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... that the 1972 documentary Elvis on Tour became the only film starring
Elvis Presley to win an award?
... that the music minister, seminary student, and
pageant contestant Leah Boyd became an Internet celebrity due to her comedic and satirical commentary on Twitter?
... that Tropical Storm Eliakim enhanced rainfall and brought flooding to Kenya despite the storm making landfall on Madagascar?
... that the fin de siècle photographer James Reuel Smith(pictured) rode his bike all over Manhattan and the Bronx to photograph the natural springs and wells of New York City before they disappeared?
... that Jimmy Dunn was the original timekeeper of the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1930, and never missed a home game until he retired before the 1972 season?
... that the European version of the video game Tomba! uses the theme song of the television series No Sweat as its opening theme?
... that
Mark Hamill was cast as the villain in Brigsby Bear, a role the director described as a depraved
Jim Henson, "teaching weird lessons about the world in a loving way"?
... that the gourd mouth organ is said to have been created in the third millennium B.C. as a likeness of the
Phoenix?
... that beginning in 1763,
Columbia University students were required to wear their academic regalia daily in order to steer them away from New York City brothels?
... that Mertome Village in Bayswater, Western Australia was the first aged care complex to be built by a local government in Australia?
... that by naming her album Planet Her,
Doja Cat was "just trying to be cute" and was not promoting a feminist agenda nor a planet exclusively for women?
... that Dialta Alliata di Montereale has fought a 25-year court battle for a half-share of
Arthur Acton's $1 billion art collection after DNA testing confirmed that she is his granddaughter?
... that Ahmet Cevat Emre shared a household with Vâlâ Nureddin and
Nâzım Hikmet in Batumi, with Emre responsible for cooking, Hikmet writing poetry and Nureddin giving Turkish language lessons?
... that, while drunk, Romanian government minister Gheorghe Chițu allegedly had a dentist "pull out the roots of all his molars and his front teeth", resulting in permanent neurological damage?
27 July 2021
12:00, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
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Limete Tower
... that the foundation stone for the Limete Tower(pictured) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laid by
Julius Nyerere, then President of Tanzania?
... that two
hagiographic documents about St. Hunegund of France publicized Hunegund's miracles to create a sense of identity in
Homblières and to raise money for the monastery?
... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?
... that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in
London?
... that
Karel van het Reve, author of Twee minuten stilte (1959), inserted a fake letter to the publisher in the first edition which was real enough for later book owners to return the letter to the author?
... that Fort Hampton was constructed by the United States Army to warn Americans to leave and keep them from illegally settling in
Chickasaw territory?
... that Jack Mitchell and his heiress wife Lolita transformed El Mirador into "one of the most fabulous estates in
Montecito", complete with a dairy, a zoo, and a floating tea pavilion on a lake?
... that English cricketer Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain
Michael Atherton, was given his mother's
maiden name at birth, and he does not know why?
00:00, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
J. S. Moll
... that the banker J. S. Moll(pictured) was selected for the
British Lions despite never having played for the England national rugby team?
... that Kibu.com was shut down 46 days after it was launched?
... that Ian Board ejected
Colony Room regular
Francis Bacon shouting: "Get out! Call yourself a painter. You can't fucking paint. Take your boring friends with you and don't bother coming back"?
... that when the Leeds Tiger(pictured) went on display in
Leeds in 1863 it was described as a "work of art quite as much as an object for scientific observation"?
... that New Zealand's Grace Prendergast was the highest-ranked female rower in the world in 2019?
... that
Drew Goddard wrote the soundtrack for Bad Times at the El Royale into his screenplay so a studio would be forced to purchase the licenses for each piece of music?
... that Robert Sacchi, who played many
Humphrey Bogart roles due to their physical resemblance, "never thought Bogie was too terrific-looking" and "wanted to look like
Gregory Peck" instead?
... that although the
Pat Buchanan campaign commercial Meatballs was created by a Houston-based ad agency, it was not initially aired in Houston, lest its message turn off voters?
... that Ripon Spa Baths is the only spa in the United Kingdom to have been ceremonially opened by a member of the royal family?
... that one of Leila Velez's reasons for expanding her Brazilian beauty-salon company is to fight racism against black women and their natural
afro-textured hair?
... that, after being elected as the first
transgender city councilor of
Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
... that during the 2021 food crisis in southern Madagascar, people have resorted to eating things such as raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, locusts, ashes mixed with tamarind, and shoe leather?
... that although Vivaldi composed cello sonatas for private international customers, six of them were published in Paris in 1740 without his permission?
... that during the 1940 Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz, all the male inhabitants of the occupied Polish town, Jews and non-Jews alike, were subjected to hours of abuse by German soldiers?
... that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote
a poem that became one of the most popular
hymns to Mary in German?
... that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during
COVID-19 lockdowns?
... that north London's Barnet Gate was called
Grendel's Gate by the Anglo-Saxons, after the monster slain in the epic poem Beowulf?
... that Des van Jaarsveldt was the first Rhodesian to captain the South Africa national rugby team and possibly the first to give a Springboks team talk in English?
20 July 2021
12:00, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Shanka Basadi
... that the Shanka Basadi (pictured), one of the Lakshmeshwara Jain temples, features a rare monolithic pillar with the carving of 1008 tirthankaras known as the Sahasrakuta Jinabimba?
... that Peter Pernin was disciplined by the Catholic diocese of Green Bay for spending too long away publishing his memoir of the
Peshtigo fire?
... that after losing his job at KBIF when his father was convicted on
tax-withholding crimes, future California politician
Jim Patterson bought
Fresno's KIRV and turned it into a Christian radio station?
... that
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller's mustache (pictured) was denounced as "deplorable" by the New York Sun, which claimed that it distracted lawyers and debased the court's dignity?
... that undercover journalists at the
Greenpeace publication Unearthed tricked an
ExxonMobil lobbyist into revealing the company's agenda by posing as job recruiters?
... that Callimachus wrote more than 800 books, but almost none of them have survived?
... that Native American leader Chico Velasquez reputedly wore leggings decorated with the fingernails of his defeated enemies, American down one leg and Mexican down the other?
... that Kake has been described as "a sort of
Johnny Appleseed ... spreading the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex"?
... that the social network Koo increased in popularity after the
2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
... that the Cartier Building in New York City was purchased in exchange for $100 and a necklace?
17 July 2021
12:00, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
New Forest Buckhounds
... that when
Queen Anne became too infirm to follow her pack of Buckhounds(examples pictured) on horseback, she had paths cut through
Windsor Forest so she could follow the hunt in a
carriage?
... that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by
Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin?
... that Leonard Woods, a Black miner accused of killing a white mine foreman from a prominent family, was possibly lynched to prevent a trial that could have tainted the reputation of the foreman and his family?
... that "Lass uns in deinem Namen, Herr" is a 1964 Christian hymn with text and music by Kurt Rommel, praying for the courage to take the necessary steps?
... that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby?
... that Mahmut Bozteke, whose arms were partially disabled in an accident, started performing
Para Taekwondo upon the advice of his
physiotherapist, who commented that he can use his legs very well?
... that B. Max Mehl, a coin dealer in Texas who made the hobby popular, advertised his "Mehl-ing list" in the 1920s?
14 July 2021
12:00, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Detail of Van Ruytenburch from The Night Watch
... that Willem van Ruytenburch(pictured) became more famous after his death, as the "man dressed in yellow" in
Rembrandt's The Night Watch, than he was during his life as a Dutch social climber?
... that the Lion and Tusk replaced the royal crown on Rhodesian insignia but was previously disparagingly referred to as "the lion with the toothpick"?
... that German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg was instrumental in the recognition of the 16th-century Croy Tapestry as a cultural asset of national value?
... that Maria Simon and her husband met through
a Jewish youth group in Austria but did not marry until ten years later after reconnecting while living as exiles in England?
12 July 2021
12:00, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Branka Veselinović
... that Serbian actress Branka Veselinović(pictured), whose career started in 1938, still performs aged 102?
... that the anti-apartheid anthem "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was "bastardised" by being adapted as a yoghurt advert song titled "Gimme Yop, Me Mama"?
... that Christa Ludwig, known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about
Else Lasker-Schüler's late years in Jerusalem was published?
... that the 2014 book Packaged Pleasures investigated the history of
consumer culture and how the rise of
packaging for products created "transmissible packets of pleasure" for popular consumption?
... that photographing
Elliot Page for the cover of Time "really meant the world" to Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly?
... that the style of the 9th-century
CelticRoscrea Brooch was influenced by the artworks of
Viking invaders?
11 July 2021
12:00, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Jews forced to perform calisthenics during the Eleftherias Square roundup
... that 9,000 Greek Jews were targeted by the 1942 Eleftherias Square roundup(pictured), and those who collapsed were attacked by dogs?
... that Ellora Derenoncourt demonstrated that the expansion of minimum wage in 1967 accounted for 20 percent of the reduction in racial income gaps in the United States during the civil rights era?
... that Marja Kubašec was both the first
Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in
Upper Sorbian?
... that the many refugees who have entered Canada via Roxham Road at
the border between New York and Quebec since 2017 may not have been breaking any laws?
... that the volcanic crater Cerro Overo formed about 77,000 years ago?
... that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"?
... that the meagre attendance at the 1960 European Nations' Cup Final in Paris was blamed on crowds who "wanted western European glamour, not mysterious teams from the other side of Europe"?
... that the 130th Regiment of Foot, raised by George Pigot in 1794, was disbanded just two years later after suffering heavy losses due to tropical disease?
... that Josh Phillips, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his eight-year-old friend when he was fourteen, is eligible for resentencing in 2023?
... that the extinct planthopper Florissantia elegans was described in 1890 from only two fossils?
... that ballerina Tina Pereira won a competition even though she was chosen to replace an indisposed dancer, and her partner got seriously injured mid-performance?
... that British army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was killed by an
IRA ambush while returning from a tennis match in 1921?
... that
Homestead, Florida, radio station WOIR was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of farmworkers in a labor camp before the arrival of
Hurricane Andrew?
... that, after her death, contemporaries of
Frankish queen Austregilde both called her "the light of her homeland, the world, and the court" and compared her to
Herod?
Shrine of Miosach, late 11th and early 16th centuries
... that large parts of the 11th-century Irish Shrine of Miosach(detail pictured) were added during a 16th-century refurbishment?
... that Elizabeth Mburu's book African Hermeneutics seeks to bring a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible?
... that one of the arguments made by the Simla Deputation for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the
Mughal Empire?
... that Hugo Marchand was named an étoile of
Paris Opera Ballet at age 23, after he made an unexpected role debut when the company was touring in Japan?
... that a basic difference between modern Paganism and New Age is that the former focuses more on the external world and the latter on the inner life of the individual?
... that Little Island at Pier 55(pictured), a new artificial island park in New York City, was described as being "in the theatrical vein of 18th century English garden follies"?
... that neither holochess (dejarik) nor sabacc, two games invented for the Star Wars films, have a definitive ruleset despite several real-world licensed releases?
... that adult-film actress Kendra Sunderland originally wanted to be a counselor or an accountant?
... that tools for sewing and skin preparation found at archaeological sites indicate that the history of Inuit clothing in the Arctic regions of North America and Greenland extends back as early as 2500 BCE?
... that the first Black woman to receive tenure in
Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
... that the pineapple on the flag of the Cayman Islands alludes to the territory's historic connection with Jamaica, whose
coat of arms features five pineapples?
... that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-
Gothic chapel with a star
rib vault(pictured), was almost demolished to make room for a highway?
... that South African American-football kicker Ryan Pretorius wore
cleats two sizes too small at Ohio State to simulate kicking barefoot?
... that although
Dmitri Shostakovich initially dismissed his own Piano Sonata No. 2 as a "trifle, something impromptu", he would later consider it his most important piano composition?
... that the current Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap, personally led a rescue operation to free Indonesian crew members taken hostage by pirates in June 2020?
... that the 2005 birth of Gabi(pictured with mother), the first elephant in Israel conceived through
artificial insemination, was
viewed live by more than 350,000 people in 108 countries?
... that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused
rock and
bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
... that music theorist Philip Ewell received "anti-Black statements and personal ad hominem attacks" following his claim that Western music theory is shaped by a "white racial frame"?
... that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid
her husband, who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes?