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... that Romeyn Beck Hough'sAmerican Woods is a set of over 1,000 paper-thin wood slices collected from 354 different tree species?
... that the capital of
Madagascar, Antananarivo, was founded in 1625 by King
Andrianjaka on the site of a village occupied by
Vazimba, the island's earliest inhabitants?
... that the newly-discovered Dumfriesshire Hoard(gold bird pin pictured) has been described by experts as "one of the most significant
Viking hoards ever found in Scotland"?
... that Warren Delabere Barnes, a member of the Malayan Civil Service who conducted an expedition in
Pahang in 1900, had a plant in the
Loranthaceae family named after him?
... that Hong Kong's Fan Lau Fort was captured by the very pirates it was built to repel?
... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of
Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
... that six systems commands not only design, construct, and maintain the U. S. Navy's military hardware, but also include the chiefs of two of the Navy's eight
staff corps?
... that the tallest known tree is more than 115 metres (377 ft) tall?
... that bass Michael Pospíšil and his ensemble Ritornello recorded music from the hymnal Capella Regia Musicalis, "one of the jewels of Czech musical history"?
... that a lawsuit over the construction of the Cochecton–Damascus Bridge(pictured) led to a ruling that
sovereign immunity does not extend to states' joint bridge commission?
... that the Southeast Asian social wasp Parischnogaster jacobsoni has a gland that creates an ant repellent?
... that the first church of Bay was constructed from cane and
nipa by the Augustinians?
... that the
pH of Lake Choctaw increased from 4.5–5.0 to 6.5–7.0 within two months of the installation of a treatment system at the Oneida Number One Tunnel in 2000?
... that Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara,
Gujarat, in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
... that accommodation in the Butterfly Valley, Fethiye(pictured) at the
Turkish Riviera is possible only in tents or wooden bungalows because any type of construction is prohibited by law?
... that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the
U-505 submarine, which had an important German code book on board?
... that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner?
... that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the
Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat?
... that a second wind makes sleep-deprived persons feel less sleepy on the fifth sleepless day than they did on the fourth?
... that populations of the Chinese goral are declining, probably due to over-hunting?
... that in putting together
episodes of Off the Air, series creator Dave Hughes seeks clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them"?
... that the Polish inventor and bridge designer Marian Lutosławski was killed in a mass execution by the
Bolsheviks several days before his trial was supposed to take place?
... that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra, because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?
22 October 2014
13:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Italian pool frog(pictured) has been introduced into the United Kingdom?
... that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
... that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?
01:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Kate Vaughan(pictured), who developed the
skirt dance, was considered the greatest dancer of her time?
... that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham, but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
... that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?
21 October 2014
13:41, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Stewart Gray(pictured) was a "heroic dreamer" who originated the
back-to-the-land movement in the UK and started an artists' colony in London?
... that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
... that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee, bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
... that the French singer
Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song "Aline" during a visit to the dentist?
... that part of
Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
01:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Broadbottom Viaduct(pictured), originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
... that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330mm)
parabolic reflectors?
... that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
... that the record label PC Music has never produced a physical release?
00:00, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
... that a molecular gyroscope(pictured) can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second?
... that Du Xinwu'sopium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
... that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus?
... that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker's family was ruined in the
1964 Alaska earthquake, he worked as a janitor?
... that Kiswe Mobile's app for the
WNBA's
Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
... that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
... that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
... that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics,
Hong Kong's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist
Ai Weiwei?
... that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?
15 October 2014
12:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (
Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
... that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to
social media?
... that Anastasios Tsonis's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or2002?
00:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Greek rock lizard(pictured) often has two blue spots above the shoulder?
... that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou, a squirrel-like early mammal from the
Tiaojishan Formation, pushed the origin of mammals back to the
Late Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago?
... that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
... that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the
German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
... that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the
Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
... that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two
punts for
touchdowns, a writer suggested that the opposition
Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
... that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
... that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?
... that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola, who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
... that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
... that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and
no-fly zone to accommodate the body of
Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of
Qunu?
... that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
... that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
... that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate
Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
... that the elongated rostrum of the planktivorous American paddlefish(pictured) is used like an antenna to locate swarms of zooplankton?
... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
... that before the Trinity nuclear test(pictured),
Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether the entire planet would be destroyed?
... that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
... that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
... that the Maribojoc Church, with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the
2013 Bohol earthquake?
... that
Lieutenant GeneralRaymond A. Thomas(pictured) was deployed to Afghanistan for part of every year for over a decade, except for one year when he was sent to Iraq?
... that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the
RMS Titanic?
00:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the 1828 self-portrait Beauty Revealed, by
Sarah Goodridge(pictured), has been considered to "erase" her body by drawing attention to her breasts?
... that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an
Archon Depoutatos?
... that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,
Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
... that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with
HIV to protest against the
Cuban government is based on actual events?
... that acquacotta(pictured), an
Italianpeasant food dating to ancient times, was originally devised to make stale bread palatable?
... that
Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
... that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas deMiranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
... that in his NFL debut season,
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford(pictured) was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face?
... that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since1645?
... that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
... that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish
velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
... that the demonic poison frog is
critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4sqmi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
2 October 2014
12:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Japanese common toad(pictured) eats certain ants and beetles that are unpalatable to other predators?
... that September Morn survived the
October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
... that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon
Howard Hughes in 1933?
... that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
... that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?
... that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington PostTehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
... that Raven Creek may have once been known as Raving Creek?
00:00, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
... that a Strati(pictured), the world's first
3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours?
... that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the
US Coast Guard's 1952
rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
... that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that
Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in
Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
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 Romeyn Beck Hough'sAmerican Woods is a set of over 1,000 paper-thin wood slices collected from 354 different tree species?
... that the capital of
Madagascar, Antananarivo, was founded in 1625 by King
Andrianjaka on the site of a village occupied by
Vazimba, the island's earliest inhabitants?
... that the newly-discovered Dumfriesshire Hoard(gold bird pin pictured) has been described by experts as "one of the most significant
Viking hoards ever found in Scotland"?
... that Warren Delabere Barnes, a member of the Malayan Civil Service who conducted an expedition in
Pahang in 1900, had a plant in the
Loranthaceae family named after him?
... that Hong Kong's Fan Lau Fort was captured by the very pirates it was built to repel?
... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of
Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
... that six systems commands not only design, construct, and maintain the U. S. Navy's military hardware, but also include the chiefs of two of the Navy's eight
staff corps?
... that the tallest known tree is more than 115 metres (377 ft) tall?
... that bass Michael Pospíšil and his ensemble Ritornello recorded music from the hymnal Capella Regia Musicalis, "one of the jewels of Czech musical history"?
... that a lawsuit over the construction of the Cochecton–Damascus Bridge(pictured) led to a ruling that
sovereign immunity does not extend to states' joint bridge commission?
... that the Southeast Asian social wasp Parischnogaster jacobsoni has a gland that creates an ant repellent?
... that the first church of Bay was constructed from cane and
nipa by the Augustinians?
... that the
pH of Lake Choctaw increased from 4.5–5.0 to 6.5–7.0 within two months of the installation of a treatment system at the Oneida Number One Tunnel in 2000?
... that Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara,
Gujarat, in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
... that accommodation in the Butterfly Valley, Fethiye(pictured) at the
Turkish Riviera is possible only in tents or wooden bungalows because any type of construction is prohibited by law?
... that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the
U-505 submarine, which had an important German code book on board?
... that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner?
... that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the
Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat?
... that a second wind makes sleep-deprived persons feel less sleepy on the fifth sleepless day than they did on the fourth?
... that populations of the Chinese goral are declining, probably due to over-hunting?
... that in putting together
episodes of Off the Air, series creator Dave Hughes seeks clips "with some kind of truth or integrity to them"?
... that the Polish inventor and bridge designer Marian Lutosławski was killed in a mass execution by the
Bolsheviks several days before his trial was supposed to take place?
... that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra, because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?
22 October 2014
13:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Italian pool frog(pictured) has been introduced into the United Kingdom?
... that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
... that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?
01:26, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Kate Vaughan(pictured), who developed the
skirt dance, was considered the greatest dancer of her time?
... that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham, but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
... that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?
21 October 2014
13:41, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Stewart Gray(pictured) was a "heroic dreamer" who originated the
back-to-the-land movement in the UK and started an artists' colony in London?
... that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
... that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee, bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
... that the French singer
Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song "Aline" during a visit to the dentist?
... that part of
Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
01:56, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
... that Broadbottom Viaduct(pictured), originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
... that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330mm)
parabolic reflectors?
... that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
... that the record label PC Music has never produced a physical release?
00:00, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
... that a molecular gyroscope(pictured) can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second?
... that Du Xinwu'sopium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
... that poor education and an immature pension system are contributing to high levels of poverty in Cyprus?
... that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker's family was ruined in the
1964 Alaska earthquake, he worked as a janitor?
... that Kiswe Mobile's app for the
WNBA's
Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
... that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
... that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
... that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics,
Hong Kong's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist
Ai Weiwei?
... that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?
15 October 2014
12:00, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (
Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
... that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to
social media?
... that Anastasios Tsonis's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or2002?
00:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Greek rock lizard(pictured) often has two blue spots above the shoulder?
... that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou, a squirrel-like early mammal from the
Tiaojishan Formation, pushed the origin of mammals back to the
Late Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago?
... that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
... that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the
German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
... that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the
Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
... that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two
punts for
touchdowns, a writer suggested that the opposition
Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
... that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
... that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?
... that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola, who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
... that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
... that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and
no-fly zone to accommodate the body of
Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of
Qunu?
... that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
... that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
... that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate
Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
... that the elongated rostrum of the planktivorous American paddlefish(pictured) is used like an antenna to locate swarms of zooplankton?
... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
... that before the Trinity nuclear test(pictured),
Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether the entire planet would be destroyed?
... that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
... that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
... that the Maribojoc Church, with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the
2013 Bohol earthquake?
... that
Lieutenant GeneralRaymond A. Thomas(pictured) was deployed to Afghanistan for part of every year for over a decade, except for one year when he was sent to Iraq?
... that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the
RMS Titanic?
00:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the 1828 self-portrait Beauty Revealed, by
Sarah Goodridge(pictured), has been considered to "erase" her body by drawing attention to her breasts?
... that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an
Archon Depoutatos?
... that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,
Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
... that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with
HIV to protest against the
Cuban government is based on actual events?
... that acquacotta(pictured), an
Italianpeasant food dating to ancient times, was originally devised to make stale bread palatable?
... that
Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
... that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas deMiranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
... that in his NFL debut season,
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford(pictured) was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face?
... that a pub may have existed at the site of the East India Arms since1645?
... that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
... that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish
velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
... that the demonic poison frog is
critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4sqmi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
2 October 2014
12:00, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
... that the Japanese common toad(pictured) eats certain ants and beetles that are unpalatable to other predators?
... that September Morn survived the
October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
... that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon
Howard Hughes in 1933?
... that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
... that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?
... that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington PostTehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
... that Raven Creek may have once been known as Raving Creek?
00:00, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
... that a Strati(pictured), the world's first
3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours?
... that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the
US Coast Guard's 1952
rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
... that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that
Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in
Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?