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... that Black Loch in East Ayrshire, which has outflows draining in two directions, is connected to Loch o' th' Lowes and Creoch Loch by a manmade ditch?
... that the optometry and
dental schools of the defunct North Pacific College are still operating 65 years after the college closed?
... that the
Andrzej Fidyk's documentary Defilada about
North Korea, despite its anti-
totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
... that in the 1950s Congregation Beth Israel of Asheville, North Carolina, shortened and moved its
Shabbat service two hours earlier, so members could open their stores following prayers?
... that the film Vana Mohini included an elephant among the credits?
... that the Triple Alliance of 1788, formed on the verge of the
French Revolution, almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
... that the deputy mayor of
Safed was indicted for selling paintings from the museum that Emanuel Romano founded for his father, the sculptor Enrico Glicenstein?
... that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of
spontaneous human combustion, due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
... that Rachel Feinstein, whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen, is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
... that although no deaths occurred, the United States
Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra?
... that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the
niqab?
... that although the Dungarvan Town Council of
County Waterford, Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
... that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?
... that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the
Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an
ice road, which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
... that Cliff at Christmas was the only album released during
Cliff Richard's second period with music label
EMI, to whom he'd previously been signed for over forty years?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's
Christmas cantataIch freue mich in dir, BWV 133, is thought to persuasively express "the essence, the exuberance and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas"?
... that during the
Dunkirk evacuation on June 1, 1940, the British destroyer
HMS Ivanhoe was hit by a German bomb that killed 26 men and knocked out two of her three
boiler rooms?
... that Kyra Markham, whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had
Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
... that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in
Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
... that Compugen's first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze
DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
... that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a
gulag and banishment to
Kazakhstan, and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
... that the Silverdale Hoard, discovered in
Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of
Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
... that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
... that in 1907, statues of the
Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
... that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping
visually impaired people?
... that the OPEN Act is a proposed alternative to
SOPA that would not require American
ISPs to block access to suspect Web sites?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Havelock and her
sisterHesperus attacked the wreck of
U-246 on 30 April 1945 thinking that it was another German submarine which had been spotted earlier that day?
... that
Euripides' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?
00:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
... that the Théâtre de la Mode is an exhibit of small-scale fashion
mannequins(examples pictured) crafted by Paris fashion designers to help revive the French fashion industry after World War II?
... that although St Silas' Church in
Blackburn,
Lancashire, was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
... that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of
normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole
Stefan Banach?
... that
Rossetti overpainted the face of his former mistress in his painting of Lady Lilith(detail pictured) with the face of one of his later models?
... that in zoos the Scarlet Ibis(pictured) is often fed beetroots and carrots to maintain its plumage coloring, which in the wild comes from
carotenoid pigments in shrimp and shellfish?
... that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
... that the
communist newspaper Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of
show trial transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
... that according to The People's Book of Records, the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
17 December 2011
16:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Dutch clergyman W.R. van Hoëvell(pictured), after being forced to resign his post in
Batavia in 1848, became a radical and eloquent spokesman against
Dutch colonialism and slavery in the East and West Indies?
... that the perennial herb Frasera caroliniensis can take up to thirty years to flower?
... that "Red Lipstick" was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and "
Wait Your Turn"?
... that Bill Bellamy, who was awarded the
Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
... that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the
Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million?
... that in
Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu(relief sculpture pictured) were sent by the god
Enki, from
Dilmun to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
... that
Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy?
... that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
... that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street, the
Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
... that Adolphe Braun, whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
... that Besar Mertokusumo has been called the first Indonesian advocate?
... that Paleodictyon nodosum made use of a new source of energy not dependent on the Sun?
15 December 2011
16:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
... that the annual European
theatre festivalRuhrfestspiele(main venue pictured), which collaborates with companies such as
The Old Vic, originated in a coal shortage in 1946?
... that the ideas of 17th-century
Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
... that
Georgia O'Keeffe praised her art teacher John Vanderpoel, whose book The Human Figure is a standard reference for art students (example drawing pictured), as "one of the few real teachers I have known"?
... that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro, who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
... that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern
Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
... that Yad Sarah, the largest national
volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder,
Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
... that before
Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
... that after giving seven days of speeches before 500
Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth
Jagadguru (world teacher) at the age of 34?
... that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
... that
Ghirlandaio's An Old Man and his Grandson(detail pictured) portrays a man with a deformed nose sympathetically, in contrast to theories of the era by which external deformities imply character defects?
... that during Royce White's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive
basketball, he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the
piano?
... that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate
James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from
debate moderator Hal Bruno of
ABC News?
... that Thomas Harrison's first commission was for Skerton Bridge(pictured), the first large public bridge in England to have a flat roadway, and his last commission was for
Grosvenor Bridge, which has the longest masonry arch in Britain?
... that singer
Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song "Dear Jessie"?
... that Major General Alfred K. Flowers(pictured) is the longest serving airman in United States Air Force history?
... that the Harrington Hump has been built for
railway stations in the
United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
... that the role of football coach Shannon Beiste was created for actress and 15-time world arm wrestling champion
Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator
Brad Falchuk while shopping?
... that the 1971 Łódź strikes were the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist
Poland that ended with workers' success?
... that a junior officer on the
USS Ancon refused
King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot"?
00:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
... that since its 16th-century closure, Bilsham Chapel(pictured) in
West Sussex has been two cottages, a shed and now a house?
... that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi) of water routes in the
Congo Basin?
... that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered
Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Basilisk evacuated a total of 695 men on 31 May 1940 from
Dunkirk before she was sunk by German aircraft the next day?
... that ablastin, a rat antibody, prevents the parasite Trypanosoma lewisi from reproducing, yet keeps it in adult form?
... that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song "Oh Father", was inspired by singer
Madonna's memory of her mother's funeral?
08:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Caractacus(pictured), winner of the 1862
Epsom Derby, avoided disqualification because of the weight of his
bridle?
... that after earning the
Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
... that the prolific composer and
Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
... that painter and poet Fritz Graßhoff(pictured) published the collection of poetry Halunkenpostille in 1947, made money with hits for singers
Lale Andersen and
Hans Albers, and translated poems from Latin and Swedish?
... that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
... that
The Who sang about a tattoo of "a lady in the nude"?
00:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
... that
Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel(pictured) in
East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back?
... that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as
Fanø,
Læsø, and in parts of Western
Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
... that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing palazzo trousers or
culottes as evening wear?
08:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Norwegian
skiing pioneers Fritz R. Huitfeldt and Karl Roll were both active members of the exclusive ski club Ull, named after the Norse deity
Ullr(pictured)?
... that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about
animal rights?
... that Section 20A of South Africa's
Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
... that
point guardCraig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100-
point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
... that according to ancient rhetorician
Athenaeus, in
Sophocles'
satyr playAmphiaraus, a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
... that the 1693 Sicily earthquake caused about 60,000 deaths and prompted an
architectural revival described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?
... that Roger Craig holds the record for largest one-day winnings on the regular version of Jeopardy! and is thought to have won the largest single Daily Double prize in the show's history?
... that the use of īhām in
Persian poetry means that a text may have a surface meaning different from the one actually intended?
... that a critic's calling
The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song "Garageland"?
... that Polish fashion blogger Glamourina participated in the Warsaw Fashion Weekend?
... that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the
Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal,
AFL–CIO President George Meany stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
... that otium, a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
... that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the
Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of
Hotel Lux?
... that in 506 BCE,
Chu general Shen Yin Shu, wounded battling against
Wu general
Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
... that Gerrit Beneker's 1918 poster "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" (pictured) sold over three million copies?
... that, when
Bukovina was united with Romania, the Democratic Union Party was the only local group to campaign for the abolition of regional autonomy?
... that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid, about
Sid Vicious trying to convince
Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?
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 Black Loch in East Ayrshire, which has outflows draining in two directions, is connected to Loch o' th' Lowes and Creoch Loch by a manmade ditch?
... that the optometry and
dental schools of the defunct North Pacific College are still operating 65 years after the college closed?
... that the
Andrzej Fidyk's documentary Defilada about
North Korea, despite its anti-
totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
... that in the 1950s Congregation Beth Israel of Asheville, North Carolina, shortened and moved its
Shabbat service two hours earlier, so members could open their stores following prayers?
... that the film Vana Mohini included an elephant among the credits?
... that the Triple Alliance of 1788, formed on the verge of the
French Revolution, almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
... that the deputy mayor of
Safed was indicted for selling paintings from the museum that Emanuel Romano founded for his father, the sculptor Enrico Glicenstein?
... that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of
spontaneous human combustion, due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
... that Rachel Feinstein, whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen, is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
... that although no deaths occurred, the United States
Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra?
... that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the
niqab?
... that although the Dungarvan Town Council of
County Waterford, Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
... that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?
... that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the
Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an
ice road, which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
... that Cliff at Christmas was the only album released during
Cliff Richard's second period with music label
EMI, to whom he'd previously been signed for over forty years?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's
Christmas cantataIch freue mich in dir, BWV 133, is thought to persuasively express "the essence, the exuberance and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas"?
... that during the
Dunkirk evacuation on June 1, 1940, the British destroyer
HMS Ivanhoe was hit by a German bomb that killed 26 men and knocked out two of her three
boiler rooms?
... that Kyra Markham, whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had
Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
... that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in
Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
... that Compugen's first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze
DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
... that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a
gulag and banishment to
Kazakhstan, and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
... that the Silverdale Hoard, discovered in
Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of
Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
... that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
... that in 1907, statues of the
Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
... that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping
visually impaired people?
... that the OPEN Act is a proposed alternative to
SOPA that would not require American
ISPs to block access to suspect Web sites?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Havelock and her
sisterHesperus attacked the wreck of
U-246 on 30 April 1945 thinking that it was another German submarine which had been spotted earlier that day?
... that
Euripides' lost play Andromeda may have contained the first ever depiction of a man falling in love with a woman onstage?
00:00, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
... that the Théâtre de la Mode is an exhibit of small-scale fashion
mannequins(examples pictured) crafted by Paris fashion designers to help revive the French fashion industry after World War II?
... that although St Silas' Church in
Blackburn,
Lancashire, was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
... that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of
normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole
Stefan Banach?
... that
Rossetti overpainted the face of his former mistress in his painting of Lady Lilith(detail pictured) with the face of one of his later models?
... that in zoos the Scarlet Ibis(pictured) is often fed beetroots and carrots to maintain its plumage coloring, which in the wild comes from
carotenoid pigments in shrimp and shellfish?
... that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
... that the
communist newspaper Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of
show trial transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
... that according to The People's Book of Records, the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
17 December 2011
16:45, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Dutch clergyman W.R. van Hoëvell(pictured), after being forced to resign his post in
Batavia in 1848, became a radical and eloquent spokesman against
Dutch colonialism and slavery in the East and West Indies?
... that the perennial herb Frasera caroliniensis can take up to thirty years to flower?
... that "Red Lipstick" was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and "
Wait Your Turn"?
... that Bill Bellamy, who was awarded the
Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
... that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the
Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million?
... that in
Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu(relief sculpture pictured) were sent by the god
Enki, from
Dilmun to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
... that
Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy?
... that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
... that stores on Malkhei Yisrael Street, the
Haredi urban shopping district in north Jerusalem, pay the same or even higher rents than stores in Israel's major malls?
... that Adolphe Braun, whose photos were published worldwide and shown in prominent museums, first took up photography to aid in designing floral patterns for textiles?
... that Besar Mertokusumo has been called the first Indonesian advocate?
... that Paleodictyon nodosum made use of a new source of energy not dependent on the Sun?
15 December 2011
16:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
... that the annual European
theatre festivalRuhrfestspiele(main venue pictured), which collaborates with companies such as
The Old Vic, originated in a coal shortage in 1946?
... that the ideas of 17th-century
Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
... that
Georgia O'Keeffe praised her art teacher John Vanderpoel, whose book The Human Figure is a standard reference for art students (example drawing pictured), as "one of the few real teachers I have known"?
... that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro, who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
... that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern
Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
... that Yad Sarah, the largest national
volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder,
Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
... that before
Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
... that after giving seven days of speeches before 500
Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth
Jagadguru (world teacher) at the age of 34?
... that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
... that
Ghirlandaio's An Old Man and his Grandson(detail pictured) portrays a man with a deformed nose sympathetically, in contrast to theories of the era by which external deformities imply character defects?
... that during Royce White's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive
basketball, he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the
piano?
... that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate
James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from
debate moderator Hal Bruno of
ABC News?
... that Thomas Harrison's first commission was for Skerton Bridge(pictured), the first large public bridge in England to have a flat roadway, and his last commission was for
Grosvenor Bridge, which has the longest masonry arch in Britain?
... that singer
Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song "Dear Jessie"?
... that Major General Alfred K. Flowers(pictured) is the longest serving airman in United States Air Force history?
... that the Harrington Hump has been built for
railway stations in the
United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
... that the role of football coach Shannon Beiste was created for actress and 15-time world arm wrestling champion
Dot-Marie Jones after she ran into Glee co-creator
Brad Falchuk while shopping?
... that the 1971 Łódź strikes were the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist
Poland that ended with workers' success?
... that a junior officer on the
USS Ancon refused
King George VI entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no-one told him the King "was a Bigot"?
00:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
... that since its 16th-century closure, Bilsham Chapel(pictured) in
West Sussex has been two cottages, a shed and now a house?
... that between 1887 and 1888 Alexandre Delcommune explored 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi) of water routes in the
Congo Basin?
... that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered
Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Basilisk evacuated a total of 695 men on 31 May 1940 from
Dunkirk before she was sunk by German aircraft the next day?
... that ablastin, a rat antibody, prevents the parasite Trypanosoma lewisi from reproducing, yet keeps it in adult form?
... that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song "Oh Father", was inspired by singer
Madonna's memory of her mother's funeral?
08:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Caractacus(pictured), winner of the 1862
Epsom Derby, avoided disqualification because of the weight of his
bridle?
... that after earning the
Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
... that the prolific composer and
Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
... that painter and poet Fritz Graßhoff(pictured) published the collection of poetry Halunkenpostille in 1947, made money with hits for singers
Lale Andersen and
Hans Albers, and translated poems from Latin and Swedish?
... that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
... that
The Who sang about a tattoo of "a lady in the nude"?
00:00, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
... that
Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel(pictured) in
East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back?
... that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as
Fanø,
Læsø, and in parts of Western
Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
... that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing palazzo trousers or
culottes as evening wear?
08:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
... that Norwegian
skiing pioneers Fritz R. Huitfeldt and Karl Roll were both active members of the exclusive ski club Ull, named after the Norse deity
Ullr(pictured)?
... that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about
animal rights?
... that Section 20A of South Africa's
Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
... that
point guardCraig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100-
point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
... that according to ancient rhetorician
Athenaeus, in
Sophocles'
satyr playAmphiaraus, a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
... that the 1693 Sicily earthquake caused about 60,000 deaths and prompted an
architectural revival described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?
... that Roger Craig holds the record for largest one-day winnings on the regular version of Jeopardy! and is thought to have won the largest single Daily Double prize in the show's history?
... that the use of īhām in
Persian poetry means that a text may have a surface meaning different from the one actually intended?
... that a critic's calling
The Clash a "garage band" that ought to be "returned to the garage ... with the motor still running" prompted the band to write the song "Garageland"?
... that Polish fashion blogger Glamourina participated in the Warsaw Fashion Weekend?
... that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the
Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal,
AFL–CIO President George Meany stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?
... that otium, a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?
... that Ruth von Mayenburg was born into an aristocratic German family, became a spy for the
Soviet Union during World War II, and in the 1960s, wrote the first history of
Hotel Lux?
... that in 506 BCE,
Chu general Shen Yin Shu, wounded battling against
Wu general
Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War, asked an officer to kill him and bring his head home?
... that Gerrit Beneker's 1918 poster "Sure! We'll Finish the Job" (pictured) sold over three million copies?
... that, when
Bukovina was united with Romania, the Democratic Union Party was the only local group to campaign for the abolition of regional autonomy?
... that a cardboard box in Kurt and Sid, about
Sid Vicious trying to convince
Kurt Cobain not to kill himself, was said to have more empathy than the script?