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31 July 2014
13:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
... that Swedish television presenter Elsa Billgren(pictured) is the daughter of artist and writer
Ernst Billgren?
... that Skeet Shoot was a "shoddily programmed, graphically primitive game", but sold well?
... that
Anna Kournikova's half-brother Allan was featured in The Short Game, a documentary film about the 2012 U.S. Kids Golf World Championships, which he won?
... that a rough cut of "Deep Breath", the first episode of the
eighth series of Doctor Who, was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
... that Elmo Hope survived being shot by New York police to become an influential
jazz pianist?
... that in 1896 The Sporting Life wrote of
Baltimore Orioles third baseman Jim Donnelly that a "prettier or headier fielder ... would be difficult to find"?
... that reviewers found the
BBC One film Common "unrelentingly depressing" and "profoundly engaging"?
... that New Zealand television
news anchorAngela D'Audney caused a national furore in 1982 by appearing topless in the TV comedy play The Venus Touch?
22 July 2014
20:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
... that Paratropis tuxtlensis(pictured), a newly discovered species of spider, coats its body in soil, apparently to conceal itself?
... that Elsa Collin(pictured) was the first woman at any Swedish university to be part of a student
spex show?
... that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a
ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
... that Adrian P. Thomas's videotaped confession regarding the death of his four-month-old son is the center of a documentary film on coerced confessions, Scenes of a Crime?
... that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known
variable star?
... that Arthur Adams(pictured) spent two years drawing the six issues of Longshot and his artwork was called the miniseries' "one major saving grace"?
... that Flass, an English country house in
Cumbria, was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for
cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
... that Khar Bii, a
reality television show consisting of a search for
Senegal's most beautiful
ram, was the country's most popular television show in 2012?
17 July 2014
15:41, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
... that with her 1906 ascent of
Pinnacle Peak (22,735ft or 6,930m) in the
Himalayas, Fanny Bullock Workman(pictured) set an altitude record for women that stood until 1934?
... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett(pictured), who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
... that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
... that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
... that
Paul Revere both engraved and printed Colonial banknotes (1775–79) for the Provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay?
... that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the
Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents?
... that the
Tantric deity Uchchhishta Ganapati is often depicted with a naked goddess, each touching the other's genitals?
... that 19th-century actor Maurice Curtis said his hugely successful characterization of a Jewish traveling salesman (pictured) was based on "one of the most comical men that I ever met"?
...that
Peter Sellers, billed as "Britain's answer to
Gene Krupa" at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
... that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking
Monty Hall with the
goat?
... that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French
milliner, but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
... that legend has it that a
Teutonic Knight built the Leaning Tower of Toruń as punishment for falling in love with a woman, the tower's tilt signifying his deviant conduct?
... that actress
Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
... that the
call of the Malagasy coucal resembles the sound of water being poured from a bottle?
... that Tom Cushing's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?
... that 19th century baseball player Mike McGeary was suspected of game-fixing and using a yellow umbrella to communicate with gamblers in the stands?
... that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"?
13 July 2014
11:21, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
... that, although buried in
Tutankhamun's tomb, the Head of Nefertem(pictured) does not appear in excavation records and was found only later, in a box of wine bottles?
... that Hawaiian legislator Joshua Kekaulahao served as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners, in charge of addressing land claims of the
Great Māhele, from 1850 to 1855?
... that professional baseball player "Mikado Milt" Scott gained his nickname amid a "Mikado" craze that invaded the sport in 1886?
... that the AcalaMaya were hunted by the Spanish after they killed two
Dominican friars in 1559, and within 165 years they had disappeared completely?
... that in 1888 baseball player Dasher Troy hit a game-winning
home run after his manager fulfilled his request for a beer from the bar beneath the field's grandstand?
... that the viewing area in the Garbage Museum, an operating recycling facility in
Stratford, Connecticut, allowed visitors to watch the processing of recyclables?
... that Scatter the Gold was "a big handsome colt with his mother's peel-me-a-grape attitude"?
... that André Mellerio(pictured, left) was a member of the family that owned
Mellerio dits Meller, considered the world's oldest jeweller and Europe's oldest family-owned company?
... that one reviewer wrote that checking in for a meal at London's Chiltern Firehouse restaurant "feels a bit like arriving at a
Scientology meeting"?
... that professional baseball player Jerry Dorgan suffered from an "unconquerable appetite for liquor" and died after being discovered inebriated in a barn with an empty liquor bottle by his side?
... that the
Philadelphia Phillies gave Anthony Hewitt a US$1,380,000 signing bonus and money to attend college, where he hoped to study business or economics to learn how to manage his wealth?
... that quirky dogs and plural wugs helped Jean Berko Gleason show that young children extract linguistic rules from what they hear, rather than just memorizing words?
9 July 2014
14:03, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
... that Kentrosaurus(fossil K. aethiopicus pictured) had extensive
osteodermal covering, forming very elongated spikes?
... that at 116 years of age, Gertrude Weaver is the oldest verified living American?
... that
a bridge between India and Sri Lanka is said to have been built by a monkey?
7 July 2014
18:30, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
... that, although Bhaktivinoda Thakur(pictured) had fourteen children from two marriages and a well-paid job, he was hailed as
"the seventh goswami" (renounced ascetic)?
... that the Skogssame people had intricate ceremonies related to
bears?
... that in over two decades as
Tristan da Cunha's only police officer, Conrad Glass has never had to put anyone in a holding cell?
10:45, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
... that although the Kampoeng Rawa tourist attraction (dock pictured) was meant to raise awareness of the ecology of
Lake Rawa Pening, it has been criticised for potentially damaging the ecosystem?
... that the music video for
Kylie Minogue's 2004 single "Chocolate" features a 40-second ballet routine which took the singer four days to rehearse?
... that it is thought that South African activist Nokutela Dube(pictured) lost her marriage and her place in history because she could not have children?
... that the Angevins are considered by many historians to be the distinct Royal House that provided the English monarchs
Henry II,
Richard I and
King John?
... that the Glore Psychiatric Museum displays examples of antique devices once used in the treatment of mental illness, such as the Tranquilizer Chair?
... that when he came aboard in 1936, Dick Joy, aged 21, was the youngest staff announcer in
CBS Radio history?
... that the
Moreau painting Oedipus and the Sphinx dramatizes the moment
Oedipus must correctly answer this riddle or die: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night"?
... that at her house in London's New Burlington Street,
Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork, held "pink" parties and "blue" parties?
... that in the Sita Puranamu, Sarama is admonished as the woman who turned her husband
Vibhishana against his brother
Ravana?
... that the Hawaiian chief
Kamanawa poisoned his wife Kamokuiki and was convicted and executed under the criminal laws of Hawaii's
first constitution?
... that during the
Yugoslav Wars, Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers walked around
Osijek in a tuxedo and slept among the pickles in the basement of a clergy house?
... that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church(pictured) has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the
Middle Ages"?
... that a reviewer wrote that tenor Georg Poplutz's performance of Schubert's Winterreise created a "cosmos of emotions"?
... that at the end of World WarII, the Soviet Union forced Finland to return 55,000
Finnic evacuees from
Ingria, only to deport them to interior areas of central Russia?
... that Tim Frick coached the Canadian women's
wheelchair basketball team to three consecutive Paralympic gold medals and four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships?
... that the final radio version of The Saint ran for sixteen months despite a Billboard review of the first episode that called star
Vincent Price "frightfully dull"?
... that, to help his wife Brandi grow her children's clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, Will Temple learned how to
monogram dresses and sew
buttonholes?
... that Colonel Alexander Mackay was appointed commander of British forces in
Boston, Massachusetts, in summer 1768, but did not arrive until April 1769 and stayed for just five months?
... that Stephen II of Hungary(pictured) invaded
Dalmatia while the
Venetians were on a naval expedition, only to lose the territory when they returned?
... that in 1903, Charles Whitman Cross and three other
geologists created a method of analyzing rocks known as the
CIPW norm, elements of which are still in use today?
... that the narrator of the 1958 horror film The Screaming Skull promises free burial to any audience member who dies of fright?
00:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
... that an account in the Illuminated Chronicle holds that King Coloman of Hungary(pictured) ordered the castration of his nephew, the future Béla II, but the soldier assigned the task brought him dog testicles instead?