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... that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German
war poet of the
First World War?
... that Fily Dabo Sissoko, who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in
Mali?
... that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the
United States?
... that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of
Bolivia in 1985?
... that intense heat from WWII bombing interfered with a ceramic dating assay?
29 April 2010
16:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the demon Kabandha(pictured), from the
Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?
... that
quarterbackWalter Kennedy's amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the
University of Chicago?
... that the satirical video Gap Yah, describing the experiences of fictional
rah Orlando during his
gap year, became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
... that
RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton(pictured) was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an
Air Vice Marshal?
... that the
Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local
Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
... that naturalist
John Burroughs(pictured) began the nature fakers controversy in 1903 after publishing an essay titled "Real and Sham Natural History" which lambasted popular nature writers of the day?
... that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female
inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan?
... that Nora Okja Keller wrote the novel Comfort Woman, about Koreans used as
sex slaves by the Japanese army in World War II, after she heard a lecture by a former victim?
... that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction?
... that in the 1820s, several books on
geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and
Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
... that upon the death of the
Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System?
... that Otto Thott possessed one of the largest private libraries of the 18th century in Denmark?
... that after retiring from politics, Oregon
U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized
bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of
Vietnam?
... that in recommending their products,
Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens, a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
... that, despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and
Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?
... that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at
Cambridge University, he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and
Madeira?
... that actress and former sex symbol
Morgan Fairchild took the role of a drug addict in the film Street of Dreams because she wanted to play "somebody who looks like hell"?
... that the Melingoi were a
Slavic group that settled in southern
Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
... that Annie Hall Cudlip, one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the
Victorian era, wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
... that the
Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in
Greek, considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master,
Ali Pasha of
Ioannina?
... that 6th-century poet Talhaearn Tad Awen has left no surviving verse, yet may have been remembered as the father of Welsh poetry, whose work used to be rewarded with 100 cows in a bath-tub every Saturday?
00:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the
Mexican craft of alebrijes(pictured) is attributed to
Pedro Linares, who supposedly dreamed the creatures and the name while sick with a fever?
... that the 2010
public information filmEmbrace Life, originally made for just the
Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
... that Swiss
photographerBalthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the
canvas?
... that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid
Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial
liaison type despite having
folding wings?
... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in
Hebrew?
... that the name of the
palm genus Chelyocarpus, which means "turtle
carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
... that Australian dance music duo
Pnau's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared
samples, won an
ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in
2000?
... that Israeli soldiers stopped their vehicles to kiss the ground after winning the Battle of 'Auja and crossing the border into the
Sinai Peninsula?
... that the best known work of
lecturerJames Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?
... that Larry Dell Alexander is best known for his Clinton Family Portrait oil painting, which he gave to U.S. President
Bill Clinton in 1995?
... that when
Canadiannun and
midwifeRosalie Cadron-Jetté(pictured) founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in
Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
... that Phebe Sudlow was the first female
superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the
University of Iowa, despite having no formal college degree?
... that the Amar Mahal Palace(pictured) in
Jammu,
India, built by a
French architect on the lines of a
chateau for Raja Amar Singh, is now run as a museum by the Hari-Tara charitable trust?
... that nearly a century after its discovery, the Peruvian rodent Eremoryzomys remains so poorly known that its
conservation status cannot be assessed?
... that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904)?
12:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
... that although the red flowerheads of the Monga waratah(pictured) are less showy than the famous
New South Wales waratah, they are more numerous?
... that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for
alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on
A.A. founder
Bill W.?
... that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled
RussianMenshevik Party, was published from
New York until 1965?
... that Adalbert Kraus performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter OratorioKommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run)?
... that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the
1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of
drug and
alcohol treatment programs through the
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
... that the schooner Larinda was built over a period of twenty-six years in the owner's backyard?
... that the Page brothers who were over 7
ft tall and toured in a
circus as the Newbourne Giants are buried in the village of Newbourne in Suffolk, England?
... that the Tutelo language, once spoken by
Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in
Ontario?
... that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important
Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch
Enlightenment?
... that the Ford Fairlane Thunderboltdrag racing car had a metal tag attached to the inside of the glovebox door warning that the fit and finish were not up to company standards?
... that
Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when
glaciers blocked the
Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
... that the Ebla tablets, found in ancient
Ebla,
Syria, and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of
beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
... that footballer Arthur Bate scored a
hat-trick on his league debut for
Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match?
17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the opening angle of hollow carbon nanocones(pictured) is not arbitrary, but has a few preferential values?
... that the Gaelic Journal, first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living
Irish language"?
... that Claude Phillips was the first
keeper of the
Wallace Collection, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
... that the Ysleta Mission(pictured) is the oldest parish in the state of
Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
... that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President
George W. Bush?
... that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in
Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in
Assamese) were assigned by the
Ahom king to build it?
... that the Google Guys, composed of
Google founders
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of
US$17.5 billion each?
... that the female
devata reliefs of the temple of Thommanon in
Cambodia grip flowers very distinctively, using their ring and middle fingers whilst extending their index and small fingers?
... that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a
VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?
... that the sight of the "gravity defying" Kyaiktiyo Pagoda(pictured) or Golden Rock, in the
Mon State of
Myanmar, has been described as "enough to inspire a religious conversion"?
... that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband
Roland Bonaparte, Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million
francs?
... that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
... that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
... that actor Jim O'Heir, who plays
Jerry on the
NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
... that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder, when called to advise upon the
Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
...that Darell Hammond co-founded
KaBOOM!, an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
... that the Hirtz compass, a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
... that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an
MC5 performance?
... that although considered as the ideal woman in
Philippine society, María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the
Filipina in the last 100 years"?
... that Sir
Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk, a
UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
... that the
word gameTrickster, a spin-off of
Scrabble, includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form
proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
... that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in
Mexico, he is also remembered today for his 1871
operaGuatimotzin?
... that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis, Embothrium, Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
... that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed
Alex Band's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
... that the eight foot stone atrium cross of the former monastery of Acolman,
Mexico(pictured), is an expression of "tequiqui" or Christian art executed by Indian craftsmen?
... that Alex Silvagni's debut performances in the
Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
... that in
rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
... that throughout his career,
Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
... that
Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the
Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
... that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
... that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
... that
Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a
donkey on State television?
... that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the
Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
... that there are a number of ghost stations along the
Paris Métro, including two with no above-ground entrances?
06:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
... that American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument (pictured) in
Vientiane,
Laos?
... that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist
Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother
Miles, and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
... that in less than eight years, Michael Burry's hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the
Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?
... that
Butler men's basketball head coach Brad Stevens(pictured) has won 89 games in his first three years, exceeding the previous
NCAA record by 8 games?
... that
Thomas Gray tried to prevent the publication of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and asked that his name be removed from the published version, but it is now considered "the best-known and best-loved poem in English"?
... that a monument for ten Israeli soldiers killed after the 1948 Battle of Bir 'Asluj was erected from the rubble of the booby-trapped police station in which they were killed?
... that James Harrison, sometimes called the "man with the golden arm", is credited with saving the lives of two million babies?
... that at 44
tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
... that even though the Occoquan Reservoir in northern
Virginia provides an output of 17 million gallons a day to 1.2 million people, it is listed on Virginia's Dirty Water List?
... that Race Foster and Marty Smith, co-founders of pet supply company Drs. Foster & Smith, hosted the
Animal Planet TV show Faithful Friends for two years?
... that a seam (pictured) along the eastern wall of the
Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a
Seleucid citadel in ancient
Jerusalem?
... that 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the
North Atlantic, and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter
Phil Ochs wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his career?
... that the pipits(species pictured) are a
genus, Anthus, of
songbirds that
evolved in East Asia during the
Miocene before spreading around the world?
... that a hole was made in 1997 in the belly of the Mahamuni
Buddha statue (pictured) at the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in
Mandalay,
Myanmar, aiming to steal embedded jewels thought to be inside?
... that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Slaugham,
West Sussex, resolved a dispute about
pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them?
... that according to a 2007 Australian national survey covering cannabis use in Australia, one-third of the population aged 14 years or older have tried the drug at least once?
... that the
North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
... that one of the frescoes found at the royal palace in
Mari, Syria, depicts in the center the "investiture of
Zimrilim" by a warrior-goddess, most probably
Ishtar?
... that
Dope Stars Inc.'s debut album was originally titled New Breed of Digital Fuckers before they changed the title to Neuromance a few months before release?
... that the church (pictured) in the Doly district of
Karviná,
Czech Republic, still holds
Masses, despite leaning 6.8° due to extensive coal undermining?
... that when Walter Lappert started an ice cream company in 1983 at age 61 he sold out his first batch of 17,000 liters in just two weeks?
... that the words of the 1974 song "Take Me to the River", written by
Al Green, were described by musician
David Byrne as combining "teenage lust with baptism – a potent blend"?
... that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister
Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than
The Beatles?
... that the world's northernmost grove of
Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
... that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German
war poet of the
First World War?
... that Fily Dabo Sissoko, who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in
Mali?
... that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the
United States?
... that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of
Bolivia in 1985?
... that intense heat from WWII bombing interfered with a ceramic dating assay?
29 April 2010
16:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the demon Kabandha(pictured), from the
Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?
... that
quarterbackWalter Kennedy's amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the
University of Chicago?
... that the satirical video Gap Yah, describing the experiences of fictional
rah Orlando during his
gap year, became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
... that
RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton(pictured) was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an
Air Vice Marshal?
... that the
Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local
Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
... that naturalist
John Burroughs(pictured) began the nature fakers controversy in 1903 after publishing an essay titled "Real and Sham Natural History" which lambasted popular nature writers of the day?
... that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female
inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan?
... that Nora Okja Keller wrote the novel Comfort Woman, about Koreans used as
sex slaves by the Japanese army in World War II, after she heard a lecture by a former victim?
... that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction?
... that in the 1820s, several books on
geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and
Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
... that upon the death of the
Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System?
... that Otto Thott possessed one of the largest private libraries of the 18th century in Denmark?
... that after retiring from politics, Oregon
U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized
bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of
Vietnam?
... that in recommending their products,
Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens, a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
... that, despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and
Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?
... that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at
Cambridge University, he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and
Madeira?
... that actress and former sex symbol
Morgan Fairchild took the role of a drug addict in the film Street of Dreams because she wanted to play "somebody who looks like hell"?
... that the Melingoi were a
Slavic group that settled in southern
Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
... that Annie Hall Cudlip, one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the
Victorian era, wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
... that the
Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in
Greek, considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master,
Ali Pasha of
Ioannina?
... that 6th-century poet Talhaearn Tad Awen has left no surviving verse, yet may have been remembered as the father of Welsh poetry, whose work used to be rewarded with 100 cows in a bath-tub every Saturday?
00:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the
Mexican craft of alebrijes(pictured) is attributed to
Pedro Linares, who supposedly dreamed the creatures and the name while sick with a fever?
... that the 2010
public information filmEmbrace Life, originally made for just the
Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
... that Swiss
photographerBalthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the
canvas?
... that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid
Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial
liaison type despite having
folding wings?
... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in
Hebrew?
... that the name of the
palm genus Chelyocarpus, which means "turtle
carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
... that Australian dance music duo
Pnau's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared
samples, won an
ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in
2000?
... that Israeli soldiers stopped their vehicles to kiss the ground after winning the Battle of 'Auja and crossing the border into the
Sinai Peninsula?
... that the best known work of
lecturerJames Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?
... that Larry Dell Alexander is best known for his Clinton Family Portrait oil painting, which he gave to U.S. President
Bill Clinton in 1995?
... that when
Canadiannun and
midwifeRosalie Cadron-Jetté(pictured) founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in
Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
... that Phebe Sudlow was the first female
superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the
University of Iowa, despite having no formal college degree?
... that the Amar Mahal Palace(pictured) in
Jammu,
India, built by a
French architect on the lines of a
chateau for Raja Amar Singh, is now run as a museum by the Hari-Tara charitable trust?
... that nearly a century after its discovery, the Peruvian rodent Eremoryzomys remains so poorly known that its
conservation status cannot be assessed?
... that in 1942, following the printing of the poem "Vi vil oss et land", an arrest order was issued on poet Per Sivle (1857–1904)?
12:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
... that although the red flowerheads of the Monga waratah(pictured) are less showy than the famous
New South Wales waratah, they are more numerous?
... that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for
alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on
A.A. founder
Bill W.?
... that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled
RussianMenshevik Party, was published from
New York until 1965?
... that Adalbert Kraus performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter OratorioKommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run)?
... that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the
1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of
drug and
alcohol treatment programs through the
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
... that the schooner Larinda was built over a period of twenty-six years in the owner's backyard?
... that the Page brothers who were over 7
ft tall and toured in a
circus as the Newbourne Giants are buried in the village of Newbourne in Suffolk, England?
... that the Tutelo language, once spoken by
Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in
Ontario?
... that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important
Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch
Enlightenment?
... that the Ford Fairlane Thunderboltdrag racing car had a metal tag attached to the inside of the glovebox door warning that the fit and finish were not up to company standards?
... that
Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when
glaciers blocked the
Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
... that the Ebla tablets, found in ancient
Ebla,
Syria, and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of
beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
... that footballer Arthur Bate scored a
hat-trick on his league debut for
Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match?
17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
... that the opening angle of hollow carbon nanocones(pictured) is not arbitrary, but has a few preferential values?
... that the Gaelic Journal, first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living
Irish language"?
... that Claude Phillips was the first
keeper of the
Wallace Collection, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
... that the Ysleta Mission(pictured) is the oldest parish in the state of
Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
... that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President
George W. Bush?
... that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in
Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in
Assamese) were assigned by the
Ahom king to build it?
... that the Google Guys, composed of
Google founders
Sergey Brin and
Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of
US$17.5 billion each?
... that the female
devata reliefs of the temple of Thommanon in
Cambodia grip flowers very distinctively, using their ring and middle fingers whilst extending their index and small fingers?
... that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a
VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?
... that the sight of the "gravity defying" Kyaiktiyo Pagoda(pictured) or Golden Rock, in the
Mon State of
Myanmar, has been described as "enough to inspire a religious conversion"?
... that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband
Roland Bonaparte, Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million
francs?
... that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
... that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
... that actor Jim O'Heir, who plays
Jerry on the
NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
... that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder, when called to advise upon the
Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
...that Darell Hammond co-founded
KaBOOM!, an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
... that the Hirtz compass, a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
... that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an
MC5 performance?
... that although considered as the ideal woman in
Philippine society, María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the
Filipina in the last 100 years"?
... that Sir
Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk, a
UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
... that the
word gameTrickster, a spin-off of
Scrabble, includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form
proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
... that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in
Mexico, he is also remembered today for his 1871
operaGuatimotzin?
... that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis, Embothrium, Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
... that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed
Alex Band's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
... that the eight foot stone atrium cross of the former monastery of Acolman,
Mexico(pictured), is an expression of "tequiqui" or Christian art executed by Indian craftsmen?
... that Alex Silvagni's debut performances in the
Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
... that in
rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
... that throughout his career,
Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
... that
Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the
Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
... that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
... that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
... that
Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a
donkey on State television?
... that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the
Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
... that there are a number of ghost stations along the
Paris Métro, including two with no above-ground entrances?
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... that American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument (pictured) in
Vientiane,
Laos?
... that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist
Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother
Miles, and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
... that in less than eight years, Michael Burry's hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the
Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?
... that
Butler men's basketball head coach Brad Stevens(pictured) has won 89 games in his first three years, exceeding the previous
NCAA record by 8 games?
... that
Thomas Gray tried to prevent the publication of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and asked that his name be removed from the published version, but it is now considered "the best-known and best-loved poem in English"?
... that a monument for ten Israeli soldiers killed after the 1948 Battle of Bir 'Asluj was erected from the rubble of the booby-trapped police station in which they were killed?
... that James Harrison, sometimes called the "man with the golden arm", is credited with saving the lives of two million babies?
... that at 44
tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
... that even though the Occoquan Reservoir in northern
Virginia provides an output of 17 million gallons a day to 1.2 million people, it is listed on Virginia's Dirty Water List?
... that Race Foster and Marty Smith, co-founders of pet supply company Drs. Foster & Smith, hosted the
Animal Planet TV show Faithful Friends for two years?
... that a seam (pictured) along the eastern wall of the
Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a
Seleucid citadel in ancient
Jerusalem?
... that 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the
North Atlantic, and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter
Phil Ochs wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his career?
... that the pipits(species pictured) are a
genus, Anthus, of
songbirds that
evolved in East Asia during the
Miocene before spreading around the world?
... that a hole was made in 1997 in the belly of the Mahamuni
Buddha statue (pictured) at the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in
Mandalay,
Myanmar, aiming to steal embedded jewels thought to be inside?
... that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Slaugham,
West Sussex, resolved a dispute about
pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them?
... that according to a 2007 Australian national survey covering cannabis use in Australia, one-third of the population aged 14 years or older have tried the drug at least once?
... that the
North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
... that one of the frescoes found at the royal palace in
Mari, Syria, depicts in the center the "investiture of
Zimrilim" by a warrior-goddess, most probably
Ishtar?
... that
Dope Stars Inc.'s debut album was originally titled New Breed of Digital Fuckers before they changed the title to Neuromance a few months before release?
... that the church (pictured) in the Doly district of
Karviná,
Czech Republic, still holds
Masses, despite leaning 6.8° due to extensive coal undermining?
... that when Walter Lappert started an ice cream company in 1983 at age 61 he sold out his first batch of 17,000 liters in just two weeks?
... that the words of the 1974 song "Take Me to the River", written by
Al Green, were described by musician
David Byrne as combining "teenage lust with baptism – a potent blend"?
... that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister
Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than
The Beatles?
... that the world's northernmost grove of
Redwood trees is located in the Chetco River watershed and includes specimens reaching over 300 feet (91 m) tall?