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... that jams made by French
chocolatierChristine Ferber(pictured) are sold in Tokyo
Isetan department stores, each wrapped in red cloth with a white bow?
... that The Marriage is a video game that tries to convey meaning through its
mechanics rather than through audio or visuals?
... that Mark Angel produced the first African YouTube comedy channel to reach one million subscribers?
... that Malaysia was stripped of its right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after refusing to allow Israeli athletes to enter the country to compete?
... that Jane Somerville has "Unicorns" all around the world?
29 March 2019
00:00, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Elly Mayday in A Perfect 14
... that when Elly Mayday(pictured) was diagnosed with
ovarian cancer, she not only continued to
model, but appeared in pictorials with a bald head from chemotherapy and surgery scars?
... that the
Persian city of Arrajan, built using the labour of
Roman prisoners of war in the early 6th century, later flourished as a large settlement by the 11th century?
... that the Engenho dos Erasmos, built in
Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615?
... that the peanut worm Themiste hennahi is a "tentacle breather"?
... that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of
St Cuthbert, even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
... that Karta, an orangutan at the
Adelaide Zoo, escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?
... that as he was a teacher by day and bandleader at night, those who knew Bob Bachelder in one role likely were unaware of the other?
24 March 2019
00:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Chapel in Innerberg
... that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle (pictured) in
Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor?
... that Rosie Bernard's bar in
Monte Carlo, The Chatham, was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
... that Wu Dechang managed the emergency response to large-scale
plutonium contamination caused by a failed Chinese nuclear test?
... that the soprano Margit Bokor(pictured) created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the
Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the
Royal Opera House?
... that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the
tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing
tundra?
... that Percy Furnivall, Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
... that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing "From Dixie with Love" because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?
22 March 2019
00:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
United States 24-cent stamps with inverted center from 1869
... that American
philatelistWilliam Thorne owned a unique block of four United States 1869 24-cent stamps with an inverted center (pictured) showing the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
... that
Tobago's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the
British Parliament in 1776?
... that an image of an egg posted on the social media service
Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
... that the marine worm Echiurus echiurus uses its spoon-shaped proboscis to feed but not to dig its burrow?
... that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of
British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique
1-cent magenta, which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?
20 March 2019
00:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
Ida Tarbell in 1904
... that a series of articles by investigative journalist Ida Tarbell(pictured) in 1902 led to the dissolution of
Standard Oil as a monopoly?
... that as The Big Elk is now the world's tallest statue of a moose, it has been proposed that Mac the Moose be given
stilettos so as to reclaim its previous record?
... that Indo-Russia Rifles is a joint venture licensed to produce 750,000 AK-203 rifles, the latest and most advanced version of the
AK-47 firearm?
... that in 1994, Karen became the first
orangutan to have open heart surgery?
... that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the
J-7 fighters"?
... that the entire town of Agats is elevated above ground level, including the roads?
... that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?
... that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?
17 March 2019
12:00, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Yacare caiman
... that although the yacare caiman(pictured) was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to hunting, its current population in the
Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?
... that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?
... that
Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the
Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
... that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to
Antarctica and the
North Pole?
... that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?
... that if
Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions, he would, according to
Plutarch, have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
... that Frant Gwo's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
... that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?
... that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972
Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?
... that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright
George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?
... that Amina Gerba's(pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in
Burkina Faso?
... that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles,
Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the
Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?
... that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?
... that before
Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?
... that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?
... that after Huang Zhiqian, chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet
Shenyang J-8, died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?
... that Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the
Bank of England, said: "during any time of crisis... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
... that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the
White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill which would have banned Australians from the country?
... that
pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the
Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams?
... that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in
developing language—which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants?
... that the opening of the Senegambia bridge has eliminated the need for a 400-kilometre (250 mi) diversion to cross the
Gambia River when the ferry is out of use?
... that Spas Wenkoff, first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as
Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary
Bayreuth Festival?
... that the Battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC was possibly the largest naval battle ever?
... that major general
John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux's book The Secret Man, which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the
CIA, was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?
00:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Cactus wren on a saguaro cactus
... that the cactus wren(pictured) builds nests shaped like American footballs in spiny
cholla and
saguaro cactus but, despite this protection, the
coachwhip snake still preys on chicks?
... that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?
... that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by
Handel(pictured) as composer in residence at
Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"?
... that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established
New Power Party?
... that radiation from radon-222 and its
decay products is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking?
... that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's
Susanna and in 37 other roles at the
Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
... that wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen referred to Grizzly 399 as "An Icon of Motherhood", and 60 Minutes claimed she is "the most famous mother grizzly in the world"?
... that laboratory experiments suggest that the free-swimming larva of the
whale barnacleCoronula diadema(pictured) is induced to settle on a host whale in response to chemical cues from its skin?
... that sexual-health doctor Mags Portman and activist Greg Owen worked together to provide accessible
HIV medication, preventing thousands of new HIV infections in the United Kingdom?
... that
Tucson, Arizona, school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
... that for NHL 96, the
National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?
00:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Gordon Cooper
... that after astronaut Gordon Cooper(pictured) died, his ashes were launched into space three times?
... that Irish actor
Emmet Kirwan hopes that the film version of the play Dublin Oldschool will foster awareness of the homeless and drug addicts?
... that
Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw wrote an oratorio in 1974 that used elements of jazz and popular hymns?
... that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed
X-classmidget submarines, and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
... that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender?
... that Dutch
footballerLeon de Kogel's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
... that of the three main types of helmets that proliferated in
early medieval Europe, the Lamellenhelm(example pictured) was the only one derived from eastern, rather than Roman, examples?
... that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park, Queens borough president
Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
... that Yarmouth suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd that had gathered to watch a circus clown in a wash tub being pulled along the
River Bure by four geese?
... that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old
vegetarian and
vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for
soy milk ice cream shakes?
... that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence
Dakar, Senegal?
... that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information?
... that Stephen Twinoburyo, a Ugandan expatriate in South Africa, said that Ugandans were unhappy about the ticket prices for the
2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in his new country?
... that while the Irish horror film The Green Marker Scare was animated by children, it is not made for them and may even unsettle some adults?
... that the 16 plaques called the Magdeburg Ivories(one pictured) were probably made around 968 to decorate an unknown cathedral fixture destroyed in the next century?
... that the OK gesture can stand for the
evil eye, the letter F, the number 9, the rising and setting of the sun, or to signal that a
scuba diver is safe?
... that merchant George Meade was once considered a patriot of the
American Revolution, but his firm actually profited from both sides during the war?
... that
first-person shooterBright Memory was described by critics as having the look and feel of a high-budget game, despite being developed by a single person in his spare time?
... that when the
Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zutong abandoned his Ph.D. thesis defence in Germany and returned to China to join the war effort?
... that
Dua Lipa's character transforms into
Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video?
... that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley(pictured) was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"?
... that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds, faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?
00:00, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
Debris-covered slopes of the Brenva Glacier
... that when a massive rockfall in 1920 covered part of the Brenva Glacier(pictured), it caused it to lengthen considerably, at a time when nearby
glaciers were retreating?
... that Jørgen Hviid is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey"?
... that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see
Shakespeare's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?
... that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the
Terracotta Warriors, even though others found them first?
... that singer Bracha Zefira(pictured) is credited with bringing
Yemenite and other
Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in
Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"?
... that up to
C$250 million in
cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga, who was the only person who knew the password?
... that Storybook Dads helps prisoners in the UK read bedtime stories to their children from behind bars?
... that the rapid-fire rifle training implemented in the
British Army by Norman McMahon in 1909 proved effective in the opening stages of the First World War?
... that a specimen of the ornate wobbegong was observed to have its full set of teeth and be able to defend itself at one day old?
... that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the
15th Lok Sabha?
... that Agnes Buntine, Australia's first female
bullocky, survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?
1 March 2019
12:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Alice Marriott as Hamlet
... that 19th-century actress Alice Marriott(pictured) played
Hamlet in
doublet and
hose in British and American theatre, and "made the female Hamlet respectable in England"?
... that the Dicta Boelcke, written by
Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
... that because of the difficulty of transporting art from
Angola, Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?