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01:48, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Manasbal Lake (pictured), with the sobriquet "the supreme gem of all Kashmir Lakes", is the deepest lake in the Kashmir valley?

... that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile, Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?

... that Jack Womack's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York?

... that Baltic Finns are considered to be among the early indigenous inhabitants of Europe according to the Settlement Continuity Theory?

... that Hulk Hogan lost the WWF Championship at King of the Ring 1993 after a ringside photographer's camera exploded in Hogan's face?

... that the constitution of Cyprus broke down in 1963 when Turkish Cypriots withdrew from the government?

... that the Adriatic LNG terminal is the world's first offshore liquid natural gas terminal?

... that Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party?

... that British National (Overseas) was a British nationality specially created for British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong in 1985?

17:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

... that marine loading arms (pictured) are used to safely and efficiently move liquids between tankships and cargo terminals?

... that English footballer Glen Thomas came close to losing an eye in 1996 when he stumbled into a tree during a training session and was hit in the face by a branch?

... that after six years as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Mary Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe, a book critical of air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration?

... that in 2007, the New Zealand initiative eDay saw 415 tonnes (915,000 lb) of electronic waste collected?

... that British WWII prisoner of war John Fancy dug eight tunnels with a table knife and escaped a total of 16 times, but was always recaptured?

... that Adobe Systems made its largest acquisition ever by purchasing rival company Macromedia for over US$3.5 billion?

... that the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes revolves around Holmes and Watson, played by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain?

... that Modernisme architect Enrique Nieto not only designed the main synagogue in Melilla, but also the Central Mosque and several Catholic church buildings?

11:17, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Irving Berlin wrote the song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in the United States Army during World War I?

... that Tate gallery director Sir Norman Reid was the son of a shoemaker?

... that alpine Lake Wakatipu has a unit of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard?

... that Hurricane Rosa caused 100-year floods at 19 locations in Texas?

... that analgesic nephropathy was a major cause of kidney failure until the analgesic drug phenacetin was banned from markets?

... that the medieval motet Sub Arturo plebs has the name of its composer along with those of 14 fellow musicians, plus instructions on how to perform the piece, written into its own lyrics?

... that the House character Detective Michael Tritter has been compared to Inspector Javert in Les Misérables?

... that Nonghyup, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of South Korea, provides 48 percent of the country's rural food marketing?

... that General William C. Chase was awarded the Bronze Star for his successful defense against Japanese counterattacks during the Admiralty Islands campaign in World War II?

07:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

... that evidence indicates that the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (pictured) may be more closely related to the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin than to the Common Bottlenose Dolphin?

... that Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament?

... that a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland" museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville, Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley?

... that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The Media Show, which looks at the current state of the media, is seen as a replacement to The Message, a similar programme axed by the BBC earlier in 2008?

... that only twelve examples survive of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity, a uniquely English subject in late medieval religious art?

... that the 106-kilometre (66 mi) Voss Line was converted from narrow to standard gauge in one night?

... that Norwegian Parliament member and priest Søren Georg Abel was the father of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel?

... that after Moscow mayor Nikolay Alekseyev was mortally wounded by an insane gunman, he bequeathed 300,000 rubles of his personal money to a psychiatric hospital he had built?

... that Charles Frederick Holder invented the sport of big-game fishing and was also a founder of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses?

22:13, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that some hermaphrodite snails and slugs pierce each other with love darts (pictured) during mating?

... that one of John Romney's etchings which sold well was of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident which occurred in 1847?

... that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi, with two built-in cameras?

... that Krishnammal Jagannathan, one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award, began her struggle for the rights of the landless after an incident in which 44 people were burnt alive by landlords?

... that Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon, was built when the city had only 750 residents?

... that, when Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei was set to be punished for having joined the rebel state Yan under duress, his brother Wang Jin successfully interceded for him by offering to resign as an imperial official?

... that the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?

... that although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer, he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable?

... that the publication of his Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn led to Angus McDiarmid being called "the world's worst author"?

09:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage?

... that the website Techmeme, created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology-related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?

... that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil's path to stardom?

... that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America?

... that at Henry Parkyns Hoppner's court martial, he received "no blame whatever" for his actions while commanding the HMS Fury, ice-damaged and left on Somerset Island in 1825?

... that according to Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson's poem "Hay and Hell and Booligal", the town of Booligal, New South Wales is regarded as being worse than Hell?

... that former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood holds the record for the biggest-selling American Idol album?

... that the Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI is considered the most reliable source for those events?

02:24, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Minthorn Hall (pictured) in Newberg, Oregon, is the oldest building on the campus of George Fox University?

... that Nic Waal, who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?

... that Meralco's John F. Cotton Corporate Wellness Center was the first implementation of a corporate wellness program in the Philippines?

... that after Robert Bealknap offended the people of London before the coronation of Richard II they placed a model of his head on a water fountain so that it would vomit wine when the king walked past?

... that the Nerepis River in New Brunswick was exposed to dioxins from the use of Agent Orange and Agent Purple during secret tests in 1966 and 1967?

... that Mexico's largest pawnbroker, Nacional Monte de Piedad, is legally recognized as a charity?

... that in 1967, Ray Miller, a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas?

20:12, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Hannikel (pictured), today a character of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival, was a 18th-century robber and murderer in Württemberg, Southern Germany?

... that the existence of a Stroke Belt in the southeastern United States was recognized as early as 1962, but the causes of high stroke incidence in this region have not been determined?

... that 1970 Italian crime thriller film Città violenta was only picked up for distribution in the United States after the success of Death Wish established star Charles Bronson as a leading man?

... that the outback town of Tilpa, New South Wales claims to have the only cemetery in Australia with no burials?

... that Bob Miller, signed as a "bonus baby" by the Detroit Tigers, was the youngest of three 17-year-olds to play in Major League Baseball in the 1953 season?

... that Eelam, a Tamil name for Sri Lanka, could also mean toddy, spurge, or gold?

... that the St. John's Lodge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire is one of the oldest continuously operating Masonic Lodges in the Americas?

... that during the Catalonian Civil War, three different pretenders were proclaimed against John II of Aragon?

09:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that noise rock band Jucifer's L'Autrichienne is a concept album about Marie Antoinette (pictured)?

... that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?

... that Typhoon Jangmi was upgraded to a category five super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center?

... that architect Stiff Leadbetter's house Elvills was the first completely new house of the Georgian Gothic revival in England?

... that upcoming film The Marc Pease Experience has been dubbed "the next Rushmore" as the two films share both similar character traits and Jason Schwartzman in the lead role?

... that the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len was almost not released because its master recording was hidden under the producer's bed?

... that the Campbell's Covered Bridge, built in 1909, is the last remaining covered bridge in South Carolina?

... that Matthew T. Mason, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the first origami-folding robot in 2004?

04:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Martin Luther compared images of the Virgin of Mercy (example pictured) to "a hen with her chicks"?

... that the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Northern Ireland and Brazil?

... that in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen?

... that the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia?

... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Yan had, as a child, impressed Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by writing a song dedicated to his sacrifices at Mount Tai?

... that after Milt Davis was rejected by the Detroit Lions because they did not have a black roommate for him, Davis won two championships in four seasons with the Baltimore Colts?

22:19, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the colorful kkachi durumagi (pictured) evokes the good fortune associated with the magpie in Korean folklore?

... that Quentin Tarantino, a longtime fan of Australian cinema, helped put together 2008 documentary film Not Quite Hollywood, examining the "Ozploitation" B movies of the 1970s–'80s Australian New Wave?

... that Bogdan Saltanov, the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia, was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow?

... that Drinkstone Post Mill is the oldest surviving windmill in Suffolk, England, having been built in 1689?

... that comedian and actor Asi Cohen performed in Mesudarim, an Israeli television show purchased by the Fox Entertainment Group?

... that Roy Oswalt has been the starting pitcher on six consecutive Opening Days for the Houston Astros from 2003 to 2008?

... that after Li Xilie, who had rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, grew ill after eating beef, his general Chen Xianqi induced his physician to poison him to death?

... that the 2004 Cairns Tilt Train derailment was the result of excessive speed which may have been caused by the driver leaving his seat?

... that the LoPresti Fury sports plane was built based on the design of aeronautical engineer Roy LoPresti?

15:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that George Orwell interpreted the lyrics of "Ain't We Got Fun?" (listen) as representative of post-World War I working class unrest?

... that Anastasiu di Iaci wrote Vinuta di lu re Iapicu in Catania shortly after 1287, making it one of the earliest narrative sources for the War of the Vespers?

... that, according to Afrikaner nationalistic ideology, Afrikaners were seen as a chosen people?

... that Reuben Noble-Lazarus became the youngest footballer in the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town in 2008?

... that the distinctive rustic porch trim of the Fish and Fur Club in Nelsonville, New York, which earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, has since been replaced?

... that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory Strømmens Værksted?

... that southern African vine Acetosa sagittata is a weed in Australia and New Zealand, and may smother vegetation it grows upon?

... that Tove Strand, Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen?

08:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the Obando Fertility Rites are held annually at the Obando Church (pictured) of Bulacan in the Philippines during the month of May?

... that Cress Williams portrayed a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar"?

... that the first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow prison?

... that the Japanese visual novel Twinkle Crusaders received three manga adaptations before its release?

... that Oregon State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson is a first cousin of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening?

... that Sir Robert Charleton was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas despite having no previous experience in that court?

... that writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school?

... that the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton hosts an annual event honoring girls and women named "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth Ann"?
02:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Irving Berlin stuffed towels into a piano while he was composing "That International Rag" (listen) to muffle the sound because other hotel guests made noise complaints?

... that Nakamura Yoshikoto, director of the South Manchurian Railway, sponsored his childhood friend, the famed author Natsume Soseki on a publicity jaunt to Manchuria?

... that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine, a World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser?

... that according to John Foxe and Raphael Holinshed, the fate of Lady Jane Grey drove Richard Morgan insane?

... that Aerosteon, a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?

... that Korean composer and violinist Hong Nan-pa is best known for his song Bongseonhwa written in 1919 which was widely sung during the Japanese occupation of Korea?

... that the Great Mosque of Aleppo, built by the Umayyads in 717, is the oldest mosque in Aleppo, Syria?

... that the opening theme of the eighth season of the Bleach anime, "After Dark", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation?

... that in 1947, Thelma Dewitty became not just the first African American hired to teach in the Seattle Public Schools, but one of the first married women as well?

20:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the ancient opencast iron ore workings known as scowles (pictured) in the Forest of Dean, England, are believed to have been an inspiration for settings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?

... that a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre-WWII Estonia?

... that in 878, the Byzantines lost Syracuse in Sicily to the Arabs because the imperial fleet was occupied with transporting marble for the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral?

... that the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial commemorates the 1951 protests started by 16-year-old Barbara Johns which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia?

... that Zamosc Fortress, one of the biggest fortresses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was besieged six times by various armies?

... that in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen?

... the Cape Spinytail iguana coexists with the giant San Esteban Chuckwalla on San Esteban Island contrary to predictions of ecological niche theory?

... that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree, a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998?

... that there are currently over 1,000 more international chess tournaments per year than there were in 1951?
12:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Rohitha Bogollagama (pictured) represented Sri Lanka at peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at Geneva in 2006?

... that "Back 2 You / Still Grey" was simultaneously the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum to feature either a guest vocalist, or a guest instrumentalist?

... that in addition to being a government aide during the Vietnam Conflict, Michael Forrestal was also a mediator in international disputes between the USSR and the US?

... that the album title Ordinary Dreamers is about doing extraordinary things with a "dreamer mentality" as an ordinary person?

... that two summits of Potter Fell in the Lake District are mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland?

... that musician Bruce Conforth was the first curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio?

... that the Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai, India was built in 1516 by Portuguese missionaries?

... that Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist?

... that Bangladesh Police plan to recruit 3,000 women to expand the newly-created Special Women Police Contingent across Bangladesh?

... that as a result of Janina San Miguel's response to a question in the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant contestants?
07:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

... that the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga and Bromma kyrka (pictured) as control points?

... that the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, later celebrated for showing that DNA is the genetic material, challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein?

... that in 1992, when Oddny Aleksandersen was appointed Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour, no male had yet held this position?

... that the recent series of "I'm a PC" advertisements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system were created using Apple Macintosh computers?

... that Steve Souchock was possibly going to be first baseman for the New York Yankees, but instead served military service during World War II, eventually earning five battle stars and one Bronze Star?

... that the opera Les vêpres siciliennes (1885) by Giuseppe Verdi was based in part on the medieval Sicilian tract Lu rebellamentu di Sichilia (1290)?

... that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police first inducted female officers in 1978?

... that American Australian astronomer Penny Sackett has been appointed as the next Chief Scientist of Australia and will commence her duties in November 2008?
23:44, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that suggestions for rejuvenating the Big Orange (pictured), near Berri, South Australia, include turning it into a big golf ball?

... that the press box at the University of Wyoming is named for Larry Birleffi, who announced all Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball games from 1947–1986?

... that former Chief Justice of Queensland Neal Macrossan's brother and nephew were also Chief Justice as well?

... that The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean, was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers?

... that Roger Vanderfield, an Australian doctor, rugby union referee and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the first Rugby World Cup?

... that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?

... that, during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, umpire Larry Young refereed a match at WrestleMania XI?

... that San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with "Complice", a song performed by Miodio?

... that Swedish-American ornithologist Thure Kumlien was probably poisoned by preservatives used on bird specimens sent to him?

16:39, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that a jeogori (pictured) is a Korean basic upper garment of traditional hanbok having been worn by both men and women?

... that publisher Irvin J. Borowsky created TV Digest, America's first television program listing, which was sold to Walter Annenberg and became part of TV Guide?

... that the HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars?

... that Bob Miller lost his first 12 games with the 1962 New York Mets and played for 10 different teams in his Major League Baseball career, tying modern-day records for both that have since been broken?

... that painter Karp Zolotaryov created a handmade Zodiac calendar for teaching then-seven-year-old Peter I of Russia?

... that Christopher Munch had to shoot his film The Sleepy Time Gal over an extended two-and-a-half year period due to a lack of finances?

... that Nils Claus Ihlen served as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs for seven years, but as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for only seven days?

... that the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions?

10:37, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

... that Ochna serrulata is called "Mickey Mouse Plant" because the plant's bright-red sepals (pictured) resemble the face of Mickey Mouse?

... that the Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan?

... that John T. David, a small-town Louisiana mayor, was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions?

... that Iceland and India established diplomatic relations in 1972?

... that William T. Kane, a physicist with Corning Incorporated, held three patents in crystallography important to the development of fiber optics?

... that the Supreme Court of Cocos (Keeling) Island once administered laws described as "Byzantine" in complexity?

... that Artus de Lionne, who went to China for missionary work in 1689, played a role against Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy?

... that the ballad Mulga Bill's Bicycle by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson was inspired by an outback worker who purchased a bicycle when drought meant there was no feed for horses?

... that Don Ultang co-won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for images of the Johnny Bright Incident, showing a violent hit by an Oklahoma A&M player on Drake University's Johnny Bright that broke Bright's jaw?