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... that the diaries of Lady Lacoste, a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class?
... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
... that trench nephritis caused 35,000 British casualties during the First World War?
... that "Filipino Baby", a song about a sailor's love for a Filipino girl, described as "my treasure and my pet", was a top-five hit for three different artists in 1946?
... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in
Vancouver?
... that New Zealand mountaineer Marmaduke Dixon came within 100 ft (30 m) of the summit in his attempt to make the first ascent of the country's highest mountain,
Aoraki / Mount Cook?
... that the life cycle of the Neptune-grass bryozoan is synchronized with the growth cycle of the seagrass on which it lives and the availability of the
phytoplankton on which it feeds?
... that Hespress, the most popular news website in Morocco, initially relied on non-staff bloggers for its articles?
... that Sylvia Pengilly used an
Amiga computer to integrate graphics with music and herself dancing?
... that although the Euclidean distance and the
Pythagorean theorem are both ancient concepts, the Pythagorean formula for distance was not published until 1731?
... that Giovanni Garbini's studies helped scholars interpret the biblical narrative in the larger context of the history of the ancient Near East?
... that the classic children's Christmas story The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
... that in 1975, Finland's Minister of Education Marjatta Väänänen sent a petition to the
Archbishop of Turku with almost 1 million signatures, advocating for the introduction of female priests?
... that when Donald Trump owned the Plaza Hotel, he requested a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in exchange for allowing the film crew to shoot in the lobby?
... that sending the real animals and personnel in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor?
... that after a visit to a
ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley(illustrated) as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility?
... that St. Michael, a 17th-century chapel on a hill near
Kaubenheim, Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980?
... that after Houkje Gerrits Bouma won one of the earliest women's speed skating competitions in 1809, women's competitions were not held anymore because women skating with bare arms was considered obscene?
... that the female Agelenopsis aperta spider enters a
cataplectic state during mating, which means it loses control of its body and is unconscious?
... that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States?
... that despite being awarded the military
Legion of Merit four times, as well as the civilian
Medal of Freedom, Lewis Strauss is often viewed as a villain of American history?
... that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory: "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present"?
... that Charles Green was probably the youngest Australian Army infantry battalion commander during World War II?
... that the Segugio Italiano(example pictured) was highly prized during the
Italian Renaissance, being used in elaborate hunts with large numbers of servants and followers mounted on horseback?
... that Jenna Ellis was a stern critic of
Donald Trump before she became his legal adviser?
... that Australian pop band Autumn was one of four artists co-credited with a number-one hit in the Australian charts on 31 October 1970, each with a version of the song "
Yellow River"?
... that the nearly identical 130 and 140 West 57th Street are among the few remaining artists' studio buildings in New York City constructed with distinct living and working spaces for occupants?
... that Yusuf Sayfa, commander of Ottoman forces in Syria against the Kurdish rebel
Janbulad, became the latter's subordinate?
... that Majestic Radios(model pictured) were so highly regarded in 1929 that the Graf Zeppelin's navigator bought one when his airship landed in the U.S. to take back to Germany?
... that journalist Bill Fitsell was reportedly scared of driving since he covered accidents?
... that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier S.R. Kirby(pictured) is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the
Great Lakes?
... that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of
CN¥600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
... that essayist Briallen Hopper got her start writing sermons?
... that Christian Schreiber, a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the
Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's
Mass in C major?
... that Ruth Williams Cupp, the first woman admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association in 1954, was still barred by law from serving on juries, like all women in South Carolina until 1967?
... that the Crushed Rock quarry near
Abuja, Nigeria, is now a popular tourist destination?
... that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners?
16 December 2020
00:00, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Anjum Singh
... that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh(pictured), titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
... that 200,000 children were evacuated via the Piccadilly line during World War II?
... that in positioning theory, positions are defined as a person's rights, duties, and obligations which are fluid in various social contexts, as opposed to fixed and long lasting roles?
... that Julian Edelman weighed less than 100 lb (45 kg) when he played American football as a freshman in high school?
... that the founder of the Cannabis Museum in Japan developed an interest in the subject after reading stories as a child in which ninjas trained by jumping over cannabis plants?
... that Otto Jochum, the organist and later the director of the
Augsburg Conservatory, received a German national composition prize for a sacred oratorio in 1932, but also composed patriotic anthems under the Nazi regime?
... that the 1957 The Green Pastures(advertisement pictured) was critiqued in the white Southern press for having "bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes"?
... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job?
... that Elsa-Brita Nordlund, Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
... that a line of the 1840 song "Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by
its author as a
Volkslied, is quoted as the title of books and television series?
... that the kilns of Medalta Potteries(pictured) were used as overnight accommodation by people travelling the country in search of work during the
Great Depression?
... that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
... that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an
extra?
... that newly founded Exeter Chiefs Women were given a place in the top flight of English women's rugby union ahead of
Richmond Women, historically one of the most successful teams in England?
... that in Justifying Genocide,
Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
... that the Waikiki Biltmore, which opened in 1955, was the first high-rise hotel built in
Waikiki?
... that acid secretions produced by the orange gumdrop sea slug (examples pictured) provide defence against predators such as sea anemones, fish, and crustaceans?
... that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War?
... that Sheriff Paxton, who was called Canada's most beloved ice hockey official, would jokingly order a hanging for every individual who opposed him?
... that cybercriminals using Ryuk malware took in more than $61 million in ransom payments between 2018 and 2019, according to the
FBI?
... that
NCJW activist Florence Lewis was invited by President
John F. Kennedy in 1963 to a
White House discussion on how women's organizations could help solve civil rights issues?
... that in Russian folklore, the Alatyr is considered the "father to all stones"?
... that comedy group Pomato's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a
sports bra and a
bra, and an advertisement for the
Hong Kong Police Force?
... that the Rodin Studios has been described as "one of the most elegant studio and apartment buildings in New York", with a facade resembling cascades of Gothic decoration?
... that French writer Marie Chaix grew up unaware that her father was the right-hand man of the fascist
French Popular Party leader
Jacques Doriot, and later wrote a memoir about him?
... that Hamro Lok Sanskriti (Our Folk Culture) was one of three books to win the first
Madan Puraskar, Nepal's highest literary honour?
... that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of
Port Perry?
... that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in
Guam during Typhoon Alice, a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
... that The Descent of Woman by Welsh author
Elaine Morgan contends that front-to-front sexual intercourse evolved from apes that lived in a semi-aquatic environment?
00:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Krzysztof Penderecki
... that a Magnificat was composed for the 1200th anniversary of
Salzburg Cathedral in 1974 by
Krzysztof Penderecki(pictured) for two choirs of at least 24 voices, and conducted by him in the premiere?
... that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct?
... that the wreck of the train ferry Pere Marquette 18(pictured) was discovered in
Lake Michigan 109 years after she sank?
... that London barrister Imran Mahmood has written two thrillers, using the city's gang culture for one setting and its affluent
Mayfair district for the other?
... that a gun serial number can be any combination of numbers, letters or other symbols?
... that conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher was responsible for 600
Radio Bremen music broadcasts, including of the original version of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder?
... that some members of the
United States Congress are assigned secret offices called hideaways whose locations may be unknown even to their own staff?
... that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's "inglorious role" in the Armenian Genocide?
... that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks?
00:00, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
David Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust Tour
... that on the final date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour,
David Bowie(pictured) said it was "the last show that we'll ever do"?
... that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the
2013 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal?
... that an elevated section of the Higashi-Osaka Route lies over the remnants of a palace?
... that fossils of the extinct plant Concavistylon were first collected in the 1950s, but the genus was not formally described until 2018?
... that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group
ETA?
... that Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular mixes 3D characters with 3D backgrounds black-edged to look 2D to avoid investors comparing it with theatrical CGI films?
... that in publishing Laura's Ghost, the author insisted the book cover show a photo of
Laura alive?
7 December 2020
12:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Surprise Attack title card
... that the 1951 British film Surprise Attack(title card pictured) warned of the danger of not being
vaccinated against infectious diseases?
... that the wasp Andricus mukaigawae creates
galls on
oak trees, and these may become occupied simultaneously by other species of wasp?
... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug
Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on
Robben Island?
... that while its predecessor had 80 stops, Minnesota's Metro A Line(bus pictured) has only 20, and completes the same route six to eight minutes faster?
... that computer science professor Ruth Aylett performed with a robot poet in the Edinburgh
Free Fringe?
... that 224 West 57th Street was built as two separate automobile showrooms, which were occupied by their original clients for less than a decade after completion?
... that Hermann Schey, a Jewish
bass-baritone, travelled regularly from Berlin to Amsterdam to perform in Bach's St Matthew Passion, and went into hiding there during World War II?
... that despite ample
epigraphic evidence mentioning his name, nothing is known about
Phoenician king Yatonmilk's reign?
00:00, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Vivianne Miedema playing for Arsenal
... that
Arsenal footballer Vivianne Miedema(pictured) is the all-time leading scorer in the
FA Women's Super League and has scored more goals at the international level than any other Dutch player?
... that in the 17th-century
card game of Penneech, named after its highest card, the seven of diamonds, the
trump suit changes with each
trick?
... that to promote their 2011
concept albumDavid Koresh Superstar, based on the 1993
Waco siege, UK indie rock band the Indelicates created the video game Super David Koresh Attack?
... that a petition by Canadian member of parliament
Pierre Poilievre to stop the Great Reset amassed 80,000 signatures after a conspiracy theory spread about it?
... that Oxonmoot is an annual conference and fan convention in Oxford dedicated to the life and works of
J. R. R. Tolkien?
... that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on
COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
... that the 1922 electoral platform of the Union of Town and Country Proletariat called for the creation of a World Federation of Socialist Republics?
... that NASA engineer William H. Robbins worked on what was the world's largest windmill when it was dedicated in 1979?
... that at least 90 percent of intermarried spouses in Nazi Germany and Austria refused to divorce Jewish partners despite intimidation by the Gestapo?
... that music critic
Greg Kot described "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" as "despicable misogyny", but listed it among his guilty pleasures because the "rawwwk doesn't get much rawer"?
00:00, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Donat Henchy O'Brien
... that during the Napoleonic Wars, Donat Henchy O'Brien(pictured) escaped French captivity at
Bitche and rejoined the Royal Navy at
Trieste?
... that when news reporters were accused of trying to force the outcome of the 1967 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, one of them said he was prepared to be shot if found guilty?
... that Saint Ninnoc(depicted) is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship?
... that Ugandan president
Idi Amin reportedly shot dead the leader of the Arube uprising when the latter tried to arrest him?
... that a reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid stated that the lack of maps in the book would force many reviewers to use an atlas to follow the narrative?
... that as a music teacher, Canadian classical pianist Margaret Miller Brown was known as a "tough taskmistress"?
... that the Gainsborough Studios, a cooperative apartment for artists, was legally classified as a hotel to circumvent zoning restrictions on residential building heights?
... that Sydney D. Bailey, an expert on international affairs and author of 17 books, left school by the age of 16 and taught himself
political science?
... that the U.S. and Canada engaged in a fishing war in the 1990s?
... that a reviewer expressed doubts that the plot of 24 Japan would be accepted by the viewing public since a major terror attack had not occurred in Japan for decades?
... that White House correspondent Bryson Rash started in radio at the age of 12 by voicing
Buster Brown?