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... that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
... that the wonut is a combination of a
waffle and
doughnut that went viral in April 2014 following media exposure?
30 October 2016
00:00, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
Brine pump at Warmingham
... that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham,
Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
... that Revival stars a character that writer
Tim Seeley had spent nearly 20 years developing?
... that basketball player Anthony Stover sacrificed a higher salary in hopes of winning an
NBL Canada championship?
... that 2-satisfiability can be used to schedule
round-robin tournaments so that teams alternate between home and away games as much or as little as possible?
... that a report around 2013 on American
used goods outlets put
Goodwill first with a 21% market share, Winmark second with nearly 6%, and
The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?
... that in 1985, Rosa Namises lost her job in a
Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
... that while visiting segregated
South Africa in 1947,
George VI noticed the national motto Ex Unitate Vires on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
... that in 2012, a small Ru ware bowl from the
Song dynasty was sold for
HK$207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
... that the newspaper publisher Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his
chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
... that Arizona's Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
... that in 1992, civilian employees of Consairway were granted veteran status by the
Veterans Benefits Administration for their World War II service transporting munitions and military personnel?
... that after Joan Risch's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on
missing-person cases from the local library?
... that the intense fumes emitted by the crushed leaves of the so-called headache vine(pictured) cause one to feel like one's head is "exploding" ... making the inhaler forget all about the headache?
... that GamesRadar ranked Worms Armageddon number 13 in their list of the top 50
PlayStation games of all time?
... that after he died, daredevil Larry Donovan's mother said, "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living"?
22 October 2016
00:00, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
The Taunton Flag
... that the Taunton Flag(pictured) was one of the first flags used in
British North America prior to the American Revolution to express dissent against the British authorities?
... that the archaeologist Lily Chitty was a
Land Girl during the First World War?
... that the main event of last month's Máscara vs. Máscara professional wrestling show has been called
IWRG's biggest Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match") in years?
... that at an 1892 rally attended by anti-lynching activist Ferdinand Lee Barnett, participants refused to sing "
My Country, 'Tis of Thee" until the United States was more truly a "sweet land of liberty"?
21 October 2016
00:00, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Cliff Clinkscales
... that basketball player Cliff Clinkscales(pictured) demonstrated his dribbling skills on national TV before he was a teenager?
... that Anna L. Peterson argues that the usual separation of
animal and
environmental ethics is based on mistaken conceptions of nature, humans, animals, and the relationships among them?
... that prior to
Matt Monro's "My Kind of Girl", it had been three years since a British artist had cracked the US Top 20?
... that Ernest F. Schuck ran for re-election in 1977 on a platform supporting
New Jersey's new state income tax, as many residents of his district would see a net gain from the plan?
... that the developers of the video game Osiris: New Dawn wanted players to have to "
Matt Damon yourself out" of situations?
... that as William Mostyn-Owen's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited
Aberuchill Castle, where he and
his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
... that Alan Hale, who discovered
Comet Hale–Bopp(pictured), said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides—and it turned out
he was right?
... that Imagen Televisión, which launches today, is the first new commercial television network in Mexico since 1993?
... that Gesomyrmex macrops was named in reference to the ant species' large eyes?
... that although Fehmi Agani worked for reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians, his murder during the
Kosovo War has been attributed to Serbian security forces?
... that soccer video game Breakaway has encouraged children in the
West Bank not to discriminate by gender, thereby challenging
social norms?
... that
George Frederic Watts's Mammon(pictured) depicts the
Biblical embodiment of greed, which crushes "whatever is weak and gentle and timid and lovely"?
... that Helen Richardson-Walsh and her wife
Kate were both members of the team that won Great Britain's first Olympic gold in women's hockey?
... that the Grand Theatre was reportedly the first in Australia to be lit entirely by
neon lights?
... that in a case in which an ex-husband wanted to keep seven frozen embryos created while he was married, Judge Lee B. Laskin decided in favor of the ex-wife and ordered them destroyed?
... that the contralto Dorothy Gill was so popular during the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
... that a 2014 attack on the radio station Calentana Mexiquense resulted in the death of the owner's 12-year-old son?
... that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
... that in 1777, after
George Washington's war council recommended that John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the
Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
... that the blue alfalfa aphid, native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
... that Newell Boathouse stands on land for which
Harvard pays
$1 per year under a lease running one thousand years—after which the university can renew for another thousand years?
16 October 2016
00:00, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Alojzy Plewa (left) with his brother and Ruth Schwarz
... that two-year-old Ruth Schwarz was rescued from the Sambor Ghetto by
Polish Righteous Alojzy Plewa (both pictured)?
... that James Kaliokalani and his brother, the future King
Kalākaua, reportedly witnessed the execution of their grandfather
Kamanawa II when they were children?
... that decoration of Jizhou ware included using leaves that were burnt away, leaving their shapes in the glaze?
... that American football coach Pop Warner's only experience with the game in his youth was using an inflated cow's
bladder?
... that the first appearance of superhero Captain Atom was in an Australian comic?
... that Space Battle Lunchtime is a comic about food preparation, a subject largely ignored in American comics?
... that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of
chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?
... that the philosophy journal Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a
George Abbe novel?
... that the science fiction video game Tharsis, inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use
cannibalism to survive?
... that the band The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of
punk,
new wave, and
ska, featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
... that Anne Ramberg was awarded the
H. M. The King's Medal of 12th size to wear on a blue ribbon for her work in the Swedish justice system?
... that Swedish photographer Gösta Peterson met his wife at a cocktail party, where he was watering the flowers?
... that the number of
traffic collisions at the TEDES-monitored intersections and fast lanes in
Gaziantep, Turkey, declined by about 40% within two months of its installation?
... that a 15th-century English gentleman was called "Humphrey Stafford with the Silver Hand" because of a
prosthesis he wore, perhaps having lost his limb in a "bellicose engagement"?
... that Russia's Aluchin volcano is thought to have formed around 1000 CE?
... that the Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's
B.League?
... that after the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm), 300-pound (140 kg) former
Harlem GlobetrotterRico Harris disappeared two years ago today, searchers wondered why they could find no trace of such a large man?
10 October 2016
00:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
After the Deluge
... that After the Deluge(pictured) was described by
Walter Bayes as "a kind of sublimation of all the most poetic elements in nature"?
... that Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory?
... that the South Africa Red Ensign(pictured) was raised over
Windhoek following the British conquest of German South West Africa in 1915?
... that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a
fictitious Arab sheikh, Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
... that the opening episode of Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
... that
Guiseley A.F.C. were accused of "disgraceful unsporting behaviour" when a player broke an unwritten fair-play convention to score past goalkeeper Tom King?
... that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge, causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
... that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65, twelve organ pieces by
Max Reger, wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
... that in 2013 the mayor of
Yokneam Illit called for the rural village of Yokneam Moshava to be annexed to his city because it was blocking the city's ability to expand?
... that in the second year after its launch, biological
preprints hosted on bioRxivrepository were
tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions?
... that actress
Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek?
7 October 2016
00:00, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Handel
... that the naturalisation of
Handel(pictured) as a British citizen came via an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England?
... that cheese slaw is sometimes used as a topping for hot dogs?
... that New York City's Citywide Ferry Service is expected to carry 4.6 million passengers each year, roughly as many as the
New York City Subway carries each weekday?
... that eruptions of Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground?
... that syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli received a note from a former teacher saying "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it"?
... that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on carpet courts?
... that the Bayit Lepletot orphanage in
Jerusalem houses and educates girls from as young as three years of age until they are ready to
marry and start homes of their own?
... that Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the
Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of
Ibn al-Zubayr?