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... that the Aurelia Star, an
Iowa newspaper, has changed ownership at least 11 times?
29 June 2022
00:00, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Paola Cabezas
... that Ecuadorian politician Paola Cabezas(pictured) decided to stop straightening her hair when her niece described her own unstraightened hair as "ugly"?
... that Caesar Tarrant remained enslaved after his service as a boat pilot in the American Revolutionary War until the state of Virginia purchased his freedom in 1789?
... that in 2007, José the beaver set up housekeeping in the Bronx?
26 June 2022
00:00, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström
... that the mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine Holmboe(pictured), who studied in Paris with
Pauline Viardot and moved to Italy to perform, was one of the first Norwegian women to be acclaimed internationally for her singing?
... that as a member of the El Alto Workers' Center, Martha Yujra participated in
mass mobilizations that led to the resignations of two Bolivian presidents?
... that the Summit Hotel(pictured), once described by its own architect as the "most hated hotel in New York", was protected as a New York City landmark in 2005?
... that Egon Madsen, a former
Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the
Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
... that Subneolithic groups practised hunting and gathering whilst also incorporating elements of
Neolithic culture, including pottery?
... that Dutch squatters fighting eviction from De Vloek (The Curse) briefly occupied
Scheveningen Pier?
... that H. B. Wilkinson lost the first special election in Arizona to
Isabella Greenway, who became the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress?
... that after failing to persuade European donors that six human rights organizations had terrorist connections based on a dossier of classified evidence, Israel designated them as terrorist organizations?
... that the Stadthalle Hannover(pictured), the largest classical music concert hall in Germany by capacity, was modelled after the
Pantheon in Rome and completed by 1914?
... that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
... that Olympic diver Millie Hudson, who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
... that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?
20 June 2022
00:00, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
The nova on the Juneteenth flag
... that on the Juneteenth flag, designed by Ben Haith to celebrate freedom and the end of slavery in the United States, the nova (pictured) represents a new beginning for all?
... that a wine closet at 15 Central Park West(pictured) originally cost up to $80,000, while a storage bin cost $35,000?
... that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the
Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of
chamber music?
... that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?
... that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the
South China Sea, where internal waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)?
... that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, the concert hall of
Bielefeld, remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930?
... that food psychology research has found that the
COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds?
... that the first tequila distillery in the United States was opened in 1936 in
Nogales, Arizona, by Harry J. Karns, former Arizona state senator and Nogales mayor?
... that 40 countries constitutionally recognize a right to resist the government under certain circumstances?
... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?
16 June 2022
12:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
"Dirty Angel" by T. E. Macklin
... that the bronze statue atop Thomas Eyre Macklin's 1907 South African War Memorial in Newcastle became known as the "Dirty Angel" (pictured)?
... that entrepreneur
Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin?
... that a statue of the
Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
... that Bally's Chicago, a proposed
casino resort in
Chicago, has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
... that ska-crazed dancers at a Stretch Armstrong concert once became so intense that three people left on stretchers and one in a hospital helicopter?
... that Thihapate of Mohnyin, who was laying siege to
Mogaung, refused the court's offer to be
king of Ava, saying he was neither a son nor a younger brother of the king, and returned to the siege?
... that the 47 in the marijuana strain AK-47 may refer to the number of days between its planting and harvest?
... that
Royal Ballet dancer Reece Clarke once filled in for a lead role mid-show, opposite a ballerina he had never danced with, after having ten minutes to prepare?
... that episodes of the
TV Tokyo late-night show Nogizaka Under Construction are uploaded to
YouTube shortly after broadcast, which is considered unusual in Japanese media?
... that over half a century after
Kristallnacht, the Jews of Innsbruck rebuilt their synagogue on the location of the one destroyed that night?
... that Eri Yukimura pushed through with a
voice acting career partly to prove her late grandmother wrong?
... that
Seattle radio station KBLE was named in 1963 for a
cable car system that had closed nearly 25 years prior?
... that the album Topical Dancer was created using four different languages?
... that Turkey demanded Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin's extradition in May 2022, seven years after he died in Sweden?
... that Prawoto Mangkusasmito did not complete law school before the
Japanese invaded because he was too busy with student and political organizations?
... that the first episode of the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops was broadcast on 1 January 1964 from Dickenson Road Studios, a converted church in Manchester?
... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in
Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure?
... that Werner Flume called a fellow academic assistant a pig for demanding the boycott of professors of Jewish descent in 1933?
... that the Beresford and
the San Remo were sold for a total of $25,000 in 1940, a decade after they were built for $10 million?
... that Nathalie Viteri was dismissed from Ecuador's National Assembly but she is now one of the top five members contributing to their debates?
... that Melody Clinger of the girl band the Clingers met the drummer for
the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, after wolf-whistling his Rolls Royce on her way home from a guitar lesson?
... that American doctor Cory Synhorst SerVaas believed that
high-lysine corn could help end hunger in Africa, end
famine, and stop protein deficiency despite only being fed to livestock and poultry?
... that at one point the fossil grasshopper Promastax was placed in the same family as a stick insect?
... that a new building of the Catholic church Our Lady of the Annunciation in King's Lynn was initiated by
Edward, Prince of Wales, because his guests were inconvenienced by the old building's condition?
... that
Matthew Walker was driven to write Why We Sleep because of a woman who passed by him and took a peek at his work?
... that the 1872 Tradeston Flour Mills explosion that killed 18 people was caused by a fire after the feed of grain to a pair of millstones was halted?
... that neuroscientist Beatriz Rico and her team discovered a link between a protein called
Brevican and short-term spatial memory?
... that WLOK, the first Black-owned radio station in
Memphis, Tennessee, organizes an annual "Stone Soul Picnic"
gospel concert series?
... that Darrell Clarke led
Bristol Rovers to two successive promotions after having to remove "Clarke Out" posters that disgruntled fans had posted outside of the club's training ground?
... that the 2022 Sweden riots stemmed from an anti-Islamic group burning a Quran during
Ramadan with police permission?
... that Luigi Gaggero conducted the
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's
Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"?
... that when
tenorJonathan Tetelman appeared as Loris Ipanov in Giordano's Fedora, which had made
Caruso famous, a reviewer called him ideal for the role?
... that Liva Järnefelt performed leading roles at the
Royal Swedish Opera, such as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin(pictured), and Bizet's Carmen, which she also performed for her 25th anniversary with the company?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that the bronze sculpture Expansion is lit from within, after
Paige Bradley broke its wax model intentionally and assembled the cast pieces to leave cracks?
... that the documentary Babi Yar. Context shows rare footage of buildings being destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in
the main street of Nazi-occupied
Kyiv?
... that open depictions of sexual acts were a defining trait of early works of josei manga ('women's
comics')?
... that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches?
... that during a renovation of 4 Park Avenue(pictured), workers found a sealed room with women's clothes and shoes that was not in the building's blueprints?
... that development of the British UB.109Tcruise missile was given "super-priority" in 1951 to ward off an expected attack by the
Soviet Union, only to be cancelled after the attack never came?
... that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?
00:00, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Piper's Hole, Tresco
... that according to legend, dogs who travelled through a passage between Piper's Hole in
Tresco(pictured) and Piper's Hole in
St Mary's emerged without most of their fur?
... that according to The Wire, the web application Tek Fog was used to "amplify right-wing propaganda" among Indians?
... that after developing the first
packet switching network for the
ARPANET in the United States, computer scientist David Walden went to Norway to develop a packet switching network in that country?
"Deliberation", from Charles Turzak's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography in Woodcuts
... that Charles Turzak's book of woodblock prints presenting the life of
Abraham Lincoln(example pictured) was the first ever such life of a historic figure presented only in images?
... that the Carib Theatre in
Kingston, Jamaica, was the British West Indies' first building to offer air conditioning upon its opening?
... that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged
blasphemy?
... that
Japanese voice actress and singer Sora Amamiya's song "Jōnetsu no Te Amo" was heavily influenced by Latin music, including the use of a Spanish guitar?
... that All-American
cornerbackDrane Scrivener later became a published author on fire safety issues involving children with special needs, newborns, and older adults?