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... that in 1999, Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development at
Walt Disney Animation Studios, becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company?
... that
Neanderthals in the
Valencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100-metre (330 ft) climb to the Bolomor Cave, for use as food?
... that one royal christening gown(pictured in 1903) was worn by 62 British royal babies over its 163-year history?
... that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the
NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on
segregation?
... that Nicholas Emery tried to negotiate the sale of
Maine's northern territory to the American government for one million acres (4,000 km2) of the
Michigan Territory?
... that when Zhai Xiangjun's teaching career was interrupted by dental surgery, he began writing English textbooks, two of which have since been adopted by most Chinese universities?
... that department store chain Kastner & Öhler, based in
Graz, began as a shop for
mercery in 1873, and was the first in Central Europe to introduce fixed prices and run a
mail order service?
... that Thomas Perkins Abernethy's dissertation The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828 earned him a doctorate from
Harvard University and was published in book form?
... that Coxton Tower(illustration shown), despite having been uninhabited since the 1860s, was used to house Canadian troops stationed in Scotland during the Second World War?
... that Hai-Quan Mao was elected an
AIMBE fellow for engineering
nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and drug delivery?
... that Chicago's WCLM radio was investigated for leasing an audio channel without permission to a service that broadcast horse racing results to
bookies, later losing its license over other violations?
27 August 2019
12:00, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Robert M. Adam
... that in 1905, Scottish photographer Robert M. Adam(pictured) was among the last to photograph
Mingulay island before it was abandoned?
... that in the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, the
Byzantines in the flanks defeated their
Seljuk opponents, but on the next morning learned of their
Georgian allies' defeat in the centre?
... that historian Charles Henry Ambler earned his PhD using the first eight chapters of his book, Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861, for his dissertation?
... that despite its reported disappearance from Britain and other European countries, the fountain spleenwort is still considered to have a stable population trend?
... that a $100-million donation to the Central Park Conservancy in 2012 was the largest ever to New York City's park system at the time?
... that Agnes Twiston Hughes was the first woman in Wales to qualify as a solicitor?
... that critics called the comedy adventure video game The Haunted Island "suitably goofy" and "pretty gosh darn rad"?
... that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "
Mrs."?
... that U.S. endocrinologist Lewis E. Braverman found the reason for a Midwestern outbreak of
hyperthyroidism was contaminated ground beef?
... that the bush cricket Ruspolia nitidula(pictured) is commonly eaten in Uganda, where the
price per unit weight is periodically higher than that of beef?
... that Dorothy Olsen was one of only twelve American women certified for night flight in World War II?
... that Donald Dean Jackson, known for his editing of the
George Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?
... that when
Egon Schiele's painting Dämmernde Stadt was auctioned for US$24.6million in 2018, the descendants of two former owners shared the proceeds?
... that a young woman who went missing in a
Rosemont, Illinois, hotel was later found dead inside a walk-in freezer?
... that the rock parrot often nests in the old burrows of seabirds?
... that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms?
... that the swamp musk shrew scrambles around among aquatic vegetation in the dark?
... that Alejandro Finocchiaro, Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
... that Will Dismukes, a 29-year-old member of the
Alabama House of Representatives, is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
... that although Spitzeln was also called German
l'Hombre, it had little more in common with the most successful
card game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
... that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was
too drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
... that the surveillance radar at the Kürecik Radar Station in southeastern Turkey provides
NATO missile defense in Europe?
... that Kris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior
ice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of the
Hartford Wolf Pack?
... that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of
Skidmore College, on which the film focuses?
... that some German child-rearing theorists of the 1970s tied
Nazism and
the Holocaust to authoritarian, sadistic personalities produced by punitive toilet training techniques?
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines (example pictured) at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at
Jackass Flats?
... that
Mark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television series Jeannie?
... that after their beloved Canadian leader, Captain Dyer, died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?
... that when
Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in
Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?
... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer Samuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
... that when the Three Marias published New Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests?
... that 50,000 years ago a
Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?
00:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Pampa mesa in Parcoloma, Ecuador
... that
indigenous people in the Ecuadorian highlands sometimes mark special occasions with a pampa mesa(pictured), a communal meal eaten from a cloth spread on the ground?
... that the sentence of 241 years given to Bobby Bostic was the longest term of imprisonment ever handed down in
Missouri to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses?
... that after the 1924 abolition of the Caliphate(illustration shown), numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
... that Kristine M. Larson(pictured) and her research team were the first to demonstrate that
GPS could be used to detect
seismic waves?
... that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertising
jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
... that the 6th-century
Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet
Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
... that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
... that
Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "
Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in different
tempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
... that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the
Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
A streetcar from Milan in the 1987 Historic Trolley Festival
... that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy (pictured)?
... that
manhua artist Xia Da'sApril Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
... that by approving selinexor, the
FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
... that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
... that antelope grass can recover quickly after
wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
... that pilot Walter Anderson and observer
John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?
00:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
The yellow dwarf on a Nain Jaune game board
... that the classic French card game of Nain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board (pictured)?
... that
sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
... that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other
cannellini beans?
... that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
... that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
... that Turkish
race walkerMeryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of
child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?
... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
... that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of
British Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?
... that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
... that John Talbot White's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?
17 August 2019
12:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
Nanhaipotamon macau
... that the densely-populated territory of
Macau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genus Nanhaipotamon(pictured)?
... that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of
rickets in Glasgow?
... that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the
Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
... that a British climate scientist invented a graphic(shown) depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portray
global warming to non-scientists?
... that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour
motor race?
... that activist Célia Xakriabá(pictured) is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the
Minas Gerais Department of Education?
... that the historic Collingwood mansion in Virginia is expected to be demolished later this year?
... that Alice Evans was the first British female professional
futsal player?
... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
... that policeman and artist
Anatol created the outdoor iron sculpture series Wächter, including a group guarding the environment (pictured) and a memorial to fallen police officers?
... that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
... that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as
Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
... that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
... that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate
Leif Erikson's voyage?
... that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
... that the sons of
Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument?
... that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?
11 August 2019
00:00, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
Wibke Bruhns
... that Wibke Bruhns(pictured), the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of
her father, who was executed by the Nazis?
... that the Meers Fault in
Oklahoma was active during the last 3,000 years and features a
scarp that reaches 16 feet (5 m) in height?
... that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to
TB,
STDs,
HIV, and
Noma?
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Sports and exercises on the Field of Mars,pre-1914
... that over its 300 years, the area of
Saint Petersburg's Field of Mars has been a military parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and location for sports and exercises (pictured)?
... that prolific British author S. H. "Tim" Burton hand-wrote his books because he could not stand typewriters?
... that in addition to founding Tmura, an anti-discrimination center that advocates for women's rights, Yifat Bitton was shortlisted for Israel's
Supreme Court twice?
... that the Hong Kong commercial–residential high-rise Ocean One has a concert hall on its first floor?
... that paediatric surgeon Robert Zachary and his colleagues improved the survival rate of babies with
spina bifida from 10% to 90% by operating within hours of birth?
... that an inscription at the tomb of Isa Khan claims that it is an "asylum of paradise"?
... that Murtaja Qureiris, the youngest
political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the
Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
... that the
Creole Petroleum Corporation's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
... that William Pope created "the first comprehensive, well executed pictorial record of Canadian birds"?
... that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the
Sharif of Mecca's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
... that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
... that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official
Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
... that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned
Kannada,
Hindi, and
Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
... that English theatre historian "
Popie" called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers
Daly's ever had"?
... that, described as being "cursed", Rispin Mansion was variously used as a
SWAT practice ground, a residence, a real-estate showroom, a
ghost hunting site, and a
nunnery?
2 August 2019
00:00, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Wilhelmine and Heinrich Lübke with Queen
Sirikit of Thailand
... that Wilhelmine Lübke(pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany
Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian?
... that the Uptown Hudson Tubes in New York City were constructed with sharp curves to avoid the demolition of preexisting basements?
... that many residents who were relocated prior to the filling of Lake Kossou were able to return to their land when the reservoir failed to reach full capacity?
... that American historian Pamela Nadell traced the origins of the first agitations for a female rabbi to a short story published in 1889?
... that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the
TARDIS doors would not close?
... that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song "
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen"?