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... that the 1953 Suva earthquake caused the collapse of an 800-metre (2,600 ft) long section of
barrier reef, triggering a
tsunami and damaging submarine cables?
... that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon, produce 15 tons of
sausage and 2,000 pounds of
sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival?
... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a
US$15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000?
08:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
... that although Shishman, a medieval ruler of
Vidin,
Bulgaria(pictured), was hailed by his contemporaries as a
prince, king and even
emperor, his only official title was that of
despot?
... that the second hydration shell of
chromium(III) in aqueous solution contains around 13 water molecules?
... that in 2002, a British man working in a bookstore conned 30 people into leaving their homes and quitting their jobs?
00:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as
exotic pets have their front teeth cut out (pictured) due to fear of their toxic bite?
... that during an eleven-year professional baseball career,
German-born Rudolph "Skel" Roach played for teams known as the Prohibitionists, Omahogs, Orphans and Siwashes?
... that in the rare 1984 video game Gremlins, the player must either prevent the furry Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they transform into
gremlins?
... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed
anomodontTiarajudens were uncovered from a location in
Brazil that was first found using
Google Earth?
... that Wrath of the Titans, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, is being shot in
3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor?
... that John Giordano, named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by The Hockey News, was fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances against him?
... that while inspecting the cargo of the freighter Victoria,
Israeli naval commandos found 50 tons of weapons concealed beneath bags of cotton and lentils from
Syria?
... that glamour model Linni Meister appeared nude in the music video for her single "My Ass" which was released as promotion for the 2009 Norwegian comedy-horror film Dead Snow?
... that Al Szolack lost all 245 professional
basketball games he ever played in?
28 March 2011
16:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
... that John Howell, who built St John's Church (pictured) in
Hastings,
England, to the design of E.A. Wyon, arrived in town as a poor boy and became the
mayor?
... that although he never competed in the final round of an
America's Cup race, yachtsman Gerry Driscoll permanently changed the way teams prepare for that event?
... that ex-boxer Boone Kirkman earned his nickname because of his habits while
hunting with his father?
... that The Avenue(pictured) is still used for
London Irish's pre season friendlies despite being demoted to a training facility since their move to the
Madjeski Stadium?
... that the Mercado Jamaica market in
Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild?
... that public transport in
Valparaíso,
Chile, includes trolleybuses(pictured) that were built 60 years ago, by
Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003?
... that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final design for the Pioneer Woman statue (pictured) in
Ponca City, Oklahoma?
... that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the
Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern
Bulgaria consisted of a row of
baldachin-like arches?
... that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find
"Heavenly Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
... that John Balmer achieved renown as a
flying instructor in the
RAAF by reputedly parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed?
... that the
Philippine town of
Daet,
Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument (pictured)?
... that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats(pictured) have a large pair of false
teats, whose only function may be to give their young something to hold on to?
... that The Donald O'Connor Show, a 1954
NBC musical
sitcom, is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
... that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in
New Jersey, the size of
portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
... that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the
Royal Academy when he was only 15?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Hasty(pictured) captured the German
blockade runner SS Morea in the
North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South Atlantic to the UK to refit?
... that
Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of
human skin printed on paper and made into little
tipi-shaped forms?
... that
Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
... that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in
Mexico, serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
... that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a
massacre perpetrated by
Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
... that during World War I, future
Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the
Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that tiny spurs on the
anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release
pollen when an insect arrives?
... that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
... that
Hockey Hall of FamerMoose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the
Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
... that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli, an extinct species of giant
camel, were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in
Syria?
... that the rare
Floridian flowers Robin's mint and Garrett's mint used to be in the same species as the scrub balm(pictured) until they were re-classified as separate species in 1981 and 1989, respectively?
... that in the 1930s, the
New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's request to leave
Māori players at home when they competed against them?
... that Pandi Geço, author of the first
Albanian academic textbooks of
geography, was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
... that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a
horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
... that when the Nassif Building in
Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed
parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
... that when Faith Radio Network bought the
radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996
Chevy Astro van?
... that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of
Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
... that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
... that the
Italian wineEst! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a
bishop's servant traveling ahead to
Rome and marking Est ("It is") on
inns where he found the best-tasting
wines?
... that Florida-based
Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in
Kenya and provided 2,500
solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?
... that on 29 September 1940, two
Avro Ansonscollided in mid-air over
Brocklesby, Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
00:50, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
... that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus(pictured), which was considered extinct until its rediscovery in the
Andes mountains in 2001, is not a
crocus?
... that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
... that
MSN included Flying penguins, a
BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
... that the
White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier
HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine
U-106?
... that, on April 29, 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the
brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?
11 March 2011
17:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
... that, in a British propaganda exercise during World War II, a Wellington bomber(pictured) was built in under 24 hours, setting a new world record?
... that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting
tsunami, which left all the coastal cities of
Lebanon in ruins?
... that authorization to use a company
computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka?
... that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower(pictured) spent the first three years inside a tower, where its
chime could be heard but its
face could not be seen?
... that the shrine of a famous medieval
shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of
pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
... that the Brezhnev Era in the
Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic
stagnation?
... that, according to critic Jennifer Kay,
Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed
a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
... that the rare and endangered
bellflowerCyanea remyi is found only on the
Hawaiian island of
Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
... that Anna Murray(pictured) helped her future husband,
Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
... that a US-born ex-
hippieMalati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the
Hare Krishna movement?
... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to
Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
... that
Chris Addison promoted his new
satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
... that in the first scientific study of
fossils in English, William Martin speculated that
horn coral(pictured) was a kind of
bamboo and said another fossil was not a small
crocodile tail?
... that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah
Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his
Persian miniatures by washing them in water?
... that humorist George Washington Harris's comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking
Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his
Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
... that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a
bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire
Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
... that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the
exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a
Bahamian banker's briefcase?
... that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the
Yamam, the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
... that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
... that though the rare
Central FloridalegumeCrotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
...that
Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring
school segregation illegal?
... that in the north, the North American
paper waspPolistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black
thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
... that film pioneer William Haggar's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
... that Harry Marks(pictured), whose Financial News crusaded against fraudulent
stock market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions?
... that the petite
endangeredcactusEscobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
... that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of
India, offers cashless
health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the
poor for just ₹ 30?
... that finds at the
prehistoricNeolithicTell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of
Damascus,
Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
... that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a "
monograph of a specific group of plants", the
Umbelliferae?
... that
Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
... that the earliest known Maya city in the
Maya lowlands of
Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?
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 the 1953 Suva earthquake caused the collapse of an 800-metre (2,600 ft) long section of
barrier reef, triggering a
tsunami and damaging submarine cables?
... that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon, produce 15 tons of
sausage and 2,000 pounds of
sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival?
... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a
US$15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000?
08:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
... that although Shishman, a medieval ruler of
Vidin,
Bulgaria(pictured), was hailed by his contemporaries as a
prince, king and even
emperor, his only official title was that of
despot?
... that the second hydration shell of
chromium(III) in aqueous solution contains around 13 water molecules?
... that in 2002, a British man working in a bookstore conned 30 people into leaving their homes and quitting their jobs?
00:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as
exotic pets have their front teeth cut out (pictured) due to fear of their toxic bite?
... that during an eleven-year professional baseball career,
German-born Rudolph "Skel" Roach played for teams known as the Prohibitionists, Omahogs, Orphans and Siwashes?
... that in the rare 1984 video game Gremlins, the player must either prevent the furry Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they transform into
gremlins?
... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed
anomodontTiarajudens were uncovered from a location in
Brazil that was first found using
Google Earth?
... that Wrath of the Titans, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, is being shot in
3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor?
... that John Giordano, named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by The Hockey News, was fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances against him?
... that while inspecting the cargo of the freighter Victoria,
Israeli naval commandos found 50 tons of weapons concealed beneath bags of cotton and lentils from
Syria?
... that glamour model Linni Meister appeared nude in the music video for her single "My Ass" which was released as promotion for the 2009 Norwegian comedy-horror film Dead Snow?
... that Al Szolack lost all 245 professional
basketball games he ever played in?
28 March 2011
16:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
... that John Howell, who built St John's Church (pictured) in
Hastings,
England, to the design of E.A. Wyon, arrived in town as a poor boy and became the
mayor?
... that although he never competed in the final round of an
America's Cup race, yachtsman Gerry Driscoll permanently changed the way teams prepare for that event?
... that ex-boxer Boone Kirkman earned his nickname because of his habits while
hunting with his father?
... that The Avenue(pictured) is still used for
London Irish's pre season friendlies despite being demoted to a training facility since their move to the
Madjeski Stadium?
... that the Mercado Jamaica market in
Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild?
... that public transport in
Valparaíso,
Chile, includes trolleybuses(pictured) that were built 60 years ago, by
Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003?
... that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final design for the Pioneer Woman statue (pictured) in
Ponca City, Oklahoma?
... that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the
Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern
Bulgaria consisted of a row of
baldachin-like arches?
... that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find
"Heavenly Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
... that John Balmer achieved renown as a
flying instructor in the
RAAF by reputedly parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed?
... that the
Philippine town of
Daet,
Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument (pictured)?
... that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats(pictured) have a large pair of false
teats, whose only function may be to give their young something to hold on to?
... that The Donald O'Connor Show, a 1954
NBC musical
sitcom, is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
... that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in
New Jersey, the size of
portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
... that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 (pictured), had one of his paintings exhibited in the
Royal Academy when he was only 15?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Hasty(pictured) captured the German
blockade runner SS Morea in the
North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South Atlantic to the UK to refit?
... that
Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of
human skin printed on paper and made into little
tipi-shaped forms?
... that
Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
... that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in
Mexico, serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
... that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a
massacre perpetrated by
Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
... that during World War I, future
Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the
Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that tiny spurs on the
anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release
pollen when an insect arrives?
... that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
... that
Hockey Hall of FamerMoose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the
Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
... that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli, an extinct species of giant
camel, were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in
Syria?
... that the rare
Floridian flowers Robin's mint and Garrett's mint used to be in the same species as the scrub balm(pictured) until they were re-classified as separate species in 1981 and 1989, respectively?
... that in the 1930s, the
New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's request to leave
Māori players at home when they competed against them?
... that Pandi Geço, author of the first
Albanian academic textbooks of
geography, was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
... that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a
horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
... that when the Nassif Building in
Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed
parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
... that when Faith Radio Network bought the
radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996
Chevy Astro van?
... that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of
Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
... that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
... that the
Italian wineEst! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a
bishop's servant traveling ahead to
Rome and marking Est ("It is") on
inns where he found the best-tasting
wines?
... that Florida-based
Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in
Kenya and provided 2,500
solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?
... that on 29 September 1940, two
Avro Ansonscollided in mid-air over
Brocklesby, Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
00:50, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
... that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus(pictured), which was considered extinct until its rediscovery in the
Andes mountains in 2001, is not a
crocus?
... that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
... that
MSN included Flying penguins, a
BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
... that the
White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier
HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine
U-106?
... that, on April 29, 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the
brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?
11 March 2011
17:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
... that, in a British propaganda exercise during World War II, a Wellington bomber(pictured) was built in under 24 hours, setting a new world record?
... that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting
tsunami, which left all the coastal cities of
Lebanon in ruins?
... that authorization to use a company
computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka?
... that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower(pictured) spent the first three years inside a tower, where its
chime could be heard but its
face could not be seen?
... that the shrine of a famous medieval
shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of
pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
... that the Brezhnev Era in the
Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic
stagnation?
... that, according to critic Jennifer Kay,
Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed
a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
... that the rare and endangered
bellflowerCyanea remyi is found only on the
Hawaiian island of
Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
... that Anna Murray(pictured) helped her future husband,
Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
... that a US-born ex-
hippieMalati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the
Hare Krishna movement?
... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to
Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
... that
Chris Addison promoted his new
satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
... that in the first scientific study of
fossils in English, William Martin speculated that
horn coral(pictured) was a kind of
bamboo and said another fossil was not a small
crocodile tail?
... that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah
Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his
Persian miniatures by washing them in water?
... that humorist George Washington Harris's comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking
Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his
Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
... that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a
bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire
Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
... that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the
exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a
Bahamian banker's briefcase?
... that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the
Yamam, the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
... that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
... that though the rare
Central FloridalegumeCrotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
...that
Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring
school segregation illegal?
... that in the north, the North American
paper waspPolistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black
thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
... that film pioneer William Haggar's 1903 short Desperate Poaching Affray is believed to have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film?
... that Harry Marks(pictured), whose Financial News crusaded against fraudulent
stock market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions?
... that the petite
endangeredcactusEscobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
... that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of
India, offers cashless
health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the
poor for just ₹ 30?
... that finds at the
prehistoricNeolithicTell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of
Damascus,
Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
... that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a "
monograph of a specific group of plants", the
Umbelliferae?
... that
Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
... that the earliest known Maya city in the
Maya lowlands of
Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?