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... that the 4th-century Esquiline Treasure from Rome includes the Projecta Casket (pictured), which has a Christian inscription and pagan iconography?
... that educator Carleton Washburne led a study that identified 6.5 years as the optimal
mental age for children to begin to learn to read?
... that
Captain Larry Dzioba of
HMCS Protecteur(pictured) while off the coast of Portugal in 1980 hoisted an
Esso flag on the ship's mast joking that they were the "biggest floating
gas station in the neighborhood"?
... that the Boer War Memorial in
Winsford,
Cheshire, records the names of those who served in the conflict and survived as well as those who were lost?
... that Ethel Sands was "one of the leading artist hostesses of her time"?
... that the city of
Uppsala in Sweden helped renovate the Uppsala House in Estonia?
... that William Paynel supported
Matilda's claim to the English throne, despite her husband
Geoffrey of Anjou having previously attacked William's castle?
... that after Belgian-American photographer Aimé Dupont's death, his wife continued the business and was so successful that many of the subjects thought she was Aimé?
... that in 1951 the director of the Uruguayan communist daily Verdad was demoted by the party leadership?
29 January 2014
12:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the Silver Cross Tavern(pictured) is the United Kingdom's only legal brothel?
... that Captain Jermyn Symonds, who became a Member of Parliament from
Auckland, originally moved to New Zealand in 1841 to join
his brother, who drowned that year?
... that, according to Meat Atlas, the world's biggest meat company,
JBS, can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?
... that a dark store is never visited by its customers?
00:10, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Brighton and Hove's Regency-era seafront(one section pictured), "overflowing [with] architectural inventiveness", was nearly demolished in its entirety in the 1930s in favour of
Modernist buildings?
... that Havaner lebn was the first lasting commercial Jewish newspaper in Cuba?
... that Albert Dubois-Pillet added the "Pillet" to his name when signing his paintings (example pictured) in an attempt to hide his art-related activities from the military?
... that King Tvrtko II of Bosnia assured the pope that he was a good Catholic, but at the same time had the head of the heretical
Bosnian Church as adviser?
... that Olympic athlete Andy Holden once ran 100 miles and drank 100 pints of beer in a single week?
25 January 2014
13:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the male ornamental tree trunk spider(male and female pictured) usually becomes mutilated while mating, especially when the female is aggressive?
... that segregation in
Mississippi was challenged in 1959 when police prevented Dr. Gilbert Mason from swimming in the ocean, precipitating the Biloxi Wade-Ins and subsequent race riots?
... that the stapes, named for its resemblance to a
stirrup, is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring 3 mm × 2.5 mm (0.118 in × 0.098 in)?
... that Linda Nolan was labelled "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos?
... that although
Piotr Skarga's Sejm Sermons political treatise was ignored during his lifetime, he was labeled a "patriotic seer" centuries after his death?
... that because the Spitzen Gebel was used by
Bremen piano movers, drinkers can get a "swig from the lamp"?
24 January 2014
16:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Kitty Jutbring(pictured) won VeckoRevyn's competition "Plus Size Model of the Year" in 1999?
... that one of Archbishop
Thomas Becket's complaints about Ranulf de Broc was that the royal official had seized a cargo of wine belonging to the archbishop?
... that
Minnesota's nickname, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", derives from an early desire to attract more settlers by advertising its large number of lakes?
... that as well as patenting the use of manganese oxide in the making of Sheffield steel, Josiah Marshall Heath had
a bat named after him?
00:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
... that
GCHQ replaced 50 buildings with a single doughnut(pictured)?
... that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
... that Charles Augustus Magnussen, villain in the Sherlock episode "His Last Vow", was described as "the one man [Sherlock] truly hates"?
... that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American
folk art in the United States?
... that Cincinnati's Fenwick Club was established as a Catholic alternative to the YMCA?
... that
Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo, northern
Namibia, in 1924?
... that in the plays of Kenneth Horne, virgins "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment"?
... that the Lyman-alpha blob 1 is a blob of gas 300,000
light-years across located some 11.5 billion light-years from Earth?
... that
NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
... that in the starlet sea anemone,
genes involved in the formation of the column base are identical to those responsible for the development of the head in
vertebrates?
... that Ernst Roth, general manager of
Boosey & Hawkes, published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs?
... that when the .cz domain reached a million websites in 2012, the Czech Republic became the 12th EU member state to have reached this figure?
... that the keeper of the Christiana Light was 105 when he died in 1862, the oldest known lighthouse keeper in United States history?
... that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the
ChancellorWilliam Longchamp, unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
... that The New York Times estimated that 8,000 infants died in one year from consuming swill milk that was sold as fresh milk?
... that Cobra Station gets its unusual name from the snake-like shape of the property?
... that while Li(character pictured), shared by more than 100 million people, is one of the most common surnames in the world, Li and Li are far less common?
... that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god
Indra?
... that film producer Bernard Glasser, whose debut was a
Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
... that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of
force multiplication, having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
... that
the Lord'sGrace Gates(pictured) were nearly moved as they were being damaged by turning lorries?
... that a
penalty scored by Patrik Berger in the final of
Euro 96 gave the Czech Republic a 1–0 lead over Germany, but the Czechs lost to a
golden goal in extra time?
... that
Danilo Kiš's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the
Holocaust?
... that city planners initially opposed the building of
Jerusalem's first high-rises, the 17-story Wolfson Towers(pictured), saying they would "dwarf the
Knesset"?
... that due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Gretelle in 1997, the government of
Madagascar held a televised fundraiser to raise money for storm victims?
... that the 1932 jazz standard "Moten Swing" was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of
swing music?
... that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a
London bus, to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?
... that Icy Strait Point, the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
... that denial of the Cambodian genocide was made illegal in Cambodia in 2013?
... that in Lady of Sherwood,
Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of
Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
... that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew Cam" were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a
primetime show?
... that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in
kimberlite?
... that Gavin Patterson, the new CEO of
BT, is known for his open shirt collar?
... that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe, nicknamed Sea-Aska, Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
... that singer Rebecca Simonsson(pictured) and the other members of the music group
Sunblock, all glamour models, have been called "the sexiest thing since
The Pussycat Dolls"?
... that Veganz, Europe's first
vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
... that Onfim, a 13th-century boy from
Novgorod, did his homework on
pieces of birch bark, writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?
... that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the
Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a
Black company?
... that the news site Caucasian Knot does not have any editorial offices due to security concerns?
... that Swedish aircraft designer Swen Swanson designed his first home-built airplane when he was 17 years old?
10 January 2014
16:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
... that physician and relief worker Ruth A. Parmelee(pictured) reported during the
Armenian genocide that thousands of people "drop dead from hunger, thirst, and fatigue"?
... that Hezekiah Balch helped found
Tusculum College, one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that there are two war memorials in
Crewe, one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of
Britannia?
... that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on
the town of the same name?
00:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
... that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor(pictured) was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
... that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a
Something Awful forum post?
... that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
... that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in
Corfu, many captains chose to sink them?
9 January 2014
16:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
... that De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe(three main characters pictured), the 1924 Dutch children's book based on a real-life
shipwreck in 1618, has sold more than 250,000 copies?
... that illustrator, hill farmer, and painter Reg Gammon was honoured by a retrospective at the
RWA for his 100th birthday?
... that one reviewer found Poesaka Terpendam to be the first film in which
Djoemala seemed out of place?
... that Adrian Piper, a black, female
conceptual artist, has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?
00:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Barzillai J. Chambers(pictured), the
Greenback Party's
1880 nominee for Vice President of the United States, was not active during the campaign after he was injured falling from a train?
... that during the Second World War, the
Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet, where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
... that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau
La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum, a genus of
flowering plants?
... that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
... that the carol "We Three Kings" (
Magi pictured) was the first American
Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
... that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
... that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors
Roekiah and
Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
... that schools in
New York and
Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
... that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to
Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
... that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the
Clean Air Act?
... that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of
Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a
tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?
... that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of
Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
... that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
... that video game Cart Life, winner of three
Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
... that Kim Chol-man pioneered
North Korea's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
... that the
IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a
Cantonese pun?
00:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the PL-01(pictured) is a new tank design which was developed in
Poland?
... that the Scottish island of Stroma was inhabited for thousands of years but was abandoned in 1962, with the last islanders leaving their houses (pictured) to fall into ruin?
... that the Wright Opera House Block, a three-story
Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
... that
Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?
00:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
... that despite the Apollo statue (shown reassembled) already being in 121 pieces, Robert Murdoch Smith was concerned that local Arabs would further destroy them?
... that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of
USCGC Point Ledge?
... that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that
Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
... that early work on
Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
... that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
... that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?
12:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
... that after the
Curiosity rover landed on Mars, it took its first space selfie(pictured), which was posted on its
Facebook account the following day?
... that while
pitcherNoodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the
Dallas city veterinarian?
... that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of
Oregon?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
... that the 4th-century Esquiline Treasure from Rome includes the Projecta Casket (pictured), which has a Christian inscription and pagan iconography?
... that educator Carleton Washburne led a study that identified 6.5 years as the optimal
mental age for children to begin to learn to read?
... that
Captain Larry Dzioba of
HMCS Protecteur(pictured) while off the coast of Portugal in 1980 hoisted an
Esso flag on the ship's mast joking that they were the "biggest floating
gas station in the neighborhood"?
... that the Boer War Memorial in
Winsford,
Cheshire, records the names of those who served in the conflict and survived as well as those who were lost?
... that Ethel Sands was "one of the leading artist hostesses of her time"?
... that the city of
Uppsala in Sweden helped renovate the Uppsala House in Estonia?
... that William Paynel supported
Matilda's claim to the English throne, despite her husband
Geoffrey of Anjou having previously attacked William's castle?
... that after Belgian-American photographer Aimé Dupont's death, his wife continued the business and was so successful that many of the subjects thought she was Aimé?
... that in 1951 the director of the Uruguayan communist daily Verdad was demoted by the party leadership?
29 January 2014
12:00, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the Silver Cross Tavern(pictured) is the United Kingdom's only legal brothel?
... that Captain Jermyn Symonds, who became a Member of Parliament from
Auckland, originally moved to New Zealand in 1841 to join
his brother, who drowned that year?
... that, according to Meat Atlas, the world's biggest meat company,
JBS, can accommodate a daily slaughter of 12 million birds, 85,000 head of cattle and 70,000 pigs?
... that a dark store is never visited by its customers?
00:10, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Brighton and Hove's Regency-era seafront(one section pictured), "overflowing [with] architectural inventiveness", was nearly demolished in its entirety in the 1930s in favour of
Modernist buildings?
... that Havaner lebn was the first lasting commercial Jewish newspaper in Cuba?
... that Albert Dubois-Pillet added the "Pillet" to his name when signing his paintings (example pictured) in an attempt to hide his art-related activities from the military?
... that King Tvrtko II of Bosnia assured the pope that he was a good Catholic, but at the same time had the head of the heretical
Bosnian Church as adviser?
... that Olympic athlete Andy Holden once ran 100 miles and drank 100 pints of beer in a single week?
25 January 2014
13:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the male ornamental tree trunk spider(male and female pictured) usually becomes mutilated while mating, especially when the female is aggressive?
... that segregation in
Mississippi was challenged in 1959 when police prevented Dr. Gilbert Mason from swimming in the ocean, precipitating the Biloxi Wade-Ins and subsequent race riots?
... that the stapes, named for its resemblance to a
stirrup, is the smallest bone in the human body, measuring 3 mm × 2.5 mm (0.118 in × 0.098 in)?
... that Linda Nolan was labelled "Naughty Nolan" due to her posing in risqué publicity photos?
... that although
Piotr Skarga's Sejm Sermons political treatise was ignored during his lifetime, he was labeled a "patriotic seer" centuries after his death?
... that because the Spitzen Gebel was used by
Bremen piano movers, drinkers can get a "swig from the lamp"?
24 January 2014
16:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Kitty Jutbring(pictured) won VeckoRevyn's competition "Plus Size Model of the Year" in 1999?
... that one of Archbishop
Thomas Becket's complaints about Ranulf de Broc was that the royal official had seized a cargo of wine belonging to the archbishop?
... that
Minnesota's nickname, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", derives from an early desire to attract more settlers by advertising its large number of lakes?
... that as well as patenting the use of manganese oxide in the making of Sheffield steel, Josiah Marshall Heath had
a bat named after him?
00:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
... that
GCHQ replaced 50 buildings with a single doughnut(pictured)?
... that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
... that Charles Augustus Magnussen, villain in the Sherlock episode "His Last Vow", was described as "the one man [Sherlock] truly hates"?
... that Juliana R. Force brought about the first public showing of American
folk art in the United States?
... that Cincinnati's Fenwick Club was established as a Catholic alternative to the YMCA?
... that
Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo, northern
Namibia, in 1924?
... that in the plays of Kenneth Horne, virgins "offer themselves up, with some degree of apprehension, for ravishment"?
... that the Lyman-alpha blob 1 is a blob of gas 300,000
light-years across located some 11.5 billion light-years from Earth?
... that
NHS Blood and Transplant stated several people had asked to be removed from the UK organ donor register as a result of a storyline involving Holby City character Mo Effanga?
... that in the starlet sea anemone,
genes involved in the formation of the column base are identical to those responsible for the development of the head in
vertebrates?
... that Ernst Roth, general manager of
Boosey & Hawkes, published four late songs by Richard Strauss in 1950 after the composer's death, naming them Four Last Songs?
... that when the .cz domain reached a million websites in 2012, the Czech Republic became the 12th EU member state to have reached this figure?
... that the keeper of the Christiana Light was 105 when he died in 1862, the oldest known lighthouse keeper in United States history?
... that although Robert fitzRoger owed his offices to the
ChancellorWilliam Longchamp, unlike most of Longchamp's appointees, fitzRoger retained those offices after Longchamp's fall from power?
... that The New York Times estimated that 8,000 infants died in one year from consuming swill milk that was sold as fresh milk?
... that Cobra Station gets its unusual name from the snake-like shape of the property?
... that while Li(character pictured), shared by more than 100 million people, is one of the most common surnames in the world, Li and Li are far less common?
... that the corvette Kulish is named after the weapon of the Indian mythological god
Indra?
... that film producer Bernard Glasser, whose debut was a
Three Stooges film, had previously worked as a teacher?
... that after almost 75 years, the Dowding system remains the canonical example of
force multiplication, having achieved 100% effectiveness on several occasions?
... that
the Lord'sGrace Gates(pictured) were nearly moved as they were being damaged by turning lorries?
... that a
penalty scored by Patrik Berger in the final of
Euro 96 gave the Czech Republic a 1–0 lead over Germany, but the Czechs lost to a
golden goal in extra time?
... that
Danilo Kiš's 1965 novel Garden, Ashes mixes fact and fiction, with both the narrator and the author having lost their fathers in the
Holocaust?
... that city planners initially opposed the building of
Jerusalem's first high-rises, the 17-story Wolfson Towers(pictured), saying they would "dwarf the
Knesset"?
... that due to the damaging effects of Cyclone Gretelle in 1997, the government of
Madagascar held a televised fundraiser to raise money for storm victims?
... that the 1932 jazz standard "Moten Swing" was an important development in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of
swing music?
... that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform of a
London bus, to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?
... that Icy Strait Point, the only privately owned cruise destination in Alaska, has won awards for its preservation and economic reinvigoration of local culture?
... that denial of the Cambodian genocide was made illegal in Cambodia in 2013?
... that in Lady of Sherwood,
Jennifer Roberson chose to write about the demise of
Richard I because the "death of a popular monarch always provide fodder for novelists"?
... that parts of The Drew Carey Show episode "Drew Cam" were broadcast simultaneously on the television and the Internet, a first for a
primetime show?
... that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in
kimberlite?
... that Gavin Patterson, the new CEO of
BT, is known for his open shirt collar?
... that after the 1936 crash-landing of his Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe, nicknamed Sea-Aska, Russel Owen telegraphed his sponsors: "Sea-Aska on her asska in Alaska"?
... that singer Rebecca Simonsson(pictured) and the other members of the music group
Sunblock, all glamour models, have been called "the sexiest thing since
The Pussycat Dolls"?
... that Veganz, Europe's first
vegan supermarket chain, opened in Berlin in 2011 and plans to open in London in 2014?
... that Onfim, a 13th-century boy from
Novgorod, did his homework on
pieces of birch bark, writing psalms and drawing images of himself, animals, and his teacher?
... that in 1942 McKissack & McKissack received $5.7 million to design and build an airfield for the
Tuskegee Airmen – the largest contract that the U.S. government had ever awarded to a
Black company?
... that the news site Caucasian Knot does not have any editorial offices due to security concerns?
... that Swedish aircraft designer Swen Swanson designed his first home-built airplane when he was 17 years old?
10 January 2014
16:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
... that physician and relief worker Ruth A. Parmelee(pictured) reported during the
Armenian genocide that thousands of people "drop dead from hunger, thirst, and fatigue"?
... that Hezekiah Balch helped found
Tusculum College, one of the first American colleges west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that there are two war memorials in
Crewe, one with a statue of a soldier, and the other with a statue of
Britannia?
... that June Newton chose the pseudonym "Alice Springs" for her photography work by blindly stabbing a pin into a map of Australia and landing on
the town of the same name?
00:00, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
... that when the Statue of Richard Grosvenor(pictured) was created in the 1860s, it was said to have been the largest sculpture in Britain to be carved from a single block of marble?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that Kotschy's gecko climbs well despite not having adhesive pads on its toes?
... that video game Dropsy began as an illustrated story for which the plot was guided by commentators on a
Something Awful forum post?
... that before his rugby career, Luke Baldwin competed in track and field in secondary school?
... that instead of repairing their damaged ships at the Venetian arsenal in
Corfu, many captains chose to sink them?
9 January 2014
16:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
... that De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe(three main characters pictured), the 1924 Dutch children's book based on a real-life
shipwreck in 1618, has sold more than 250,000 copies?
... that illustrator, hill farmer, and painter Reg Gammon was honoured by a retrospective at the
RWA for his 100th birthday?
... that one reviewer found Poesaka Terpendam to be the first film in which
Djoemala seemed out of place?
... that Adrian Piper, a black, female
conceptual artist, has said that she was kicked out of the art world for her race and gender?
00:00, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
... that Barzillai J. Chambers(pictured), the
Greenback Party's
1880 nominee for Vice President of the United States, was not active during the campaign after he was injured falling from a train?
... that during the Second World War, the
Luftwaffe landed planes on a frozen lake at Trondheim Airport, Jonsvatnet, where the ice was 1 metre (3 ft) thick?
... that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau
La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum, a genus of
flowering plants?
... that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
... that the carol "We Three Kings" (
Magi pictured) was the first American
Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
... that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
... that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors
Roekiah and
Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
... that schools in
New York and
Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
... that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to
Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
... that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the
Clean Air Act?
... that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of
Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a
tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?
... that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of
Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
... that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
... that video game Cart Life, winner of three
Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
... that Kim Chol-man pioneered
North Korea's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
... that the
IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a
Cantonese pun?
00:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
... that the PL-01(pictured) is a new tank design which was developed in
Poland?
... that the Scottish island of Stroma was inhabited for thousands of years but was abandoned in 1962, with the last islanders leaving their houses (pictured) to fall into ruin?
... that the Wright Opera House Block, a three-story
Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
... that
Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?
00:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
... that despite the Apollo statue (shown reassembled) already being in 121 pieces, Robert Murdoch Smith was concerned that local Arabs would further destroy them?
... that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of
USCGC Point Ledge?
... that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that
Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
... that early work on
Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
... that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
... that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?
12:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
... that after the
Curiosity rover landed on Mars, it took its first space selfie(pictured), which was posted on its
Facebook account the following day?
... that while
pitcherNoodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the
Dallas city veterinarian?
... that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of
Oregon?