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...that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed
canned, jarred and
bottled food products?
...that the
Norman church in Pawlett,
Somerset has a
stained glass window showing
Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
...that the
Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by
Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
...that neotectonics is the study of
geologically recent
tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
...that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of
Argentina's
thermalpower plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
...that bird nests (pictured) range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some
hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some
Dusky Scrubfowl?
...that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind
aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in
Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?
...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after
the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
...that the last surrender of the
American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the
CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
...that a scathing obituary of
British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
...that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the
Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the
Friends of Friendless Churches?
...that a
graffiti artist from the
Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the
New York City Subway system in the early
1970s?
...that Baduanjin qigong(pictured) is one of the most common forms of Chinese
qigong used as exercise?
...that Luník IX, a borough in
Košice,
Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest
Roma community in
Central Europe?
...that although in present-day
India the former
princely states and their princes have lost that status, the
Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
...that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by
Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the
Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of
Singapore in 1942?
...that in
Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest
yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
...that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha,
Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the
value of their
houses?
...that the 2002 ITC Inferno, a
fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, was started by poor
welding?
09:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
...that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore
dresses(example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?
...that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
...that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including
China,
Zimbabwe, and
Bangladesh?
...that the Mayslake Peabody Estate(pictured), built for
Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?
...that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of
Kathmandu?
...that partially as a result of the mythical "bomber gap" between the USA and USSR, the
USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
...that Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in
India authorised to manufacture the indelible
ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
...that the appearance of an outline of
monkeys on a tree in
Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the
Monkey God and
Hanuman?
...that Stamford House in
Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of
Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
...that Nikolai Yevreinov's (pictured) productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the
Winter Palace by the
Bolsheviks?
...that scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern
Bangladesh may merge with the
Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single
hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that director
Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
...that one reviewer of
Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
05:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
...that the SGH War Memorial(pictured) was gazetted as one of the nine historical
landmarks that are closely linked with the history of
medical education in
Singapore?
...that
Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
...that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
...that after spending a billion dollars developing
borane-enriched "zip fuels" to power a new generation of
jet engines, the
US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
...that
Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below
sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known
crude oil reserves?
...that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum
Poland, was executed in
1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
16 September 2007
19:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
...that the popularity of the Hexar AF (pictured), a
35mm fixed-
lens,
autofocuscamera sold by
Konica in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?
...that
Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in
Alberta?
...that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
...that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the
Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the
Siberian natives?
...that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
...that the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of
Calcutta's first horse drawn
tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873?
...that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American
almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his
vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
...that the hills in the south of the English
Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
...that the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of
Renaissance works of art?
...that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide
salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in
Australia by many fishermen who target
bream in estuaries?
...that an
Irish immigrant to America who settled on
New Jersey's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "
king" of the island?
...that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the
Book of Revelation about the
Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
...that because of low rainfall, poor
soils, and the growth of the
oil industry,
Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the
GDP?
...that the
embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
...that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings (one pictured) and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of
Salvator Rosa's work?
...that the
wife of
troubadourRaimon Jordan joined the sect of the
Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a
poem that he would give up
eternity in
Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
...that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient
Athenian engineer, constructed the
Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
...that the
DutchNational Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
...that Deganga, in
West Bengal, where ground water is affected by
arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a
screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
...that the Fique is a natural
fiber obtained of
furcraea plants, typical of
Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics,
tapestry and handcrafts?
...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall
plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
...that Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the
Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact (foedus) between a believer and God?
...that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
...that
Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand(pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in
Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
...that the
Singapore Government has introduced the "Punggol 21-plus" plan to re-vitalise Punggol New Town(pictured), after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
...that James Dahlman,
Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of
saloons doubled during his term?
...that
Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to
Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
...that
Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the
Yellow River flooded, its
Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in
1552 to mark the division of the
Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of
Scotland and
England?
...that
American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the
Palæozoicfossils known as Chitinozoans(
SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
...that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a
Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
...that the
Suevic king Rechiar was the first
Germanic monarch to convert to
Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the
bagaudae?
...that the cityscapes of
water-coloristFloris Arntzenius(self-portrait pictured) were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet
asphalt?
...that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
...that the pieces of dougong, an ancient
Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden
brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
...that four of the thirty-eight
IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
...that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
02:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
...that Clarence Herbert Smith(pictured), who invented the
stump-jump plough under the direction of his
brother, later produced the machine for sale because the
patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?
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.
...that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed
canned, jarred and
bottled food products?
...that the
Norman church in Pawlett,
Somerset has a
stained glass window showing
Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
...that the
Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by
Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
...that neotectonics is the study of
geologically recent
tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
...that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of
Argentina's
thermalpower plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
...that bird nests (pictured) range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some
hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some
Dusky Scrubfowl?
...that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind
aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in
Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?
...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after
the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
...that the last surrender of the
American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the
CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
...that a scathing obituary of
British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
...that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the
Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the
Friends of Friendless Churches?
...that a
graffiti artist from the
Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the
New York City Subway system in the early
1970s?
...that Baduanjin qigong(pictured) is one of the most common forms of Chinese
qigong used as exercise?
...that Luník IX, a borough in
Košice,
Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest
Roma community in
Central Europe?
...that although in present-day
India the former
princely states and their princes have lost that status, the
Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
...that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by
Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the
Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of
Singapore in 1942?
...that in
Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest
yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
...that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha,
Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the
value of their
houses?
...that the 2002 ITC Inferno, a
fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, was started by poor
welding?
09:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
...that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore
dresses(example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?
...that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
...that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including
China,
Zimbabwe, and
Bangladesh?
...that the Mayslake Peabody Estate(pictured), built for
Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?
...that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of
Kathmandu?
...that partially as a result of the mythical "bomber gap" between the USA and USSR, the
USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
...that Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in
India authorised to manufacture the indelible
ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
...that the appearance of an outline of
monkeys on a tree in
Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the
Monkey God and
Hanuman?
...that Stamford House in
Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of
Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
...that Nikolai Yevreinov's (pictured) productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the
Winter Palace by the
Bolsheviks?
...that scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern
Bangladesh may merge with the
Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single
hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that director
Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
...that one reviewer of
Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
05:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
...that the SGH War Memorial(pictured) was gazetted as one of the nine historical
landmarks that are closely linked with the history of
medical education in
Singapore?
...that
Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
...that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
...that after spending a billion dollars developing
borane-enriched "zip fuels" to power a new generation of
jet engines, the
US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
...that
Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below
sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known
crude oil reserves?
...that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum
Poland, was executed in
1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
16 September 2007
19:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
...that the popularity of the Hexar AF (pictured), a
35mm fixed-
lens,
autofocuscamera sold by
Konica in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?
...that
Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in
Alberta?
...that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
...that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the
Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the
Siberian natives?
...that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
...that the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of
Calcutta's first horse drawn
tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873?
...that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American
almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his
vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
...that the hills in the south of the English
Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
...that the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of
Renaissance works of art?
...that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide
salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in
Australia by many fishermen who target
bream in estuaries?
...that an
Irish immigrant to America who settled on
New Jersey's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "
king" of the island?
...that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the
Book of Revelation about the
Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
...that because of low rainfall, poor
soils, and the growth of the
oil industry,
Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the
GDP?
...that the
embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
...that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings (one pictured) and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of
Salvator Rosa's work?
...that the
wife of
troubadourRaimon Jordan joined the sect of the
Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a
poem that he would give up
eternity in
Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
...that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient
Athenian engineer, constructed the
Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
...that the
DutchNational Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
...that Deganga, in
West Bengal, where ground water is affected by
arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a
screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
...that the Fique is a natural
fiber obtained of
furcraea plants, typical of
Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics,
tapestry and handcrafts?
...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall
plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
...that Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the
Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact (foedus) between a believer and God?
...that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
...that
Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand(pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in
Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
...that the
Singapore Government has introduced the "Punggol 21-plus" plan to re-vitalise Punggol New Town(pictured), after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
...that James Dahlman,
Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of
saloons doubled during his term?
...that
Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to
Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
...that
Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the
Yellow River flooded, its
Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in
1552 to mark the division of the
Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of
Scotland and
England?
...that
American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the
Palæozoicfossils known as Chitinozoans(
SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
...that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a
Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
...that the
Suevic king Rechiar was the first
Germanic monarch to convert to
Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the
bagaudae?
...that the cityscapes of
water-coloristFloris Arntzenius(self-portrait pictured) were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet
asphalt?
...that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
...that the pieces of dougong, an ancient
Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden
brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
...that four of the thirty-eight
IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
...that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
02:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
...that Clarence Herbert Smith(pictured), who invented the
stump-jump plough under the direction of his
brother, later produced the machine for sale because the
patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?