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31 August 2017
00:00, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
O'Toole's Pub
... that after gunmen
murdered her father in a pub(pictured), Irish politician Emma Rogan campaigned with the Loughinisland Justice Group to uncover their identities?
... that populations of the little green woodpecker in Africa are increasing due to logging and clearing of the forests?
... that in the 1920s, Dolly Rudeman was one of the most prolific designers of movie posters and programs for the Dutch cinema, and the only woman working in the field at the time?
... that Amabel Anderson Arnold, a
St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period?
... that the sea slug Alderia modesta(pictured) transfers sperm to a partner by hypodermic injection?
... that Cecilia Dapaah, Ghana's minister for aviation, has vowed to start a new national carrier and make the country the aviation hub of
West Africa?
... that C. Louise Boehringer, the first female Superintendent of Schools in
Yuma County, has often been called "the mother of the
Arizona educational system"?
... that video game walkthroughs are typically designed to assist other players in accomplishing certain feats within video games?
... that pirate John Bear married "a strumpet ... daughter of a rum-punch-woman" and tried to convince people she was a runaway noblewoman?
... that Traci Hunter Abramson used her experience as a swim coach and a CIA employee to write Undercurrents, a novel about an Olympic-hopeful swimmer in
witness protection?
... that Ghanaian Member of Parliament Kwesi Ankama died on an official government delegation to the
United Kingdom?
... that the green worm Eulalia viridis does not breed until it is at least two years old?
... that Thomas Lyle Williams had the idea to create the first mascara,
Maybelline, after seeing his sister Mabel use a mix of petroleum jelly and burnt cork to darken her eyelashes?
... that the Japanese embassy in Seoul has seen decades of protests, from weekly demonstrations to the throwing of Molotov cocktails, truck-ramming, self-immolation, and outright ransacking?
... that at the time of her death at age 105, Emma Clara Schweer was believed to be the oldest elected official in the United States?
... that a marine organism described in 1971 as a new species of
gastrotrich was later identified as the larva of a bristleworm, probably Polydora ciliata?
... that the introduction of Ticketer ticket machines on
Reading Transport buses meant that 11,000 pre-paid cards had to be reissued?
... that U.S. citizens are
prohibited from engaging in business transactions with the owners of the Mexican newspaper Unomásuno?
... that
Star Sports' Mauka Mauka advertising campaign for the
2015 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan was a huge hit in India, but ignited significant opposition in Pakistan?
... that the sycamore lace bug(pictured), native to North America, was first observed in Italy in 1964 and has since spread to much of Southern and Central Europe?
... that Kwesi Amoako Atta, Ghana's Minister for Roads and Highways, announced that 50 percent of
toll booth collectors will be people with disabilities?
... that
Titian's painting of Venus and Adonis(pictured) exists in "two-dog" and "three-dog" versions?
... that when the Minneapolis School Board decided to include
North Germanic languages in the curriculum, Maren Michelet became the first teacher of
Norwegian in a public high school in the US?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
David Wood has called Heather Booth "one of the nation's most influential organizers for progressive causes"?
... that the woodpecker has special adaptations to avoid damaging its brain while pecking and drumming?
... that L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette was one of the first women to be ordained as a
Universalist minister in the United States, and the first woman ordained of any denomination in Canada?
... that the 2017–18 London & South East Premier season will be the first under that name, as the Rugby Football Union felt the previous "National League 3" name was misleading?
... that Henry Semon lost his seat in the
Oregon legislature when he accepted a position on the state's agriculture board, but was reappointed to the legislature after resigning from the board?
... that the opera Alceste, composed by
Anton Schweitzer with a libretto by
Wieland, is regarded as a milestone of German opera?
... that four years ago today, Tiffany Daniels left her job at
Pensacola State College early after telling her supervisor she would not be back for a few days, and has not been seen since?
... that the CAMS 54 long-range
flying boat attempted an east-west transatlantic crossing, but was returned to France by ship from the
Azores?
... that Baa Baa Land, an eight-hour
slow cinema film containing nothing but long shots of grazing
sheep, is described by its producers as "the dullest movie ever made"?
... that Tarabya, the self-proclaimed
king of Pegu, was executed on the order of King
Wareru of
Martaban, who was his father-in-law and son-in-law?
... that the rock-cut structure Qadamgah(pictured) near
Persepolis, once thought to be an unfinished
Achaemenid royal tomb, may actually be a completed work with a possible religious function?
... that the 1841
conservation agreement between the owners of the land where the Saw Kill(falls pictured) drains into the
Hudson River is one of the earliest in American history?
... that Céleste Mogador may have been the inspiration for the title character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen?
... that the extinct Nicarao people of pre-Columbian
Nicaragua shared many cultural traits with the
Aztecs of
Mexico, including their calendar, screenfold books, and human sacrifice?
... that pianist
Abdullah Ibrahim recorded the
Cape jazz instrumental "Mannenberg" in response to the forced relocation of Coloured families by the South African government during
apartheid?
... that around the shores of
Long Island, the ghost anemone can cause "clam diggers' itch", while the lined anemone is responsible for "seabather's eruption"?
5 August 2017
00:00, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
First drop on the Airplane Coaster
... that numerous writers have called the Airplane Coaster(pictured) the greatest roller coaster ever built?
... that "Denes nad Makedonija" was chosen to be the national anthem of the
Republic of Macedonia, even though it finished runner-up in a contest held soon after independence in 1991?
... that in a pioneering study, American
pedagogueFlorence E. Bamberger quantified the effects of book design on stimulating a child's interest in reading?
... that the bagel and cream cheese(example pictured) was a very popular dish in the United States in the early 1950s, having permeated American culture?
... that the 2008 film Dostana inspired several fashion trends in India, with
Priyanka Chopra's silver
sari, worn in the song "Desi Girl", becoming very popular?
... that despite living in complete darkness at
bathyal depths, the sea anemone Allantactis parasitica synchronises its breeding activity with the phases of the moon?
... that George Huebner is known as the "father of the automotive gas turbine engine"?