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... that when a German colonel found out that Finnish captain Salomon Klass(pictured) was Jewish, he said "I have nothing personal against you as a Jew" and gave him the
Hitler salute?
... that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier
Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a sweetheart deal?
... that John Deane and his crew of the Nottingham Galleycannibalised in desperation the ship's deceased carpenter when the ship wrecked on
Boon Island in 1710?
... that J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from
NASA's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its
space probes?
... that when
Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn?
... that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt
Semperoper in Dresden?
... that following a
strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?
... that during the capture of Wakefield, some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was
hungover?
... that at his death in 1881, Victoriano G. de Ysasi owned a nearly complete collection of the stamps of Spain?
... that after KSJU radio was forced off FM and onto a cable system, students at the
College of Saint Benedict could not listen to it on campus, even though their activity fees supported it?
... that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married?
... that the iPhone 11 Pro is the first iPhone to feature a "Pro" designation, which was previously used only for larger Apple devices?
... that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the
Federal Security Service?
26 September 2019
00:00, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Central Park
... that in the 1860s, the land for New York City's Central Park(pictured) was purchased for a higher price than was paid for
Alaska?
... that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
... that a court in
communist Romania found banker Aristide Blank guilty of high treason, based on his meetings with foreigners and notes from Blank's unpublished novel?
... that the folk tales in
Bernard Binlin Dadié's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
... that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of
strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
... that
Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
... that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into
Ezo?
... that in 1894, the Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the
Wiesbadener Programm of
Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)?
... that following an injustice suffered by the British consul, Charles Sotheby trained his frigate's guns on the
Bey of Rhodes' house and opened fire?
... that the Lake, completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's
Central Park?
... that Filipino-born scientist Ye Zhupei founded
chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister
Li Zhaoxing?
... that when Bernard Schriever(pictured) was promoted to general in 1961, General
Curtis LeMay looked at his four stars and said that had it been up to him, Schriever would not be wearing them?
... that during the Battle of Bovey Heath,
Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
... that
Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at WGBP-FM?
... that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her
kayaks were seized?
... that the Celebes warty pig has been domesticated and introduced into other Indonesian islands?
... that the 1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom?
... that when Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of
Xuanxue?
... that Der Club, a weekly German-language talk show on
Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
... that Yale University pediatrician Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with
celiac disease?
... that after
U-2 spy aircraft piloted by Yeh Changti and Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at
Area 51?
20 September 2019
12:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Janice Kavander
... that Janice Kavander(pictured) once sang both the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at a hockey game – in Sweden?
... that
Polish resistance memberAlicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
... that in 1975, a
field mouse knocked
Michigan radio station WKJR off the air for 45 minutes?
00:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Hurricane Dorian approaching peak intensity over the
Abaco Islands on September 1
... that when
Osama bin Laden issued his 1998 fatwa proclaiming
jihad against the U.S. and its allies, many Islamic jurists stressed that he was not qualified either to proclaim jihad or to issue a fatwa?
... that the Shore Theater, originally designed to satiate "the great need in
Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
... that Para Mi, the debut studio album by Cuco, touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
... that although honeynut squash originated about forty years ago, it has only been in markets for four years?
... that according to Jennifer Foster,
Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods
in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
... that backlash over
Dodge City, Kansas, radio station KTTL's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
... that there is a myth that the pieces of the broken tail of the slender glass lizard can grow into new lizards?
... that Russian ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of Vadim, former KGB
resident to the country, and Valeriya, a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
... that an unauthorized student pilot was in control of Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 up until five seconds before it crashed?
... that the submarine volcano Vailulu'u was named after a sacred rain and might become an island in the future?
... that Bush Terminal, an
intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
... that Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from
oracle bones?
... that despite the Zulu serotine bat having a widespread distribution in Africa, it is not known where it roosts during the day?
... that
lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
... that while the American company Roper was the largest stove producer in the world, they also produced artillery shells during World War II?
... that Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer
Yaohan, but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the
1997 Asian financial crisis?
... that after the Siege of Ghent, the victorious commander, the
Duke of Marlborough, claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
... that Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead?
... that the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
... that while
Greenpeace activist Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the Rainbow Warrior?
... that 19-year-old mxmtoon, who records
lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
00:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Samarjitsinh Gaekwad
... that in 2013, Sangramsinh Gaekwad and his nephew, Samarjitsinh Gaekwad(pictured) – the unofficial Maharaja of
Baroda – settled a 23-year-long legal inheritance dispute worth more than ₹20,000
crore (US$3 billion)?
... that the cause of the 1957 crash of Pan Am Flight 7 was never determined?
... that research by Chinese professor Wang Buxuan resulted in the doubling of
ammonia production at a major chemical plant in
Sichuan province?
... that the Samsung Galaxy A70's triple-lens camera can create a
bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
... that Oregon state legislator Vernon A. Forbes drowned while fishing in an Oregon lake?
... that Canadian
dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt?
... that Ernst Dammann, an early member of the
Nazi Party, was a founding figure of African studies in
East Germany – together with
Walter Markov, a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
... that American potter
Hugh C. Robertson was left "nearly penniless" in 1889 by his years of attempts to recreate the Chinese porcelain sang de boeuf glaze(example pictured)?
... that in his book ABC of Alcohol, Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
... that the No. 8
Toyota TS050 Hybrid won the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans after its sister No. 7 car had a tyre pressure sensor system wiring fault that incorrectly indicated a front-right puncture?
... that the
Field Music album Commontime received media attention after
Prince tweeted about one of its songs?
... that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna, known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
... that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of filial piety?
... that an hour and a half before fur trader Captain Joseph LaBarge died, he received a telegram from historian Hiram M. Chittenden assuring LaBarge of the completion of his biography?
... that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than
Hypatia?
... that the interviewer in the documentary Enter the Anime did not know anything about
anime?
... that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge traveled from
Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to
St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?
... that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
... that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo?
... that Julius Tahija was the only Indonesian to receive an
Allied nation's highest military decoration during World War II?
... that the String Quartet in A major, composed by
Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
... that Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in
surfing?
... that footballer Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in
rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
... that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's Prospect Park?
... that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E?
... that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team?
00:48, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Patricia Ortega
... that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega(pictured) has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals?
... that The O.C. is the "official, original, and only club that matters"?
8 September 2019
14:48, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
West Point cadets toss their hats.
... that
West Point cadets fill their hats with notes and other items for small children to collect after the hat toss (pictured) during their graduation ceremony?
... that former Mexican police chief Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for
women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
... that after the fall of the state of Zhongli, its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
... that Hungarian
MEPAnna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
... that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in
Bel Air, Maryland, lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's
guy wires?
... that the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt manage stages for
opera and
drama under one roof, in a building (pictured) incorporating the ruins of the bombed former playhouse?
... that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in
Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
... that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development, everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
... that a
Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
00:00, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The Buckie Cathedral, viewed from the sea
... that
James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a
Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral(pictured)?
... that although the Fazzan Basin in Libya currently averages less than 20 mm (0.8 in) of annual rainfall, paleohydrological study shows that it has periodically contained a large lake?
... that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing, who was acclaimed as "China's
Sherlock Holmes", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
... that a
Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian
pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
... that David Morgan, the most successful British fighter pilot in the
Falklands War, had a
hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
... that in its early years, New York City's Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
00:00, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Montanhof in Hamburg's Kontorhaus District
... that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's Kontorhaus District(building pictured)?
... that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title
Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
... that Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of
Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a
zoning dispute?
... that the
endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
... that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
[[File:|124px|Figurines of Jewish men in Kraków, the one at left holding a coin and bag ]]
Figurines of Jewish men in Kraków
... that in some Polish homes, an image of a Jew holding a coin(example pictured) hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the
Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
... that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in
Colette's story Gigi?
... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony
Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2019
EPThe Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
00:00, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Brooklyn Army Terminal
... that upon its completion one hundred years ago this month, the Brooklyn Army Terminal(pictured) was the world's largest concrete building complex?
... that the International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
... that when offered the award of the
Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik, a Jewish major in the
Finnish Army, refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
... that the
anti-MuslimEłk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on
kebab eateries?
... that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
... that a critic described the song "Lover" as a throwback to
Taylor Swift's "country days"?
... that in Su Shuyang's tragedy depicting the last day of
Lao She's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
... that as state health commissioner of
Indiana, Woody Myers supported the right of
Ryan White, a teenage boy with
HIV/AIDS, to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
... that
Bruce McCandless II(pictured) flew in space for the first time in February 1984, nearly eighteen years after being chosen as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5?
... that Vicky Knight, who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role, works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child?
... that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?
... that Tong Daoming wrote plays without antagonists?
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.
... that when a German colonel found out that Finnish captain Salomon Klass(pictured) was Jewish, he said "I have nothing personal against you as a Jew" and gave him the
Hitler salute?
... that a 2008 plea bargain to settle criminal charges against financier
Jeffrey Epstein has been described as a sweetheart deal?
... that John Deane and his crew of the Nottingham Galleycannibalised in desperation the ship's deceased carpenter when the ship wrecked on
Boon Island in 1710?
... that J. J. Stiffler's "unparalleled" and "landmark" book Theory of Synchronous Communications (1971) sprang from
NASA's need for power-efficient synchronization of data transmission for its
space probes?
... that when
Harley-Davidson demanded that William Morris take its signs down from his store, he put them on display in his Bill's Old Bike Barn?
... that Andrea Ihle performed the role of Ännchen in Weber's opera Der Freischütz in the opening performance of the rebuilt
Semperoper in Dresden?
... that following a
strike at Lundy's Restaurant in New York City, its owner announced that it would "never reopen" – only to have it reopen a few months later?
... that during the capture of Wakefield, some historians claim that the town's commander led a counterattack "in his nightshirt" because he was
hungover?
... that at his death in 1881, Victoriano G. de Ysasi owned a nearly complete collection of the stamps of Spain?
... that after KSJU radio was forced off FM and onto a cable system, students at the
College of Saint Benedict could not listen to it on campus, even though their activity fees supported it?
... that Jeni Bojilova-Pateva became a women's rights activist when she was barred from teaching because she was married?
... that the iPhone 11 Pro is the first iPhone to feature a "Pro" designation, which was previously used only for larger Apple devices?
... that just prior to his arrest in 2019, investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was examining the links between Moscow funeral businesses and the
Federal Security Service?
26 September 2019
00:00, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Central Park
... that in the 1860s, the land for New York City's Central Park(pictured) was purchased for a higher price than was paid for
Alaska?
... that Emirati geneticist Habiba Alsafar was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Arab Women" of 2015?
... that a court in
communist Romania found banker Aristide Blank guilty of high treason, based on his meetings with foreigners and notes from Blank's unpublished novel?
... that the folk tales in
Bernard Binlin Dadié's The Black Cloth express the "African sense of community" and the "wisdom of an ordered society" in the face of French claims of moral superiority?
... that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of
strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
... that
Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
... that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into
Ezo?
... that in 1894, the Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the
Wiesbadener Programm of
Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)?
... that following an injustice suffered by the British consul, Charles Sotheby trained his frigate's guns on the
Bey of Rhodes' house and opened fire?
... that the Lake, completed in 1858, was the first feature to be finished in New York City's
Central Park?
... that Filipino-born scientist Ye Zhupei founded
chemical metallurgy in China, while his American wife became an English professor who taught the future Chinese foreign minister
Li Zhaoxing?
... that when Bernard Schriever(pictured) was promoted to general in 1961, General
Curtis LeMay looked at his four stars and said that had it been up to him, Schriever would not be wearing them?
... that during the Battle of Bovey Heath,
Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect?
... that
Kevin Harlan said his "first good move" in sports broadcasting was getting into radio at WGBP-FM?
... that after 78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla was ordered to pay US$4 million for interfering with a mining company, her
kayaks were seized?
... that the Celebes warty pig has been domesticated and introduced into other Indonesian islands?
... that the 1985 World Snooker Championship holds the record for the highest-rated post-midnight broadcast in the United Kingdom?
... that when Yu Dunkang was denounced as a "rightist" and banished from academia for twenty years, he found solace in the early Chinese philosophy of
Xuanxue?
... that Der Club, a weekly German-language talk show on
Swiss television discussing current topics, was first aired in 1985 as Zischtigsclub ('Tuesday Club')?
... that Yale University pediatrician Grover Powers gave liver extract as a nutritional supplement to children with
celiac disease?
... that after
U-2 spy aircraft piloted by Yeh Changti and Chang Liyi were shot down over China, the United States began prioritizing the development of drones at
Area 51?
20 September 2019
12:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Janice Kavander
... that Janice Kavander(pictured) once sang both the U.S. and Canadian national anthems at a hockey game – in Sweden?
... that
Polish resistance memberAlicja Iwańska became an academic and compared political, religious, and racial persecution in Europe to U.S. segregation restrictions?
... that in 1975, a
field mouse knocked
Michigan radio station WKJR off the air for 45 minutes?
00:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Hurricane Dorian approaching peak intensity over the
Abaco Islands on September 1
... that when
Osama bin Laden issued his 1998 fatwa proclaiming
jihad against the U.S. and its allies, many Islamic jurists stressed that he was not qualified either to proclaim jihad or to issue a fatwa?
... that the Shore Theater, originally designed to satiate "the great need in
Coney Island for an all-year amusement", is being redeveloped into Coney Island's first new hotel in 50 years?
... that Para Mi, the debut studio album by Cuco, touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
... that although honeynut squash originated about forty years ago, it has only been in markets for four years?
... that according to Jennifer Foster,
Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods
in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
... that backlash over
Dodge City, Kansas, radio station KTTL's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
... that there is a myth that the pieces of the broken tail of the slender glass lizard can grow into new lizards?
... that Russian ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of Vadim, former KGB
resident to the country, and Valeriya, a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
... that an unauthorized student pilot was in control of Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 up until five seconds before it crashed?
... that the submarine volcano Vailulu'u was named after a sacred rain and might become an island in the future?
... that Bush Terminal, an
intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
... that Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from
oracle bones?
... that despite the Zulu serotine bat having a widespread distribution in Africa, it is not known where it roosts during the day?
... that
lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
... that while the American company Roper was the largest stove producer in the world, they also produced artillery shells during World War II?
... that Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer
Yaohan, but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the
1997 Asian financial crisis?
... that after the Siege of Ghent, the victorious commander, the
Duke of Marlborough, claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
... that Thuy Trang became so ill on her voyage out of Saigon to seek political asylum in the US that other passengers wanted to throw her overboard, thinking she was dead?
... that the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
... that while
Greenpeace activist Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the Rainbow Warrior?
... that 19-year-old mxmtoon, who records
lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
00:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
Samarjitsinh Gaekwad
... that in 2013, Sangramsinh Gaekwad and his nephew, Samarjitsinh Gaekwad(pictured) – the unofficial Maharaja of
Baroda – settled a 23-year-long legal inheritance dispute worth more than ₹20,000
crore (US$3 billion)?
... that the cause of the 1957 crash of Pan Am Flight 7 was never determined?
... that research by Chinese professor Wang Buxuan resulted in the doubling of
ammonia production at a major chemical plant in
Sichuan province?
... that the Samsung Galaxy A70's triple-lens camera can create a
bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
... that Oregon state legislator Vernon A. Forbes drowned while fishing in an Oregon lake?
... that Canadian
dressage rider Tina Irwin was forced to restart after a power outage at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and achieved a 2017 world record small tour score on her next attempt?
... that Ernst Dammann, an early member of the
Nazi Party, was a founding figure of African studies in
East Germany – together with
Walter Markov, a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
... that American potter
Hugh C. Robertson was left "nearly penniless" in 1889 by his years of attempts to recreate the Chinese porcelain sang de boeuf glaze(example pictured)?
... that in his book ABC of Alcohol, Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
... that the No. 8
Toyota TS050 Hybrid won the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans after its sister No. 7 car had a tyre pressure sensor system wiring fault that incorrectly indicated a front-right puncture?
... that the
Field Music album Commontime received media attention after
Prince tweeted about one of its songs?
... that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna, known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
... that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of filial piety?
... that an hour and a half before fur trader Captain Joseph LaBarge died, he received a telegram from historian Hiram M. Chittenden assuring LaBarge of the completion of his biography?
... that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than
Hypatia?
... that the interviewer in the documentary Enter the Anime did not know anything about
anime?
... that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge traveled from
Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to
St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?
... that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust?
... that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo?
... that Julius Tahija was the only Indonesian to receive an
Allied nation's highest military decoration during World War II?
... that the String Quartet in A major, composed by
Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
... that Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in
surfing?
... that footballer Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in
rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
... that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's Prospect Park?
... that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E?
... that military historian Dominick Graham was a prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, and later returned as a member of the British Olympic skiing team?
00:48, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
Patricia Ortega
... that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega(pictured) has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals?
... that The O.C. is the "official, original, and only club that matters"?
8 September 2019
14:48, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
West Point cadets toss their hats.
... that
West Point cadets fill their hats with notes and other items for small children to collect after the hat toss (pictured) during their graduation ceremony?
... that former Mexican police chief Gilberto Lerma Plata was ordered to forfeit US$10 billion in drug profits?
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for
women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
... that after the fall of the state of Zhongli, its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
... that Hungarian
MEPAnna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
... that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in
Bel Air, Maryland, lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's
guy wires?
... that the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt manage stages for
opera and
drama under one roof, in a building (pictured) incorporating the ruins of the bombed former playhouse?
... that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in
Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
... that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development, everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
... that a
Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
00:00, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
The Buckie Cathedral, viewed from the sea
... that
James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a
Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral(pictured)?
... that although the Fazzan Basin in Libya currently averages less than 20 mm (0.8 in) of annual rainfall, paleohydrological study shows that it has periodically contained a large lake?
... that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing, who was acclaimed as "China's
Sherlock Holmes", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
... that a
Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian
pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
... that David Morgan, the most successful British fighter pilot in the
Falklands War, had a
hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
... that in its early years, New York City's Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
00:00, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Montanhof in Hamburg's Kontorhaus District
... that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's Kontorhaus District(building pictured)?
... that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title
Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
... that Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of
Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a
zoning dispute?
... that the
endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
... that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
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Figurines of Jewish men in Kraków
... that in some Polish homes, an image of a Jew holding a coin(example pictured) hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the
Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
... that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in
Colette's story Gigi?
... that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony
Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
... that
Meghan Trainor's 2019
EPThe Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
00:00, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Brooklyn Army Terminal
... that upon its completion one hundred years ago this month, the Brooklyn Army Terminal(pictured) was the world's largest concrete building complex?
... that the International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
... that when offered the award of the
Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik, a Jewish major in the
Finnish Army, refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
... that the
anti-MuslimEłk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on
kebab eateries?
... that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
... that a critic described the song "Lover" as a throwback to
Taylor Swift's "country days"?
... that in Su Shuyang's tragedy depicting the last day of
Lao She's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
... that as state health commissioner of
Indiana, Woody Myers supported the right of
Ryan White, a teenage boy with
HIV/AIDS, to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
... that
Bruce McCandless II(pictured) flew in space for the first time in February 1984, nearly eighteen years after being chosen as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5?
... that Vicky Knight, who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role, works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child?
... that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?
... that Tong Daoming wrote plays without antagonists?