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31 January 2012
16:00, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
... that
IrishplastererJohn Henry Devereux became a noted architect in South Carolina, designing a
church(pictured) that was the state's tallest building for 101 years?
... that
Jean-Paul Sartre did not know that his existentialist play No Exit was adapted to a 1962 film, which featured "surprisingly overt" lesbianism?
08:00, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Harriet Low(pictured) caused a diplomatic incident when she entered the banned port of
Canton dressed as a boy?
... that in "Schoolin' Life",
Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer
Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
... that German writer Ernst Ottwalt, who sought refuge from the Nazis in the
Soviet Union but became its victim, was nonetheless quoted by the Soviet prosecutor at the
Nuremburg Trials?
... that Albanian philosopher and poet Arshi Pipa was imprisoned for ten years because he antagonized the communist regime in
Albania with his recitation of a verse by
Goethe?
... that the first
Derby Stakes to be officially timed took place in 1846, with Pyrrhus The First completing the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) course in 2:55.0?
... that
Horst Janssen painted Friedrich von Keller with the
orders he had earned during his career, which took him as a German ambassador to Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara?
... that the
Phoenician ruins (temple pictured) of the ancient city of Amrit, near
Tartus in
Syria, are preserved in their entirety without extensive remodeling by later generations?
... that after the
Italian Navy ship Sibilia collided with Kateri i Radës in the Tragedy of Otranto, as many as 83 would-be migrants from Albania died?
... that carpenter Peter Street secretly arranged to dismantle a theatre in Shoreditch, north London, for material to build the new
Globe Theatre in Southwark?
... that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career?
... that after winning the 1841
Derby Stakes, the Thoroughbred racehorse Coronation kicked and killed a spectator?
08:00, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
... that
Emma Caulfield(pictured) was cast in a Once Upon a Time episode because the producers "couldn't think of anyone better to trap two children in a house and try to eat them"?
... that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
... that the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team won the national championship while holding opponents to 4.8 points per game and extending the team's winning streak to 23 games?
... that Russian wildrye is "one of the most versatile forage grasses available for dryland pastures"?
... that Porter Edward Sargent'sHandbook of Private Schools was viewed as giving "the most comprehensive critiques of
education published anywhere"?
... that Rakni's Mound in
Ullensaker, Norway, the largest
barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
... that Mr. Basketball USA winners have been determined retroactively going back to 1955?
... that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the
Rhodesian Security Forces instead?
... that Muslims and followers of Chinese religious traditions pray together at Sam Poo Kong(pictured), the oldest Chinese temple in
Semarang, Indonesia?
... that the race horse Phosphorus sprained a leg and was rejected by his jockey shortly before winning the 1837
Derby Stakes, during which he aggravated his injury and did not race again that year?
... that Indonesian film director Ifa Isfansyah is expected to marry the daughter of
another director, who is a director herself?
... that a fire in
Christiania in 1858 left about 1,000 people homeless?
... that the medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman William de Chesney took the surname of his mother's family, as did his paternal half-brother Simon, even though Simon wasn't related to that family?
08:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Mother Goose Tales, or Histoires ou contes du temps passé, (title page pictured), published by
Charles Perrault in 1697, was written for an audience of aristocratic adults?
... that the cargo ship MV Spiegelgracht ferries
luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean and back every year, allowing their owners to
cruise in both summer and winter?
25 January 2012
16:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Dangerous(pictured), despite a career-ending injury sustained after winning the 1833
Derby Stakes, was able to
walk over and claim two prizes unopposed before retiring later that year?
... that Henry P. H. Bromwell'smagnum opusRestorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry "may very well be the most important written document on the subject of
Masonry" according to the
Grand Master of Colorado in 2010?
... that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed?
00:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
... that poet and physician Paul Fleming(pictured) wrote love-poems to his
fiancée, but she married another man while he was on a diplomatic mission for the
Duke of Holstein in
Isfahan?
... that Raad Shallal al-Ani's resignation last year as
Iraq's Electricity Minister was said to be because he was the "scapegoat for continued electricity shortages"?
... that winning time of 3.04 by Ellington at the 1856
Derby Stakes was the slowest ever recorded, breaking the "record" of 3.02 set in 1852 by Daniel O'Rourke?
... that the ancient Egyptian deity
Ptah was often shown carrying a scepter which was a combination of the djed symbol (seal with djed hieroglyph pictured) and the
ankh, the symbol of life?
... that actor Saqib Saleem used to work with his father in their family restaurant, Saleem's, in
Delhi, India?
... that Guido Dessauer(pictured), a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of
Horst Janssen as a
lithographer?
... that after the shipwreck of the Italian SS Sirio, in which more than 100 passengers died, the captain was the first to abandon ship, and died "of a broken heart" within a year?
... that English football team
Queen's Park Rangers did not introduce their current blue and white strips until 1926, some 27 seasons after they turned professional?
... that explorers in the American West used wood from the bush oceanspray to make nails?
... that
Chief Joseph(pictured) and his warriors defeated the U.S. Army in 1877 at the Battle of Cottonwood as the
Nez Perce began their 1,400 mile (2,300 km) fighting retreat?
... that the Hanson brothers pioneered the rear-entry
ski boot, but the bankruptcy of their company in the 1980s allowed European companies to take over the market they created?
... that female red-banded sand wasps(pictured) dig burrows in sandy ground, provisioning each burrow with a food supply of paralyzed caterpillars, always laying one egg on the first caterpillar?
... that a carved wooden
lectern in the 900-year-old St Martin of Tours Church, Detling, has been called "the finest medieval fitting in any parish church in the county"?
... that Roy Cooper was the first
rodeo cowboy to exceed $2 million in earnings for his career?
... that Set in Stone won the
2006 Costa Book Award for Best Children's Book, despite the recommendation that it should not be read by anyone less than 14 years old?
... that after the 1860
Derby winner Thormanby died suddenly at age 18, its tail was mounted as a whisk in the hall of racehorse trainer
Mathew Dawson's house?
... that because of competition from
Costa Rican television broadcaster Repretel,
Teletica Channel 7 was prompted to upgrade its programming and equipment?"
... that the Hogbetsotso festival of the
Anlos of Ghana commemorates the escape of their ancestors from a tyrant king by walking backwards?
08:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
... that a group of
Late Permian mammal relatives called Nanictidopidae(restoration pictured) may have
eaten fruit because their small teeth were unsuitable for grinding most plant material?
... that the Freudenberg Group placed Vileda brand cleaning cloths on the market after noticing that their cleaning ladies were using scraps of their experimental fabrics?
... that under the prosperous and benign rule of Husayn Pasha, the city of
Gaza was regarded as the capital of
Palestine?
... that actors and audience in the Jacobs Well Theatre, a
Georgian era playhouse in
Bristol, England, could obtain drinks through a hole in the wall to an adjoining ale house?
12 January 2012
16:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
... that French architect Léon Azéma, a prisoner of the Germans during
World War I, designed the
Douaumont ossuary(pictured) to hold the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides?
... that Scottish footballer Dan Friel played more than 300 matches for
Burnley, many of them as
captain?
... that "Monday" was ranked among
UGO Networks' 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel?
08:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
... that increased
breeding of the threadsail filefish(pictured) to enhance the stock has caused genetic differentiation between its
hatchery and ocean populations?
... that Abdullah Atfeh was the first chief of staff of the
Syrian Army following the country's independence?
... that one unusual feature of a
charter issued around 1141 by Roger de Valognes was that it mentions that Valognes was persuaded to be more generous than he had originally planned?
... that in Jon Klassen's 2011 children's book I Want My Hat Back a bear eats the rabbit who stole his hat?
... that British surgeon Victor Negus carried out pioneering research in
comparative anatomy in the 1920s on the structure and evolution of the
larynx?
... that Georg Christian Lehms(pictured), court librarian and poet in
Darmstadt, was the author of Teutschlands galante Poetinnen (Germany's gallant poetesses)?
... that during the 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake 95% of the traditional houses in
Çaldıran were destroyed due to their low resistance to lateral loads, causing most of the casualties?
... that the writer of The X-Files episode "Per Manum" has described it as being about "the way you perceive connections between people"?
... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in
Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden?
... that the leaves of Gardner's saltbush(pictured) are an important source of nutrients for pregnant
ewes?
... that a stable worker was bribed to allow Middleton to drink buckets of water, leaving the racehorse bloated, in a plan by bookmakers to prevent it from winning the 1825
Derby Stakes?
... that Intercession of Christ is the Christian belief in the continued intercession of
Christ and his advocacy on behalf of mankind, even after he left the earth?
... that the 400 people interviewed for an
oral history of
MTV's early years could not agree on what was the best
video, but they all agreed
Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonite" was the worst?
... that the celebration of the Dodoleglime festival by the
Ve people of
Ghana commemorates the escape, through a town wall hole, of their ancestors from a tyrant king in
Togo?
... that construction of Roosevelt High School in
St. Louis, Missouri, required the removal of a cemetery, yet not all bodies were removed and local children took bones away from the work site?
... that the beach pea was used in traditional Hawaiian medicine to treat wounds?
... that
Singapore is said to espouse a "green-light" approach towards administrative law – that good government should be sought through the political process – given the
government's focus on efficiency?
... that a parking garage in
Miami Beach was described as having a "stunning" design and has hosted weddings, wine tastings, and dinner parties?
... that Polish writer and educator Konrad Prószyński, author of internationally recognized
primers, had to struggle with the censorship in the
Russian Empire?
... that Portland Fire Station No. 7, built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
... that El Manik went from being a vagrant to
Citra Award-winning actor in six years?
... that population of the
crofting hamlet Skerray in northern Scotland fell from 500 in 1926 to around 100 by the 1980s?
... that the perfume Truth or Dare was inspired by singer
Madonna's memory of her mother's fragrance?
... that the Temple of Kwan Tai in
Mendocino, California(pictured) was founded by a survivor from a fleet of seven Chinese
junks, two of which landed on the California coast in 1854?
... that Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a
cabinet-level position until 1979?
... that as a toddler, composer Dian HP refused to eat unless she was sitting next to the family piano?
... that originally, "Unfaithful" was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band
Evanescence?
00:00, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Polish writer Ferdynand Goetel(pictured) participated in the first delegation sent by the Nazis to confirm the discovery of the
Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets?
... that Blair Athol won the 1864
Derby despite getting repeatedly kicked in the genitals by a lad paid by bookmakers to prevent him from competing, and later sired Silvio, who also won the Derby in 1877?
... that the Yellala Falls on the
Congo River were reached in 1485 by Portuguese explorers whose engraved stone commemorating their visit was only discovered in 1911?
... that architect Andrew Geller designed quirky, eye-grabbing vacation homes on Long Island that he gave nicknames including the Box Kite, Milk Carton and Reclining Picasso?
... that one of the two theories about the Christmas gamma ray burst places it just 10,000
light years from Earth, but the other theory indicates a distance of 5.5 billion light years?
... that
Brian Eno described Kaddish, an album that reflects on the
Holocaust, as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"?
2 January 2012
23:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
... that the Lagan Canal(pictured) was once one of the most successful canals in Ireland but closed in the 1950s after succumbing to competition from road and rail transport?
... that
bibliophile, literary historian and theatre director Jan Lorentowicz, who first published the complete works of
Jan Kochanowski, was also an amazing father according to his daughter's memoirs?
... that the Bavarian municipality of Hainsfarth once had a population that was almost 40 percent Jewish and still has a
Jewish cemetery and
synagogue?
... that the successful expeditions of Spanish captain Ruy Diaz Melgarejo in the late sixteenth century led to his being nicknamed the "Invincible Captain"?
... that Public Domain Day is celebrated on January 1 in several countries, but not in the United States or Australia, where no currently copyrighted works will enter the public domain until 2019 and 2026 respectively?
14:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
... that dancers over seven years of age are forbidden to dress up as
Robin Hood in the Fancy Dress Festival(masquerade pictured) held on the first of January in
Winneba in
Ghana?
... that the salmon caught by
grizzly bears(pictured) during salmon runs contribute significantly to the
nitrogen cycle in adjacent woodlands where bears urinate, defecate, and drop partially eaten fish carcasses?
... that, in addition to his work on
convex sets, mathematician Hans Rådström edited the Swedish translation of
Martin Gardner's Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions?
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.
31 January 2012
16:00, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
... that
IrishplastererJohn Henry Devereux became a noted architect in South Carolina, designing a
church(pictured) that was the state's tallest building for 101 years?
... that
Jean-Paul Sartre did not know that his existentialist play No Exit was adapted to a 1962 film, which featured "surprisingly overt" lesbianism?
08:00, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Harriet Low(pictured) caused a diplomatic incident when she entered the banned port of
Canton dressed as a boy?
... that in "Schoolin' Life",
Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer
Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
... that German writer Ernst Ottwalt, who sought refuge from the Nazis in the
Soviet Union but became its victim, was nonetheless quoted by the Soviet prosecutor at the
Nuremburg Trials?
... that Albanian philosopher and poet Arshi Pipa was imprisoned for ten years because he antagonized the communist regime in
Albania with his recitation of a verse by
Goethe?
... that the first
Derby Stakes to be officially timed took place in 1846, with Pyrrhus The First completing the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) course in 2:55.0?
... that
Horst Janssen painted Friedrich von Keller with the
orders he had earned during his career, which took him as a German ambassador to Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara?
... that the
Phoenician ruins (temple pictured) of the ancient city of Amrit, near
Tartus in
Syria, are preserved in their entirety without extensive remodeling by later generations?
... that after the
Italian Navy ship Sibilia collided with Kateri i Radës in the Tragedy of Otranto, as many as 83 would-be migrants from Albania died?
... that carpenter Peter Street secretly arranged to dismantle a theatre in Shoreditch, north London, for material to build the new
Globe Theatre in Southwark?
... that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career?
... that after winning the 1841
Derby Stakes, the Thoroughbred racehorse Coronation kicked and killed a spectator?
08:00, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
... that
Emma Caulfield(pictured) was cast in a Once Upon a Time episode because the producers "couldn't think of anyone better to trap two children in a house and try to eat them"?
... that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
... that the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team won the national championship while holding opponents to 4.8 points per game and extending the team's winning streak to 23 games?
... that Russian wildrye is "one of the most versatile forage grasses available for dryland pastures"?
... that Porter Edward Sargent'sHandbook of Private Schools was viewed as giving "the most comprehensive critiques of
education published anywhere"?
... that Rakni's Mound in
Ullensaker, Norway, the largest
barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
... that Mr. Basketball USA winners have been determined retroactively going back to 1955?
... that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the
Rhodesian Security Forces instead?
... that Muslims and followers of Chinese religious traditions pray together at Sam Poo Kong(pictured), the oldest Chinese temple in
Semarang, Indonesia?
... that the race horse Phosphorus sprained a leg and was rejected by his jockey shortly before winning the 1837
Derby Stakes, during which he aggravated his injury and did not race again that year?
... that Indonesian film director Ifa Isfansyah is expected to marry the daughter of
another director, who is a director herself?
... that a fire in
Christiania in 1858 left about 1,000 people homeless?
... that the medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman William de Chesney took the surname of his mother's family, as did his paternal half-brother Simon, even though Simon wasn't related to that family?
08:00, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Mother Goose Tales, or Histoires ou contes du temps passé, (title page pictured), published by
Charles Perrault in 1697, was written for an audience of aristocratic adults?
... that the cargo ship MV Spiegelgracht ferries
luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean and back every year, allowing their owners to
cruise in both summer and winter?
25 January 2012
16:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Dangerous(pictured), despite a career-ending injury sustained after winning the 1833
Derby Stakes, was able to
walk over and claim two prizes unopposed before retiring later that year?
... that Henry P. H. Bromwell'smagnum opusRestorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry "may very well be the most important written document on the subject of
Masonry" according to the
Grand Master of Colorado in 2010?
... that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed?
00:00, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
... that poet and physician Paul Fleming(pictured) wrote love-poems to his
fiancée, but she married another man while he was on a diplomatic mission for the
Duke of Holstein in
Isfahan?
... that Raad Shallal al-Ani's resignation last year as
Iraq's Electricity Minister was said to be because he was the "scapegoat for continued electricity shortages"?
... that winning time of 3.04 by Ellington at the 1856
Derby Stakes was the slowest ever recorded, breaking the "record" of 3.02 set in 1852 by Daniel O'Rourke?
... that the ancient Egyptian deity
Ptah was often shown carrying a scepter which was a combination of the djed symbol (seal with djed hieroglyph pictured) and the
ankh, the symbol of life?
... that actor Saqib Saleem used to work with his father in their family restaurant, Saleem's, in
Delhi, India?
... that Guido Dessauer(pictured), a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of
Horst Janssen as a
lithographer?
... that after the shipwreck of the Italian SS Sirio, in which more than 100 passengers died, the captain was the first to abandon ship, and died "of a broken heart" within a year?
... that English football team
Queen's Park Rangers did not introduce their current blue and white strips until 1926, some 27 seasons after they turned professional?
... that explorers in the American West used wood from the bush oceanspray to make nails?
... that
Chief Joseph(pictured) and his warriors defeated the U.S. Army in 1877 at the Battle of Cottonwood as the
Nez Perce began their 1,400 mile (2,300 km) fighting retreat?
... that the Hanson brothers pioneered the rear-entry
ski boot, but the bankruptcy of their company in the 1980s allowed European companies to take over the market they created?
... that female red-banded sand wasps(pictured) dig burrows in sandy ground, provisioning each burrow with a food supply of paralyzed caterpillars, always laying one egg on the first caterpillar?
... that a carved wooden
lectern in the 900-year-old St Martin of Tours Church, Detling, has been called "the finest medieval fitting in any parish church in the county"?
... that Roy Cooper was the first
rodeo cowboy to exceed $2 million in earnings for his career?
... that Set in Stone won the
2006 Costa Book Award for Best Children's Book, despite the recommendation that it should not be read by anyone less than 14 years old?
... that after the 1860
Derby winner Thormanby died suddenly at age 18, its tail was mounted as a whisk in the hall of racehorse trainer
Mathew Dawson's house?
... that because of competition from
Costa Rican television broadcaster Repretel,
Teletica Channel 7 was prompted to upgrade its programming and equipment?"
... that the Hogbetsotso festival of the
Anlos of Ghana commemorates the escape of their ancestors from a tyrant king by walking backwards?
08:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
... that a group of
Late Permian mammal relatives called Nanictidopidae(restoration pictured) may have
eaten fruit because their small teeth were unsuitable for grinding most plant material?
... that the Freudenberg Group placed Vileda brand cleaning cloths on the market after noticing that their cleaning ladies were using scraps of their experimental fabrics?
... that under the prosperous and benign rule of Husayn Pasha, the city of
Gaza was regarded as the capital of
Palestine?
... that actors and audience in the Jacobs Well Theatre, a
Georgian era playhouse in
Bristol, England, could obtain drinks through a hole in the wall to an adjoining ale house?
12 January 2012
16:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
... that French architect Léon Azéma, a prisoner of the Germans during
World War I, designed the
Douaumont ossuary(pictured) to hold the bones of 130,000 unidentified soldiers of both sides?
... that Scottish footballer Dan Friel played more than 300 matches for
Burnley, many of them as
captain?
... that "Monday" was ranked among
UGO Networks' 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel?
08:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
... that increased
breeding of the threadsail filefish(pictured) to enhance the stock has caused genetic differentiation between its
hatchery and ocean populations?
... that Abdullah Atfeh was the first chief of staff of the
Syrian Army following the country's independence?
... that one unusual feature of a
charter issued around 1141 by Roger de Valognes was that it mentions that Valognes was persuaded to be more generous than he had originally planned?
... that in Jon Klassen's 2011 children's book I Want My Hat Back a bear eats the rabbit who stole his hat?
... that British surgeon Victor Negus carried out pioneering research in
comparative anatomy in the 1920s on the structure and evolution of the
larynx?
... that Georg Christian Lehms(pictured), court librarian and poet in
Darmstadt, was the author of Teutschlands galante Poetinnen (Germany's gallant poetesses)?
... that during the 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake 95% of the traditional houses in
Çaldıran were destroyed due to their low resistance to lateral loads, causing most of the casualties?
... that the writer of The X-Files episode "Per Manum" has described it as being about "the way you perceive connections between people"?
... that owing to his declining popularity as a priest in
Christiania, Niels Wulfsberg decided to make a journalistic career, establishing amongst other newspapers the royal friendly Tiden?
... that the leaves of Gardner's saltbush(pictured) are an important source of nutrients for pregnant
ewes?
... that a stable worker was bribed to allow Middleton to drink buckets of water, leaving the racehorse bloated, in a plan by bookmakers to prevent it from winning the 1825
Derby Stakes?
... that Intercession of Christ is the Christian belief in the continued intercession of
Christ and his advocacy on behalf of mankind, even after he left the earth?
... that the 400 people interviewed for an
oral history of
MTV's early years could not agree on what was the best
video, but they all agreed
Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonite" was the worst?
... that the celebration of the Dodoleglime festival by the
Ve people of
Ghana commemorates the escape, through a town wall hole, of their ancestors from a tyrant king in
Togo?
... that construction of Roosevelt High School in
St. Louis, Missouri, required the removal of a cemetery, yet not all bodies were removed and local children took bones away from the work site?
... that the beach pea was used in traditional Hawaiian medicine to treat wounds?
... that
Singapore is said to espouse a "green-light" approach towards administrative law – that good government should be sought through the political process – given the
government's focus on efficiency?
... that a parking garage in
Miami Beach was described as having a "stunning" design and has hosted weddings, wine tastings, and dinner parties?
... that Polish writer and educator Konrad Prószyński, author of internationally recognized
primers, had to struggle with the censorship in the
Russian Empire?
... that Portland Fire Station No. 7, built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
... that El Manik went from being a vagrant to
Citra Award-winning actor in six years?
... that population of the
crofting hamlet Skerray in northern Scotland fell from 500 in 1926 to around 100 by the 1980s?
... that the perfume Truth or Dare was inspired by singer
Madonna's memory of her mother's fragrance?
... that the Temple of Kwan Tai in
Mendocino, California(pictured) was founded by a survivor from a fleet of seven Chinese
junks, two of which landed on the California coast in 1854?
... that Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a
cabinet-level position until 1979?
... that as a toddler, composer Dian HP refused to eat unless she was sitting next to the family piano?
... that originally, "Unfaithful" was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band
Evanescence?
00:00, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
... that Polish writer Ferdynand Goetel(pictured) participated in the first delegation sent by the Nazis to confirm the discovery of the
Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets?
... that Blair Athol won the 1864
Derby despite getting repeatedly kicked in the genitals by a lad paid by bookmakers to prevent him from competing, and later sired Silvio, who also won the Derby in 1877?
... that the Yellala Falls on the
Congo River were reached in 1485 by Portuguese explorers whose engraved stone commemorating their visit was only discovered in 1911?
... that architect Andrew Geller designed quirky, eye-grabbing vacation homes on Long Island that he gave nicknames including the Box Kite, Milk Carton and Reclining Picasso?
... that one of the two theories about the Christmas gamma ray burst places it just 10,000
light years from Earth, but the other theory indicates a distance of 5.5 billion light years?
... that
Brian Eno described Kaddish, an album that reflects on the
Holocaust, as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"?
2 January 2012
23:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
... that the Lagan Canal(pictured) was once one of the most successful canals in Ireland but closed in the 1950s after succumbing to competition from road and rail transport?
... that
bibliophile, literary historian and theatre director Jan Lorentowicz, who first published the complete works of
Jan Kochanowski, was also an amazing father according to his daughter's memoirs?
... that the Bavarian municipality of Hainsfarth once had a population that was almost 40 percent Jewish and still has a
Jewish cemetery and
synagogue?
... that the successful expeditions of Spanish captain Ruy Diaz Melgarejo in the late sixteenth century led to his being nicknamed the "Invincible Captain"?
... that Public Domain Day is celebrated on January 1 in several countries, but not in the United States or Australia, where no currently copyrighted works will enter the public domain until 2019 and 2026 respectively?
14:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
... that dancers over seven years of age are forbidden to dress up as
Robin Hood in the Fancy Dress Festival(masquerade pictured) held on the first of January in
Winneba in
Ghana?
... that the salmon caught by
grizzly bears(pictured) during salmon runs contribute significantly to the
nitrogen cycle in adjacent woodlands where bears urinate, defecate, and drop partially eaten fish carcasses?
... that, in addition to his work on
convex sets, mathematician Hans Rådström edited the Swedish translation of
Martin Gardner's Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions?