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30 September 2009
20:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
... that after serving in the Swedish and French militaries, Thure de Thulstrup later gained a reputation as "the foremost military artist in America" (example shown)?
... that
Canadian writer
Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love, despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
... that the 1920 film Sex, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in
Pennsylvania?
... that in modern
India, the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of
computers during the Ayudha Puja(pictured), as practised in the past for other implements?
... that the Tibetan Annals form the oldest surviving
Tibetan history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital,
Chang'an?
... that the nose and tail sections of the
SovietIlyushin Il-32 prototype
cargo glider(pictured) were hinged to open up to 95° to facilitate the loading of cargo?
... that the Sanni Yakuma is a traditional
Sinhaleseexorcism and dance ritual that calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through comic and obscene enactments?
... that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the
labor federation's history?
... that the adult (pictured) and juvenile specimens of the Red-capped Parrot were so different that its discoverer
Heinrich Kuhl gave it the specific name spurius, meaning "illegitimate"?
... that the Ilyushin Il-18airliner was installed with different engines than those originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were unreliable?
... that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the
Tulsa race riot, but all copies of that page of the
newspaper have apparently disappeared?
... that after the release of
The Beatles' "
Lady Madonna" in March 1968, radio personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
... that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan's victory in the 1959
Rose of Tralee pageant?
... that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian
sound film, Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
... that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought
Manichaeanism east into
Sogdiana, and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of
Mani?
... that the namesake of the
VictorianBembridge House was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
... that Trimön, a
Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the
reincarnated14th Dalai Lama in 1935?
... that
Australian criminal Dennis Ferguson was forced to relocate to numerous locations around Australia due to public hostility and
news media attention?
... that in the 1977
pink filmFairy in a Cage, according to actress
Naomi Tani, her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
04:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
... that among the
Taíno people of the
Caribbean, a zemi(pictured) is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit?
... that when Cooper Arms opened in
Long Beach, California, it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
04:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
... that the
extinctNew Zealand Little Bittern(pictured) was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place?
... that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless
table grape variety in southern
Ontario?
... that of
Japanese band Supercell's eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers?
... that the Seinfeld episode "The Revenge" was based on an experience by screenwriter
Larry David, who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
... that John Lawford was the only
captain who fought at
Copenhagen in 1801 to receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle?
... that
Metallica's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album Death Magnetic?
... that after events of the
Gulf War in February 1991, the highway which connects
Kuwait City to Al Jahra became known as the
Highway of Death(demolished vehicles on the highway pictured)?
... that in writing the
1973 song "Hypnotized",
Bob Welch drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in
Hampshire that
Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
... that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual
cantileverframe, though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
... that after seeing Zero Hour, a play about the life of actor
Zero Mostel,
Theodore Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
... that a pyramid (artist's impression pictured) that contained the grave of
Queen Amanishakheto was located in Wad ban Naqa and her stone
stela was discovered in Naqa, both of which are in modern-day
Sudan?
... that Andrew Berg, a
Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of
Alaska, became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
... that the artist who made a stone
relief of the Menorah in
Israel's Migdal Synagogue in 50 BCE – 100 CE may have seen the original
Menorah in the
Second Temple before its destruction in 70 CE?
... that when archaeologists excavated the
Urartian fortress-city of Erebuni they discovered a rich collection of
Persian artifacts dating back 2,500 years?
... that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in
Southern California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?
... that James Aubrey, who appeared in the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies, made his professional acting debut in Isle of Children?
... that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover
Doris Gibson, Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
... that the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a
archaeological culture extending acoss
Chile from 37° to 55° South?
... that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the
Hollywood-area with rich American husbands?
... that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in
Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern
Olympic Games?
... that Czech Republic
orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
... that the radar screen of the prototype reconnaissance version of the
SovietTupolev Tu-14 twin-jet
torpedo bomber could be recorded by a special camera?
... that
Dublin's 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
... that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the
Vienna State Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of
Friar Tuck?
... that Bjørn Kjos, former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of
Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
... that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
... that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of
hay?
... that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the
Flying Tigers in
Burma and
China?
... that Maurice Lenz, a physician, professor, and
radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
... that
basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
... that, prior to the formation of the Washington, D.C. fire department, building owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control?
... that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
... that block books(page pictured), short religious books printed from woodcuts containing both the text and illustrations, were once believed to pre-date the
Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), but are now known to date mostly from the 1460s and later?
... that former
PLO member Wahid Khalil Baroud was ordered deported and put on a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in airports for the next eight months?
... that
blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in
Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his
Chicago barbershop?
15 September 2009
18:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
... that as many as twenty generations of the agricultural pest green peach aphid(pictured) have been reported in warmer climates over the course of a year?
...that the British
RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish?
12:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
... that
songwriter and
composerPaul Dresser(pictured) amassed a large fortune writing songs in the 1890s but spent and gave away most of it before dying penniless in 1906?
... that in a 2001 survey of Animage magazine readers, the 50-episode series Digimon Adventure 02 was ranked 17th on the list of
anime that should be remembered?
... that Lloyd Brazil, once called "the ideal
football player," averaged more than eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the
University of Detroit?
... that, as a
publicity stunt, the makers of the film Asylum Seekers arranged for a couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's
premiere?
... that the Baroque Cherasco Synagogue was built on a courtyard so that the sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger the Jewish community?
... that the residents of
England's Butt Hole Road raised
£300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
... that
Montana's 30 percent
tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
... that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the "
singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing
folk music's rebirth?
... that the Ryūkyū Shimpō, founded in 1893 by former royal prince
Shō Jun, was the first newspaper in
Okinawa?
... that after the
German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the
civil resistance?
... that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates
complaint letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?
... that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the
New York State Assembly that preserved the right to declare "loss of
fetus" as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
... that the convicted killers known as the Scissor Sisters dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his
penis and dumped most of his body in the
Royal Canal?
... that
halfbackAndy Hastings led the 1916
Pitt football team to a national championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club?
... that after being driven mad, some survivors of the Brazilian
cruiserBahia jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks?
... that the declared purpose of the Texas Psychological Association is to advance the field of
psychology as a science, profession, and means of promoting human welfare?
... that after
B-50 SuperfortressLucky Lady II(pictured) ended the first round-the-world airplane flight,
Curtis LeMay of
SAC said the
USAF could now fly to "any place in the world that required the atomic bomb"?
... that 70 paintings of
Sofia(example pictured), the capital of
Bulgaria, by
Tyrolean-born painter and engineer Joseph Oberbauer are to be exhibited in Sofia's planned museum of local history?
... that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during
World War II, she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene, together with her husband
Halfdan Christensen?
... that the dark, puffadder, brown, and Natalshysharks(puffadder shyshark pictured) of
South Africa are so named because they curl into a ring when threatened and "shyly" cover their eyes with their tails?
... that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese Jiabiangou labor camp died within three years, mostly from starvation?
... that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the
NorwegianParliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad, ten years earlier?
... that in Taxco during Holy Week some perform penance walking with 50 kilograms (110 lb) bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs?
... that William of Pagula's book Oculus Sacerdotis, intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?
... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile
California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
... that after William Finch described
Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more Gates of Delhi(example pictured) were built by the
Mughals and
British — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition?
... that
Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
... that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links
Delhi’s history with the
Ashokan era (273–236 BC)?
... that the
Simpson Railroad is one of the last operational logging
railroads in the continental United States?
... that in the world's northernmost university it is obligatory to take self-defence shooting classes?
05:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
... that commissioners of the Alaska Road Commission declared that it had "no pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel" (bad road pictured)?
... that the hydraulis or
water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in
Greece, and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
... that prior to
reclamation of the Polaris mine, the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated
ore was the largest building in
Nunavut?
... that Jacob van Deventer spent fifteen years making hundreds of maps of Dutch cities, but his work was only rediscovered 299 years after he began?
... that Battle of Long Khanh was the last joint American-Australian battalion-sized operation in Vietnam?
... that wet storage stain, more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of
corrosion that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
... that a eutactic star(pictured), so named because it is deemed to be "well-situated" or "well-arranged", may be used to prove that any form is "eutactic"?
... that as the result of a wrong order, the elite
BritishT-Force moved in to
Kiel just prior to
VE Day while a strong
German force was still present in the city?
... that a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the Argos Archaeological Museum in
Greece is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
... that
RomanianDJDavid Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel and So Bizzare [sic], with the last becoming a number one hit?
... that Kirātārjunīya, a
Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
... that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as
murder, in a twelve-month span?
... that Giveamanakick's live performances involved
gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?
... that Doryphora sassafras(pictured) of southeastern Australia gains its name from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the
Sassafras of eastern North America?
... that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988
Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese
adult video director Tohjiro?
... that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon, are criminals?
... that Fuzhou Tanka people in
Fujian lived on boats most of their lives?
... that after The Saturday Evening Post announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
... that the Mercury-Atlas 8 spaceflight (pictured) in October 1962 was piloted by a
Turtle?
... that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former
burial ground in the
City of London, elevated above street level?
... that Japanese
erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?
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 *'''''~~~~~''''' 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.
30 September 2009
20:42, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
... that after serving in the Swedish and French militaries, Thure de Thulstrup later gained a reputation as "the foremost military artist in America" (example shown)?
... that
Canadian writer
Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love, despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
... that the 1920 film Sex, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in
Pennsylvania?
... that in modern
India, the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of
computers during the Ayudha Puja(pictured), as practised in the past for other implements?
... that the Tibetan Annals form the oldest surviving
Tibetan history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital,
Chang'an?
... that the nose and tail sections of the
SovietIlyushin Il-32 prototype
cargo glider(pictured) were hinged to open up to 95° to facilitate the loading of cargo?
... that the Sanni Yakuma is a traditional
Sinhaleseexorcism and dance ritual that calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through comic and obscene enactments?
... that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in the
labor federation's history?
... that the adult (pictured) and juvenile specimens of the Red-capped Parrot were so different that its discoverer
Heinrich Kuhl gave it the specific name spurius, meaning "illegitimate"?
... that the Ilyushin Il-18airliner was installed with different engines than those originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were unreliable?
... that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the
Tulsa race riot, but all copies of that page of the
newspaper have apparently disappeared?
... that after the release of
The Beatles' "
Lady Madonna" in March 1968, radio personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
... that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan's victory in the 1959
Rose of Tralee pageant?
... that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian
sound film, Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
... that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought
Manichaeanism east into
Sogdiana, and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of
Mani?
... that the namesake of the
VictorianBembridge House was strangled to death in 1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years?
... that Trimön, a
Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the
reincarnated14th Dalai Lama in 1935?
... that
Australian criminal Dennis Ferguson was forced to relocate to numerous locations around Australia due to public hostility and
news media attention?
... that in the 1977
pink filmFairy in a Cage, according to actress
Naomi Tani, her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
04:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
... that among the
Taíno people of the
Caribbean, a zemi(pictured) is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit?
... that when Cooper Arms opened in
Long Beach, California, it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
04:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
... that the
extinctNew Zealand Little Bittern(pictured) was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place?
... that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless
table grape variety in southern
Ontario?
... that of
Japanese band Supercell's eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers?
... that the Seinfeld episode "The Revenge" was based on an experience by screenwriter
Larry David, who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
... that John Lawford was the only
captain who fought at
Copenhagen in 1801 to receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle?
... that
Metallica's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album Death Magnetic?
... that after events of the
Gulf War in February 1991, the highway which connects
Kuwait City to Al Jahra became known as the
Highway of Death(demolished vehicles on the highway pictured)?
... that in writing the
1973 song "Hypnotized",
Bob Welch drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in
Hampshire that
Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
... that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual
cantileverframe, though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
... that after seeing Zero Hour, a play about the life of actor
Zero Mostel,
Theodore Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
... that a pyramid (artist's impression pictured) that contained the grave of
Queen Amanishakheto was located in Wad ban Naqa and her stone
stela was discovered in Naqa, both of which are in modern-day
Sudan?
... that Andrew Berg, a
Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of
Alaska, became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
... that the artist who made a stone
relief of the Menorah in
Israel's Migdal Synagogue in 50 BCE – 100 CE may have seen the original
Menorah in the
Second Temple before its destruction in 70 CE?
... that when archaeologists excavated the
Urartian fortress-city of Erebuni they discovered a rich collection of
Persian artifacts dating back 2,500 years?
... that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in
Southern California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s?
... that James Aubrey, who appeared in the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies, made his professional acting debut in Isle of Children?
... that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover
Doris Gibson, Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
... that the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a
archaeological culture extending acoss
Chile from 37° to 55° South?
... that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the
Hollywood-area with rich American husbands?
... that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in
Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern
Olympic Games?
... that Czech Republic
orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
... that the radar screen of the prototype reconnaissance version of the
SovietTupolev Tu-14 twin-jet
torpedo bomber could be recorded by a special camera?
... that
Dublin's 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
... that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the
Vienna State Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of
Friar Tuck?
... that Bjørn Kjos, former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of
Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
... that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
... that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of
hay?
... that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the
Flying Tigers in
Burma and
China?
... that Maurice Lenz, a physician, professor, and
radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
... that
basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
... that, prior to the formation of the Washington, D.C. fire department, building owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control?
... that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
... that block books(page pictured), short religious books printed from woodcuts containing both the text and illustrations, were once believed to pre-date the
Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), but are now known to date mostly from the 1460s and later?
... that former
PLO member Wahid Khalil Baroud was ordered deported and put on a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in airports for the next eight months?
... that
blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in
Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his
Chicago barbershop?
15 September 2009
18:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
... that as many as twenty generations of the agricultural pest green peach aphid(pictured) have been reported in warmer climates over the course of a year?
...that the British
RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish?
12:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
... that
songwriter and
composerPaul Dresser(pictured) amassed a large fortune writing songs in the 1890s but spent and gave away most of it before dying penniless in 1906?
... that in a 2001 survey of Animage magazine readers, the 50-episode series Digimon Adventure 02 was ranked 17th on the list of
anime that should be remembered?
... that Lloyd Brazil, once called "the ideal
football player," averaged more than eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the
University of Detroit?
... that, as a
publicity stunt, the makers of the film Asylum Seekers arranged for a couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's
premiere?
... that the Baroque Cherasco Synagogue was built on a courtyard so that the sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger the Jewish community?
... that the residents of
England's Butt Hole Road raised
£300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
... that
Montana's 30 percent
tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
... that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the "
singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing
folk music's rebirth?
... that the Ryūkyū Shimpō, founded in 1893 by former royal prince
Shō Jun, was the first newspaper in
Okinawa?
... that after the
German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the
civil resistance?
... that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates
complaint letters that are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to mean something"?
... that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the
New York State Assembly that preserved the right to declare "loss of
fetus" as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
... that the convicted killers known as the Scissor Sisters dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his
penis and dumped most of his body in the
Royal Canal?
... that
halfbackAndy Hastings led the 1916
Pitt football team to a national championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club?
... that after being driven mad, some survivors of the Brazilian
cruiserBahia jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks?
... that the declared purpose of the Texas Psychological Association is to advance the field of
psychology as a science, profession, and means of promoting human welfare?
... that after
B-50 SuperfortressLucky Lady II(pictured) ended the first round-the-world airplane flight,
Curtis LeMay of
SAC said the
USAF could now fly to "any place in the world that required the atomic bomb"?
... that 70 paintings of
Sofia(example pictured), the capital of
Bulgaria, by
Tyrolean-born painter and engineer Joseph Oberbauer are to be exhibited in Sofia's planned museum of local history?
... that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during
World War II, she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene, together with her husband
Halfdan Christensen?
... that the dark, puffadder, brown, and Natalshysharks(puffadder shyshark pictured) of
South Africa are so named because they curl into a ring when threatened and "shyly" cover their eyes with their tails?
... that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese Jiabiangou labor camp died within three years, mostly from starvation?
... that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the
NorwegianParliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad, ten years earlier?
... that in Taxco during Holy Week some perform penance walking with 50 kilograms (110 lb) bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs?
... that William of Pagula's book Oculus Sacerdotis, intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?
... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile
California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
... that after William Finch described
Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more Gates of Delhi(example pictured) were built by the
Mughals and
British — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition?
... that
Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
... that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links
Delhi’s history with the
Ashokan era (273–236 BC)?
... that the
Simpson Railroad is one of the last operational logging
railroads in the continental United States?
... that in the world's northernmost university it is obligatory to take self-defence shooting classes?
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... that commissioners of the Alaska Road Commission declared that it had "no pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel" (bad road pictured)?
... that the hydraulis or
water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in
Greece, and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
... that prior to
reclamation of the Polaris mine, the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated
ore was the largest building in
Nunavut?
... that Jacob van Deventer spent fifteen years making hundreds of maps of Dutch cities, but his work was only rediscovered 299 years after he began?
... that Battle of Long Khanh was the last joint American-Australian battalion-sized operation in Vietnam?
... that wet storage stain, more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of
corrosion that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
... that a eutactic star(pictured), so named because it is deemed to be "well-situated" or "well-arranged", may be used to prove that any form is "eutactic"?
... that as the result of a wrong order, the elite
BritishT-Force moved in to
Kiel just prior to
VE Day while a strong
German force was still present in the city?
... that a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the Argos Archaeological Museum in
Greece is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
... that
RomanianDJDavid Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two songs simultaneously, I Can Feel and So Bizzare [sic], with the last becoming a number one hit?
... that Kirātārjunīya, a
Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
... that Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as
murder, in a twelve-month span?
... that Giveamanakick's live performances involved
gas masks and streamers and one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the head with a plank of wood for half an hour"?
... that Doryphora sassafras(pictured) of southeastern Australia gains its name from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the
Sassafras of eastern North America?
... that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988
Yokohama Film Festival Best New Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese
adult video director Tohjiro?
... that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon, are criminals?
... that Fuzhou Tanka people in
Fujian lived on boats most of their lives?
... that after The Saturday Evening Post announced its closure in 1969, embittered editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics will lose their other eye"?
... that the Mercury-Atlas 8 spaceflight (pictured) in October 1962 was piloted by a
Turtle?
... that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former
burial ground in the
City of London, elevated above street level?
... that Japanese
erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36?