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31 August 2012

16:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Jannik Blair (pictured) has a partial wheelchair basketball scholarship from the University of Missouri?
... that the quotient filter, a new type of hash table, supports fast lookup, merge, and resize and, unlike the traditional Bloom filter, scales beyond main memory?
... that Constance Kgosiemang was the political leader of Tswanaland, a bantustan in South-West Africa?
... that the filly Intrepidity's winning time of 2:34.19 at the 1993 Epsom Oaks established a new course record which still stands today?
... that a reviewer considered the flaws in Melati van Agam so obvious "even the stupidest villager" could spot them?
... that Rachel Henderson, a 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player, represented South Australia in swimming and athletics but gave up both sports in 2010 to pursue goalball?
... that a study showed that cultivating the Atlantic winged oyster off the coast of Venezuela was not commercially viable?
... that Herb Mitchell, a former stockbroker who became an actor, performed in commercials as spokesman for a brokerage firm?

08:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

... that botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon authored the legislation to make the golden poppy (pictured) the state flower of California?
... that Salientia is a stem group of amphibians that includes the frogs and toads and various extinct proto-frogs?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic shooter Luke Cain broke his neck playing Australian rules football?
... that an attempt to sell the aging Stanton Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a Jesuit priest led to its resurgence as a Jewish house of worship?
... that the mother of Irish horsetrainer Mouse Morris was awarded an MBE for her work as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during World War II?
... that the child star of Malin Kundang got the part for his knowledge of the source material?
... that 2012 Paralympics table tennis player Rebecca McDonnell was the first Australian woman ever to compete at the table tennis Para World Championships?
... that the ancient Arabs saw Phoenix as a boat?

00:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the butterfly Kallima paralekta (pictured) is highly conspicuous in flight, but can instantly turn invisible upon landing?
... that 2012 Australian Paralaympic sailor Jonathan Harris competed in the 1983 and 1985 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race?
... that following 1805's United States v. More, the U.S. Supreme Court did not hear ordinary appeals in federal criminal cases until 1891, or, for some crimes, until 1911?
... that Mus`ab ibn `Umair, a sahabi (companion) of Mohammad, was the first ambassador of Islam?
... that in the Glee fourth season premiere, "The New Rachel", Lea Michele and Dean Geyer sing a duet "running around in New York"?
... that Jack Swift, a 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor, was a finalist for the 2011 Victorian Cleo Bachelor of the Year?
... that the CS Chamarel, then known as CS Vercors, laid the first Israeli-made submarine communications cable EMOS-1 in 1991?
... that Roy Stanbrook, who "ran away to sea as a boy", is now Captain of the Port of Gibraltar?

30 August 2012

16:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the right to push the button for the implosion of Radio Network House (pictured) received the third-highest views ever on New Zealand auction website TradeMe?
... that the soundtrack of the Marathi film Kaksparsh (2012) was released after the film's theatrical release on public demand and features songs rendered without any musical accompaniment?
... that Ethiopian-Australian Paralympic powerlifter Abebe Fekadu was treated by a local medicine man after being involved in a police car chase as a result of his pro-democracy activities?
... that the red supergiant NML Cygni is the largest star currently known, at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter?
... that philosopher George Santayana reportedly called The Sense of Beauty, his book on aesthetics, a "wretched potboiler" that he wrote mainly for tenure?
... that volleyball player Brian Thornton set single-season and career assists records at the University of California, Irvine?
... that the BBC documentary Nature's Microworlds covers the wildlife of microclimates ranging from the Serengeti grasslands in Africa to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard?
... that despite being nicknamed "Sparrow", British Paralympian Katrina Hart is scared of birds?

08:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

... that a beak-shaped mask (pictured) did not save plague doctor Majus' life in the Great Northern War plague outbreak?
... that Grade 1b 2012 Australian Paralympic equestrian Hannah Dodd is missing four of her vertebrae?
... that the Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns employed 150 people or more, producing fuel for a smelter, but operated for less than three years?
... that despite starting as a 50-to-1 longshot, the filly Jet Ski Lady won the 1991 Epsom Oaks by ten lengths, the second widest winning margin in the race's history?
... that the Hovey Lake Archaeological District in Indiana's southwestern corner is endangered by flooding, oil derricks, bird hunters, and vandals?
... that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Andrew Harrison was part of a campaign called "Don't Drink and Dive" which encouraged people to be careful when diving?
... that IBM's Mira is listed by TOP500 as the third-fastest supercomputer in the world as of June 2012?
... that some athletes have been known to break their own toes and electrocute their own testicles to gain a performance boost?

00:00, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Michael Jackson had a Jheri curl hairstyle (pictured) in the 1980s?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Gavin Bellis was an army sergeant diesel mechanic before being discharged following a diagnosis of spinocerebellar ataxia?
... that Harry Truman was the poorest U.S. President since 1929?
... that a 2,600-year-old human brain, thought to be one of the oldest ever found, was discovered on the site of the University of York's new campus?
... that volleyball player David McKienzie was a first team All-American twice during his college career?
... that among the Mongolian divinities, Qormusata Tngri ranks higher than Sülde Tngri, though the latter is often identified with Gengis Khan?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Ahmed Kelly lived at Baghdad's Mother Teresa Orphanage with his brother until he was seven years old?
... that the obscenity trial R v Penguin Books Ltd. has been the subject of poetry and a House of Lords debate?

29 August 2012

16:00, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias (pictured with President Dilma Rousseff) was the most successful athlete at the 2008 Paralympics, winning nine medals, including four golds?
... that Narbona Pass in New Mexico is named after Narbona, a Navajo headman killed in 1849 during peace negotiations with the United States?
... that the Azov radar was part of the never-commissioned Soviet S-225 missile defence system?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball coach Georgina Kenaghan is the daughter of the man who brought goalball to Australia and player Nicole Esdaile is married to men's goalball player Michael Sheppard?
... that India's National Metallurgical Laboratory was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950?
... that Edmond Point in Kilkee is named after the Edmond that sank there in 1850 with the loss of 98 lives?
... that Hermann Peter's Historicorum Romanorum reliquiae (1870–1914) was the authoritative edition of Roman historical fragments until it was supplanted by Martine Chassignet's L'Annalistique romaine (1996–2004)?
... that Shane Williams scored the last of his 60 international rugby union tries on the final play of his last test match?

08:00, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Kabaret Starszych Panów (sculpture of two main characters, pictured) was a cult Polish cabaret, poking fun at the reality of the early People's Republic of Poland?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Mitchell Kilduff mentors other swimmers with autism?
... that ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Scarabeo 8 was built in shipyards in three different countries?
... that Sally Tanner wrote California's lemon law?
... that in 1922, Franz Kafka's story "Ein Hungerkünstler" first appeared in Die neue Rundschau, a German literary magazine founded in 1890 and still in print?
... that Indonesian Paralympic hopeful David Jacobs defeated Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a table tennis match?
... that the song "Need You Now", performed by Lady Antebellum, ranked as the number-one song on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart on the Billboard 2010 year-end list?
... that Turid Birkeland became Head of Concerts Norway in April 2012, succeeding Åse Kleveland, whom she had also succeeded as Minister of Culture in 1996?

00:00, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Southampton City Council proposed selling off artworks by Munnings and Rodin to fund the creation of SeaCity Museum (pictured)?
... that Edmé-Gilles Guyot was highly influential in the development of phantasmagoria and the cups and balls magic trick?
... that after hundreds of legal threats, Lendink was shut down?
... that both Michael J. Anderson and Dexter Fletcher were considered for the title role in David Lynch's unfinished film Ronnie Rocket?
... that in Kulubnarti, a village on an island in the Nile, the domed church contains incised graffito in Greek, Coptic and Old Nubian?
... that Kick-Ass, Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu's English debate team, ranked second in a 2011 regional tournament?
... that the screening of Fleeting Beauty at the Valladolid International Film Festival helped the producers receive funds from the Film commission, New Zealand for its post-production work?
... that Marvel NOW!, an upcoming relaunch of Marvel comic books, will see the return of Jean Grey, whose character died in 2004?

28 August 2012

16:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the flat-twin in the 1919–1923 Model W (pictured) was Harley-Davidson's first flathead engine?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Buried Secrets" was directed by director David Platt?
... that the extinct snakefly genera Lebanoraphidia and Iberoraphidia are both named for the regions they were found in?
... that when Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery was about to exhibit Bill Henson's artworks in 2008, police seized over 20, following complaints claiming they were child pornography?
... that the Maldives' human rights issues include flogging, which is carried out behind court buildings?
... that the British Paralympic table tennis player Will Bayley took up the sport whilst recovering from cancer?
... that the Hollister Carnegie Library has an unusually inhibited form of classicism?
... that an 1853 expedition led by François Xavier Aubry discovered that the Indians of northern Arizona manufactured bullets from gold?

08:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

... that auto polo (pictured) was promoted by a Kansas car salesman to sell Model Ts?
... that Annie Wyatt, the driving force behind Australia's National Trust, was also a prison visitor to some of Sydney's most notorious women criminals?
... that Yazawin Thit, the first historical document in Southeast Asia written in consultation with epigraphic evidence, was rejected after being judged too critical of the prior Burmese chronicles?
... that the U.S. state of Maryland labeled Dominican nun Carol Gilbert as a terrorist?
... that 1992's Marathi film Ek Hota Vidushak featured P. L. Deshpande's first new screenplay with dialogue since 1953, after a hiatus of 39 years?
... that Alan Knipe went to the NCAA finals as both a player and a coach of the Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball team?
... that the fuzztop mushroom was named for being "cow-colored"?
... that in Ticketmaster v. Tickets.com a U.S. federal judge ruled that URLs were not copyrightable because they consisted of "functional and factual elements"?

00:00, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Royal Mail painted a post box gold (example pictured) to commemorate each gold medallist for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that more than 7,000 years of artifacts have been found at the Ennis Archaeological Site in Indiana?
... that Jock Collier, Tom Mitchell and Viv Busby are the only former York City F.C. players with fewer than 25 appearances to have managed the club?
... that Isaac B. Desha was twice convicted of murder and sentenced to hang before being pardoned by his father, Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha?
... that Renoir, a crater on Mercury, is one of two with a volcanic plain inside its central peak ring?
... that water polo player John Mann won an NCAA Championship and the Peter J. Cutino Award?
... that the Somali Confederation of Labour was banned following Siad Barre's coup d'état in 1969?
... that USA Network gave out free Häagen-Dazs ice cream in five cities to promote the broadcast of the Suits pilot episode?

27 August 2012

16:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Archaeoindris (pictured), a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla?
... that former soldier Derek Derenalagi was pronounced dead in 2007, but is due to compete in the discus for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that the 1981 Playa Azul earthquake ruptured the central part of the Michoacán seismic gap?
... that both sons of the Byzantine general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder followed him in the post of Domestic of the Schools, in effect commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army?
... that Body of Proof episode and season one finale "Broken Home" was nominated at the 21st Annual Environmental Media Awards?
... that Allison Weston was named by Sports Illustrated the best ever female athlete born in Nebraska?
... that Australian artist Sidney Nolan's 1946 painting Footballer is based on Bill Mohr of the St Kilda Football Club?
... that chef Cyrus Todiwala cooked country captain for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations?

08:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the oblong rocksnail (pictured), which is endemic to the Cahaba River, was last collected in 1933, declared extinct in 2000, and rediscovered in 2011?
... that Navab Nassirshalal won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics despite competing with an aching knee?
... that on Good Friday, 6 April 1612, Malkin Tower was alleged to be the location of a witches' coven?
... that Guyanese artist Donald Locke started painting in a class taught by Edward Rupert Burrowes?
... that places of worship in the Kent borough of Tonbridge and Malling include converted barns and badminton halls, tin tabernacles and a former Swedenborgian church?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Todd Hodgetts works with a gymnastics coach to help with his balance and conditioning?
... that former Blue's Clues host Steve Burns released the indie rock album Songs for Dustmites with help from The Flaming Lips?
... that the pilot of the MT explosive motorboat was intended to deliberately jump overboard as part of his job?

00:00, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

... that when a square is cut into triangles of equal area (pictured), the number of triangles is always even?
... that a book cover depicting Hugo d'Oignies and Saint Nicholas was presented to Oignies Abbey?
... that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics?
... that Teofila Ludwika Zasławska and her second husband owned Baranów Sandomierski Castle and three other palaces designed by royal architect Tylman van Gameren?
... that "If We Are the Body", Christian rock band Casting Crowns' debut single, utilizes the violin, mandolin, and accordion in its arrangement?
... that 84-year-old Menachem Cohen has finished a 30-year quest to correct approximately 1,500 mistakes in the Old Testament?
... that volleyball player Jordan Larson was a two-time AVCA First Team All-American during her college career?
... that the pro-Catholic trade union C.A.T.C-A.E.F held the Brazzaville P.O. Box 666?

26 August 2012

16:00, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Adam Steltzner (pictured), the lead engineer of the Mars Curiosity rover landing, said he spent high school "studying sex, drugs and rock and roll"?
... that chief Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo is a National Hero of Namibia partly because of his uncooperative behaviour and his refusal to pay taxes?
... that two of the Russian Peresvet-class battleships were salvaged by the Japanese after the end of the Russo-Japanese War and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kara Leo is an ambassador for an organisation that helps children cope with near-drowning experiences?
... that the Forum of the Ox in Constantinople got its name from a bronze statue of an Ox head used to kill people through the brazen Bull torture?
... that Roekiah and Rd Mochtar were the first celebrity couple in the Dutch East Indies, despite Roekiah being married?
... that a spectator who threw a bottle at the men's 100 metres race in the 2012 Olympics was immediately confronted by judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch, who happened to be next to him?
... that Henry Dircks created a ghost to prove that others could not?

08:00, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1876 span across Cedar Creek (pictured) is the last surviving covered bridge in Wisconsin?
... that Matt Byrne, Terry Bywater, Gaz Choudhry, Peter Finbow, Abdi Jama, Jon Hall, Dan Highcock, Ade Orogbemi, Simon Munn, Jon Pollock, Ian Sagar, and Matt Sealy have been selected to play wheelchair basketball for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that Jeff Lewis' favourite episode of the first season of his Interior Therapy reality TV show was the one where the couple broke up at the end?
... that in 1971, bishop Albert Ndongmo was sentenced to death for allegedly plotting with Ernest Ouandié to assassinate President Ahmadou Ahidjo?
... that the 1991 Birmingham Fire season ended with a loss to the Barcelona Dragons in the World League of American Football playoffs to finish their inaugural year?
... that dozens of members of the United States Congress have been convicted of public corruption crimes?
... that Buddy Richard en el Astor by Buddy Richard was the first live album ever recorded and released by a Chilean artist?
... that the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya reportedly ordered the execution of 300 palace servants after finding a napkin mislaid at dinner?

00:00, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Mike Hoolboom (pictured) made a "film that's not quite a film"?
... that spraying the bright yellow mushroom Boletus curtisii with methanol will make the color disappear?
... that Michel Roux, who went on to open the first restaurant to win three Michelin stars in Britain, was awarded a medal whilst enlisted in the French forces in Algeria?
... that the Argentine investigative journalism TV program Periodismo para todos is censored in several Argentine provinces?
... that volleyball player Tamari Miyashiro was twice named the National Defensive Player of the Year while in college?
... that in 1971 Mauricio Luvualu, leader of the exiled Angolan trade union UGTA, was handed over to the Portuguese by the government of Congo-Kinshasa?
... that footballers Scott and Martin Sinclair are the first brothers to represent Great Britain at the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year?
... that Twin Peaks, a restaurant chain promising "scenic views" of scantily clad waitresses, was sued by Hooters for stealing trade secrets?

25 August 2012

16:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Doda River (pictured) in the Zanskar Valley of Ladakh rises from the Drang-Drung Glacier and forms the Stod valley?
... that artist and academician Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, who taught and inspired Poland's national painter Jan Matejko, gave private art classes for free to struggling artists?
... that Bach composed two cantatas with similar music at the same time: Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193, to celebrate the new town council on 25 August 1727, and the secular BWV 193a for 3 August that year?
... that Matty Blair scored the winning goal for York City in the 2012 Conference National play-off Final, which saw the club return to the Football League after an eight-year absence?
... that theatre music can be traced to the very origins of theatre in Ancient Greece?
... that despite his strong interest in education, Matthew Oram was not appointed Minister of Education, but became Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives instead?
... that a Cardinal, three Browns, a Dupree, and a King have all played for the Minnesota Timberwolves?
... that during his life, Saint Nicetas the Patrician specialized in "healing men tormented by sexual desires"?

08:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Mongolian shamanism (which comes in yellow and black) reveres a white old man (pictured) besides ongod such as Dayan Deerh and 99 or possibly 102 tngri?
... that when Nadia Santini's restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored?
... that the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla was inspired by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic sailor Matthew Bugg had to deal with his father's boat colliding with his during a race?
... that 1928's Lily of Java was the first Chinese-produced film in Indonesia?
... that Jeff Civillico simultaneously jogged 26.2 miles (42.2 km) and juggled three balls at the Walt Disney World Marathon to raise $5000 for a special needs non-profit organization?
... that the Tsarap River, a tributary of the Zanskar River in Ladakh, is fed by the Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu rivers at Sarchu and by the Kargyag river at Purne?
... that the work of Jimmy Robinson was mistaken for that of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page?

00:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

... that German painter Friedrich Eckenfelder (self-portrait pictured) received an order from the Nazi headquarters to paint a portrait of Hitler?
... that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single "Trouble"?
... that former Olympic volleyball player Ruth Lawanson has been a coach at five different colleges?
... that the British regime converted a fort, constructed by the Dutch in 1602, into Rajahmundry Central Prison in 1864?
... that Grade 1B 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Joann Formosa competes without the use of stirrups?
... that the Civil Guard of the Philippines was a local gendarmerie police force organized under the Spanish colonial government?
... that Stanisław Baranowski Spitsbergen Polar Station is named after the Polish glaciologist Stanisław Baranowski who died in a coma following an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station?
... that Doctor Quicksilver took a break from his lucrative medical career to sail the seas, capture ships, and raid South America?

24 August 2012

16:00, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the decoration on some of the Norman piers (example pictured) in St Mary's Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, is similar to that on the piers in Durham Cathedral?
... that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
... that Mike Hoolboom's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Taylor Corry made her national team debut at the 2011 Global Games where she earned eight gold medals?
... that the deluxe version of Coheed and Cambria's album, The Afterman: Ascension, will give a song-by-song experience using a hardcover coffee-table book?
... that Finnish priest Kalervo Kurkiala, a chaplain in the Waffen-SS, believed that military service was good for "country boys" and for "numerous bookworms and spoilt sloppy idlers"?
... that Sir Richard Hadlee took fourteen of his five-wicket hauls against Australia in Test cricket, and was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets?
... that Michel Roux was "over the moon" and "disturbed" in equal measure to hear that his son Alain Roux wanted to become a chef at the age of 14?

08:00, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Danish painter L. A. Ring won the bronze medal at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris for his painting In the Garden Doorway, The Artist's Wife (pictured)?
... that in 1356, the Golden Bull stated that mining rights or Bergregal were held not by the Holy Roman Emperor but by the seven prince-electors as his territorial lords?
... that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that the worst aviation accident to have occurred on Cuban soil resulted in 171 deaths when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff?
... that the Belarusian Alexander Barankov was given political asylum in Ecuador in 2010 but risks extradition back to Belarus?
... that the Deccan Chargers cricketers, who finished last in the first season of Indian Premier League, became the champions of the second season?
... that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars?
... that in Gibraltar, a mole's elbow is a site of control for the harbour?

00:00, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Neustädter Kirche (pictured) was built in Hanover's Calenberger Neustadt in the 17th century as one of the earliest aisleless churches in Lower Saxony?
... that Norwegian Olympians Øistein Saksvik, Tor Torgersen and Pål Benum all won national championships in 5,000 and 10,000 metres?
... that the Armenian Heritage Park is a memorial park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide?
... that volleyball player Janet Cobbs set nine school records at North Dakota State University?
... that the 2007 Spanish Historical Memory Law mandated the removal of the symbols of Francoism from public buildings?
... that Job Edward Lousley took over thirty years to write and publish the Flora of the Isles of Scilly?
... that Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories conducted more than one-third of all toxicology testing in the United States before it was discovered to have engaged in extensive scientific misconduct?
... that Fifi Young, known for playing mother figures, acted in 86 films in 34 years?

23 August 2012

16:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the mare Apology's (pictured) win in the St. Leger Stakes led to a scandal in the Church of England?
... that George Kontos was named Illinois' high school baseball player of the year in 2003?
... that, although street food did not become popular in Thailand until the early 1960s when the urban population began to grow rapidly, by the 1970s it had "displaced home-cooking"?
... that Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is named for J. P. Shelton, who lobbied for the building of trade schools in the area?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball?
... that the land now comprising the Knox Street Historic District in Albany, New York, was originally a nursery for the first successful American strawberry cultivar?
... that the number of murders in Jamaica dropped 20% during Mark Shields' first year as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force?
... that the 2011 Micronesian parliamentary elections were the first to feature female candidates?

08:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

... that according to Bleacher Report, Antonija Mišura (pictured) was the most beautiful female competitor at the 2012 Olympics?
... that the Roberts House in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, built in the 1790s, is the last remaining building from Jefferson College?
... that Arab-Israeli Ahmed Dabbah will become Israel's record-breaking 17th non-Jew in the current Knesset (Israeli parliament)?
... that "A Million Miles Away", performed by Rihanna, impacted the Spanish Singles Chart in November 2009, three and a half years after the initial release of A Girl like Me?
... that the Indonesian film Whips of Fire featuring a strong, independent female character was held up for a year by the censors?
... that pioneer dentist Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch held mobile dental clinics for Inuit children and once crawled across thin ice to save her sled dogs from drowning?
... that out of the 56 cricketers who have played for Kings XI Punjab, Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs?
... that pioneer American aviator Charles K. Hamilton, the "crazy man of the air", survived over 60 crashes, only to succumb to the effects of tuberculosis?

00:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Wallowa County Courthouse (pictured) in northeastern Oregon is a massive Romanesque style building with Queen Anne architectural elements in some exterior features?
... that after MGM's rights to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Night Flight expired in 1942, the film was not shown again until 2011?
... that Édgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, was assassinated before taking office?
... that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power?
... that the video game Symphony generates Galaga-style gameplay based on the player's choice of music?
... that All Saints Church, Hollingbourne, England, contains memorials by John Michael Rysbrack and the Culpeper needlework, a 17th-century embroidered funeral pall?
... that Laborintus II, a collaboration between Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble, is only the third recording of the titular piece since its composition in 1965?
... that in 1578 Reverend Francis Marbury, the father of Anne Hutchinson, was called by the Bishop of London an "ass, an idiot, and a fool", then sent to Marshalsea Prison for two years for his impudence?

22 August 2012

16:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the depiction of "monsters" in J. M. W. Turner's painting Sunrise with Sea Monsters (pictured) may have been influenced by his use of a drug related to morphine?
... that Molde FK did not want to send Martin Høyem on loan to Hønefoss BK, because the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the semi-final of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup?
... that Freedom House recently downgraded Djibouti's human rights status from "partly free" to "not free"?
... that Roman Chatov painted the silk scarf that caused American dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental death?
... that the University of Minnesota Libraries holds the world's largest collection on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
... that Abdulredha Buhmaid died three days after being shot in the head during a peaceful protest in Bahrain?
... that the upcoming Doctor Who episode "The Power of Three" was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Katherine Downie takes her yellow duck pillow to competitions for luck?

08:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Ginn's Furniture Store (pictured) is a rare survivor of repeated Ohio River floods that destroyed most of downtown Milton, Kentucky?
... that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma!?
... that the media and the crowd at the 1996 Irish Champion Hurdle were more enthusiastic about Danoli finishing in third place than Collier Bay winning by a head?
... that the Bristol Naturalists' Society of Bristol, England, celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012?
... that for the film Samaantharangal (1998), Balachandra Menon worked on nine aspects of the film-making and also won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the 45th National Film Awards?
... that Operation Head Start, the predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome, was based at Loring Air Force Base?
... that the tunnel beneath Parson's Lodge Battery originally carried a railway built to take stone to improve the Gibraltar Harbour?
... that Russian military stations Krona and Krona-N are named after the crown of a tree?

00:00, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

... that on August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández (pictured) threw the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history?
... that painter Leopold Pilichowski was known for his commitment to social commentary and psychological depictions of Jewish themes in a heavily industrialized environment?
... that fossils of the extinct snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae are known mainly from the Northern Hemisphere?
... that British hand-cyclist and defending Paralympic champion Rachel Morris may miss the 2012 Games after being hit by a car while training?
... that the Boston Caucus, of which American patriot Samuel Adams was a leader, was an early example of the "smoke-filled room" in politics?
... that G. Kruger directed the first talkie in what is now Indonesia?
... that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
... that Ruth Norman wore brightly colored clothing in an attempt to imitate the attire of extraterrestrials?

21 August 2012

16:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Danish designer Henrik Vibskov (pictured), creator of the "Big Wet Shiny Boobies Collection", was inducted into the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine?
... that about one-third of Iowa's population lives along the I-80 corridor?
... that in 1634, Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole established the first tavern in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was featured in Longfellow's play John Endicott?
... that the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan outlined a civil political administration for the areas held by SPLA guerrillas?
... that although her character had been dead from the beginning of the series, Sheryl Lee was asked to return for "Episode 3" of Twin Peaks?
... that Elena Arzak was named the best female chef in the world in 2012 by Restaurant magazine?
... that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz referred to Gervase of Tilbury's 1214 encyclopedia Otia Imperialia as a "bagful of foolish old woman's tales"?
... that Professor Pepper could make ghosts appear but could not make it rain despite the use of swivel guns, rockets, and a land mine?

08:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Church of Saint Benoit in Istanbul (pictured) is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the city still in use?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy?
... that Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor for portraying George Bluth, Sr. on the comedy Arrested Development?
... that in June 2012, the Ocean Village Marina hosted the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla?
... that satellite Kosmos 2481 was launched by a rocket called Rokot?
... that Ratna Asmara was the first female film director in Indonesian history?
... that Pemberton Point is home to the first commercial urban wind turbine in North America?
... that a design for a courtyard by Philip Tilden was compared to a "Spanish brothel"?

00:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the destruction of the oldest house in the Delavan Terrace Historic District (Otis and John Houses, pictured) led to new attempts to promote historic preservation in Yonkers, New York?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Kelly Cartwright climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009?
... that Marblehead Harbor, the birthplace of the predecessor of the U.S. Navy, was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation one hundred years ago today?
... that Mark Kharitonov was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lines of Fate?
... that a television station's sting operation led to the banning of five Indian Premier League cricketers?
... that the German Central Library for the Blind, founded in Leipzig in 1894, is the oldest library of its kind in Germany?
... that Hideo Fukuyama was the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship race?
... that Halcyon, the upcoming album by Ellie Goulding, was recorded in a barn?

20 August 2012

16:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Königsberg printer Hans Weinreich issued the first printed books in Lithuanian and Old Prussian (pictured), as well as the first Polish translation of Luther's Small Catechism?
... that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water?
... that an episode of the 2012 nature documentary series A Year in the Wild featured Britain's largest national park, the Cairngorms?
... that the Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted in 1626 by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Ben Weekes has played piano at the Sydney Opera House?
... that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure?
... that, when it opens in 2013, Outlaw Run at the Silver Dollar City amusement park is to be the only wooden roller coaster with inversions?
... that the subantarctic whaling station of Grytviken welcomed the South Georgia Survey by housing expedition members in the local jail?

08:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the newly described lacewing species Semachrysa jade was discovered in a photo (at right) posted to Flickr?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Aaron Rhind trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine?
... that the manuscript collection known as the Cetinje chronicle begins with text about Skanderbeg?
... that Mariah Carey's song "Mine Again" was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance?
... that the bones of infants with parastremmatic dwarfism look "flocky" on X-rays?
... that John Harrison Clark, a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape, settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief?
... that Mirgissa was the largest of eleven forts built between the second and third cataracts during the reign of Senusret III?
... that Queensway Quay Marina in Gibraltar features a wharf developed in 1736 to allow "better victualling of men-at-war"?

00:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

... that an undersea volcanic eruption (pictured) which produced a pumice raft covering approximately 10,000 square miles (26,000 km²), was not discovered until several weeks had passed?
... that water polo player Elsie Windes won two Olympic medals with the United States team?
... that "Episode 1" of Twin Peaks has drawn comparison to the 1990 film The Grifters?
... that François Dominique Séraphin developed and popularised shadow plays in 18th-century France?
... that Full Moon was the most successful local film ever released in the Dutch East Indies?
... that several works in the filmography of David Lynch have been collaborations with Mark Frost?
... that Metra Chairman of the Board Larry Huggins once withdrew himself from consideration for his current role because he felt it was a Republican position?
... that it is not publicly known where exactly Okno-S is?

19 August 2012

16:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

... that of the 54 cricketers who have appeared in Twenty20 cricket for the Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwag (pictured) has played the most matches?
... that the documentary The Rubber Room claimed that troubled teachers were being held in reassignment centers by the NYC Department of Education?
... that P. C. Sreeram is an alumnus of the Madras Film Institute?
... that 1960s decor employed a "psychedelic intensity" with colors and styles which were influenced by India, Spain, and the Mediterranean?
... that most of Margaret Bernadine Hall's works have disappeared, but her painting Fantine hangs in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool?
... that a gutter predated the Cape Cod Canal by almost two hundred years?
... that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
... that Danny Gatton's 1991 album 88 Elmira St. featured a version of "The Simpsons Theme", with the added sound effect of a fart?

08:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Pisanello's medal of the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus (pictured) was the first Renaissance portrait medal?
... that the flash fiction short story "El emigrante" by Luis Felipe Lomelí has only four words?
... that in 1904, Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) became the first United States Senator to be convicted of a crime?
... that around 20 buildings and more than 40 monuments will be built in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of the Skopje 2014 project?
... that United States water polo player Tumua Anae won the NCAA championship in 2010 and Olympic gold in 2012?
... that T.B. was a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by the aircraft department of Thompson Brothers from 1919 until 1924?
... that former Columbus, Georgia mayor B. Ed Johnson helped found the Miss Georgia USA beauty pageant?
... that there is a marina in Gibraltar which is between a mole and a runway?

00:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

... that CPJ International Press Freedom Awards recipients (1991 recipient Tatyana Mitkova pictured) have faced imprisonment, raids, and assassination?
... that Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio, the brother of composer Antonio Sartorio, designed the first German public opera house, the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg?
... that during the American Revolutionary War, HMS Kingfisher served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?
... that Mutsuko Miki created teacups from the soil of Japan, North Korea, and South Korea to promote "harmonious relations" between the three nations?
... that India ranked first in the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table?
... that before 1978, Idaho state senator Reed Budge had not missed a senate sitting in 12 years?
... that the mineral rapidcreekite was discovered in Yukon, Canada, in 1983?
... that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz, gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics, works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad?

18 August 2012

16:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Grand Casemates Square (pictured), once the site of public hangings, is now one of Gibraltar's main squares and nightlife hubs?
... that a cognitive vulnerability is an erroneous belief or thought pattern that is believed to predispose a person to psychological problems?
... that the statue of George IV which stands in Trafalgar Square was originally meant to be on top of the Marble Arch?
... that the roots of the Bahraini uprising stretch back to the 1920s?
... that after screenwriter Sarah Williams approached Ecosse Films about making Becoming Jane, the company hired Kevin Hood to further develop its script?
... that British singer-songwriter Pixie Lott co-wrote the song "You Broke My Heart" for Alexandra Burke's debut studio album Overcome in 2009?
... that the 48th Georgia Infantry Regiment of Confederate Lt. Colonel Reuben Walker Carswell was in a brigade commanded by Carswell's mentor as a lawyer, Brigadier General Ambrose R. Wright?
... that an axe from the collection of the new Märkisches Provinzialmuseum in Berlin was used to execute Max Hödel after his attempt to assassinate the Kaiser?

08:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

... that SS Principessa Jolanda (pictured), the largest Italian ocean liner built up to that time, capsized in 1907 while being launched and was declared a total loss?
... that Indonesian director D. Djajakusuma is credited with saving a traditional dance form?
... that Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola, an exiled Angolan trade union linked to FNLA, received funding from the AFL–CIO during the 1960s?
... that Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night starred Phil Hartman in one of his final acting roles?
... that Garima Chaudhary represented India as the country's sole judoka at the 2012 Olympics?
... that Chilean authorities conducted a "psychological autopsy" to try to explain why an antiquities dealer killed and decapitated two people in the town of Lolol in July?
... that collinsite was discovered in British Columbia and named for the director of the Geological Survey of Canada?
... that Amos Chapman has been inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame this year for his actions which saw him awarded the Medal of Honor in 1874?

00:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

... that José de San Martín (pictured), national hero of Argentina, died 162 years ago today in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France?
... that The Bear Bryant Show regularly preempted live coverage of National Football League games that aired during the same time in Alabama?
... that Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesia's first Catholic bishop, was born a Muslim?
... that Taylor Brook won the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award with a piece for violin accompanied only by a drone that is 14 cents flat of F♯?
... that the Portland, a restored 1947 sternwheeler based in Portland, Oregon, was the last steam-powered tugboat built in the United States?
... that just before the invasion of Poland, members of the German minority from Deutscher Volksverband were trained in sabotage by the Abwehr agents arriving in Poland from Germany?
... that United States water polo players Annika Dries and Melissa Seidemann won the NCAA championship in 2011 and Olympic gold in 2012?
... that Canadian entrepreneur Brian Wong became one of the youngest persons ever to receive venture capital funding at the age of 19?

17 August 2012

16:00, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the pigment on the dark-coloured eggs of the parasitic Shining Bronze Cuckoo (pictured) rubs off easily?
... that the Shimōsa Plateau, which occupies most of northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is home to Narita International Airport?
... that the 2010 album Mondo Cane by Mike Patton was conceived during the singer's time in Bologna?
... that the National Hero of Indonesia Mas Mansoer declared interest forbidden?
... that "Overpass Light Brigade" is an activist collaborative public art project where "holders of the light" stand over roadways at night with lighted letters to spell out messages?
... that 2012 Australian athletics Paralympian Katy Parrish trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria?
... that Oevaang Oeray was the first ethnic Dayak governor of West Kalimantan?
... that the racehorse Amiable won two British Classic Races in 1894 despite having severe stringhalt that made her look like she was "walking on hot bricks"?

08:00, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

... that National Hero of Indonesia Sudirman (pictured) went on a seven-month guerrilla campaign with only one lung?
... that the foundation of Napata's Temple of Amun is attributed to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III?
... that a character in Pixar's Ratatouille was based on French chef Hélène Darroze?
... that Impressionist, Vorticist, Pre-Raphaelite, Expressionist, Surrealist and Cubist painters became First and Second World War camoufleurs?
... that Tim Jorgensen set a new Division III college baseball record with 70 career home runs?
... that Gombloh's song "Kebyar-Kebyar" is the only pop song regularly used in Indonesia's Independence Day ceremonies?
... that William Ott opened the southernmost tram system in the world during his Invercargill mayoralty?
... that the stables of Oakfield Manor have been used to house lions?

00:00, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Charles Scribner described his suggestion that the illustrations to The Secret River by Marjorie Rawlings (pictured) be in cream on coffee-colored paper as "one of my silent contributions to dissolving the color barrier in the 1950s"?
... that Professor Claudia-Maria Buch became a member of the German Council of Economic Experts on March 1, 2012?
... that the Mahkamah Mosque in Gaza was originally built as a madrasa in 1455 until the Ottomans converted it into a courthouse, hence the name mahkamah?
... that volleyball player Courtney Thompson set the NCAA record for career assists per game?
... that the Golden Spikes Award is considered the most prestigious award in amateur baseball?
... that Norwegian officer Kristian "Kongo" Løken fought against Germany in both the First and the Second World Wars?
... that the first recordings of Gravity began in May 2012?

16 August 2012

16:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the troops besieging the British in Gibraltar in 1727 (pictured) included the founder of the original Hellfire Club?
... that Javed Miandad is the youngest batsman, and the only teenager, to score a double century in Test cricket?
... that job attitude influences performance, rather than the other way around?
... that Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford's great-grandfather won three Football League First Division titles with Newcastle United?
... that an individual sponge, Neofibularia nolitangere, may have tens of thousands of parasitic worms, Haplosyllis spongicola, living within its tissues?
... that Korean-Canadian film director Helen Lee made her debut in her pyjamas?
... that after winning her first Olympic medal at her fourth Olympic Games, British judoka Karina Bryant hasn't ruled out competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio?
... that "The Mermaid" is a sea ballad, not a sea shanty?

08:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

... that blue monkey beetles (pictured) both feed and mate in the dark centres of unscented flowers?
... that Jeff Luhnow worked as an engineer, management consultant, and technology entrepreneur before shifting to baseball?
... that the 1940 film Kartinah included product placement for Singer?
... that teenage American "Boy Aviator" Farnum Fish was wounded by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance flight for Pancho Villa on May 15, 1915?
... that after winning the Siege of Mexico City in 1867, General Diaz personally released Hungarian Major János Csizmadia in return for the same favor during his prison time in Puebla two years before?
... that places in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin inspired locations in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show?
... that 2012 Indian Olympic high jumper Sahana Kumari qualified for the Games after breaking the eight-year-old national record?
... that according to Erika Ramirez of Billboard magazine, the lyrical message of Usher's song "Numb" is "Forget your troubles and fist-pump!"?

00:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Usher's song "Euphoria", from his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself, was produced by Swedish electronic dance music trio Swedish House Mafia (pictured)?
... that volleyball player Destinee Hooker won four NCAA championships in the high jump?
... that Drexel 4257, a manuscript in the New York Public Library, is the largest collection of English song from the first half of the 17th century?
... that Hannes Pétursson's poetry has been translated from Icelandic into 12 languages?
... that 51 life-size figures of Indians populate the walk-through re-creation of a 16th-century Native American village in the Mashantucket Pequot Museum?
... that Andjar Asmara taught both D. Djajakusuma and Usmar Ismail the art of film?
... that Elizaveta Karamihailova pioneered nuclear research in Bulgaria and made some of the earliest observations of neutron radiation?
... that the female Pavon Emperor looks like a California Sister?

15 August 2012

16:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

... that U.S. President Calvin Coolidge (pictured) received a large amount of fan mail after publishing his autobiography?
... that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games?
... that Japanese literary critic Hiroki Azuma considered the robot character Multi from To Heart the "most influential character among the male otaku" after Neon Genesis Evangelion?
... that equestrian Simon Delestre, when asked if he had any hobbies, said there was no time for them?
... that Autographa sansoni is a moth that lives in the Pacific Northwest?
... that the 1992 Birmingham Fire season included the first tie game in World League history with their 17–17 draw against the London Monarchs?
... that the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe as an aid to navigation has led to it being referred to as "Gibraltar's first lighthouse"?
... that Brett Moffitt was the youngest driver ever to win in NASCAR touring series competition, but held that honor for less than a year?

08:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Blanchard's cricket frog (pictured) is considered threatened or endangered in three states, but is not listed under the US Endangered Species Act?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Jim Holder set the NAIA record in 1963 for most yards gained in a season, rushing for 1775 yards in just ten games?
... that Virginia militia (Confederate) brigadier general Gilbert S. Meem moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1892 and was appointed postmaster by U.S. President Grover Cleveland?
... that lip reading is a multimodal process for humans?
... that the Madrid car bombing that killed seven people was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1993?
... that Una Guðmundsdóttir, who headed one of the first schools for young children in Iceland, became nationally known as a psychic?
... that as of the 2010 season, an Indian Premier League umpire receives ₹6 crore (US$700,000) as the salary for serving in one season?
... that Belarus sacked two top generals after a Swedish advertising agency illegally flew a plane into Belarus that dropped hundreds of teddy bears carrying pro-democracy messages?

00:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the M&M Boys (pictured) hold the single-season Major League Baseball record for most combined home runs by teammates with 115?
... that the ancient snakefly Cantabroraphidia was the first snakefly described from the El Soplao ambers?
... that Saeed Anwar scored seven of his One Day International centuries at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium?
... that Loyn Bridge in Lancashire has been described as being surprisingly impressive for a route that has little significance nowadays?
... that Ira B. Thompson was appointed prosecuting attorney of Crenshaw County, Alabama, less than a year after being indicted for his activities within the local Ku Klux Klan organization?
... that "Episode 14" of Twin Peaks features frequent jump cuts between the two actors portraying Laura Palmer's killer?
... that water polo player Maggie Steffens led all scorers in the 2012 Summer Olympics, with 21 goals?
... that Zeus was discovered on Mount Olympus?

14 August 2012

16:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Ralph Hanan (pictured) abolished the death penalty in New Zealand by voting against the legislation that he himself introduced into Parliament?
... that Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul was Redding's last solo studio album?
... that the first Protestant translation of the New Testament into Polish was published by Jan Seklucjan in Königsberg, in the Polish fief Duchy of Prussia, between 1551 and 1553?
... that the International Sociological Association was established in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO?
... that among pilots of his air group, Japanese ace Makoto Ogawa downed the highest number of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses?
... that Alicia Keys' song "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" ranked as the number one song on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 2010 year-end list?
... that the mineral messelite was described in 1890, discredited in 1940, reinstated and named neomesselite in 1955, and named messelite once again by 1959?
... that until UCLA's record winning streak ended at 88 games, college basketball player Tommy Curtis had not lost a game since he was 14 years old in high school?

08:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the ant tree (pictured) is in a mutualistic relationship with certain ant species?
... that Krithika was one of the earliest writers in India to have authored a number of children's books in English?
... that the Channel 4 popular science series Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe covers topics ranging from string theory to supersymmetry?
... that David J. Lane, the new U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture, was an executive with the ONE Campaign and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
... that Tomahawk's eponymous album features "some of the most unusual rhythms to be played by human hands since time began"?
... that the Piedmont winemaker Aldo Conterno served with the U.S. Army in the Korean War?
... that the 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake apparently triggered an earthquake swarm 500 kilometers (310 mi) from its epicenter?
... that Sedric Webber was named an NCAA Division I men's basketball conference player of the year in two different conferences?

00:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Time magazine ranked Ronald Reagan's speech (pictured) at the Berlin Wall in the top 10 greatest speeches?
... that in 2012 Jenny McCudden became the first female editor in the 176-year history of the newspaper The Sligo Champion?
... that the book The Black Hole War, by theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, covers the scientific debate between Susskind and Stephen Hawking on the black hole information paradox?
... that, after five seasons playing minor league baseball, in his first season with the Atlanta Braves, pitcher Greg McMichael was runner-up for league Rookie of the Year?
... that the golden zanthid, a colonial coral, often grows on the surface of the green finger sponge?
... that Michael Blakey led research at the African Burial Ground National Monument that revealed how 18th-century New Yorkers exploited and mistreated African slaves?
... that the Fourth Fitna pitted two half-brothers, the Abbasid caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, against each other?
... that Teeology.com, an e-commerce co-founded by Jennifer Lopez, uses new technology and social network tools to "disrupt the traditional retail model"?

13 August 2012

16:00, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

... that in 2004, a group of Members of Parliament proposed melting down the statue of Oliver Cromwell (pictured) which had stood outside the Houses of Parliament for 105 years?
... that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague, exchanged hundreds of letters, and were engaged twice?
... that BBC One's Expedition Guyana was renamed Lost Land of the Jaguar to appeal to a wider audience, as a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World?
... that habana grass is sometimes found as a bird seed contaminant?
... that Edward Tyrer, the Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong, was mysteriously approved for early retirement on "health grounds" at the height of the leftist riots in July 1967?
... that "Episode 6188" of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was broadcast in real-time and featured the exit of Mark Brennan?
... that The Telegraph described James Cable as "one of the most influential naval strategic thinkers of the last half-century"?
... that shooting for Nuclear Strike's full motion video employed a live tiger and the Batcave?

08:00, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Henry Brown's (pictured) family initially stayed on their land during New Zealand's First Taranaki War, since a minister's family was considered tapu by the Māori?
... that Simon & Garfunkel declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock while they were working on the album Bridge Over Troubled Water?
... that Gregory Merson made the final table of the 2012 World Series of Poker main event even though he is a shorthanded cash game specialist?
... that David Bond took eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in order to become one of three gold medallists for the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
... that 5% of people who sustain a physical trauma have some form of liver injury?
... that, in 1911, the Clifton Antiquarian Club of Bristol, England, paid tribute to the efforts of Alfred Hudd with an inscribed, inlaid grandfather clock?
... that both Mekeli Wesley and his brother Tai were NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year during their careers?
... that a dog was mummified and received a special burial?

00:00, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Pindar's First Olympian Ode celebrates victory at the Olympic Games to the strains of the phorminx (pictured)?
... that a patent war fought by Alexander Graham Bell, credited with inventing the telephone, involved 600 lawsuits and lasted 11 years?
... that Gelindo Bordin is the only male ever to win both the Boston Marathon and an Olympic gold medal (Seoul 1988) in the marathon?
... that Irving Gottesman is the first psychologist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics?
... that the brown tubular sponge often has a colonial coral living symbiotically on its surface?
... that former British Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby became a PE teacher after she retired from professional sport?
... that the plot of Crisis Four in the Nick Stone Missions book series, written before the September 11 attacks, involved a plan by Osama bin Laden to destroy the White House?
... that the bill covers at the restaurant Zafferano have saffron fibres woven into them?

12 August 2012

16:00, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the extinct snakefly Alavaraphidia is known from a single female trapped in amber (pictured)?
... that Haitian runner Dieudonné LaMothe said he completed the marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics in fear for his life?
... that Nancy Takes Revenge, a 1930 sequel, was released four months after the original film's conclusion?
... that German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first Olympic torch for the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city?
... that the design of Henbury Hall in Cheshire, built in the 1980s, is based on Palladio's Villa Rotonda?
... that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Invading My Mind", from her seventh studio album Love?, was co-produced by Lady Gaga?
... that Englishman John Copley was the oldest person ever to receive an Olympic medal, winning silver at the age of 73?

08:00, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

... that General Robert L. Eichelberger (pictured) was ordered to take Buna, or not come back alive?
... that Australian Olympic swimmer Garrick Agnew worked his passage from Brisbane to Vancouver in the engine room of a freight ship?
... that in 2008, an Australian girls' school defeated an American boys' school for the United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament championship?
... that, as a 16th- and 17th-century ruler of Maguindanao, Kapitan Laut Buisan led raids against Spanish settlements?
... that the wrestling match between Alfred Asikainen and Martin Klein at the 1912 Summer Olympics lasted eleven hours and forty minutes?
... that Weight & Glory by KB reached no. 7 on iTunes after a campaign by the website Rapzilla to push the album into the Top 10?
... that the Stoner archaeological site in Illinois is unusual for its lack of evidence of substantial occupation by any people other than the Allison-Lamotte culture?
... that the first Winter Olympic torch relay did not carry the Olympic Flame?

00:00, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

... that El Pi de les Tres Branques (pictured) is a tree that is regarded as symbolising unity of the "Catalan Countries"?
... that Canadian literary critic Ira Nadel considers the legend of the Olympic torch relay a total fabrication?
... that the Amaryllis was sunk and used as an artificial reef after being wrecked by Hurricane Betsy in 1965?
... that the 1935 film Pareh bankrupted both of its directors, Albert Balink and Mannus Franken?
... that Paul van Ass, the coach of the Dutch men's hockey team at the 2012 Olympics, generated controversy by not selecting "T&T" for the squad?
... that Confederate Colonel Robert Johnson Henderson's division commander persuaded Henderson to sign his parole at the end of the American Civil War as a brigadier general?
... that the parental brain is changed by parental experience, as well as changing hormone levels during pregnancy and postpartum?
... that at his fifth Olympics in 2000, British walker Chris Maddocks started injured and entered the stadium in last place as The Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was played on loudspeakers?

11 August 2012

16:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

... that following a Facebook campaign, Lee Merrien (pictured) was named as one of the three British competitors in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Ruth Ann Steinhagen regularly set an empty place at the dinner table for baseball player Eddie Waitkus before she shot him, becoming one of the first stalkers and an inspiration for The Natural?
... that the Conroy Virtus, intended to carry the Space Shuttle orbiter, would have used two B-52 bomber fuselages in its construction?
... that 1948 Olympics rowing gold medallist Bert Bushnell was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk during the Second World War?
... that Niki Reiser, composer for such films as Alles auf Zucker!, was awarded the Rheingau Music Prize in 2005 for "suffusing each individual work with its own unique sound"?
... that residents of the Iron Age village of Khirbet Zanuta near Hebron achieved a revision of the planned demolition of their dwellings by the Israeli military authorities?
... that 2012 Olympian Coolboy Ngamole won the South African Marathon Championships in 2010 and 2012?
... that Bank on Dave, an alternative to High Street banks in Burnley, Lancashire, now has a waiting list for would-be customers?

08:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Köllnischer Park in Berlin houses bears (one pictured), known as the city mascots?
... that 2012 Indian Olympic competitor Ram Singh Yadav is the second Indian athlete ever to be qualified for the Olympics marathon?
... that Gustave Caillebotte's 1875 painting Les raboteurs de parquet was rejected by the Salon for its "vulgar subject matter"?
... that professional goalkeeper Maladi was instrumental in the development of television in Indonesia?
... that the Australian contribution to UNTAG in Namibia was Australia's first large peacekeeping military operation?
... that Olympic shot putter Augie Wolf's son, A.J., was a junior United States national shot put champion?
... that Gopala Chandra Praharaj spent three decades compiling Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha, a seven-volume lexicon of the Oriya language?
... that the Olympic Flame was transmitted by satellite from Greece to Canada in 1976?

00:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

... that painter Maurycy Trębacz belonged to the first generation of Jewish artists from Poland who broke away from the age-old religious prohibition on portraying a human figure (1887 painting pictured)?
... that Samantha Murray will achieve her childhood dream of competing at the Olympics when she participates in the modern pentathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Games?
... that the General Union of Negro African Workers was one of the main forces behind the 1958 vote for independence in Guinea?
... that race walker Regan Lamble, representing Australia in the 2012 Olympics, commentated a men's race walking event for Eurosport?
... that Jebel Musa in Morocco is possibly the southern Pillar of Hercules, with the Rock of Gibraltar being the northern pillar?
... that while huemulite was discovered in 1959, it was not described until 1966?
... that 2012 British Olympian Annie Last deferred from studying medicine at university in order to be a professional mountain biker?
... that about 10% of healthy people experience grandiose delusions?

10 August 2012

16:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

... that mountain biker Liam Killeen (pictured) is due to compete once more for Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics after crashes took him out of medal contention in the 2004 and 2008 Games?
... that damage control surgery is often performed in a heated operating room to combat hypothermia?
... that the Hamdanid Emir of Mosul, Nasir al-Dawla, was deposed by his own sons and his wife and died imprisoned in a fortress?
... that 2012 British Olympian racewalker Dominic King has a twin brother named Daniel, who beat him in a race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games?
... that chromium hydride is formed when chromium is electroplated?
... that Tim George, who gained only 28 yards in 20 games played in the National Football League as a wide receiver, was elected into two halls of fame?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic race walker Beki Lee lives in Canberra, where she is working on a degree via correspondence?
... that Neil Young wrote his classic songs "Cowgirl in the Sand", "Down by the River" and "Cinnamon Girl" while suffering from the flu with a high fever?

08:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Byzantine Fresco Chapel

... that there are over sixty painted churches in Cyprus, although a number have been looted since 1974 (detached Pantokrator pictured in Texas)?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic modern pentathlete Chloe Esposito, ranked eleventh in the world, is the daughter of a 1984 Olympics modern pentathlete?
... that archaeological finds revealed that the Palestinian village Talluza was the ancient Samaritan town of Turluzeh, not the biblical-era Tirzah as identified by 19th-century scholars?
... that Ready Teddy is the only three-day eventing horse to have won individual gold medals at both the Olympic Games and the World Equestrian Games?
... that the 1988 BBC television film The Woman He Loved, about the abdication of King Edward VIII, was partially shot at Shirenewton Hall?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic marathon runner Jessica Trengove won Sydney's 2011 City2Surf?
... that Austrian historian Dagobert Frey led the Gestapo in a mass looting campaign from the Warsaw and Kraków museums and national art galleries during the Nazi German occupation of Poland?
... that some runners in the 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay were burned by exploding torches?

00:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the extinct amphibian Cryobatrachus (restoration pictured) was discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica?
... that Jørgen Juve was captain of the Norwegian football team that won Olympic bronze medals in Berlin in 1936, after knocking out Germany in the quarter final?
... that John Dabiri designed and constructed a wind farm based on the optimal vortex formation of schooling fish?
... that the Ballon d'Alsace was the first official mountain climb in the Tour de France?
... that despite becoming British weightlifting champion shortly before the 2012 Olympics, Halil Zorba wasn't named to the British squad for the Games?
... that the producers of Casting Crowns' eponymous debut album were Mark A. Miller, of country band Sawyer Brown, and contemporary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman?
... that, at the 2012 Olympics, Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt became the first representative of an African nation to win an Olympic fencing medal?
... that the Miami Vice episode "No Exit" had its title changed from "Three-Eyed Turtle" when it was discovered the latter was sexual slang?

9 August 2012

16:00, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the eggs of the Little Black Cormorant (pictured) are covered in a layer of lime?
... that sprinter Emily Diamond was selected for Great Britain's 4 × 400 metres relay squad at the 2012 Olympics despite having run the distance outdoors competitively only six times?
... that the Bengali film Mushrooms, shown in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, caused controversy in India when its sexually explicit scene was leaked online?
... that Rhonda Coullet composed and sang a tribute to her close friend John Belushi after his death, for a Saturday Night Live segment produced by his widow?
... that from 1968 to 1971, the role of No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF was to provide trained aircrew for No. 2 Squadron in Vietnam?
... that 2012 Olympian Kelsey Titmarsh is a member of the first Canadian women's rhythmic gymnastics all-around group to qualify for the Olympics?
... that while the mineral magnesiopascoite was discovered in Utah, the two cotype specimens are in a museum in California?
... that Käthe Krauß won bronze in the 100 metres in the 1936 Summer Olympics and was on the German women's sprint relay team that set a world record in the heats, but dropped the baton in the final race?

08:00, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

... that German-American photographer William Kurtz published the first color images that were widely reproduced (pictured)?
... that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games?
... that Meriwether Lewis discovered the first Lewisia at Lolo Creek, in the mountain range that became known as the Bitterroot Mountains?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic cross country mountain biker Rebecca Henderson is coached by cyclist Dan McConnell, who is also set to represent Australia in mountain biking?
... that Königsberg alderman Hieronymus Roth was imprisoned for life by Great Elector Frederick William because Roth wanted Ducal Prussia to remain a fief of Poland?
... that the Japanese Olympic Committee did not like the suggestion that the 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay could go through China?
... that Everett Scott held the Major League Baseball consecutive games played streak before Lou Gehrig?
... that the statue of George V that is now located opposite the House of Lords in London was hidden in a quarry during the Second World War?

00:00, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Tacoma Speedway (pictured) had a dangerous reputation among drivers because of flying gravel and splinters?
... that during Clarence Louie's tenure as chief, the Osoyoos Indian Band started the first aboriginal-owned winery in North America?
... that two decades after a former bank building became the new Astoria City Hall, in Astoria, Oregon, the old city hall became the first home of the Columbia River Maritime Museum?
... that at the 2012 Olympics, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in judo?
... that Crime and Dissonance, a compilation of work by Ennio Morricone, presents the composer as "a sonic experimentalist"?
... that anthropologist Gene Weltfish lost her Columbia University faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged un-American activities?
... that 130 bulls were sacrificed in the Sanctuary of the Knife of the Pyramid of Neferefre during a ten-day feast?
... that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Samantha Reid is a "Mermaid"?

8 August 2012

16:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

... that if an arm of a feather star (pictured) breaks off, then at least two will grow to replace it?
... that Danish wrestler Søren Marinus Jensen won two gold medals at an Olympic Games which is no longer considered to be an Olympic Games?
... that naturalist Charles Darwin's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle?
... that Isaiah Wilkerson holds the NJIT Highlanders men's basketball program records for points and rebounds in their Division I era?
... that last year's Richardson fire in Alberta, Canada, was the second largest in the province's recorded history at over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres)?
... that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games?
... that Madrona Manor, on the United States' National Register of Historic Places, is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant?
... that Daisuke Sasaki wrestled with and defeated eight other men to become King of Stockholm?

08:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

... that 2012 French Olympic gold medallist Teddy Riner (pictured) was the first male judoka to win five world titles?
... that the first documented specimens of the spring beauty rust were collected by a former mayor of Buffalo, New York?
... that sculptor Chintamoni Kar received civilian awards from India and France and won an Olympic medal for Great Britain?
... that Jane Lee is the first woman from Southeast Asia to climb the Seven Summits?
... that a research team from Gibraltar Museum and a dive club shared an award for investigating around a Detached Mole?
... that Zach Vincej won the Brooks Wallace Award, given to the best shortstop in college baseball, in 2012?
... that Amaryllis was Gordon Ramsay's first Scottish restaurant?
... that 2012 Olympic javelin thrower Sean Furey spends time bomb-proofing electronics?

00:00, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Fusiliers' Arch in Dublin (pictured) was modelled on the Arch of Titus in Rome?
... that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school?
... that the fragments of Beethoven's music in the soundtrack of Kagel's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work?
... that Olympic high jumper Tora Harris, who was a four-time United States national champion, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University?
... that High Roller was a roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas, the tallest observation tower in the United States?
... that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
... that the dune brittlestem has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass?
... that Winona Beamer, who was expelled from school for dancing the hula, toured with her cousin Mahi Beamer performing both the hula and the Hawaiian art of storytelling?

7 August 2012

16:00, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Mount Billy Mitchell (pictured) was named for "Billy" Mitchell, who is often referred to as the "father of the United States Air Force"?
... that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July, Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player?
... that the nobleman Mochtar acted in 69 films in his nearly 60-year career?
... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics American javelin thrower Craig Kinsley had never competed in an international competition?
... that construction of the South Mole, a breakwater in the harbour of Gibraltar, was begun by the Spanish in 1620?
... that Queen Elizabeth II made the German trumpeter and conductor Ludwig Güttler an officer of the OBE, in recognition of his efforts to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden?
... that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
... that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies?

08:00, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

... that George Larner (pictured) is the only gold medallist in the history of the Olympic Games in the men's 3,500 metres and 10 miles walk?
... that the 19th-century Albany, New York, neighborhoods of Center Square and Hudson–Park were unnamed until neighborhood associations were formed in the 20th century?
... that as a child, 2012 Australian Olympic BMX rider Lauren Reynolds would launch herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river?
... that "Oh Love", the first single from Green Day's album, ¡Uno!, is the third-ever song to make its debut at number one on the US Rock Songs chart?
... that when Eddy Rodríguez defected from Cuba, his boat nearly capsized and he had to eat ground coffee beans to survive?
... that in 1965, British diplomacy proved helpless to stop Rhodesia's Lisbon Appointment?
... that before she achieved the fourth longest long jump in the world this year during the U.S. Olympic Trials, Chelsea Hayes was described as "unheralded and unknown"?
... that an egg of the extinct elephant bird given to David Attenborough in 1960 inspired the making of his 2011 documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg?

00:00, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

... that about 17 square miles (4,400 ha) of marine protected areas are located beneath the waters in and around California's Carmel Bay (pictured)?
... that 2012 Olympian Jack Green set new personal bests in both the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles just two weeks before the Games?
... that Balthasar Kindermann wrote in 1658 a praise of beer, in 1660 a guidebook for speeches, and in 1664 the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata BWV 94 is based?
... that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team?
... that Russian space complex Moment analyses spacecraft by examining their radio transmissions?
... that the U.S. third party presidential campaign of former Congressman and current Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode is polling at nine percent in the swing state of Virginia?
... that Vicky Holland, who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, only took up the sport in her second year of university?
... that the Fantômas album The Director's Cut features a thrash metal cover of Nino Rota's theme from The Godfather?

6 August 2012

16:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

... that C. Ferris White designed more than 1,100 buildings in the U.S. state of Washington (example pictured) and over 300 more in the company town of Potlatch, Idaho?
... that U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman is known for the "Flying Squirrel" takedown move in which he jumps over his opponent and grabs him from behind while flying over his back?
... that in Liechtenstein, although there are exemptions, religious education is mandatory?
... that "Sweet Life", the third single in Frank Ocean's debut album Channel Orange, was released a few days after he came out as a bisexual?
... that in addition to being a competitive discus thrower, 2012 British Olympian Abdul Buhari works two days a week for investment bank Credit Suisse?
... that Ettore Petrolini is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo, vaudeville, and revue?
... that the Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse shares its name with the breakwater on which it stands in Gibraltar Harbour?
... that Heather Stanning's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook?

08:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

... that crime reporter Byron Christopher (pictured) says he has been subject to more search warrants "than the average drug dealer in Detroit"?
... that Lucy Hall and Stuart Hayes were selected for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Olympics ahead of higher-ranked triathletes because of their ability to act as domestiques?
... that Lonesome Glory, the first American steeplechaser to win more than US$1 million in prize money, was also the first American-trained horse to win a National Hunt race in Britain?
... that 2012 Olympic discus thrower Jason Young almost gave up on the sport in 2011?
... that Moscow's ZiL lanes are special lanes on main roads that are reserved for the use of top government officials?
... that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell threw an Olympic A-qualifying distance in January, but since it was a club event, the throw did not count for Olympic qualification?
... that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana, that built Temple Emanu-El?

00:00, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Annie Martin (pictured) was the only active Canadian beach volleyballer who had competed at an Olympic Games?
... that the Pakistan Army established the Sabawoon Rehabilitation Center for brainwashed militants after a military operation in Swat?
... that "Pink Turns to Blue" was named one of the 500 best songs since punk rock began?
... that Brett Morse, slated to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, was the first Welshman to win the discus at the UK Championships?
... that Gervais Street Bridge was the only bridge across the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1928 until 1953?
... that John Adamson produced the first calotype portrait in Scotland and instructed both his younger brother Robert and Thomas Rodger in this photographic process?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Alana Nicholls was the 2011 Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouakchott is located in Mauritania, even though census figures indicate that nearly 100% of the country's citizens are adherents of Islam?

5 August 2012

16:00, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Japanese archaeologists restored Hotu-iti's Ahu Tongariki site (pictured) after a 1960 tsunami reached Easter Island?
... that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price, a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials?
... that Beyoncé and Lady Gaga were the only artists to top the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart four times each during 2009?
... that the North Mole Elbow Lighthouse in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar also serves as a control room for the Gibraltar Harbour?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series?
... that as of August 2, Dan Straily led all American professional baseball pitchers in strikeouts for 2012?
... that 136 villages have been completely submerged in the backwaters of the reservoirs constructed as a part of the Upper Krishna Project?
... that the parents of 2012 Olympian Lance Brooks successfully petitioned for him to compete as a one-person track and field team in eighth grade?

08:00, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Ridi Viharaya (pictured), a Buddhist cave temple in Sri Lanka, was built by Dutthagamani of Anuradhapura in gratitude that the cave's silver helped him achieve one of his dreams?
... that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Tamika Domrow of Australia works as an apprentice kennel technician and her teammate Francesca Owen is a model and photographer?
... that the BBC nature documentary series Ocean Giants includes episodes about whale songs and the cognitive abilities of dolphins?
... that American sprinter Marlena Wesh chose to represent Haiti in the 2012 Olympics though she has never been there?
... that the Sugababes' first greatest hits album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Jo Brigden-Jones has participated in surf lifesaving competitions?
... that Mohammad Hatta was vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence during his first cabinet?
... that Scottish botanist John Fraser was a plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia?

00:00, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1904 Le Petit Journal reported that Aster (automobile pictured) monopolised the mass manufacture of engines in France?
... that 2012 British Olympic steeplechaser Eilish McColgan is coached by her mother, Liz, a former world 10,000 metres champion?
... that anarchist industrial music group Missing Foundation helped instigate the Tompkins Square Park Riot in August 1988?
... that Tarren Otte, the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing?
... that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War?
... that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation?
... that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist?
... that Birgitte Grimstad's song repertoire has included a medieval ballad, songs by Bach, Grieg and Mortensen's Til Ungdommen, and an adaptation of an Elvis Presley hit?

4 August 2012

16:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the diverse architecture of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal includes Romanesque art (pictured), notable contemporary architecture and fishermen's houses that have been described as "Eskimo burrows"?
... that Australian 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper Julia Hargreaves was born in Hong Kong, grew up in the United States and Australia, and now resides in the Netherlands?
... that the Schleswig horse is on the Food and Agriculture Organization's list of endangered domestic animal breeds, having reached a low of only 5 stallions and 35 mares in 1976?
... that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year?
... that Union Colonel James Cameron, killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run, was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron?
... that "Conquistador" was one of the few Procol Harum songs in which the music was written before the lyrics?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Adnan Kapau Gani was a film star and smuggler?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized swimmer Bianca Hammett became interested in the sport after seeing a newspaper advertisement for it?

08:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the 1848 discovery of Neanderthal remains (pictured) in Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar, was the second in history, but its significance was not realised for another sixteen years?
... that trilingual Olia Burtaev and South African-born Jenny-Lyn Anderson were selected to represent Australia in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics?
... that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood?
... that Irish Olympian Caitriona Jennings achieved the qualifying standard for the 2012 Summer Olympics in just her second marathon?
... that the song "I Protest" by MC Kash became a protest anthem in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2010 unrest?
... that a purported portrait of Anne Hathaway, dated 1708, may be the only surviving depiction of her?
... that the first consumer treadmill for home use was developed in the late 1960s by aerospace engineer William Staub?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Alethea Sedgman was selected over her boyfriend for the 2012 Olympics because national selectors wanted to send a female competitor?

00:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

... that Flaubert wrote of Raphael's mistress-model (pictured), "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know"?
... that Scott Brash plans to compete in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics on the back of a horse that cost an estimated two million euros?
... that the Russian battleship Peresvet was scuttled during the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was salvaged afterward and placed into service by the Japanese?
... that in addition to competing as a duet team in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics, Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are roommates?
... that the ironsands steel production company started in New Zealand by John Chambers eventually failed because a bricklayer was shot?
... that two-thirds of the population of the town of Qir in Iran were killed by an earthquake in 1972?
... that 2012 Antiguan Olympic sprinter Afia Charles is the daughter of Ruperta Charles, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
... that chef Skye Gyngell described her Michelin star as a "curse"?

3 August 2012

16:00, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

... that screenwriter Chris Carter (pictured) spent 13 years working for Surfing Magazine before creating The X-Files and Millennium?
... that 2012 British Olympic shooter James Huckle took up the sport after his father bought a rifle to deal with a rat problem?
... that Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals founded the Black Native Party in 1936, the third Black political party in Latin America?
... that Australian Olympian Melissa Breen ran the 100 metres 27 times in 2012 trying to achieve an Olympic A qualifying time of 11.29 seconds?
... that the list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species?
... that Masaharu Matsushita, president of Panasonic from 1961 to 1977, married the daughter of Panasonic's founder and adopted his family name before joining the company?
... that 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper James Paterson-Robinson of Australia was not selected for the 2004 Olympics because his horse was injured?
... that despite first opening in 1936, Mirabelle was named London's best new restaurant in 1999?

08:00, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the edible mushroom Gyroporus cyanescens (pictured) quickly turns dark blue if it is injured?
... that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials, Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist?
... that fewer than 1000 mature plants of the endangered rose mallee remain in the wild?
... that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández, who is set to represent El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games, started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
... that Stuart R. Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project?
... that video game Cannon Fodder, intended as an anti-war satire, drew controversy for juxtaposing violence and humour, as well for iconography resembling the remembrance poppy?
... that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome?
... that Morley Street, a two-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse, was named after a street in London?

00:00, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Queenston Formation (outcrop pictured) is used by the ceramic industry in the Canadian province of Ontario and for natural gas production in the U.S. state of New York?
... that track cyclist Philip Hindes was born in Germany and did not take up cycling until 2008, but has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that seed of the African teak tree is largely dispersed by fruit bats?
... that 2012 Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom started running only as a means to get a college scholarship and says she never "really became interested" in the sport?
... that Richard Hart, a Jamaican historian and politician, was expelled from the People's National Party in 1954 for his alleged communist views despite co-founding the party in 1938?
... that the Vienna "pocket opera" Wiener Taschenoper took children to John Cage's A House Full of Music and adults on Stockhausen's Michael's Journey Around the Earth?
... that Roberto Janet, who is representing Cuba at the 2012 Olympics, is a two-time hammer throw champion at both the Ibero-American and the Central American and Caribbean Championships?
... that the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sa'd al-Dawla, was denied entry to his own capital for much of his early reign?

2 August 2012

16:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

... that while manganese-bearing vesuvianite has been studied since 1883, manganvesuvianite (pictured) was not described until 2002?
... that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee?
... that Steve Hogan, the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, was the Democratic congressional candidate who ran against Republican and Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert?
... that Kaila McKnight, a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics, spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers?
... that the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power in the 8th of March Revolution?
... that cricketer Brad Hodge has the highest batting average and the best bowling average among Kochi Tuskers Kerala players?
... that, as a child, 2012 Olympic triple jumper Amanda Smock believed she would one day be an Olympic gymnast like Nadia Comăneci?
... that the studio of Java Pacific Film was located in an old tapioca flour factory?

08:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Connecticut Supreme Court found that giving the finger (pictured) was offensive, but not obscene?
... that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, "A Town Called Mercy", was mainly filmed around Almería, Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars?
... that American weightlifter Sarah Robles, who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Rambhadracharya has received awards from several personalities, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Somnath Chatterjee and Indira Gandhi?
... that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that "perhaps one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places to be found in Machu Picchu" is its Intihuatana, a solar clock stone?
... that the Golden-crowned Sparrow is an important destroyer of weed seeds on the Pacific coast of North America?
... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games?

00:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

... that the Kanō school dominated Japanese painting for four centuries (17th-century painting illustrated), headed by members of the same family?
... that Esther Armah and her family were placed under house arrest during the 1966 Ghana military coup while her father Kwesi Armah was on a diplomatic mission to Vietnam?
... that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain?
... that devilled kidneys, a breakfast dish from the 19th century, are now being served as street food?
... that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund?
... that 2012 British Olympic shooter Jonathan Hammond is the most successful athlete ever for Scotland at a Commonwealth Games, having won four medals in 2010?
... that Millennium's "The Pest House" has been compared to the 1996 film Scream?
... that Connor Jaeger qualified for the 2012 Olympics on what was only his fifth-ever swim of the 1500-meter freestyle in competition?

1 August 2012

16:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

... that at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Tilly Fleischer (pictured) became the first German woman to win a gold medal?
... that the South Mole Lighthouse in the harbour of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar features two galleries?
... that the Delaware House of Representatives has a Dennis Williams in the 1st district and a Dennis Williams in the 10th district?
... that much of what we know of lost plays on Philoctetes by Aeschylus and Euripedes is based on Dio Chrysostom comparing them to Sophocles' extant version?
... that Australian Olympic equestrian dressage competitor Lyndal Oatley is the cousin of fellow Olympian Kristy Oatley and wife of Swedish equestrian Patrik Kittel?
... that the designer of Cannon Fodder 2 started writing a novella to accompany the game, but the publisher vetoed the project, leaving reviewers baffled by the game's lack of plot?
... that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates, Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison?
... that Lauren Boden, a 2012 Olympian, has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman?

08:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

... that St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, Cumbria (pictured), is notable for its associations with William Wordsworth and its annual ceremony of rushbearing?
... that 2012 Olympics track cyclist Melissa Hoskins took up the sport after participating in a talent identification event?
... that the Cretaceous snakefly Necroraphidia arcuata takes its name, in part, from the Latin word for "bent" and the Greek word for "dead"?
... that Norwegian footballer Kent Bergersen left the Greek club Panionios G.S.S. because the club didn't pay his salary?
... that, after low first-run viewership, the Nielsen ratings of Cheers improved during the summer between the finale of the first season and the second season premiere?
... that 2012 Olympic 800 metre freestyle swimmer Jessica Ashwood started swimming when she was four years old?
... that the last song to reach number one on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2011 was Wale's collaboration featuring Miguel, "Lotus Flower Bomb"?
... that Kuldeep Joshi is a blind student who continuously played the tabla for twelve hours?

00:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

... that after the US Olympic Trials swimmer Davis Tarwater (pictured) announced his retirement and headed home before realizing he had qualified for the 2012 Olympics?
... that during World War II, Brazilians fought Germans at Collecchio in Italy?
... that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government?
... that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team?
... that a majority of German-Swedish forces in the Battle of Czarne mutinied, capitulated and then joined the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army?
... that Max Kepler-Rozycki received the largest signing bonus given to a European player by a Major League Baseball team?
... that almost a third of the films from the Dutch East Indies date from 1941?
... that Genevieve LaCaze made it onto the 2012 Olympic squad only after the Australian Olympic Committee intervened in the Athletics Australia selection process?