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... that when Nicholas Brend, the first owner of the
Globe Theatre, died in 1601, his heir was his infant son,
Matthew, who would not come of age until 6 February 1621?
... that contemporary reports claimed that
French President Félix Faure died receiving fellatio and his penis had to be surgically removed from his mistress's locked jaw?
08:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
... that Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z(pictured) do not lip-synch in live performances even though their vocals are rendered unstable when coupled with dance moves?
... that Australian trade union organiser William Orr was charged with incitement to murder after advising striking coal miners to arm themselves?
... that the mug shot publishing industry has expanded with 60 new sites in the last two years and multiple state legislatures are seeking to regulate it?
... that the sea(wave pictured) contains over 97% of Earth's water?
... that the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ended in defeat for France and Spain, which lost 10,000 men while the English and
Dutch defenders lost only 400?
... that foundations of a medieval limestone church were found during the building of Haslev Church in 1916?
... that Sir Sigismund Zinzan tilted in the tournament celebrating the creation of
King James's son,
Henry, as Prince of Wales in 1610, and led a horse draped in black at Henry's funeral in 1612?
... that the Class 374 is the first high speed train type purchased by a part owned French rail company not to be based on the TGV?
... that a boy's eligibility to lodge in a Zawlbûk in a traditional
Mizo community depends on the length of his
pubic hair?
08:00, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
... that Wilhelm Busch(self portrait pictured), who created Max und Moritz in 1865, has been considered a forefather of comics?
... that some economists question the relevance of involuntary unemployment because "however miserable one's current work options, one can always choose to accept them"?
... that on the northwest shore of
Cape Denbigh on Norton Bay, archeological finds in the National Historic Landmark
Iyatayet Site attest to the Norton Culture dated between 500 BC and 300 AD?
... that during the American Revolution, Martha Bratton stuck her son in a chimney and tried to blow up the British?
28 April 2013
16:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
... that an engraving by Dutchwoman Maria de Wilde(pictured) of her father meeting
Peter the Great records "the beginning of the West European classical tradition in Russia"?
... that the murder of Helen McCourt was the first case in which a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence in the UK without the victim's body having been discovered?
... that a mixture of bark and crushed leaves of Grevillea heliosperma was used to wash sores by local indigenous people?
08:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
... that over 99% of the flower heads of the shrub Banksia elegans(pictured) set no seed?
... that actor Ian Kirkby once described motor racing as "a waste of petrol"?
... that the Helena Historic District(Atlas building pictured) required a major boundary adjustment when
urban renewal in the 1970s destroyed over 60 historically significant buildings?
... that prior to the
phylloxera epidemic in the mid-19th century there were almost 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of Gouget noir, but by 2008 there were just 10 hectares (25 acres) of the grape left in France?
... that historical maps and descriptions include nine different names for Lake Débo(pictured) in
Mali?
... that the Purple-throated Cotinga is considered a naturally rare species across its range?
... that the church of St. Severin in
Keitum on the island of
Sylt, first mentioned in 1240, is furnished with an early Renaissance pulpit from Denmark?
... that the world's oldest known
harbor and Egypt's oldest known
papyrus documents were both discovered at Wadi al-Jarf?
08:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
... that the father of
Bob Feller(signed baseball pictured) changed the crop on the family farm from corn to wheat so that the future baseball Hall of Fame pitcher could play more baseball?
... that visitors to the Ulucanlar Prison Museum who pay extra to be handcuffed and locked in an isolation cell for a limited time may not leave it before the agreed time is up?
00:00, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
... that mathematician Andrew Gleason liked to say that
proofs(example pictured) "really aren't there to convince you that something is true—they're there to show you why it is true"?
... that child actor Jared S. Gilmore was the third person to play
Bobby Draper in six years when he was cast in the American television series Mad Men?
... that the
Lockheed C-130 Hercules(pictured)entered service with the
RAAF in 1958, making Australia the first country after the United States to operate the aircraft?
... that Luke Thomas was Britain's youngest head chef?
... that
mento artist Lord Flea helped start the
calypso craze, was covered by
Harry Belafonte, and wrote a song about a monkey who followed him around?
... that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast
Oregon voluntarily removed its
cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km2) of its
BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow
watershed and
riparian areas to recover?
... that while some sources believe that Thomas Fitch, V inspired the original
Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1755, other sources think the song was written at least 12 years earlier?
... that anyone who entered
EmperorAshoka'sHell was not allowed to come out alive?
23 April 2013
16:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
... that the former Customs House(pictured) in
Porsgrunn, Norway, originally contained three restaurants and a liquor store?
... that while Claude Raguet Hirst's painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
... that Abouriou was almost lost to extinction until a local farmer discovered abandoned plantings of the
French wine grape growing up the walls of a ruined castle?
... that according to
Jaś Elsner, "style art history" was "the indisputable king of the discipline", but is now "dead"?
08:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
... that merchants at
horse fairs appreciated the Auxois horse (pictured) because its
chestnut coloration might conceal dirt better than that of the light gray
Percheron or black
Nivernais?
... that Sophie Matisse's reinterpretation of
Pablo Picasso's Guernica was regarded as a strange idea for an artist whose great-grandfather,
Henri Matisse, was known to be an artistic rival of Picasso?
... that the upset victory of Ebor in the 1817
St Leger Stakes was ascribed to the overconfidence of
Blacklock's jockey?
... that during its initial run of episodes, Glee fans lobbied for
Idina Menzel to be cast as the biological mother of
Lea Michele's character due to the strong resemblance between the two actresses?
... that a colony of Damaraland mole rats have been estimated to excavate as much as three tons of earth over a two week period?
... that the
Native American sport snow snake is named for the snake-like wiggling motion of wooden poles sliding down an icy track?
08:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
... that Commodore Lejoille(pictured), who captured British warships on three occasions during the
French Revolutionary Wars, had been a sailor since the age of seven?
... that it is not known how the Paris Codex(pages pictured), one of only three surviving pre-Columbian
Maya books, came to be in the collection of the
Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
... that baseball announcer Shelby Whitfield wrote a book titled Kiss It Goodbye that helped prompt the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the ethics of sports broadcasting?
... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near
Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
21 April 2013
16:00, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
... that Gresley Parish Church(pictured) was originally an Augustinian priory, founded in the 12th century?
... that the Mérens horse was saved from extinction by
hippies in the 1970s?
... that when Lieutenant Commander Hugh Haggard returned the
Truant to Britain in late 1942, the submarine flew a
Jolly Roger with 4 stars and 16 bars?
... that although the species name of the tree Alloxylon brachycarpum means "short fruit", it has the largest fruit of its
genus?
... that former Israeli Ambassador to Russia Anna Azari is married to a rabbi who leads a congregation in
Tel Aviv?
... that the video game Star Trek: Hidden Evil was described by one critic as "2,891
phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles"?
08:00, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
... that making kalu dodol(pictured) is a labour-intensive process that can take up to nine hours?
... that Marian Cruger Coffin, one of America's first female
landscape architects, set up her own highly successful practice because male-dominated firms would not employ her?
... that William O. Cushing(pictured), writer of the words of
the hymn that inspired
Rangers'
Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education?
... that Untied.com has logged 25,000 customer complaints and 200 employee complaints about
United Airlines?
19 April 2013
16:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
... that adaptations of the wildlife of Antarctica(
icefish pictured) to survive the cold include growing
blubber, having
antifreeze in their blood, and digesting themselves into a juvenile state?
... that the radar dome on Cass Peak(pictured), with the hill being named for the surveyor Thomas Cass, is part of a network that monitors aircraft position data in New Zealand?
... that
Arsenal became known as the Bank of England club after gaining the largest amount of income from match days and being cautious with money while also breaking British transfer records?
... that settlers of the
American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
... that in the late 19th century the residents of al-Sahwah, a
Syrian village in the
Hauran, paid the
Druze chiefs of the area to gain access to a water canal south of the village?
... that the position of Chief Justice of Hungary was held mostly by ecclesiastical dignitaries until the 1507 reform?
... that the ten-lined urchin was one of several
species used in research to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive
MRI technology to study the internal anatomy of echinoids?
... that
20th Century Fox executive Fred Baron worked at a department store and the mailroom of a studio before being given a chance at film producing?
... that
Faroese girls would test their boyfriends' readiness for marriage by presenting them with woolly willy warmers?
15 April 2013
16:00, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
... that the Baroli Temples(temple complex pictured), one of the earliest temple complexes in
Rajasthan, India, are reported to have been built during the
Gurjara-Pratihara Empire in the 10th-11th centuries?
... that the release of
Tunisian director Néjia Ben Mabrouk's debut film Sama was delayed for six years because of a dispute with the production company?
... that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a
Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth?
... that the mayor of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wanted his town to have its own
AOC separate from
Bourgueil despite the two areas having essentially identical terroir and producing similar wines?
... that Inheritance tells of Monika Hertwig's investigation into what her mother never told her?
... that Derick Ashe was appointed British Ambassador to Argentina in March 1975 as tensions mounted between the respective governments, and survived a car bomb blast the following month?
... that Ralli Hall(pictured) in
Hove—founded 100 years ago today—has been an
Anglican church hall, a
Jewish place of worship, a wartime drill hall, a cinema, and a
zumba venue, among other things?
... that "Shooting Star", the eighteenth episode of the
fourth season of Glee, has been characterized as "unsettling" and "harrowing" by pre-broadcast reviewers?
... that contrary to the racist stereotype that African Americans eat more watermelon than average(1909 illustration pictured), a survey showed that they actually eat less?
... that in his book In Secret Tibet, author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called
"flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk?
... that a hwahyejang (traditional
Koreanshoemaker) can take as long as a week to create a pair of shoes?
... that a
drought in 1902 at Kynuna Station in Australia meant that 81,000 of a flock of 82,000
sheep had to be sent away?
... that in 2008, a portrait of the 18th-century racehorse Ambrosio was sold in an auction in New York for more than $200,000?
13 April 2013
16:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
... that a 1911 show of paintings by Max Weber(1916 painting pictured) resulted in "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America"?
... that Israeli lightweight
MMA fighter Ido Pariente lost to American welterweight
Jake Shields, after accepting the fight without realizing Shields fought at a heavier weight?
... that in World War II's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped more than a billion dollars in gold and securities to
Canada, and not one ship was lost?
... that the Blanc de Hotot rabbit is completely white, except for black rings around the eyes which present "the appearance of fine spectacles"?
... that to portray battalion commander LtCol Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill, actor Chance Kelly spent five months filming in Africa?
... that in 2013
Kerala High Court judge Manjula Chellur(pictured) refused the plea of the Leader of the Opposition for an early hearing in another investigation of the "Ice Cream Parlour sabotage case"?
... that while researching his 1964 book The Mare's Nest,
David Irving discovered the existence of the Allied programme to break the
Enigma code but agreed to keep it secret?
... that Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts
Franco as a jackbooted
phallus?
... that a man described by his neighbours as "the upstart spawn of an Edinburgh strumpet" inherited the large and valuable estate of a former Lieutenant Governor of Tobago?
... that in June 1537 Elizabeth Bourchier's servant received two shillings as a reward for bringing strawberries and cream to the future
Queen Mary?
... that the whereabouts of the original
K'iche' version of the 16th-century Título de Totonicapán was unknown after its translation into Spanish in 1834 until it was shown to American anthropologist
Robert Carmack in 1973?
... that in his 1570 cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare,
Bartolomeo Scappi included a recipe for crostata using "the viscera of any sort of turtle"?
10 April 2013
23:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
... that the 1933 film Eskimo(poster pictured) was the first movie with sound in a Native American language?
... that the trans-border Muhuri River is also called the Little Feni?
... that while boarding the frigate
Créole,
Toussaint Louverture issued his famous statement that "the tree of liberty will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep"?
... that Mound 72(pictured) at
Cahokia in
pre-Columbian western Illinois was the site of ritual human sacrifice, including a pit burial containing 53 young women?
... that German footballer Michael Petry made his professional debut aged 36, and scored within two minutes of coming on the pitch?
... that the Aztec UFO Crash was faked to sell devices called "doodlebugs"?
06:30, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
... that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey(pictured), various of its
abbots and
priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder?
... that elephant racing held with 16 circus elephants became a major event (though it generated protests) in
Germany in 2000, and was an organized International event held in
Nepal in 1982?
... that Bangui(picture of a boat race in the river) was once considered to have "the most remote radio station in Africa"?
... that
Al Green said that recording his song "Love and Happiness" was "like mixing explosive chemicals – everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose"?
... that the
Syrian town of Harran al-Awamid was named after the ruins of three Roman era
basaltic columns protruding out from the roof of a
mudbrick house?
... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the
Supreme Court of California in 1977?
... that the Indio Comahue Monument, commemorating the native inhabitants of the
Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
... that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
... that a
Gacaca court found that at least 64,000 people were massacred in Kabgayi in 1994?
... that
Glenn Curtiss became "the fastest man alive" for going faster than anything on land, sea or air on a motorcycle with an aircraft
V-8 engine, setting an unofficial
record that stood for 30 years?
... that the telescoping effect occurs when people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are?
... that removal of "doggers" has caused much of Warren Hill to slip away?
08:45, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
... that the last Polish red złoty(pictured) were the so-called "insurgent ducats" minted at the
Warsaw mint in 1831, on the eve of the
November Uprising?
... that the horse genome contains 2.7 billion DNA
base pairs, and horses have over 90 hereditary diseases similar to those found in humans?
... that the 17th-century English poet Thomas Jordan wrote one poem that was widely anthologized in the 20th century, even though his poetry had been disdained by his contemporaries?
... that it is hoped that
Arsenal's game against
Indonesia, to be played as a warm up match for Arsenal's 2013–14 season, will help ease an internal dispute between the
PSSI and KPSI?
... that Lord Pitfour used a trick to save many Jacobite rebels from execution?
... that Circassians in Syria occupied many villages, including Murayj al-Durr, having been relocated to the
country by the
Ottoman authorities in an effort to combat rising local dissent during the nineteenth century?
... that independent South African online newspaper Daily Maverick was influenced by defunct South African business magazine Maverick and American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post?
... that the
novelPassing by
Nella Larsen, with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"?
... that Miss Calypso, a 1957 album by future poet and writer
Maya Angelou, was reissued in 1995, probably as part of the "exotica-space age pop revival"?
... that Sir Roger Townshend's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the
Spanish Armada which hung in the
House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
... that in
2013, Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965?
... that smile mask syndrome may affect people whose jobs force them to smile for many hours per day, and is particularly common in Japan and Korea?
00:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
... that when force-fed to mice, the toxin ustalic acid, isolated from the mushroom Tricholoma ustale(pictured), makes them crouch—hesitant to move—before it kills them?
... that the punishments in Hell that
Ralph of Coggeshall's "Vision of Thurkill" claimed would happen to medieval judge Osbert fitzHervey included being forced to eat and then vomit back up hot coins?
... that in India, people suffering from puppy pregnancy syndrome believe a dog bite can impregnate humans, including men?
2 April 2013
16:00, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
... that fragments of the coral Acropora grandis(pictured with
hawkfish) have been successfully transplanted to a nursery bed and used to regenerate a damaged
coral reef?
... that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in
Bordeaux, the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style
Meritage wines outside of France?
... that trees of the
New Guinea genus Finschia have stilt roots coming off the trunk up to 1.8 m (6 ft) off the ground?
... that Mexican journalist Rodolfo Rincón Taracena was kidnapped, tortured, and burned to death for writing about drug trafficking?
... that at the Action of 16 October 1799 a Spanish treasure convoy worth more than £600,000 (£43 million at present value) was captured by the Royal Navy?
... that students at
Washington College celebrate May Day by running naked around the flag pole on the campus green?
... that Mugeary, which is 25 miles from
Glenelg in Scotland, is the namesake of
a rock found millions of miles away but just a few hundred feet from Glenelg?