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09:52, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the village of Rezovo (pictured) on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?
... that Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
... that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
... that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
... that Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
... that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
... that Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo?
... that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?

02:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus (pictured), constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
... that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons?
... that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
... that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation?
... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?

17:33, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby (pictured) of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?
... that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
... that France-Burma relations started as early as the 18th century?
... that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
... that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
... that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?

11:06, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Frederick Hollyer (pictured) was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
... that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?
... that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
... that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?
... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland?
... that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan?
... that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?

03:51, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf (pictured)?
... that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
... that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?
... that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
... that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
... that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament?
... that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling, Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
... that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?

21:39, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire (pictured), are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
... that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island?
... that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
... that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
... that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision?
... that William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?

15:28, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the Achenseebahn (pictured) in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway in Europe?
... that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland?
... that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
... that the Lester Apartments in Seattle, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel, were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
... that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem?
... that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
... that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
... that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver?

09:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that Clarence Saunders developed the first self-service grocery store (pictured) concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?
... that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
... that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
... that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
... that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?

03:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

... that the resignation of Filipino national police chief Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. (pictured) was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny?
... that Frederick Mann was the first Australian-born Chief Justice of Victoria?
... that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
... that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha, despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment?
... that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
... that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?

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