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... that Indigo Swing was described as "one of the name bands" of its genre?
... that Turkish world-champion para-archer Yiğit Caner Aydın stayed in hospital for eight months after a stand fell on his head, broke his neck, and paralyzed him?
... that "Bewahre uns, Gott" (Keep us, God) is a
hymn for protection and blessing that
Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina?
... that the
Pestalozzi Children's Village in Switzerland was established in 1946 after Walter Corti called for the establishment of a village for orphans of World War II?
... that the Neil Simon Theatre, a New York City landmark, was the first Broadway theater renamed after a living playwright?
... that Arti Rana was the president of the self-help group Tharu Hath KargaGharelu Udyog when it received assistance from the
World Wide Fund for Nature to make its
looms more efficient?
... that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman, known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion
javelin thrower?
... that as part of his work as an antiquary, William Thomas visited every church in Worcestershire?
... that after
Los Angeles Spanish-language TV station KMEX-TV discovered that 15 percent of its viewers did not know the language, it added Spanish courses to its programming?
... that Chinese writer Feng Xuefeng rewrote his 500,000-character manuscript, lost after he was captured by the
Nationalists—only for him to burn it himself?
26 March 2022
00:00, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Rose Delaunay
... that Rose Delaunay(pictured), a French operatic soprano who began her career at the
Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their
diamond wedding in 1937?
... that
Raven-Symoné, who played the lead role in the series That's So Raven, became a producer for its fourth season at the age of 19?
... that the website NewsFront evaded a Facebook ban by posting its content on
mirror sites?
... that Macy Rodman's 2021 album Unbelievable Animals was described as combining "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots" and "a dash of Ray of Light–esque experimental pop"?
... that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
... that Gloria Rojas, one of the first Latina broadcast journalists in New York City, helped launch the career of
Geraldo Rivera?
... that dancer Jovani Furlan made his
New York City Ballet debut in a role in which he was cast at the last minute, with a partner with whom he had never rehearsed?
... that all the original buildings of London's Angel Street have been destroyed by fire, bombing, or demolition?
... that due to business closures across California during the
COVID-19 pandemic, some of the exotic dancers at Jumbo's Clown Room created the Cyber Clown Girls show so they could continue working?
... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world?
22 March 2022
00:00, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Alena Aladava commemorative coin
... that museum director Alena Aladava(pictured) rebuilt the Belarusian national art collection in the aftermath of the Second World War?
... that the Green Line Extension, which partially opens today, was first proposed a century ago?
... that while serving his nighttime prison sentence for writing articles critical of the government, Juan Pablo Cárdenas continued writing during the day?
... that Stephan MacLeod's 2021 recording of Bach's
Mass in B minor with ten singers was said to be "characterised by swift momentum, crisp articulation and benevolent attention to detail"?
... that the faster version of the Mac Studio is 2 pounds (910 g) heavier than the slower one?
... that in a weeklong contest during World War II, trained farm girls(pictured) were found to produce more
enriched uranium than professional physicists?
... that when
Lviv-born Maria Moscisca(pictured) performed the title role of Verdi's La traviata at the
San Francisco Opera in 1913, a review described her as "the impersonation of grace and refinement"?
... that Wisconsin farmer-lawmaker Joseph Mleziva refused to run for a fifth term in 1948, saying, "I can't afford to continue and, besides, I'm tired of taking the abuse that comes with the job"?
... that those who toppled the Monumento a los Constructores said that it was "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"?
... that
Red Blanchard, the owner of Iowa radio station KSMN, commuted 800 miles (1280 km) by plane from
Mason City each week to host a radio show in
Chicago?
... that after surviving
D-Day, former quarterback Mike Koken wrote that playing
American football for
Notre Dame left one "prepared for the toughest stuff the Jerries can throw at you"?
... that Iowa radio station KFQC was said to change programming and ownership "almost as regularly as dental check-ups are recommended"?
00:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Eadweard Muybridge, Ostrich Running, 1887
... that the 19th-century photographer
Eadweard Muybridge created more than 100,000 images for his study Animal Locomotion(example pictured) that included an ostrich and a capybara?
... that as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Smiley v. Holm, the 1932 general election ballot in Minnesota contained 30 candidates for Congress?
... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of
Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?
... that after the
British Army captured New York City in 1776, Samuel Loudon fled to the village of
Fishkill, where he founded the state's first post office?
... that the
gonads of the banded bullfrog remain ripe during dry periods so that it can mate soon after rainfall?
... that the height of the Ganesh idol at Khairatabad in India increased by one foot (0.3 m) every year between 1954 and 2014?
... that the Warwick Railway successfully operated independently for decades despite having just three employees, two locomotives, and less than a mile (1.6 km) of track?
... that while playing a ghost in the mystery film Lekin...,
Dimple Kapadia was forbidden to blink because director
Gulzar believed it would make her feel surreal?
... that the colour of the markings on Nesticus cellulanus can vary depending on the light level of the habitat, with darker habitats causing lighter markings?
... that in addition to creating milkshake products, Keventers Milkshake was also a major supplier of various milk products to the
Indian Army for several decades up until the 1970s?
... that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a
Boeing division, and a potential new facility for
Seattle Sounders FC?
... that Anderson Stadium in
Austin, Texas, is the last high-school football stadium in the state built exclusively for African-American students?
... that Anna Korsun, a composer who studied in Kyiv and Munich, and teaches in Amsterdam, was awarded a scholarship at the
Villa Massimo in Rome in 2018?
... that James A. Merriman(pictured) was the only Black graduate from Rush Medical College in 1902 and the first African-American physician to practice medicine in
Portland?
... that torture causes a higher risk of mental trauma than any other known human experience?
... that there are only about 30 Ancient Egyptian obelisks(example pictured) left standing worldwide—and Italy has more than Egypt?
... that H. Radclyffe Roberts once used a parachute, pulleys, and an "insect bomb" to collect grasshoppers from treetops?
... that
Joan G. Robinson felt that through writing the novel When Marnie Was There, she "faced the truth and found understanding" about her emotionally distant relationship with her mother?
... that as the first
licensed architect in Oklahoma, Leon B. Senter held "License Number 1" for forty years, from 1925 until his death?
... that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th-century practice of some parents in France giving their children to
wet nurses for a year or more?
... that in a kishu ryūritan story a hero is exiled from their society, faces a variety of ordeals, and either returns in triumph or dies in exile?
... that Dianna Agron auditioned for Glee using a high voice because she interpreted
her character as a perfectionist who would not want a deep voice, something for which Agron had been teased at school?
... that the developer Jack King-Spooner claimed that the people of
Beeswing seemed to be supportive of his creation of his semi-autobiographical
indie gameBeeswing?
... that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?
00:20, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Sculpture
... that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in
Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century?
... that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
... that Andreas Rechnitzer helped devise the first scuba diving training program for scientists?
... that the flatworm Humbertium covidum(pictured), named after the
COVID-19 pandemic, was classified in a study written mostly during the initial lockdown?
... that, for the animated film Us Again, director and writer Zach Parrish considered a video of an elderly couple dancing to be visceral and ideal inspiration?
... that the legs of the statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark (pictured) are at least 1,600 years older than the torso?
... that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink, the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at
the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
... that an executive of Florida station WFTL-TV declared that he had "faith in its future", only to sell it within months and for the station to close within three years?
3 March 2022
00:00, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Elysia timida
... that the sea slug Elysia timida(example pictured) absorbs its colouration from its algae-based diet?
... that when Florida television station WITV ceased broadcasting in May 1958, its owner was reported to be on a yacht at sea and thus unavailable for comment?
... that to repel migrants, the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
... that journalist Bill Westwick once wrote about a plan that never happened with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity"?
2 March 2022
00:00, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Contemporary depiction of the parade
... that after the 1871 German victory parade in Paris(pictured) 151 years ago today, the French symbolically scrubbed the streets on which the Germans had marched?
... that a Cossack detachment led by Imperial Russian Lazar Bicherakhov joined forces with British general
Lionel Dunsterville's expeditionary corps to prevent Ottoman advance?
... that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
... that the concept of hyperspace, primarily known through its use in science fiction, originated from and is still occasionally used in scholarly works?
... that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
... that
Patsy Cline's cover of
Willie Nelson's "Crazy" was the all-time most played song in
jukeboxes in the United States, 35 years after its release?
... that although it is a
bird of prey, the white-fronted falconet is only 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and mainly feeds on insects?
... that the Turkish Defne Magnanery was established in a farm house donated by the brother of the head silk farmwoman after he watched her silk farming in a British documentary film?