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31 August 2018
00:00, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
St. Peter's Church, Malmö
... that St. Peter's Church(pictured) in
Malmö, Sweden, was once the largest town church in Denmark?
... that referee Bob Nadin said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the
Pierre de Coubertin medal for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
... that the British Army's
Peninsular Warbattalions of detachments were commended for their gallantry on the battlefield but criticised for their conduct in camp?
... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate
Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
... that a story by Argentine mathematician Magdalena Mouján about a
Basque family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the
Franco regime?
... that after being rebuilt in May 2018, the open-air Summer Theatre of Tirana held a show in which 400 artists participated?
... that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series under the command of Hugh Martell was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia?
26 August 2018
00:00, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Averroes by Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (14th century)
... that one of the financers of the Spire, a residential building in
Seattle, joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President
Xi Jinping?
... that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join
NATO, even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
... that at the end of the unsuccessful Siege of Almería, some of the defeated
Aragonese attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
... that in the midst of being chased by Aṅgulimāla, a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
... that Red W Interactiva, a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?
... that Abu al-Juyush Nasr became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of
his brother, only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
... that the goose barnacle Conchoderma virgatum rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a
porcupinefish?
... that hairs shed by caterpillars of the brown-tail moth can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to
poison ivy?
... that Mimi Mondal is the first writer from India to be nominated for a
Hugo Award?
... that after the original 1932 release of the film Scarface, it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years?
... that Jack Kirby created many famous comic book characters including
Captain America, but his conception of
Spider-Man was rejected for being too heroic?
... that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
... that Narmakosh, compiled by
Narmad, is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
... that the first screening of Venom and Eternity ended early following director
Isidore Isou's attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre?
... that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
... that the factory producing Capodimonte porcelain(snuffbox pictured), including forty workers and nearly five tons of material, was moved from Naples to Madrid in 1759?
... that while working for the predecessor of NASA, Chinese physicist Wu Zhonghua pioneered the
three-dimensional flow theory, which has been used to design many aircraft engines?
... that Brugada syndrome is known in the
Philippines as Bangungut, or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
... that American rapper Gizzle worked as a
ghostwriter for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
... that the killer whale Tahlequah carried her dead calf for over two weeks in an apparent showing of grief?
... that adult tapeworms parasitise the intestines of vertebrates but do not have guts of their own?
... that air conditioning refrigerant
HFO-1234yf, developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor, is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter
global warming?
... that although New York City's Bushwick Inlet Park was proposed in 2005, the land for the park was not fully purchased until 2016?
... that
periodontistJohn Zamet was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
... that the publisher of Life with My Sister Madonna, a tell-all book by
the singer's younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
... that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in
Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both
friars and
nuns?
... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the
Toyota Production System?
... that during the
Cuban Missile Crisis, each of Britain's "V force" squadrons kept one nuclear-armed V bomber(
Avro Vulcans pictured) and crew at 15 minutes' readiness?
... that the South African composer
Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums,
marimba, and string orchestra?
... that the deposed Byzantine emperor Maurice was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
... that Old North, built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on
Georgetown University's campus?
... that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from
Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
... that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru(pictured), who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its
film adaptation?
... that Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
... that Grace Macurdy shaped the field of
classics by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
... that the flatworm Procerodes littoralis is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
... that plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson had the idea for the
Hand Club to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at
Guy's Hospital?
... that the Fisher Ridge Cave System is the fifth-longest cave in the United States and one of the longest in the world?
... that the research of 2017
Spinoza Prize winner Eveline Crone has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23?
... that despite being a crustacean, a parasitic copepod found on a flying fish was described as a "gill-worm" by Hans Severin Holten, the Danish naturalist who discovered it?
10 August 2018
00:00, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Teuira Henry
... that Teuira Henry(pictured) reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing
Tahitian history by using his notes?
... that the
antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"?
... that the Samec'niero, written by Iase Tushi, contains one of the earliest examples of a
Georgian–
Persian dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in
Iran?
... that
brass bands have been a feature of Vale Park since its opening in 1899, when one played the crowd in through the gates?
... that Erinea Garcia Gallegos, one of the first college-educated
Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of
San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that the rising prosperity of the Wang family of
Lingshi County during the
Qing dynasty financed the multi-generation construction of a grand residential complex of hundreds of courtyards with over 2,000 rooms?
... that the
YouTube channel ContraPoints releases humorous,
left-leaning educational videos responding to the arguments of the growing community of
right-wing YouTubers?
... that the pinkish-red portion of the flag of Sioux Falls(pictured) represents the
Sioux Quartzite stone which was quarried nearby and used to build early Sioux Falls buildings?
... that when Gaius Hospes wore his
award for valour at public gatherings, it was expected that he be applauded by every person present?
... that despite never completing his university studies, R. H. Wilenski was appointed a special lecturer in the
history of art at the University of Manchester?
... that specimens of the fish Palatogobius grandoculus were collected as early as 1976 but not identified as a new species until 2002?
... that the time limit in the puzzle game Cloud Kingdoms is calculated in 99 intervals called "manukas"?
... that when biochemist Li Lin was a Ph.D. student, he often went to slaughterhouses and
wet markets to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments?
... that the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub, built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?