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• 06:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that after the standardisation of the German Shepherd Dog, other herding dogs in Germany became known as Old German Shepherd Dogs which is now the name given to a rare modern breed (pictured)?

• ... that Tam Spiva, from a family of small-town newspaper publishers, wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben?

• ... that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language?

• ... that the Oregon State Bar was the first bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit?

• ... that Ole Hovelsen Mustad, namesake of the company O. Mustad & Son, also served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?

• ... that King's Mill on the River Trent was used to grind flints for the pottery industry?

• ... that Swaminarayan's biography, Satsangi Jeevan, comprises of 19,387 Shlokas among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes?

• ... that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?

• 00:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that on Jackie Robinson Day of 2007, more than 200 baseball players wore number 42 in honor of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's (pictured) major league debut?

• ... that Kang Hye-jeong made her feature film debut in the 2001 science fiction film Nabi, winning Best Actress at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival?

• ... that the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?

• ... that Captain William Mounsey, in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne, captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse?

• ... that Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season?

• ... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Chang Gun was demoted over Emperor Dezong's erroneous belief that Chang had falsified signatures from his colleagues Guo Ziyi and Zhu Ci?

• ... that Future Primitive and Other Essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan is regarded as an underground classic by anarchists and technophobes alike?

• 17:40, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that the 1962–1963 CBS sitcom The New Loretta Young Show (Loretta Young pictured) introduced audiences to later stars Dack Rambo and Ted Knight?

• ... that Cubbon Park in Bangalore, India, has indigenous and exotic botanical species of 68 genera and 96 species with about 6,000 plants?

• ... that Bolivian Mollo culture drinking cups included a built-in straw?

• ... that Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck?

• ... that in Shinto, a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?

• ... that two companies with the name Oregon Central Railroad both claimed the same federal land grants?

• ... that Tang Dynasty official Yang Wan declined a customary stipend as a senior official of his rank and distributed the stipend to his colleagues?

• ... that Eduardo Galeano's 1978 revolutionary chronicle Days and Nights of Love and War inspired anarchist collective CrimethInc. to write their manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love 22 years later?

• 12:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that art historian George Kubler declared The Wrestler (pictured), an ancient Olmec statuette, "among the great works of sculpture of all ages"?

• ... that Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic Monthly?

• ... that South African Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia?

• ... that M-67, a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has remained essentially unchanged but the highways connecting to it have changed three times since 1919?

• ... that Jens Landmark, Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory, also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament?

• ... that Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election?

• ... that architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed a futuristic synagogue that was later a filming location for the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

• 05:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that before Charles Aitken installed electric lighting, the Tate Gallery (pictured) was cleared of visitors on dark and foggy days?

• ... that anyone who has loaned or borrowed money has participated in the hypothetical loanable funds market that brings savers and borrowers together?

• ... that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid?

• ... that the Zionist Socialist Workers Party broke with the World Zionist Organization after the 1905 WZO congress had rejected the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa?

• ... that an oil painting by Ryūsei Kishida was auctioned for 7.731 billion yen, the highest price ever achieved for a Japanese painting?

• ... that MTA Regional Bus Operations consolidates all bus operations formerly maintained by MTA New York City Bus, MTA Long Island Bus, and MTA Bus?

• ... that Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin, to paint 1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who had died there recently?

• ... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?

• ... that William Long, Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles, later became the skipper of a fishing boat?

• ... that only a few English churches celebrate the ancient custom of "clipping the church"?

• ... that Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?

• 23:15, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

• ... that the Fiji Crested Iguana (pictured) was discovered when a scientist saw the lizard in the 1980 film Blue Lagoon?

• ... that Clarence D. Wiley, already a 40-year public official in Louisiana, was to have joined his parish governing council when he died in 1976 of a sudden stroke?

• ... that the 2008 Bangkok gubernatorial election campaign saw candidates bathing in a canal and punching a journalist?

• ... that as Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip, Yitzhak Pundak planned to relocate the Palestinian refugees there to a new city in the Sinai Peninsula, but met with opposition from Ariel Sharon?

• ... that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?

• ... that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?