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30 November 2014
12:25, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
... that London's Philharmonic Hall building (pictured) once had one of 30 car showrooms all in the same street?
... that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
... that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat, was inspired by real-life police officer
Chuck Adamson?
... that the 1801 edition of The Encyclopaedia Londinensis volume III makes note of certain "remarkable" features of plumeless silver thistle(pictured)?
... that although Dutch Jewish siblings Eva and Abraham Beem tried to hide from the
Nazis in the home of a Christian family, Abraham's
circumcision gave them away?
... that a massive "welcoming ceremony" with fireworks and
lion dancers greeted county leader Li Lianyu upon his return from a Communist Party National Congress?
... that after being scorched by wildfires, the blackened branches of the mountain maytenus readily sprout?
... that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused
rock and
bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
... that Francis Arthur Freeth developed ways of purifying
TNT during World War I, and came out of retirement to do secret research for British special forces in World War II?
... that Saumarez Homestead contains a thirty-room
Edwardian mansion, and has hosted fashion shows and a film festival?
... that in the wasp Metapolybia cingulata, queens and workers look alike and can only be distinguished by dissection?
... that the American football players inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as "Gator Greats" include "All-American Waterboy" Tootie Perry, attorney Goldy Goldstein, and halfbacks Red Bethea and Larry Dupree?
... that the Sutton Heritage Mosaic, one of the largest examples of wall art in Britain, consists of over 100,000 pieces?
... that asking prices for the poorly received video game Cubic Ninja jumped to as much as
$500 after it was used for the first
Nintendo 3DShomebrew exploit?
23 November 2014
10:45, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
... that
Northern Irish architecture firm Hackett Hall McKnight created the Belfast MAC (pictured), described as one of the "most stunning new British buildings of the century"?
... that, when complete, the PandaXdark matter detection experiment will be one hundred times as sensitive as the current most-sensitive detector?
... that during the corruption probe into Gu Junshan, investigators located a gold model boat, a gold Mao statue, and crates of luxury liquor in his family compound?
... that the High Line(pictured), once an abandoned elevated railway slated for demolition in
New York City, is now a
linear park with about 5 million annual visitors?
... that Jack Lumber was the first game published by
Sega's third-party publisher Sega Alliance?
... that the completed English
localization of 1989 video game Mother was abandoned only to be rediscovered and later uploaded to the Internet?
... that the literary motif of "forced seduction" was called a male rape fantasy, an attempt by the hero to get to know the heroine, a useful lesson for women to not dress sexy, and an enjoyable fantasy?
... that the Somali tectonic plate is breaking into tectonic micro-plates, like the newly-formed Lwandle Plate?
... that Ohad's 2009 hit "Bo'i Kala", set to the words of the traditional song accompanying a Jewish bride to the
chuppah, is a remake of
Leonard Cohen's "
Hallelujah"?
... that Maximilian William(pictured), brother of
King George I, was exiled for plotting to regain his inheritance, and his election as
prince-bishop was invalidated because it was a Lutheran's turn?
... that although one of the tributaries of
Little Catawissa Creek (Stony Run) is unable to support fish life, the other tributary (Trexler Run) is Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that motorists derisively refer to the elevated U-turns on
Metro Manila's C-5–Kalayaan Interchange(pictured) as the "ninth and tenth wonders of the world"?
... that in a 2013 music video,
Hasidic Jewish singing star Benny Friedman jumped into a swimming pool fully clothed, joining a three-piece band playing underwater?
17 November 2014
12:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
... that when
Confucius learned that his disciple Zilu(pictured) had been pickled, he ordered all the pickled goods in his house to be thrown away?
... that
stele 14, erected by Yo'nal Ahk III, is considered one of the finest examples of niche stelae?
... that during the
Korean War, No. 391 Squadron RAAF ran a "Transit Hotel" that accommodated business people and entertainers, as well as military personnel?
... that the
tritone heard at the beginning of
Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze" was historically called "Devil in music" and to play it was considered comparable to ringing Satan's doorbell?
... that
Bruckner scored his second setting of Christus factus est for eight vocal parts, trombones, and strings, but added, "Besser ohne Violinen" (Better without violins)?
... that a coffee extract used in
Starbucks' discontinued Mazagran beverage was later used in the formulation of the company's line of bottled
frappuccino beverages?
... that in his legal defence of
Saddam Hussein, Hussein Mjalli argued that "Iraq, Iraqi people, Iraqi law, and the Iraqi president were hijacked"?
00:00, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
... that the
Balinese dance condong(pictured) is said to have come to a sick prince in a dream?
... that after R. H. Naylor was credited with predicting the
R101 airship crash, he became Britain's first regular astrology columnist?
... that in the Ganga puja festival, the
Tripuri people of India build a temporary bamboo temple in a river stream and pray to be saved from epidemic diseases?
... that the 1967 horror film The Blood Demon was advertised in Rhode Island newspapers as Crimson Demon to remove the word "blood" from the title?
00:00, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
... that the Guatemalan Revolution(celebratory mural pictured), which lasted from 1944 to 1954, included an agrarian reform program that granted land to half a million landless peasants?
... that following criticism, the UK suicide prevention charity
Samaritans discontinued their
Twitter-based Samaritans Radar service nine days after launch?
... that Major Arthur Moon enlisted four prisoners of war who were artists to create a unique record of camp conditions during construction of the
Thailand-Burma Railway, then buried those works?
... that in his 1989 book Homecoming,
Bob Greene reprinted scores of letters from
Vietnam veterans who claimed they were spat upon when they returned from the war zone?
11 November 2014
12:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
... that journalist Hanna Stjärne(pictured) was announced as the new CEO of
Sveriges Television in September 2014 and will take the post within six months?
... that hundreds of Colorado high school students protested a proposed curriculum change?
... that no athlete for Cape Verde at the 2008 Summer Olympics progressed beyond the first round, replicating the country's performance at every other Olympic Games?
... that although Klingermans Run and the nearby Cranberry Run have similar geology, the former is Class A Wild Trout Waters and the latter is incapable of supporting fish life?
... that in Menace from the Moon, a lunar colony—founded in 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women"—promises Earth heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world?
... that
Bruckner's third setting of the gradual Christus factus est, composed 40 years after the first, reaches a dramatic climax and ends
pianissimo?
... that Ciceri e Tria(pictured) is an
Apulian pasta dish that originated from Arabs who at one time ruled the region?
... that the Dispatch sternwheeler carried as many as 400 passengers over two hours downriver from
Coquille to
Bandon, Oregon, to attend baseball games there?
... that
twin settlements of Mikuszowice and Komorowice were divided by a state border for hundreds of years, but are now unified in one country, separated only by a
river?
... that
Green Bay Packers offensive lineman David Bakhtiari was the first rookie in Packers history to start every game at
left tackle in a season since the start of the 16-game season?
... that Lord Zoltan was one of the first American pro wrestlers to start wearing
facepaint?
00:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
... that Smiley(pictured), an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) living at
Gothenburg's Maritime Museum, died after the heat was turned down in her pond to save money?
... that the Crab Tree Club fined anyone who arrived in evening dress one shilling?
5 November 2014
12:00, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
... that Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria for seven voices, the first
motet composed after his studies, was sung by his choir in the
Linz Cathedral(pictured)?
... that Tafelberg School for children with special learning needs is one of over 250 schools in the United Kingdom and South Africa linked for mutual benefit via Afri Twin?
... that "Father of
Logology" Dmitri Borgmann earned $10,000 for coining the name Exxon, making him (at $2000 per letter) the world's highest-paid writer?
4 November 2014
12:00, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
... that the
facial markings in this photo of
Māori chief Tuterei Karewa(pictured) may have been enhanced by the photographer using black paint?
... that two
redheaded sisters are behind the How to be a Redhead website and the "Rock it Like a Redhead" beauty and fashion event?
... that physician Newton Adams was known as "the teacher with three coats" by the
Zulu?
... that although a battle near
Mérida in 1546 established Spanish control in the north of the
Yucatán Peninsula during the Spanish conquest, the last Maya kingdom in the south did not fall until 1697?
... that Momoko Kuroda is known for her "
haiku pilgrimages", some of which spanned decades?
... that the Holmes family of the early Colorado HOP Ranch befriended Southern
Ute Native Americans, fed them biscuits and lent them field glasses and rifles for hunting expeditions?
... that in a reign of ten years, Stephen III of Hungary had his throne usurped twice and fought a series of wars with the
Byzantine Empire, before dying at the age of 25?
... that baseball player Tony Boeckel was overcome by heat during his Major League debut, and struck in the head with a ball two days later?
... that tiella refers to several dishes in
Italian cuisine, including one prepared with potato, rice, onion, and mussels?
... that Japanese politician Sahashi Shigeru is the hero of three contemporary novels?
00:00, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
... that Caitlin Doughty(pictured), whose
web seriesAsk a Mortician humorously explores death, wrote the 2014 bestseller Smoke Gets in Your Eyes& Other Lessons from the Crematory?
... that
Starfucker's third studio album, Reptilians (2011), includes snippets in which British-American philosopher
Alan Watts discusses his beliefs about death?