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31 January 2018

15:00, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Persoonia elliptica flowers

... that the Western Australian shrubs Persoonia elliptica (pictured) and Persoonia saccata are known as snottygobbles?
... that New York City's Broadway Junction station sees 100,000 daily riders, the vast majority using it to make transfers?
... that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg?
... that Oneco referred to the gift of a ceremonial sword from Charles II of England as proof of the legal equality of the Mohegan sachemate with the English monarchy?
... that the company developing the SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile changed ownership twice while the project was underway?
... that Mildred Dilling's first fee for a harp performance was a dozen carnations and a jar of pickles?
... that a newly appointed count of the Székelys was entitled to a horse from each of the Székely seats?
... that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?

00:00, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Yanmen Pass

... that the inconvenience of getting to Yanmen Pass (pictured) makes it one of the less crowded AAAAA-rated sites along the Great Wall of China?
... that American scholar Paul Y. Hammond sought to develop a more discerning understanding of how organizational behavior and domestic political considerations affected American foreign policy?
... that among the accolades received by I, Tonya are five British Academy Film Award nominations?
... that the comic "Shoot", originally scheduled for publication in a 1999 issue of Hellblazer, was not published until 2010?
... that Canadian physician Fraser Rose was partly named after the doctor who walked through a snowstorm in Nova Scotia to deliver him?
... that the first shipment of books for the Washington Territorial Library traveled around Cape Horn from New York City?
... that the Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine and Licinius to treat the Christian Church peacefully, was issued during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades?
... that the Alabama Crimson Tide overcame a 13–0 deficit at halftime to win the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship in overtime?

30 January 2018

12:00, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Blossom's Inn, by Thomas H. Shepherd, 1850

... that a porter at Blossom's Inn (pictured) was revived by treatment that included bleeding, brandy, and a turpentine enema?
... that while chief justice of the Colony of Cape Breton, Richard Gibbons founded a group that was later banned as being a possible "Seed of Rebellion"?
... that Cider with Rosie could not be filmed in Slad, where the story takes place, as the village had changed too much?
... that Sciota Brook is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long but flows through three counties in Pennsylvania?
... that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds?
... that during the height of the Cold War, an American visiting Russia received a seven-year sentence for spying?
... that Chen Junsheng's investigative report resulted in his superior losing his job and getting "promoted"?
... that horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City's boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn?

00:00, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Winter, Pieter Breughel the Younger, 1633

... that Belfast pub-owner and freemason William Braithwaite donated Winter (pictured) and Spring by Pieter Breughel the Younger to the Ulster Museum?
... that Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles carries more than 700 different soft drinks?
... that Mesembrinella caenozoica is the first unambiguous fossil described in the fly superfamily Oestroidea?
... that the physician George Abercrombie once won a game of chess against world champion José Raúl Capablanca?
... that the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel, which took 13 years to complete, has been described as a "monument to corruption"?
... that the Houdini Museum of New York houses the world's second largest collection of "Houdiniana"?
... that Shmuel Abba Twersky's immigration to Canada from Ukraine – to serve as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg in the 1920s – was held up by two years of bureaucratic red tape?
... that in his review, IGN's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?

29 January 2018

12:10, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Hardenbergia comptoniana

... that the seed pods of Hardenbergia comptoniana (flowers pictured) make an audible 'pop' as they release the seed?
... that after contracting diphtheria, John Hunt believed he was one of the last cases in England to have his tonsils painted with cocaine and then removed by guillotine?
... that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber?
... that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé?
... that prior to serving as executive fashion director for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, and as a judge for Project Runway: Junior, Aya Kanai considered careers in puppetry and fine art?
... that 50 million trees could be planted to form the Northern Forest in England?
... that Major General Miles Graham was Monty's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War?
... that passengers traveling to the 1939 New York World's Fair via the World's Fair subway line paid the standard five-cent fare to board, but had to pay the fare again on arrival?

00:00, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Queens Building

... that the Queens Building (pictured) at Heathrow Airport was one of the most visited London attractions in 1956?
... that Doug McMurdy was the inaugural winner of the Red Tilson Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League each season?
... that "What a Beautiful Name" represents the first Grammy nomination for Hillsong Worship?
... that SCA1 was the first genetic defect found to cause ataxia?
... that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day?
... that the Aequare was a remotely piloted vehicle intended to be used by F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers to find and designate targets?
... that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs, Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television?
... that a website run by Digiday generates random absurd Twitter bios followed by profanity-laced commentary?

28 January 2018

12:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Star singers in 2014

... that "Stern über Bethlehem" is a German song created in 1964 and often sung by star singers (pictured)?
... that Wang Zhongyu was one of China's most powerful figures in the 1990s, with authority over reforming state-owned enterprises?
... that over seven hours of rain delays resulted in the 1998 NAPA 500 becoming the first night race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway?
... that Rome's first emperor, Augustus, adopted his grandsons Lucius and Gaius?
... that Bill Dubuque's scripts for The Judge and The Accountant were both featured on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood?
... that larvae of the firefly Luciola substriata swim upside down?
... that the Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake in New York was the first hotel anywhere to be equipped with electric lighting in all the guest rooms?
... that the Welsh footballer Syd Thomas impressed Fulham so much in a trial match that he was offered a contract at half-time?

00:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

American Base Hospital No. 57 operating room

... that from September 1918 to August 1919, when it left France, American Base Hospital No. 57 (operating room pictured) treated 8,505 surgical and medical cases, and 7,292 dental cases?
... that Peter Frank Stott investigated the use of open level crossings on the British Rail network following the Lockington rail crash in which nine people died?
... that Barnes Brook lacked any habitats for fish in 2001, but is now being considered for addition to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's list of wild trout streams?
... that the U.S. Army's Plato and FABMDS programs for anti-ballistic missiles evolved into the well-known Patriot missile?
... that Odontadenia macrantha flowers year-round in its natural habitat?
... that certain copies of the Christmas compilation album MTV: TRL Christmas contained tickets for a free trip to be a part of the Total Request Live studio audience in New York City?
... that James Robson has been to six Rugby World Cups with the Scotland team and on six British and Irish Lions tours?

27 January 2018

12:10, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Falls on the West Kill

... that the watershed of the West Kill (Diamond Notch Falls pictured) has the steepest slopes and highest overall elevation of any subbasin of New York's Schoharie Creek?
... that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter, which was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter?
... that Colette Lorand made her debut as Gounod's Marguerite in 1945, created Reimann's Regan in 1978, and retired as Janáček's Emilia Marty in 1983?
... that Ninian Park, the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
... that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel, as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation?
... that Nana Otuo Siriboe II, a Ghanaian electrical engineer and paramount chief, is the chairman of the advisory council to the President of Ghana?
... that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens, they could not work on secret military projects?

00:00, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

3D representation of rabeprazole

... that people of Japanese ancestry may have trouble metabolizing rabeprazole (3D representation pictured)?
... that the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South often refer to themselves as "Mumford and Sons' Evil Twins"?
... that the taboo-breaking debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms ended up winning Africa's biggest literary award instead of attracting the severe backlash author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim expected?
... that the English footballer Danny Lloyd sold bins for a waste management company before turning professional in 2017?
... that "Erde, singe" ("Earth, sing") was a carol in ten stanzas derived in the 19th century from a pastoral lullaby, but appears in the current hymnal in four stanzas, alluding to Christmas only once?
... that before becoming a New York Supreme Court justice, Irwin Untermyer successfully argued to preserve the New York City Subway's five-cent fare in a U.S. Supreme Court case?
... that the gastropod mollusc Thyca crystallina is in the early evolutionary stages of becoming parasitic on a starfish?
... that the United States Navy tested a Flyrt for distracting radar-guided missiles from its ships?

26 January 2018

12:00, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush wearing tangzhuangs

... that the "silly shirt" chosen for the 2001 APEC forum—the tangzhuang (pictured)—launched a fashion craze in China?
... that during World War II, Colonel George F. Good Jr. successfully defended Funafuti from ten Japanese attacks with a mixed unit that was "poorly armed" and "stuck out like a sore thumb"?
... that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202, scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
... that the La Loche Formation can include clasts of Precambrian gneiss?
... that the English footballer Tammy Abraham was the first player to win Bristol City's Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Top Goalscorer awards in the same season?
... that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials?
... that Gudy Gaskill, the driving force behind the creation of the 567-mile (912 km) Colorado Trail, was honored by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush for her volunteerism?
... that in 2009 the British construction industry was urged to Never Waste a Good Crisis?

00:00, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Nylanderia pygmaea male in amber

... that male Nylanderia pygmaea ants (pictured) were trapped in amber while climbing plants for their mating flight?
... that missile scientist Song Jian was the architect of China's one-child policy?
... that Richard Strauss's art song "Freundliche Vision" describes a waking dream?
... that American construction company RMK-BRJ trained 200,000 Vietnamese workers in construction and administrative trades during the Vietnam War?
... that despite London Welsh being liquidated, their amateur team London Welsh Amateur continued as they held separate independent membership of the Rugby Football Union?
... that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board oversees a park system that has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America?
... that because of the 2016–17 video game voice actor strike, voice actress Ashly Burch could not reprise her role in the Life Is Strange prequel, Before the Storm?
... that Jim Benedict was knocked out during his first professional batting practice?

25 January 2018

12:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

1917 cheese press from Somerset

... that following its recent rediscovery, Dora Saker's 1917 book Practical Cheddar Cheese-making has "quickly acquired cult status amongst farmhouse cheese-makers" (cheese press pictured)?
... that public art at University of Washington station includes a mural inspired by symbols on geologic maps?
... that footballer John Robson was forced to retire after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 28?
... that the first discovery of copper in the state of Victoria, Australia, was made at Coopers Creek in the 1860s?
... that the high Byzantine title of sebastokrator was invented for Isaac Komnenos, who was described by his niece as an "emperor without the purple"?
... that Joint Task Force Empire Shield consists of soldiers and sailors of the New York National Guard and New York Naval Militia, tasked with the defense of New York City?
... that the actress Martina Mayne published an English translation of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig?
... that the engines of Jagdgeschwader II could not tolerate artificial castor oil?

00:15, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

One of four Torslunda plates

... that a one-eyed figure shown on one of the Torslunda plates (pictured) is possibly the Norse god Odin?
... that although the song that Eri Sasaki submitted for use in the anime series Plastic Memories was not chosen, she later passed an audition to sing the series' opening theme?
... that after the unsuccessful Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66, Castile expelled the surviving Muslims?
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic?
... that the main building of the Music House Museum is a remodelled 1909 dairy barn?
... that Vice-Admiral Herbert King-Hall called the example of the tugboat HMS Blackcock during the sinking of the Imperial cruiser Königsberg "most praiseworthy"?
... that Canadian football player Archie Amerson was described as both halves of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' "one-two punch"?
... that Andy's Diner was partly constructed from a railcar that once carried Franklin D. Roosevelt?

24 January 2018

12:30, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Ludwig II by Elisabet Ney

... that some historians believe Elisabet Ney's full-length statue (pictured) of "Mad King Ludwig" of Bavaria was created as part of a Prussian scheme to unify Germany?
... that gold was discovered on Cline Buttes in central Oregon in 1904, but proved uneconomic to mine?
... that Pecorino di Carmasciano cheese is produced only in a small cluster of towns in the Apennine Mountains of Italy?
... that the Lokrume helmet fragment was the first piece of a Viking helmet to be identified?
... that Merkel Landis, while a treasurer at a bank in Pennsylvania, originated the first Christmas Savings Club?
... that HMS Roebuck rescued HMS Rippon after the latter grounded during an attack on Basse-Terre in 1759?
... that in an attempt to catch Celia Cooney, the New York City Police Department launched what was at the time the largest manhunt in the city's history?
... that Isopogon mnoraifolius was named for the resemblance of its foliage to a menorah?

00:45, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Latin and Czech in a gradual

... that the German Christmas carol "Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt" is based on a Czech song derived around 1500 from a Latin model (manuscript pictured)?
... that Phillipe Cunningham is one of the first openly transgender people of color to be elected to public office in the United States?
... that although the 1928–1929 Red Spears' uprising in Shandong broke out in protest against high taxes, banditry, and government brutality, the rebels themselves came to raise taxes, loot, rape, rob and kidnap for ransom?
... that the 2015 Indian epic historical romance film Bajirao Mastani spent eleven years in development hell before being revived in 2014?
... that the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center airport terminal was designated a landmark and is being redeveloped into the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City?
... that Margaret O'Flynn and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists?
... that during World War II, the United States Navy's Glomb project evaluated the use of gliders as flying bombs?
... that Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was Kickstarter's "fastest funded publishing project" ever?

23 January 2018

13:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Henry Buttelmann

... that Henry Buttelmann (pictured) was the youngest flying ace of the Korean War, at just over 24 years old?
... that the Revolution on Granite was the first major political protest held in Kiev's Independence Square, and its methods were copied in the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan?
... that before becoming chair of the Millennium Development Authority, Yaa Ntiamoah Badu worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
... that the motet In Exile for double choir by Herbert Sumsion was premiered at Gloucester Cathedral?
... that White House correspondent Naomi Nover once assaulted Bernie Boston while Mother Teresa and Ronald Reagan "looked on in total amazement"?
... that American pianist Joe Sample died from mesothelioma prior to completing his parts for the collaborative album Christmas With Friends with India Arie?
... that the Australian plants Persoonia adenantha and P. chamaepeuce were described by a Czech and Polish botanist, respectively?
... that Israeli scholar Yehuda Liebes claims that the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy includes an allusion to Jesus?

01:15, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

The cathedral in 2014

... that Azerbaijan stored ammunition inside Ghazanchetsots Cathedral (pictured) during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
... that Thomas Johnston made the first historical print engraved in America?
... that in healthy adults, HMB has been shown to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size, muscle strength, and lean body mass, reduce muscle damage, and speed recovery from exercise?
... that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado, their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners?
... that adult pale crackers feed on rotting fruit, carrion, and mud?
... that Dellatorre, who currently plays for Cypriot club APOEL FC, was the top scorer of the 2011 São Paulo Junior Football Cup?
... that the Rockefeller Center mural Man at the Crossroads was destroyed after the artist surreptitiously added a portrait of Lenin?
... that Jay Fai had never heard of Michelin stars when her restaurant was awarded one?

22 January 2018

13:30, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

A man wearing a jean jacket

... that the jean jacket (pictured) was invented by Levi Strauss in around 1880?
... that Marjorie Husted, as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker, interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?
... that research for the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House reportedly included more than 200 interviews with Donald Trump and his closest associates conducted over 18 months?
... that after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the Chinese returned Param Vir Chakra recipient Joginder Singh's ashes to his battalion with full military honours?
... that Black Buttes' amphitheater is partially occupied by Deming Glacier?
... that François Noël's translations of classic Chinese texts were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by historian Jean-Baptiste Du Halde?
... that "Private View", an episode of Inside No. 9, was a homage to Theatre of Blood satirising the world of contemporary art?
... that the Zombie Hut was a fictitious tiki bar in the 1945 Abbott and Costello film Zombies on Broadway, as well as a real tiki bar that opened in Sacramento, California, that same year?

01:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

The Witcham Gravel helmet

... that the Witcham Gravel helmet (pictured) is the only known Roman helmet of its kind?
... that Yang Yuanyuan won a Lifetime Achievement Award because China's aviation accident rate plummeted under his leadership?
... that a former chapel built in 1888 was one of eleven studios involved in the recording of Adele's bestselling album 21?
... that Barnet Nover's 1939 Washington Post article "British Surrender – a Munich for the Holy Land" was inserted into the Congressional Record by then US Senator Harry Truman?
... that the Hong Kong Regiment was paid more than other British Indian Army regiments and was known as "The Swagger Regiment"?
... that Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists tried to visit Coffee Brook in 2001, but were unable to reach it?
... that the Javan frogmouth may be more common than generally thought?
... that in the 1929 NFL season, players on the Orange Tornadoes, including Heinie Benkert, wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers?

21 January 2018

14:00, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Roll's Regiment on campaign in Egypt

... that Swiss-born Louis de Roll was colonel of Roll's Regiment (pictured), which distinguished itself at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801?
... that the purple scale predator is native to Australia but was first described from a Californian specimen?
... that Mhaimbhat is considered the first known prose writer in the Marathi language?
... that Metropolis Software's Tajemnica Statuetki (The Mystery of the Statuette) was the first Polish adventure game?
... that when cardiac surgeon Horace Smithy had a patient die on the operating table, he may have lost the chance to undergo heart surgery himself?
... that Friedrich Spee wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol "Zu Bethlehem geboren" to a popular French tune with a frivolous text?
... that the Georgian goddess Dali appeared as both a nude golden-haired woman with glowing skin, and as a white ibex with golden horns?
... that in an attack on Cologne on 28 May 1944, German gunners thought that crashing GB-1 glide bombs were aircraft they were shooting down?

02:15, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Meixi Gate in Qianshan

... that Ming China turned Qianshan (pictured) into a military base to protect Guangdong from the Portuguese settlement in Macao?
... that Ilya Espino de Marotta, lead engineer for the Panama Canal expansion project, wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
... that the newly named dinosaur Sibirotitan is only the second sauropod species named from the country of Russia, and one of the oldest titanosauriform sauropod species known from all of Asia?
... that Sonali Guha, a four-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, captured the seat of a five-term member of the assembly in her first election?
... that Amazon is building a $1.5 billion facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to serve as a principal hub for Amazon Air?
... that the Morgan Morgan Monument memorializes one of the earliest European pioneers to settle permanently in present-day West Virginia?
... that wars, battles, assassinations, and natural disasters can all cause national trauma?
... that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman?

20 January 2018

14:30, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

The Lygon Arms Hotel

... that both Oliver Cromwell and Kylie Minogue have stayed at the Lygon Arms (pictured)?
... that peanut farmer Harris DeVane won the first race held on Atlanta Motor Speedway's present configuration by 0.023 seconds, leading only the last 100 yards (91 m) of the event?
... that the nest of the large frogmouth consists of a circular cushion of down on which a single egg is balanced?
... that Herman Vandenburg Ames was one of Ezra Pound's professors at the University of Pennsylvania?
... that some 500,000 photographs and drawings are included in the collections of the Historical Model Railway Society?
... that Caroline Lenferna de Laresle travelled from Mauritius to Rome to claim the pontifical right for her order of nuns and died there shortly afterwards?
... that the Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" was largely inspired by the Breaking Bad episode "4 Days Out"?
... that Hu Yan won praise as a loyal and capable advisor in part by getting his prince drunk and kidnapping him?

02:45, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

The Coppergate Helmet

... that the Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet (pictured) may have been hidden in a well during the Viking invasion of York?
... that Chen Guangyi was appointed to the top post of his home province of Fujian reportedly after provincial cadres opposed another candidate from North China?
... that five siblings and an in-law made up the Bartell Group, which owned radio stations around the United States during the 1940s–1960s and was a pioneer in the Top 40 format?
... that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell?
... that inflatable balloon sticks for cheering at baseball games were first used in South Korea?
... that Marvin Pipkin invented the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public?
... that Wayne Jacks and Ben Hess were among the 86 drivers who attempted to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400?
... that mutant squirrels and "cat-faced" trees can be found in Ochlockonee River State Park?

19 January 2018

15:00, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Boris Townsend

... that the English physicist and television technology developer Boris Townsend (pictured) described colour television as a "judicious combination of human imperfections and clever technical solutions"?
... that The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan won a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of the genderfluid character Alex Fierro?
... that Major General Sir Randle Feilden has a horse race named in his memory?
... that India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, and the Philippines made their debut in under-20 international ice hockey at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia?
... that Lorenzo Viotti conducted Massenet's Werther in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017, silently singing with the soloists?
... that in order to attract skilled civil servants, the Hong Kong government offered a free sea cruise back to the UK on retirement to British civil servants who joined up?
... that Effie Owuor was Kenya's first female state counsel, magistrate, High Court judge, and Court of Appeal judge?
... that Amtrak ran "toasters" on the Northeast Corridor for over thirty years?

03:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

SD-3 Snooper on launcher

... that the Republic SD-3 Snooper (pictured) reconnaissance drone used airbags to cushion its landings?
... that Georges Dargaud produced the first Asterix film, Asterix the Gaul, in 1967?
... that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a national archaeological park of China, while the tomb of St. Francis Xavier is a candidate for the designation?
... that in 1858, the obstetrician Gustavus Murray claimed to be able to identify the parts of a fetus, including each vertebra, through an abdominal examination of a pregnant woman?
... that azeloprazole was designed with pharmacogenomics in mind?
... that former Oregon state legislator Hazen A. Brattain died a month after completing a seven-month world tour?
... that John Rutter wrote the lyrics for his choral composition Christmas Lullaby, with each verse including the refrain "Ave Maria"?
... that the California green shrimp uses a raft to get around?

18 January 2018

15:30, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Artist's concept of the Cahokia Woodhenge

... that the Cahokia Woodhenge (pictured), built by the Native American Mississippian culture between 900 and 1100 CE, was a timber circle solar calendar used to observe solstices and equinoxes?
... that the English tenor Mark Milhofer appeared as Mozart's Ferrando in Beijing and Moscow, and as Poppea's nurse in Berlin, dressed as a parody of Riff Raff?
... that the fireflies Aquatica ficta and Aquatica hydrophila both have aquatic larvae that are unable to swim?
... that in 1919, Romanian playwright and journalist A. de Herz was court-martialled for alleged collaboration with the Central Powers?
... that prior to creating Booker T. Washington State Park, West Virginia's Conservation Commission justified its segregation policy by explaining that "our Negro citizens would feel ill at ease" using parks alongside whites?
... that the footballer Stanley Kane gave up playing in order to join the Liverpool City Police?
... that after sighting an improvised distress signal made from a lady's shawl, the French frigate Cléopâtre rescued 34 people stranded at sea?
... that during the 1655 papal conclave, the younger cardinals played pranks on the older cardinals for fun?

03:45, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

The Legend of Melusine (1491)

... that Felix Mendelssohn was so fascinated by a particular singer playing the role of a mermaid that he was inspired to write the overture The Fair Melusine (legend pictured)?
... that Xu Shijie came out of retirement to serve as the first party chief of the new province of Hainan, but was dismissed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protests?
... that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey, Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range?
... that the high-waisted fashions of the early 1800s likely helped the Countess of Bessborough hide her figure from her husband while pregnant with her illegitimate daughter, Harriet Osborne?
... that targets for the ASM-N-6 Omar missile were put in a spotlight?
... that Patrick Zhuwao was expelled from Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU–PF party during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état?
... that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Norwood Tower held the only public restroom open to African Americans in downtown Austin, Texas?
... that in 2017, Canadian pitcher Claire Eccles became the first woman to play baseball in the collegiate West Coast League?

17 January 2018

16:00, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Persoonia procumbens

... that the rare Persoonia procumbens (pictured) has potential as a rockery plant?
... that British logistics in the Normandy Campaign depended on a Mulberry harbour?
... that Tennessee state representative Charles P. Fahey sponsored bills prohibiting the non-medical sale of cocaine and requiring the racial segregation of Nashville streetcars?
... that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo?
... that Otto Franke, the pre-eminent German sinologist of his time, died "practically from hunger and exhaustion" before he could complete his history of China?
... that the Italian town of Guardia Lombardi was settled by the Lombards in the sixth century as a defensive outpost?
... that, under the leadership of Mary Puckey, Sydney's Rachel Forster Hospital expanded from 12 to 120 beds?
... that Ping-Pong was believed to be "the free world's only round-trip ballistic missile"?

04:13, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Rick Parfitt playing with Status Quo

... that Rick Parfitt (pictured) wrote "Forty Five Hundred Times" with Francis Rossi and called it his favourite guitar moment with Status Quo?
... that Lt. Gen. D. R. Soni, chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army, was a military observer in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
... that as part of today's Temperance and Good Citizenship Day observances in the state of Washington, schools are expected to hold voter registration drives for eligible students?
... that footballer Callum Hendry gave up playing for a year before turning professional?
... that the Grizzly Flats Railroad, owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball, was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States?
... that Diego Fasolis conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden, adding music by other composers of Monteverdi's time?
... that blue cracker and ringless blue cracker males create a cracking sound with their abdomen when pursuing a female?
... that the "Fat Albert" sounding rocket had its name changed to Aries because the Naval Research Laboratory considered it "more dignified"?

16 January 2018

12:00, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Gustave Lambert

... that Gustave Lambert (pictured) was killed in the Siege of Paris before he could set sail for the North Pole?
... that the first successful drone developed in the Netherlands was the Aviolanda AT-21?
... that the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football player, is named for John Heisman, who was instrumental in legalizing the forward pass?
... that the late-Gothic church St. Moritz in Halle (Saale) became Catholic again in 1970?
... that Li Huang co-founded the Chinese Youth Party, which was modelled after the Young Turks?
... that the red-breasted partridge is found only on Borneo?
... that the Goldberg–Coxeter construction can be used to study fullerene molecules, nanoparticles, and basket weaving?
... that professional diver Albert Powsey was known for diving off Southport Pier with a bicycle?

00:00, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

The Kaman K-16B with wing fully tilted

... that the Kaman K-16B (pictured) tiltwing aircraft was built from an existing Grumman Goose to save time and money?
... that, in 1989, East Holmes Academy offered to forfeit a football game because the opposing team had a black player?
... that Paa Kofi Ansong, a member of the advisory team to the President of Ghana, once worked as a quality control officer at Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom?
... that, although Joseph Jongen conducted the first performance of Mass, Op. 130 at Liège Cathedral in 1946, it was not published until 1990?
... that the Canadian Underground Research Laboratory was built to test the concept of storing nuclear waste in rock that was billions of years old?
... that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed, and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa?
... that confirmation of the controversial claim that the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription was fake would have forced Thai history to be rewritten?
... that John Samuel Phene's five-storey house was called the "Gingerbread Castle" because of its numerous devices and fixtures?

15 January 2018

12:00, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Left panel of Baegert's altar

... that the high altar in the Propsteikirche, created by Derick Baegert, includes the oldest depiction of Dortmund on its left panel (pictured)?
... that Didier Drogba scored twice for the Ivory Coast in a match which was abandoned after fans rioted, throwing food and drinks onto the pitch?
... that the Orchard Pond Parkway is Florida's first privately-built toll road?
... that the Han scholar Gao You—responsible for the present editions of the Huainanzi—had to quit school owing to the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
... that the British government's Construction 2025 industrial strategy sought to reduce whole-life greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment to half of 2013 levels by 2025?
... that the Japanese singer Asaka spent part of her childhood in Michigan?
... that approximately 160,000 birds across twenty-two different species nest and breed on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands?
... that a 1942 letter addressed to "the blonde Wren from Argentina on the platform at Bletchley station" led to marriage in 1945?

00:00, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Tigawa Kankalidevi temple

... that the 5th-century Tigawa temple (pictured) is the only survivor of around 36 Hindu temples at the site that were quarried for building stone during a 19th-century construction project?
... that Wolfgang Helbich recorded apocryphal works by Bach with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, and conducted an award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bremer Domchor?
... that Den of Geek likened watching gameshow whodunnit Armchair Detectives to playing a hidden objects video game?
... that 2017 Michigan Wolverine teammates and All-Big Ten Conference honorees Chase Winovich and Khaleke Hudson went to high school in Pennsylvania, while All-Big Ten teammate Lavert Hill once committed to Penn State?
... that the RAF's IFF Mark II was the first operational identification friend or foe system?
... that statesman Costea Bucioc, who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army?
... that the outsourcing industry in China is rapidly growing on the back of "cloud computing, big data, Internet of things and mobile Internet"?
... that Gwen Fleming, the first female major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?

14 January 2018

12:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Pioneer Helmet

... that the boar-crested Pioneer Helmet (pictured) was initially mistaken for a bucket?
... that Ramize Erer said that when she published a cartoon of a masturbating girl, "all hell broke loose"?
... that the use of asset management plan periods in the water industry of England and Wales has been criticised for creating a boom and bust cycle of investment?
... that golfer Sally Sessions tied for second place in the 1947 U.S. Women's Open as an amateur?
... that groups of common whirligig beetles often spin round rapidly on the water surface?
... that Ghanaian accountant and paramount chief Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II is also the president of all chiefs in the Western Region of Ghana?
... that the Ottawa Art Gallery acquired the Firestone Collection of over 1,600 pieces of Canadian art, including landscapes by the Group of Seven, in 1992?
... that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was initiated by United States Senator Harry Reid in 2007 to secretly study the topic of UFOs?

00:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Inaugural members of the Air Board

... that the Australian Air Board (inaugural members pictured) chose 31 March rather than 1 April as the founding date of the Royal Australian Air Force to avoid being called "April Fools"?
... that Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie rejected the chance to be the head of Ghana's ports and harbours because of his fear of the sea?
... that a wasp and a fly were used to combat a moth invader?
... that as president of Fisk University, James Raymond Lawson saw the donor base dwindle due to the students' involvement with the Black Power movement?
... that numerical modeling can reveal the flow of the solid mantle beneath Earth's crust?
... that the 14th-century Hanthawaddy Minister-General Byat Za's doctrine of limited warfare has been compared to that popularized by Clausewitz?
... that in 1900, a steamboat owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was stolen by two tugboats during the night from the Erie Basin Marina?
... that in 1951, thoracic surgeon Clement Price Thomas removed part of King George VI's lung in Buckingham Palace?

13 January 2018

12:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Starry night butterfly

... that the larvae of the starry night butterfly (pictured) accumulate toxic chemicals in their bodies, which make the adults distasteful to birds?
... that the footballer Howard Spencer was the first Aston Villa player to captain England?
... that the lyrics to "The Kentucky Volunteer", the first song copyrighted under the United States Constitution, were written by "a Lady of Philadelphia"?
... that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet?
... that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén, in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts?
... that Amtrak service at Tacoma Dome Station was halted on its inaugural day due to a train derailment?
... that German microbiologist Paul Lindner named the yeast species he discovered Schizosaccharomyces pombe after the Swahili word for beer?
... that soprano Cristina Pasaroiu played Manon in boots, even in bed with her lover?

00:00, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Nancy Brown Peace Carillon

... that the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon (pictured) in Detroit ceased playing music in 1970 due to damage caused by pigeons?
... that members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf used the Inabanga River, the largest waterway in Bohol, Philippines, for a planned incursion into the province in 2017?
... that Kenyan Brigadier Fatumah Ahmed joined the armed forces "by accident" when she saw a recruitment campaign whilst applying for an identity card?
... that Project Flying Cloud was expected to affect an area "comparable in size to that affected by a low-yield nuclear weapon"?
... that the Angel of the Winds Casino was designed as a temporary building with modular elements so it could be sold in pieces?
... that Wolfgang Stockmeier made around 150 recordings of organ music, taught at three music academies, and composed an opera on a libretto by Gabriele Wohmann?
... that the succulent Euphorbia arbuscula of Socotra is used to feed goats?
... that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make opium in Nashville, Tennessee?

12 January 2018

12:00, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Gorgon IV

... that the Gorgon IV (pictured) was the first ramjet-powered aircraft to successfully fly in the United States?
... that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic?
... that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic?
... that Hatto Ständer, who played the organ in church services at age nine, was professor of organ playing, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and composition at the Technical University of Dortmund for more than three decades?
... that during the 1981 Milwaukee Police Strike, Mayor Henry Maier requested that taverns and bars voluntarily close early?
... that governor Liu Jianfeng and party secretary Deng Hongxun of Hainan clashed fiercely and tried to drive each other out of the province?
... that Desmarestia tropica, or tropical acidweed, is possibly extinct because of the 1982–83 El Niño event?
... that footballer Gordon Coleman scored the winning goal in a match against Blackpool in 1982 while sitting on the ground?

00:00, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Sloan–Parker House

... that after Richard Sloan eloped with his employer's daughter, the couple settled in the Mill Creek valley and built the Sloan–Parker House (pictured) around 1790?
... that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers, who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"?
... that inside the Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven), beer was served, and the entertainment included depictions of angels playing music and Saint Peter sprinkling holy water from the heavens?
... that Tyrannomyrmex alii was named for India's "Ant Man"?
... that Jie Zhitui, who loyally followed Prince Chong'er in exile for almost 20 years, was supposedly burned alive because he did not want to ask for any reward once his lord was restored to power?
... that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km²) in one day?
... that the organ virtuoso and teacher Heinz Wunderlich held a Hamburg post that Bach had once wanted?
... that fugitive dust escapes?

11 January 2018

12:00, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

He Siyuan

... that Professor He Siyuan (pictured) became an anti-Japanese guerrilla leader during World War II and later survived two assassination attempts, one of which killed his young daughter?
... that the mushrooms of the Asian fungus Macrocybe crassa can weigh up to 1.25 kilograms (3 lb)?
... that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer, battalion commander, adjutant general, and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces?
... that "Diddle Diddle Dumpling", an episode of Inside No. 9, was inspired by a chance encounter with a single shoe?
... that Ghanaian keyboardist Alfred P. Addaquay composed and performed his first oratorio when he was 20 years old?
... that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaptation's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017?
... that Janai Haupapa joined the Canadian national rugby league team while still playing for a rugby union club?
... that a "Japanese cruiser" was built in Southern California in 1943?

00:00, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Cabaret du Néant Intoxication Hall

... that patrons of the Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of Nothingness) drank beverages in the "Intoxication Hall" (pictured), which had chandeliers made of human bones and coffin-shaped tables?
... that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars attached to parachutes from his biplane over Hialeah, Florida, kindling the boy's love of flying?
... that T-tubules allow heart muscle cells to contract more forcefully by synchronising calcium release?
... that Kate Fotso, the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"?
... that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed?
... that the Santa Ana Heritage Zone encompasses a declared Heritage House and a local church that contains two National Cultural Treasures?
... that when He Luli was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister?
... that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA?

10 January 2018

12:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Nave and vault

... that St. Nicolai, Lüneburg, a brick Gothic church with a "star" rib vault (pictured), was the location of the first Lutheran sermon in Lüneburg?
... that Canadian Lieutenant-General Chris Whitecross has fostered 33 children?
... that California and the entire eastern United States are under a quarantine restriction by the U.S. state of Washington designed to protect it from apple maggot infestation?
... that Slovenian actor Jernej Šugman starred in Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, first in the titular role and the second time as King Claudius?
... that the "Memorial for the War to Resist America and Aid Korea" is no longer one of the national first-grade museums of China?
... that 16th-century kabbalist Shimon Lavi displayed knowledge of alchemy in his commentary on the Zohar?
... that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly?
... that the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was marketed as "Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce"?

00:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Public toilets, Stoke Road, Bristol

... that Bristol "loo lady" Victoria Hughes (workplace pictured) provided tea and sympathy to local prostitutes?
... that the Roman Emesa helmet appears to be modeled after its wearer's face?
... that in 1939, Peter Du Cane was awarded the Segrave Medal for his part in the design of the world water speed record-breaking boat Blue Bird K4?
... that the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse was named in honor of an early trial in the African-American civil rights movement that was heard there in 1946?
... that as paramount chief of the Wulungu traditional area, Ghanaian geographer and academic John S. Nabila is known by the title Wulugu Naba?
... that a parasitic barnacle effectively castrates its hosts, the flattened and the knot-fingered mud crabs?
... that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers?
... that the first Columbus Crew soccer match attended by future owner Anthony Precourt was delayed after the stadium's scoreboard caught fire?

9 January 2018

12:00, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Lei Jieqiong

... that US-educated sociologist Lei Jieqiong (pictured) served as vice-mayor of Beijing and taught at Peking University until the age of 100?
... that the Abatan River estuary in Bohol has one of the Philippines' most diverse mangrove forests?
... that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain?
... that the Record of the Year and Seasons of Jingchu shows how religious, calendrical, culinary, and entertainment changes led to a new canon of major Chinese holidays between the Han and Tang dynasties?
... that Mahani Teave is considered Easter Island's only classical musician?
... that local residents followed the cries of trapped passengers to find the crash site of West Wind Aviation Flight 280 and aid in rescue efforts?
... that Marcu Cercel, who ruled over Moldavia in 1600, was probably born to a Turkish Muslim apostate?
... that Facebook's Aquila solar-powered drone is intended to provide internet access to remote regions of Earth using no more electricity than three blow dryers?

00:00, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Gorgon IIA

...that the United States Navy placed orders for the Gorgon IIA (pictured) and Gorgon IIC missiles with the Singer Manufacturing Company, better known for its sewing machines?
... that Wolfgang Kläsener conducted his Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble in a memorial concert, combining the last work by Thomas Beimel with one Mass by Bach and one by Bruckner?
... that houseflies have been used in germ warfare to distribute cholera?
... that at Harvard University, Walter J. Leonard designed "one of the country's earliest and most effective affirmative-action programs, which became a model for other universities around the country"?
... that the initial plan for the renovation of the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg was for a rock and roll museum?
... that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago?
... that Yiqu was conquered by Qin after its king was killed either by his mistress Queen Dowager Xuan, or by her son the king of Qin?
... that North-West Mounted Police Corporal William Dempster found the Lost Patrol?

8 January 2018

00:00, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

William P. Frye

... that after the neutral American ship William P. Frye (pictured) was sunk by a World War I Imperial German raider, the German government was billed $228,059.54?
... that Congolese artist Rhode Makoumbou sculpts figures up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall out of sawdust and woodglue?
... that genetic differences may affect the efficacy of the anti-asthmatic drug zafirlukast?
... that Japanese singer Yunchi covered the song "Catch You Catch Me" from Cardcaptor Sakura for one of her albums?
... that the Panoz Avezzano, unveiled at the 2016 Petit Le Mans, is named after a town in Italy that was destroyed by an earthquake?
... that the Exeter Hip, designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee, improved the lives of millions of people?
... that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, she took this as an insult?
... that Silvia Correale, the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process?

7 January 2018

00:00, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Glade Creek Grist Mill at Babcock State Park

... that West Virginia's 37 state parks include a working grist mill (pictured), a scenic railroad, a reconstructed 18th-century fortification, and a Natural National Landmark?
... that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank?
... that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of "Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier" offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts?
... that Luke Harper and Erick Rowan call themselves The Bludgeon Brothers?
... that despite being flightless, wood crickets appeared in 2001 at a site in southern England at which they had previously not been present?
... that as a teenager, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên exaggerated her age twice at singing competitions, one time winning the grand prize?
... that the common Epiphany hymn "As with Gladness Men of Old" does not describe the Biblical Magi as "magi" or "kings", or even state their number?
... that Carys Bannister drove rally cars and exhibited corgis when not performing brain surgery?

6 January 2018

00:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Kalicho

... that Elizabethan physician Edward Dodding conducted a post-mortem examination of Kalicho (pictured), one of three Inuit people brought to England?
... that after dismissing the basic concept as "outlandish", Edward Teller later supported Brilliant Pebbles as a way to shoot down Soviet ICBMs?
... that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season?
... that arachnologists think juvenile Chanbria camel spiders locate their prey through a combination of smelling and feeling for them?
... that German sinologist Wolfgang Franke was so at home in Beijing that he felt he had lived there in a previous life?
... that at its completion, Riverton Lock was the highest lift lock in the world with a lift of 26 feet (7.9 m)?
... that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula?
... that Jolly Roger Records had its bootlegs of RCA Records recordings manufactured at RCA's own vinyl record pressing plant?

5 January 2018

00:00, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Green wrasse

... that the green wrasse (pictured) has big eyes, a small mouth, and fleshy lips?
... that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian?
... that the art of Uruk includes the 5,000-year-old Mask of Warka, probably one of the earliest known near life-size sculptures?
... that Harold Basil Christian, a self-taught horticulturalist in southern Africa, became a world expert on African aloe species after planting one in his yard to block the view of a large, unsightly rock?
... that Electric Wizard described their album Wizard Bloody Wizard as "43 brain-damaging minutes, six savage hymns to death, drugs, sex and violence, music dragged (and drugged) back from the grave"?
... that the Italian mezzo-soprano Armanda Degli Abbati appeared as Ortrud in Rome and as Amneris in Rio de Janeiro, had an affair with a Russian revolutionary, and trained Estonian singers?
... that a pub on the Acle Straight is now a Hindu temple?
... that in 1985 Gay Kindersley naively introduced himself and Graham Lord to the Australian cricket team with, "Hallo folks, I'm Gay and this is my friend Graham"?

4 January 2018

00:00, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Shu Xiuwen on the cover of The Screen Pictorial

... that Shu Xiuwen (pictured) became an escort dancing girl after her father tried to sell her to repay debts, but later supported him when she became a movie star?
... that the Radioplane OQ-17 target drone was claimed to be able to match the maneuverability of any fighter aircraft of the mid-1940s?
... that Eugénie Henderson taught Far Eastern languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II?
... that a collaborative practice agreement, which allows a pharmacist to prescribe medications, order drug therapy-related laboratory tests, and design therapy plans, can improve people's health?
... that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster, a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary?
... that in a legacy game, players may be instructed to destroy physical components?
... that Jordan Murphy was the first basketball player to earn Big Ten Conference Player of the Week three weeks in a row since Evan Turner did so eight seasons earlier?
... that underwater thumps and moans in a West African swamp may indicate the presence of certain air-breathing fish?

3 January 2018

00:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Pascual Abaj in 1948

... that Pascual Abaj (pictured), near Chichicastenango in Guatemala, is a sculpted stone idol that survived the Spanish conquest but was badly damaged in the 1950s by religious activists?
... that the ants Poneropsis affinis, Ponera affinis, and Formica schmidtii are all the single fossil species Liometopum imhoffii?
... that after serving as Ghana's ambassador to Iran, Cuba, and Denmark, Hassan Ahmed is now director of protocol for the President of Ghana?
... that while the medieval bergfried of the Boosenburg in Rüdesheim still stands, the castle's moat was made into a wine cellar and other buildings were replaced by a Gothic Revival villa?
... that women's sexual preferences and attractiveness may shift across their ovulatory cycles?
... that in 1860, Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset became the first Inspector General of Police in Queensland?
... that so many people wanted a Line the Label jacket that the company's server crashed?
... that to ensure the loyalty of Queen Fatuma, a client ruler of Zanzibar, Omani forces kept a cannon trained on her palace?

2 January 2018

00:00, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

C. cartwrighti

... that an illustration (pictured) of the Cartwrightia scarab Cartwrightia cartwrighti was printed on the invitations for entomologist Oscar Ling Cartwright's retirement party?
... that Doo Aphane successfully challenged a law that prevented married women from owning property in their own names in Swaziland?
... that Gunday (2014) became one of the lowest-rated films on IMDb following a vote brigading social-media campaign by Bangladeshis?
... that Indian sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick trained under Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills in 2014 and broke the 100 metres national record in 2016?
... that Joseph Stalin asked Franklin D. Roosevelt for aluminium, implying enough of it would bring him victory in World War II?
... that the wounds of leprosy sufferer Josephine Cafrine were said to have miraculously healed after her death?
... that Herbert Howells composed the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral after having organ lessons there with Herbert Brewer as a boy?
... that "feminists must have been horrified to discover" what Sylvie Vartan's song "Comme un garçon" was about?

1 January 2018

00:00, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Tyburn gallows, 1680

... that the highwayman Tom Cox kicked the ordinary and hangman out of the cart taking him to be hanged at Tyburn (pictured)?
... that Salsa Big Band by Panamanian artists Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
... that Itunu Hotonu, the first female admiral in Africa, joined the Nigerian Navy only because she was rejected by the army?
... that Lisbeth's brooding anemone and Fernald's brooding anemone both care for their young, but they use different strategies?
... that between 1993 and 2008, Kyrgyz politician Azamat Arapbayev was either the chairman, director or deputy director of seven different companies?
... that Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree, an ancient Chinese philosophical text, was rediscovered about 2,300 years after it was buried?
... that despite winning his country's Professional Championship by ten strokes that year, golfer Paddy Mahon was excluded from the 1937 Ryder Cup for being Irish?
... that the dual systems model seeks to explain why young people do stupid things?