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... that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with
cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
00:00, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
330 West 42nd Street
... that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street(pictured), was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building?
... that the basic design for the sitaras that decorate the
Kaaba dates back to the 16th century?
... that when Edward Mitchell Bannister won a first prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, officials tried to rescind the award upon realizing he was African-American?
... that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
... that
Philadelphia Phillies catcher Rafael Marchan had never hit a
home run through 850 minor league plate appearances before hitting one in just his second major league game?
... that the fish Carapus acus lives in association with a sea cucumber, such as Parastichopus regalis, spending the day inside its host and emerging at night to feed?
... that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress
Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
... that in hakamat, a genre of the traditional music of Sudan, women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
... that
Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"?
27 April 2021
12:00, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Marcello Petacci
... that Marcello Petacci(pictured) was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into
Lake Como?
... that choreographer
George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
... that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
... that a
new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS, causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
... that when
D'Arcy Carden was cast in the series premiere of The Good Place as Janet, a guide, news outlets were purposely lied to that her character was "a violin salesperson with a checkered past"?
... that
NASCAR competitor and film stunt performer Matt Jaskol is the first driver to win a race in North America with
Red Bull sponsorship?
... that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make
briquettes?
... that the United States' 21 national preserves are in 11 states and protect vast areas of scenic public land similar to
national parks, but where hunting is permitted?
... that Powell Clayton, the ninth governor of
Arkansas, declared martial law in 1868 in response to the rise of the
Ku Klux Klan and violence against African Americans and Republicans?
... that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967?
... that days before the premiere of Balanchine's ballet Movements for Piano and Orchestra, 17-year-old
Suzanne Farrell learned a lead role in an apartment, from a colleague who was on bed rest?
... that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman?
... that North Country Community Hospital sued
North Shore Hospital because the names were too similar, and changed its own name to Glen Cove Hospital after it lost?
... that the Piano Quartet, composed by
Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano and strings, was described by his wife
Clara as "a beautiful work, so youthful and fresh, as if it were his first"?
... that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor
Thomas L. Bailey?
... that author Giacomo Sartori has named his day job as a soil scientist as an influence on his work?
... that the village of Adatepe in Turkey, formerly
inhabited by Greeks, was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life?
... that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade?
23 April 2021
12:00, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Eighteenth-century view of Hills Tower
... that Hills Tower(pictured) was built in three stages, around 1527, 1598, and 1721, each time by a different Edward Maxwell?
... that W. R. Granger's funeral was reported to be one of the largest ever known in
Montreal?
... that James R. Mills, a California politician, was also a historian, teacher, published author, a champion for historic building preservation, and an advocate for public transportation?
... that fens are fed by mineral-rich
groundwater, while
bogs are fed by mineral-poor precipitation?
... that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in
ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta?
... that the 2019 children's picture book The Fate of Fausto was inspired by the German legend of
Faust, who trades his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures?
... that for three years, an illegal gold-mining settlement on the
Amur river went on to host high-class hotels, have public healthcare, and even have a casino?
... that Mihajlo Petrović was the second combat casualty in the history of military aviation?
... that although
John Foster long ago described heavy ion fusion as "the conservative approach" to a working
fusion reactor, no large-scale system has ever been built?
... that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?
21 April 2021
12:00, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Joni L. Rutter
... that biologist Joni L. Rutter(pictured) led the development of the
All of Us research program to include more than a million participants to advance
precision medicine?
... that the 1949 film Hardly a Criminal was mostly filmed in
Buenos Aires, and that city's critics called it Argentina's "outstanding film of the year"?
... that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in
Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella?
... that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of
Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier?
... that the Bach-Chor Bonn, a choir founded to sing Bach's works, such as the St John Passion in 1950, grew to a concert choir with a broad repertoire and a long tradition of tours in Europe?
... that Leonidas Zervas was a Greek organic chemist who discovered the
carboxybenzyl protecting group, and also served as Minister of Industry of Greece and President of the
Academy of Athens?
... that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England?
... that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person?
... that a suspicious neighbor of FuncoLand founder David Pomije called the police to investigate the large number of teenagers and young adults visiting his house?
... that in 1805, Jean Maxwell was sentenced to be imprisoned for a year at Kirkcudbright Tolbooth for pretending to be a witch?
... that in 1972, "Prime Minister" David Sanchez led an occupation of
Catalina Island by the
Brown Berets meant to draw attention on the continuing struggles of Mexican-Americans in the United States?
... that some English mediaeval commissions of sewers had powers to imprison labourers who refused to work on flood defences?
... that after
Musical Youth reworked the song "Pass the Kouchie" into "
Pass the Dutchie" by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?
00:00, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Chava Shapiro, circa 1904
... that Chava Shapiro(pictured) published the first
feminist manifesto in Hebrew, lamenting the absence of
women's voices in the language's literature?
... that the fictional character Howard Bellamy from the British soap opera Doctors was based on a real-life army captain who quit his job to run a doctor's surgery?
... that Plunton Castle, although well defended by
gun loops, a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
... that after he died, American Revolutionary War general and physician William Irvine was buried three different times at three different locations?
... that the cucumber seeds that botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber
hybrids grown worldwide?
... that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood, residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
... that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
... that the Shinan shipwreck, the first major discovery of Korean
maritime archaeology, has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
... that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building's plaza in 1968?
... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
... that after
Ted Turner asked for viewers' money to keep WRET-TV afloat, he was able to repay thousands of lenders four years later—with interest?
... that Ben Connor, who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed
2020 Summer Olympics?
... that in the 1950s, the Soviet Union introduced an open university system to enable working-class students to become useful functionaries of the Communist party?
... that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?
... that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
... that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her
mixed-media works incorporating
cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
... that
geneticistNeil Hanchard was a senior author on a publication surveying human genomic diversity in Africa that was described by Nature as "a milestone in genomics research"?
... that Wyche Pavilion, a two-story historic building in
Greenville, South Carolina, was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
... that Surinamese singer Shahied Wagid Hosain was famous for his Bollywood song covers, more than for his own songs?
17 April 2021
12:00, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Zalgo text
... that the Lovecraftian Zalgo text(pictured) is a common aspect of "surreal memes"?
... that Carl Au received three musical theatre scholarships, which was deemed "an unprecedented event in show business"?
... that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of
Jersey's finance industry"?
... that the 1972
manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of
vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory?
... that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the
Kurdish–Turkish conflict?
... that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China?
... that coverage of the 1952 funeral of George VI may have led to the mass purchase of television sets in the United Kingdom?
... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
... that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the
steampunk genre when it was published?
... that
Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
... that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in
Grenada during
Fédon's rebellion, the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
... that the
contrast agentiobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
... that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for
second-degree murder, but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
... that one legend on the origin of the coat of arms of Naples(pictured) claims that it alludes to the colors of the sun and moon cult practiced by the city's pre-Christian inhabitants?
... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
... that the principles of quantum mechanics have been demonstrated to hold for complex molecules with thousands of atoms?
... that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature
D.C. United?
... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day
Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
... that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the
University of Wyoming, only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
... that after the start of
Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
... that the settling of Martensdale, California, went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
Australian advertisement of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
... that
Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite(advertisement pictured) took place at midnight in Hawaii to match the prime time of its target audience in Asia and Oceania?
... that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
... that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur
golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
... that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
... that the remote Burt Township Schools, covering 258 square miles (670 km2) in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
... that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
... that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
... that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place, a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
... that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a
Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
... that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy,
Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
... that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
... that
Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing "Lonely Town" on film?
... that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
... that Guadalupe College president
David Abner Jr.(pictured) declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
... that
Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
... that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
... that as the only woman in the 1923
Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
... that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
... that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998
Tiger 900) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010
Tiger 800), it shares its design with neither?
... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the
Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian
Sisters of Mercy?
... that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical
centre of
Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the
Moravian congregation in Suriname?
... that José de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
... that in State v. Linkhaw, the
North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
00:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
The Söderala vane
... that although used as the weather vane of a church, the Söderala vane(pictured) was probably originally made for a
Viking ship?
... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
... that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
... that in one of
Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
... that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a
Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?
6 April 2021
12:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Canadian loggers and their cookhouse, 1917
... that their cookhouse(example pictured) was as important to loggers as their bunkhouse or tool shed?
... that photographer Benedict J. Fernandez was invited several times to the home of
Martin Luther King Jr.(pictured), where he was able to see him "as a man, a father, a husband"?
... that rapper
Pop Smoke recorded "Diana" the night before he was murdered?
... that when the tower of
Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
... that Gardner Dow was the only American
college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919?
... that English musician
Jane Weaver's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese
torch songs, 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian
punk music?
... that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the
subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping?
00:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Harry Styles
... that Harry Styles(pictured), who is known for his flamboyant fashion, was voted the Most Stylish Man of the Year by GQ in 2020?
... that at the age of 12, the
Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse became the youngest ever Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle?
... that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973
famine in Ethiopia, his suggestion for viewers to donate to
Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
... that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir, also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in
Central America?
... that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator?
... that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by
Motherwell F.C., the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
... that the founder of WZIP in
Covington, Kentucky, beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?
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 the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with
cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
00:00, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
330 West 42nd Street
... that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street(pictured), was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building?
... that the basic design for the sitaras that decorate the
Kaaba dates back to the 16th century?
... that when Edward Mitchell Bannister won a first prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, officials tried to rescind the award upon realizing he was African-American?
... that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
... that
Philadelphia Phillies catcher Rafael Marchan had never hit a
home run through 850 minor league plate appearances before hitting one in just his second major league game?
... that the fish Carapus acus lives in association with a sea cucumber, such as Parastichopus regalis, spending the day inside its host and emerging at night to feed?
... that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress
Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
... that in hakamat, a genre of the traditional music of Sudan, women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
... that
Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"?
27 April 2021
12:00, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Marcello Petacci
... that Marcello Petacci(pictured) was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into
Lake Como?
... that choreographer
George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
... that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
... that a
new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS, causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
... that when
D'Arcy Carden was cast in the series premiere of The Good Place as Janet, a guide, news outlets were purposely lied to that her character was "a violin salesperson with a checkered past"?
... that
NASCAR competitor and film stunt performer Matt Jaskol is the first driver to win a race in North America with
Red Bull sponsorship?
... that the windmill in Werrington was built to grind corn but later converted to grind coal to make
briquettes?
... that the United States' 21 national preserves are in 11 states and protect vast areas of scenic public land similar to
national parks, but where hunting is permitted?
... that Powell Clayton, the ninth governor of
Arkansas, declared martial law in 1868 in response to the rise of the
Ku Klux Klan and violence against African Americans and Republicans?
... that the Syrian-Lebanese poet Maha Bayrakdar won the Miss Syria beauty pageant in 1967?
... that days before the premiere of Balanchine's ballet Movements for Piano and Orchestra, 17-year-old
Suzanne Farrell learned a lead role in an apartment, from a colleague who was on bed rest?
... that Joye Hummel had never read a comic book before becoming the first woman to write scripts for Wonder Woman?
... that North Country Community Hospital sued
North Shore Hospital because the names were too similar, and changed its own name to Glen Cove Hospital after it lost?
... that the Piano Quartet, composed by
Robert Schumann in 1842 for piano and strings, was described by his wife
Clara as "a beautiful work, so youthful and fresh, as if it were his first"?
... that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor
Thomas L. Bailey?
... that author Giacomo Sartori has named his day job as a soil scientist as an influence on his work?
... that the village of Adatepe in Turkey, formerly
inhabited by Greeks, was revived in the 1980s when the traditional stone houses were restored by people seeking to escape city life?
... that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade?
23 April 2021
12:00, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Eighteenth-century view of Hills Tower
... that Hills Tower(pictured) was built in three stages, around 1527, 1598, and 1721, each time by a different Edward Maxwell?
... that W. R. Granger's funeral was reported to be one of the largest ever known in
Montreal?
... that James R. Mills, a California politician, was also a historian, teacher, published author, a champion for historic building preservation, and an advocate for public transportation?
... that fens are fed by mineral-rich
groundwater, while
bogs are fed by mineral-poor precipitation?
... that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in
ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta?
... that the 2019 children's picture book The Fate of Fausto was inspired by the German legend of
Faust, who trades his soul in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures?
... that for three years, an illegal gold-mining settlement on the
Amur river went on to host high-class hotels, have public healthcare, and even have a casino?
... that Mihajlo Petrović was the second combat casualty in the history of military aviation?
... that although
John Foster long ago described heavy ion fusion as "the conservative approach" to a working
fusion reactor, no large-scale system has ever been built?
... that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?
21 April 2021
12:00, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Joni L. Rutter
... that biologist Joni L. Rutter(pictured) led the development of the
All of Us research program to include more than a million participants to advance
precision medicine?
... that the 1949 film Hardly a Criminal was mostly filmed in
Buenos Aires, and that city's critics called it Argentina's "outstanding film of the year"?
... that former ballerina Katita Waldo briefly came out of retirement to perform as the stepmother in
Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella?
... that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of
Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier?
... that the Bach-Chor Bonn, a choir founded to sing Bach's works, such as the St John Passion in 1950, grew to a concert choir with a broad repertoire and a long tradition of tours in Europe?
... that Leonidas Zervas was a Greek organic chemist who discovered the
carboxybenzyl protecting group, and also served as Minister of Industry of Greece and President of the
Academy of Athens?
... that the Women's London Championship was viewed as a response to the introduction of women's franchise cricket in England?
... that Cuban ballerinas and sisters Lorena and Lorna Feijóo both moved to the U.S., and once split the roles of Black and White Swans in Swan Lake, which are usually danced by the same person?
... that a suspicious neighbor of FuncoLand founder David Pomije called the police to investigate the large number of teenagers and young adults visiting his house?
... that in 1805, Jean Maxwell was sentenced to be imprisoned for a year at Kirkcudbright Tolbooth for pretending to be a witch?
... that in 1972, "Prime Minister" David Sanchez led an occupation of
Catalina Island by the
Brown Berets meant to draw attention on the continuing struggles of Mexican-Americans in the United States?
... that some English mediaeval commissions of sewers had powers to imprison labourers who refused to work on flood defences?
... that after
Musical Youth reworked the song "Pass the Kouchie" into "
Pass the Dutchie" by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?
00:00, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Chava Shapiro, circa 1904
... that Chava Shapiro(pictured) published the first
feminist manifesto in Hebrew, lamenting the absence of
women's voices in the language's literature?
... that the fictional character Howard Bellamy from the British soap opera Doctors was based on a real-life army captain who quit his job to run a doctor's surgery?
... that Plunton Castle, although well defended by
gun loops, a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
... that after he died, American Revolutionary War general and physician William Irvine was buried three different times at three different locations?
... that the cucumber seeds that botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber
hybrids grown worldwide?
... that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood, residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
... that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
... that the Shinan shipwreck, the first major discovery of Korean
maritime archaeology, has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
... that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building's plaza in 1968?
... that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
... that after
Ted Turner asked for viewers' money to keep WRET-TV afloat, he was able to repay thousands of lenders four years later—with interest?
... that Ben Connor, who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed
2020 Summer Olympics?
... that in the 1950s, the Soviet Union introduced an open university system to enable working-class students to become useful functionaries of the Communist party?
... that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?
... that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
... that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her
mixed-media works incorporating
cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
... that
geneticistNeil Hanchard was a senior author on a publication surveying human genomic diversity in Africa that was described by Nature as "a milestone in genomics research"?
... that Wyche Pavilion, a two-story historic building in
Greenville, South Carolina, was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
... that Surinamese singer Shahied Wagid Hosain was famous for his Bollywood song covers, more than for his own songs?
17 April 2021
12:00, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Zalgo text
... that the Lovecraftian Zalgo text(pictured) is a common aspect of "surreal memes"?
... that Carl Au received three musical theatre scholarships, which was deemed "an unprecedented event in show business"?
... that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of
Jersey's finance industry"?
... that the 1972
manga series The Poe Clan was among the first works of
vampire literature to depict vampires as romantic and tragic rather than predatory?
... that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the
Kurdish–Turkish conflict?
... that Fan Hongwei and her husband turned a failing textile factory into the largest fiber producer in China?
... that coverage of the 1952 funeral of George VI may have led to the mass purchase of television sets in the United Kingdom?
... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
... that role-playing-game supplement GURPS Steampunk was the most detailed definition of the
steampunk genre when it was published?
... that
Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
... that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in
Grenada during
Fédon's rebellion, the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
... that the
contrast agentiobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
... that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for
second-degree murder, but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
... that one legend on the origin of the coat of arms of Naples(pictured) claims that it alludes to the colors of the sun and moon cult practiced by the city's pre-Christian inhabitants?
... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
... that the principles of quantum mechanics have been demonstrated to hold for complex molecules with thousands of atoms?
... that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature
D.C. United?
... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day
Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
... that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the
University of Wyoming, only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
... that after the start of
Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
... that the settling of Martensdale, California, went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
Australian advertisement of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
... that
Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite(advertisement pictured) took place at midnight in Hawaii to match the prime time of its target audience in Asia and Oceania?
... that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
... that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur
golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
... that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
... that the remote Burt Township Schools, covering 258 square miles (670 km2) in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
... that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
... that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
... that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place, a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
... that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a
Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
... that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy,
Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
... that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
... that
Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing "Lonely Town" on film?
... that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
... that Guadalupe College president
David Abner Jr.(pictured) declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
... that
Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
... that the late Ottoman Empire has been described as "the laboratory of demographic engineering in Europe"?
... that as the only woman in the 1923
Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
... that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
... that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998
Tiger 900) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010
Tiger 800), it shares its design with neither?
... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the
Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian
Sisters of Mercy?
... that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical
centre of
Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the
Moravian congregation in Suriname?
... that José de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
... that in State v. Linkhaw, the
North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
00:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
The Söderala vane
... that although used as the weather vane of a church, the Söderala vane(pictured) was probably originally made for a
Viking ship?
... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
... that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
... that in one of
Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
... that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a
Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?
6 April 2021
12:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
Canadian loggers and their cookhouse, 1917
... that their cookhouse(example pictured) was as important to loggers as their bunkhouse or tool shed?
... that photographer Benedict J. Fernandez was invited several times to the home of
Martin Luther King Jr.(pictured), where he was able to see him "as a man, a father, a husband"?
... that rapper
Pop Smoke recorded "Diana" the night before he was murdered?
... that when the tower of
Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
... that Gardner Dow was the only American
college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919?
... that English musician
Jane Weaver's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese
torch songs, 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian
punk music?
... that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the
subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping?
00:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Harry Styles
... that Harry Styles(pictured), who is known for his flamboyant fashion, was voted the Most Stylish Man of the Year by GQ in 2020?
... that at the age of 12, the
Lakota spiritual leader Arvol Looking Horse became the youngest ever Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle?
... that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973
famine in Ethiopia, his suggestion for viewers to donate to
Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
... that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir, also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in
Central America?
... that Brenda Banks was one of the first African-American women to work as a professional animator?
... that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by
Motherwell F.C., the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
... that the founder of WZIP in
Covington, Kentucky, beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?