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... that elections of Superintendents of the
Provinces of New Zealand were such exciting events that even the children of that time could remember it later in their adult lives?
... that the Kolb Flyerultralight aircraft is powered by two engines that only produce 11.5 horsepower (8.6 kW) each?
... that the animators of the video game company
Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky?
... that the Messina Palace in
Valletta, a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the
Federal Republic of Germany?
... that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful
turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet
Kuznetsov NK-12?
... that actor
Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock "I Do Do" after learning he was at the top of series creator
Tina Fey's guest star wish list?
... that the Dyott monoplane, built in
London, was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been
commandeered by the
Admiralty in 1914?
... that the Saab 18 bomber could be fitted with a 57-millimetre (2.2 in)
cannon under the nose for
strafing missions?
... that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb's 1989
album, Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three
drunken women?
06:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
... that Robert Deniston Hume(pictured), a late 19th-century
salmon-cannery and
hatchery owner on the lower
Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon, referred to himself as a "pygmy monopolist"?
... that
Josephus, who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat, was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded
Yodfat's defenders?
... that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his
Deperdussin in
Nassau, carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
... that typhoid adware infesting a victim's laptop may pump advertisements to "healthy" laptops close by in a wireless
internet cafe without the victim's knowledge?
... that in England's
Premier League football competition, 14 players from 10 different clubs have won the Golden Boot award, given to the season's top scorer?
... that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the
porgy family, which contains well over 100
species in 37
genera?
... that the Eastern Docklands in
Amsterdam, which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
... that sultan
Baybars divided the land of Ar'ara between two of his
amirs in 1265–1266 CE?
... that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a
Latin poem on the life of
St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in
pre-conquest England"?
... that in the Bancoult litigation, the
English courts and government first decided that the
Chagossians could return home, then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?
12:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
... that according to the
Hindu epic Mahabharata, the apsaraTilottama(pictured) was so beautiful that the god-king
Indra developed a thousand eyes on his body to see her?
... that the destruction of over 150 million
reis-worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in
England and not
Portugal?
... that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at
Portsmouth?
... that John Rinka, the eighth-highest scoring player in
NCAA men's
basketball history, scored 3,251 points in the era before the
three-point line was instituted?
... that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy
hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
... that Mien Ruys, a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien?
... that while inspecting
anemometers on the rooftop of the Bidston Observatory, John Hartnup Jr. "was seized with a fit of giddiness" and fell to his death?
... that
Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines planned the first transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
... that
Stephen Gately's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of
Dublin City", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"?
... that Doug Yasinsky and Brick Bronsky started their own Harrisburg-based wrestling league, International Pro Wrestling?
... that an
Edinburgh judge and
Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange(pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland?
... that the British band
Githead was originally formed in 2004 as a one-off live act to celebrate the 10th anniversary of
Colin Newman's and
Malka Spigel's record label Swim ~?
... that the same cast members starred in
Robert Altman's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
... that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of
Tuvalu, pulaka, is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
... that after the
Battle of Austerlitz in 1805,
Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery(pictured) in northwestern
Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular
Gothic decorative features?
... that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its
center of gravity?
... that
Lithuanian-born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in
West Berlin, the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
... that due to
Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three
chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the
Wong Chhu?
... that in order to refloat her after running aground off
Finland in 1918, SMS Rheinland(pictured) needed 6,400 metric tons of equipment removed, more than a third of her normal
displacement?
... that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
... that remnants of a
mill and
dam, originally built in late
Roman/early
Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated
Palestinian village of Al-Mirr?
... that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first
Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
... that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in
Texas; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked
Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
... that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to
Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
... that
American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of
The Pips, and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
... that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame?
... that the mosaic floor of the Maon Synagogue shows the steps in ancient wine making?
... that Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose?
... that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine, participants complained of being hassled by the
police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
... that Epenow, the
Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in
Shakespeare'sHenry VIII?
... that when not in use, a Halkett boat's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?
18 May 2010
18:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
... that when the Dungtse Lhakhang(pictured) in
Paro, Bhutan, was restored in 1841, the donors were thanked by etching their names on tree trunks which form the columns of the ground floor?
... that after the death of Sangamitta, the daughter of
Emperor Ashoka, observances were held in her honor throughout
Sri Lanka for one week?
... that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became
Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
... that the crew of Russian
cruiserGromoboi(pictured) suffered heavily during the
Battle off Ulsan because their captain ordered his gunners to remain at their guns even when they were out of range?
... that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important
Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
... that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?
17 May 2010
18:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
... that astronomer Ben Gascoigne(pictured) discovered that the
Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the
Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
... that former Philippine President
Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a
guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
... that the
hull of the Russian
imperial yachtLivadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?
... that the name of the
liverwortgenusPtilidium comes from the
Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
... that a specimen of the
bioaccumulator fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria(example pictured) was found to contain the highest concentration of
arsenic ever reported in a mushroom?
... that in the mid-1700s,
inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa, a
Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of
Osijek in
Croatia?
... that the 1982 play Intimate Exchanges by
Alan Ayckbourn includes 31 scenes, 16 possible endings, 10 characters, and 8 major plot variations, all performed by only 2 actors?
... that Shirley Davidson, an
ice hockey player who had won the
Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after
his father refused them permission to marry?
... that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade, to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own
day care facility?
... that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
... that
Capitol Records initially refused to release
Merle Haggard's song "
Irma Jackson", which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?
... that Fred Thompson, who wrote the book for many hit
musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on
Broadway simultaneously?
... that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?
... that
Texas A&M football coach Harry Stiteler resigned in 1951 after admitting he had misrepresented the facts about being beaten by a stranger near a
Houston hotel?
... that where the
legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to
plead or prove the law that applies to their case?
... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the
North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
... that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a
corrupt practice, they are prevented from
voting or holding elected office for five years?
... that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a
zhiqing?
... that Planet Earth Live is a
BBCnature documentary that will premier with orchestral accompaniment in large cities throughout the United States during the 2010 summer?
... that Unicorns, an unpaid English cricket team made up of out-of-contract professionals and aspiring youngsters, was created to take part in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition?
... that the
Rihanna song "Breakin' Dishes" is about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband?
... that when transferred from
Lincoln City to
Leicester City for £27,500 in 1954, English
footballerAndy Graver was said to be "afraid of the responsibility of living up to such a big price tag"?
... that in 2008
Australian judge Betty King referred to herself as the "queen of banning things"?
00:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
... that the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern
Oregon has had a 60-foot high
fire lookout tower(pictured) with a built-in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
... that Ricardo Blas, Jr. surpassed the previous record for the heaviest Olympic competitor by 44 lb (20 kg) when he competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1973 the
Paraguayan Episcopal Conference was able to revive a newspaper of its own, Sendero, after having shut its previous press organ in 1969 due to government harassment?
... that the name of the Karmanasa River in
India means "destroyer of religious merit"?
... that the pyramid in the centre of
Karlsruhe, Germany, was erected over the vault of the city's founder?
... that the song "Let's Live for Today", which became a 1967
hit single for
The Grass Roots, was originally titled "Piangi Con Me" and featured lyrics written entirely in Italian?
... that the word "Jejemon" may come from
Filipino online users' penchant to type in "hehehe" as "jejeje", supposedly because the letters "h" and "j" are beside each other?
... that although Kënka e sprasme e Balës is the best-known work of Gavril Dara the Younger, it was published after his death?
... that the Danish Society for Nature Conservation began campaigning against
litter in 1912 with the slogan "Sandwich wrappers and egg shells don't look pretty in forest pools!"?
08:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
... that by the 19th century, the penlops, ruling from Trongsa Dzong(pictured), had become so powerful that
Trongsa had effectively become the capital of
Bhutan?
... that Ernie Zampese coached the leading
pass offense in the
NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in
Air Coryell?
... that the
Palestinian village of Hableh is located on a rocky ridge in which there are numerous ancient
cisterns cut into the rock?
... that Hoya Saxa is the
Georgetown University school cheer, and has been used by students at sporting events since the 1890s or earlier?
00:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
... that
New Zealand's indigenous
Māori people used the cabbage tree Cordyline australis for food, medicine, and to make strong ropes like those used for morere swings (pictured)?
... that the school opened at Gjønnes in 2004 was moved from
Nadderud, where it had been established in 1958 with the intention of existing only five years?
... that the
German settlement of Hochheim, Texas, which means "high home", is named for founder Volentine Hoch who appropriately built his house on a nearby hill?
... that David Moosman led his high school to the
Illinois state championship in
football and qualified for the state championships three times in
wrestling?
... that although the
genusHesperomys once included most of the
cricetid rodents of the Americas, it is now no longer used?
... that in 1982, a Canadian
Member of Parliament accused the CIA of infiltrating the
RCMP and funneling political contributions to favoured politicians in provincial elections?
... that, although first active in the
Romanian capital of
Bucharest, poet Alexandru Robot identified more with his adoptive
Bessarabia and was called a "semi-Bessarabian"?
... that the Tango Monastery(pictured) in
Thimpu was founded by Lama Gyalwa Lhanampa in the 13th century and built in its present form by
Tenzin Rabgye, the fourth King of
Bhutan, in 1688?
... that two of Mitty Collier's biggest hit records were versions of
gospel songs originally penned by
James Cleveland, but rewritten with secular lyrics?
... that in September 2009, Buckinghamshire-based coach company Woottens Luxury Travel teamed up with local radio station
Mix 96 in a promotion to name their
tiger mascot?
... that 18th-century publisher John Marshall popularized fictional biographies for children?
... that a forty year old disagreement over the maritime Russia–Norway border, where the disputed area covered 175,000 km2 (68,000 sq mi), was settled in April 2010?
... that when Scottish poet
Hugh MacDiarmid was found plagiarising the work of Welsh author Glyn Jones, he claimed he had a
photographic memory and had copied his work unconsciously?
... that McMillan Hall at
Washington & Jefferson College is the eighth oldest academic building in the United States that is still used for its original educational purpose?
... that the most influential person in Mike Hanopol's career as a pioneer
Pinoy rocker was his guitar-playing maternal grandmother?
... that
Benjamin West's painting The Death of Nelson(pictured) proved so popular that, within about a month, it was seen by 30,000 people in his studio?
... that the
Bessarabian-centered agenda with which Viaţa Basarabiei magazine confronted
Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious
nativism" and an "aberrant form of defense"?
... that because their range is the southernmost of all
rainbowfishes, Australian rainbowfish can tolerate low winter temperatures of 10 to 15 °C (50 to 59 °F)?
... that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in
Nairobi and for 6 hours in
Mombasa?
... that while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in
Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?
... that St. Nicholas Kirche in New York City(pictured), founded in 1833 by the Austrian priest Johann Stephen Raffeiner, was the first German-speaking church in the city?
... that
Dayton Flyers coach Mike Kelly has the fourth best winning percentage (81.9%) of all time among
college football coaches with at least 25 years of experience?
... that former
Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus?
... that
U-30 sank the first ship in
World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner
Athenia, just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
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 elections of Superintendents of the
Provinces of New Zealand were such exciting events that even the children of that time could remember it later in their adult lives?
... that the Kolb Flyerultralight aircraft is powered by two engines that only produce 11.5 horsepower (8.6 kW) each?
... that the animators of the video game company
Amanita Design created the designs of puppets for the film Kooky?
... that the Messina Palace in
Valletta, a residence of wealthy naval officers for centuries, was purchased by the German-Maltese Circle in 1989, with assistance from the
Federal Republic of Germany?
... that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful
turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet
Kuznetsov NK-12?
... that actor
Matt Damon guest starred in the season finale episode of 30 Rock "I Do Do" after learning he was at the top of series creator
Tina Fey's guest star wish list?
... that the Dyott monoplane, built in
London, was flown over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in the United States during 1913, and would have been flown in India had it not been
commandeered by the
Admiralty in 1914?
... that the Saab 18 bomber could be fitted with a 57-millimetre (2.2 in)
cannon under the nose for
strafing missions?
... that the title track of Boogie Bill Webb's 1989
album, Drinkin' and Stinkin', was inspired by his encounter with three
drunken women?
06:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
... that Robert Deniston Hume(pictured), a late 19th-century
salmon-cannery and
hatchery owner on the lower
Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon, referred to himself as a "pygmy monopolist"?
... that
Josephus, who provides the sole surviving account of the Siege of Yodfat, was not only a participant of the battle but in fact commanded
Yodfat's defenders?
... that in 1911, pioneer aviator George Dyott made one of the first nighttime flights in his
Deperdussin in
Nassau, carrying a searchlight powered by cables to the ground?
... that typhoid adware infesting a victim's laptop may pump advertisements to "healthy" laptops close by in a wireless
internet cafe without the victim's knowledge?
... that in England's
Premier League football competition, 14 players from 10 different clubs have won the Golden Boot award, given to the season's top scorer?
... that the Littlehead porgy fish has been described as one of the most brightly colored members of the
porgy family, which contains well over 100
species in 37
genera?
... that the Eastern Docklands in
Amsterdam, which used to be an industrial harbor area, now attracts trendy professionals and young families with children?
... that sultan
Baybars divided the land of Ar'ara between two of his
amirs in 1265–1266 CE?
... that the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a
Latin poem on the life of
St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in
pre-conquest England"?
... that in the Bancoult litigation, the
English courts and government first decided that the
Chagossians could return home, then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?
12:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
... that according to the
Hindu epic Mahabharata, the apsaraTilottama(pictured) was so beautiful that the god-king
Indra developed a thousand eyes on his body to see her?
... that the destruction of over 150 million
reis-worth of Nyassa Company stamps was ordered in 1895 by the Portuguese government because the stamps had been printed in
England and not
Portugal?
... that the medieval English royal administrator William of Wrotham (d. c. 1217) was responsible for the development of royal dockyards at
Portsmouth?
... that John Rinka, the eighth-highest scoring player in
NCAA men's
basketball history, scored 3,251 points in the era before the
three-point line was instituted?
... that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy
hagiographies from the Middle Ages?
... that Mien Ruys, a Dutch garden architect, started the fad of designing gardens using railroad ties (Dutch, bielzen), so much so that her nickname became Bielzen Mien?
... that while inspecting
anemometers on the rooftop of the Bidston Observatory, John Hartnup Jr. "was seized with a fit of giddiness" and fell to his death?
... that
Pan Am and Norwegian Air Lines planned the first transatlantic scheduled airline service in 1936, but Pan Am backed out three weeks before the scheduled start, and instead ran a route further south?
... that
Stephen Gately's book The Tree of Seasons contains an introduction written by his husband describing his early life in one of "the poorest parts of
Dublin City", "a place of civil unrest and terrorist activity"?
... that Doug Yasinsky and Brick Bronsky started their own Harrisburg-based wrestling league, International Pro Wrestling?
... that an
Edinburgh judge and
Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange(pictured), kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland?
... that the British band
Githead was originally formed in 2004 as a one-off live act to celebrate the 10th anniversary of
Colin Newman's and
Malka Spigel's record label Swim ~?
... that the same cast members starred in
Robert Altman's 1982 Broadway and film versions of Ed Graczyk's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean?
... that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of
Tuvalu, pulaka, is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
... that after the
Battle of Austerlitz in 1805,
Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery(pictured) in northwestern
Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular
Gothic decorative features?
... that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its
center of gravity?
... that
Lithuanian-born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in
West Berlin, the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
... that due to
Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three
chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the
Wong Chhu?
... that in order to refloat her after running aground off
Finland in 1918, SMS Rheinland(pictured) needed 6,400 metric tons of equipment removed, more than a third of her normal
displacement?
... that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
... that remnants of a
mill and
dam, originally built in late
Roman/early
Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated
Palestinian village of Al-Mirr?
... that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first
Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
... that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in
Texas; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked
Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
... that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to
Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
... that
American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of
The Pips, and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
... that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame?
... that the mosaic floor of the Maon Synagogue shows the steps in ancient wine making?
... that Petro Marko is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Albanian prose?
... that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine, participants complained of being hassled by the
police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
... that Epenow, the
Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in
Shakespeare'sHenry VIII?
... that when not in use, a Halkett boat's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?
18 May 2010
18:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
... that when the Dungtse Lhakhang(pictured) in
Paro, Bhutan, was restored in 1841, the donors were thanked by etching their names on tree trunks which form the columns of the ground floor?
... that after the death of Sangamitta, the daughter of
Emperor Ashoka, observances were held in her honor throughout
Sri Lanka for one week?
... that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became
Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
... that the crew of Russian
cruiserGromoboi(pictured) suffered heavily during the
Battle off Ulsan because their captain ordered his gunners to remain at their guns even when they were out of range?
... that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important
Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
... that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?
17 May 2010
18:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
... that astronomer Ben Gascoigne(pictured) discovered that the
Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the
Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
... that former Philippine President
Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a
guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
... that the
hull of the Russian
imperial yachtLivadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?
... that the name of the
liverwortgenusPtilidium comes from the
Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
... that a specimen of the
bioaccumulator fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria(example pictured) was found to contain the highest concentration of
arsenic ever reported in a mushroom?
... that in the mid-1700s,
inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa, a
Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of
Osijek in
Croatia?
... that the 1982 play Intimate Exchanges by
Alan Ayckbourn includes 31 scenes, 16 possible endings, 10 characters, and 8 major plot variations, all performed by only 2 actors?
... that Shirley Davidson, an
ice hockey player who had won the
Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after
his father refused them permission to marry?
... that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade, to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own
day care facility?
... that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
... that
Capitol Records initially refused to release
Merle Haggard's song "
Irma Jackson", which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?
... that Fred Thompson, who wrote the book for many hit
musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on
Broadway simultaneously?
... that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?
... that
Texas A&M football coach Harry Stiteler resigned in 1951 after admitting he had misrepresented the facts about being beaten by a stranger near a
Houston hotel?
... that where the
legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to
plead or prove the law that applies to their case?
... that eleven men survived a fire during construction of the
North River Tunnels by breathing through a hacked air pipe 500 feet from the Shippen Street shaft?
... that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a
corrupt practice, they are prevented from
voting or holding elected office for five years?
... that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a
zhiqing?
... that Planet Earth Live is a
BBCnature documentary that will premier with orchestral accompaniment in large cities throughout the United States during the 2010 summer?
... that Unicorns, an unpaid English cricket team made up of out-of-contract professionals and aspiring youngsters, was created to take part in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition?
... that the
Rihanna song "Breakin' Dishes" is about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband?
... that when transferred from
Lincoln City to
Leicester City for £27,500 in 1954, English
footballerAndy Graver was said to be "afraid of the responsibility of living up to such a big price tag"?
... that in 2008
Australian judge Betty King referred to herself as the "queen of banning things"?
00:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
... that the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern
Oregon has had a 60-foot high
fire lookout tower(pictured) with a built-in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
... that Ricardo Blas, Jr. surpassed the previous record for the heaviest Olympic competitor by 44 lb (20 kg) when he competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1973 the
Paraguayan Episcopal Conference was able to revive a newspaper of its own, Sendero, after having shut its previous press organ in 1969 due to government harassment?
... that the name of the Karmanasa River in
India means "destroyer of religious merit"?
... that the pyramid in the centre of
Karlsruhe, Germany, was erected over the vault of the city's founder?
... that the song "Let's Live for Today", which became a 1967
hit single for
The Grass Roots, was originally titled "Piangi Con Me" and featured lyrics written entirely in Italian?
... that the word "Jejemon" may come from
Filipino online users' penchant to type in "hehehe" as "jejeje", supposedly because the letters "h" and "j" are beside each other?
... that although Kënka e sprasme e Balës is the best-known work of Gavril Dara the Younger, it was published after his death?
... that the Danish Society for Nature Conservation began campaigning against
litter in 1912 with the slogan "Sandwich wrappers and egg shells don't look pretty in forest pools!"?
08:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
... that by the 19th century, the penlops, ruling from Trongsa Dzong(pictured), had become so powerful that
Trongsa had effectively become the capital of
Bhutan?
... that Ernie Zampese coached the leading
pass offense in the
NFL six times in seven years and has been credited with putting the "air" in
Air Coryell?
... that the
Palestinian village of Hableh is located on a rocky ridge in which there are numerous ancient
cisterns cut into the rock?
... that Hoya Saxa is the
Georgetown University school cheer, and has been used by students at sporting events since the 1890s or earlier?
00:00, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
... that
New Zealand's indigenous
Māori people used the cabbage tree Cordyline australis for food, medicine, and to make strong ropes like those used for morere swings (pictured)?
... that the school opened at Gjønnes in 2004 was moved from
Nadderud, where it had been established in 1958 with the intention of existing only five years?
... that the
German settlement of Hochheim, Texas, which means "high home", is named for founder Volentine Hoch who appropriately built his house on a nearby hill?
... that David Moosman led his high school to the
Illinois state championship in
football and qualified for the state championships three times in
wrestling?
... that although the
genusHesperomys once included most of the
cricetid rodents of the Americas, it is now no longer used?
... that in 1982, a Canadian
Member of Parliament accused the CIA of infiltrating the
RCMP and funneling political contributions to favoured politicians in provincial elections?
... that, although first active in the
Romanian capital of
Bucharest, poet Alexandru Robot identified more with his adoptive
Bessarabia and was called a "semi-Bessarabian"?
... that the Tango Monastery(pictured) in
Thimpu was founded by Lama Gyalwa Lhanampa in the 13th century and built in its present form by
Tenzin Rabgye, the fourth King of
Bhutan, in 1688?
... that two of Mitty Collier's biggest hit records were versions of
gospel songs originally penned by
James Cleveland, but rewritten with secular lyrics?
... that in September 2009, Buckinghamshire-based coach company Woottens Luxury Travel teamed up with local radio station
Mix 96 in a promotion to name their
tiger mascot?
... that 18th-century publisher John Marshall popularized fictional biographies for children?
... that a forty year old disagreement over the maritime Russia–Norway border, where the disputed area covered 175,000 km2 (68,000 sq mi), was settled in April 2010?
... that when Scottish poet
Hugh MacDiarmid was found plagiarising the work of Welsh author Glyn Jones, he claimed he had a
photographic memory and had copied his work unconsciously?
... that McMillan Hall at
Washington & Jefferson College is the eighth oldest academic building in the United States that is still used for its original educational purpose?
... that the most influential person in Mike Hanopol's career as a pioneer
Pinoy rocker was his guitar-playing maternal grandmother?
... that
Benjamin West's painting The Death of Nelson(pictured) proved so popular that, within about a month, it was seen by 30,000 people in his studio?
... that the
Bessarabian-centered agenda with which Viaţa Basarabiei magazine confronted
Romanian authorities in the 1930s has been called "ferocious
nativism" and an "aberrant form of defense"?
... that because their range is the southernmost of all
rainbowfishes, Australian rainbowfish can tolerate low winter temperatures of 10 to 15 °C (50 to 59 °F)?
... that on average, Kenyan water utilities provide 14 hours of service each day, supplying water for 16 hours in
Nairobi and for 6 hours in
Mombasa?
... that while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in
Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?
... that St. Nicholas Kirche in New York City(pictured), founded in 1833 by the Austrian priest Johann Stephen Raffeiner, was the first German-speaking church in the city?
... that
Dayton Flyers coach Mike Kelly has the fourth best winning percentage (81.9%) of all time among
college football coaches with at least 25 years of experience?
... that former
Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus?
... that
U-30 sank the first ship in
World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner
Athenia, just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?