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... that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of
life?
01:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
... that international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks(pictured) took on the alias of "Mr. Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice?
... that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the
Eritrean War, led to the
disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
... that the Standard Plaza was the largest office building in
Oregon when it opened in 1963?
... that Duke's, a
Mumbai-based soft-drink brand, was bought by
PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most
segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
... that
Hostess Brands has claimed that the Hostess CupCake (pictured) was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market," but that claim has been disputed by rival
Tastykake?
... that in 1914 Prince Obolensky thought his peasants were enthusiastic about
a war to defend
Belgrade, later learning they had understood him to mean
Belgorod, home of the relics of St Ioasaph?
26 February 2012
16:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
... that European welterweight champion Johnny Basham(pictured) faced a manslaughter charge after killing an opponent in a boxing match?
... that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn(pictured) was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry?
... that Zennor Head,
Cornwall, is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?
25 February 2012
16:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
... that Colorado's Redstone Inn(pictured), originally a 1900s dormitory for unmarried male
Colorado Fuel and Iron workers, had indoor plumbing, electricity and telephone when it was built?
... that in 1937, after German artist Heinz Kiwitz was lauded in the Nazi press, he wrote an open letter to Hitler to renounce the praise?
... that the University Times, a newspaper of the
University of Pittsburgh, was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
... that Alcock's Arabian(pictured), an
Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all
grey Thoroughbred horses?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that
Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the
King David Hotel bombing?
... that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals?
... that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger,
livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and
Mayor of Dunedin?
... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American
coal balls(example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
... that in 1784, the racehorse Serjeant had to run half a mile more than the previous winner, Saltram, in order to win the
Derby Stakes?
... that
Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers, a
white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both
Ndebele and
Shona?
... that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the
Maccabees, heroes of the
Hanukkah story?
... that although Hasan Dosti initially served as Minister of Justice of the quisling government of Albania during WWII he later joined the resistance movement?
... that upon its incorporation of classical studies in 1820, Romney Academy became one of the earliest institutions of higher education in the
South Branch Potomac region of present-day
West Virginia?
... that a
slave found liable for the manifest form of the Roman
delict of furtum ("theft") could be thrown from the
Tarpeian Rock?
... that the
extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
15:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the 1815
Derby winner Whisker(pictured) was said to be "as near perfection as a horse could be"?
... that steel produced at Govăjdia(furnace pictured) and at Reşiţa in present-day Romania was used in the building of the
Eiffel Tower?
... that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest
Spaghetti Westerns, Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
... that German illustrator Günther Strupp survived Nazi imprisonment and became a contributor to Ulenspiegel, a magazine created by two other survivors?
... that Jack le Goff has been called "one of the greatest coaches in
three-day eventing history", as he built a multiple-medal-winning team from previously unknown horses and riders?
... that White Heat by
Marco Pierre White was described by one critic as "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years"?
... that the racehorse Noble won the 1786
Derby Stakes despite
30/1 odds against him?
... that the title track of
Otis Redding's Pain in My Heart was accused of being a copyright infringement due to similarities with
Irma Thomas' "Ruler of My Heart"?
... that the bark of Acacia reficiens is used to curdle milk, and its thorns used to pierce ears in the
Kaokoveld region of
Namibia?
... that actor and model Jan Uddin, best known for his role in the
BBCsoap operaEastEnders as
Jalil Iqbal, was beaten by his father, who also refused to let him watch television or read books?
... that in nine years of circulation, Indonesian literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe had 125 employees or contributors but never more than 150 subscribers?
... that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
... that
Muddy Waters'Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
... that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an
artillery shell?
... that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
... that the Israeli city of
Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of
Macy's department store?
... that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each
Jaguars game?
... that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the
Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?
15 February 2012
16:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
... that according to Russian sociologist Daria Khaltourina(pictured),
Protestantism positively influenced the
capitalist development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading?
... that the fourth
Rebbe of Radomsk, founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
... that when "Who's That Chick?" debuted at number nine on the
UK Singles Chart, Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?
00:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
... that
Arizona Territorial Governor Richard Elihu Sloan(pictured) had the legal authority to make appropriations and levy taxes without legislative approval?
... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of
extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between
pachyderms and
lemurs?
... that the 1885 watercolor painting Love's Messenger(pictured) shows several symbols of "beauty, love, and abundance of
Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son
Cupid"?
... that after a close finish at the 1808
Derby Stakes, the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan, to
match races?
... that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional
Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
... that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the
tin,
lead,
cloth and
wool trades?
... that one Sam rode another to victory at the 1818
Derby?
13 February 2012
16:00, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
... that art showing a fainting Virgin Mary(example illustrated) became less common in the 16th century, after attacks by theologians?
... that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an
eyespot in mating displays?
... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?
... that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
08:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" ad campaign established
Honda's brand image in the US and helped the Super Cub(pictured) become the top-selling
motor vehicle in history?
... that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after
Balša II ceded it to the
Venetian Republic in 1395?
... that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
... that in Mexico's Lagunas de Montebello National Park(pictured) there are ancient
Maya ruins next to 59 lakes whose colors range from emerald and turquoise to purple and reddish black?
... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
... that a distilled beverage –
Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group?
... that the
extinctbivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
... that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer
H. G. Adler's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
... that attendance at meetings of New York's Albany Institute declined in the 1830s because members were bored by papers presented by the group's
meteorologist?
... that
King Gustav III of Sweden, in an experiment, commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of
coffee, and the other
tea, every day for the rest of their lives?
... that Downing Hall was once the home of
naturalistThomas Pennant, who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
... that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
... that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King
Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
... that the racehorse Azor won the 1817
Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a
pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?
... that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that
try to turnlesbians straight began years before she was appointed
Ecuador's Minister for Public Health?
... that since Lange's 1962 invention of the first plastic
ski boots(example pictured), they have been on the feet of five times as many
World Cup medal winners as any other brand?
... that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the
Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
... that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the
NBA, and he is now a professional
jazz musician?
... that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?
8 February 2012
16:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
... that a hacker tried to hold journalist Rowenna Davis'(pictured) email account for
ransom?
... that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent
exoskeletons that can be strapped on as
wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
... that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko's victory at the 1813
Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown
phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
... that the son of Hans Dessauer, a coloured paper manufacturer in
Aschaffenburg, left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with
Xerox, The Billions Nobody Wanted?
... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal(pictured), an
equestrian monument in the centre of
Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
... that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839
Derby Stakes, his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?
... that the oldest jockey to win the
Derby Stakes was John Forth, who rode Frederick to victory in 1829?
... that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
... that Photo Bits, a
soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
... that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras, a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of
parakeets, there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
... that one reviewer thought
ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
... that the last
Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of
Sumatra?
... that according to one critic,
Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "
Only Girl (In the World)"?
... that Mildred Seydell was one of the first female newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia?
... that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce
Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the
second episode?
... that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835
Derby Stakes, and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his
trainer?
08:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
... that in some areas of northern
Alaska, the
willow species Salix alaxensis(twig pictured) constitutes over 95% of winter food for
moose?
... that in the early phase of the
Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
... that the racehorse Young Eclipse, winner of the second
Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
... that although "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock, was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its
nude scene too early in the evening?
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
08:00, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the bangalay(pictured) can live for 600 years and its base can reach six metres (20 ft) in diameter?
... that in 2011 Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir became the first Asian to own an
NBA franchise?
... that the Ellerslie Eagles, a club in the
Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?
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 during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of
life?
01:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
... that international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks(pictured) took on the alias of "Mr. Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice?
... that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the
Eritrean War, led to the
disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
... that the Standard Plaza was the largest office building in
Oregon when it opened in 1963?
... that Duke's, a
Mumbai-based soft-drink brand, was bought by
PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most
segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
... that
Hostess Brands has claimed that the Hostess CupCake (pictured) was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market," but that claim has been disputed by rival
Tastykake?
... that in 1914 Prince Obolensky thought his peasants were enthusiastic about
a war to defend
Belgrade, later learning they had understood him to mean
Belgorod, home of the relics of St Ioasaph?
26 February 2012
16:00, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
... that European welterweight champion Johnny Basham(pictured) faced a manslaughter charge after killing an opponent in a boxing match?
... that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn(pictured) was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry?
... that Zennor Head,
Cornwall, is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?
25 February 2012
16:00, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
... that Colorado's Redstone Inn(pictured), originally a 1900s dormitory for unmarried male
Colorado Fuel and Iron workers, had indoor plumbing, electricity and telephone when it was built?
... that in 1937, after German artist Heinz Kiwitz was lauded in the Nazi press, he wrote an open letter to Hitler to renounce the praise?
... that the University Times, a newspaper of the
University of Pittsburgh, was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
... that Alcock's Arabian(pictured), an
Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all
grey Thoroughbred horses?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that
Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the
King David Hotel bombing?
... that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals?
... that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger,
livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and
Mayor of Dunedin?
... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American
coal balls(example pictured) by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
... that in 1784, the racehorse Serjeant had to run half a mile more than the previous winner, Saltram, in order to win the
Derby Stakes?
... that
Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers, a
white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both
Ndebele and
Shona?
... that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the
Maccabees, heroes of the
Hanukkah story?
... that although Hasan Dosti initially served as Minister of Justice of the quisling government of Albania during WWII he later joined the resistance movement?
... that upon its incorporation of classical studies in 1820, Romney Academy became one of the earliest institutions of higher education in the
South Branch Potomac region of present-day
West Virginia?
... that a
slave found liable for the manifest form of the Roman
delict of furtum ("theft") could be thrown from the
Tarpeian Rock?
... that the
extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
15:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the 1815
Derby winner Whisker(pictured) was said to be "as near perfection as a horse could be"?
... that steel produced at Govăjdia(furnace pictured) and at Reşiţa in present-day Romania was used in the building of the
Eiffel Tower?
... that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest
Spaghetti Westerns, Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
... that German illustrator Günther Strupp survived Nazi imprisonment and became a contributor to Ulenspiegel, a magazine created by two other survivors?
... that Jack le Goff has been called "one of the greatest coaches in
three-day eventing history", as he built a multiple-medal-winning team from previously unknown horses and riders?
... that White Heat by
Marco Pierre White was described by one critic as "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years"?
... that the racehorse Noble won the 1786
Derby Stakes despite
30/1 odds against him?
... that the title track of
Otis Redding's Pain in My Heart was accused of being a copyright infringement due to similarities with
Irma Thomas' "Ruler of My Heart"?
... that the bark of Acacia reficiens is used to curdle milk, and its thorns used to pierce ears in the
Kaokoveld region of
Namibia?
... that actor and model Jan Uddin, best known for his role in the
BBCsoap operaEastEnders as
Jalil Iqbal, was beaten by his father, who also refused to let him watch television or read books?
... that in nine years of circulation, Indonesian literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe had 125 employees or contributors but never more than 150 subscribers?
... that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
... that
Muddy Waters'Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
... that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an
artillery shell?
... that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
... that the Israeli city of
Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of
Macy's department store?
... that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each
Jaguars game?
... that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the
Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?
15 February 2012
16:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
... that according to Russian sociologist Daria Khaltourina(pictured),
Protestantism positively influenced the
capitalist development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading?
... that the fourth
Rebbe of Radomsk, founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
... that when "Who's That Chick?" debuted at number nine on the
UK Singles Chart, Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?
00:20, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
... that
Arizona Territorial Governor Richard Elihu Sloan(pictured) had the legal authority to make appropriations and levy taxes without legislative approval?
... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of
extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between
pachyderms and
lemurs?
... that the 1885 watercolor painting Love's Messenger(pictured) shows several symbols of "beauty, love, and abundance of
Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son
Cupid"?
... that after a close finish at the 1808
Derby Stakes, the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan, to
match races?
... that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional
Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
... that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the
tin,
lead,
cloth and
wool trades?
... that one Sam rode another to victory at the 1818
Derby?
13 February 2012
16:00, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
... that art showing a fainting Virgin Mary(example illustrated) became less common in the 16th century, after attacks by theologians?
... that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an
eyespot in mating displays?
... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?
... that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
08:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" ad campaign established
Honda's brand image in the US and helped the Super Cub(pictured) become the top-selling
motor vehicle in history?
... that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after
Balša II ceded it to the
Venetian Republic in 1395?
... that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
... that in Mexico's Lagunas de Montebello National Park(pictured) there are ancient
Maya ruins next to 59 lakes whose colors range from emerald and turquoise to purple and reddish black?
... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
... that a distilled beverage –
Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group?
... that the
extinctbivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
... that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer
H. G. Adler's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
... that attendance at meetings of New York's Albany Institute declined in the 1830s because members were bored by papers presented by the group's
meteorologist?
... that
King Gustav III of Sweden, in an experiment, commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of
coffee, and the other
tea, every day for the rest of their lives?
... that Downing Hall was once the home of
naturalistThomas Pennant, who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
... that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
... that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King
Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
... that the racehorse Azor won the 1817
Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a
pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?
... that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that
try to turnlesbians straight began years before she was appointed
Ecuador's Minister for Public Health?
... that since Lange's 1962 invention of the first plastic
ski boots(example pictured), they have been on the feet of five times as many
World Cup medal winners as any other brand?
... that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the
Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
... that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the
NBA, and he is now a professional
jazz musician?
... that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?
8 February 2012
16:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
... that a hacker tried to hold journalist Rowenna Davis'(pictured) email account for
ransom?
... that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent
exoskeletons that can be strapped on as
wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
... that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko's victory at the 1813
Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown
phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
... that the son of Hans Dessauer, a coloured paper manufacturer in
Aschaffenburg, left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with
Xerox, The Billions Nobody Wanted?
... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal(pictured), an
equestrian monument in the centre of
Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
... that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839
Derby Stakes, his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?
... that the oldest jockey to win the
Derby Stakes was John Forth, who rode Frederick to victory in 1829?
... that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
... that Photo Bits, a
soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
... that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras, a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of
parakeets, there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
... that one reviewer thought
ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
... that the last
Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of
Sumatra?
... that according to one critic,
Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "
Only Girl (In the World)"?
... that Mildred Seydell was one of the first female newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia?
... that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce
Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the
second episode?
... that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835
Derby Stakes, and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his
trainer?
08:00, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
... that in some areas of northern
Alaska, the
willow species Salix alaxensis(twig pictured) constitutes over 95% of winter food for
moose?
... that in the early phase of the
Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
... that the racehorse Young Eclipse, winner of the second
Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
... that although "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock, was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its
nude scene too early in the evening?
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
08:00, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
... that the bangalay(pictured) can live for 600 years and its base can reach six metres (20 ft) in diameter?
... that in 2011 Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir became the first Asian to own an
NBA franchise?
... that the Ellerslie Eagles, a club in the
Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?