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... that Lord Amberley allowed his wife's sexual partner,
Douglas Spalding, to keep chickens in their drawing room and library, which terrified their guests?
00:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the Barcelona Metro 9000 Series(pictured) runs on rapid transit systems in three Spanish-speaking countries?
... that
South Dakota socialist Z. D. Scott moved to
Biloxi in the late 1890s to establish what a newspaper column described as a "co-operative colony" and to "live on fish and oysters and dream dreams"?
... that in 1866 a
Neogothic style school building (pictured) was erected for the Kreuzschule in
Dresden, which has educated members of the choir of the
Kreuzkirche since 1300?
... that for the film Rabindranath Tagore,
Satyajit Ray did not use any of Tagore's poems as he believed that people who heard the English translations would not consider Tagore "a very great poet"?
... that during Takembeng protests in Cameroon, post-menopausal women strip naked in order to prevent police and military from breaking up the protests?
29 January 2013
16:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
... that
Michael Winner(pictured) wanted to greet future visitors to Woodland House as a talking waxwork statue?
... that the listed buildings in Northwich,
Cheshire, include three structures designed so that they could be lifted in the event of further subsidence in the town due to salt extraction?
... that the 4th-century Brescia Casket(pictured) has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of
early Christian art"?
... that when a
French television channel approached
Satyajit Ray for Pikoo (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
... that Sam Ficken once missed four field goals and an extra point in a game that
Penn State lost by one point?
... that stings from Tamoya ohboya, named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?
08:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Romanesque church St. Peter(pictured) in Syburg, now a suburb of
Dortmund, is surrounded by a graveyard with stones dating back to the ninth century?
... that Star Trek: Enterprise actor
Anthony Montgomery thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode "Horizon"?
... that
Cherokee Indian Mayes McLain held
college football's single-season scoring record for more than 60 years and engaged in professional wrestling as the "Masked Manager"?
... that Moroccan military and religious leader Ali Amhaouch is said to have bequeathed his son a magical
rifle cartridge in 1918?
00:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
... that Blaufränkisch(pictured) is known as Lemberger in
Washington but winemakers there are having a difficult time marketing the wine because of consumers associating it with a
smelly cheese?
... that the Tokatlıyan Hotels(pictured) are considered one of the first European-style hotels to be built in Turkey?
... that future
Hockey Hall of FamerSteamer Maxwell's disdain for professional sport caused him to quit playing in 1915 after learning fellow players were getting paid?
... that although some hooch maids were known to
serviceservicemen during the
Vietnam War, they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?
... that a
cove in
Alaska was named Murder Cove after two gold prospectors were murdered there in 1869 as revenge for killing the brother of a
Kake resident?
... that the ritual of lighting
Makaravilakku atop the Indian summit of Ponnambalamedu is witnessed from
Sabarimala by nearly half a million people annually?
... that Christian
hip hop artist
Sho Baraka attracted controversy when he used the word "nigga" on the album Talented 10th?
00:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the 660-megawatt Tracy Thermal Generating Station(pictured), a heavy fuel oil-fired power station in
Quebec, will be dismantled by the end of 2013?
... that vocalist
Mike Patton described the tour schedule to promote
Tomahawk's Mit Gas as "a lot of time to be sitting in some stinking-ass club with some guy puking in your purse"?
... that in the 2012 Race of Champions, driver
Romain Grosjean(pictured) won the Champions of Champions title, while Germany won their sixth consecutive Nations Cup?
... that the "Dima Yakovlev Law" forbidding American parents from adopting Russian children was named after a Russian toddler who died after his adoptive American father left him in a car for nine hours?
... that two years after her departure from the
Sugababes,
Siobhán Donaghy released her debut single "Overrated", which according to one critic is directed at the group's members?
... that in the early 1600s, the Cabal of Naples led
Neapolitan painters to harass, expel, or poison non-native painters so that
commissions would be won by local artists?
... that the Buddha's Discourse on Removing Distracting Thoughts says that just as a carpenter replaces a "coarse peg with a fine one", one can replace unskilled thoughts with skilled thoughts?
... that
Usmar Ismail's (pictured)Darah dan Doa has been considered both his directorial debut and the first Indonesian film, although he had already directed two films?
... that in 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the
eastern Sahara, with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
... that before the
Ba'ath Party took power in
Syria, Tell Touqan was a
feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
... that
Toby Love called his song "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
... that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck became a master baker after his singing career, which included creating the title role in
Wagner's opera Lohengrin, was cut short by a deterioration in his voice?
... that a
Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn, originally dedicated to the Greek goddess
Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a
mosque, is one of the best preserved edifices in
Syria?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Affliction" explains why
Klingons look different in the original series compared to the movies and later series?
... that the Viscount Vane's offer of a reward in the newspapers for information about
his eloped wife was compared to a search for "some favourite spaniel bitch"?
... that Patience Latting was not just the first female
Mayor of
Oklahoma City, but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people?
... that Hurricane Debbie in September
1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of
Ireland, gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of
Arranmore?
... that journalist Roberto Javier Mora García was stabbed 26 times and killed, allegedly for reporting on the Mexican drug cartels?
... that Gervase de Cornhill, a medieval English royal official and merchant, loaned money to Queen
Matilda around 1143, and when the queen did not repay, got the mortgaged lands at
Gamlingay instead?
... that when French Colonel Antoine Huré led a column to relieve the French garrison at
Aïn Médiouna in 1919, elements of it marched 62 kilometres (39 miles) in a single day?
... that Alfie Fripp, the longest-serving and oldest-surviving British prisoner of war of World War II, "liberated" tools used in the excavation of the
Great Escape tunnel (pictured)?
... that temperature and
salinity variations produced by ocean tides and freshwater rivers in
estuaries make them ideal
habitats for studying how these factors affect the growth of shells?
... that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
Yale University?
... that
Australia's
Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were only listed on the Lord's Honours Boards(pictured) 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements, due to the lack of a neutral board?
... that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a
Dalek doing an impression of
Sean Connery"?
... that the award-winning Indonesian war film Serangan Fajar and the 1963 Hollywood film PT 109 have been compared for their "mild hagiography" of their countries' leaders?
... that in the video game Frog Fractions, the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a
work visa to continue working on the planet?
... that Indian filmmaker
Satyajit Ray paid tribute to the
silent film genre through his short film Two (1964), made without any dialogue, which also makes "a strong anti-war statement"?
... that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish
reconnaissance satelliteGöktürk-2, fearing that
high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands?
... that Riza Cerova, an anti-monarchist activist of interwar Albania, became regarded as a hero after the final overthrow of monarchy in the post-WWII era?
... that when the Plaza Mayor of
Manila(pictured) was renamed Plaza de Roma in 1961, the city of
Rome reciprocated by renaming one of its squares "Piazza Manila"?
... that highly charged HZE ions make up just 1% of
galactic cosmic rays, but they cause as much biological damage to astronauts as
protons, which make up 85%?
... that the
Proteaceae plant genus Roupala(R. montana pictured) spread into South America as it split off from
Gondwana 110 million years ago and then into Central America six million years ago?
... that the Singapore Constitution that came into force on 9 August 1965 was not drafted as a single document but was made up of provisions from three separate statutes?
... that Gerald Feldman, an American historian, conducted research and published books on the role of business in
Nazi Germany?
... that the
video gameScarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an
eye patch, a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped
tentacle for one arm?
... that sports journalist Dick Beddoes ate one of his columns with
borscht when he wrongly predicted that Canada's hockey team would sweep the
Summit Series?
... that Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the god
Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode
Vaikuntha?
... that Body of Proof episode "Missing" featured
Slaine as the episode's murderer, a role which was his first venture into network television?
... that the rovers of the planned Phobos Surveyor are known as "hedgehogs"?
00:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the Saleh Mosque(pictured), built in
Sana'a in 2008 at a cost of US$60 million, was considered too expensive in relation to the 42% of
Yemenis who live in poverty?
... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in
Palestine after killing a beggar?
... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?
... that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called
Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole, who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
... that the Greenwood Tunnel in
Virginia was completed without accident, even though engineer
Claudius Crozet described the work as "excessively dangerous"?
... that the orchid bee Euglossa bazinga was named after the catchphrase of
Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory, despite the character's allergy to bees?
11 January 2013
16:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
... that
Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower(pictured) once defended
Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"?
... that in the Phnom Sampeau hills, during the atrocities committed by the
Khmer Rouge, many victims were bludgeoned and tossed into holes that served as skylights to the caves?
... that
SWAPO's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking
Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka?
... that after surviving an assassination attempt, Mexican journalist Pablo Pineda Gaucín made funeral arrangements?
... that during the Battle of Żownin,
Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
... that a large
mosaic covers the entire floor of the
Byzantine-era Church of the Holy Martyrs, built in 442 CE, in the
Syrian town of Taybat al-Imam?
... that during the
First World War former archaeologist Colonel Gaston Cros said that "instead of artefacts ... I find German shells, it is not without excitement"?
... that journalist Enrique Perea Quintanilla was tortured and killed, allegedly for his coverage on political corruption and drug trafficking in Mexico?
... that the White Elephant Cave (similar cave pictured) in Phnom Sorsia mountain,
Cambodia, is named after the many stalagmites which have the shape of white
elephants?
... that Italian Antonio Lago bought the Paris factory of Automobiles Talbot and founded the French
Talbot-Lago marque?
... that "The Lass of Richmond Hill", said to be one of
George III's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
... that the Kpove War or Dung Pot War got its name when Ndawa had a large hole dug and filled with
dung, threatening to throw any of his troops into the hole if they left battle?
... that Axel Törneman's friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés?
9 January 2013
16:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the
grass octopus(pictured) puts on a deimatic display of brownish red with white spots to scare predators?
... that bonuses promised to girls for Sumangali work in
Tamil Nadu are deducted from their stipends and held until they complete three years of work, a form of
debt bondage illegal in India since 1976?
... that the inhabitants of the
Syrian village of Kafr Zita claim descent from the
Mawali tribes who dominated the northern
Syrian Desert until the 18th century?
... that Nyarroh, a female chief of the Barri region of
Sierra Leone, hosted multiple negotiations between the British and
Mende tribes in the 1880s and 1890s?
... that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft?
... that the massive Chinchaga fire of 1950 in northern Canada produced a smoke cloud that was blamed on supernatural forces, aliens, and nuclear Armageddon?
... that Nikola Stoyanov, the financier who led negotiations on Bulgaria's foreign debt during the interwar period, also authored the first Bulgarian astronomical study printed abroad?
... that Extra Virginity, a 2011 book about
olive oil, was criticized by The New York Times as "an unintentional master class in how to say waxy and embalming things about fresh food"?
... that the single release of
John Lennon's "Meat City" has a backwards message to "check the album", on which the song has a vulgar backwards message instead?
4 January 2013
12:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
... that in order to save the Rollstone Boulder(pictured) from being demolished, it was blown up?
... that Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Treachery of G30S/PKI) may have become the most-viewed Indonesian film of all time because of its use for pro-
Suharto propaganda?
... that
Jonathan Petropoulos has stated that Kajetan Mühlmann is "arguably the single most prodigious art plunderer in the history of human civilization"?
... that wine from Verduzzo, the grape behind the modern Italian wine
Ramandolo, was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring
Pope Gregory XII?
... that Joseph Dérigoin and his men stormed a fortification using a ladder during the French occupation of
Madagascar and subsequently took 3,000 prisoners?
... that a mid-1930s attempt to generate
electricity at Cobscook Bay was abandoned, but a new
tidal power generation method succeeded there in 2012?
... that poet William Neville made himself a cloak of linen and buckskin which was supposed to render him
invisible?
3 January 2013
12:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
... that had The Keep(pictured) not been built, 900 years worth of
East Sussex's historical records could have been moved from the existing unsuitable building to another part of England?
... that
Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of
Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
... that the fourth-century
Byzantine mosaic discovered in Maryamin, in central
Syria, is one of the few artifacts that give an indication on how the
organ instrument was used in antiquity?
... that Lady Henry Somerset scandalised 1870s society by revealing
her husband's homosexuality, but was later voted the best choice to be the United Kingdom's first female prime minister?
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 Lord Amberley allowed his wife's sexual partner,
Douglas Spalding, to keep chickens in their drawing room and library, which terrified their guests?
00:00, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the Barcelona Metro 9000 Series(pictured) runs on rapid transit systems in three Spanish-speaking countries?
... that
South Dakota socialist Z. D. Scott moved to
Biloxi in the late 1890s to establish what a newspaper column described as a "co-operative colony" and to "live on fish and oysters and dream dreams"?
... that in 1866 a
Neogothic style school building (pictured) was erected for the Kreuzschule in
Dresden, which has educated members of the choir of the
Kreuzkirche since 1300?
... that for the film Rabindranath Tagore,
Satyajit Ray did not use any of Tagore's poems as he believed that people who heard the English translations would not consider Tagore "a very great poet"?
... that during Takembeng protests in Cameroon, post-menopausal women strip naked in order to prevent police and military from breaking up the protests?
29 January 2013
16:00, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
... that
Michael Winner(pictured) wanted to greet future visitors to Woodland House as a talking waxwork statue?
... that the listed buildings in Northwich,
Cheshire, include three structures designed so that they could be lifted in the event of further subsidence in the town due to salt extraction?
... that the 4th-century Brescia Casket(pictured) has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of
early Christian art"?
... that when a
French television channel approached
Satyajit Ray for Pikoo (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
... that Sam Ficken once missed four field goals and an extra point in a game that
Penn State lost by one point?
... that stings from Tamoya ohboya, named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?
08:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Romanesque church St. Peter(pictured) in Syburg, now a suburb of
Dortmund, is surrounded by a graveyard with stones dating back to the ninth century?
... that Star Trek: Enterprise actor
Anthony Montgomery thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode "Horizon"?
... that
Cherokee Indian Mayes McLain held
college football's single-season scoring record for more than 60 years and engaged in professional wrestling as the "Masked Manager"?
... that Moroccan military and religious leader Ali Amhaouch is said to have bequeathed his son a magical
rifle cartridge in 1918?
00:00, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
... that Blaufränkisch(pictured) is known as Lemberger in
Washington but winemakers there are having a difficult time marketing the wine because of consumers associating it with a
smelly cheese?
... that the Tokatlıyan Hotels(pictured) are considered one of the first European-style hotels to be built in Turkey?
... that future
Hockey Hall of FamerSteamer Maxwell's disdain for professional sport caused him to quit playing in 1915 after learning fellow players were getting paid?
... that although some hooch maids were known to
serviceservicemen during the
Vietnam War, they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?
... that a
cove in
Alaska was named Murder Cove after two gold prospectors were murdered there in 1869 as revenge for killing the brother of a
Kake resident?
... that the ritual of lighting
Makaravilakku atop the Indian summit of Ponnambalamedu is witnessed from
Sabarimala by nearly half a million people annually?
... that Christian
hip hop artist
Sho Baraka attracted controversy when he used the word "nigga" on the album Talented 10th?
00:00, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the 660-megawatt Tracy Thermal Generating Station(pictured), a heavy fuel oil-fired power station in
Quebec, will be dismantled by the end of 2013?
... that vocalist
Mike Patton described the tour schedule to promote
Tomahawk's Mit Gas as "a lot of time to be sitting in some stinking-ass club with some guy puking in your purse"?
... that in the 2012 Race of Champions, driver
Romain Grosjean(pictured) won the Champions of Champions title, while Germany won their sixth consecutive Nations Cup?
... that the "Dima Yakovlev Law" forbidding American parents from adopting Russian children was named after a Russian toddler who died after his adoptive American father left him in a car for nine hours?
... that two years after her departure from the
Sugababes,
Siobhán Donaghy released her debut single "Overrated", which according to one critic is directed at the group's members?
... that in the early 1600s, the Cabal of Naples led
Neapolitan painters to harass, expel, or poison non-native painters so that
commissions would be won by local artists?
... that the Buddha's Discourse on Removing Distracting Thoughts says that just as a carpenter replaces a "coarse peg with a fine one", one can replace unskilled thoughts with skilled thoughts?
... that
Usmar Ismail's (pictured)Darah dan Doa has been considered both his directorial debut and the first Indonesian film, although he had already directed two films?
... that in 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the
eastern Sahara, with primary reserves of 80 million tons?
... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
... that before the
Ba'ath Party took power in
Syria, Tell Touqan was a
feudal village where most residents worked as laborers for land owned by seven families?
... that
Toby Love called his song "Tengo Un Amor" the "door-opener" for all of his future success?
... that the Austrian tenor Karl Beck became a master baker after his singing career, which included creating the title role in
Wagner's opera Lohengrin, was cut short by a deterioration in his voice?
... that a
Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn, originally dedicated to the Greek goddess
Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a
mosque, is one of the best preserved edifices in
Syria?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Affliction" explains why
Klingons look different in the original series compared to the movies and later series?
... that the Viscount Vane's offer of a reward in the newspapers for information about
his eloped wife was compared to a search for "some favourite spaniel bitch"?
... that Patience Latting was not just the first female
Mayor of
Oklahoma City, but also the first woman to serve as mayor of any U.S. city exceeding 350,000 people?
... that Hurricane Debbie in September
1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of
Ireland, gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of
Arranmore?
... that journalist Roberto Javier Mora García was stabbed 26 times and killed, allegedly for reporting on the Mexican drug cartels?
... that Gervase de Cornhill, a medieval English royal official and merchant, loaned money to Queen
Matilda around 1143, and when the queen did not repay, got the mortgaged lands at
Gamlingay instead?
... that when French Colonel Antoine Huré led a column to relieve the French garrison at
Aïn Médiouna in 1919, elements of it marched 62 kilometres (39 miles) in a single day?
... that Alfie Fripp, the longest-serving and oldest-surviving British prisoner of war of World War II, "liberated" tools used in the excavation of the
Great Escape tunnel (pictured)?
... that temperature and
salinity variations produced by ocean tides and freshwater rivers in
estuaries make them ideal
habitats for studying how these factors affect the growth of shells?
... that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
Yale University?
... that
Australia's
Warren Bardsley and Charles Kellaway were only listed on the Lord's Honours Boards(pictured) 98 years after they had fulfilled the requirements, due to the lack of a neutral board?
... that a reviewer called the narrator in the game Defenders of Ardania "booze-obsessed", with a voice that sounds like "a
Dalek doing an impression of
Sean Connery"?
... that the award-winning Indonesian war film Serangan Fajar and the 1963 Hollywood film PT 109 have been compared for their "mild hagiography" of their countries' leaders?
... that in the video game Frog Fractions, the player travels from a lily pad on Earth to Mars, where they must obtain a
work visa to continue working on the planet?
... that Indian filmmaker
Satyajit Ray paid tribute to the
silent film genre through his short film Two (1964), made without any dialogue, which also makes "a strong anti-war statement"?
... that Israel expressed objections to the newly launched Turkish
reconnaissance satelliteGöktürk-2, fearing that
high resolution imagery of Israel would eventually fall into the wrong hands?
... that Riza Cerova, an anti-monarchist activist of interwar Albania, became regarded as a hero after the final overthrow of monarchy in the post-WWII era?
... that when the Plaza Mayor of
Manila(pictured) was renamed Plaza de Roma in 1961, the city of
Rome reciprocated by renaming one of its squares "Piazza Manila"?
... that highly charged HZE ions make up just 1% of
galactic cosmic rays, but they cause as much biological damage to astronauts as
protons, which make up 85%?
... that the
Proteaceae plant genus Roupala(R. montana pictured) spread into South America as it split off from
Gondwana 110 million years ago and then into Central America six million years ago?
... that the Singapore Constitution that came into force on 9 August 1965 was not drafted as a single document but was made up of provisions from three separate statutes?
... that Gerald Feldman, an American historian, conducted research and published books on the role of business in
Nazi Germany?
... that the
video gameScarygirl puts players in control of a young girl with an
eye patch, a sewn-shut mouth, and a hook-capped
tentacle for one arm?
... that sports journalist Dick Beddoes ate one of his columns with
borscht when he wrongly predicted that Canada's hockey team would sweep the
Summit Series?
... that Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the god
Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode
Vaikuntha?
... that Body of Proof episode "Missing" featured
Slaine as the episode's murderer, a role which was his first venture into network television?
... that the rovers of the planned Phobos Surveyor are known as "hedgehogs"?
00:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the Saleh Mosque(pictured), built in
Sana'a in 2008 at a cost of US$60 million, was considered too expensive in relation to the 42% of
Yemenis who live in poverty?
... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in
Palestine after killing a beggar?
... that the type specimen of Scolosaurus seriously injured its discoverer, who was excavating it when it fell on him?
... that a fictional alien race in Star Trek called
Bolians were named after television director Cliff Bole, who directed 42 episodes of the franchise?
... that the Greenwood Tunnel in
Virginia was completed without accident, even though engineer
Claudius Crozet described the work as "excessively dangerous"?
... that the orchid bee Euglossa bazinga was named after the catchphrase of
Sheldon Cooper from the television show The Big Bang Theory, despite the character's allergy to bees?
11 January 2013
16:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
... that
Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower(pictured) once defended
Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"?
... that in the Phnom Sampeau hills, during the atrocities committed by the
Khmer Rouge, many victims were bludgeoned and tossed into holes that served as skylights to the caves?
... that
SWAPO's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking
Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka?
... that after surviving an assassination attempt, Mexican journalist Pablo Pineda Gaucín made funeral arrangements?
... that during the Battle of Żownin,
Cossack forces constructed a bridge under the cover of darkness to relocate their camp?
... that a large
mosaic covers the entire floor of the
Byzantine-era Church of the Holy Martyrs, built in 442 CE, in the
Syrian town of Taybat al-Imam?
... that during the
First World War former archaeologist Colonel Gaston Cros said that "instead of artefacts ... I find German shells, it is not without excitement"?
... that journalist Enrique Perea Quintanilla was tortured and killed, allegedly for his coverage on political corruption and drug trafficking in Mexico?
... that the White Elephant Cave (similar cave pictured) in Phnom Sorsia mountain,
Cambodia, is named after the many stalagmites which have the shape of white
elephants?
... that Italian Antonio Lago bought the Paris factory of Automobiles Talbot and founded the French
Talbot-Lago marque?
... that "The Lass of Richmond Hill", said to be one of
George III's favourite songs, was written by an Irish republican revolutionary leader who became a British government double agent?
... that the Kpove War or Dung Pot War got its name when Ndawa had a large hole dug and filled with
dung, threatening to throw any of his troops into the hole if they left battle?
... that Axel Törneman's friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés?
9 January 2013
16:00, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
... that the
grass octopus(pictured) puts on a deimatic display of brownish red with white spots to scare predators?
... that bonuses promised to girls for Sumangali work in
Tamil Nadu are deducted from their stipends and held until they complete three years of work, a form of
debt bondage illegal in India since 1976?
... that the inhabitants of the
Syrian village of Kafr Zita claim descent from the
Mawali tribes who dominated the northern
Syrian Desert until the 18th century?
... that Nyarroh, a female chief of the Barri region of
Sierra Leone, hosted multiple negotiations between the British and
Mende tribes in the 1880s and 1890s?
... that 7,000 fans attended MineCon 2012, a convention celebrating the video game Minecraft?
... that the massive Chinchaga fire of 1950 in northern Canada produced a smoke cloud that was blamed on supernatural forces, aliens, and nuclear Armageddon?
... that Nikola Stoyanov, the financier who led negotiations on Bulgaria's foreign debt during the interwar period, also authored the first Bulgarian astronomical study printed abroad?
... that Extra Virginity, a 2011 book about
olive oil, was criticized by The New York Times as "an unintentional master class in how to say waxy and embalming things about fresh food"?
... that the single release of
John Lennon's "Meat City" has a backwards message to "check the album", on which the song has a vulgar backwards message instead?
4 January 2013
12:00, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
... that in order to save the Rollstone Boulder(pictured) from being demolished, it was blown up?
... that Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Treachery of G30S/PKI) may have become the most-viewed Indonesian film of all time because of its use for pro-
Suharto propaganda?
... that
Jonathan Petropoulos has stated that Kajetan Mühlmann is "arguably the single most prodigious art plunderer in the history of human civilization"?
... that wine from Verduzzo, the grape behind the modern Italian wine
Ramandolo, was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring
Pope Gregory XII?
... that Joseph Dérigoin and his men stormed a fortification using a ladder during the French occupation of
Madagascar and subsequently took 3,000 prisoners?
... that a mid-1930s attempt to generate
electricity at Cobscook Bay was abandoned, but a new
tidal power generation method succeeded there in 2012?
... that poet William Neville made himself a cloak of linen and buckskin which was supposed to render him
invisible?
3 January 2013
12:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
... that had The Keep(pictured) not been built, 900 years worth of
East Sussex's historical records could have been moved from the existing unsuitable building to another part of England?
... that
Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of
Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
... that the fourth-century
Byzantine mosaic discovered in Maryamin, in central
Syria, is one of the few artifacts that give an indication on how the
organ instrument was used in antiquity?
... that Lady Henry Somerset scandalised 1870s society by revealing
her husband's homosexuality, but was later voted the best choice to be the United Kingdom's first female prime minister?