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... that the two-part
gay pornographic film Out of Athens was loosely based on the director John Rutherford's past experiences in
Greece as a young man?
... that in Columbia Pictures, Inc. v. Fung, the defendant's "red flag knowledge" caused the court to determine that the defendant was ineligible for
DMCA safe harbor provisions?
... that in
Hindu mythology, King Kalmashapada is said to have asked the sage who turned him into a demon to impregnate his wife?
00:00, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
... that Quartermaster General Ira Roe Foster(pictured) was the target of a "malicious falsehood", alleging that he sold
socks donated to
Confederate soldiers?
... that the Bath curse tablets, inscribed by
Romano-British victims of theft, cursed some of the thieves with having their "intestines quite eaten away" and losing "their minds and eyes"?
... that the gardens of Les Colombières have been described as full of "wit, brilliance and imagination"?
... that anatomist Eduard Pernkopf, who expelled Jewish faculty from the
University of Vienna medical school after the Anschluss, was later given space by a Jewish physician to finish his anatomical atlas?
... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Dai died, an
autopsy revealed the cause of her death?
00:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
... that Turkish politician Hasan Fehmi(pictured) argued that the deportations during the
Armenian Genocide were necessary "to ensure the future of our fatherland"?
... that India Buildings in
Liverpool was badly damaged by bombing in 1941 and was restored to its original condition under the supervision of one of its original architects?
... that Kathleen Garman was shot by the wife of sculptor
Jacob Epstein in 1923, had three children with him, and eventually married him in 1955?
... that the Kolmer Site preserves the remains of a village where the French and
Michigamea interacted in modern-day
Illinois?
... that after a court case was decided against them,
Meltwater broke the ice with
Associated Press and agreed to work together on product development?
... that Nina Kirsanova, one of the most important ballet dancers in
Serbia, was also a lead principal dancer, choreographer, head of ballet, ballet teacher, nurse, archaeologist and actress?
... that the "character-driven storylines" of The Game "capture the intense feeling of the
cold war period"?
... that Gerry Scott, the production designer for several
BBC historical costume dramas, was initially rejected by the BBC "because she was a painter and couldn't draw plans"?
08:50, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
... that despite being banned during the colonial period, Mexico maintains a tradition of dance with handcrafted masks(example pictured)?
... that the Vršovice Hus' House in Prague has a tower that is meant to look like a lighthouse (pictured)?
... that in 1982, financier and philanthropist Finn M. W. Caspersen drove the new and the former
New Jersey Governor to an inauguration party in period costume in a four-horse carriage?
... that Irish
botanical artistLydia Shackleton, who painted over 1500 studies, helpfully taped the pressed flower or leaf to her work for comparison with the painted subject (example pictured)?
... that the opening celebrations for
Skagen's
port(pictured) on 19 November 1907 included an impressive gateway of honour by
Carl Locher, one of the
Skagen Painters?
... that blanket chests, chests of drawers, and cupboards made in the Schwaben Creek valley in the early 1800s have been called "the most exuberant and unique paint-decorated furniture"?
... that in 1972, Charlie Chaplin received an
Honorary Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century"?
... that the Nelson Monument(pictured) was the first piece of public sculpture in Liverpool?
... that Gerard Fowke spent much of his life studying ancient
burial mounds, trying to prove the existence of a civilization that predated what we currently understand to be the Native Americans?
... that the Kharijite uprising that began in the
Jazira in 866, would last for 30 years before being suppressed by the
Abbasid government?
... that in 1964, art dealer Eric Estorick recovered 1,564 Jewish
Torah scrolls which had been confiscated by the Nazi authorities following the
genocide of the
Czechoslovak Jews?
... that Yankel Talmud, known as "the
Beethoven of the
GerrerRebbes", composed over 1,500 melodies, though he had no musical training and could not even read music?
... that the ruffled form of the brown seaweed Lobophora variegata may be attached to the seabed or may roll about in loose masses?
... that Robert J. Behnke, a world-renowned wild
trout biologist and conservationist, was known as "Dr. Trout"?
00:00, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
... that Armenian writer Parsegh Shahbaz(pictured), who was murdered during the
Armenian Genocide, once said, "How idiotic people are! What is war, what is the state, what is revolution?"
... that Miriam Roth grew up in a
Hungarian-speaking town, studied at a
German-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in
Hebrew?
... that in the 35th year of her career,
blues singer Julia Gerity lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at
Coney Island?
... that the Indian revolutionary
M.N. Roy wrote under a pseudonym for the German newspaper Das Volksrecht?
... that
caterpillars of the Cape lappet moth(pictured) are described as "
gregarious" because they clump together in great numbers for unknown reasons?
... that the Isle of Man Pure Beer Act meant that from 1874 to 1999 it was illegal to use anything other than water,
malt, sugar, and
hops for brewing
beer?
... that archer Thomas Scott holds the distinction of being the oldest person to compete in an archery event at the
Summer Olympics?
... that advertisements emphasised the simplicity of Wu Tsun's 1941 film Ajah Berdosa?
... that in a recent academic study, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, a fake manuscript sent to open-access publishers was accepted by 157 and rejected by 98?
... that anatomist Hermann Stieve(pictured), the youngest physician ever appointed the head of a German medical faculty, liked to give lectures in an
academic robe?
... that Hong Kong's Law Uk(pictured) is the sole surviving village house and the last example of traditional
Hakka housing in
Chai Wan, a former Hakka village?
... that the 2013 Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel, based on the Scandinavian series The Bridge, is billed as the first bilingual series in British and French television?
... that the architect Edward Habershon was involved in the 1862 relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one thousand
hundredweight of human remains?
... that Garry Medeiros, writer-director of The Terror Factor, was forced to become the film's main protagonist when its original star abruptly left the project?
... that the American colonial newspaper publisher John Holt has been labeled by a modern day historian "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the
American Revolution?
... that only two U.S. states, New Jersey and California, have laws criminalizing revenge porn?
... that the British film Stalled, about a man trapped in a woman's bathroom being attacked by zombies, has screened at Korean and Swedish film festivals?
... that the technique of darkening oak by ammonia fuming was discovered accidentally when boards stored in a stable were darkened by fumes from horse urine?
15:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
... that in the few years after the formation of the exclusively female Sacred Twenty(pictured),
military nursing tasks during
World War I were still often done by untrained men?
... that although Kosta Manojlović was instrumental in the establishment of the
Belgrade Music Academy, serving as its first rector, he was forced to retire from it for political reasons?
... that
Madonna influenced
Michael Torke's composition of Vanada, a work initially dismissed as "dangerously close to the corruption that's happening to all American music"?
... that war correspondent John Black Atkins described
Winston Churchill as "slim, slightly reddish-haired, pale, lively, frequently plunging along the deck"?
... that the Flying Merkel(pictured) was painted in bright orange?
... that Walter Burton Harris, correspondent for The Times in
Morocco, travelled to off-limits parts of the country by disguising himself as "the complete fanatical-looking type"?
... that Haig Tiriakian said that there were "sacks full of bombs on our shoulders and guns in our hands" when he and others raided and seized the national bank of Turkey?
... that the screenwriter for the 1940 film Earthbound proposed including a pair of lovers wearing
gas masks?
... that in 1949, copies of France Dimanche were seized in France because they were carrying pictures of
Princess Margaret and her entourage, which were deemed to be an insult?
... that the Dedham Public Schools had the first public school in the United States to be exclusively supported by taxes?
5 November 2013
16:00, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
... that Berek Lajcher(pictured) chose a hot summer day to launch a prisoner revolt at the Treblinka death camp while German and Ukrainian guards went swimming in the nearby
Bug River?
... that after the death of the first
Abbasid caliph,
al-Saffah, his uncle Abdallah ibn Ali led a revolt and tried to claim the throne from al-Saffah's brother,
al-Mansur?
... that President J. R. E. Lee was able to secure higher salaries for teachers and administrators at
Florida A&M University despite Governor
Cone's statement that "no Negro was worth $4000 a year"?
... that The Vulcan(pictured), a historic public house in
Cardiff, Wales, was completely dismantled in 2012 and is planned to be rebuilt at the
National History Museum?
... that Swami Vivekananda is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing
Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by
Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for
Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
... that British physiologist Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald attended
Oxford before women were granted degrees and 75 years later received an honorary
master's when she was 100 years old?
... that the
white dwarf star GD 61 was once likely orbited by a rocky planet or asteroid with
water?
... that Singaporean politician Ang Hin Kee, an advisor for the National Taxi Association, once worked for the Singapore Badminton Association and the Singapore Police Headquarters?
... that Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble has been cited as an example of a film that claims historical accuracy while "gratuitously and radically distorting" the truth?