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... that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in
East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
... that the leaves of young Bagassa guianensis trees are so different from those of the adults that
taxonomists considered them to be different species for at least 150 years?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway" was inspired by an episode of the
HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?
29 June 2009
20:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
... that the Atlantic flyingfish(pictured) can glide 3 to 12 metres (10 to 39 ft) in the air after jumping out of the water?
... that pioneering
lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"?
... that the 1749
pamphletSatan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting
effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen?
... that the
Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern
Petén region of
Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
... that the unusual finger structure of the
dinosaurLimusaurus(pictured) gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into
birdwings?
... that despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the
baseballmemoirOdd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate?
... that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some
United Statesbreweries, was originally brewed in and named after the
Czech village of Libočany(pictured)?
... that Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil
jaw found south of the
Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct
ape that lived in
China two million years ago?
... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than
US$1 billion with which to finance
film production?
... that dominant white, a collection of related
genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no
skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats (example pictured)?
... that in
Albanian folklore, the zana, mountain
fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878
Treaty of San Stefano?
... that the 1906 firing of John McLean(pictured) for paying an athlete to play
college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of
Missouri athletics"?
... that some historians argue that Haimo, a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first
barons of the Exchequer?
... that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power, the
death metal band
Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in
Bogotá,
Colombia, and performed in front of 80,000 people?
... that despite being named one of the "top prospects of the decade" by
Baseball America, American
baseballpitcherNick Neugebauer compiled a career record of just two wins and eight losses?
... that Laura M. Cobb(pictured) of the
US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese
POW in
World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses?
... that limbic resonance is a process of "internal adaptation whereby two
mammals become attuned to each other's inner states"?
... that historian Philip D. Curtin challenged widely-used estimates that 20 million
African slaves had crossed the
Atlantic, estimating that 9.5 million had arrived in the
Americas by 1870?
... that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work?
... that John Houghtaling created the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s, earning
US$2 million in gross revenue each month, 25 cents at a time?
... that during the
American Civil War, the Third Tennessee regiment was sent to Camp Trousdale to help relieve disease, but its soldiers still suffered from epidemics?
... that the developers of the
simulation gamePHM Pegasus consulted with the
hydrofoil manufacturer Boeing Marine Systems to increase the realism of hydrofoils in their game?
... that Dick King, who played in the early days of the
NFL, was called "one of the greatest backs who ever wore moleskins"?
... that "The Great Gilroy", the leading scorer in
college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory?
... that the
Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a
science-fiction novel?
... that
Yale All-American Ted Coy(pictured), who played football with "his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband," was the basis for a character in a short story by
F. Scott Fitzgerald?
... that Debo Hacerlo was the last album released by Mexican singer-songwriter
Juan Gabriel until 1994, due to a dispute with
BMG over
copyrights of his songs?
... that
Yale All-American Paul Veeder has been credited with throwing the "first
forward pass in a major game"?
... that the 1988 Polish strikes shook the country's Communist regime to such an extent that it was forced to begin considering recognition of
Solidarity?
... that a critical
bug in the
PSP game Class of Heroes was found only days before manufacturing began?
02:35, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
... that a shrine in
Shiraz over the tomb(pictured) of the famed
Persian poetHafez was pulled down in 1899 by protesters, because it was being built by a
Zoroastrian?
... that
theoretical biologistMary Jane West-Eberhard says that she learnt more about science at high school from her English course on critical reading and writing than from her biology class?
... that Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television
news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of
Shreveport, Louisiana?
... that
paleontologistGerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the
Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache"?
... that camber thrust contributes to the ability of
bicycles and
motorcycles to negotiate a turn with the same radius as automobiles but with a smaller steering angle?
... that the Mill Colonnade was originally reviled by critics before eventually becoming a symbol for
Karlovy Vary?
... that on May 31, 2009, the
ROVNereus reached an underwater depth of 10,902 metres (6.8 mi), becoming the world's deepest-diving vehicle?
... that of the three precious statues of the goddess
Kannon enshrined in the Sugimoto-dera temple in
Kamakura,
Japan, likely none were made by the artists they are traditionally attributed to?
... that in 1979, L.D. Knox of
Winnsboro,
Louisiana, had his name legally changed to "None of the Above" Knox to dramatize the lack of choices for voters on his state's
ballot?
14:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
... that Jayco, the largest privately held manufacturer of
recreational vehicles(collapsible model pictured) in North America, has mostly
Amish and
Mennonite employees?
... that almost 29 years after she went missing in
Darwin Harbour during
Cyclone Tracy, the Booya was discovered by accident in only 20 metres (66 ft) of water?
... that the Stannard Rock Light(pictured), known as the "Loneliest Place in the World", is the furthest
lighthouse from land and described as one of the top ten engineering feats in the
United States?
... that in 1984,
Fort WorthbillionaireEd Bass committed $30 million to (and eventually spent over $150 million on)
Biosphere 2, to experiment with "recreating the Earth" and potentially settling
Mars?
... that after performing the theme to the 1963 film Hud,
country music singer Darrell McCall decided to take up acting, appearing in three films during the 1960s?
... that
Garth Brooks released both live and studio recordings of his 1998 single "
It's Your Song" to radio?
... that Tracy Kidder, a
Pulitzer Prize winner for his second book, was so unhappy with his first book that he bought back the rights from the publisher so that it would not "see the light of day again"?
... that while training for
World War I, American athlete Brooke Brewer played for the "Usaacs", a
football team composed of soldiers from the
U.S. Army's ambulance service?
... that motor officers, police jargon for motorcycle officers, go through weeks of motorcycle training(pictured), where they can expect to "drop" or crash their bikes dozens, even hundreds of times?
... that actor Frank Cellier toured in Britain, Germany, America and South Africa from 1903 to 1920, appearing only once in London, before beginning a
West End career?
... that the brains of Mormyrinae(pictured), a
subfamily of
Africanfreshwater fish, use 60 percent of their body's energy, three times more than
humans, the animal with the next highest percentage?
... that half of the regular advertisers for the
ABC series thirtysomething pulled out of the episode "Strangers", costing the network some
US$1.5 million, because it showed two men in bed together?
05:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
... that Dustbot(pictured), the cleaning robot, responds to
text messages and uses
GPS to find homes and collect trash?
... that the 2009 Loyal ArrowNATO exercises in
Sweden are the biggest aerial military exercises ever held in Sweden, involving around 2000 soldiers and 50 jets?
... that Otto Nielsen played an important role behind the Norwegian cultural scene, as a program editor of the radio magazine Søndagsposten for more than twenty years?
... that Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the
lighting on if
Queen Victoria was spending the night in
London?
... that the tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii, was named after
Cooktown and its discoverer,
Lewis Roberts, and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia?
... that although experts expected
ethanol cars (example pictured) to underperform their
petrol counterparts, Polestar Racing's
E85-powered S60 won the first two races of the 2007 Swedish Touring Car Championship?
... that in the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected
communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of
capitalist enemies?
... that
Aurangzeb, apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter
Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in
Delhi for 21 years till her death?
... that many female
portraits by Jeremiah Theus share identical poses and costumes, down to the folds and shadows of the sitters' dresses?
... that Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paolí was arrested in 1950 because he made four speeches in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and he had a
Puerto Rican Flag in his house?
... that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over?
... that "
Dahil Sa Iyo", a song with
Tagalog and
English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the
Filipino anthem?
... that according to legend, the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero(pictured) were demolished by a jealous husband after they were given to his wife by the viceroy of
New Spain?
... that a sex scandal in
Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
... that as Adam Best,
David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders?
... that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore, some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with
canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
... that Anna Goldfeder, a pioneer in the fields of
radiology and
cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
15:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
... that the fortified city of Jahanpanah(pictured) was the fourth city to be founded in
Delhi when
Muhammad bin Tughlaq established it in 1327?
... that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term "grief porn" at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?
03:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
... that although classified as a
stingray, the porcupine ray(pictured) does not have a stinging spine on its tail?
... that following the Grue Church fire on
Pentecost 1822 in
Solør,
Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
... that in 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of
Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition?
... that after facing 2009 All-American
softballpitcherNikki Nemitz's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
... that during
World War I, a British propaganda claim that
Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver?
... that the
Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer
William Vincent Wallace only 10
shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made
£50,000 from its performances?
... that the
BBC Radio 4sitcomNewfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago?
... that the Financial News competed with its rival the Financial Times by attacking companies which advertised there?
... that in a US study almost all
surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training?
... that in the
Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a
reality TVgame show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?
... that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?
15:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
... that
WW1 stopped production of AJS Model Dmotorcycles but a 1917 order to supply
Russia with 1,100 military motorcycles enabled them to continue development?
... that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war, January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
... that, measuring a mere 8.6 cm (3.4 in) long, the Buff-faced Pygmy-parrot is the world's smallest species of
parrot?
... that Pakenham Windmill(pictured) appeared in a short film used by the
BBC in the 1950s for interludes between programmes?
... that in the advent of war with Great Britain,
Adolf Hitler's
Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying
convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
... that after ruling Japan for 135 years, the
Hōjō clan set its
family temple on fire before committing
mass suicide within, and were enshrined en masse in the temple of Hōkai-ji?
... that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first-year teachers as a day for activities including cooking
bacon, making
BLTs, and discussing where
pork chops come from?
... that when
classicistBernard Knox was selected for the 1992
Jefferson Lecture (the U.S.'s highest
humanities honor), he gave his speech the "provocative" title "The Oldest Dead White European Males"?
... that a critic reviewing
country music artist
Ronnie Milsap's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s?
... that the Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British
World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?
2 June 2009
20:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
... that the railroad station in Dilley, Oregon, was built 23 years after the
railroad reached the community?
... that in 1895, the husband of
English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the
acting profession?
... that in the
U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse?
... that the
Bulgarian villages of Mezek and Matochina, situated near the borders with
Greece and
Turkey, both have medieval castles (Matochina fortress pictured)?
... that the Old Log Theater is reputedly the oldest professional
theater in the state of
Minnesota and is the oldest continuously operating professional theater in the United States?
... that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church(pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it?
... that the Helmerich Award, an annual
literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey?
... that in 1987, the Elk Creek Dam's construction on Elk Creek was halted due to a
court injunction issued over a lawsuit designed to protect
salmon and other
migratory fish from the effects of the
dam on the river?