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28 February 2017
12:00, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
The Big Horn
... that the Big Horn(pictured), a gateway sculpture to
Manchester's
Northern Quarter, was built on the remains of a hat factory in 1999?
... that Maria Luise Thurmair published the "love talks" she exchanged with her husband when he was a soldier in World War II, and wrote the lyrics for many hymns in the Gotteslob?
... that during the Knowles Riot of 1747, Bostonians put the sheriff's deputy in the
stocks?
... that the potentially explosive trifluoroperacetic acid is not commercially available, yet can be quickly prepared in three different ways using
hydrogen peroxide?
... that a version of the
Freeform television series Cloak & Dagger had been in development since 2011, when the network was still known as
ABC Family?
... that the royal purple 1935 commemorative banknote(pictured) for the silver jubilee of George V is the only $25 banknote ever issued by the Bank of Canada?
... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by
Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"?
... that the authors of Prophets of Deceit warned that a time might come when Americans become susceptible to psychological manipulation by a political agitator?
... that Bob Kramer has been described as "the greatest American
knifesmith working today"?
... that
Ed Sheeran's 2010 EP Loose Change entered the Australian charts six and a half years after its original UK-only release?
00:00, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
C 6(CH 3)2+ 6, dication of hexamethylbenzene
... that the pyramidal structure of the hexamethylbenzene dication(pictured) has a central carbon atom bonded to an "unprecedented" six other carbon atoms?
... that the diet of the sea anemone Urticinopsis antarctica includes sea urchins, starfish, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, crinoids, gastropods, bivalve molluscs, and small fish?
... that the production team kept the ending of Blood-C a secret from the main cast, allowing them to record only three episodes at a time?
... that when a full-page photograph of a naked Vivien Neves in The Times caused a sensation in 1971, it was being used to advertise a pharmaceutical company?
... that author Bano Qudsia has been conferred with the
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) and the
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the Government of Pakistan?
... that only two men who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion were convicted of treason, but they were later pardoned by President George Washington?
... that Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi earned the nickname the "Butcher of Fallujah" after allegedly masterminding the
2004 ambush in which four private contractors were killed, mutilated, and their bodies displayed?
... that George Washington Pilipō, a leading Hawaiian politician of the 19th century, was known as "The Lion of North Kona"?
... that the grey jay builds its nests in late winter, while the forest is still deep in snow?
... that last year, the Indonesian province of
Aceh processed 324 court cases and carried out at least 100
caning sentences under its Islamic criminal code?
... that before the end of 1940, the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees had facilitated the emigration from Europe of about 22,000 Jews, who thus escaped the
Holocaust?
... that George Francis Hardy was an actuary, Egyptologist, and amateur astronomer whose scientific methods and calculations contributed to all three fields?
... that
David Bowie wrote the lyrics to his 1987 song "Time Will Crawl" after hearing of the
Chernobyl disaster, and later chose the song as one of his favorites from his entire career?
... that layers of ash considered to be from the Dacht-i-Navar Group volcanic complex in Afghanistan have been found 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) away in India?
... that Pilgrim, the premiere title of video game developer
Arxel Tribe, was based on
a novel by Brazilian author
Paulo Coelho, who also wrote the game's screenplay?
... that
Canadian football linebacker Zock Allen was named after the sound a cartoon character makes when hitting something?
... that the documentary Hell's Angel claims that
Mother Teresa was a demagogue and an obscurantist?
... that the Super V-2 was a French project to develop the
V-2 rocket into a long-range missile, one version of which was capable of striking targets as far away as Russia?
... that billionaire Leslie Koo'sNT$400 million bribe resulted in an 11-year jail sentence for former Taiwanese president
Chen Shui-bian?
... that the Samsung Omnia M was announced for the European market prior to being rolled out in
Brazil and
China?
... that the rival ports of
Seattle and
Tacoma merged to form the Northwest Seaport Alliance in 2014 because of increased competition from ports in British Columbia?
... that the extinct
crape myrtle relative Shirleya was first described from fossils out of a "Hi hole"?
... that during development of the
M8 rocket in 1941, Leslie Skinner(pictured) built the first prototypes with casings made from old fire extinguishers?
... that when the Ubina Hoard was looted on the day after excavations had started, members of the
Estonian Defence League were dispatched to guard it?
... that the Indonesian kingdoms of Gowa and Talloq imported ceramics on a scale that, according to archaeologists Bulbeck and Caldwell, "beggars imagination"?
... that
Paul Éluard's poem "Liberté", an ode to liberty written in
occupied France, was distributed by parachute from British aircraft?
19 February 2017
12:00, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
St. Marien am Behnitz interior
... that St. Marien am Behnitz(interior pictured), the second-oldest Catholic church in the Berlin area, was designed by
August Soller and restored by private owners?
... that the upcoming television series Runaways was first developed in 2008 as a feature film by
Marvel Studios but was shelved due to the success of The Avengers?
... that Britannia Mines(concentrator pictured) in British Columbia had the greatest copper ore concentrate output in the British Empire from 1925 to 1930?
... that Manohar Lal Munjal was the first Indian to receive the Distinguished International membership of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering?
... that in January 2017, anarchist squatters occupied one of the four London houses of the Russian billionaire Andrey Goncharenko, and used it as a homeless shelter?
... that
Jean Anouilh's play Léocadia, one of his Pièces roses, was staged on Broadway as Time Remembered?
... that in 2013, two hundred teachers occupied a toll booth on Mexican Federal Highway 180D and allowed cars to pass for free?
... that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the
Himalayas?
... that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the
Himalayas?
... that Henry L. Reaves was an open range cattle rancher on land near what is now
Disney World before serving in the Georgia House of Representatives for 38 years?
... that over a 22-year period,
Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
... that over a 22-year period,
Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
... that at a cost of £2.5 million (US$3.2 million), the opening scene for "The Holy Trinity", the first episode of The Grand Tour, was the most expensive scene in television history?
... that playwright and journalist Refik Erduran's fourth marriage, to his third wife's daughter from an earlier marriage, was
annulled after six years by court decision for being immoral?
00:29, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
[[File:|100px|Hrithik Roshan in 2011 ]]
Hrithik Roshan
... that Hrithik Roshan(pictured) topped Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2011, 2012, and 2014?
... that Presidential M&M's are given as gifts to guests of the President of the United States?
... that according to the 1997 book Policy Design for Democracy, "degenerative policy making" is a major feature of the United States political system?
... that the Carmo Planetarium(pictured) in
São Paulo, Brazil, uses 9,000 optical fibres and 109 lenses to portray the night sky?
... that Van Cortlandt Park contains both
the Bronx's oldest building and the United States' oldest public golf course?
... that during Krishnapada Ghosh's term as Labour Minister in the second
United Front government of West Bengal, police were instructed not to intervene against striking workers?
... that when the USS Albany disappeared off the coast of Venezuela in 1853, its crew included the offspring of several prominent politicians?
... that Acer ferrignoi was named for James Ferrigno, who supplied access to
Smithsonian fossils to scientists describing the extinct
maple?
... that following the tradition of Urdu poets,
Bollywood lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from
his birthplace, and his family also adopted it?
... that the six-year reign of the
caliphal-Muktafi saw the
Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of
Egypt and
Syria, marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
... that the fossil maple Acer lincolnense has leaves divided into three leaflets?
... that while he was trained in classical French cuisine at
Le Cordon Bleu, Israeli chef Erez Komarovsky prefers to cook with "couscous, olive oil, and goat cheese"?
... that since its 2007 debut in the United States, the Rumbler siren has been adopted by
emergency services in Australia and Singapore?
10 February 2017
12:00, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
The Indian Church
... that Canadian artist
Emily Carr felt unable to look at her painting The Indian Church(pictured) because she was embarrassed when people complimented her on her work?
... that the white-browed robin-chat sometimes nests on occupied buildings' walls and trellises covered with climbing plants?
... that under the 1850–1903 Oudh Bequest, six million
rupees were transferred from the Indian kingdom of Oudh to the Shia holy cities of
Najaf and
Karbala?
... that the Precordillera Platform in Argentina may have originally broken off from rocks that are now in the southeastern United States?
... that in the late 1970s Beryl Rawson used computers to analyse the family life of Roman slaves?
... that the Big Sur Land Trust pioneered the "conservation buyer" method of preserving land, saving thousands of acres in
Big Sur from possible development?
... that scholars have debated whether the mysterious Third Murderer in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth was
Macbeth himself?
... that visitors to the collection at The House of Houdini can gain admittance only by decoding a secret message on their admission ticket?
... that Christopher R. W. Nevinson was described by
Charles Lewis Hind as "among the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hated British artists"?
... that the Chinese variety store Miniso was co-founded by a Japanese designer and a Chinese entrepreneur?
... that
Jain figure Bahubali is said to have meditated motionless in a standing posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs?
... that Benedetto Montagna's engravings (example pictured) are rated more highly than his paintings, but he stopped making them around 1523, when he inherited
his father's workshop?
... that
TLC member
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the music video for "Creep" because she opposed the song's lyrical content?
... that the 1953 Chinese painting The Founding Ceremony of the Nation was modified and even repainted, as some of those depicted were purged from government and later rehabilitated?
... that William T. Greenough is called a "towering figure in neuroscience" for showing that the structure of the brain changes throughout one's entire life, and not just in infancy?
... that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter
Leonard Cohen's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017?
... that Koh-i-Sultan volcano in Pakistan last erupted approximately 90,000 years ago and still displays
fumarolic activity?
... that educational video game Opening Night allowed young players to direct their own plays?
... that the extinct Tsukada davidiifolia(leaf fossil pictured) from Washington State is related to the living
dove-tree?
... that the six-year reign of the
caliphal-Muktafi saw the
Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of
Egypt and
Syria, marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
... that the real name of the 16th-century Italian printmaker Master I.B. with a Bird(monogram pictured) was long suspected to be bird-related, but this was only demonstrated in 1936?
... that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by
Netflix?
... that injury denied Lorne Crerar a full international cap as a player, but 20 years later he took part in two Rugby World Cup Finals as a judicial officer?
... that siderography, a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817
Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?
... that Yamuna Eri, a Sri Lankan
monument in Jaffna, is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's
Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD?
... that
Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new epoch in the history of the world"?
... that the Oriental Desert Express is equipped with shovels to help clear sand off the railroad tracks?
01:50, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Mary Jackson
... that Mary Jackson(pictured) became the first black female engineer at
NASA after successfully petitioning the City of
Hampton, Virginia, to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a
whites-only school?
... that a critic of the
didactic comic strip Goofus and Gallant observed that the "obnoxious" Goofus may appeal to children more than the "do-gooder" Gallant?
1 February 2017
12:40, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Blue-winged parrot
... that the blue-winged parrot(pictured) is one of three species of parrot that make regular yearly
migrations over a sea or ocean?
... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion(pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter
Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé, Richard Henry Park, ran off with a dancer?
... that economics professor Carolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students at
Wellesley College into careers in economics and business?
... that Llullaillaco is a historically active volcano and the highest archaeological site in the world?
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.
28 February 2017
12:00, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
The Big Horn
... that the Big Horn(pictured), a gateway sculpture to
Manchester's
Northern Quarter, was built on the remains of a hat factory in 1999?
... that Maria Luise Thurmair published the "love talks" she exchanged with her husband when he was a soldier in World War II, and wrote the lyrics for many hymns in the Gotteslob?
... that during the Knowles Riot of 1747, Bostonians put the sheriff's deputy in the
stocks?
... that the potentially explosive trifluoroperacetic acid is not commercially available, yet can be quickly prepared in three different ways using
hydrogen peroxide?
... that a version of the
Freeform television series Cloak & Dagger had been in development since 2011, when the network was still known as
ABC Family?
... that the royal purple 1935 commemorative banknote(pictured) for the silver jubilee of George V is the only $25 banknote ever issued by the Bank of Canada?
... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by
Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"?
... that the authors of Prophets of Deceit warned that a time might come when Americans become susceptible to psychological manipulation by a political agitator?
... that Bob Kramer has been described as "the greatest American
knifesmith working today"?
... that
Ed Sheeran's 2010 EP Loose Change entered the Australian charts six and a half years after its original UK-only release?
00:00, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
C 6(CH 3)2+ 6, dication of hexamethylbenzene
... that the pyramidal structure of the hexamethylbenzene dication(pictured) has a central carbon atom bonded to an "unprecedented" six other carbon atoms?
... that the diet of the sea anemone Urticinopsis antarctica includes sea urchins, starfish, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, crinoids, gastropods, bivalve molluscs, and small fish?
... that the production team kept the ending of Blood-C a secret from the main cast, allowing them to record only three episodes at a time?
... that when a full-page photograph of a naked Vivien Neves in The Times caused a sensation in 1971, it was being used to advertise a pharmaceutical company?
... that author Bano Qudsia has been conferred with the
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) and the
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) by the Government of Pakistan?
... that only two men who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion were convicted of treason, but they were later pardoned by President George Washington?
... that Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi earned the nickname the "Butcher of Fallujah" after allegedly masterminding the
2004 ambush in which four private contractors were killed, mutilated, and their bodies displayed?
... that George Washington Pilipō, a leading Hawaiian politician of the 19th century, was known as "The Lion of North Kona"?
... that the grey jay builds its nests in late winter, while the forest is still deep in snow?
... that last year, the Indonesian province of
Aceh processed 324 court cases and carried out at least 100
caning sentences under its Islamic criminal code?
... that before the end of 1940, the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees had facilitated the emigration from Europe of about 22,000 Jews, who thus escaped the
Holocaust?
... that George Francis Hardy was an actuary, Egyptologist, and amateur astronomer whose scientific methods and calculations contributed to all three fields?
... that
David Bowie wrote the lyrics to his 1987 song "Time Will Crawl" after hearing of the
Chernobyl disaster, and later chose the song as one of his favorites from his entire career?
... that layers of ash considered to be from the Dacht-i-Navar Group volcanic complex in Afghanistan have been found 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) away in India?
... that Pilgrim, the premiere title of video game developer
Arxel Tribe, was based on
a novel by Brazilian author
Paulo Coelho, who also wrote the game's screenplay?
... that
Canadian football linebacker Zock Allen was named after the sound a cartoon character makes when hitting something?
... that the documentary Hell's Angel claims that
Mother Teresa was a demagogue and an obscurantist?
... that the Super V-2 was a French project to develop the
V-2 rocket into a long-range missile, one version of which was capable of striking targets as far away as Russia?
... that billionaire Leslie Koo'sNT$400 million bribe resulted in an 11-year jail sentence for former Taiwanese president
Chen Shui-bian?
... that the Samsung Omnia M was announced for the European market prior to being rolled out in
Brazil and
China?
... that the rival ports of
Seattle and
Tacoma merged to form the Northwest Seaport Alliance in 2014 because of increased competition from ports in British Columbia?
... that the extinct
crape myrtle relative Shirleya was first described from fossils out of a "Hi hole"?
... that during development of the
M8 rocket in 1941, Leslie Skinner(pictured) built the first prototypes with casings made from old fire extinguishers?
... that when the Ubina Hoard was looted on the day after excavations had started, members of the
Estonian Defence League were dispatched to guard it?
... that the Indonesian kingdoms of Gowa and Talloq imported ceramics on a scale that, according to archaeologists Bulbeck and Caldwell, "beggars imagination"?
... that
Paul Éluard's poem "Liberté", an ode to liberty written in
occupied France, was distributed by parachute from British aircraft?
19 February 2017
12:00, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
St. Marien am Behnitz interior
... that St. Marien am Behnitz(interior pictured), the second-oldest Catholic church in the Berlin area, was designed by
August Soller and restored by private owners?
... that the upcoming television series Runaways was first developed in 2008 as a feature film by
Marvel Studios but was shelved due to the success of The Avengers?
... that Britannia Mines(concentrator pictured) in British Columbia had the greatest copper ore concentrate output in the British Empire from 1925 to 1930?
... that Manohar Lal Munjal was the first Indian to receive the Distinguished International membership of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering?
... that in January 2017, anarchist squatters occupied one of the four London houses of the Russian billionaire Andrey Goncharenko, and used it as a homeless shelter?
... that
Jean Anouilh's play Léocadia, one of his Pièces roses, was staged on Broadway as Time Remembered?
... that in 2013, two hundred teachers occupied a toll booth on Mexican Federal Highway 180D and allowed cars to pass for free?
... that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the
Himalayas?
... that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the
Himalayas?
... that Henry L. Reaves was an open range cattle rancher on land near what is now
Disney World before serving in the Georgia House of Representatives for 38 years?
... that over a 22-year period,
Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
... that over a 22-year period,
Colorado cattle ranch owner Sue Anschutz-Rodgers increased her stock from 33 cows and a single bull to 1,700 head of cattle?
... that at a cost of £2.5 million (US$3.2 million), the opening scene for "The Holy Trinity", the first episode of The Grand Tour, was the most expensive scene in television history?
... that playwright and journalist Refik Erduran's fourth marriage, to his third wife's daughter from an earlier marriage, was
annulled after six years by court decision for being immoral?
00:29, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
[[File:|100px|Hrithik Roshan in 2011 ]]
Hrithik Roshan
... that Hrithik Roshan(pictured) topped Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2011, 2012, and 2014?
... that Presidential M&M's are given as gifts to guests of the President of the United States?
... that according to the 1997 book Policy Design for Democracy, "degenerative policy making" is a major feature of the United States political system?
... that the Carmo Planetarium(pictured) in
São Paulo, Brazil, uses 9,000 optical fibres and 109 lenses to portray the night sky?
... that Van Cortlandt Park contains both
the Bronx's oldest building and the United States' oldest public golf course?
... that during Krishnapada Ghosh's term as Labour Minister in the second
United Front government of West Bengal, police were instructed not to intervene against striking workers?
... that when the USS Albany disappeared off the coast of Venezuela in 1853, its crew included the offspring of several prominent politicians?
... that Acer ferrignoi was named for James Ferrigno, who supplied access to
Smithsonian fossils to scientists describing the extinct
maple?
... that following the tradition of Urdu poets,
Bollywood lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from
his birthplace, and his family also adopted it?
... that the six-year reign of the
caliphal-Muktafi saw the
Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of
Egypt and
Syria, marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
... that the fossil maple Acer lincolnense has leaves divided into three leaflets?
... that while he was trained in classical French cuisine at
Le Cordon Bleu, Israeli chef Erez Komarovsky prefers to cook with "couscous, olive oil, and goat cheese"?
... that since its 2007 debut in the United States, the Rumbler siren has been adopted by
emergency services in Australia and Singapore?
10 February 2017
12:00, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
The Indian Church
... that Canadian artist
Emily Carr felt unable to look at her painting The Indian Church(pictured) because she was embarrassed when people complimented her on her work?
... that the white-browed robin-chat sometimes nests on occupied buildings' walls and trellises covered with climbing plants?
... that under the 1850–1903 Oudh Bequest, six million
rupees were transferred from the Indian kingdom of Oudh to the Shia holy cities of
Najaf and
Karbala?
... that the Precordillera Platform in Argentina may have originally broken off from rocks that are now in the southeastern United States?
... that in the late 1970s Beryl Rawson used computers to analyse the family life of Roman slaves?
... that the Big Sur Land Trust pioneered the "conservation buyer" method of preserving land, saving thousands of acres in
Big Sur from possible development?
... that scholars have debated whether the mysterious Third Murderer in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth was
Macbeth himself?
... that visitors to the collection at The House of Houdini can gain admittance only by decoding a secret message on their admission ticket?
... that Christopher R. W. Nevinson was described by
Charles Lewis Hind as "among the most discussed, most successful, most promising, most admired and most hated British artists"?
... that the Chinese variety store Miniso was co-founded by a Japanese designer and a Chinese entrepreneur?
... that
Jain figure Bahubali is said to have meditated motionless in a standing posture for a year, during which time climbing plants grew around his legs?
... that Benedetto Montagna's engravings (example pictured) are rated more highly than his paintings, but he stopped making them around 1523, when he inherited
his father's workshop?
... that
TLC member
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the music video for "Creep" because she opposed the song's lyrical content?
... that the 1953 Chinese painting The Founding Ceremony of the Nation was modified and even repainted, as some of those depicted were purged from government and later rehabilitated?
... that William T. Greenough is called a "towering figure in neuroscience" for showing that the structure of the brain changes throughout one's entire life, and not just in infancy?
... that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter
Leonard Cohen's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017?
... that Koh-i-Sultan volcano in Pakistan last erupted approximately 90,000 years ago and still displays
fumarolic activity?
... that educational video game Opening Night allowed young players to direct their own plays?
... that the extinct Tsukada davidiifolia(leaf fossil pictured) from Washington State is related to the living
dove-tree?
... that the six-year reign of the
caliphal-Muktafi saw the
Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of
Egypt and
Syria, marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
... that the real name of the 16th-century Italian printmaker Master I.B. with a Bird(monogram pictured) was long suspected to be bird-related, but this was only demonstrated in 1936?
... that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by
Netflix?
... that injury denied Lorne Crerar a full international cap as a player, but 20 years later he took part in two Rugby World Cup Finals as a judicial officer?
... that siderography, a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817
Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?
... that Yamuna Eri, a Sri Lankan
monument in Jaffna, is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's
Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD?
... that
Goethe was present at the French victory in the Battle of Valmy and judged it to be the beginning of "a new epoch in the history of the world"?
... that the Oriental Desert Express is equipped with shovels to help clear sand off the railroad tracks?
01:50, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
Mary Jackson
... that Mary Jackson(pictured) became the first black female engineer at
NASA after successfully petitioning the City of
Hampton, Virginia, to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a
whites-only school?
... that a critic of the
didactic comic strip Goofus and Gallant observed that the "obnoxious" Goofus may appeal to children more than the "do-gooder" Gallant?
1 February 2017
12:40, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Blue-winged parrot
... that the blue-winged parrot(pictured) is one of three species of parrot that make regular yearly
migrations over a sea or ocean?
... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion(pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter
Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé, Richard Henry Park, ran off with a dancer?
... that economics professor Carolyn Shaw Bell established a model that sent a disproportionate number of students at
Wellesley College into careers in economics and business?
... that Llullaillaco is a historically active volcano and the highest archaeological site in the world?