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... that Jean Davies, then a junior officer in the
Women's Royal Naval Service, attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin?
... that during the 1873 mutiny of the
Royal Guards of Hawaii, the Hungarian drillmaster Captain Joseph Jajczay and the adjutant general Charles Hastings Judd were attacked?
... that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army
Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association?
... that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget?
... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a
Fed Cup final?
... that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of
Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
30 January 2017
09:52, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Pioneer Cabin Tree
... that cars once drove through the Pioneer Cabin Tree(pictured), which drew thousands of visitors annually?
... that as CEO of
Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs,
Druze, and
Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
... that the
Nanjing Metro system in Nanjing, China, has a total of 139 stations, with transfer stations counted once for every line they serve?
... that according to family tradition, George Charles Beckley designed the
Flag of Hawaii, which was passed down as an heirloom in the form of a child's frock?
... that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the
1929 Palestine riots?
... that a politician implicated in Italy's largest corruption scandal was permitted to claim his time in the parliament constituted his community service?
... that during World War II, International Hat Company was one of the two main manufacturers of the
sun helmet(pictured), one of the longest-used helmets of the United States military?
... that when the theologian Patrick Dehm was suspended by the
Bishop of Limburg, he founded an ecumenical association to continue the work for contemporary church music?
... that the science fiction novella Paradises Lost was adapted as an opera?
... that a Chinese acting troupe was flogged for slander in the 13th century after they portrayed the scholar Wei Liaoweng as a drunkard?
... that writer
Ed Brubaker created the murdering vigilante in his comic book Kill or Be Killed because recent news events made him feel there was no justice?
... that the historian who researched early Canadian baseball figure William Shuttleworth believed that "at first people thought I made him up"?
... that the Mazu Temple in
Lugang, Taiwan, includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": stretching, ear-cleaning, nose-picking, and scratching?
25 January 2017
12:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Naomi Frankel
... that after six decades subscribing to
left-wing ideology, German-Israeli novelist Naomi Frankel(pictured) adopted
right-wing ideology and moved to the
West Bank?
... that in Mongolia, the Tolai hare is hunted for use in traditional medicine?
... that for security purposes,
Gaelic games club PSNI GAA players do not have their names published?
... that although the medieval
Lord High TreasurerJohn Crakehall was a clergyman sworn to celibacy, he had a daughter to whom he left part of his estate?
... that the montane wood mouse is widespread and common in tropical Central Africa, but the closely related Mount Oku hylomyscus is found on a single mountainside and is critically endangered?
... that the painter Caspar Isenmann left a detailed contract signed on 21 June 1462?
... that India's Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship for the performing arts is usually not conferred on anyone under the age of 50?
... that
Randy Edsall,
UConn football's all-time leader in games coached and wins as a head coach, was re-hired for 2017 after an absence of six seasons?
24 January 2017
12:00, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Sonja Vectomov
... that "lamprophrenia", a
portmanteau of the Greek words
lampron (bright) and
phrenia (mind), was coined by Czech–Finnish musical artist Sonja Vectomov(pictured) as the title of her debut album?
... that scholars have been puzzled by a motif in Chinese Swatow ware, where a
pagoda is split "almost like a volcanic eruption"?
... that Lady Canning, India's first
vicereine, has been described as one of the country's most memorable women botanical illustrators?
... that the walls of the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in New York City still prominently display the name of a plaza that was demolished in the 1950s?
00:00, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
Rabbit stew
... that rabbit stew(pictured) sometimes includes rabbit blood as an ingredient to thicken and enrich it?
... that in The Field of Fight, new US National Security Advisor
Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with
Al-Qaeda and
ISIS?
... that in 1088 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Robert Pantulf was accused of stealing 6 pounds (2.7 kg) of silver from the nuns of
Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen?
... that the Swedish release of
M2M's debut album Shades of Purple was delayed by a legal dispute with another band named M2M?
23 January 2017
12:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
The Bears Ears
... that the newly designated Bears Ears National Monument(pictured) in southeastern Utah protects 100,000 archaeological sites, including
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings more than 3,500 years old?
... that monasteries and public buildings are illuminated during the Galdan Namchot festival marking the beginning of
new year celebrations in
Ladakh, India?
... that for
Givat Brenner's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000?
... that business historian
Robert Sobel has described the New York Gold Exchange as "the most informal and certainly the wildest market in American history"?
... that a study by child psychiatrist Stella Chess and her husband, Alexander Thomas, found that children could be divided into three different categories: "easy", "difficult", and "slow to warm up"?
... that Girls' Generation was among the five South Korean acts that best represent
K-pop during the past two decades, according to a 2015 poll by Korea Creative Content Agency?
... that the lemon-bellied flyrobin occasionally catches and eats insects that are one-sixth of its length?
22 January 2017
12:00, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Excavated dragon kiln
... that Chinese dragon kilns for pottery (excavated kiln pictured) ran up hillsides, could be 135 metres (443 ft) long, and could fire tens of thousands of pieces at a time?
... that Chinese Communist leader
Mao Zedong divulged the Communist party's previously unknown history to American journalist Helen Foster Snow in 1937 for widespread publication?
... that Derry City Ladies F.C. play football in the Northern Irish leagues while their men's team play in the Republic of Ireland's?
00:00, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
Levee break at Mound Landing
... that a levee break at Mound Landing, Mississippi(pictured) – now an isolated ghost town on the banks of the Mississippi River – began one of the worst floods in American history?
... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first ever all-female officiating team in a
Fed Cup final?
... that a newly described moth species, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi(pictured), was so named because its yellowish head scales reminded a scientist of
Donald Trump's hair?
... that the city of
Glen Cove, New York, once tried to foreclose on the Soviet diplomatic retreat at Killenworth(pictured), and later denied its residents beach permits?
... that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer,
Camargo Guarnieri?
... that Samuel K. Pua, assistant editor of an anti-annexationist Hawaiian newspaper, was severely injured when a goat attacked him at
Waikiki?
18 January 2017
12:00, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
Ernst Keil
... that 19th-century German publisher Ernst Keil(pictured) conceived the idea, while in prison, of what was to become one of the
most widely read magazines?
... that in a 1955 protest, nearly 1000 protesters from the Lok Sewak Sangh marched more than 300 mi (480 km) over 16 days to demand the incorporation of Bengali-speaking areas of
Bihar into
West Bengal?
... that when amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp co-discovered
comet Hale–Bopp(pictured), he had never seen a comet before and was using a borrowed telescope?
... that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
... that creator
Terry Moore told writer
Joe Hill on Twitter that Rachel Rising might be cancelled if sales continued to fall, prompting a fan campaign to save the comic?
... that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the
Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game?
... that
epidemiologistYasmin Altwaijri encourages other Saudi Arabian women to become scientists, arguing that this need not "cross the boundaries of our societal norms and customs"?
... that in 1988, judge Gary Little committed suicide in the
King County Courthouse some 40 years after his father had killed himself in the same building?
... that under the terms of a 1931 bequest to the
University of Washington, if the university president does not live at Hill-Crest, the property must be sold?
... that Swedish radio presenter Roger Nordin revealed during a live broadcast in 2005 that he was gay?
... that the constellation Corvus was depicted as a
raven as early as 1100 BCE in Babylonia?
... that Fred Pfeffer, Tom Burns, and
Ned Williamson each had three
hits in the same inning of an 1883 major-league baseball game, and no other player had a three-hit inning until 1953?
... that the semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is being trialled in South Africa as a biological control agent for the invasive
water hyacinth?
... that in the Eutaw riot in Alabama, several black citizens were killed by the
Ku Klux Klan during a campaign of terror that led to the election of Democratic governor
Robert B. Lindsay?
... that naval officer and MP Olav Bergersen wrote several books on the 18th-century vice admiral
Tordenskiold?
... that the video game ReCore can be played on both
Microsoft Windows and
Xbox One, regardless of which platform it was initially purchased for?
... that William V. Thompson preferred the title "Dean of Bowling" over "Father of Bowling" in recognition of his work promoting and standardizing
ten-pin bowling?
... that Polish Jewish writer Rokhl Auerbakh worked overtly as the director of a soup kitchen and covertly as a member of a secret group that chronicled daily life in the
Warsaw Ghetto?
... that mesoporous silica
nanoparticles are prepared by the Stöber process and are used in preparing
biosensors and delivering medications to within cellular structures?
... that Mildred Barker was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship in 1983 for her work in preserving
Shaker music?
... that rapper
YG claimed his recent song "FDT" prompted calls from the
Secret Service?
00:00, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Bisaldeo temple
... that the courtyard of the Bisaldeo temple(pictured) is now partially submerged by the waters of the
Bisalpur Dam reservoir?
... that the
footballerBilly James was forced to retire after playing just six league games due to the physical effects of his time in a Japanese
prisoner-of-war camp?
... that cancer biologist Lubna Tahtamouni earned her PhD abroad and encouraged students from underprivileged regions of her native
Jordan to do the same?
... that on two occasions, aircraft carrying explosives from the Salt Wells Pilot Plant were struck by lightning?
... that Piru Singh threw a grenade at the enemy even after he was shot in the head, and was awarded the
Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration?
... that 71 years after the Lyngiades massacre in Greece, President
Joachim Gauck was Germany's first official representative to visit the site and express his apologies for the
Wehrmacht's atrocities?
... that the 1967 book Filipson by Frida Alexandr is the only first-hand description of life in that early 20th-century
Brazilian Jewish farming colony written by a woman who lived there?
... that with more than 14,000 airings over 60 years, Minuto de Dios is the longest-running program on Colombian television?
... that
Madonna secured the lead in Evita after writing a four-page letter to director
Alan Parker stating that she would be fully committed to the role?
... that Caleb Orozco, who successfully challenged the Belize Criminal Code for violations to his privacy and freedom of expression, won the 2016
David Kato Vision and Voice award?
... that "mend it, don't end it" was advice given by the president of the Nehemiah Corporation of America to the U.S. Congress at a hearing on down payment assistance?
... that the philosopher Michael Fox became highly critical of
animal testing following the publication of his The Case for Animal Experimentation, later writing a book in support of
vegetarianism?
... that the Y Sap mine was an explosive planted under German trenches before the
Battle of the Somme in World War I?
... that the first full-circle Arctic panorama created in the United States since the 19th century appeared at the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles in 2007?
... that Jessamyn Rodriguez founded a social enterprise teaching
bread-making and job skills to low-income minority women and immigrants?
... that in order to disguise the V-2 missile launch site in Blizna, the
Nazis created an artificial village with plywood cottages and barns, and plaster people and animals?
... that the Welsh singer-songwriter
Charlotte Church criticised director
Diane Martel's music video for the song "Lolita", calling it "an objectionable little number"?
... that when it leased the planes of a failed Venezuelan airline, a Bolivian company retained the name LaMia to avoid the cost of repainting the aircraft?