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10 March 2012

4:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the blackbelly triggerfish, the whitespotted surgeonfish, the brown tang, the yellowface angelfish and the semicircle angelfish (pictured) are native to the Indo-Pacific but have all been observed off the coast of Florida?
... that the setting of the Millennium episode "Weeds" "simmers with recrimination and vigilantism"?
... that Charles Turner coached the Australian Institute of Sport men's water polo team before becoming the chief executive of the New South Wales Institute of Sport?
... that organic dust toxic syndrome is a flu-like illness caused by inhaling organic dust particles such as grain kernel fragments, bits of insects, bacteria, fungal spores, molds and chemical residues?
... that "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" was ex-Beatle George Harrison's "single-that-never-was"?
... that the racehorse Busted was voted as the British Horse of the Year in 1967, the same year one of his legs was "busted" during training, forcing him into retirement?

9 March 2012

16:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the Devonian Orcadian Basin once contained a lake estimated to be hundreds of kilometres across, forming distinctive sediments (pictured) in which a diverse fauna of fossil fish has been found?
... that a daughter of the 1796 Epsom Oaks winning filly Parisot was poisoned with arsenic in 1811?
... that future National Hockey League player Paul Reinhart's agent Alan Eagleson threatened to take his junior league to court after a rule change would have forced him onto a different team?
... that "the bravest man in Saudi Arabia" was charged in the Specialized Criminal Court that tries suspected al-Qaeda members and human rights activists?
... that Thomas Horne was passed over as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania due to his precarious financial situation, but later became President of the Legislative Council?
... that pianist Siegfried Rapp, who lost his right arm during World War II, premiered Sergei Prokofiev's 4th Piano Concerto (for the left hand)?

08:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Eliza Barchus (pictured), who was widely recognized for her paintings of the Cascade Range volcanoes, sold many postcards of her work to augment her income?
... that Bronwen Knox captained the Australian Stingers at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing?
... that the 2007 statue of Amida at Isshin-ji is formed from the remains of 163,254 people?
... that the central Mexican town of San Pablito is home to women and children who manufacture paper from tree bark?
... that a new species of seaweed has appeared since the last ice age?
... that a common theme in modern Balinese literature is dealing with tourists?

00:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the wartime poster "We Can Do It!" (pictured) was parodied using Marge Simpson?
... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis?
... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
... that the part of Jilly Kitzinger in Torchwood was Lauren Ambrose's first role in a science-fiction production?
... that the Holy Trinity Church was the oldest church in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, until it was destroyed by the Soviets in 1935?
... that American artist Ellen Gallagher created artworks which included images carved into the surface of thick sheets of paper?

8 March 2012

16:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

... that in 1925, Esther Hill (pictured) became the first woman to be registered as an architect in Canada?
... that Clare Smyth was the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars when she became head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2007?
... that the first indoor St. Louis Auto Show was held in the Willys-Overland Building in 1917?
... that Maria Pinto designed the purple sheath dress Michelle Obama wore to give her husband "the fist bump heard 'round the world"?
... that the Antarctic sponge Homaxinella balfourensis prevents ice crystals from forming in its cells by the use of peptides with antifreeze properties?
... that the lesbian German writer Christa Reinig stated in a poem, "Sometimes the gay shirt is closer to me than the feminist skirt"?

08:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his second piano sonata quasi una fantasia, widely known as the Moonlight Sonata, to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi (possible portrait pictured)?
... that in 1973 the first women's Cricket World Cup was held – two years before the first men's tournament?
... that Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue went on a "blog tour", wherein they released videos of band members playing live online?
... that Henry, Prince of Wales (Henry V) stationed himself at Burton Court manor while surveying the movements of Owain Glyndŵr?
... that Butler Blue II, the live mascot of Butler University, was granted a special exemption from NCAA rules, allowing him to appear at Butler basketball games during the 2010 and 2011 Final Fours?
... that after winning the 1957 Cotton Fashion Award, designer Anne Fogarty showed off dresses in goldfish colours?

00:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

... that, in summer 1917, a plan existed to make septuagenarian Petre P. Carp (cartoon pictured) the dictator of German-occupied Romania?
... that Harwell, Nottinghamshire, contains the Grade II listed Pear Tree House, which has a portico with two Tuscan columns and an eight-panelled door?
... that in Doe v. Shurtleff, a Utah law requiring registered sex offenders to provide to the state all of their internet identifiers was ruled constitutional?
... that the British racehorse Tristan travelled to France and won the Grand Prix de Deauville three years in a row?
... that the airing of Millennium's "Kingdom Come" was postponed due to the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago?
... that the legendary Lost Nigger Gold Mine, first discovered in 1887, was still being searched for in 1930?

7 March 2012

16:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian Stingers Rebecca Rippon, Kate Gynther and Melissa Rippon (pictured) had hopes of being the first set of Australian siblings to all compete in three consecutive Olympic Games?
... that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in West Hoathly, West Sussex, was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall?
... that the racehorse Eager was not given his name until the year after he won the 1791 Derby Stakes, whereas the 1797 Derby winner was never officially named?
... that Irish novelist George Moore described Ingres' The Source as an "exquisite dream of innocence"?
... that five actresses have won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play more than once, but no actress has won it more than twice?
... that the boxer crabs Lybia tessellata and Lybia edmondsoni carry a sea anemone such as Triactis producta in each claw for protection from predators?

08:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the Gilles who was long identified as the subject of Watteau's poignant portrait (pictured) was a lewd and credulous clown who starred in The Shit Merchant?
... that the St. James' Infant School building in Dudley was built on two completely different sites?
... that Vyjayanthimala, who played Chandramukhi in the 1955 film Devdas, declined the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress because she thought that her role was not a supporting one?
... that the parents of Australian national team water polo player Victoria Brown believed that she would be an Olympian in an equestrian event?
... that to gain permission to demolish the Pevely Dairy Company Plant, Saint Louis University threatened to move its medical school out of St. Louis?
... that Polish mathematician Stefan Banach and poet Zbigniew Herbert survived the Holocaust working as feeders of lice?

00:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Kugelbake is the name of a series of tall wooden structures (current structure pictured) built at the mouth of the River Elbe for more than 300 years to aid mariners?
... that logical positivist A. J. Ayer believed that religious language was meaningless because it could not be verified empirically?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Dead Man Walking" guest starred Christina Hendricks as a potential love interest for her real-life husband's character?
... that the Italian island of Montecristo, although 10.39 km² (4.01 sq mi) in area, is almost deserted, having only two stable inhabitants?
... that the 19th-century American female seminary movement, which aimed to give women educational opportunities, lent its name to a pair of similarly named institutions in Charleston, South Carolina, and Charlestown, Massachusetts?
... that Malcolm X was nominated for an Academy Award in 1973?

6 March 2012

16:00, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Nasturtiums (pictured), a painting by E. Phillips Fox, was purchased as a memorial to Margaret Olley?
... that science fiction author Greg Egan was praised for taking Zendegi "into the street demos and sitting rooms of near-future Tehran"?
... that in 1815 Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of HMS Bellerophon, the ship that had "dogged his steps for more than twenty years", ending the Napoleonic Wars?
... that Australian Stinger Jane Moran is only the second woman ever to have competed in 200 games in the National Water Polo League?
... that one of Gustav Morelli's wood engravings was a reproduction of a painting by Árpád Feszty of chieftain Árpád and the arrival of the Magyars?
... that Nudes-A-Poppin' is billed as "The World's Largest Outdoor Nude Beauty Pageant"?

08:00, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

... that 16th-century parishioners of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney built the church's 66-foot (20 m) tower (pictured) in "an inspired community effort involving the whole village"?
... that the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, brought into force in 2010, was the first global instrument that dealt with migratory sharks?
... that Nigerian journalist Nosa Igiebor was held incommunicado for months because his magazine Tell criticised General Sani Abacha?
... that after winning the 1796 Derby Stakes, the Thoroughbred Didelot failed to win again the rest of his racing career, and was subsequently sent to Russia?
... that Casa Alvarez, built in 1790, serves as a "last link to the Spanish occupation of the Upper Louisiana territory"?
... that in Young v. Facebook, Inc., Judge Jeremy Fogel found that Facebook was not a physical place for the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act, despite its having "posts" and "walls"?

00:00, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Penhale Sands (pictured) is believed to be the landing site of Saint Piran, the patron saint of Cornwall?
... that Millennium's "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" took its name from a Dylan Thomas poem?
... that German film director Falk Harnack, who was related to six people executed by the Nazis, left East Germany after the Communists banned his first film for being "sympathetic to Nazism"?
... that after winning Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show in 2012, the Pekingese Palacegarden Malachy has been compared to a mop, a wookiee, and Snooki from Jersey Shore?
... that Bellville Sassoon was one of Princess Diana's most prolific early designers?
... that a lone miner is said to have extracted two sacks of wolframite each day from the waste tips of the disused Great Wheal Fortune mine in Cornwall?

5 March 2012

16:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the island of Ictis, reported by Diodorus as a centre of the ancient tin trade, has uncertainly been identified with St Michael's Mount (pictured) in Cornwall?
... that Glasser v. United States was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to hold that juries must be drawn from a "cross-section of the community"?
... that literary agent Carmen Balcells represents six Nobel Prize winners?
... that the Siah Bishe Power Plant is to be both the first pumped-storage power plant and the site of the first concrete-face rock-fill dam in Iran?
... that Ventongimps Moor was the first nature reserve to be owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust?
... that while one reviewer called the recent Fringe episode "The End of All Things" the best of the season, another remarked that it "failed to make my dinger hum"?

08:30, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the hypercarnivorous crocodyliform Stratiotosuchus (pictured) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil occupied the niche of top predator in the absence of theropod dinosaurs?
... that the loss of a French column at the Battle of El Herri was blamed on the commander's disobedience of orders?
... that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, who later wrote The Art of Beowulf, was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?
... that missionaries to the colony of New France welcomed the 1663 Charlevoix earthquake as a miracle rather than a disaster?
... that the W. B. Thompson Mansion in Yonkers, New York, was used as a location for the films A Beautiful Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums and Mona Lisa Smile?
... that Alicia McCormack, a member of the Australia women's national water polo team, received a bow from Prince William at a Sydney barbecue?

00:45, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the Engaña Tunnel (pictured) was once the longest railway tunnel in Spain, but was never used?
... that terror suspect Amine El Khalifi believed he was in touch with an al-Qaeda operative, but was actually communicating with an FBI agent?
... that the car of Los Angeles Clippers fan Clipper Darrell features the team's colors on the exterior and interior with the team's logo and autographs on the hood?
... that historian Charlotte Zeepvat's first book, published in 1998, was about Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the haemophiliac youngest son of Queen Victoria?
... that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory?
... that the Chuck Berry House is an unusual inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, in that it is associated with a living person?

4 March 2012

17:00, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Thomas Tyldesley (pictured) was knighted for bravery shown at the Battle of Burton Bridge in 1643?
... that dubstep musician James Blake released the three extended plays The Bells Sketch, CMYK, and Klavierwerke in only one year?
... that the New Stables, a building complex in central Berlin, Germany, that had housed the Imperial horses and carriages, later housed revolutionaries in the Christmas Crisis of 1918?
... that Olympic athlete Arthur Keily ran over 130 miles (210 km) a week to train for marathons?
... that Italian Renaissance portrait styles reached England through the medium of Brussels tapestry?
... that Jennifer Worth wrote her bestseller Call the Midwife in response to an article in the British Midwifery Journal, criticising the lack of midwives in literature?

09:15, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Australian Paralympic swimmer Teigan Van Roosmalen (pictured) is legally blind and deaf?
... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
... that the French military used the "Mikado strategy" during Operation Septentrion in the Uzbin Valley of Afghanistan?
... that the developer of Volunia, a potential competitor to Google, has said it may represent the "search engine of the future"?
... that one reviewer found several scenes in Millennium's "The Well-Worn Lock" to be as horrifying as anything he had seen on television?
... that women are encouraged to go topless in public and men are told to cover their chest by wearing bras or bikinis on Go Topless Day, an event to promote the right to go bare-chested for women?

01:30, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting Le Sommeil (pictured), depicting a lesbian relationship, was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte"?
... that the 'R' in the World War II British deception unit R Force was meant to make the Germans believe it was a reconnaissance unit?
... that Australian national team water polo player Hannah Buckling made the Australian junior team after 20 months of serious training with a new coach?
... that through his extensive building works, Sanjar al-Jawli transformed Karak and Gaza into major cities?
... that in August 2000, 37 people were banned from attending matches at Arsenal F.C.'s stadium because of their involvement in the Battle of Copenhagen?
... that the first Cray-1 was delivered to the customer without a supercomputer operating system?

3 March 2012

17:45, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the gray-leaf willow (pictured) is a rich source of calcium and phosphorus for its browsers?
... that the work of ornithologist Chandler Robbins helped inspire Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring?
... that "We Belong Together" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media?
... that Meyer Kestnbaum led a business with a long record of peaceful labor relations, and after he died the company and its labor union collaborated on a memorial to him?
... that Sandra Laing was legally declared "coloured" largely on the basis of a pencil test, despite being born of two "white" parents?
... that Millennium's "Dead Letters" ventures into "Lynchian nightmare territory"?

08:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

... that William Carter (pictured), the first mayor of Hobart, was especially distinguished for his aversion to slander and backbiting?
... that Toby Litt's novel Journey into Space takes place on board a generation ship?
... that Bentworth Hall was built in 1832 to replace the former 14th-century hall, now called Hall Place?
... that John King's win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' 2012 event at Daytona International Speedway was only the third victory of his racing career?
... that Sean Combs' Revolt, Robert Rodriguez' El Rey and Magic Johnson's Aspire are upcoming U.S. ethnic minority-owned television networks that Comcast agreed to promote in order to secure the NBCUniversal acquisition?
... that the T37 rocket could be fired by "Cowcatcher", "Woofus", "Whiz Bang" and "Grand Slam"?

00:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the Lost World (pictured) at the ancient Maya city of Tikal was the first architectural complex to be built at the city?
... that academic publishers often ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement before printing their work?
... that a document from the 1960s STRAT-X US nuclear deterrent study was composed from a Soviet perspective, disapproving of capitalism and glorifying socialism?
... that the 19th-century Fort Widley was later reused as an emergency civil control centre?
... that the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel, like the sig-runes worn on SS uniforms, stood for Nazi values but were actually inspired by the neopagan occultism of mystic Guido von List?
... that Australian Stinger Kelsey Wakefield took a year off university in order to try to make the 2012 Summer Olympics in water polo?

2 March 2012

16:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

... that painter Henri-Edmond Cross (self-portrait pictured) changed his name twice, each time to avoid confusion with a similarly named artist?
... that Australian Stingers Ashleigh Southern, Glencora Ralph, Zoe Arancini, Rowena Webster and Nicola Zagame are five of seventeen water polo players trying to make the 2012 Summer Olympics squad?
... that Druid's Lodge in the parish of Woodford, Wiltshire was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II?
... that there has been a 33% decrease in cars entering Milan's city center since the Area C congestion charge was introduced?
... that Erkki Kourula was the first Finn to be elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court?
... that the Limestone Corner area of Hadrian's Wall is not made from limestone?

08:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Colorado Fuel and Iron banned residents of its company town at Redstone (pictured in present) from treating each other to drinks?
... that Caroline Birley's lifelong love of geology started with stones she collected as a child on family holidays?
... that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?
... that Rémi Ochlik, who was killed in the February 2012 bombardment of Homs, won the 2012 World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a Libyan rebel fighter?
... that Australian Stinger coach Greg McFadden requires members of the national water polo team to eat every thing on their plates?
... that Margaret Thatcher joked that her statue in the Houses of Parliament should have been made of iron?

00:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

... that Charles Rolls and early members of the Royal Aero Club used to go ballooning (pictured) from Vauxhall Fields in Monmouth?
... that, until the Los Angeles class, the Sturgeon class was the most-produced class of nuclear-powered warships?
... that only Reginald Owen, Carleton Hobbs, Jeremy Brett, and Patrick Macnee have portrayed both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson professionally, with Macnee portraying Holmes in The Hound of London?
... that Abidin Bey was the first governor of Egyptian Dongola?
... that the Swedish Asatru Assembly, now the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly, held a blót at Gamla Uppsala to celebrate the Church of Sweden no longer being the state church?
... that, since 2011, cash mobs have supported businesses in more than 32 U.S. states and in Canada?

1 March 2012

16:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

... that according to Shakespeare, Henry V, who was born in Monmouth, approved of Welshmen wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps (pictured)?
... that the Thomas Cook European Timetable, in publication since 1873, was called "the most revered and accurate railway reference in existence" by travel guide-book editor Stephen Birnbaum?
... that by acquiring the commercial division of the Norwegian Mapping Agency, the company now called Nordeca became a market leader in leisure maps in Norway?
... that Orland Kurtenbach was the Vancouver Canucks' first captain and first member of their Ring of Honour?
... that a former chapel at Monmouth Cemetery is now used as a genealogy centre?
... that patches of broom crowberry in New Jersey began to sprout seedlings again after an F-16 set them on fire?

08:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

... that although St Peter's Church (pictured) in Monmouthshire is a Welsh church, in 1920 its congregation decided to join the Church of England?
... that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
... that many cabanas at 9 Beaches resort in Bermuda feature Plexiglas floors to allow guests to view the ocean below their hotel room?
... that the mint plant largeflower false rosemary has the largest flowers of the genus Conradina?
... that the largest credit union merger in Michigan history took place in 2008, resulting in the creation of Genisys Credit Union?
... that the Philippe Starck-designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"?

00:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

... that the victory by Minoru (pictured) at the 1909 Epsom Derby made his owner Edward VII the first reigning British monarch to win a Derby?
... that Bay Darnell crashed his race car into Lake Lloyd during an ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway in 1964?
... that the Coimbatore bypass included construction of a 32.2 metres (106 ft) toll bridge over the Noyyal River in India?
... that the 126-acre Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens, which opened November 15, 2008, contains 13 separate and distinct ecosystems?
... that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police?
... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?

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