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... that Gongnyong Ridge(pictured) in
Seoraksan National Park, South Korea, acquired its name (
lit. 'Dinosaur Ridge') from its peaks looking as "vigorous and dynamic as a dinosaur rising from the ground"?
... that a local story suggests that, in 1912, a cow swam the entire 1,630-yard (0.93 mi; 1.49 km) length of the Foulridge Tunnel before being pulled out and revived with some
brandy?
28 November 2019
00:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Eugen Ernst
... that the appointment of Eugen Ernst(pictured) as president of the Berlin police prompted the
Spartacist uprising of 1919?
... that the 2018 teen drama Skate Kitchen was partly filmed with a camera mounted on a motorized skateboard deck traveling at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h)?
27 November 2019
00:00, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Painting of lotus flowers and birds by Li Yin
... that Li Yin's paintings (example shown) were so sought after that as many as forty imitators in her area turned out fakes of her work?
... that Carolyn F. Ulrich, who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the
New York Public Library?
... that Pan Wen-Yuan is known as the "father" of the
integrated circuit industry in Taiwan despite having never studied, worked for pay, or settled there?
... that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe?
... that in 2019, Ivorian footballer Amad Traoré became the first player born in 2002 to score in the
Serie A?
... that the 1934 choral composition Totentanz (Danse Macabre) by
Hugo Distler combines
motets with spoken dialogue between Death and its victims?
... that English
diabetes specialist Harry Keen conducted a scientific study in which every adult in the town of
Bedford was asked to provide a urine sample for testing?
24 November 2019
00:00, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Dulan village elders performing at the 2016 Amis Music Festival
... that Taiwan's Amis Music Festival(performers pictured) does not publish its schedule in advance, preferring to focus attention on the overall theme of aboriginal heritage rather than individual performers?
... that Fred Rogers's 1969 testimony (video shown) resurfaced in 2012 and 2017 to counter calls for defunding
PBS and similar non-profit arts-related organizations?
... that the male of the hoverfly species Syritta pipiens darts sharply in flight to facilitate mating?
... that Mustafa Güzelgöz was called the "Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated hundreds of books among villagers in
Ürgüp, Turkey, on the back of a donkey?
... that the Isaac T. Hopper House, built during the development of one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods, is now a
halfway house for women?
... that Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa contributed artwork to a
BDSM pulp magazine while still in high school?
... that in 1998 a buyer of Colorado radio station KGRE risked his entire savings and maxed out seven credit cards to acquire it?
... that an owner of radio station KPRB sold it to devote himself to his duties as the fire chief of
Redmond, Oregon?
... that in a Russian naval tradition, vice admiral Viktor Mardusin presented the commander of one of his warships with a roast piglet?
... that infestations of Leptoconops torrens biting flies have halted construction and farming projects in California?
... that during the
Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on
NASA's headset link?
... that after the Bengal famine of 1943 was denied by authorities, news reports with images of the victims in English-language papers made it known internationally?
... that the unpaid
dowry owed by Lucia Visconti's family upon her marriage to
Edmund Holland remained a source of friction between
England and
Milan for more than 60 years after her death?
... that just prior to the construction of 500 Fifth Avenue, the site on which it was built was reportedly the second most valuable undeveloped lot in
Manhattan?
... that the Satanic nightjar can make a growling noise when disturbed?
20 November 2019
00:00, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Gara Medouar
... that a film set for The Mummy was built at Gara Medouar(pictured), an 11th-century fortress on a rock plateau near
Sijilmasa, Morocco?
... that the William Ulmer Brewery, the first brewery to be designated a New York City landmark, produced up to 3,200,000 U.S. gal (12,000,000 L) of beer per year?
... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first
Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
... that in addition to writing operas that premiered in
Porto and Paris, Italian classical organist and composer Francesco Filidei has collaborated with a singer-songwriter on a theatrical show?
... that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during the Siege of Masaka?
... that in 1939, alert workers at West Virginia radio station WBLK saved equipment from a devastating fire, and the station returned to the air within 45 minutes to report the blaze?
... that the female black-capped tanager(pictured) moulds her nest by vibrating in it?
... that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting
dysentery, Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?
... that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan?
... that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as Institutes of Eminence has been approved in India?
... that Chen Zhongyi, an engineer born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., taught the future Chinese president
Hu Jintao?
... that the stories in Chestnut Street by
Maeve Binchy, published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer?
... that much of the stone material studied by archeologists at the 12th-century fortress of Tasghîmût near
Marrakesh has since been hauled off by local builders?
... that Dorothy Spiers was the first woman to qualify as an
actuary in the United Kingdom?
... that John Ystumllyn(portrait shown) has been described as the first black person of
North Wales "about whom we have detailed knowledge"?
... that in the 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War, angry local residents burned down the United States' largest quarantine facility after years of opposition?
... that self-taught Israeli singer-songwriter Ishay Ribo has released four studio albums, two of them certified gold and one platinum?
... that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island,
Cebu City, Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against
illegal fishing?
... that the death of a
track marshal as a result of a two-car collision on lap five of the 2001 Australian Grand Prix was not announced until after the race ended?
... that John Cule was forced to learn Italian because his
batman spoke no English?
... that botanist George R. Proctor collected more than 55,000 specimens, had 31 species named after him, and was convicted of a conspiracy to murder his wife?
... that the rest on arms reversed command (pictured) is used as a mark of respect at funerals and occasions of mourning in some militaries?
... that a cross from the grave of a Canadian World War I soldier was brought back to Canada by W. A. Fry, and now hangs in St. Paul's Anglican Church in
Dunnville, Ontario?
... that
Louisiana radio station WBOX lost more than 90 percent of its advertisers as a result of a 1965 boycott by the
Ku Klux Klan?
... that Chinese businessman Zhang Zhenxin bought a majority share of the Castlemartyr Resort in Ireland after
Kanye West and
Kim Kardashian spent part of their honeymoon there?
... that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a
Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II?
... that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study
3D animation, but ended up studying
hospitality and becoming a chef?
... that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including
Mick Fowler and
Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs?
... that Christina Maria Rantetana was buried in a combined military-traditional funeral, with a salvo of shots as her body was
placed in a niche 30 metres (100 ft) up a cliff?
... that Hawaii radio station KKON's change of format from "beautiful music" to a rock-and-roll/country mix in 1974 lasted just one day?
... that a vandal "knew what he was doing" when he disconnected the fuse blocks to WEYY's transmitter, keeping it off the air for two and a half hours?
... that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli,
South Suli, Dabiele, and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
... that just three years after starting radio station WESQ,
North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
... that James Brown, a visually impaired
Paralympian, recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction on
climate change?
... that Ding Shisun considered his own tenure as President of
Peking University a failure, but scholar
Ji Xianlin called him one of the two best presidents in the institution's history?
... that poison devil's-pepper has been used both as rat poison and as a traditional medicine for humans?
5 November 2019
00:00, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
Michael Hargrave with other medical students who assisted at Bergen-Belsen
... that in 1945, British medical student Michael Hargrave(pictured, second from right) volunteered to provide assistance in the Netherlands, but was sent to help survivors at
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp instead?
... that Canadian
SoundCloud rapperbbno$ became interested in music after suffering a back injury that prevented him from pursuing his dreams as a competitive swimmer?
... that in his 1950 speech at the United Nations, Chinese diplomat Wu Xiuquan demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Taiwan and Korea?