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... that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan is situated at a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery?
... that Taneko Suzuki, an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
... that the Fauré Quartet, a piano quartet founded in 1995, participated in the world premiere and recording of
Sven Helbig's twelve Pocket Symphonies?
... that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter, were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of
LGBT activist
Margot in August 2020?
... that a monumental plaque to Italian physician Giovanni Bianchi states: Nascitur infelix, vixit infelicior, obiit infelicissime (He was born unhappy, he lived more unhappy, he died maximally unhappy)?
... that following the Treaty of Ripon, signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England?
... that the queen and others apparently used to watch
Malla kings taking baths in the Tusha Hiti?
... that Ganni was founded in 2000 as a
cashmere brand, but resurfaced and gained popularity as a contemporary designer label almost 20 years later?
... that U.S. district judge Loretta Preska has presided over criminal cases against a basketball coach, a computer hacker, a Somali pirate, and a
Rikers Island guard?
... that Airborne Cigar confused German
night fighters by broadcasting sound over the voices of their ground controllers?
... that Gabriel Scally of the
Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?
... that the hymn "Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (Sing to the Lord a new song) was written in both French and German in Nazi-controlled
Alsace in 1941?
... that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth?
... that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central
Oregon?
... that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of Samuel Corson's patients to regain his speech after 26 years?
24 October 2020
00:00, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Lisa Nowak
... that the 2019 film Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the life of astronaut Lisa Nowak(pictured)?
... that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when
electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the
table?
... that the oath to Hitler sworn by members of the SS may have inspired the
Hitler oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht after 1934?
... that the
Japanese pop group Yaen, originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
... that Thomas Patrick Payne received the US
Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed five years ago today while liberating hostages during the offensive against
ISIL in northern Iraq?
... that Nabela Qoser, a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt
Cantonese as a child by watching television?
... that the character
Nina Cortex was intended by
Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game Crash Twinsanity, but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?
... that the swamp scenes in The Caribbean Mystery feature a 350 lb (160 kg)
alligator named Ben, who was appearing in his 435th film?
21 October 2020
00:00, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
Gloria Swanson and Henry de la Falaise
... that actress Gloria Swanson created an inventions and patents company to employ refugee scientists whom she and her former husband Marquis
Henry de La Falaise(both pictured) helped escape
Nazi Germany?
... that ontopoetics holds that the world is psychoactive and can respond to us if engaged?
... that Nogiwa Park was built around a 17th-century reservoir?
... that The New York Times review of the 1955 television play No Time for Sergeants questioned whether
Andy Griffith was "versatile enough to qualify for other important roles"?
... that the
Inuit identity of sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender?
... that the 8th-century Chinese poet Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars?
... that
Claude Rains's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?
... that the Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of
ant?
19 October 2020
00:00, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Modern cheese wheel
... that on this date in 1766, the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a cheese wheel (example pictured) whilst trying to stop the Nottingham cheese riot?
... that the weekly radio show The Northern Messenger read out personal messages from around the world to friends and family in the Arctic who could not be reached in any other way during the winter?
... that a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on
NBC and
CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?
... that visitors leave offerings of makeup and Barbie dolls at a shrine to a German girl who died in Singapore in 1914?
... that the tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the
pigeon pea in India?
... that Myra Kathleen Hughes'sVanishing London series captured several landmarks before they were demolished?
... that "microatolls" of the coral Porites lutea have been used to study past changes in sea level?
... that A Night to Remember, a live broadcast about Titanic's final night, featured 107 actors and 31 sets, and proved that "TV occasionally can rise to great heights"?
... that
Kolkata, the smallest by area of India's six
A-1 cities, has the country's largest suburban rail system by track length and number of stations (one pictured)?
... that the American tubist Constance Weldon "fell in love with the tuba" after her father brought one home from a pawn shop?
... that it took until 2009 to determine which of two apostles was the patron of the 14th-century church of St. Jacobi in
Werther?
... that the YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes contains interviews with
flat earthers,
QAnon adherents, and other groups that its host says represent "true Americana"?
... that French historian Josette Elayi was made a knight of the
Legion of Honour by the French government for her works on Phoenician history?
... that My Lonesome Cowboy, a sculpture created by artist
Takashi Murakami as a companion to his earlier Hiropon, sold at auction for US$15.1 million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued?
... that the New York Tribune Building, once New York City's second tallest building, "vanished almost without a trace, and barely a whimper"?
... that Büşra Kuru, who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the
Turkey national team?
... that reprinted editions of the 1989 manga series Okama Report contain a postscript from an LGBT-rights group noting that the series contains exaggerated and inaccurate depictions of LGBT people?
... that former ballet dancer
Edward Villella said that when he performed Tarantella, he "would be flying", and then "in the wings, on the ground, gasping for air"?
... that a prominent obituary of Socorro Sánchez, the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political?
... that in public opinion polls, a majority of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide?
... that sponsors refused to back the lynching story A Town Has Turned to Dust until writer
Rod Serling moved the setting out of the
South and changed the victim from black to Mexican?
... that xenoracism is a term that describes prejudice within one racial group, such as discrimination against Eastern European migrant workers in Western Europe?
... that the former site of the Majestic Cinema,
Leeds, which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of
Channel 4?
... that an impromptu sound-check by Dan Bellomy turned into the first track on an album?
... that two weeks after the owner of a Kansas City television station declared that "KCIT-TV is here to stay", it ceased broadcasting?
7 October 2020
00:00, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Morrison Heady
... that deafblind author Morrison Heady(pictured) invented assistive devices throughout his life, including a self-opening gate, a steam-powered embossing press, and a "talking glove"?
... that the commercial success of
Juluka's "Scatterlings of Africa" enabled band co-founder
Johnny Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist and become a full-time musician?
... that political consultant Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians?
... that "Einer ist unser Leben" ("One is our Life"), a hymn with text written by
Lothar Zenetti in 1973, was recommended for a regional ecumenical service in 2020?
... that a 1998 inquest found that the killing of Alton Manning was
unlawful, and a judicial review found that the decision to not bring charges was flawed, but no charges have yet been filed?
... that when the 2,500-seat Bridges Auditorium was completed in
Claremont, California, in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city?
6 October 2020
00:00, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
Tiling of hyperbolic space by ideal octahedra
... that unlike their Euclidean equivalents, the ideal regular tetrahedron, octahedron, and dodecahedron can all tile
hyperbolic space(pictured)?
... that the 1936 film Hearts in Bondage is a rare example of a Hollywood film depicting naval battles of the
Civil War?
... that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player
Steffi Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand
Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
... that the Soviet Union called The Plot to Kill Stalin "filthy slander" and retaliated by closing the
CBS news bureau in Moscow?
... that contractors spent 5,500 man-hours on drawings for the design of the TWA Flight Center(pictured)?
... that today's London Marathon is not being run on its usual course, but instead as 19.6 laps around
St James's Park, to prevent spectators from attending?
... that Aran Bell, who was profiled at age 11 in the dance documentary First Position, became a
principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre at age 21?
... that despite being very aggressive towards other ants, the common pugnacious ant is tolerant towards ants of its own species from other colonies?
... that in the early 20th century, residents of
Mġarr, Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their parish church?
... that The Ghost and the Guest is one in a long line of Hollywood films that validate skepticism about
paranormal activity by depicting "a haunted house that is not truly haunted"?
... that as one of its campus traditions,
Pomona College reveres the number
47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
... that the
Eocene-age plant Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
... that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr.
Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the
coronavirus?