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... that one of the
Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm, the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)?
... that isolated sheilings were ideal for "sexual experiment"?
08:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
... that in art Doubting Thomas(pictured) normally thrusts his fingers into the wound of Jesus, but the
Gospel of John does not say whether he did this?
... that
CorporalK. Chandana, a member of a
Sri Lanka ArmyLRRP unit, was killed in 2008 while he covered the retreat of his team deep behind enemy lines?
... that in addition to aircraft maintenance, No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF was responsible for research flights in Australia and the Pacific, such as the 1927
Papuan Survey Flight (
Seagull III pictured)?
... that Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl acquired such a large art collection, including European paintings and Asian porcelain, that its catalogue contained 50,000 entries spanning 79 printed volumes?
... that multi-bacterial infection resulting from the contamination of wounds by oral flora often complicates the recovery for survivors of leopard attacks?
... that the music video for "Amor Puro" was filmed at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a building built in 1133 AD in
Spain and dismantled and sent to
New York in more than 11,000 crates in 1925?
... that Sasipada Banerji is credited with founding the first women's journal in Bengali and Bharat Sramajivi, the first Indian journal of the working class?
... that Operation Graffham was a Second World War political
deception intended to convince the Swedish government that the Allied nations were about to invade Norway?
... that even though Enid Bosworth Lorimer had an acting career spanning 70 years, only six people turned up at her funeral?
... that
Kevin Shields used a "slapdash approach" to recording while producing "City Girl"?
... that entertainment site MovieWeb used the Growing Pains theme and scenes from The Walking Dead in a comedic video that was seen as making the latter show's
zombie violence seem family-friendly?
... that century-old vines of Bouchalès exist in
Bordeaux, having likely survived
phylloxera due to an old vineyard practice of
flood irrigation disrupting the life cycle of the louse?
08:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
... that there are figures of many gods as well as, unusually, a
tortoise(pictured), on the steps to the Saptashrungi temple, built in 1710 AD?
... that
American football coach Bill Kenney has coached eight all-conference players, six All-Americans, 10 Academic All-Americans and 47 Academic all-conference players?
... that
Wallace found Kayoa's virgin forest "a glorious spot" full of
beetles?
08:00, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
... that officials added
Verdigris, Oklahoma, to a highway exit sign because of the large crowds
basketball player Rotnei Clarke(pictured) attracted during high school?
... that Jean-Claude Berrouet is considered to be one of the foremost proponents of "classicist" winemaking, in that he prefers his wine to be made at lower temperatures and shorter fermentation periods?
... that the ivory curl tree can grow 30 m (100 ft) tall in its natural rainforest habitat?
... that according to legend, the wife of
Charlemagne had white grapes planted in what is now the Corton-Charlemagne AOC because she didn't like seeing red wine stains in his beard?
... that Philemon Holland claimed that he wrote out the whole of his translation of
Plutarch'sMoralia with a single quill pen?
... that the Japanese I-351-class submarine was designed to support up to three
flying boats with fuel, ammunition, water, and even replacement aircrew?
... that although Ralph Horween was the
National Football League's oldest living player in 1994, the league mistakenly honored another player as such?
08:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
... that 47 plant species of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including Ceanothus greggii(pictured), are named in honor of Josiah Gregg?
... that
Ballinamallard United's club chairman has speculated that their matches are poorly covered on TV because it is deemed too expensive to send cameras to Ferney Park?
... that
Armenian inventor Stephen Stepanian's patent for the first
concrete mixer truck was initially rejected, reportedly due to a belief that a truck couldn't support the weight of a concrete mixer?
... that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise
$1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform
Kickstarter?
... that American industrialist Bradish Johnson(pictured) was involved in the "swill milk" scandal, in which organic distillery waste was fed to sick old cows and their milk sold as "farm-fresh"?
... that Margaret Michaelis-Sachs took photos of the Jewish market in
Kraków which "carry the weight of history, offering a visual trace of a way of life that was destroyed by fascism"?
... that the South American
palm, Bactris campestris, was described independently by four different
taxonomists, each of whom place it in a different species?
00:00, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
... that if it rains near
harvest time some Pomerol wineries, such as
Château Pétrus(pictured), will use helicopters hovering over the vineyards to dry out the grapes?
... that Anthony Midget was briefly hired to be an assistant coach at
Marshall, but was hired at
Penn State before ever coaching a game at Marshall?
... that shortly after journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez was assassinated, his online news portal was shut down for fear of future reprisals?
... that while a
Scottish minister was in hiding to avoid treachery charges,
his nephew demanded he appear in court if he wished to claim his inheritance?
... that while Elizabeth Stafford's family was in exile in
Geneva in 1556, the Protestant reformer,
John Calvin, stood godfather to her youngest brother, John Stafford?
... that if unfavorable water conditions cause the
coral species Acropora palifera to become dissociated from its
algal symbionts, it will undergo
bleaching and be prone to disease and death?
... that the Termit Massif Reserve(landscape pictured) in
Niger covers an area of 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi) and is the largest single protected area in Africa?
... that although
Steve Reich's works have often been referenced by
pop and
rock musicians, the
Radiohead-inspired Radio Rewrite is the first time Reich (pictured) has returned the compliment?
... that the big bud mite is so tiny that it can be transported by wind, rain or flying insects?
... that the Kejache, a
Maya people with a former territory straddling the modern border of Mexico and Guatemala, may have been descended from the inhabitants of the great
Maya city of
Calakmul?
... that Filipino fashion and society blogger Ingrid Chua-Go's(pictured) fascination with writing was sparked by a toy typewriter her mother gave her as a child?
... that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
... that because he was born with severe
cerebral palsy and had problems typing, Emik Avakian invented a typewriter that operated without the use of hands?
... that environmentalist critics have argued that
Woody Guthrie's song "Pittsburgh Town" (1941), recorded by
Pete Seeger, was a commentary on the city's pollution problem at the time?
... that prominent sculptor and painter Varaz Samuelian sculpted a statue of the
Armenian folkloric legend
David of Sassoun in front of the Fresno County Courthouse?
... that the largest single manufactured export from
Kenya is canned
pineapple, which is due to the presence and operations of Del Monte Kenya?
... that in August 1810, British
thoroughbred racehorse Petronius ran in what was described as "one of the finest races ever run"?
... that among the signs that the Isaac Young House(pictured) in
New Castle, New York, was expanded from an older building are the wider
clapboards on the rear, and doors and windows that barely fit?
... that the majority of local councils of the
Boy Scouts of America have gone through thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the organization in 1910?
00:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
... that Charlie Getzein(pictured), known for his "pretzel curve" pitch, won 59 games in 1886 and 1887, including four games in the
1887 World Series?
... that Dalen Hotel in
Dalen,
Telemark, Norway is among the best preserved wooden hotels from the 19th century?
... that although Penn Symons(pictured) was mortally wounded in the stomach at the
Battle of Talana Hill he remounted his horse and rode out of sight of his troops before asking for help?
... that in the
Pingyao's
tortoise-shaped city plan, the Shuanglin Temple is rated as the city's third treasure characterized by its over 2,000 coloured art sculptures (pictured) on display?
... that French-born Cuban botanist and priest Brother León completed only two of the five volumes of the Flora of Cuba before failing eyesight forced him to pass the work on to others?
... that the centre piece of Battalion Park, at west
Calgary, is 16,000 large whitewashed stones, arranged on a hill slope representing the
battalions numbered 137, 113, 151, and 51?
... that in the Bengali film Ami Aadu, a poor Indian village girl writes a letter to US President
George W. Bush informing him about the troubles of her life caused by the
2003 invasion of Iraq?
... that the Initiative Council headed by mathematician Eshref Ademaj played a pivotal role in the early restoration of universitarian education in
Kosovo in the early 1990s?
... that the genus Bactris, believed to have
evolved 26 to 36 million years ago in
South America, is one of the six
palm genera found to show the highest
speciation rates?
... that
beetles act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina cesticillus, a parasite that infests the intestines of chickens?
... that
Tultepec, Mexico, the host of the country's National Pyrotechnic Festival, produces around half of the nation's fireworks with sixty percent of the town's population involved in the business?
... that Saeed Abedini, an
Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in
Iran on charges of undermining national security?
... that when the British authorities attempted to deport
Jewish refugees in
Palestine to Mauritius aboard the SS Patria in 1940, the paramilitary organization
Haganah sank the ship with a bomb?
... that in Juliet H. Lewis Campbell's novel Eros and Antieros the hero raises and marries the daughter of his unrequited love?
... that the first location of the Sky Zone chain of trampoline parks was originally intended as an arena for a professional sport involving trampolines and rotating goals?
... that Colonel Jack by
Daniel Defoe shares many plot elements with his other work Moll Flanders, the two novels being published within a year of each other?
... that the
SingaporeHigh Court(pictured) can grant the remedy of
declaringvoid a law inconsistent with the
Constitution enacted before its commencement, even though Article 4 seems to say otherwise?
... that Thomas Ellison(pictured) captained the first officially sanctioned
New Zealand rugby union team in 1893?
... that Silver Oak Cellars has been cited as one of a dozen California wineries which "have reached cult status" for its
Cabernet Sauvignon production?
... that John Blackadder, while a young officer in the
Scottish Army, killed a fellow officer in a duel in 1691?
... that a large sculpture (smaller version pictured) by Caroline Shawk Brooks was listed by customs officials not as a work of art, but as "110 lbs. of butter"?
... that for over a hundred years, the subject of the painting now identified as the Martyrdom of Saints
Crispin and Crispinian(close-up pictured) by Aert van den Bossche was a mystery?
... that
ants act as an intermediate host to complete the life cycle of the worm Raillietina tetragona, a parasite that infests in the intestines of birds such as chicken and pigeons?
... that Sameh Fahmi, Egypt's former
oil minister, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for exporting natural gas to Israel at lower prices than market rates?
... that
college basketball player O. D. Anosike was nicknamed O. D. as a child after his kindergarten classmates struggled to pronounce his given name, Oderah?
... that the Palais Leuchtenberg(pictured) in
Munich was built from 1817 to 1821 at a cost of 770,000
guilders, which was the entire construction budget of
Bavaria for 1819?
... that Tankiz, the 14th-century
Mamluk Viceroy of
Syria, commissioned the repair and construction of a number of architectural works including nearly 40 in
Damascus alone?
... that Guo Jia(pictured), an advisor to
Cao Cao, had already foreseen that Cao would win the
Battle of Guandu against
Yuan Shao when he pointed out ten advantages Cao had over Yuan four years before the battle?
... that during the eight-year course of making The Decay of Fiction, in which he honors the past of the
Ambassador Hotel, director
Pat O'Neill collaborated with 45 actors and spent US$250,000?
... that early this year a
Somali journalist was arrested for reporting on an alleged rape by government security forces?
... that a 1997 Management Master Plan for the preservation and conservation of the biodiversity of the Waza National Park(pictured) is reported to be the first of its kind in
Cameroon?
... that while Betsy Blackwell was editor-in-chief of Mademoiselle, the magazine's circulation rose from 178,000 to nearly a million?
... that during the 1974 Vladivostok Summit with the Soviet Union, the U.S. delegation took its breaks outside in sub-zero temperatures due to fear of being
bugged?
08:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
... that the wildlife of Cameroon(gorilla pictured), considered one of the wettest parts of Africa, records Africa's second highest concentration of
biodiversity?
... that Guernsey RFC's ladies team was rejected from joining the
RFU leagues on logistical grounds, despite the men's team playing in the RFU's
National League?
... that poverty in Poland is more likely to affect young than old people?
... that in 1990, Michael Beaumont,
feudal ruler of
Sark, overcame a nuclear physicist's one-man invasion attempt and remains the only inhabitant allowed to keep pigeons and unspayed dogs?
5 March 2013
16:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
... that
polyps of the brain root coral(skeleton pictured) can recognise their
clones and "help" them when they need assistance?
... that 110-year-old Arturo Licata is Italy's and Europe's oldest living man?
... that in 1892 Wellshot Station in
Queensland was the world's largest sheep station by number of sheep, with almost half a million head?
... that the Lochamer-Liederbuch, a manuscript of songs (sample pictured) and organ works, is regarded as "one of the most important surviving collections of music from fifteenth-century Germany"?
... that Chen Be-yue's nomination to
Taiwan's constitutional court led to a proposal to bar public servants from holding permanent residency in foreign countries?
... that the
megalithic site of Hirebenkal, built over 2000 years ago, is reportedly the largest
necropolis in South India?
... that Knife Edge Two Piece has been described as looking like a "crashed unidentified flying object"?
08:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
... that the Musgum mud huts(pictured) in
Cameroon are
adobe structures in the reverse
catenary arch form, which can bear maximum weight with least use of building material?
... that months after
whistleblowerDavid Weber reported concerns about ethics violations by
SEC Inspector General
David Kotz, Weber was terminated for unrelated reasons?
... that the Settebello, a
high-speed train between Milan and Rome, used
ETR 300 trainsets, which had distinctive observation lounges at front and rear?
... that Manny McIntyre was a member of the first all-black line in professional hockey history and the first known
Black-Canadian to play professionally in organized baseball?
... that three years after a Tremont Group employee wrote an encyclopedia entry on the importance of
due diligence, his company paid $1 billion for failing to conduct due diligence in the
Madoff scandal?
... that instead of surrendering to a
Montenegrin army, Oso Kuka and his group exploded their positions during an enemy attack?
... that
Sjumandjaja's award-winning Kabut Sutra Ungu (Mist of the Purple Silk), about issues faced by widows, was based on a book offered to him on a train?
... that 109-year-old Ralph Tarrant is currently the United Kingdom's oldest living man?
... that the three leading runners in the first Jerusalem Marathon finished the race at the wrong finish line?
08:00, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
... that Anthony Chenevix-Trench aimed to abolish school uniform completely at
Eton, but only succeeded in abolishing the rule requiring smaller boys to wear suits that included a "bumfreezer" (pictured)?
... that the title page of the Erfurt Enchiridion, a
Lutheranhymnal from 1524 with 26 songs, recommends using the handbook "for continuous practice and contemplation"?