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... that the volcanic Oasis of Mosquitoes in the Sahara has multicoloured lakes (example pictured) and can be seen from space?
... that Anne Patzwald works as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's
wheelchair basketball national team?
... that the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiser Franz Joseph I sank during a gale in October 1919?
... that military officer Francisco Javier Arana, who briefly ruled
Guatemala as part of a three-person
junta, was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
... that
Max Reger composed 20 Responsories in English
for use in the American Lutheran church, although he did not speak English?
... that when suspected Mexican drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found he was storing 348 kilograms (767 lb) of
cocaine?
... that the Oregon Military Museum has more than 14,000 artifacts in its collection, including 50 vehicles, 750 weapons, and 5 military aircraft?
... that Renee Powell was the first female golfer to compete in a British men's tournament?
29 October 2018
00:00, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Stephanus serrator female laying egg
... that having located a beetle larva in dead timber, the female parasitic wasp Stephanus serrator(pictured) may take several hours to drill a hole towards it in which to lay its egg?
... that the 2013 Perkins Review found that only 24% of British parents considered engineering a suitable career for their daughters?
... that the Georgian
hearth goddessLamaria was venerated exclusively by women, either in private rituals within the home or in private shrines outside the boundaries of villages?
... that hurricane responders face hazards from floodwater such as chemical and biological contaminants, and electrocution?
... that Jean Yancey was known in
Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own
startups?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst
Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) tall?
25 October 2018
00:00, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Bockenheimer Depot in 2015
... that the Bockenheimer Depot(pictured) in
Frankfurt, built to house trams, is now a theatre which staged the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway?
... that despite being structurally weakened, it may be beneficial to the porous star coral when the bivalve Lithophaga simplex bores into it?
... that the procession after the 1920 funeral of William G. Blakely reportedly included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in
Kingman, Arizona?
... that pictures of suspected 18-year-old assassin Raúl Meza Torres inspired other teenagers in Mexico to join organized crime?
... that aggregations of painted urchin have been recorded with a density of 80 individuals per square metre?
... that college basketball player Johnny Dee played through a knee injury for most of a season while leading the
NCAA Division I in
free throw shooting percentage?
... that during World War II, Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime?
... that at over fourteen hours in duration, La Flor is the longest film in
Argentine cinema?
... that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the
CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins
freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later?
22 October 2018
00:00, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
May'n performing in 2014
... that Japanese musician May'n(pictured) adopted her stage name because she wanted her fans to consider her their "main" singer?
... that Theater Bremen, the state theatre in
Bremen for operas, plays, dance, and student programs, was selected as opera house of the year by Opernwelt in 2007?
... that the name of the undersea volcano Ita Mai Tai (No Damn Good) was given by a scientist presumably upset by unsuccessful attempts to drill into it?
... that Nanchang Xiangtang Airport served 102 passengers in its first full year of operation, and more than 800,000 four decades later?
... that sugar refiner William Camden was also a partner in a business shipping slaves to the Caribbean?
... that the 2011 horror
webtoon "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" was released with a warning for "pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions"?
... that basketball player Bol Bol received his first
NCAA Division I offer at the age of 15?
... that the slots in the
test of the six-holed keyhole urchin may help prevent it from being washed away by the current?
... that in 2017, Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued
El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a
Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her?
... that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to
Louisville with hopes of reaching the
NCAA Tournament, but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
... that the leader of the Caiazzo massacre on 13 October 1943 eluded arrest for nearly 50 years because authorities were searching for him under the wrong name?
... that Galán, one of the largest exposed
calderas in the world, contains the Laguna Diamante lake, where life has to tolerate extreme environmental conditions?
... that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen
Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King
Kamehameha III?
... that Großtarock, a
card game played with a 78-card
Tarot pack that originated in Germany and spread to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, has survived only in the Danish variant known as Tarok?
... that Beerbohm, a cat owned by the
Gielgud Theatre, became famous for entering actors' dressing rooms, attacking props, and wandering across the stage during performances?
... that photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva won the trust of a Siberian mammoth-tusk hunter by stitching up his injured hand?
Yvonne Lerolle and her sister Christine, by
Renoir
... that
Claude Debussy dedicated a piano piece to Yvonne Lerolle (pictured) in 1894, and included it in his suite Pour le piano in 1901?
... that according to family lore, George FitzGeorge Hamilton, a godson of
George V, was killed in a World War I bombing raid while retrieving his
leave pass?
... that architect Rose Connor found in 1958 that only one percent of registered architects in the U.S. were female, and seven states had no
female architects at all?
... that the
mitochondrial DNA molecules of Medusozoa are linear rather than circular as in almost all other animals?
... that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use?
... that
Cristin Milioti describes her character Nanette Cole from the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister" as "a woman in charge [fighting] against a small-minded, misogynist bully"?
... that Cruz Pérez Cuéllar ran for
Governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, in 2016 on a platform that called for voters to decide if the governor should be removed midway through his term?
... that during World War II, the United States Lake Survey published 370 tons of maps including 8,109 different charts and maps, distributing over 9 million items to the armed forces?
... that the Furgate scandal in the late 1990s, described as one of the largest in South Korea, involved
influence peddling through the giving of luxury items?
... that upon its completion in 2016 at SeaWorld Orlando, Mako became the tallest, longest, and fastest
roller coaster in the
Orlando area of
Florida?
... that French poet René Ghil worked towards developing an ideal poetic language that would "subsume and supersede all the other arts" by establishing his own system of verbal instrumentation?
... that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty, the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
... that one of the dogs belonging to Imran Khan, the Pakistani prime minister, accompanies him on his daily helicopter ride to the office and in official meetings at his home?
4 October 2018
00:00, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
The Hungry Tree
... that the Hungry Tree in Dublin is "eating" a park bench (pictured)?
... that Aglantha digitale(pictured) has a slow swimming action but a rapid escape response?
... that one of the two temples visited most often by
the Buddha was built by Visakha, a wealthy aristocratic woman who was considered his chief female lay disciple?
... that professional basketball player Daniel Dixon enrolled in military school after drawing interest from only one college during high school?
... that a scandal at the
administrative post of Lioma led to a landmark decision that provided better legal protection for all students in Mozambique?
... that Jake was one of two
Overwatch League players invited to a summit between the International Olympic Committee and the
eSports community?
... that the designs for the 170-gun HMS Duke of Kent may have been fabricated in an attempt to claim credit for several ship-building innovations?
... that upon their return to the Philippines after attending college in the United States, pensionados were referred to as "American boys" and faced discrimination?
... that when the designer
Mariano Fortuny established his studio in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice, he was one of about 350 people using the building?
... that the boys choir Wiesbadener Knabenchor has performed as an "ambassador" of
Wiesbaden, Germany, including in Bulgaria and Australia?
... that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in
Glasgow, Scotland, during excavation work?
... that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85, shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in
Guadalajara, Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?
1 October 2018
00:00, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Two survivors of Nordhausen concentration camp
... that Nordhausen concentration camp(survivors pictured), where more than a thousand corpses were found, was described as "the most horrifying example of Nazi terrorism imaginable"?