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... that the extinct ant Burmomyrma rossi was missing its head when described?
08:00, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
... that the Wukang Mansion(pictured) is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of the many people who committed suicide there, such as movie star
Shangguan Yunzhu?
... that the drum sanctuary (pictured) at
Gishora in the Gitega Province of
Burundi houses one of the king's two personal drums which were played during the "Seeds' ceremony"?
... that Kay Smith, Illinois Artist Laureate, continues to paint at 90 years of age?
... that John Crabbe defended
Berwick Castle for the Scots against the English in 1318, but assisted the English when they again besieged Berwick in 1333?
... that according to
its creator, GISHWHES is "the ugliest acronym the world has ever seen"?
00:00, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
... that ashes of Jews murdered in
Treblinka were retrieved by an Israeli delegation in 1963 and buried at a memorial in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery(pictured) in
Giv'atayim?
... that although the reddening russula is mildly to moderately toxic, it is sold as an edible species in some areas of Asia?
... that Finland's Lågskär island
lighthouse(pictured) contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device?
... that two years after the magnificent wedding of Edward of Norfolk, his father-in-law was hanged at
Tyburn?
... that the wooden
chapel on Malören in northern Sweden became known as the "cathedral of the islands" due to its tall spire?
... that a content audit, a qualitative analysis of all or part of a website, can help an organization develop its
content strategy?
... that in Dutch director Ruud van Hemert'sSchatjes (1984), one of the most successful Dutch movies ever, parents and their children engage in guerrilla warfare?
... that ants of the extinct genus Haidomyrmex could possibly open their mandibles to almost twice their head size?
... that YouTube personality Daym Drops became a host on the
Travel Channel after posting a YouTube video of himself eating a hamburger from
Five Guys?
... that the first owner of the Silas Ferrell House owned two businesses and helped to operate a third?
... that the diary of Christian missionary Elizabeth Barrows Ussher is said to have described "unspeakable cruelty"?
... that lawyer Allen Grubman, seeking his first job, told his interviewer: "I really want to work for you, but I don't come from a very wealthy family, so I can't afford to pay you very much to hire me"?
08:00, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
... that actress Wu Yin(pictured) was dubbed the "First Old Lady" of Chinese cinema?
... that the star RR Telescopii increased in brightness by several magnitudes beginning around 1944, but the increase was not noticed until 1948, when it was designated Nova Telescopium 1948?
... that for her most recent concert,
Siti Nurhaliza performed more than 30 songs, played two musical instruments, and blew a blowpipe despite being plagued by a sore throat?
00:00, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
... that the amber entombing the extinct ant Haidoterminus cippus(pictured) was preserved in a lagoon or saltwater marsh?
... that public protests failed to stop the destruction of the 200,000-piece Chartist Mural in Newport, Wales, installed to commemorate the
Chartist rising of 1839?
... that although feuds still persist between the centuries-old
Omani tribes, Ghafiri and Hinawi, present-day outbursts are generally limited to football rivalry between opposing teams?
... that Ram Chandra Datta and his cousin Narendra Nath Datta (later titled
Swami Vivekananda), as disciples of
Ramakrishna, belonged to the "Householder Group" and "Renouncer Group" respectively?
... that after 26 years of hydrologic dysfunction, the lower channel of California's formerly navigable Salt River(pictured) was restored to
tidal action?
... that
Thoroughbred racehorse Park Appeal, a leading two-year-old filly in 1984, was purchased as a broodmare by
Sheikh Mohammed and produced at least nine winners from twelve foals?
... that the Daylight Building, built in the 1920s in
Knoxville, Tennessee, gets its name from a design that provides daylight illumination in its interior?
... that painting a feast of the Gods(example illustrated) allowed artists to display their virtuosity by showing a generous range of
nude figures in complicated poses?
... that Shen Zhurong is considered the Father of Library Science in China?
... that the upcoming video game Wii Sports Club, featuring
HD remakes of Wii Sports minigames, will allow players to represent their region in online contests?
... that philosopher Julia Gulliver was the only woman in a department of 200 men when she studied in
Leipzig?
... that the European snow vole gathers, dries and stores bits of grass and leaves for winter use as food?
... that the microscopic cave snail Zospeum tholussum(pictured) is so slow that in a week's time it may only move a few millimeters or centimeters in circles?
... that Waar set a new opening day box office receipt record for a
Pakistani film, beating that previously held by Chennai Express?
... that in 1788, the convict ship Prince of Wales drifted helplessly off Rio de Janeiro for a day, because her crew were too ill to bring her into port?
... that Gaston Borch conducted the first orchestral performance to be broadcast on Swedish radio?
... that the B-24 Liberator bomber Black Cat was the last American bomber to be shot down over Germany in World War II?
22 October 2013
16:00, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
... that according to one Roman historian, the Parthian war of Caracalla started after the Roman emperor
Caracalla(pictured) massacred his would-be bride and wedding guests?
... that Nawab Faizunnesa was the first woman in south Asia to be awarded the title of "Nawab" by Queen Victoria, for her campaign for female education and other social issues?
... that Singaporean business magnate and former noodle-seller Ron Sim became a billionaire thanks to his investments in the
Osim International company?
... that although Chen Liting(pictured) was abandoned as an infant and then lost both his adoptive parents by age seven, he grew up to become one of China's most prominent playwrights and directors?
... that
Harvard professor John Henry Wright(pictured), whose teaching range was "encyclopaedic", described Indian Hindu monk
Swami Vivekananda as "more learned than all our learned professors put together"?
... that the traditional
Betawi theatrical genre lenong was almost extinct by the 1960s?
... that
TechCrunch's Drew Olanoff thought Medium, the service created by
Twitter's founders, got its name from being a "medium" size platform in between that and
Blogger?
00:00, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
... that spider water beetles(pictured) can only breathe in moderate to fast-moving bodies of water?
... that Gothic House(pictured), a "fanciful and irresponsibly Gothick" 1820s building in
Brighton, has most recently housed a video rental shop and the Rock 'N' Roller American Pool bar?
... that Daridra Narayana is an
axiom enunciated by
Swami Vivekananda that espouses service of the poor as equivalent in importance and piety to the service of
God?
... that the Venezuelan president
Rómulo Betancourt had been the director of the Costa Rican communist newspaper Trabajo in the 1930s?
... that the bottle for
Jennifer Lopez's fragrance Love and Glamour, created by the entertainer with designer Jon DiNapoli, was shaped to resemble "a woman wearing an elegant gown"?
... that
R. D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, considered Erema his "most unlucky novel", in part because the public could not pronounce the title character's name?
... that in 1967 Wim T. Schippers(pictured), with Gied Jaspars and Wim van der Linden, wrote and directed Hoepla, the first Dutch TV show to display full nudity, leading to questions in parliament and censure for the broadcaster?
... that the letters of the family of William Paston are "the richest source there is for every aspect of the lives of gentlemen and gentlewomen of the English middle ages"?
... that the recent renovation of the Zeinodin Caravanserai(pictured) in Iran took three years and included the use of 13,000
pumice stones to remove the grime on the interior walls?
... that between 1461 and 1465, John Paston, one of the writers of the Paston Letters, was outlawed, and imprisoned three times in the
Fleet Prison?
... that the vinhática tree, Plathymenia reticulata(pictured), provides the preferred timber for making
dugout canoes in Brazil, because it is resistant to rotting?
... that
Earl Sweatshirt recorded his part for his song "Hive" in only one take?
... that
Serbian rightist theologian and sociologist Nebojša M. Krstić died in a car accident in 2001, which his followers interpreted as a politically motivated
assassination?
... that though Lilis Suryani performed multiple patriotic songs, she also made veiled criticisms of President
Sukarno?
... that funds for the upcoming action-thriller Snap Shot, starring
Danny Trejo, were raised through the website
Kickstarter?
... that
Tang Shaoyi, the first prime minister of the
Republic of China, was assassinated at his home on Route Ferguson, now designated a National Historic and Cultural Street?
... that at Harvard commencements, bagpipes herald breakfast, bachelors are welcomed, sheriffs on white steeds preserve order, and
Harvard's president occupies a "bizarre" chair (pictured) prone to tipping over?
... that the Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel in the
Cayman Islands comprises two buildings set on either side of the boulevard that runs parallel to the
Seven Mile Beach and linked by a catwalk?
... that Kjeller Airport, established in 1912, was the first airport in Norway?
... that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against
female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution?
... that the
ColomboArwi weekly Muslim Nesan(1884 issue cover pictured) interviewed exiled Egyptian nationalist leader
Ahmed Orabi soon after his arrival in
Ceylon?
... that the
Caliphal-Mu'tadid managed to halt the decline of the
Abbasid Caliphate during his reign, but at the cost of a huge bureaucracy and some 80% of expenditure going to the army?
... that chef
Gordon Ramsay has opened or operated restaurants in South Africa, Italy, Japan, Qatar, France and Australia in addition to the United Kingdom and United States?
... that Michael Kum is the thirty-first richest person in Singapore, with a net worth of $750 million?
... that a reviewer of the film Go Go Tales said that "all anyone wanted to talk about was the sequence in which
Asia Argento's exotic dancer tongue-kissed a dog onstage"?
00:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
... that Nasib al-Bakri(pictured) refused to serve his appointment as
Syria's ambassador to
Saudi Arabia because of ideological opposition to that country's rulers?
... that the authors of GI Brides drove nearly 13,000 miles around America in 2012 searching for surviving war brides?
... that Cheng Wai Keung, the thirtieth richest person in Singapore, is the Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings, a garment company-turned-real estate firm?
... that the Bengali anthology Sangeet Kalpataru (1887), edited by
Narendranath Datta and Vaishnab Charan Basak, was republished in 1963 as Sangeet Sadhanay Vivekananda O Sangeet Kalpataru?
... that Robby Mook became involved in politics when he tried out for a school play?
00:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
... that 16th-century world landscape paintings (example pictured) showed "an idealized composite of the world taken in at a single Olympian glance", according to
Simon Schama?
... that St Ambrose's Church, Speke, claims to be the first Roman Catholic church in England to be completed to a rectangular plan with a free-standing altar?
... that there are three living and two extinct species of
badger in the genus Meles?
... that early in his career, film editor Gene Ruggiero often skipped work to play golf?
... that writer Chris Sheridan, who has received three
Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy, initially feared that writing for it would end his career?
6 October 2013
16:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
... that St. Louis Cathedral(pictured) in
Fort-de-France is the seventh church to be erected on the site since 1657, due to the natural disasters that have plagued the city over the years?
... that the eggs of the Black Guineafowl are reddish-brown but its nesting habits are unknown?
... that John Chuang, the co-founder of chocolate manufacturer Petra Foods, is the twenty-second richest person in Singapore, with an estimated net worth of $965 million?
... that according to legend, the hermit Xu You was offered the royal throne by
Emperor Yao, but he declined and even washed his ears out in embarrassment?
... that the primary building of the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market, Canada's largest year-round
farmers' market, was built in the late 1970s and destroyed by fire in 2013?
... that the former manor of Gladsaxehus in Sweden was once bequeathed to become a nunnery of
Dominicans, but
Queen Margaret preferred it to remain a strategic royal
fief?
... that in May 1942, HMCS Halifax rescued three surviving crewmen of the American trawler Foam that was sunk by Nazi submarine
U-432 south of
Halifax itself?
... that toy designer Janese Swanson wrote her doctoral thesis on gender issues in product design?
... that in the 1930s, Maurice Yvain'soperettas were translated and performed in Germany, Hungary and Austria as well as on Broadway where Ta Bouche was presented over a hundred times?
... that for many years, Jørgen Olufsen's House was known as Ellen Marsvinsgaard even though Ellen Marsvin,
Christian IV's mother-in-law, never had any connections with it?
... that art historians often find it difficult to judge whether 17th-century merry company paintings (example illustrated) show scenes of prostitution?
... that the name for the extinct birch family genus Kardiasperma is from the Greek words for "heart" and "seed"?
00:00, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
... that, while a portrait by Thomas Eakins of his brother-in-law(pictured) was described as ugly and awkward, a critic later singled it out as "the most restrained, most classical of all the Eakins canvases"?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
... that the extinct ant Burmomyrma rossi was missing its head when described?
08:00, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
... that the Wukang Mansion(pictured) is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of the many people who committed suicide there, such as movie star
Shangguan Yunzhu?
... that the drum sanctuary (pictured) at
Gishora in the Gitega Province of
Burundi houses one of the king's two personal drums which were played during the "Seeds' ceremony"?
... that Kay Smith, Illinois Artist Laureate, continues to paint at 90 years of age?
... that John Crabbe defended
Berwick Castle for the Scots against the English in 1318, but assisted the English when they again besieged Berwick in 1333?
... that according to
its creator, GISHWHES is "the ugliest acronym the world has ever seen"?
00:00, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
... that ashes of Jews murdered in
Treblinka were retrieved by an Israeli delegation in 1963 and buried at a memorial in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery(pictured) in
Giv'atayim?
... that although the reddening russula is mildly to moderately toxic, it is sold as an edible species in some areas of Asia?
... that Finland's Lågskär island
lighthouse(pictured) contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device?
... that two years after the magnificent wedding of Edward of Norfolk, his father-in-law was hanged at
Tyburn?
... that the wooden
chapel on Malören in northern Sweden became known as the "cathedral of the islands" due to its tall spire?
... that a content audit, a qualitative analysis of all or part of a website, can help an organization develop its
content strategy?
... that in Dutch director Ruud van Hemert'sSchatjes (1984), one of the most successful Dutch movies ever, parents and their children engage in guerrilla warfare?
... that ants of the extinct genus Haidomyrmex could possibly open their mandibles to almost twice their head size?
... that YouTube personality Daym Drops became a host on the
Travel Channel after posting a YouTube video of himself eating a hamburger from
Five Guys?
... that the first owner of the Silas Ferrell House owned two businesses and helped to operate a third?
... that the diary of Christian missionary Elizabeth Barrows Ussher is said to have described "unspeakable cruelty"?
... that lawyer Allen Grubman, seeking his first job, told his interviewer: "I really want to work for you, but I don't come from a very wealthy family, so I can't afford to pay you very much to hire me"?
08:00, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
... that actress Wu Yin(pictured) was dubbed the "First Old Lady" of Chinese cinema?
... that the star RR Telescopii increased in brightness by several magnitudes beginning around 1944, but the increase was not noticed until 1948, when it was designated Nova Telescopium 1948?
... that for her most recent concert,
Siti Nurhaliza performed more than 30 songs, played two musical instruments, and blew a blowpipe despite being plagued by a sore throat?
00:00, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
... that the amber entombing the extinct ant Haidoterminus cippus(pictured) was preserved in a lagoon or saltwater marsh?
... that public protests failed to stop the destruction of the 200,000-piece Chartist Mural in Newport, Wales, installed to commemorate the
Chartist rising of 1839?
... that although feuds still persist between the centuries-old
Omani tribes, Ghafiri and Hinawi, present-day outbursts are generally limited to football rivalry between opposing teams?
... that Ram Chandra Datta and his cousin Narendra Nath Datta (later titled
Swami Vivekananda), as disciples of
Ramakrishna, belonged to the "Householder Group" and "Renouncer Group" respectively?
... that after 26 years of hydrologic dysfunction, the lower channel of California's formerly navigable Salt River(pictured) was restored to
tidal action?
... that
Thoroughbred racehorse Park Appeal, a leading two-year-old filly in 1984, was purchased as a broodmare by
Sheikh Mohammed and produced at least nine winners from twelve foals?
... that the Daylight Building, built in the 1920s in
Knoxville, Tennessee, gets its name from a design that provides daylight illumination in its interior?
... that painting a feast of the Gods(example illustrated) allowed artists to display their virtuosity by showing a generous range of
nude figures in complicated poses?
... that Shen Zhurong is considered the Father of Library Science in China?
... that the upcoming video game Wii Sports Club, featuring
HD remakes of Wii Sports minigames, will allow players to represent their region in online contests?
... that philosopher Julia Gulliver was the only woman in a department of 200 men when she studied in
Leipzig?
... that the European snow vole gathers, dries and stores bits of grass and leaves for winter use as food?
... that the microscopic cave snail Zospeum tholussum(pictured) is so slow that in a week's time it may only move a few millimeters or centimeters in circles?
... that Waar set a new opening day box office receipt record for a
Pakistani film, beating that previously held by Chennai Express?
... that in 1788, the convict ship Prince of Wales drifted helplessly off Rio de Janeiro for a day, because her crew were too ill to bring her into port?
... that Gaston Borch conducted the first orchestral performance to be broadcast on Swedish radio?
... that the B-24 Liberator bomber Black Cat was the last American bomber to be shot down over Germany in World War II?
22 October 2013
16:00, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
... that according to one Roman historian, the Parthian war of Caracalla started after the Roman emperor
Caracalla(pictured) massacred his would-be bride and wedding guests?
... that Nawab Faizunnesa was the first woman in south Asia to be awarded the title of "Nawab" by Queen Victoria, for her campaign for female education and other social issues?
... that Singaporean business magnate and former noodle-seller Ron Sim became a billionaire thanks to his investments in the
Osim International company?
... that although Chen Liting(pictured) was abandoned as an infant and then lost both his adoptive parents by age seven, he grew up to become one of China's most prominent playwrights and directors?
... that
Harvard professor John Henry Wright(pictured), whose teaching range was "encyclopaedic", described Indian Hindu monk
Swami Vivekananda as "more learned than all our learned professors put together"?
... that the traditional
Betawi theatrical genre lenong was almost extinct by the 1960s?
... that
TechCrunch's Drew Olanoff thought Medium, the service created by
Twitter's founders, got its name from being a "medium" size platform in between that and
Blogger?
00:00, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
... that spider water beetles(pictured) can only breathe in moderate to fast-moving bodies of water?
... that Gothic House(pictured), a "fanciful and irresponsibly Gothick" 1820s building in
Brighton, has most recently housed a video rental shop and the Rock 'N' Roller American Pool bar?
... that Daridra Narayana is an
axiom enunciated by
Swami Vivekananda that espouses service of the poor as equivalent in importance and piety to the service of
God?
... that the Venezuelan president
Rómulo Betancourt had been the director of the Costa Rican communist newspaper Trabajo in the 1930s?
... that the bottle for
Jennifer Lopez's fragrance Love and Glamour, created by the entertainer with designer Jon DiNapoli, was shaped to resemble "a woman wearing an elegant gown"?
... that
R. D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, considered Erema his "most unlucky novel", in part because the public could not pronounce the title character's name?
... that in 1967 Wim T. Schippers(pictured), with Gied Jaspars and Wim van der Linden, wrote and directed Hoepla, the first Dutch TV show to display full nudity, leading to questions in parliament and censure for the broadcaster?
... that the letters of the family of William Paston are "the richest source there is for every aspect of the lives of gentlemen and gentlewomen of the English middle ages"?
... that the recent renovation of the Zeinodin Caravanserai(pictured) in Iran took three years and included the use of 13,000
pumice stones to remove the grime on the interior walls?
... that between 1461 and 1465, John Paston, one of the writers of the Paston Letters, was outlawed, and imprisoned three times in the
Fleet Prison?
... that the vinhática tree, Plathymenia reticulata(pictured), provides the preferred timber for making
dugout canoes in Brazil, because it is resistant to rotting?
... that
Earl Sweatshirt recorded his part for his song "Hive" in only one take?
... that
Serbian rightist theologian and sociologist Nebojša M. Krstić died in a car accident in 2001, which his followers interpreted as a politically motivated
assassination?
... that though Lilis Suryani performed multiple patriotic songs, she also made veiled criticisms of President
Sukarno?
... that funds for the upcoming action-thriller Snap Shot, starring
Danny Trejo, were raised through the website
Kickstarter?
... that
Tang Shaoyi, the first prime minister of the
Republic of China, was assassinated at his home on Route Ferguson, now designated a National Historic and Cultural Street?
... that at Harvard commencements, bagpipes herald breakfast, bachelors are welcomed, sheriffs on white steeds preserve order, and
Harvard's president occupies a "bizarre" chair (pictured) prone to tipping over?
... that the Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel in the
Cayman Islands comprises two buildings set on either side of the boulevard that runs parallel to the
Seven Mile Beach and linked by a catwalk?
... that Kjeller Airport, established in 1912, was the first airport in Norway?
... that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against
female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution?
... that the
ColomboArwi weekly Muslim Nesan(1884 issue cover pictured) interviewed exiled Egyptian nationalist leader
Ahmed Orabi soon after his arrival in
Ceylon?
... that the
Caliphal-Mu'tadid managed to halt the decline of the
Abbasid Caliphate during his reign, but at the cost of a huge bureaucracy and some 80% of expenditure going to the army?
... that chef
Gordon Ramsay has opened or operated restaurants in South Africa, Italy, Japan, Qatar, France and Australia in addition to the United Kingdom and United States?
... that Michael Kum is the thirty-first richest person in Singapore, with a net worth of $750 million?
... that a reviewer of the film Go Go Tales said that "all anyone wanted to talk about was the sequence in which
Asia Argento's exotic dancer tongue-kissed a dog onstage"?
00:00, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
... that Nasib al-Bakri(pictured) refused to serve his appointment as
Syria's ambassador to
Saudi Arabia because of ideological opposition to that country's rulers?
... that the authors of GI Brides drove nearly 13,000 miles around America in 2012 searching for surviving war brides?
... that Cheng Wai Keung, the thirtieth richest person in Singapore, is the Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings, a garment company-turned-real estate firm?
... that the Bengali anthology Sangeet Kalpataru (1887), edited by
Narendranath Datta and Vaishnab Charan Basak, was republished in 1963 as Sangeet Sadhanay Vivekananda O Sangeet Kalpataru?
... that Robby Mook became involved in politics when he tried out for a school play?
00:00, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
... that 16th-century world landscape paintings (example pictured) showed "an idealized composite of the world taken in at a single Olympian glance", according to
Simon Schama?
... that St Ambrose's Church, Speke, claims to be the first Roman Catholic church in England to be completed to a rectangular plan with a free-standing altar?
... that there are three living and two extinct species of
badger in the genus Meles?
... that early in his career, film editor Gene Ruggiero often skipped work to play golf?
... that writer Chris Sheridan, who has received three
Emmy Award nominations for his work on Family Guy, initially feared that writing for it would end his career?
6 October 2013
16:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
... that St. Louis Cathedral(pictured) in
Fort-de-France is the seventh church to be erected on the site since 1657, due to the natural disasters that have plagued the city over the years?
... that the eggs of the Black Guineafowl are reddish-brown but its nesting habits are unknown?
... that John Chuang, the co-founder of chocolate manufacturer Petra Foods, is the twenty-second richest person in Singapore, with an estimated net worth of $965 million?
... that according to legend, the hermit Xu You was offered the royal throne by
Emperor Yao, but he declined and even washed his ears out in embarrassment?
... that the primary building of the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market, Canada's largest year-round
farmers' market, was built in the late 1970s and destroyed by fire in 2013?
... that the former manor of Gladsaxehus in Sweden was once bequeathed to become a nunnery of
Dominicans, but
Queen Margaret preferred it to remain a strategic royal
fief?
... that in May 1942, HMCS Halifax rescued three surviving crewmen of the American trawler Foam that was sunk by Nazi submarine
U-432 south of
Halifax itself?
... that toy designer Janese Swanson wrote her doctoral thesis on gender issues in product design?
... that in the 1930s, Maurice Yvain'soperettas were translated and performed in Germany, Hungary and Austria as well as on Broadway where Ta Bouche was presented over a hundred times?
... that for many years, Jørgen Olufsen's House was known as Ellen Marsvinsgaard even though Ellen Marsvin,
Christian IV's mother-in-law, never had any connections with it?
... that art historians often find it difficult to judge whether 17th-century merry company paintings (example illustrated) show scenes of prostitution?
... that the name for the extinct birch family genus Kardiasperma is from the Greek words for "heart" and "seed"?
00:00, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
... that, while a portrait by Thomas Eakins of his brother-in-law(pictured) was described as ugly and awkward, a critic later singled it out as "the most restrained, most classical of all the Eakins canvases"?