershey Company released three flavors of a new product called Snack Barz?
... that the 1919 Ihlen Declaration, made by Norwegian Foreign Minister Nils Claus Ihlen on the subject of Greenland's sovereignty, led to an international court case?
... that Estelle Reiner′s deadpan line —"I'll have what she's having"—after Meg Ryan's faked orgasm in When Harry Met Sally, was ranked by the AFI as one of the best ever movie quotes?

07:16, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the so-called "lobster mushroom" (pictured) is a delicacy created by one fungus, Hypomyces lactifluorum, parasitising another, usually Russula brevipes?
... that Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko, the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia, is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag?
... that the 1925 Irish Senate election required a change in the law governing the layout of the ballot, to allow all 76 candidates to be listed?
... that Lt. Henry B. Hidden is believed to be first officer of Union volunteer cavalry killed in the American Civil War?
... that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales, was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England?
... that Tang Dynasty official Xiao Fu refused to placate the chancellor Wang Jin by offering Wang ancestral property that Wang wanted?
... that the entrance to Kaipara Harbour has treacherous sandbars known as "the graveyard", which are responsible for more shipwrecks than any other place in New Zealand?
... that Terence Fox was made the first Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge despite never having published a research paper?

03:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Rowland Lockey, an English painter and miniaturist, made copies of the work of other artists, including Hans Holbein the Younger (detail of one such copy pictured)?
... that Ōe Taku, after spending 12 years in prison for treason, was elected to the lower house in the Diet of Japan in 1890?
... that the 2008-09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is in its first season off of scholarship probation following the University of Michigan basketball scandal?
... that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive?
... that in geometric group theory, a Dehn function is an optimal function associated to a finite group presentation which estimates the area of a relation in that group in terms of its length?
... that Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
... that many Norwegian political parties opposed the establishment of a State Secretary, only to expand that institution when in power?

19:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

... that "bleeding tooth fungus" is a member of the woody toothed fungus genus Hydnellum (example pictured)?
... that until his death in 1927, James C. Donnell was the last man to call John D. Rockefeller simply "John"?
... that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm, which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Jiang Gongfu was removed from office when he opposed Emperor Dezong's wish to build a pagoda in mourning his daughter Princess Tang'an?
... that Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
... that in 1999, the government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate Madras politician P. Kakkan?
... that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome?
... that Richard Petty and his crew chief Dale Inman presented the first artifact to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the car that Petty drove to a record 27 victories in 1967?

15:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

... that although the Ariel W/NG 350 (pictured) was not initially selected by the British War Department, they were in great demand after the evacuation of Dunkirk in the World War II?
... that the Shinbashi Enbujō in Ginza, Japan, today a major kabuki theatre, was originally built to serve as a venue for geisha dances?
... that the 20 deaths in the Donora Smog of 1948, called one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history, have been credited with leading to passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1970?
... that the Moon of Baroda, a 24.04-carat diamond, was worn by actress Marilyn Monroe and Empress Marie Therese of Austria?
... that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
... that Kukkarahalli lake adjoining the University of Mysore, was created in 1864 during Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar's rule of the Kingdom of Mysore, to provide water for irrigation?
... that Judith Wachs, who spent 30 years with her Sephardic music group Voice of the Turtle, first turned to music when she filled in for her husband who signed up for recorder lessons but could not attend?
... that Bruce McLaren Motor Racing's first use of the color now known as "McLaren Orange" was on their McLaren M6As, which won the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup?

12:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Nebuchadnezzar (pictured), a colour monotype by William Blake, depicts the Babylonian king "crawling like a hunted beast" with "his wild eyes full of sullen terror"?
... that the hen Matilda lived to age 16 and became the world's oldest chicken in 2004, never laying any eggs?
... that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions?
... that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes?
... that no multicellular organisms have ever evolved wheels or similar propulsion methods, although the Pleuroptya ruralis caterpillar can roll and a species of mantis shrimp performs somersaults?
... that the Polish Righteous among the Nations, Alfreda and Bolesław Pietraszek, rescued families of 18 Jews during the Holocaust on their farm in Ceranów?
... that Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki attributed his phobia of earthquakes to the collapse of his family house in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake?

06:23, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the green flash (pictured) is a by-product of a corresponding mirage of an astronomical object?
... that Akkamma Cherian, an Indian freedom fighter, was popularly known as the "Jhansi Rani of Travancore?"
... that redistributive change is a theory of economic justice that promotes the recognition of poverty as a suspect classification under U.S. law?
... that Cavallo's multiplier was an 18th-century electrostatic influence machine used to amplify electric charge?
... that Floyd Rayford was the baseball player that Cal Ripken, Jr. replaced in the starting lineup to begin his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played?
... that the Apostlebird of inland Australia is so named after the Twelve Apostles as it was seen to travel in groups of twelve?
... that "Guan ju", one of the oldest poems in Chinese literature, was praised by Confucius for its restrained emotions?
... that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver?

02:42, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

... that shortly after architect Ralph Anderson's early "modernist glass-box phase" he began rehabilitating turn-of-the-century buildings (example pictured) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district?
... that the pilot edition of the BBC Radio 7 comedy A Series of Psychotic Episodes was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award?
... that at Washington State University from 1948 to 1950, Bob Gambold was the quarterback of the school's football team and the starting forward for its basketball team during all three of those years?
... that after retiring from the stage opera singer Emma Carelli managed the Rome Opera House for almost 15 years?
... that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period?
... that the award nominated film Lonesome Jim had a last minute budget cut from US$3 million down to US$500,000 and had to be shot in only 17 days?
... that Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?

20:21, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf (pictured) shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
... that Minneapolis hip hop duo Ill Chemistry performed live as part of a Minnesota Ballet production?
... that biologist J. B. S. Haldane replied "Precambrian rabbits" when asked what would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution?
... that Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple?
... that Fort Pearce, a former defensive facility in Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia, was active during World War I but never fired its guns in anger?
... that S&H Green Stamps, co-founded by Thomas Sperry, produced more trading stamps in some years than stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service?
... that five of the video games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game are adaptations of animated films?
... that Mark Rubin, a safety for the Penn State Nittany Lions, defeated Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming while in high school?

15:36, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the snail Elimia virginica (pictured) colonized the Oswego River but was out-competed from there by another non-indigenous snail?
... that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?
... that Sunday Island in Victoria, Australia is a private game reserve surrounded by a marine park?
... that the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
... that in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent, the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras Presidency?
... that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava?
... that the fishing industry in New Zealand works an exclusive economic zone fourteen times larger than the land area of New Zealand itself?
... that the Black-throated Finch has a black-rumped and a white-rumped subspecies?
... that Larry McCall was released by the