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23:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
... that 820 Naval Air Squadron ( aircraft pictured) was involved in attacks on the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz during the Second World War?
... that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss?
... that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball?
... that Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944– 1948 and 1952— 1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
... that Price Hill is one of the oldest outlying settlements of Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
... that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea, leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig!?
... that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian?

08:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military device by Perseus of Macedon ( pictured on coin)?
... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
... that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health Center, the very place where she volunteered her time for many years?
... that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?
... that Percival Goodman, described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward, was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City?
... that Your Name is Justine, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
... that Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations, was also an exceptional cricket umpire?

12:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum ( pictured) is located in the world's first plant for mass production of heavy water?
... that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th century?
... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
... that eight of the nine Priori of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of Florence?
... that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken, but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
... that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the Original Amateur Hour in the 400-seat theatre at Irvington, New York's village hall?
... that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are examples of this?
... that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris?

17:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
... that most of the stamps of Mexico ( example pictured) from 1856 to 1883 have district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device?
... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward named Jim Limber‎?
... that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India, approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
... that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
... that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states?
... that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return home?
... that Strawhead is a 1982 play by American writer Norman Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real life code name?
... that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎, founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece?
... that the New York-based mock metal/ glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"?

07:05, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Albert Pujols ( pictured) received more votes than any other player in Major League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot?
... that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts?
... that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"?
... that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
... that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia's Kresty Prison?
... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering?
... that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming?
... that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway?
... that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup?

10:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Monkey Bay ( pictured) on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through the road to Cape Maclear?
... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico?
... that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
... that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising?
... that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson Guitars?
... that the book Goodnight Bush, a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?

03:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
... that cushion plants ( example pictured), which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years?
... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?
... that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"?
... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?

18:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill ( pictured) has a fruity smell?
... that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko Roll?
... that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule?
... that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway?
... that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
... that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China, dating from 857 AD?
... that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia?
... that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys?

10:36, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty- story Legg Mason Building ( pictured), which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height?
... that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh?
... that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby?
... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
... that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard— Henry Maynard's son—who attended Charles I's trial?
... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate?
... that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?

04:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Budweiser Clydesdales ( pictured) were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition?
... that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early encounters with European friars?
... that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks?
... that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did?
... that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh?
... that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés National Park containing 400?
... that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride, the Roman Catholic Church?
... that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' " Seven Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' " Can You Hear Me"?

21:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
... that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi ( pictured) by biting the crocodile on the nose?
... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as well as the anarchist movement?
... that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers?
... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason?
... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
... that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
... that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan?
... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film, proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of violent video games such as Conan?
... that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?

15:49, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the scaly hedgehog ( pictured) is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
... that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes?
... that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations?
... that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir?
... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married...with Children?
... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
... that Gray Barker's 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore?
... that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
... that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?

09:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Archie J. Old Jr. completed the first round-the-world nonstop flight ( route shown) by a jet-powered aircraft?
... that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet, he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek?
... that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
... that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
... that April FitzLyon's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs?
... that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words?
... that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
... that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops?
... that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46?

17:21, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created many images of Heaven and Hell ( detail pictured)?
... that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina?
... that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture?
... that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
... that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake?
... that Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
... that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish society?
... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra?

12:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
... that 100 North Tampa ( pictured), which rises 42 floors and 579 feet (176 m) in height, is the tallest building in Tampa?
... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years?
... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania?
... that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials?
... that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State?
... that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles?
... that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history?
... that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published " The Village Blacksmith", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the poet?

01:25, 23 June 2008
... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet ( pictured) for the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14 Tomcats failed?
... that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara, Another World and The Guiding Light?
... that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude?
... that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains ecoregion, the coho and sockeye are extinct, the chinook are threatened, and the summer steelhead are in decline?
... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale?
... that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?
... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted?
... that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard " Groovin' High" by a film serial he saw as a child?
... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad?

18:14, 22 June 2008
... that invasive cheatgrass (pictured) has replaced native bunch grasses across much of the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion in the northwestern United States?
... that the Japanese visual novel Sakura Sakura allows the player to navigate in a profile side-view perspective similar to a two dimensional platform game?
... that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho?
... that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis?
... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register?
... that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as "one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"?
... that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt. Mazama?
... that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir?
... that about 10% of the value of gift cards is not redeemed?

12:27, 22 June 2008
... that when William Williams died collecting the fern Alpine Woodsia ( pictured) in 1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in the 17th century?
... that Nguyen Van Linh, General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the "Vietnamese Gorbachev" for reforming Vietnam's communist economy, later regretted many of the effects of his policies?
... that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and nutrient-poor serpentine soils?
... that oudist Ali Sriti's first public performance was at age eleven, when he sang Ya chiraan waraa dajla yajri by Mohamed Abdel Wahab?
... that The New York Times said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film The Big Noise "has as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"?
... that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's first state visits was to Mongolia, aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post- Cold War era?
... that John Boylan, who won an acting award in the play On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, eventually died of lung cancer?

06:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the buff and yellow mushrooms ( fruiting bodies) of the fungus Boletus radicans (pictured) can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter?
... that C. W. Thornthwaite, an expert in the field of climatology, wrote his doctoral thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography?
... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck?
... that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar?
... that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of both Brevig and later Porsgrund?
... that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the US to turn over its entire operation to a private company?
... that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first ever match, they both scored ducks?
... that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations, bilateral trade has risen to US$1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign investor in Mongolia?
... that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912, where he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage, he declared "Never Resign!"?

17:44, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Dobbs Ferry post office ( pictured) has an unusually high level of ornament compared to most Colonial Revival-style post offices in New York?
... that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics?
... that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged?
... that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways?
... that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use the frequency domain to represent their transfer function?
... that the Canadian television series The John Allan Cameron Show featured different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues?
... that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral relations and further expand trade, which is expected to reach US$2 billion in 2008?
... that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989?
... that Hamburg's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am Rothenbaum tennis stadium?

11:48, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the orienteering map ( example pictured), along with the compass, is the primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
... that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer?
... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?
... that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs?
... that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen for a while by the consumer?
... that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes?
... that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract?

06:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use of suitports ( pictured), patented in 1996?
... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice?
... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
... that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees?
... that Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
... that although building India's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005?
... that 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado, was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building?
... that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson?

06:08, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Estherwood ( pictured) is the only major châteauesque building in Westchester County, New York?
... that after paying £500 in 1623 for a pardon, John Nutt was arrested in England and convicted for piracy regardless?
... that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history?
... that most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
... that Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was County Governor of both Finnmark and Vestfold, and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament once from each district?
... that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales?
... that one of the first recorded Japanese-Siamese contacts occurred in 1593?
... that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate?
... that the Hindu Munnani is a Hindu nationalist organization based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Colt Wynn won his first bodybuilding tournament as a wheelchair athlete less than three years after breaking his back in an accident?

16:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden ( pictured) to design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826?
... that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas?
... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
... that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman Islands?
... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history?
... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter?
... that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest " Brethren of the Coast" pirate gatherings?
... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?

07:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Majorelle Garden ( pictured), a tourist attraction in Morocco, was purchased by Pierre Bergé and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1980?
... that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown?
... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?
... that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
... that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
... that the president of Żegota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York?

23.00 (approx), 19 June 2008 UTC
... that when she was launched in 1956 MF Storegut ( pictured) was the largest lake ferry in Northern Europe?
... that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran, and tariff exemptions for herbicides?
... that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London's Royal Academy of Music?
... that the affair known in Israel as " the dirty trick" included the only successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date?
... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
... that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's largest resource development?
... that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
... that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid work in television?
... that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company?
... that Strike, directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre, was intended to be one part of a seven-part series?

16:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Australian White Ibis ( pictured) has invaded Sydney and other urban centres of Australia's east coast since 1978, and is now commonly seen in parks and garbage dumps?
... that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger?
... that Anton Reinthaller, the first leader of the post- World War II Freedom Party of Austria, had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany's Ministry of Food and Agriculture?
... that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters?
... that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939, but its findings were so damaging that they were suppressed until 1945?
... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
... that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
... that despite being set in New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?

10:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the Millersburg Ferry ( pictured) in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle boat operating in the United States?
... that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
... that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?
... that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
... that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on board and making it Australia's worst aviation disaster?
... that Muhammad al-Shaybani, a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought, was the student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf?
... that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between the two sides?
... that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint?

18 June 2008 (UTC)
... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles (pictured)?
... that Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
... that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village of Phasaelis founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael?
... that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable?
... that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C.?
... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
... that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997?
... that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving?

19:33, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the El Greco Apartments ( pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison?
... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor?
... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars?
... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?

12:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard ( pictured) became a founding member and the first president of The Wilderness Society?
... that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares?
... that HMS Ontario, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes?
... that before the 17th century, penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels?
... that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed, in Kandahar, has been described as the "heart of Afghanistan"?
... that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts?
... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns?
... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere, the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake?
... that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted species?

06:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
... that Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal ( pictured) in Tarrytown, New York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style?
... that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy?
... that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science courses?
... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska?
... that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps?
... that the 1960– 1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway?
... that André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
... that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro?

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