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... that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the
COVID-19 pandemic?
... that British singer
Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ
Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software
Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang?
... that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of
Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
... that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
... that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making
girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?
30 March 2021
12:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
[[File:|140px|Ana Kansky painted by
Henrika Šantel (1932) ]]
... that chemist Ana Kansky(pictured) became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established
University of Ljubljana in 1920?
... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in
Northern Ireland?
... that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
00:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Comic Takaoka in 2015
... that Comic Takaoka(pictured) opened in 1880 as a general used bookstore and operated continuously until 2019, closing only for the
Second World War?
... that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards?
29 March 2021
12:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Scott Brown
... that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown(pictured) lost his father to
Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with
Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
... that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of
Franz Schreker?
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
... that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles (pictured) is an
impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular?
... that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
... that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first
black American to become a
Jesuit, earn a
Ph.D., and become the president of a predominantly white university?
... that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
... that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
... that to attract commercial investment, stones were installed on Stone Street in New York City?
00:00, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
John J. DeGioia
... that in 2001, John J. DeGioia(pictured) became the first
lay president of a
Jesuit university in the United States?
... that, during his time in a Japanese
prisoner-of-war camp,
footballerErnie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
... that temporary war buildings on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
... that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director
Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... that operators of the Mark 1 Red Steertail warning radar(pictured) joked that the Soviets would not attempt to jam it as such attempts would not make it any harder to read?
... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
... that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, "I Am Real", in 2011?
... that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning
abalone"?
... that Noah Beck, a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore
fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and
stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
... that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
... that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company?
25 March 2021
12:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Kaktovik numerals, representing 0 to 19
... that Kaktovik numerals(pictured) are an
iconic,
base-20 numeral system created by the Alaskan
Iñupiat, with shapes that visually indicate the numbers being represented?
... that Edward Hewitt Nichols, the first leader of
Hong Kong's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
... that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
... that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways
George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
... that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for
Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered
South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
... that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from
Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
... that Lucia Votano(pictured) was the first woman to be appointed director of the
Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world?
... that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in
South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
... that
Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?
23 March 2021
12:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Ringyuichon Vashum
... that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum(pictured) was awarded the
Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations?
... that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932
Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in
Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a
pitched one?
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
... that KQLO, the antecedent of today's KIHM, was established after its founder drove from
Nevada to
Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
... that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic
St. Patrick's Cathedral, he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
... that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
... that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress
Betty Blythe, who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
Chemical graph of the overlapping substructures of caffeine
... that one of the first generators of chemical graphs(example pictured) was developed in the context of NASA's
Mariner program to facilitate the automated identification of chemical compounds in the search for
life on Mars?
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist
Billy Graham?
... that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music?
21 March 2021
12:00, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Ava Cherry
... that Ava Cherry(pictured),
David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that Turkish world-champion
para-archerBahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
... that the melody of a song to
Venus became the
tune for the 17th-century hymn "Auf meinen lieben Gott" (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
... that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by
Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
... that
Chuck Connors, star of the
ABC show The Rifleman, was an investor in TV station KNBS, an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
... that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon
Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use
Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
... that
William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker?
20 March 2021
12:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Ebenezer Teichelmann after the first crossing of Harper Pass in 1905
... that when Ebenezer Teichelmann(pictured), Henry Newton and
Alec Graham made the first ascent of Douglas Peak in New Zealand in 1907, they took more than 25 kg (55 lb) of camera equipment?
... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
... that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the
film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
... that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
... that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the
World Trade Center?
... that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by
Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the
Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
... that Luis Salvador became the mayor of
Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
... that the machine-learning model DALL-E, widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve
Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
... that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?
... that within hours of the
Social Encounter Party in Mexico being stripped of its electoral registration, the Solidary Encounter Party was formed with the same initials, party structure and ideology?
... that Governor
Andrew Cuomo, who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it?
... that a 1958 promotion by
Nashville radio station WKDA, in which a "
purple people eater" climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?
00:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Prokofiev (on the podium, right) after the second performance of his Sixth Symphony
... that the Sixth Symphony by
Sergei Prokofiev(pictured) was said to depict the "private world of modern man against the terrifying machinery of universal destruction"?
... that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures (example pictured), was a perennial bestseller for
Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?
... that the variegated grasshopper can be de-winged, salted and fried to provide a tasty meal?
14 March 2021
12:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Vampira
... that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV",
Vampira(pictured in black and white), and several
Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet?
... that the music video for "Shake the Room" was
Pop Smoke's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
... that at the 2019 London Marathon, the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
... that an engineer of
Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?
13 March 2021
12:00, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Ada Ballin
... that dress reformer Ada Ballin(pictured) warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing?
... that "Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the
Bohemian Brethren, was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
... that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the
University of Illinois, and later taught 16 years at
CSU Fullerton?
... that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain, which includes madness, murder, and
cannibalism, was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
... that although remaining a little-known monument in
Neuquén, Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid, inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
... that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz, with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
... that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her debut at the top level of domestic cricket aged 15, and took three wickets in the final that season?
... that the God in the novel I Am God was described by a reviewer as "half heteronormative deity, half embarrassing uncle"?
00:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Bridge at Aix repaired with a German railway-gun carriage
... that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the
Ring cycle at the
Leipzig Opera, completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored
Semperoper in 1985?
... that Stop AAPI Hate was formed in 2020 in response to increased racially motivated violence against Asian people, which now includes the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee?
... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group
Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's
Grand Central?
... that a fire at Marl Chemical Park in 2012 interrupted the world supply of a chemical that was crucial to the auto industry?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
00:00, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
[[File:|140px|Lurie Children's Hospital ]]
Lurie Children's Hospital
... that when Lurie Children's Hospital(pictured) moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy?
... that the Crash Bandicoot character Doctor Neo Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his model's short legs kept him from walking properly?
... that a group of
Dayak burned a
Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh, failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
... that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award (pictured) on
International Women's Day?
... that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position?
... that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five?
... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts?
... that the
Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi(pictured) challenged the rules?
... that the Duchess Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway is thought to be the oldest surviving iron bridge in Scotland?
... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
... that the music video for "Fantastic Baby" by
Big Bang is the first by a
K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on
YouTube?
... that the studio of Francis Chit, the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
... that because Accolade had focused their success around sports games, the packaging for the
science-fiction game Star Control II accidentally included a sticker calling it the "Best Sports Game" of 1992?
... that the 1959 short story "Now: Zero", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note, has been described as one of
J. G. Ballard's weakest works?
... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)?
... that the fossil pine Pinus latahensis was named for the wrong geologic formation?
... that plant scientist Norman C. Deno's research on seed
germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
... that the Atlas Cinema in Istanbul was established as a 1,800-seater movie theatre in 1948 replacing a notable music hall, which was in turn established in the horse stable of a 19th-century residential building?
... that FHProductionHK, a
YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a
bear mask to hide his appearance?
... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of
Francisco Franco?
... that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?
... that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in
Ballymun, artist
Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
... that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
... that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from
grazing?
... that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the
ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
... that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of
Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's
license?
... that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
... that during a bloody assault with his unit on the
Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?
... that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
... that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final, the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
... that when the
fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
... that in 2017 you could finally have breakfast at Tiffany's(pictured)?
... that the British mycologist Denis Garrett, "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
... that sand in the stomach of the ocean surgeon helps to grind up its food?
... that when the 1959 Michigan football team(pictured) defeated Ohio State, opposing coach
Woody Hayes whirled and hurled pieces of clothing, drawing a comparison to a "hot stripper"?
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
... that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
... that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer
Zhang Jun?
... that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the
Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?
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 physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the
COVID-19 pandemic?
... that British singer
Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ
Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software
Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang?
... that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of
Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
... that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
... that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making
girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?
30 March 2021
12:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
[[File:|140px|Ana Kansky painted by
Henrika Šantel (1932) ]]
... that chemist Ana Kansky(pictured) became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established
University of Ljubljana in 1920?
... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in
Northern Ireland?
... that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
00:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Comic Takaoka in 2015
... that Comic Takaoka(pictured) opened in 1880 as a general used bookstore and operated continuously until 2019, closing only for the
Second World War?
... that Stephanie Saland decided to become a ballet dancer because of computerized report cards?
29 March 2021
12:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Scott Brown
... that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown(pictured) lost his father to
Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with
Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
... that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of
Franz Schreker?
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
... that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles (pictured) is an
impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular?
... that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
... that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first
black American to become a
Jesuit, earn a
Ph.D., and become the president of a predominantly white university?
... that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
... that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
... that to attract commercial investment, stones were installed on Stone Street in New York City?
00:00, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
John J. DeGioia
... that in 2001, John J. DeGioia(pictured) became the first
lay president of a
Jesuit university in the United States?
... that, during his time in a Japanese
prisoner-of-war camp,
footballerErnie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
... that temporary war buildings on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
... that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director
Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... that operators of the Mark 1 Red Steertail warning radar(pictured) joked that the Soviets would not attempt to jam it as such attempts would not make it any harder to read?
... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
... that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, "I Am Real", in 2011?
... that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning
abalone"?
... that Noah Beck, a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore
fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and
stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
... that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
... that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company?
25 March 2021
12:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
Kaktovik numerals, representing 0 to 19
... that Kaktovik numerals(pictured) are an
iconic,
base-20 numeral system created by the Alaskan
Iñupiat, with shapes that visually indicate the numbers being represented?
... that Edward Hewitt Nichols, the first leader of
Hong Kong's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
... that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
... that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways
George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
... that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for
Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered
South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
... that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from
Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
... that Lucia Votano(pictured) was the first woman to be appointed director of the
Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world?
... that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in
South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
... that
Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?
23 March 2021
12:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Ringyuichon Vashum
... that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum(pictured) was awarded the
Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations?
... that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932
Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in
Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a
pitched one?
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
... that KQLO, the antecedent of today's KIHM, was established after its founder drove from
Nevada to
Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
... that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic
St. Patrick's Cathedral, he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
... that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
... that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress
Betty Blythe, who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
Chemical graph of the overlapping substructures of caffeine
... that one of the first generators of chemical graphs(example pictured) was developed in the context of NASA's
Mariner program to facilitate the automated identification of chemical compounds in the search for
life on Mars?
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist
Billy Graham?
... that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music?
21 March 2021
12:00, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Ava Cherry
... that Ava Cherry(pictured),
David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that Turkish world-champion
para-archerBahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
... that the melody of a song to
Venus became the
tune for the 17th-century hymn "Auf meinen lieben Gott" (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
... that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by
Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
... that
Chuck Connors, star of the
ABC show The Rifleman, was an investor in TV station KNBS, an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
... that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon
Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use
Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
... that
William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker?
20 March 2021
12:00, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Ebenezer Teichelmann after the first crossing of Harper Pass in 1905
... that when Ebenezer Teichelmann(pictured), Henry Newton and
Alec Graham made the first ascent of Douglas Peak in New Zealand in 1907, they took more than 25 kg (55 lb) of camera equipment?
... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
... that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the
film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
... that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
... that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the
World Trade Center?
... that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by
Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the
Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
... that Luis Salvador became the mayor of
Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
... that the machine-learning model DALL-E, widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve
Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
... that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?
... that within hours of the
Social Encounter Party in Mexico being stripped of its electoral registration, the Solidary Encounter Party was formed with the same initials, party structure and ideology?
... that Governor
Andrew Cuomo, who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it?
... that a 1958 promotion by
Nashville radio station WKDA, in which a "
purple people eater" climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?
00:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Prokofiev (on the podium, right) after the second performance of his Sixth Symphony
... that the Sixth Symphony by
Sergei Prokofiev(pictured) was said to depict the "private world of modern man against the terrifying machinery of universal destruction"?
... that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures (example pictured), was a perennial bestseller for
Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?
... that the variegated grasshopper can be de-winged, salted and fried to provide a tasty meal?
14 March 2021
12:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
Vampira
... that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV",
Vampira(pictured in black and white), and several
Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet?
... that the music video for "Shake the Room" was
Pop Smoke's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
... that at the 2019 London Marathon, the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
... that an engineer of
Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?
13 March 2021
12:00, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Ada Ballin
... that dress reformer Ada Ballin(pictured) warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing?
... that "Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the
Bohemian Brethren, was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
... that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the
University of Illinois, and later taught 16 years at
CSU Fullerton?
... that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain, which includes madness, murder, and
cannibalism, was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
... that although remaining a little-known monument in
Neuquén, Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid, inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
... that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz, with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
... that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her debut at the top level of domestic cricket aged 15, and took three wickets in the final that season?
... that the God in the novel I Am God was described by a reviewer as "half heteronormative deity, half embarrassing uncle"?
00:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Bridge at Aix repaired with a German railway-gun carriage
... that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the
Ring cycle at the
Leipzig Opera, completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored
Semperoper in 1985?
... that Stop AAPI Hate was formed in 2020 in response to increased racially motivated violence against Asian people, which now includes the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee?
... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group
Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's
Grand Central?
... that a fire at Marl Chemical Park in 2012 interrupted the world supply of a chemical that was crucial to the auto industry?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
00:00, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
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Lurie Children's Hospital
... that when Lurie Children's Hospital(pictured) moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy?
... that the Crash Bandicoot character Doctor Neo Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his model's short legs kept him from walking properly?
... that a group of
Dayak burned a
Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh, failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
... that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award (pictured) on
International Women's Day?
... that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position?
... that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five?
... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts?
... that the
Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi(pictured) challenged the rules?
... that the Duchess Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway is thought to be the oldest surviving iron bridge in Scotland?
... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
... that the music video for "Fantastic Baby" by
Big Bang is the first by a
K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on
YouTube?
... that the studio of Francis Chit, the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
... that because Accolade had focused their success around sports games, the packaging for the
science-fiction game Star Control II accidentally included a sticker calling it the "Best Sports Game" of 1992?
... that the 1959 short story "Now: Zero", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note, has been described as one of
J. G. Ballard's weakest works?
... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)?
... that the fossil pine Pinus latahensis was named for the wrong geologic formation?
... that plant scientist Norman C. Deno's research on seed
germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
... that the Atlas Cinema in Istanbul was established as a 1,800-seater movie theatre in 1948 replacing a notable music hall, which was in turn established in the horse stable of a 19th-century residential building?
... that FHProductionHK, a
YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a
bear mask to hide his appearance?
... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of
Francisco Franco?
... that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?
... that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in
Ballymun, artist
Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
... that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
... that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from
grazing?
... that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the
ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
... that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of
Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's
license?
... that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
... that during a bloody assault with his unit on the
Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?
... that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
... that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final, the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
... that when the
fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
... that in 2017 you could finally have breakfast at Tiffany's(pictured)?
... that the British mycologist Denis Garrett, "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
... that sand in the stomach of the ocean surgeon helps to grind up its food?
... that when the 1959 Michigan football team(pictured) defeated Ohio State, opposing coach
Woody Hayes whirled and hurled pieces of clothing, drawing a comparison to a "hot stripper"?
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
... that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
... that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer
Zhang Jun?
... that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the
Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?