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23:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that
Robert Nanteuil 's
engraving of
Pompone de Bellièvre (
pictured ) was described as "the most beautiful engraved
portrait that exists"?
... that
Science, Evolution, and Creationism was published by the
National Academy of Sciences to address the
creation-evolution controversy ?
... that the
Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the
Silesian Uprisings ?
... that
Jamie Howarth 's music restoration company, Plangent Process, received a
Grammy award for restoration of a 1949 performance by
Woody Guthrie ?
... that
unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in
master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
... that the
79th Street Boat Basin , featured in the
1998 film
You've Got Mail , is the only
marina that allows year-round residency by
Manhattan boat owners?
... that
Cinimod Studio in
London ,
United Kingdom , designed a
virtual sky ceiling for a Snog
frozen yogurt outlet with clouds whose speeds and colors depend upon the time of day?
14:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that
Princes Pier (
pictured ) in
Port Melbourne ,
Australia , suffered fourteen fires from 2001 to 2004?
... that
novelist
Lucy Jane Bledsoe , a
Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time
Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes
LGBT literature ?
... that the
Corfu Channel Incident , involving the
United Kingdom and
Albania , is considered one of the early episodes of the
Cold War ?
... that
Spednic Lake , which forms part of the
Canada – United States border , is renowned for its
smallmouth bass fishing?
... that
William Chaffey , a member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 33 years, was also a
U.S.
Bronze Star recipient?
... the pranksters behind the
Martian Monkey hoax were fined US$40?
... that the
turnout in the
2002 Algerian legislative election was
Algeria 's lowest yet since independence in 1962?
... that
jockey
Ralph Neves , pronounced dead after a fall in 1936, arrived at the racetrack later the same day demanding to ride?
07:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that
Tower Hill Water Tower (
pictured ) in
Ormskirk ,
Lancashire , is reputed to be the oldest remaining
water tower in
England ?
... that
Majdi Halabi , an
Israeli
Druze soldier from the village of
Daliyat el-Karmel , disappeared on duty near
Haifa and was formally declared to be
missing in action in June 2005?
... that the
2008 Chino Hills Earthquake shook
Southern California with a magnitude of 5.4, and was felt as far away as
Las Vegas, Nevada ?
... that in 1993, police officer
Bob Geary launched a successful
ballot initiative in
San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a
ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
... that after a collision with the
Scottish
clipper
Loch Earn , the
French
steamship
Ville du Havre sank in only 12 minutes, with the loss of 226 lives?
... that the album title
Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
... that
Robert Byington Mitchell , who was
Brigadier General in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War , served as
Governor of
New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869?
15:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the
Highland Park Police Station , where the radical
Symbionese Liberation Army (
emblem pictured ) once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?
... that
Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the
South Col on the
first ascent of
Mount Everest by the
1953 British Expedition ?
... that the
Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the
government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the
Battle of Perryville , and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
... that the
1946
Mexican film
Boom in the Moon starring
Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the
United States until 1983?
... that what is now the
southwestern United States was at one time connected to
East Antarctica according to the
SWEAT model ?
... that a group of Irish publishers tried to print pirated copies of
Samuel Richardson ′s final novel,
The History of Sir Charles Grandison , before the actual first edition was released?
... that the
Muleshoe Heritage Center in
Muleshoe, Texas , greets visitors with a 22-foot-high muleshoe which weighs 15,000 pounds and was an
Eagle Scout project?
... that the
Payne-Desha House in
Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the
Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the
ninth governor of Kentucky ?
01:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the
golf course (
pictured ) around the buildings of the
Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in
Garrison ,
New York helps preserve their historic rural character?
... that future
admirals
Samuel Barrington ,
George Darby ,
Hugh Palliser ,
Thomas Pasley ,
Thomas Troubridge and
Horatio Nelson all served aboard
HMS Seahorse ?
... that the town of
Kendenup in
Western Australia was featured in a classified advertisement in the
New York Times in 1922?
... that
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original
orphanage in
California ?
... that
John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a
composer and
scrivener that his son,
John Milton —author of
Paradise Lost , never had to work for a living?
... that the
Okinawa Prefectural Museum was originally established under the
U.S. Occupation in 1946?
... that
Italian composer
Francesco Portinaro survived an outbreak of
bubonic plague that killed 12,000 to become
maestro di capella at
Padua Cathedral ?
... that the
Neutra Office Building , once the office of
Modernist architect
Richard Neutra , is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
06:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the type of
degree offered by a
veterinary school (
pictured ) can vary widely, ranging from the
Bachelor of Science to the
Doctor of
Veterinary Medicine ?
... that organisations such as
Unilever PLC ,
Tate Gallery ,
Penguin Books , and
Prudential all have collections of
Laura Ford's sculptures?
... that through
Khitan , the Islamic rite of male
circumcision ,
Muslims are the largest single religious group to circumcise males?
... that
Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at
Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher
Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol ?
... that the
Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in
Kentucky dedicated to
Union soldiers , and it took an act of
Congress to build it?
... that
Henry Conway , nicknamed "Queen
Sloane ," once showed up to a
London nightclub in a
horse drawn carriage ?
00:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
... that
The Birches (
pictured ) in
Garrison, New York , was known as the
Honeymoon House because both of William Osborn's sons lived there after their
weddings ?
... that the
defection of
Saddam and
Hussein Kamel helped prompt the
1995 Iraqi presidential election ?
... that
Salem Hospital has the busiest
emergency room in the state of
Oregon ?
... that
Mount Bate , on
Vancouver Island ,
British Columbia , is probably named after
William Thornton Bate , a
Royal Navy officer killed during the
Second Opium War ?
... that "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for
Calocybe carnea , a small pink
mushroom of grassy areas in
Europe and
North America ?
... that T-shirts which featured
Jane Krakowski as
Jenna Maroney , which were seen in a
30 Rock episode entitled "
Jack Gets in the Game " , were made commercially available by
NBC ?
08:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
... that
John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as
Ely Cathedral (
pictured ) ?
...that the
Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly , convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the
Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature?
... that Welsh sportsman
Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for
Swansea and cricket for
Glamorgan at
St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?
... that the "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) by
Bruce Springsteen was a real-life
fortune teller on the
Asbury Park boardwalk?
... that while setting a
Guinness World Record for distance travelled by a solar vehicle, the
University of Waterloo 's
Midnight Sun VII was twice mistaken for a
UFO ?
... that
Sidney Weighell , General Secretary of the
National Union of Railwaymen , played professional
football with
Sunderland for two seasons as an
inside left ?
... that
David Nichtern , who wrote "
Midnight at the Oasis ", is the son of the first female to win a
Tony Award ?