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... that Marte Dalelv, a Norwegian woman, received a prison sentence of sixteen months in
Dubai after she reported a man to the police for rape?
... that British record producer
Naughty Boy described his debut album, Hotel Cabana, as having a
concept that made it "more like a film in some respects"?
... that the church in the Danish village of Stokkemarke is dated to the mid-13th century?
... that Hungarian and Romanian tennis champion and
Wimbledon quarterfinalist Klára Somogyi suffered
arthritis from hiding in a humid basement to avoid WWII bombings and later had to give up tennis?
... that
Sichuan leader Yang Rudai initially opposed the
Three Gorges Dam project, but was pressured by China's central government to change his position?
... that the dramatic moments of the Argentine telenovela Solamente Vos are interrupted with videoclips made by the characters and invited musicians?
... that
Oprah Winfrey caused a spike in online orders, valued at tens of thousands of dollars, for a specific bar of soap available on the Merz Apothecary website?
30 July 2013
16:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the paper Korea Strategy by Huang Zunxian(pictured) has been described as "a work of destiny that determined the modern history of East Asia"?
... that Nørreballe's Romanesque
Østofte Church is noted for its well-preserved medieval frescos?
... that after approaching near-extinction in the 1950s, Japanese serow populations had increased so much by the 1970s that foresters fought to have it
culled as a pest?
... that in the murder of Liu Hong Mei, the victim's body was deposited into various boxes?
... that Tjörnin has been poetically referred to as "the biggest
bread soup in the world"?
00:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
... that Dale D. Myers(pictured) refused to accept the position of Deputy Administrator at
NASA until president
Ronald Reagan made a personal request?
... that
Franz von Suppé's operetta Fatinitza stars a Russian army lieutenant who, while dressed as a woman, wins the love of a hot-tempered elderly general?
... that the
Byzantine office of Drungary of the Watch began as a military commander tasked with the
emperor's security, became a senior judicial post, and ended as a sinecure and court dignity?
... that a mural painted in 1927 by
Grant Wood for the Martin Hotel was lost under layers of paint and wallpaper, before being rediscovered decades later, in 1979?
... that Genovese sauce, named after
Genoa and later popular in Paris, was invented in Naples, Italy?
... that Henry H. Riggs provided an eyewitness account of the
Armenian Genocide and concluded that the deportation of Armenians was part of an extermination program organized by the Ottoman government?
... that a Hong Kong architect has designed a 344 sq ft (32.0 m2) microapartment with sliding walls that convert the space into 24 different rooms?
... that in 1904, Laurie Island became the site of the first post office built in the Antarctic?
28 July 2013
23:45, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
... that a fellow artist said of Allen Butler Talcott that "no one was his peer in the knowledge of trees and how to paint them" (painting of oak pictured)?
... that the Burj Qatar, a $125 million building designed by French architect
Jean Nouvel, rises to a height of 232 metres (761 ft) and has 46 storeys?
... that The Voice UK has had six top 40 and twelve top 75 singles on the
UK Singles Chart and two top 50 albums on the
UK Albums Chart, including one top 10 placing on each chart?
... that Pedro Pablo Caro celebrated the golden anniversary of his professional career as a lawyer in 1952?
... that the Jacobean mansion Bramshill House(south façade pictured) is reportedly inhabited by 14 ghosts, including one of a bride who locked herself in a chest on her wedding night and wasn't found for 50 years?
... that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior?
... that "almost every medieval lapidary" or book of gems included lyngurium, a gemstone supposedly formed of solidified
lynx urine (creation illustrated), first described by
Theophrastus?
... that
Basava(pictured), a 12th-century leader of Hindus in Karnataka, protested against the
caste system and favoured equality among all classes?
... that the Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse Lethal Force set a new course record when he won this year's
July Cup at
Newmarket by one and a half
lengths?
... that when separated from its
host, the badger flea jumps repeatedly in an effort to reconnect?
06:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the modern study of human anatomy is considered to have been founded by
Andreas Vesalius(anatomical drawing pictured) in the sixteenth century?
... that what has been called the strangest battle of World War II was fought at a
medieval castle(pictured), and was the only battle of the war in which American and German soldiers fought as allies?
... that in his 2012 election for the Pennsylvania State House, Steve McCarter won every precinct in
his district?
... that differences in water chemistry in the two arms of the Y-shaped drainage on Hartland Moor in
Dorset create both acidic and alkaline habitats in one wetland?
... that the streets in Jamestown, in the
Western Cape province of
South Africa, are named after varieties of the main agricultural crop grown there since 1902?
... that Cube World is a
video game in development by husband and wife Wolfram and Sarah von Funck?
... that the Terwilliger curves, a six-lane section of
Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, had an average of 100 car accidents per year between 1995 and 2005?
... that the giant barrel sponge may live up to 2,300 years, making it one of the longest-living animals?
... that explorer Benjamin Anderson served as the Liberian Treasury's
comptroller and secretary from 1864 to 1866, and was charged with embezzlement of its funds?
... that "Slow Train" was called both "possibly the most irresponsible song"
Bob Dylan had written and "nothing less than Dylan's most mature and profound song about America"?
... that the hardline faction Al Khawalid was so empowered during the reign of
King Hamad of
Bahrain(pictured) that they were considered a "new royal family"?
... that Vegard Lysvoll scored 30 goals in the same season that his club set a new Norwegian record when he scored their 100th goal?
... that
Pol-ka rushed the production of the Sos mi hombre Argentine telenovela because of the low rating of their previous productions?
... that The Times of London described French ballet dancer Adèle Dumilâtre as "so ethereal ... that she almost looked transparent"?
00:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Asana archaeological site, occupied over the course of 8,000 years, is located by the Asana River, a tributary of the Osmore River(river valley pictured)?
... that
Kefaya activist Mahmoud Badr is the co-founder and lead spokesman of
Tamarod, the grassroots movement which organized mass demonstrations that led to Egyptian president
Mohamed Morsi's ouster?
... that Sir
Frederick Ashton called ballet designer Sophie Fedorovitch "not only my dearest friend but my greatest artistic collaborator and adviser"?
... that the US GuLF Study is visiting 20,000 clean-up workers from the 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill(pictured) to collect blood, hair, urine, toenail and domestic dust samples, looking for health effects?
... that the Casa del Arte(mural pictured) of
Concepción, Chile, has the largest collection of Chilean art and the second largest collection of paintings in the country?
... that phones belonging to Turkish journalist Mehmet Baransu and his wife were illegally
tapped by the
Turkish Gendarmerie, which falsely represented the phones' owners as militant members of the
PKK?
... that the ten tracks from
Matt and Kim's fourth album Lightning were actually pared down from 25 or 26 songs the group originally wrote for the album?
... that the A82 in
Glasgow was described by
Tam Galbraith as "the most noble entry to any city in Europe"?
... that in 2011, the teaching ministry of Christian pastor Chip Ingram was broadcast to 100 million households in Arab countries?
13 July 2013
12:00, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the captain of the
brigNancy(pictured) is said to have raised the first American flag in a foreign port, during the
Revolutionary War?
... that William de Courcy, a 12th century Anglo-Norman baron, not only gave land to
Abingdon Abbey but also a fishery named "Sotiswere"?
... that the recent popularity of Amish romance novels has been seen as a reaction to the increasing popularity of erotic fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey?
... that in 2012, Alberto Suárez Laso won the Asturian Sports Press Association award for best male athlete?
... that despite a 1985 law mandating its creation in every town and city, by 2006 only one city in the
Philippines had an official freedom park before the
Supreme Court ruled on its constitutionality?
... that the groom for the first wedding in
Prescott, Arizona, W. Claude Jones, abandoned his bride less than six months after the event?
... that although Olympic tennis player Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten was banned from competing many times in his career for on-court misconduct, he taught tennis etiquette to children?
11 July 2013
20:30, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the Rokel River estuary (pictured), which extends over an area of 2,950 square kilometres (1,140 sq mi), became a
Ramsar wetland site of importance in 1999?
... that Betty Woz Gone is based on a true story of a mother who sold her body to help fund her addictions to alcohol and drugs?
... that the
Byzantine official known as epi tou eidikou was responsible for providing all kinds of
matériel for the Byzantine military, including Arab clothing for spies?
... that Petroleum County(pictured) in
Montana is the seventh least populous county in the United States?
... that Pavhari Baba, an Indian
ascetic and a practitioner of
Hatha yoga, reportedly used to meditate for days in his underground hermitage at
Ghazipur?
... that according to John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis, the shorts included on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 are "among the finest cartoons ever made"?
... that Nio Joe Lan was trained to maintain aircraft, but instead became a journalist and history teacher?
... that The Chicago Lincoln statue was once located in a three-way intersection considered to be one of the most dangerous in
Chicago?
00:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the 30-year-old heiress of the
Szebnie estate (pictured) died of
typhus contracted while caring for sick prisoners at the Szebnie concentration camp in 1942?
... that when
house dress designer Nell Donnelly was kidnapped in 1931, she was reportedly rescued by gangsters and taken to a candy shop?
... that American speed skater and Olympic hopeful Brittany Bowe previously played elite-level basketball, and at the age of two gave
dribbling exhibitions at halftime of college games?
... that a storm on Lucy Island(pictured) unearthed 5,500-year-old remains of a woman whose DNA has been directly linked to a modern-day descendent, a
Tsimshian woman living near
Prince Rupert?
... that the song "Ice Cream Truck" by
Cazwell was originally written for the 2010 film Spork, before it was suggested by his manager that a music video be done for the song?
... that biochemist Nancy Chang(pictured) became interested in biology after reading
James Watson's book on the discovery of the
double helix?
... that the folk-rock band Bangla's debut album, which featured several little-known folk songs, sold over a hundred thousand copies in the first two weeks of its release?
... that Argentine actor Roberto Carnaghi has appeared in 44 films, had major roles in Shakespeare's plays, worked in advertising and TV comedy, and performed in telenovelas?
... that a prisoner of the
French at Laghouat told the Red Cross, "Technically we are not prisoners of war but up to the present have not been able to find a difference"?
... that at the Onda Cero Sport Awards in 2009, Manuel Garnica Roldan earned an award for the best athlete with a disability?
... that in 2012 Nimbuzz moved its headquarters from Rotterdam to New Delhi, to be closer to the mobile Internet boom expected to happen in India in the next five years?
... that in 2000–09, approximately 3.1 million acres in the United States were under rice production?
... that Djoemala was paired with
Roekiah for four films despite the latter already being married?
... that Confederate colonel Angus William McDonald previously served as superintendent of the
Northwestern Turnpike and as a commissioner to resolve a Virginia–Maryland boundary dispute?
... that podium girls are employed to present the winners of cycle races with prizes and kisses?
... that Rat, Bat, Mole, and Mouse are Purdy Islands?
08:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Ancient PersianOxus Treasure(armlet pictured) "has passed through places of evil repute and cannot have come out quite unscathed"?
... that as Chairman of the Department of Physics at Cornell University, Roswell Clifton Gibbs hired
Hans Bethe, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
... that My Master is an English book combined from two lectures delivered by
Swami Vivekananda in New York and England in 1901?
... that according to a report in
TUAW, in order to join
Apple Inc.'s MFi Program, suppliers must agree to be bound to Apple's Supplier Responsibility Code?
... that after being defeated at
Gibraltar, the Duke of Crillon wrote to his former adversary, General
George Eliott, calling him "my dear and respectable enemy"?
... that
Tahitian Queen
Pōmare IV(pictured with her family) named her youngest daughter Victoria after the British
Queen Victoria in hopes that Victoria would name some future daughter Pōmare?
... that Toftes Gave served as an institution for maladapted children for more than a hundred years?
... that after completing his prison sentence in the U.S., drug lord Javier Torres Félix was deported to Mexico and arrested as he crossed the
international border?
... that during his stay at the Kolobeng Mission,
David Livingstone wrote in his memoir that the soil temperature in the sun at noon reached 134 °F (57 °C)?
... that
Monty Oum, the creator of
Rooster Teeth Productions' upcoming series RWBY, was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
... that the Dog and Duck(pictured) lost its licence after becoming "a house in which gangs of both whores and rogues were constantly associated"?
... that as of 2007,
New Zealand had nearly 10 times as many sheep as people?
... that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of
graptolites in the northern
greywacke zone of the
Alps, with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her?
... that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
... that Oscar S. Heizer reported that many Armenian children were put into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard during the
Armenian Genocide?
... that Matar Matar, who represented Bahrain's largest electoral constituency in the parliament, was imprisoned and allegedly tortured due to his role in the
Bahraini uprising?
... that in the UK, actors were employed to speak the words of certain people whose voices were banned from the airwaves because of broadcasting restrictions introduced in 1988?
... that the 2013 film Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan, based on the stories Sitaharan Rahasya and Khunkharapi by
Samaresh Majumdar, is the first of a series of films to feature Arjun, a young fictional sleuth?
... that the soundtrack from a beer commercial, featuring the Abbey Tavern Singers, became the best-selling
Irishrecord in Canada?
... that in March 1871, Sensuntepeque was raided by Salvadorian Liberals with Honduran army backing after Honduras declared war on El Salvador?
... that Gabriela Rivadeneira, a 29-year old former local beauty queen, has been mentioned as a possible successor for President of Ecuador,
Rafael Correa?
... that
Dean H. Kenyon's Biochemical Predestination has been cited as "one of the most widely used graduate textbooks" which expounds that life arose through "natural forces within the constituents of matter itself"?
... that "what
Mahadev Desai and
Pyarelal did to immortalise
Gandhi through their memoirs and biographical writings," Kanu Gandhi is said to have done through his photos?
... that the
slapstick joke of slipping on a banana peel might have originated from the perception of those peels as dangerous garbage in 19th-century America?
... that the letters written by John Husee while he was servant to
Lord Lisle in 1533–40 have been described as "a joy and a revelation to read"?
... that in the upcoming
Xbox One "game maker"
video gameProject Spark, the player creates a world with programmed behaviors for specific objects, such as a rock that bounces when a player is nearby?
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 Marte Dalelv, a Norwegian woman, received a prison sentence of sixteen months in
Dubai after she reported a man to the police for rape?
... that British record producer
Naughty Boy described his debut album, Hotel Cabana, as having a
concept that made it "more like a film in some respects"?
... that the church in the Danish village of Stokkemarke is dated to the mid-13th century?
... that Hungarian and Romanian tennis champion and
Wimbledon quarterfinalist Klára Somogyi suffered
arthritis from hiding in a humid basement to avoid WWII bombings and later had to give up tennis?
... that
Sichuan leader Yang Rudai initially opposed the
Three Gorges Dam project, but was pressured by China's central government to change his position?
... that the dramatic moments of the Argentine telenovela Solamente Vos are interrupted with videoclips made by the characters and invited musicians?
... that
Oprah Winfrey caused a spike in online orders, valued at tens of thousands of dollars, for a specific bar of soap available on the Merz Apothecary website?
30 July 2013
16:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the paper Korea Strategy by Huang Zunxian(pictured) has been described as "a work of destiny that determined the modern history of East Asia"?
... that Nørreballe's Romanesque
Østofte Church is noted for its well-preserved medieval frescos?
... that after approaching near-extinction in the 1950s, Japanese serow populations had increased so much by the 1970s that foresters fought to have it
culled as a pest?
... that in the murder of Liu Hong Mei, the victim's body was deposited into various boxes?
... that Tjörnin has been poetically referred to as "the biggest
bread soup in the world"?
00:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
... that Dale D. Myers(pictured) refused to accept the position of Deputy Administrator at
NASA until president
Ronald Reagan made a personal request?
... that
Franz von Suppé's operetta Fatinitza stars a Russian army lieutenant who, while dressed as a woman, wins the love of a hot-tempered elderly general?
... that the
Byzantine office of Drungary of the Watch began as a military commander tasked with the
emperor's security, became a senior judicial post, and ended as a sinecure and court dignity?
... that a mural painted in 1927 by
Grant Wood for the Martin Hotel was lost under layers of paint and wallpaper, before being rediscovered decades later, in 1979?
... that Genovese sauce, named after
Genoa and later popular in Paris, was invented in Naples, Italy?
... that Henry H. Riggs provided an eyewitness account of the
Armenian Genocide and concluded that the deportation of Armenians was part of an extermination program organized by the Ottoman government?
... that a Hong Kong architect has designed a 344 sq ft (32.0 m2) microapartment with sliding walls that convert the space into 24 different rooms?
... that in 1904, Laurie Island became the site of the first post office built in the Antarctic?
28 July 2013
23:45, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
... that a fellow artist said of Allen Butler Talcott that "no one was his peer in the knowledge of trees and how to paint them" (painting of oak pictured)?
... that the Burj Qatar, a $125 million building designed by French architect
Jean Nouvel, rises to a height of 232 metres (761 ft) and has 46 storeys?
... that The Voice UK has had six top 40 and twelve top 75 singles on the
UK Singles Chart and two top 50 albums on the
UK Albums Chart, including one top 10 placing on each chart?
... that Pedro Pablo Caro celebrated the golden anniversary of his professional career as a lawyer in 1952?
... that the Jacobean mansion Bramshill House(south façade pictured) is reportedly inhabited by 14 ghosts, including one of a bride who locked herself in a chest on her wedding night and wasn't found for 50 years?
... that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior?
... that "almost every medieval lapidary" or book of gems included lyngurium, a gemstone supposedly formed of solidified
lynx urine (creation illustrated), first described by
Theophrastus?
... that
Basava(pictured), a 12th-century leader of Hindus in Karnataka, protested against the
caste system and favoured equality among all classes?
... that the Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse Lethal Force set a new course record when he won this year's
July Cup at
Newmarket by one and a half
lengths?
... that when separated from its
host, the badger flea jumps repeatedly in an effort to reconnect?
06:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the modern study of human anatomy is considered to have been founded by
Andreas Vesalius(anatomical drawing pictured) in the sixteenth century?
... that what has been called the strangest battle of World War II was fought at a
medieval castle(pictured), and was the only battle of the war in which American and German soldiers fought as allies?
... that in his 2012 election for the Pennsylvania State House, Steve McCarter won every precinct in
his district?
... that differences in water chemistry in the two arms of the Y-shaped drainage on Hartland Moor in
Dorset create both acidic and alkaline habitats in one wetland?
... that the streets in Jamestown, in the
Western Cape province of
South Africa, are named after varieties of the main agricultural crop grown there since 1902?
... that Cube World is a
video game in development by husband and wife Wolfram and Sarah von Funck?
... that the Terwilliger curves, a six-lane section of
Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, had an average of 100 car accidents per year between 1995 and 2005?
... that the giant barrel sponge may live up to 2,300 years, making it one of the longest-living animals?
... that explorer Benjamin Anderson served as the Liberian Treasury's
comptroller and secretary from 1864 to 1866, and was charged with embezzlement of its funds?
... that "Slow Train" was called both "possibly the most irresponsible song"
Bob Dylan had written and "nothing less than Dylan's most mature and profound song about America"?
... that the hardline faction Al Khawalid was so empowered during the reign of
King Hamad of
Bahrain(pictured) that they were considered a "new royal family"?
... that Vegard Lysvoll scored 30 goals in the same season that his club set a new Norwegian record when he scored their 100th goal?
... that
Pol-ka rushed the production of the Sos mi hombre Argentine telenovela because of the low rating of their previous productions?
... that The Times of London described French ballet dancer Adèle Dumilâtre as "so ethereal ... that she almost looked transparent"?
00:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Asana archaeological site, occupied over the course of 8,000 years, is located by the Asana River, a tributary of the Osmore River(river valley pictured)?
... that
Kefaya activist Mahmoud Badr is the co-founder and lead spokesman of
Tamarod, the grassroots movement which organized mass demonstrations that led to Egyptian president
Mohamed Morsi's ouster?
... that Sir
Frederick Ashton called ballet designer Sophie Fedorovitch "not only my dearest friend but my greatest artistic collaborator and adviser"?
... that the US GuLF Study is visiting 20,000 clean-up workers from the 2010
Deepwater Horizon oil spill(pictured) to collect blood, hair, urine, toenail and domestic dust samples, looking for health effects?
... that the Casa del Arte(mural pictured) of
Concepción, Chile, has the largest collection of Chilean art and the second largest collection of paintings in the country?
... that phones belonging to Turkish journalist Mehmet Baransu and his wife were illegally
tapped by the
Turkish Gendarmerie, which falsely represented the phones' owners as militant members of the
PKK?
... that the ten tracks from
Matt and Kim's fourth album Lightning were actually pared down from 25 or 26 songs the group originally wrote for the album?
... that the A82 in
Glasgow was described by
Tam Galbraith as "the most noble entry to any city in Europe"?
... that in 2011, the teaching ministry of Christian pastor Chip Ingram was broadcast to 100 million households in Arab countries?
13 July 2013
12:00, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the captain of the
brigNancy(pictured) is said to have raised the first American flag in a foreign port, during the
Revolutionary War?
... that William de Courcy, a 12th century Anglo-Norman baron, not only gave land to
Abingdon Abbey but also a fishery named "Sotiswere"?
... that the recent popularity of Amish romance novels has been seen as a reaction to the increasing popularity of erotic fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey?
... that in 2012, Alberto Suárez Laso won the Asturian Sports Press Association award for best male athlete?
... that despite a 1985 law mandating its creation in every town and city, by 2006 only one city in the
Philippines had an official freedom park before the
Supreme Court ruled on its constitutionality?
... that the groom for the first wedding in
Prescott, Arizona, W. Claude Jones, abandoned his bride less than six months after the event?
... that although Olympic tennis player Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten was banned from competing many times in his career for on-court misconduct, he taught tennis etiquette to children?
11 July 2013
20:30, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the Rokel River estuary (pictured), which extends over an area of 2,950 square kilometres (1,140 sq mi), became a
Ramsar wetland site of importance in 1999?
... that Betty Woz Gone is based on a true story of a mother who sold her body to help fund her addictions to alcohol and drugs?
... that the
Byzantine official known as epi tou eidikou was responsible for providing all kinds of
matériel for the Byzantine military, including Arab clothing for spies?
... that Petroleum County(pictured) in
Montana is the seventh least populous county in the United States?
... that Pavhari Baba, an Indian
ascetic and a practitioner of
Hatha yoga, reportedly used to meditate for days in his underground hermitage at
Ghazipur?
... that according to John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis, the shorts included on Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 are "among the finest cartoons ever made"?
... that Nio Joe Lan was trained to maintain aircraft, but instead became a journalist and history teacher?
... that The Chicago Lincoln statue was once located in a three-way intersection considered to be one of the most dangerous in
Chicago?
00:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the 30-year-old heiress of the
Szebnie estate (pictured) died of
typhus contracted while caring for sick prisoners at the Szebnie concentration camp in 1942?
... that when
house dress designer Nell Donnelly was kidnapped in 1931, she was reportedly rescued by gangsters and taken to a candy shop?
... that American speed skater and Olympic hopeful Brittany Bowe previously played elite-level basketball, and at the age of two gave
dribbling exhibitions at halftime of college games?
... that a storm on Lucy Island(pictured) unearthed 5,500-year-old remains of a woman whose DNA has been directly linked to a modern-day descendent, a
Tsimshian woman living near
Prince Rupert?
... that the song "Ice Cream Truck" by
Cazwell was originally written for the 2010 film Spork, before it was suggested by his manager that a music video be done for the song?
... that biochemist Nancy Chang(pictured) became interested in biology after reading
James Watson's book on the discovery of the
double helix?
... that the folk-rock band Bangla's debut album, which featured several little-known folk songs, sold over a hundred thousand copies in the first two weeks of its release?
... that Argentine actor Roberto Carnaghi has appeared in 44 films, had major roles in Shakespeare's plays, worked in advertising and TV comedy, and performed in telenovelas?
... that a prisoner of the
French at Laghouat told the Red Cross, "Technically we are not prisoners of war but up to the present have not been able to find a difference"?
... that at the Onda Cero Sport Awards in 2009, Manuel Garnica Roldan earned an award for the best athlete with a disability?
... that in 2012 Nimbuzz moved its headquarters from Rotterdam to New Delhi, to be closer to the mobile Internet boom expected to happen in India in the next five years?
... that in 2000–09, approximately 3.1 million acres in the United States were under rice production?
... that Djoemala was paired with
Roekiah for four films despite the latter already being married?
... that Confederate colonel Angus William McDonald previously served as superintendent of the
Northwestern Turnpike and as a commissioner to resolve a Virginia–Maryland boundary dispute?
... that podium girls are employed to present the winners of cycle races with prizes and kisses?
... that Rat, Bat, Mole, and Mouse are Purdy Islands?
08:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
... that the
Ancient PersianOxus Treasure(armlet pictured) "has passed through places of evil repute and cannot have come out quite unscathed"?
... that as Chairman of the Department of Physics at Cornell University, Roswell Clifton Gibbs hired
Hans Bethe, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
... that My Master is an English book combined from two lectures delivered by
Swami Vivekananda in New York and England in 1901?
... that according to a report in
TUAW, in order to join
Apple Inc.'s MFi Program, suppliers must agree to be bound to Apple's Supplier Responsibility Code?
... that after being defeated at
Gibraltar, the Duke of Crillon wrote to his former adversary, General
George Eliott, calling him "my dear and respectable enemy"?
... that
Tahitian Queen
Pōmare IV(pictured with her family) named her youngest daughter Victoria after the British
Queen Victoria in hopes that Victoria would name some future daughter Pōmare?
... that Toftes Gave served as an institution for maladapted children for more than a hundred years?
... that after completing his prison sentence in the U.S., drug lord Javier Torres Félix was deported to Mexico and arrested as he crossed the
international border?
... that during his stay at the Kolobeng Mission,
David Livingstone wrote in his memoir that the soil temperature in the sun at noon reached 134 °F (57 °C)?
... that
Monty Oum, the creator of
Rooster Teeth Productions' upcoming series RWBY, was concerned that the show focused on female characters but was being developed by a mostly male crew?
... that the Dog and Duck(pictured) lost its licence after becoming "a house in which gangs of both whores and rogues were constantly associated"?
... that as of 2007,
New Zealand had nearly 10 times as many sheep as people?
... that Gustava Aigner made the first discovery of
graptolites in the northern
greywacke zone of the
Alps, with her former fellow student, Ida Peltzmann, who named two species for her?
... that leaving Mount Tzouhalem in search of a 15th wife led to the killing of the mountain's namesake?
... that Oscar S. Heizer reported that many Armenian children were put into boats, taken out to sea and thrown overboard during the
Armenian Genocide?
... that Matar Matar, who represented Bahrain's largest electoral constituency in the parliament, was imprisoned and allegedly tortured due to his role in the
Bahraini uprising?
... that in the UK, actors were employed to speak the words of certain people whose voices were banned from the airwaves because of broadcasting restrictions introduced in 1988?
... that the 2013 film Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan, based on the stories Sitaharan Rahasya and Khunkharapi by
Samaresh Majumdar, is the first of a series of films to feature Arjun, a young fictional sleuth?
... that the soundtrack from a beer commercial, featuring the Abbey Tavern Singers, became the best-selling
Irishrecord in Canada?
... that in March 1871, Sensuntepeque was raided by Salvadorian Liberals with Honduran army backing after Honduras declared war on El Salvador?
... that Gabriela Rivadeneira, a 29-year old former local beauty queen, has been mentioned as a possible successor for President of Ecuador,
Rafael Correa?
... that
Dean H. Kenyon's Biochemical Predestination has been cited as "one of the most widely used graduate textbooks" which expounds that life arose through "natural forces within the constituents of matter itself"?
... that "what
Mahadev Desai and
Pyarelal did to immortalise
Gandhi through their memoirs and biographical writings," Kanu Gandhi is said to have done through his photos?
... that the
slapstick joke of slipping on a banana peel might have originated from the perception of those peels as dangerous garbage in 19th-century America?
... that the letters written by John Husee while he was servant to
Lord Lisle in 1533–40 have been described as "a joy and a revelation to read"?
... that in the upcoming
Xbox One "game maker"
video gameProject Spark, the player creates a world with programmed behaviors for specific objects, such as a rock that bounces when a player is nearby?