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... that by being the first
travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the
transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s?
... that transit service on part of MBTA bus route 86 dates back to 1858?
... that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become "
Queensified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?
... that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "
Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
... that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem?
... that Thomas Laubach, who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the
University of Bamberg?
... that the penis of the statue of Heracles in Arcachon, France, was twice reduced in size following complaints from local ladies?
... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the
Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of
Harriot Stanton Blatch?
... that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI?
... that two business partners' townhouses at 10 and 12 West 56th Street were described as being "paired in an uneasy dance, one doing the
cancan, the other a
minuet"?
... that
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?
... that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
... that the piano businessman Edwin Bechstein received a Nazi state funeral, and
his wife Helene taught Hitler table manners?
... that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian, published during the late
Ming dynasty, describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
... that pianist and composer Grace Welsh turned down becoming president of the
American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
... that the biography of
Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
... that the Theater am Aegi, which opened in
Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
... that the 1976 "Britain Awake" speech by
Margaret Thatcher(pictured) led to her being nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet newspaper?
... that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra?
... that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?
00:00, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
Hall of mirrors at Amna Suraka
... that Amna Suraka, "the world's most depressing museum", includes a hall of broken mirrors (pictured) with a shard for each victim of the
Anfal genocide?
... that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a
baseball, Joe Beckwith suffered
double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
... that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in
San Jose, California, was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
... that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
... that in
Hindu mythology, the creator deity
Daksha married Asikni, after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
... that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?
18 June 2021
12:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Tomlinson Hall
... that
Indianapolis's Tomlinson Hall(pictured) was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building?
... that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including
Hemis Tsechu and
Losar?
... that the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers were "not really wanted" by the Royal Navy and were disbanded less than 20 years after their 1873 founding?
... that "Segne du, Maria", requesting
Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by
Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
... that Oophaa is a composition by
Iannis Xenakis for a
harpsichordist and a percussionist playing seven ceramic flower pots and seven skin instruments?
... that Christian radio station KIXL near
Austin, Texas, pulled an
anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
... that according to one source, the Chinese femme fataleXia Ji married seven times?
... that Bucket of Blood Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon are located in a town that had a reputation as "too tough for women and churches"?
... that early in his racing career, Kyle Tilley worked as a delivery driver, mechanic, and sales assistant to fund his
Formula Ford team?
... that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the
Taliban in late December 2019?
... that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement?
... that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
... that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
... that architect
Paul Rudolph's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
... that the Irish
bog bodyGallagh Man(pictured) preserves the remains of an
Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a
ritual killing or executed as a criminal?
... that although
Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying "white flags over Port Stanley", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
... that the Rockefeller Apartments, with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
... that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes, but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
... that Donato Palumbo's leadership of
Euratom's
fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
... that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan, a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?
14 June 2021
12:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Artist's rendering of IDCSP satellites being deployed
... that Amy Vilela became an advocate for
single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance?
... that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of
hula?
... that James Fulton Zimmerman was the first historian to examine U.S. State Department records on the controversial
impressment that occurred just before the
War of 1812 was declared?
... that Don Mullally, a DJ at Vermont radio station WSTJ between 1952 and 2016, was still playing vinyl records when he retired just two weeks before his death?
... that the late-
Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
... that the seven-year-old son of the first owner of Maryland radio station WPTX was sometimes allowed to spin
big band records on the air?
... that 14th-century hierocrats thought that the
pope was the rightful
sovereign of the entire world?
00:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
111 West 57th Street
... that a Steinway piano showroom at 111 West 57th Street(pictured) in New York City was expanded by 2,850 percent to become one of the tallest buildings in the United States?
... that Karl-Günther von Hase, who served as a German government spokesman under three
chancellors, became director of the broadcaster
ZDF in 1977?
... that Cambodian leader
Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh?
... that Ingrid Wallberg was the first female architect in Sweden with her own firm?
... that the manager of WVSS at the
University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
... that John Barefoot's catalogue of British Commonwealth
revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
... that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the
cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?
... that Kaʻelepulu Pond, formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha)
Hawaiian fish pond, is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and
polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
... that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie(pictured) composed the song "
Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994?
... that although the two sponges look similar, sediment rarely settles on the surface of Polymastia boletiformis(example pictured), whereas Polymastia penicillus often appears dirty?
... that after police beat, choked,
pepper-sprayed, and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
... that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro, which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
... that Massachusetts radio station WAAF pulled off an "unprecedented radio concert promotion coup" by organizing a concert by
the Rolling Stones for 300 locals?
... that the rock band
Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
... that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of
Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
... that as part of the
type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate
bird strikes?
... that the Sherwood Studio Building was characterized in 1892 as New York City's "uptown headquarters of Art", with many of its tenants having studied art together?
... that one airline has flown more than 5,600 preighter flights, carrying cargo in place of passengers?
... that
Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX, only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
... that the only way for litigants in
California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate?
... that Indian prime minister
Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister
Indira Gandhi?
... that
Tom Jones's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of
Wales?
... that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650
neolithic burial sites in
Andalusia, and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
... that the proverb "speech is silver, silence is golden" has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
... that the four-year history of radio station WUCI-FM included the revelation of the founder as a convicted felon and a station staffer threatening another with a revolver?
... that despite being sick and ordered to return to the rear, Hughie Miller fought on the front lines in the
Battle of Belleau Wood and single-handedly captured two German soldiers?
... that due to
COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and
Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
... that the American Schools at War program (promotional poster pictured) raised over $2 billion (over $28 billion today) to help pay for World War II?
... that
ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert, reassembling them when they reached the
Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
... that the Shrine of St. Paulina(pictured) is dedicated to the first female saint from Brazil?
... that Robin Ransom, the first African-American woman to serve on the
Supreme Court of Missouri, said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
... that the Flag of FR Yugoslavia(pictured) was the last national flag in Europe to have a
red star removed from it?
... that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for
President of Chile in 2021?
... that the wooden houses at 312 and 314 East 53rd Street were completed just as fire codes in New York City prevented the construction of further wooden structures nearby?
... that 2 Cheap Cars withdrew a television advertisement in New Zealand because children were copying the main character's catchphrase, "Ah so", which they sometimes pronounced "asshole"?
00:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
St. George's Basilica
... that the two Romanesque towers of St. George's Basilica(pictured) in Prague are nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve"?
... that Richard Hatherill survived a mutiny and a shipwreck, only to die from an illness at the age of 35?
... that West Virginia radio station WHIS made the first broadcast of a murder trial in the United States—and was broadcasting when the first on-air death occurred?
... that the emperor shrimp likes to hitch a ride on a sea cucumber or a large mollusc?
... that when The Saint Paul Hotel was built in 1908–1910, a
rathskeller was carved into the sandstone beneath the building?
... that concert pianist, composer, and opera librettist Leonard Liebling was the editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier from 1911 to 1945?
... that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a
hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
... that Kartini Hermanus, the first female general in the
Indonesian Army, outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
... that when the sheriff in
Helena, Arkansas, was asked to arrest Owen Flemming, an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
... that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
... that the brown seaweed Acinetospora crinita forms a more-or-less complete covering of filamentous algae over the rock, detritus, living animals and sea grasses on the seabed where it occurs?
... that a man who threatened to blow up Alaska radio station KIAK unless he was put on the air was startled to find the station completely automated?
... that Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi swam seven miles (11 km) with her child strapped to her back, from
Kapiti Island to the New Zealand mainland, to raise the alarm about an impending invasion?
... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
... that American politician Alexander Warner held elected political offices in three different states?
... that after
Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
... that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first
GSM phone call?
... that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish
Chernobyl" due to its reputation as a
ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?
... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?