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... that the first vehicle on New York City's Washington Bridge(pictured) crossed it without permission?
... that Dick Callahan received his first opportunity as a PA announcer after claiming that he announced all the games at his high school, even though he had actually never announced a game before?
... that the GPT-2artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence?
... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's
National Theatre, performed in all of
Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his
Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
... that translator and journalist Frederika Randall, who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
... that with compositions such as Con brio, clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
... that Tailors' Hall, a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the
United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
... that the
UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?
... that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York,
Kofi Annan, future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
... that the medieval Breton Gwerz Santes Enori tells the story of a woman who sacrificed a breast to cure her father, and is rewarded with a golden breast?
... that the creator of a video depicting the
2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which featured Indonesian politically satirical song "Ampun Bang Jago", denied that it was politically motivated?
... that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the
alternate history genre?
... that although its range is restricted to the island of
Borneo, the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at
The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
... that a commercial for the food delivery app Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku went viral on YouTube in 2013, and was described by journalists as "bizarre"?
22 February 2021
00:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Robert C. Pringle as Chequamegon
... that the tugboat Robert C. Pringle(pictured) was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
... that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with
Kurt Masur, and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the
Musikhochschule Leipzig, where he had taught for decades?
... that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson, who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first
Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
... that the wind phone in Japan was set up to allow people to talk to the dead?
21 February 2021
00:00, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
Pelican Rock at Martin's Beach
... that access to Martin's Beach(pictured) has been the subject of a contentious battle between a Silicon Valley billionaire and the State of California?
... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist
Abul Kalam Azad?
... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized
shorthorn cattle?
... that the whaleback barge 115 became the last
Great Lakes shipwreck of the 1800s?
... that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the
Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"?
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's
Labour Party?
... that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the
tignon a "mark of distinction"?
... that the theme song for the tabletop role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. was described by a reviewer as "sound[ing] like the
Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs"?
... that Francesca Coppa, a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of
fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
... that Pliofilm, a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the
Normandy landings?
... that the 1888 eruption of Ritter Island reduced the 780-metre tall (2,560 ft) volcano to a height of just 140 metres (460 ft)?
... that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese
Supremes"?
... that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity?
... that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
... that 23 Wall Street has been called one of the "big little buildings of Wall Street"?
... that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory, about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a
market economy, received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
... that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"?
... that the newly
describedRice's whale(example pictured) is one of the most endangered
cetaceans, with fewer than 50 adult individuals believed to remain?
... that
British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
... that the administrator of the
Royal Society of New Zealand, Mimie Wood, correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
... that Utah radio stations KSUB and KSUB-FM both suffered tower collapses before going on air—39 years apart?
... that Austrian stamp collector Adolf Passer sold most of his collection to concentrate on wooing his future wife?
... that the
Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern
Palestine?
... that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the
LPGA, was a
cryptographer and
B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?
15 February 2021
00:00, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Strängnäs stone
... that the Strängnäs stone(pictured), long considered a forgery, is probably authentic?
... that the silent film The Honeymoon Express was reported to have been withdrawn from release despite being screened later in 1926?
... that the picture book Maiden & Princess, in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight, in which a prince and male knight do the same?
... that the earliest book in English of Sudanese literature is the memoir of
Selim Aga, who was born in 1826 and sold as a slave, but published his autobiography in "faultless idiomatic English"?
... that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK
Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
... that despite boasting it was the most powerful television station in the Midwest, Missouri's KACY left the air because it could not secure the right to carry network programs?
... that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets?
... that American Nobel Prize laureate
Herbert A. Simon underwent surgery at UPMC Presbyterian to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen in January 2001?
... that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova, a pioneer in Russian
decadence, allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic?
... that Sibongile Khumalo, who sang both national anthems at the
1995 Rugby World Cup Final, said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?
... that surgeon Herbert Haxton proved that the
kneecap was not just to protect the knee but also important for straightening the leg?
... that the Dreikönigskirche in
Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990?
... that the young of Coquerel's coua leave the nest after about nine days when still covered with down and unable to fly?
00:00, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
HOE hit-to-kill missile
... that hit-to-kill weapons (example pictured) require no warhead as their high velocity gives them many times the energy per kilogram of
TNT?
... that station officials climbed the 500-foot (150 m) tower of the first WFMZ-TV, smashed a bottle of champagne against the top, and christened it "Miss
Ultra High"?
... that the 1st Weather Squadron, the 2016 Weather Squadron of the Year, reports on future battlefield weather conditions and assists during natural disasters?
... that Pueblo pottery(example pictured) has been created by
Pueblo people and their antecedents in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico for almost two thousand years?
... that Leon Rains, a bass singer who studied in New York City and Paris, took part in the world premiere of Salome and an early recording of Tannhäuser?
... that "The House of Asterion" by
Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
... that Driveways director
Andrew Ahn said that the experience of directing a script he did not write improved both his writing and directing?
... that in the beginning of the 18th century, an estimated 2,100 Cherokee people inhabited more than sixteen Cherokee settlements in villages east of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
... that stocks of
mustard gas, thought to have been destroyed in the 1940s, were discovered at RAF Bowes Moor in 1997?
... that
Albuquerque radio station KRZY broadcast a college football game without permission by smuggling in gear under blankets and disguising an announcer in the opposing team's student section?
... that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century
Strasbourg, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the
digital analysis of large archival datasets?
... that the first scene of the 2010 film The Social Network took 99 takes to finish?
... that when the
chimpanzeeSami escaped from the
Belgrade Zoo for the second time in less than a week, thousands of people cheered him on?
00:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley
... that the decision not to include a duck with the statue of Sir Nigel Gresley(pictured) led to "possibly the most acrimonious argument in the long, pedantic history of the railway hobbyist"?
... that F. Andrieu was the composer of Armes, amours/O flour des flours, a double
ballade lamenting the death of his colleague
Guillaume de Machaut?
... that Proton 3, launched on 24 March 1966, was one of the first satellites equipped to look for
quarks?
... that Rānui Ngārimu(pictured) helped weave
Te Māhutonga (the Southern Cross), the Māori cloak worn by the flag bearer of the New Zealand Olympic team since 2004?
... that lawyer and
press freedom advocate Frank LoMonte helped pass legislation in 14 U.S. states outlawing censorship of
student media by school administrators?
... that Pakistani historian Suhail Zaheer Lari and his wife, architect
Yasmeen Lari, threatened to elope to Scotland to get married because the legal marriageable age there was lower than in England?
... that the Remsen Cemetery, one of the few remaining private burial grounds on Long Island, contains the remains of an American Revolutionary War colonel and his family members?
... that Schloss Freudenberg(pictured) and its park in
Wiesbaden-Dotzheim offer an exhibition for the senses, with a Dunkelbar for drinking in darkness?
... that the English and French agreed to a draft treaty in 1354 to end what was to become the Hundred Years' War, but the French reneged and the war continued for a further 101 years?
... that Hamilton Fish Park, whose pool was used for Olympic practice, was one of the New York City Parks Department's "worst problem areas" by the 1970s?
... that although
Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him?
... that the Regent of Thousand Islands is the only regent in Indonesia to be appointed by the governor instead of being elected by the people?
... that a reviewer from Eurogamer considered King of Crabs to be the "best crab-based Battle Royale" video game he had ever reviewed?
2 February 2021
12:00, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
Monk and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (middle) showing Canada's gift to President Gerald Ford
... that Canadian photographer and producer Lorraine Monk's book Between Friends / Entre Amis was Canada's gift to the United States on
their bicentennial in 1976 (pictured)?
... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?
... that the Rhodesian Light Infantry's statue The Troopie(pictured) was smuggled out of Rhodesia following the establishment of Zimbabwe prior to the regiment's disbanding?
... that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda?
... that Aicha Mekki was one of the very few crime reporters and female journalists in Morocco during the
Years of Lead in the latter half of the 20th century?
... that the 1.5 million cubic yards (1.1 million m3) of asbestos waste at the BoRit Asbestos Superfund site in
Ambler, Pennsylvania, was known colloquially as the "White Mountains" by local residents?
... that despite a $34 million advertising campaign in the United States by
General Mills, their breakfast cereal snack Fingos only lasted from 1993 to 1994?
... that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"?
... that Astoria Park was intended to be New York City's first large park with active recreational facilities?
... that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison, was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?