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31 March 2015
12:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
... that the spotted blue-eye(pictured) has been found in water of
pH 3.68 to 9.4?
... that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
... that Jack Zink was a mechanical engineer who received 35 patents for combustion equipment inventions, and was noted for his achievements in business, car racing, and philanthropy?
... that "Smoke From Your Cigarette" by Lillian Leach and the Mellows was
Lou Reed's favorite song?
... that the Post Instrument directly converted visual measurements of aircraft into map locations?
... that in the Sanskrit epic poem Ramayana, Krodhavasa, wife of
Kashyapa, was short-tempered, and the children born to her were ferocious animals, birds, and fish, all monsters with sharp teeth?
... that Taruk, the present-day
Burmese term for the
Han Chinese, originally referred to the Turkic troops of the Mongol armies that invaded Burma between 1277 and 1287?
... that rapper Rome Fortune'sBeautiful Pimp II EP features his grandfather on the
vibraphone?
... that 280 people were injured, 30 cars were set on fire, and 8
bus stops were destroyed during a protest by the Blockupy movement?
... that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
... that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of
Mount Olympus, and eventually climbed all six of
Washington's major mountains?
... that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes
Else Lasker-Schüler?
... that the 2015 commission on police reform in the United States controversially recommended that independent prosecutors investigate when an officer kills a civilian while on duty?
... that Brazilian footballer Caio Rangel signed for Italian club
Cagliari in 2014?
... that the "indescribable damage" caused by 5 inches (13 cm) of rain descending upon Coal Creek in 90 minutes did not qualify for federal aid?
00:00, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
... that the Mary Birdsall House(pictured), designed for a 19th-century leader in women's rights, was said to be "technologically progressive, healthy, and emancipating"?
... that before studying medicine and making significant contributions to modern
neuroanatomy, South African neuroscientist W. Maxwell Cowan considered becoming an attorney?
... that after the National Liberation Council took over Ghana on February 24, 1966, covert operations specialist
Robert Komer called their new government "almost pathetically pro-Western"?
... that Louisa Parr's novel Adam and Eve was used as a source of
Cornish English in the English Dialect Dictionary?
... that on July 15, 2011, Sucheta Kadethankar became the first Indian woman to walk across the
Gobi desert(pictured), a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi)?
... that the premiere of
Erik Bergman's only full-length opera, Det sjungande trädet (The Singing Tree), was delayed for over a year because of its complex staging requirements?
... that ‘Ofa Likiliki, a
Tongan attorney and
women's rights activist, won a Best Project award for her film Dear Tita from the Pan-Pacific Media Project in 2014?
... that Raquel Liberman(pictured, center) escaped twice from slavery and helped to dissolve the
Zwi Migdal, an early-20th-century Argentine human trafficking ring?
... that the first scientific descriptions of several species of dragonfly were published by the watercolourist
Moses Harris(one of his illustrations pictured)?
... that Sayaka Osakabe created a women's support network for
workplace harassment and named it Matahara, formed from the words maternity and harassment, which has become a Japanese legal term?
... that a borehole dug at the mouth of Gravel Run in the late 1800s revealed 38 different
strata?
... that after the sinking of HMS Bayano in 1915, thousands of
Isle of Man residents turned out for the funeral procession even though none of the victims were from the island?
... that when Eduardo Rodríguez broke his right arm at the age of seven, he learned how to
pitch with his left arm?
24 March 2015
12:00, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
... that
Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers(pictured) is an oil painting featuring a peasant cottage, as were many of his works?
... that a 2003 study co-authored by Geoffrey Kabat and co-sponsored by the tobacco industry concluded that its results did not support a causal relation between
passive smoking and mortality?
... that the sea gooseberry Pleurobrachia pileus has fishing tentacles up to twenty times its body length?
... that some 18th-century estates employed garden hermits to dwell as living ornaments, sometimes dressed like
druids, in purpose-built
hermitages and
follies?
23 March 2015
12:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
... that the motto of a cookbook by Paul Tremo(pictured), a court chef to King
Stanislaus Augustus of Poland, was, "Not everyone thinks, but everyone eats"?
... that the first clear use of the name "Palestine" was in the 5th century B.C. by Ancient Greek historian
Herodotus?
... that during the
Defense of Van(pictured), missionary Grace Knapp wrote that the Armenian defenders made their own bullets by reusing enemy shrapnel?
... that although Spring Run is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, it is devoid of trout?
... that the
Indian town of Arang is home to the 11th-century
Jainist Bhand Deval temple where three huge sculptures of
nudetirthankaras are deified?
... that in 1958 Joseph Chader became the first Armenian government minister in Lebanon?
... that scholar Barbara Newman suggests that the multiple female figures in medieval Christianity were "distinctive creations of the Christian imagination" that deepened the medieval vision of God?
... that the Philippine documentary To Live for the Masses, on the life of former president
Joseph Estrada, was initially given an "XXX" rating by the
MTCRB and was banned from public exhibition?
... that though police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked
Jeep 15 years ago today, they only looked under the hood in 2006 and saw the
starter relay wire had been cut?
... that during the Września children strike of 1901–04, ethnic Polish schoolchildren were flogged for protesting against religious instruction in German?
... that Persoonia media(pictured) can range from a 30-centimetre (12 in) shrub to a 25-metre (82 ft) tree?
... that the lack of minorities and women in Shirley M. Malcom's college classes later inspired her to manage the
National Science Foundation's Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program?
... that The Village in the Jungle has been described as "the first novel in English literature to be written from the indigenous point of view rather than the coloniser's"?
... that the character Victoria Lauría, from the Argentine telenovela Graduados, was originally to have been played by actress
Julieta Ortega, but she was later reassigned to another character?
... that Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño forgot to bring her "certificate of femininity" to a competition and, after a test, was declared a man?
... that economist Neil W. Chamberlain made major contributions as an
industrial relations scholar, but eventually became disillusioned about his entire profession?
... that York Hollow is named after three different people?
... that in 1915 the US finished a 16-inch artillery piece that weighed 284,000 pounds (129,000 kg) and that could shoot a 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) shell 21 miles (34 km)?
... that Thomas W. Talley, longtime chair of the chemistry department at
Fisk University, also published the first compilation of African-American secular folk songs?
... that when two winners were declared for the 1724 Taunton by-election, the High Sheriff of Somerset had to choose which to accept?
... that the successful novelist Nell Zink wrote fiction for fifteen years for just one penpal?
11 March 2015
12:20, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
... that Florence Nightingale's Parisian friend "Clarkey" (self-portrait pictured) said that it was better to be a galley slave than a woman?
... that during the 1967 Opium War, both traffickers and their mules were bombed indiscriminately?
... that in Money Monster, a disgruntled viewer takes a TV financial adviser (played by
George Clooney) hostage after following a stock tip and losing all his money?
... that
Romanian literary critic Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică pushed for his country to enter World WarI, and found himself deported to
Bulgaria once that happened?
... that as of 2002, St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan was the second largest cathedral in Africa, built at an estimated cost of US $12 million?
... that Helen Papashvily's story Anything can Happen argues that people should be tolerant of those who are not born in their country?
... that the Legal Quays were once the only places in
London at which ships were authorised to load and unload cargo?
... that clothing manufacturer and self-taught cultural anthropologist Eli Sagan called his inclusion in
Nixon's Enemies List his "proudest life moment"?
9 March 2015
13:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
... that the Broadmoor Sirens(pictured) are tested every Monday at 10am to ensure their readiness to give warning should a patient escape from
Broadmoor?
... that swimmer Dara Torres is a twelve-time
Olympic medalist, has won medals in five different Summer Olympics, and is the oldest swimmer to ever win an Olympic medal?
... that the Beis Rachel Synagogue (pictured) is some half a meter (about two feet) higher than the rest of the row houses in the historical
Jerusalem neighborhood of Knesset Yisrael?
... that 400,000 Argentines attended the 18F demonstration to protest the death of Alberto Nisman, despite torrential rain?
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and
Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
... that London Buses route 467 is the only London bus route to contain school extensions at both ends after adopting the duties of the Surrey bus route 833?
... that no date has been specified for admitting the public to California's Marsh Creek State Park, although the park was formally named on January 27, 2012?
... that in captivity, the larvae of the
beetleGoliathus orientalis(pictured) can be fed commercial dog or cat food?
... that Lyle Stevik's true identity has never been discovered?
... that although the Battle of Vientiane caused some 600 civilian deaths, the losing military force escaped intact?
... that although Alabama Chief Justice and botanist Thomas Minott Peters owned slaves before the Civil War, he later championed equal rights for African Americans and women, and wanted
Jefferson Davis hanged?
... that when 4 inches (10 cm) of rain fell in 45 minutes in the watershed of
Coal Creek, causing it to flood severely, Wadham Creek (less than a mile away) did not even overflow its banks?
... that Marta Lamas co-founded the first feminist newspaper supplement in Mexico?
... that the opera La Loca (The Madwoman) was written as a vehicle for
Beverly Sills in honor of her 50th birthday?
4 March 2015
22:10, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
... that the 104-foot (32m) Sivadol(pictured) in
Sivasagar,
Assam, is believed to be the tallest
Shiva temple in India?
... that the first woman elected to the Geological Society of America, Mary Emilie Holmes, was also one of the cofounders of a historically black college?
... that the common water moss provides a protective habitat for fish eggs and aquatic invertebrates?
... that to the displeasure of the vacationing governor,
Arizona Territorial Secretary George U. Young(pictured) used his power as Acting Governor to grant
clemency to several prisoners?
... that S.O.A.P. encouraged their fans to come up with a
backronym for their name, though they were unimpressed by the "countless unsavoury submissions"?
09:25, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
... that during the breeding season, the male Hypseleotris compressa(pictured) can appear to glow?
... that the engineer Willie Hobbs Moore, credited with expanding Japanese manufacturing practices at
Ford Motor Company, was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in physics?
... that a
football cup final was moved to Holm Park after one of the teams involved had allegedly received threats?
... that Aleen Cust(pictured) was the first female vet recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Ireland and the United Kingdom?
... that Atma Upanishad tells about three types of "Self"?
... that after members of the Artists Union occupied the New York
Federal Art Project offices in 1936, police arrested 219 of them, the largest-ever arrest in the city?
... that Anastasia Gosteva's fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has been published by
UNESCO online?
... that in
1788 a wa(pictured) arrived in
Spanish Guam, stating they had always traded there but stopped after witnessing European cruelty?
... that Corrado Miraglia, who created the role of Ismaele in Verdi's opera Nabucco, became a soloist at the
Milan Cathedral when he retired from the stage?
... that in December 2014 up to 350,000 litres (77,000 imp gal) of oil was spilt(pictured) after an oil tanker collided with a cargo vessel in the
Sundarbans, Bangladesh?
... that the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, established in the 1920s, once included a Conservative Member of Parliament in the
House of Commons and had liberal, conservative, and progressive supporters?
... that Belgian
cinematographerBenoît Debie spent ten years working in television before shooting his first feature film?
... that after the Catalan village of Conill was abandoned, one of its buildings was demolished in order to move its
olive press to a public park in a nearby town?