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... that French cellist Jules Delsart(pictured) was a soloist in the premiere of
David Popper's Requiem for three
cellos and orchestra, along with the composer?
... that before Amanda Staveley reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from
Prince Andrew, she was a model and
Cambridge student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?
06:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
... that the maintenance shed (pictured) at New York's Batavia Cemetery was originally a bank building?
... that during the Siege of Güns, Captain
Nikola Jurišić and his garrison of 800
Croats held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the
Ottomans?
... that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
... that German-born U.S. soldier John Schnitzer received the
Medal of Honor along with First Lieutenant
Wilber Wilder for rescuing a wounded comrade during battle with the
Apache Indians in 1882?
... that the PERISCOP made it possible to retrieve live fish from over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) deep, despite the extreme pressure at that depth?
... that 19-year-old
Medal of Honor recipient Albert Sale received the award for killing an
Apache warrior in hand-to-hand combat and taking his war pony?
... that the British
destroyerHMS Gallant(pictured) struck a
mine on 10 January 1941 that blew the
bow off the ship, and had to be towed stern-first to
Malta by the destroyer
HMS Mohawk?
... that pottery boat models found at Tell Mashnaqa, northeastern
Syria, suggest that people of the
Khabur region had already made use of boats for transport and fishing by c. 5000 BC, if not before?
... that automotive manufacturing is a significant industry in
Russia, directly employing around 600,000 people and supporting 2–3 million people in related industries?
... that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of
Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
... that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in
Barton Bendish,
Norfolk, contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
... that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre–
World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for
Gene Autry) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
... that when
Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov(pictured) was released from prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take charge of the rebellion instead?
... that the mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis(pictured) is so slimy that it has been described as "much too slippery to be of value"?
... that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian
dhow which was sewn together, and held the "
Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
... that the 3rd Earl of Egremont(bust pictured) simultaneously maintained around 15 mistresses with more than 40 children at
Petworth House?
... that in 1984, while
Queen's song "I Want to Break Free"
charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
... that the
beach at Kiryat Sanz in
Netanya was the first in
Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
... that in order to save David Nowakowsky's music from destruction by the
Nazis, thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in
France?
... that although it can be difficult to define, some signs of surface bargaining include reneging on agreements already reached during
collective bargaining or raising new issues late in negotiations?
... that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?
00:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
... that after a fox took shelter in the ruins of Capel Lligwy(pictured), in
Anglesey, north Wales, a vault was discovered containing "a large mass of human bones, several feet in depth"?
... that sections of state highway M-37 in
Michigan have been named for a
Civil War general, a
governor, and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
... that the Japanese
pop music female duo ClariS have not released photos of themselves to the public, and instead have employed
illustrators to draw their likenesses?
... that a humorous solution for the Buridan's bridgesophism is that
Plato should let
Socrates cross the bridge and then throw him into the river on the other side?
... that when the
Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko, they met no resistance because the defending
Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
... that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer
Oort cloud of the
solar system, but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
... that Tony Burrello'ssingle "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?
... that the city of
Sulphur,
Louisiana, once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
... that
kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin, a mystical symbol of
Kabbalah, will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
... that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make
engravings from medals, coins and other
bas-reliefs, and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
... that the city of
Chicago has warming centers open from December 1 to March 1 each year?
... that the
dwarfSeneb(sculpture pictured) overcame his diminutive size to become a high-ranking royal official in
ancient Egypt, marry a priestess and own thousands of cattle?
... that mountain coatis, a
genus of small
carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single
species, until a second species was recognized in 2009?
... that Cedric Wright accompanied his best friend
Ansel Adams when three of Adams' most famous photographs were taken?
... that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the
Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's
sound capabilities?
00:00, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
... that NASA engineers shook a Saturn V test vehicle(S-IC stage pictured) for over 400 hours to ensure it would withstand the rigors of launch?
... that former
Syrian chief of staff Ali Aslan was considered the "operational brain" of the
Syrian Army during the 1990s?
... that fortuitous finding of a colossal basalt lion (pictured) in 1955 led to discovery of the Ain Dara temple near
Aleppo in
Syria, which was built in three structural phases between 1300 BC and 740 BC?
... that Doomsday Gun (
HBO, 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with
Saddam Hussein preceding the
Gulf War?
... that Hemioniscus balani is called a "parasitic castrator" although its barnacle host remains a functioning male because the barnacle can no longer also function as a female?
... that "New Allegiances", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks, was partially filmed on location in
Moscow,
Russia, the first time in series history where filming took place outside the
United Kingdom?
... that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his
car number plate?
... that from a standing start, Wales
rugby union international Roy John could jump up and reach the crossbar set at 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) above the ground?
... that the bat Myotis escalerai was first recorded in France in 2009?
... that
Michigan's
1915quarterbackLawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
... that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in
Akenham,
Suffolk, led to a change in the law in 1880?
... that Oliver Lewis, founding member of the electronic music group
Deviations Project, is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
... that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near
Sanya,
Hainan, China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of
Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
... that Gabe Carimi, who is expected to be picked in the first round of the
2011 NFL Draft, fasted for
Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?
... that
MichiganquarterbackTed Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in
World War I?
... that the SHARP aircraft was a sort of low-altitude
communications satellite in the form of an electrically powered airplane?
... that legend says that
Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to
its burial place?
... that
Pinocchio's sentence "My nose grows now" could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
... that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla, in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
... that while it took
Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47, the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree?
... that 24 non-fatal accidents at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF in 1926 prompted its commander to remark that the cadets must have learned how to crash "moderately safely"?
... that the 150-million-year-old
ink of the
extinct,
squid-like Belemnotheutis(artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that
paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
... that, in the Rule 90cellular automaton, any finite pattern eventually fills the whole array of cells with copies of itself?
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in
Massachusetts?
... that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into
prayer beads that are still used in
Iraq?
... that the canine
actorSykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on
YouTube?
... that because
Leonid Brezhnev(pictured) had more than 200 decorations, it was decided to break the Soviet custom of featuring only one decoration on cushions during his funeral?
... that the
Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara(pictured) is depicted with the right half as male, sometimes with an erect penis, and the left half as female with a well-developed breast?
... that to keep the
French wine grape Len de l'El from fading into obscurity,
Gaillac wine growers used
wine laws to dictate a minimum usage of the grape for all white Gaillac blends?
... that Louis Leithold, an
AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in
calculus?
00:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
... that the JB-4 missile (pictured) was guided via
television?
... that the
Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenitaZoe, but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
... that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with
The Cars, singer
Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This, the band's first studio album in 23 years?
... that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
... that the report of an investigation of delays in completing the Idamalayar Dam project in
Kerala stated it was a "victim of recurring and long inertial periods of labour unrest"?
... that Techno Viking has received more than 20 million clicks on
YouTube and given rise to more than 700 responses and remixed versions?
... that an aborted family
picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in
Oregon instead of
California?
00:00, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
... that a dying parishioner paid for architect Robert North to travel so that his design for St. James' Episcopal Church(pictured) in
Batavia, New York, would reflect "the quiet spirit of the English countryside"?
... that much of the demolition of Sugar House Prison in
Utah had to be carried out stone by stone, because
dynamite had little effect on its heavy walls?
... that
Jennifer Lopez's 2011 comeback, "On the Floor", samples
Kaoma's 1989 hit single "
Lambada" but fellow latin artist
Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
... that the old Bridge Tender's House on the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., is now a giant kaleidoscope?
... that New Georgia, Liberia, was established by Africans "recaptured" from a
slave ship and held for seven years in
Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
... that Elizabeth W. Champney, author of the "Three
Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her
hometown?
... that because the rodent Akodon spegazzinii is so variable, several populations have been named as separate species?
... that LifeSpring Hospitals, an Indian hospital chain that provides care to low income patients in
Hyderabad, was the first health care company to join the
UN's Business Call to Action?
... that a photograph of Private John Hines with the German money and equipment he had
looted during the
Battle of Polygon Wood in 1917 (pictured) is one of the best known Australian images of
World War I?
... that nearly half a century after the assassination of
Huey Long, the
LouisianaphysicianEdgar Hull disputed a longstanding claim that Long had received inferior medical treatment following the fatal shooting?
... that the pilot of Lufthansa Flight 592 persuaded solo hijacker Nebiu Zewolde Demeke to trade his pistol for the pilot's sunglasses?
... that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time?
... that, before Ed Westcott photographed
J. Robert Oppenheimer holding a cigarette (pictured), he gave the physicist money so he could buy cigarettes?
... that, in 1984, John Butt became the first – and only – Westerner to graduate from the noted
Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic Madrasah since its foundation in 1866?
... that heavy fog meant that helicopters were unable to participate in rescue operations after a recent train wreck in
Saxony-Anhalt, Germany?
... that
Comedy Central's South Park was the "number one influence" for the humor in the
adult video gameBonetown, a game which encourages the player to have sex with as many women in-game as possible?
... that ancient Egyptian temples contain architectural elements that symbolize houses, hills, tombs, marshes, and guard towers?
... that the fictional character Bobby Simpson from the soap opera Home and Away was only allowed to marry after a real life
shopping center filled with people approved?
00:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
... that the first church built on the site of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales (pictured), is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab himself in 616?
... that after Rolling Stone published photos and addresses of 100 gays and lesbians under the headline "Hang Them",
Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was awarded
USh1.5 million in damages?
... that the controversial
Malay novel Interlok will be amended before being included in the syllabus for the subject of Malay literature in
Malaysian schools?
... that the habitat of the rare Navajo sedge is limited to the shady side of steep, often vertical, cliffs of red
Navajo Sandstone of the
Colorado Plateau at elevations between 5700 and 6000 feet?
... that Jocotitlán,Mexico, sits at the foot of a small dormant volcano, which could become active again?
... that when a Farman Sport biplane was modified in 1926 with a short, broad
parasol wing, it gained the nickname "the Flying Postcard"?
00:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
... that a corset company's sales increased greatly when a pioneering photo
ad(example pictured), created by Earnest Elmo Calkins, appeared on the back cover of a woman's magazine?
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens, has been called "the patron solicitor of previously lost causes"?
... that, after "Stop ... pooping!" was uttered by
Rob Lowe in the Parks and Recreation episode "Flu Season", the line was deemed the "single greatest self-effacingly comic moment of his long, handsome career"?
... that
billiards player François Mingaud invented the leather
cue tip, perfected
backspin, then persuaded an audience that the balls were "tormented by a devil"?
... that the Samaikyandhra Movement is a socio-political movement organized around the need for the Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh to remain united and to oppose the secession of
Telangana?
... that the ancient city of Hamaxitus on the west coast of present-day
Turkey used to issue coins featuring a nearby shrine for the
Greek deityApollo?
... that Kamo(pictured)stole 341,000 rubles, was caught,
feigned insanity for over three years, partly by eating his own excrement, escaped, was recaptured and sentenced to death, but was freed after
a revolution?
... that the
larvae of the common green
lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea(pictured) usually consume
aphids, but when food is scarce they will eat each other?
... that the November 2010 sale by Silver Star Holidays of its local bus routes around
Caernarfon ended nearly ninety years of bus service operation by the company?
... that, besides giving hundreds of
benefit concerts for residents of
OHEL children's homes,
Hasidic singer Shloime Dachs frequently hosts OHEL residents at his own home?
... that the foremost authority on
primateanatomy during the 20th century, William Charles Osman Hill, enjoyed drugstore ice cream and gardening with his wife, Yvonne?
... that at least 21 American troops died as a result of
friendly fire during the recapturing of Kiska in 1943, despite the island being uninhabited at the time of the assault?
... that, although Chris Marcus was seven feet tall in
high school, it took convincing from the school's basketball coach for him to play for the team?
... that the mountains of Petatlán host a local environmental group, some members of which have been imprisoned by the government and defended by groups such as
Amnesty International?
... that members of the Assembly of Vlorë rejected the autonomy of the
Albanian Vilayet, projected a couple of months earlier, and signed the
declaration of its complete independence on November 28, 1912?
... that, according to the theory of generations, major historical events that occur in a
generation's youth, determine the actions they take later in life?
... that despite being roundly denounced by educational experts as ineffective and promoting inequality, an
eleven plus exam is still incorporated into the Maltese educational system?
... that Mia Skäringer, a Swedish actress and comedian, won the
Kristallen Award for best comedy show on television in both 2008 and 2009?
... that cirrus clouds(pictured with a fire rainbow) cover an average of 20% to 25% of the Earth's surface at any time and can produce
glories,
fire rainbows, and
sundogs?
... that Primitive Hall, built by Joseph Pennock in 1738, has been owned or controlled by his descendants ever since?
... that
diamond prospecting permits have been awarded covering an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) between Temboc and Kasonga Lunda over the Kwango River(pictured) stretch of about 185 km (115 mi) in
Angola?
... that although it is thought that the Jenny Lind Tower was moved to its present location by an admirer of the
late singer, the admirer was born 17 years after Lind toured the
United States?
... that the Polish canned fish paste paprykarz szczeciński was inspired by an African dish?
... that Crestwood Court, the first mall in the
St. Louis area, has countered the loss of major retailers by adding tenants such as an art gallery and dance studio?
... that in 1909, journalist Jules Fournier was charged with
contempt of court in
Quebec for calling decisions made by its courts system a "prostitution of justice"?
... that due to safety concerns following the
Waco siege, when Joseph Borg seized the headquarters of a Christian ministry in
Tampa, he used an
armored vehicle to ensure that resistance would be futile?
06:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
... that Australia's Organ Pipes National Park, which has 400-million-year-old
volcanic formations, features hexagonal
basalt columns (pictured) known as the "Organ Pipes"?
... that between 1979 and 1989, the ivory trade was primarily responsible for the death of more than 500,000
elephants?
... that in 1763, the
Mississauga chief Wabbicommicot appeared at
Fort Niagara to demand rum payments from the British, and warned of consequences should they not be received?
... that the Landis Report reviewed United States administrative agencies in 1960 for President-elect Kennedy and recommended greater clarity on the roles and authority of agency chairs?
... that Charles Asten, a member of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, received the
Medal of Honor for completing his duties on the
USS Signal despite being on the sick list?
... that
architectVlastimil Koubek arrived in the United States from
Czechoslovakia with just $12, but by the end of his career had designed buildings worth more than $2 billion?
... that the spherical tokamakfusion power concept (typical plasma pictured) was initially tested in the
START reactor on a shoestring budget using bits of older experiments?
... that Henry Mann's 1949 book, Analysis and design of experiments, filled mathematical gaps in the statistical writings of
Ronald A. Fisher?
... that, during the construction of the Bærum Tunnel, an automatic
groundwater measuring system was used to compensate for any leaks?
... that American minister and
Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of
Hillsdale College?
... that in 1827, HMS Nimble, an anti-slave patrol, ran aground near the
Florida Keys while engaged in a gun battle with the Spanish
slave shipGuerrero, which also ran aground and sank?
... that, in the case of White v Driver,
Sir John Nicholl ruled that the will of an insane person could be valid provided the testator was lucid when making the will?
... that the Faces of Meth project shows before-and-after images documenting physical deterioration caused by
meth use?
... that Charles Fletcher, the first European settler in what is now Navarro River Redwoods State Park, built an inn in 1865 that remained open until the 1970s?
... that Lycée Pierre Corneille was founded in 1593 to educate children "in accordance with the purest doctrinal principles of Roman Catholicism"?
... that, although its working title was "DL Part 2",
Nelly claims his 2011 duet with
Kelly Rowland, "Gone", is not a sequel to their 2002 duet "
Dilemma"?
... that the
U.S. Supreme Court held in O'Connor v. Ortega that public employees have
Fourth Amendment rights in the workplace but declined to decide whether they were violated in the case under consideration?