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[edit] Did you know...

17:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that construction of the courthouse (pictured) of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
... that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control?
... that the Nigar Awards are the oldest awards of merit in the Pakistani film industry?
... that Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
... that magnetic resonance neurography creates detailed medical images of nerves?
... that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
... that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?

11:49, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Columbus Monument (pictured) in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
... that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
... that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
... that the Citadel of Saigon, a stone fortress in Vietnam, was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
... that in his 1570 book on religious images, theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
... that Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
... that Keelung City, Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?

02:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

... that when the Gevingåsen Tunnel (pictured) opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
... that Fort Concho, a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West?
... that the city of Strasbourg, France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions?
... that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia?
... that Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
... that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel?
... that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?

12:29, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

... that lenticular galaxy NGC 1553 (pictured) is located at the center of the Dorado Group and has a spiral feature that is only visible in X-rays?
... that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report?
... that an eye of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured to reveal his part in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?
... that William Cullen Bryant owned Cedarmere-Clayton Estates in Roslyn Harbor, New York where the Nassau County Museum of Art now stands?
... that Nguyễn Trung Trực, who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, was a local fisherman?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
... that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?

11:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Hnojník château (pictured), now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945?
... that the first edition of Henry Fielding's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
... that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
... that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?
... that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
... that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
... that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team?

22:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District (pictured) hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
... that the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?
... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
... that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
... that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
... that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
... that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
... the Wikipedia Review is an Internet forum devoted to the discussion of Wikimedia projects, in particular the English Wikipedia and its content and conflicts?
... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?

17:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bahá'í community of Panama (Bahá'í House of Worship in Panama City pictured) was estimated to make up two percent of the national population?
... that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan?
... that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo, an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry?
... that David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
... that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial" for the International Federation of Competitive Eating?
... that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya?
... that Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
... that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako, Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?

10:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is Manchester's only listed building constructed in the 1930s?
... that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328?
... that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
... that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
... that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
... that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
... that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
... that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V?

12:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Green Rosella (pictured) of Tasmania was mistakenly believed by Johann Friedrich Gmelin to have originated from New Caledonia and named accordingly?
... that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
... that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League?
... that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr?
... that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
... that Mike Scioscia, the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club, was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002?
... that the Manx Rumpy breed of chicken is not Manx at all?

03:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1346, the Black Plague (illustration pictured) infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
... that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
... that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
... that the construction of the Cairo Apartments, one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C., prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol?
... that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
... that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
... that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility?
... that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington?

21:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces (example pictured) in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
... that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
... that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation, it was retitled as Water Summer?
... that Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
... that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
... that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte, and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans?

15:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the papal election in 1241 is often cited as the first papal conclave due to the confinement of the cardinal electors to the Septizodium (pictured)?
... that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
... that a scene from "Rosemary's Baby", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
... that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
... that Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
... that Garry Roggenburk, after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox?
... that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
... that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77?

09:27, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the one-make Procar Championship (pictured) was created in 1979 to help BMW produce the 400 M1 sports cars necessary to compete in the World Championship for Makes?
... that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
... that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma, a severe alteration in the level of consciousness, by affecting the reticular formation?
... that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford?
... that Elliott Cutler, who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
... that during the Texas Revolution, soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?

03:22, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice (pictured) which was the origin of The Ashes?
... that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?
... that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
... that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
... that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?
... that The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House?

20:55. 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles (pictured) made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil?
... that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works?
... that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers?
... that Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
... that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
... that the National Park Service originally rejected the application to create a second historic district in Roslyn, New York, suggesting the first one be expanded instead?
... that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?

13:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics (example pictured) can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah?
... that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer?
... that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
... that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh?
... that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop!, starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
... that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
... that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression?

07:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light (pictured) was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
... that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
... that Admiral Herbert Sawyer had a son named Herbert Sawyer, who not only also became an admiral, but was even given his father's old command, the North American Station?
... that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
... that Hibernian Park hosted the first football international match played in Edinburgh, Scotland?
... that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?

22:44, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller (pictured), an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
... that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
... that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
... that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
... that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?

19:01, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that LA's Board of Trade Building (pictured), site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
... that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
... that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
... that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle?
... that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement?
... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?
... that Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
... that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?

12:32, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that when American General Horace H. Fuller (pictured) asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
... that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, Germany, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
... that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
... that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?

06:48, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

... that the FBI Buffalo Field Office (patch pictured) houses over ten different investigative programs and two different specialty programs?
... that René Victor Auberjonois, one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie, where he lived most of his life?
... that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
... that Polish writer of youth literature Alfred Szklarski often compared Polish people to Native Americans?
... that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
... that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson?
... that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa?

22:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

... that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark (pictured) for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the