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... that causes of the deaths at the Berlin Wall(examples of memorials pictured) included shooting, drowning, suffocation, suicide, and falling from a balloon?
... that with a 150-millimetre (5.9 in) wingspan, Sinomeganeura is small for the
Griffenfly family Meganeuridae, known for species with spans over 700 millimetres (28 in)?
... that
Kid Ory's composition "Ory's Creole Trombone" was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
... that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone?
30 August 2011
23:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
... that pink pores and a very bitter taste help identify Tylopilus species (T. felleus pictured) from other
boletes?
... that the album Ballad of Salah, released as an act of charity during
Ramadan, includes songs based on the
Quran and the life of
Muhammad?
... that Sam Greene, who covered
Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
... that the Patriotic Party of the late 18th century
Great Sejm succeeded in passing one of the first constitutions in Europe influenced by the
Enlightenment ideals?
... that despite the fact that the majority of submitted films are set in contemporary times, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has only been awarded to films with such a setting twice since 1967?
... that Prahalada was remade 20 times in numerous languages, with most of the remakes box-office successes?
... that
Mark Knopfler's publisher made a country-style
tape of Knopfler's song "Water of Love" without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by
The Judds?
... that the recently deceased, long-time human rights figure Jerome J. Shestack may have survived a
kamikaze attack during World War II by being Jewish?
... that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic
Spider-Man?
... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
... that the Royal Burmese Army employed a
conscription system that required local chiefs to supply men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population?
... that Indonesian comedy band Project Pop originally sang about "food and martial arts fighters"?
... that the modern Warlander, a new
Baroque horse breed derived from the
Andalusian and
Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic
war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
... that Nano Riantiarno's works include the Cockroach, White Snake, and Constipation "operas"?
... that, though cancer pain can usually be eliminated or controlled, nearly half of all patients receive inadequate treatment and suffer pain needlessly?
... that the bottle for
Katy Perry's Purr perfume was inspired by her
Catwoman stage costume?
... that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex, some communities punish young people who take the same
sexual partner for more than three nights?
... that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of
Philip Larkin?
00:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
... that the Cuban Friendship Urn monument (pictured) originally stood in
Havana, was moved to
Washington, DC, in 1928, disappeared around 1959, and was found and re-erected in the 1990s?
... that in 1992,
Black Britishcivil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
... that the motor vehicle fleet in use around the world surpassed the one billion mark in 2010 and is expected to reach two billion motor vehicles by 2020?
... that
Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the
Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
... that Michael Herrmann(pictured) is founder-director of the
Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
... that the Yellow-billed Spoonbill(pictured) has a row of small knobs inside its bill which detect vibration?
... that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
... that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the
Strait of Hormuz?
... that the "Street Doctor", who delivers food to the poor of
Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
... that the Indian Head gold pieces(quarter eagle pictured) are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
... that South Sudan could be the location of "the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth"?
... that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman, the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the
city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
... that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in
Small Heath F.C.'s1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
... that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas, who was tried for
heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
08:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
... that early European settlers of Australia used woody pear(illustration pictured) to make
gun stocks?
... that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's
AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
... that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the
People's War Group?
... that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor
Robert Carlyle and screenwriter
Andrea Gibb?
... that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?
... that after the Battle of the Meander, a rumour spread amongst the
crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
... that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand
Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
... that after debunking
Abner Doubleday as the inventor of
baseball, Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
... that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in
Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
... that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the
Pulitzer Prize?
... that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the
NBA in 1946, and won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
... that
Hall of FamesportswriterFrank Graham, once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
... that Bhutan House, an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the
government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
... that Indonesian band
Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?
... that Iván Erőd composed a
sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an
opera titled Silk Worms, and a
song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
... that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
... that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the
1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the
1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
00:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
... that before 1238, St Edward the Confessor parish church (pictured) in Westcott Barton was dedicated to
St Edmund rather than
St Edward?
... that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley, were in a boat that capsized crossing the
Tagus river during the
Peninsular War—and one drowned while the other survived?
... that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
... that David Holston scored over 2,000
points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?
... that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km2; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km2; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
... that after
largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake, it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in
Oregon?
... that Whorlton Castle(gatehouse pictured) in North Yorkshire is an unusual example of a Norman
motte-and-bailey castle that continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages?
... that Hanna Zemer, who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two
Nazi concentration camps?
... that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman(pictured), known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
... that in translating the Republic of
Plato, Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation "
noble lie"?
... that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem "
The Star-Spangled Banner" at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law?
... that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the
Korean War, his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
... that a flattop crab, when trying to escape from a predator, can
cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
... that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all
Ottoman Balkan
sanjaks?
... that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two
Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
... that Flat Horse dance is said to represent male virility or female irrationality?
... that during production tapis is warped and
couched?
... that the Jug Tavern, possibly the oldest building in
Ossining, New York, may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor
legally?
08:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
... that promin(molecule pictured) was one of the first effective treatments for
leprosy?
... that Mike Cahill, director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
... that although shattered by his imprisonment at
Auschwitz and other
Nazi concentration camps, in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
... that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the
Medal of Honor(pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250
North Korean troops?
... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
... that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake, because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
... that the
Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
... that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to
plan a coup?
... that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
... that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the
world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until
entomologistNorman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
... that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects?
6 August 2011
16:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
... that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used
trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio(pictured) to navigate at sea?
... that in 2005
Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
... that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
... that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
... that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
... that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
... that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety?
... that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
... that in the
road movieChildren of the Stork, which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a
stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
... that
Frank Darabont, developer of the television series The Walking Dead, said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, "Days Gone Bye"?
... that the scheme of stained glass by
Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
... that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens?
3 August 2011
16:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
... that the Mermaid Inn(pictured) in England has a strong connection with the notorious
Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s?
... that in
Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
... that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a
Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?
08:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
... that a field study in Brazil found the
territories of the 11.5 cm long Black-cheeked Gnateaters(adult male pictured) to average 2.94 hectares (7.3 acres)?
... that during a hurricane in November 1861, a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
... that ERC, included with
GNUEmacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
... that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of
hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
... that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog?
08:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
... that some species of the
stick insect genus Timema(example pictured) have not had sex for over a million years?
... that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel(pictured) exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
... that Gigantolithic tools may predate agriculture?
... that because of the
Great Depression, the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
... that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special
Shinto shrines called chinjusha?
... that Haneji Dam in
Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
... that causes of the deaths at the Berlin Wall(examples of memorials pictured) included shooting, drowning, suffocation, suicide, and falling from a balloon?
... that with a 150-millimetre (5.9 in) wingspan, Sinomeganeura is small for the
Griffenfly family Meganeuridae, known for species with spans over 700 millimetres (28 in)?
... that
Kid Ory's composition "Ory's Creole Trombone" was the first jazz record made by a black jazz band from New Orleans?
... that shrimp, seaweed, and milkfish are found in Bone?
30 August 2011
23:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
... that pink pores and a very bitter taste help identify Tylopilus species (T. felleus pictured) from other
boletes?
... that the album Ballad of Salah, released as an act of charity during
Ramadan, includes songs based on the
Quran and the life of
Muhammad?
... that Sam Greene, who covered
Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
... that the Patriotic Party of the late 18th century
Great Sejm succeeded in passing one of the first constitutions in Europe influenced by the
Enlightenment ideals?
... that despite the fact that the majority of submitted films are set in contemporary times, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design has only been awarded to films with such a setting twice since 1967?
... that Prahalada was remade 20 times in numerous languages, with most of the remakes box-office successes?
... that
Mark Knopfler's publisher made a country-style
tape of Knopfler's song "Water of Love" without his knowledge, which led to a cover of the song by
The Judds?
... that the recently deceased, long-time human rights figure Jerome J. Shestack may have survived a
kamikaze attack during World War II by being Jewish?
... that Italian artist Sara Pichelli was the first to illustrate the half-black, half-Hispanic
Spider-Man?
... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
... that the Royal Burmese Army employed a
conscription system that required local chiefs to supply men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population?
... that Indonesian comedy band Project Pop originally sang about "food and martial arts fighters"?
... that the modern Warlander, a new
Baroque horse breed derived from the
Andalusian and
Friesian breeds, was inspired by a historic
war horse cross that has been bred since at least the 16th century?
... that Nano Riantiarno's works include the Cockroach, White Snake, and Constipation "operas"?
... that, though cancer pain can usually be eliminated or controlled, nearly half of all patients receive inadequate treatment and suffer pain needlessly?
... that the bottle for
Katy Perry's Purr perfume was inspired by her
Catwoman stage costume?
... that although the Muria generally encourage premarital sex, some communities punish young people who take the same
sexual partner for more than three nights?
... that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of
Philip Larkin?
00:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
... that the Cuban Friendship Urn monument (pictured) originally stood in
Havana, was moved to
Washington, DC, in 1928, disappeared around 1959, and was found and re-erected in the 1990s?
... that in 1992,
Black Britishcivil rights activist Frank Crichlow was awarded record damages of £50,000 for false imprisonment, battery and malicious prosecution?
... that the motor vehicle fleet in use around the world surpassed the one billion mark in 2010 and is expected to reach two billion motor vehicles by 2020?
... that
Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the
Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
... that Michael Herrmann(pictured) is founder-director of the
Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
... that the Yellow-billed Spoonbill(pictured) has a row of small knobs inside its bill which detect vibration?
... that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
... that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the
Strait of Hormuz?
... that the "Street Doctor", who delivers food to the poor of
Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
... that the Indian Head gold pieces(quarter eagle pictured) are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
... that South Sudan could be the location of "the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth"?
... that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman, the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the
city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
... that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in
Small Heath F.C.'s1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
... that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas, who was tried for
heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
08:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
... that early European settlers of Australia used woody pear(illustration pictured) to make
gun stocks?
... that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's
AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
... that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the
People's War Group?
... that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor
Robert Carlyle and screenwriter
Andrea Gibb?
... that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?
... that after the Battle of the Meander, a rumour spread amongst the
crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
... that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand
Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
... that after debunking
Abner Doubleday as the inventor of
baseball, Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
... that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in
Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
... that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the
Pulitzer Prize?
... that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the
NBA in 1946, and won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
... that
Hall of FamesportswriterFrank Graham, once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
... that Bhutan House, an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the
government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
... that Indonesian band
Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?
... that Iván Erőd composed a
sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an
opera titled Silk Worms, and a
song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
... that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
... that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the
1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the
1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
00:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
... that before 1238, St Edward the Confessor parish church (pictured) in Westcott Barton was dedicated to
St Edmund rather than
St Edward?
... that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley, were in a boat that capsized crossing the
Tagus river during the
Peninsular War—and one drowned while the other survived?
... that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
... that David Holston scored over 2,000
points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?
... that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km2; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km2; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
... that after
largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake, it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in
Oregon?
... that Whorlton Castle(gatehouse pictured) in North Yorkshire is an unusual example of a Norman
motte-and-bailey castle that continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages?
... that Hanna Zemer, who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two
Nazi concentration camps?
... that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman(pictured), known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
... that in translating the Republic of
Plato, Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation "
noble lie"?
... that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem "
The Star-Spangled Banner" at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law?
... that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the
Korean War, his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
... that a flattop crab, when trying to escape from a predator, can
cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
... that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all
Ottoman Balkan
sanjaks?
... that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two
Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
... that Flat Horse dance is said to represent male virility or female irrationality?
... that during production tapis is warped and
couched?
... that the Jug Tavern, possibly the oldest building in
Ossining, New York, may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor
legally?
08:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
... that promin(molecule pictured) was one of the first effective treatments for
leprosy?
... that Mike Cahill, director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
... that although shattered by his imprisonment at
Auschwitz and other
Nazi concentration camps, in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
... that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the
Medal of Honor(pictured) in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250
North Korean troops?
... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
... that the 1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake has been identified as a tsunami earthquake, because the recorded tsunami was much larger than would be expected from the estimated earthquake magnitude?
... that the
Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
... that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to
plan a coup?
... that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
... that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the
world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until
entomologistNorman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
... that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects?
6 August 2011
16:00, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
... that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used
trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio(pictured) to navigate at sea?
... that in 2005
Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
... that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
... that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
... that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
... that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
... that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety?
... that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
... that in the
road movieChildren of the Stork, which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a
stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
... that
Frank Darabont, developer of the television series The Walking Dead, said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, "Days Gone Bye"?
... that the scheme of stained glass by
Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
... that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens?
3 August 2011
16:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
... that the Mermaid Inn(pictured) in England has a strong connection with the notorious
Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s?
... that in
Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
... that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a
Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?
08:00, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
... that a field study in Brazil found the
territories of the 11.5 cm long Black-cheeked Gnateaters(adult male pictured) to average 2.94 hectares (7.3 acres)?
... that during a hurricane in November 1861, a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
... that ERC, included with
GNUEmacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
... that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of
hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
... that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog?
08:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
... that some species of the
stick insect genus Timema(example pictured) have not had sex for over a million years?
... that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel(pictured) exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
... that Gigantolithic tools may predate agriculture?
... that because of the
Great Depression, the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
... that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special
Shinto shrines called chinjusha?
... that Haneji Dam in
Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, includes an airlift system which enables fish from downstream to go up into the reservoir formed by the dam?