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31 October 2012
16:00, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
... that the "Ladies of Téviec" (pictured) were murdered in the
Stone Age, their bodies decorated with shell jewellery and buried in a
midden under a roof of antlers?
... that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., a United States district court is currently deciding whether or not it is legal to buy and sell pre-owned digital music?
... that vampire prostitutes are believed to enter a man's house naked in the night and suck his blood through his toes?
... that Indian filmmaker
Satyajit Ray(pictured) made his last documentary in 1987 on his father, as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth?
... that Cecil Vandepeer Clarke(pictured) invented military equipment including a limpet mine, an underground tank, a spigot gun, an exploding trouser sausage, and a rocket propelled bridge?
... that the Denton House in
New Hyde Park, New York, was to be demolished for a McDonald's restaurant, before local authorities required the restaurant to restore the mansion?
... that wheelchair basketballer and para-alpine skier Shannon Dallas was afflicted with
necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug, that sidelined him for seven months?
... that
popes awarded blessed swords and hats to defenders of
Christendom, including at least 12
emperors, 10 kings of France, 7 kings of Poland, 6 kings of Spain, and the nation of Switzerland?
... that the area around the Spanish beach of Cala Arenas has been inhabited for thousands of years due to its strategic position facing the
Strait of Gibraltar?
... that in sound recognition, context effects from other sounds in the environment cause us to change the way we categorize a sound?
... that the work of the American designer, artist and sculptor Ward Bennett was said to have defined an era?
... that
Leona Lewis and
Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song "Glassheart" as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further?
... that Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (1959) was the first book-length work of original comics in the United States?
... that French fishermen threw rocks and nets at British fishing boats during a dispute about scallop fishing with British fishermen in the English Channel?
... that Dr.
Ben Goldacre(pictured) argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the
pharmaceutical industry?
... that in August 2011 the Australian soap opera Neighbours aired a storyline which highlighted two of the major causes of road fatalities and injuries among young Australian drivers?
... that in the early 19th century, if you were out on the streets of
Gibraltar after midnight without a permit you risked being sent to the Main Guard?
... that the Spanish painter José Cruz Herrera worked in
Casablanca for much of his life, where he was a prolific painter of scenes of
Moroccan everyday life?
... that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II?
... that Keret House is the world's narrowest house?
08:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
... that the 18th-century BC fresco the Investiture of Zimrilim(pictured) depicts the king of ancient
Mari receiving the symbols of rule from the goddess
Ishtar?
... that the historic La Playa Trail in
San Diego is the oldest commercial trail in the western United States?
... that prior to winning a gold medal at the
2008 Olympics, Ukrainian sport shooter Artur Ayvazyan was detained by his nation's customs agency for having an unregistered gun?
24 October 2012
16:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
... that Gamleborg(fortress ruins pictured) represents
Bornholm's oldest defence works?
... that 444 years ago, Poland's Royal Posts were entrusted to an Italian banker, Sebastiano Montelupi?
... that at the 2012 Berlin Biennale, one artist blocked
Friedrichstraße with a wall, which was removed early after public protest?
... that despite only playing one match for
Bayer Leverkusen, the Norwegian
footballerTerje Olsen does not regret moving to Germany at the age of 15?
... that the 1955–56
Marathi radio programme Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic Ramayana(central characters pictured) has been translated to eight
Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in
Braille?
... that while researching In the Shadow of the Sword,
Tom Holland found that the oldest biography of Mohammed was written two hundred years after he had died?
... that several reviewers criticized the romance between
Sam and Diane in the second season of Cheers because it lasted too long and presented a poor relationship role model?
23 October 2012
16:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
... that Prince
Henry the Navigator handed over his brother Ferdinand the Holy Prince(pictured) as a hostage, and preferred to let him die in captivity rather than fulfill the treaty he had signed?
... that Chao Mae Tuptim in
Bangkok is a site crammed full of wooden circumcised
penis statues which are said to endow good fortune and fertility on anybody coming into contact with them?
... that
Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of
Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater?
... that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in
World War II, afterwards many were surplus to requirements and sunk by their own side?
... that Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski gathered his historical collections for the
National Museum in
Kraków mainly through purchasing the entire collections of other noble families?
... that the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in
Aleppo,
Syria, was originally a 13th-century gate planned by the
Ayyubid ruler
az-Zahir Ghazi, but built by his successor al-Aziz Muhammad?
... that the Russian
monitorBronenosets was converted into a coal
barge in 1903 by the removal of her
gun turret, side armor, and the division of her
hull into three
holds?
... that for the 1975
Bollywood classic film Sholay, M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)?
... that, as Arkansas'
first lady, Betty Bumpers started a program that took the state from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the U.S. in its rate of childhood
immunization?
... that the Russian
corvetteNavarin was so badly damaged by a series of storms enroute to the
Far East in 1853 that she was deemed too expensive to repair and was sold for
scrap?
... that the producer, director, choreographer and writer of the upcoming
Broadway musical Kinky Boots have all won
Tony Awards, while its lyricist is a
Grammy Award winner?
... that Amanda Marshall was nominated in November 2010 to become the
United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, but did not take the position until October 2011?
... that the red heart urchin feeds on the film of algae and bacteria that surrounds grains of sand?
... that Sylvia Day's Bared to You was initially self-published, but was picked up by Berkley Books due to the popularity of the similarly themed Fifty Shades of Grey?
... that the yellow tube sponge appears bright greenish yellow in deep water because it emits fluorescent light?
08:00, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
... that the National Museum in Wrocław(pictured) holds one of the largest collections of contemporary art in
Poland, extending even to the museum's remodelled attic?
... that the
Saudi government did not lift their long-standing ban on some of Minister of Labor Ghazi Al Gosaibi's books until two weeks before his death on 15 August 2010?
... that
Port Vale goalkeeper Sam Johnson saved three penalties and then scored the winning penalty on his debut in professional
football?
... that the Women's Image Network Awards are given annually to honor women in media and promote the creation of positive images of women in film, television, and advertising?
... that the 6th-millennium BC settlement of Tell Sabi Abyad in northern
Syria featured multi-room rectangular buildings with round structures called
tholoi that were probably used for storage?
... that
Realist painter Carlos de Haes (1829–1898) has been cited as the "first contemporary Spanish artist able to capture something of a particularly Spanish 'essence' in his work"?
... that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day?
... that
American football linebacker Carlos Jenkins reportedly survived a motorcycle accident at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) despite not wearing a
helmet?
00:00, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
... that Darío de Regoyos(self-portrait pictured) has been cited as contributing to "the renewal of modern Spanish painting"?
... that the Flemish Synagogue (pictured), one of the synagogues of Gibraltar, was built in response to the informality that had evolved at the Great Synagogue?
... that snow mold, a type of fungus, can severely damage grass if it snows?
12 October 2012
16:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
... that Gibraltar F.C.(team in 1895 pictured) was one of the first civilian football clubs established in
Gibraltar?
... that, during preparations for Operation Barras, soldiers trained on a scale model of the village they were to assault?
... that the 2011
Bengali filmAbosheshey, about a son exploring his dead mother's life, was shot in
Roopa Ganguly's own house, where she plays the role of the mother?
... that the inaugural
Eclipse Stakes, at the time the largest prize in British horseracing, was won by the stallion Bendigo in 1886?
... that the J. Edgar Hoover Building(pictured), the
FBI's headquarters since the 1970s, is now "aging" and "deteriorating", and the FBI is considering renovating it or having a new headquarters built elsewhere?
... that the Eltanin Impact of a small asteroid in the Pacific Ocean resulted in the highest density of deposited meteoritic material on Earth?
... that Louden Machinery Co. designed more than 25,000 barns (catalog pictured) as well as monorail devices used in manufacturing the first atomic bomb and at a B-29 bomber plant?
... that
Team AND1's first international loss was against the debuting Puerto Rico Streetballers team after remaining undefeated for six years?
... that Venezuela's second satellite, VRSS-1, was launched at the end of September?
... that by the time of his death in 1764 BC, Yarim-Lim I, king of
Yamhad (modern-day
Aleppo, Syria) was said to be the "mightiest ruler in the
Near East outside of
Egypt"?
... that soldiers in the mixed-gender Israeli
Caracal Battalion successfully thwarted what was described as "a very big terrorist attack" on 21 September 2012?
... that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale,
Cumbria, is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at
Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685?
08:00, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
... that the architectural diversity of the South End of Albany, New York (Clinton Street pictured), is a result of most of its
rowhouses being built singly by their owners rather than in groups by developers?
... that Paralympic equestrian Jonathan Wentz, who died September 30, posted the best performance of any American equestrian at the 2012 Olympic or Paralympic Games?
... that the
thallus of the umbrella alga, which grows up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) tall, consists of a single large
cell?
9 October 2012
16:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
... that Rogelio Bernal Andreo was the first amateur astronomer to win the Discover Bad Astronomy image of the year with his image "Orion, from Head to Toe" (pictured)?
... that
Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars while at Harvey's in Wandsworth, London?
... that Shibtu, wife of
Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of
Mari, was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"?
... that the
minaret(pictured) of Hassan II Mosque, the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft), is fitted at the top with an electronic
laser directing rays towards
Mecca?
... that the Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression?
... that the 13th-century Treatise by
Walter of Bibbesworth is one of the earliest books explicitly intended for children to hear and read?
... that in 1943, the American cargo ocean liner SS Santa Paula was
torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese
submarine in the Arabian Sea?
... that in his television special "How to Control the Nation", illusionist
Derren Brown attempted to stick viewers to their seats using a subliminal film?
... that the
edible African species Amanita zambiana is sometimes called the "Christmas mushroom" because it is most abundant in December and early January?
... that racehorses
trained by George Dawson earned £77,914 of prize money in 1888, setting a record that stood for 43 years?
... that the stark color changes undergone by the mushroom Boletus pseudosulphureus led one author to suggest that its "personal grooming skills go to hell in a handbasket"?
6 October 2012
16:19, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
... that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and
phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the
"Ida" fossil(pictured)?
... that Mostafa Hussein Kamel was appointed as the Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs after the
Al-Nour Party rejected the position as "insulting"?
... that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in
Houston, and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
... that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in
Phoenix, Arizona, or only the first building after the town was established?
... that police
fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
... that
Jennifer Lopez's partnership with American
cable televisionnetworknuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
... that the mineral collection of Lady Clive, a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the
National Museum Wales?
... that Fly, a 2009 play about the
Tuskegee Airmen, uses a tap-dancing
Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?
... that in May 1981 David Blatherwick advised the British Prime Minister on how to respond to criticism following the deaths of hunger strikers in Northern Ireland?
... that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the
American Civil War, his name does not appear on official casualty lists?
... that Neill Brown resigned as
U.S. Minister to Russia during his first winter in the country, saying the climate was "unfitting for the abodes of Man", but withdrew his resignation in the spring?
... that the Zelter-Plakette has been awarded annually by the
President of Germany since 1956 to German and foreign
choirs which have served cultural life continuously for 100 years or more?