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17 June 2008

... that the Chase Promenade (pictured) hosted a month long Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of abstract art on a 95 feet by 12 feet (29.0 m × 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
... that Kirori Singh Bhainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
... that actor George Takei's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library?
... that the Union Pacific Railroad made the Herndon House its headquarters 12 years after celebrating the launch of construction on the First Transcontinental Railroad there?
... that after three years of absence, the juniors' team of the Mapúa Institute of Technology, which is the winningest basketball team in the Philippine NCAA, will return in the 2008-09 season?
... that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia?
... that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six?
... that Jeita Grotto (statue pictured) in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at 8.2 m (27 ft)?
... that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation pioneer Major James Morris, who served in the Continental Army with George Washington?
... that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish, each being found in a specific region?
... that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism?
... that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010?
... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
... that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it?
... that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany?
... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik (pictured) has emerged as one of the leading women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry?
... that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of the Seychelles International Airport in 1971?
... that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons?
... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
... that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army?
... that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the world?
... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?

16 June 2008

... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum (pictured) include the machine gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale?
... that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
... that Christopher Smart's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
... that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
... that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua, the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as "deserters"?
... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
... that before Jean Miélot (pictured) created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text?
... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?
... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
... that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?
... that the historic district in Warwick, New York (downtown pictured) reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War?
... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?
... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie?
... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?

15 June 2008

... that the Mountain Gorillas (juvenile pictured) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda?
... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax?
... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais?
... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
... that Harry Peckham (pictured), along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, wrote the first draft of cricket's leg before wicket rule?
... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder?
... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
... that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
... that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 in 1941?
... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?
... that the Red Bridge (pictured), one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents?
... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity?
... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors prison and that he died before he ever received notice that the work was a success?
... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký?
... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London?
... that Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk in 1926 produced a firewood powered snow melter?
... that the Java (pictured), first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second oldest breed of chicken in the United States?
... that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
... that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of the Sharpstown banking scandal?
... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
... that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
... that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult entertainment site?

14 June 2008

... that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen when he was wounded during the 1967 USS Forrestal fire off the coast of Vietnam?
... that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
... that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America?
... that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?
... that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters?
... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the country?
... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?
... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba?
... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
... that Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the country's main tourist attractions?
... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
... that Andreas Frederik Krieger (pictured) was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen?
... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues?
... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
... that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
... that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory Rasputin was murdered?
... that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
... that the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater (pictured) changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season?
... that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance?
... that the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
... that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
... that the Hungarian Communist Party, despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947, held absolute power by 1949?
... that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
... that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes?
... that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?
... that Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
... that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
... that Arthur Byron Coble's 1929 classic Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
... that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
... that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
... that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
... that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?
... that the Church of St. Catherine (pictured) in St. Petersburg was taken over by the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
... that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
... that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"?
... that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman Senate much like conscription is a military draft?
... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
... that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff?
... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army (pictured) was the heavy cavalry, which consisted of 12,000–30,000 heavily armed riders?
... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
... that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins (example pictured), which were referred to as the pitis?
... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions?
... that Marathi film Shwaas was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?
... that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?
... that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?
... that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East?
... that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man?
... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
... that the Delaware breed of chicken (chick pictured) was once the favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered?
... that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
... that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won?
... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
... that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not been poisoned?
... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?
... that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?
... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin (pictured) by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide?
... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry?
... that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins?
... that Roy Agnew has been described as the most outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century?
... that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest City, Utah smelter it was built to serve?
... that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?
... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House (pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake?
... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud?
... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation?
... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 c