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31 December 2018

00:00, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Analogue model of extension tectonics

... that analogue modelling in geology uses material such as honey, gelatin, sand or clay to simulate crust and mantle?
... that the mantis shrimp Acanthosquilla derijardi has a junior synonym named after Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand in reference to a childen's book she wrote?
... that elderly members of Knesseth Israel Congregation of Birmingham, Alabama, were featured in the 1990 music video for "Minyan Man"?
... that pharmacologist Li Lianda won a national science award for his research on the traditional Chinese medical concept of blood stasis?
... that in 2010, the US Supreme Court heard an original jurisdiction case in which four states sued North Carolina for refusing to return the money they had invested in a failed waste facility?
... that actress Yume Miyamoto voiced Lilo in the Japanese dub of Lilo & Stitch: The Series?
... that the epitaph Known unto God, which appears on more than 212,000 Commonwealth war graves, was selected by the poet Rudyard Kipling, whose own son was killed during the First World War?
... that when golfer Annie Park won her first career LPGA Tour tournament in 2018, she was ranked 236th in the world?

30 December 2018

00:00, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Porsche 911 GT3 R

... that since 1994, Team Taisan (2012 racecar pictured) has won eight team championships and four drivers' championships in the Super GT Series?
... that Windmill Hill Cavern, which provided the first scientifically accepted proof that humans and now-extinct animal species coexisted in Britain, was found accidentally while searching for a lost pickaxe?
... that despite being persecuted as a convert to Judaism in Nazi Germany, Ernst von Manstein was given a full military funeral with uniformed SS pallbearers?
... that after its defeat in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistan formulated a military doctrine designed to "Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts"?
... that before Zhang Ting became a government minister, he was disabled by injuries suffered during a weapons test?
... that the Amazon basin ranges of the bristly mice Neacomys minutus and Neacomys spinosus overlap?
... that deposits of rock salt are mechanically weak, and may flow under stress?
... that hall of fame barrel racer Wanda Harper Bush rode her horse 3 miles (4.8 km) to catch the bus for school?

29 December 2018

00:00, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Australasian gannet in flight

... that Australasian gannets (example pictured) established a breeding colony on Young Nick's Head after being attracted there by decoy birds and pre-recorded calls?
... that Sakura-Variationen, a trio for saxophone, piano, and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann, was composed for a children's concert?
... that the followers of Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, the founder of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn, believed that he would return after his death, and kept a saddled horse at the entrance of his tomb?
... that the Poplar Hill mansion on Long Island was reportedly used to spy on the neighboring Killenworth mansion, which housed the Soviet delegation to the United Nations?
... that Pat Marsh was described as "the first lady of British ice hockey"?
... that the Slovak Jewish Center, set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group?
... that in 1909 Mamie Garvin Fields became one of the first African-American public school teachers in Charleston County, South Carolina?
... that the ending of Avengers: Infinity War inspired the largest user ban in Reddit's history?

28 December 2018

00:00, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Thai Ministry of Defence

... that the Phaya Tani cannon in front of Thailand's Ministry of Defence headquarters (pictured) was turned around in 2004, in a rumoured attempt to fix bad luck from its pointing at the Grand Palace?
... that Dorothée Munyaneza, who moved to London as a girl because of the Rwandan genocide, has choreographed two works about her experiences?
... that the worms Dipolydora commensalis and Neanthes fucata have a commensal relationship with their hermit crab hosts and are not attacked by them?
... that Mary Jane Odell was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1979, the year before her appointment as Secretary of State of Iowa?
... that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto, a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz?
... that after initially committing to Stanford, David Long agreed to play for Michigan Wolverines football after Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh climbed a tree on a recruiting visit?
... that the cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis was written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel for the Third Day of Christmas at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen?
... that a woman once threw a dead cat at James Comyn while he was cross-examining her in court?

27 December 2018

00:00, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Dawn Mabalon

... that professor Dawn Mabalon (pictured) is credited with helping to get Little Manila, Stockton, listed as one of America's Most Endangered Places?
... that the saliva of the common clubhook squid contains a toxin which helps subdue its prey?
... that baseball player Kyle Regnault signed with the New York Mets after meeting one of their coaches on a golf course?
... that an angry artist walked into the SoHo Weekly News offices and chopped off two of his fingers as a "protest"?
... that Z was ordered as France's first diesel-powered submarine, but lost this distinction because Aigrette was launched before her?
... that "Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt" ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album?
... that Clare Faulds, the first woman admitted to the Manx bar, later served as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man?
... that Lord Byron was called a "melancholy rat" for writing the Hebrew Melodies?

26 December 2018

00:00, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Pancho Claus in Houston, Texas

... that a "Tex-Mex" version of Santa Claus known as Pancho Claus (example pictured) is popular in parts of the United States?
... that the John Steele House has an unusual floor plan, but does not show it?
... that Lisa Buckwitz and Mariama Jamanka, who were nicknamed the "Berlin Bob", won the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2018 Winter Olympics?
... that "Cozy Little Christmas" is Katy Perry's second Christmas song after "Every Day Is a Holiday"?
... that Hanifan Yudani Kusumah's hug of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto during the 2018 Asian Games was seen as a gesture of national unity?
... that the Penney-Missouri Awards for women's page journalism were described as the "Pulitzer Prize of feature writing"?
... that the ground plum was used as medicine for horses by the Lakota people?
... that the "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" was reportedly sung by choirs in the Baltic states as a sign of resistance to Soviet control?

25 December 2018

12:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Adoration of the Shepherds detail

... that the Adoration of the Shepherds (detail pictured) by Giovanni Cariani seems to have been started as a Rest on the Flight into Egypt before the subject was changed by adding shepherds?
... that historian and educator Tomas Fonacier had the longest public service record in the Philippines, spanning more than six decades?
... that the choir sings Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult!), the beginning of Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, first imitating kettledrums due to its secular model?
... that the footballer Owen McNally scored eight goals in a single match, which remains a joint record for the Scottish Football League?
... that the submarine HMS P48 is thought to have been sunk by an Italian torpedo boat on Christmas Day 1942?
... that the cucumber orchid and straggly pencil orchid can hybridize when they grow together?
... that a bracelet lost by Josephine Heffernan during the First World War was found in 2002, and returned to her family in 2017?
... that the Christmas carol "Green Groweth the Holly" was composed and written by King Henry VIII?

00:00, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Reindeer fawns in Alaska, 1899

... that reindeer (pictured) were introduced to St. Lawrence Island to prevent starvation following the famine of 1878–1880, which killed more than 1,000 people?
... that while serving in the British Army in 19th-century Afghanistan, Milo Talbot carried out a survey of the Buddhas of Bamiyan?
... that the German Christmas hymn "Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen" (Merrily my heart shall leap) by Paul Gerhardt was published by Johann Crüger, who also wrote the melody?
... that baseball pitcher Henry Mathewson and his brothers, among them Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson, were said to have been taught to throw by their mother?
... that the larva of Mantispa styriaca spins a cocoon inside a spider's egg sac?
... that Rosalie Housman composed Pieces of Jade for violin, viola, flute, gong, harp, and soprano?
... that the study of intergroup relations has led to the development of psychological interventions to reduce group conflict and prejudice?
... that Venezuelan director Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?

24 December 2018

12:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

St. Nikolai interior

... that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior (pictured)?
... that Ant-Man and the Wasp was the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a female character in its title?
... that in the 1860s, Charles Hunter added a needle to the design of the syringe and coined the name "hypodermic"?
... that with more than 120 kilometres (75 mi) of passages, Bullita Cave is one of the longest known caves in Australia?
... that Stephen L. Dubuisson served in the French Army before becoming the President of Georgetown College in 1825?
... that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
... that Clémentine Touré coached the Ivory Coast women's national football team in their first matches outside Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup?
... that the leopard eel is neither a leopard nor an eel?

00:00, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Chungará Lake, with Parinacota on the right

... that Chungará Lake (pictured) was formed between 17,000 and 8,000 years ago when the Parinacota volcano collapsed and debris dammed a river?
... that the St. Bonifatius church in Kassel, completed in 1957 on a design by Josef Bieling, has been regarded as one of the city's most striking buildings from the postwar period?
... that Russian scientist Natan Yavlinsky was credited as the inventor and developer of the world's first working tokamak?
... that "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" from David's Psalm 24 has been paraphrased in Advent songs such as "Macht hoch die Tür", and was set in Handel's Messiah to represent the Ascension?
... that Broadway producer Jerry Frankel sometimes named racehorses after his shows, their songs and actors?
... that the male spotted predatory katydid uses acoustic mimicry to attract male cicadas on which to feed?
... that Heather Spears practiced drawing premature and critically-ill infants at night in a neonatal intensive care unit?
... that around 1920, a Yorkshire miner grafted three beech trees together to form a letter "N" to impress his girlfriend Nellie?

23 December 2018

12:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Herrmann's sea cucumber

... that historically, curryfish (example pictured) was not commercially harvested because it disintegrated too easily when handled?
... that Ottoman parliament member Shukri al-Asali galvanized Syrian-Arab opposition to the empire’s Turkish-centric policies and was in 1916 executed by the government?
... that one-game playoffs for the National League West and National League Central in 2018 marked the first time that Major League Baseball had two tie-breaker games in the same season?
... that computational biologist Bette Korber describes her development of a mosaic antigen vaccine against HIV as creating "little Frankenstein proteins"?
... that the films Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, Spectres of the Spectrum, and Mock Up on Mu were created using found footage from the collection of Craig Baldwin?
... that Joe Nguyen and My-Linh Thai were the first two Vietnamese American legislators to be elected to the Washington State Legislature?
... that German police have been investigating reports of their country's soldiers plotting the assassination of several left-leaning politicians?
... that astronaut Buzz Aldrin created a rap single with Snoop Dogg to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing?

00:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

The eight Li brothers

... that of the eight Li brothers (pictured), the eldest taught Mao Zedong, the second became the "father of Chinese popular music", and the youngest wrote a novel that was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film?
... that stromatolites, which constitute the main evidence of life from 3.5 to 1.5 billion years ago, still grow in Laguna Socompa?
... that Herbert Vivian, a leader of the Neo-Jacobite Revival and later a fascist, was the first journalist to interview Winston Churchill?
... that The Baker Street Journal has been called "the leading publication" in the study of Sherlock Holmes?
... that Binokel, from which the American card game of Pinochle was developed in the 19th century, is still popular in its native Württemberg?
... that Rolling Stone called Meghan Trainor 2014's "Most Unlikely Pop Star"?
... that the French submarine Laplace, built during World War I, was named after astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace?
... that Joseph Jagger broke the bank at Monte Carlo?

22 December 2018

12:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Musiktheater im Revier

... that general manager Claus Leininger's tenure at the Musiktheater im Revier (pictured) in Gelsenkirchen was described as the period of the company's highest artistic accomplishment?
... that the lyrics of the 2018 Basshunter song "Masterpiece" quote lines from the 2009 video game League of Legends?
... that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu, sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later?
... that the victim of the first house fire in America for which an account was published can be found at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth, New Hampshire?
... that former footballer Charlie McGeever is principal of a Gaelcholáiste?
... that the 1959 West German film Roses for the Prosecutor was one of the rare post-war German films that openly discussed the Nazi justice system?
... that the MLS Cup 2009 was the first major sports championship won by a team from Utah in nearly 40 years?
... that while regent of Kebumen, Indonesia, Rustriningsih would answer phone calls from her constituents during a TV programme?

00:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Morse in 1939

... that the French submarine Narval was sunk by the same minefield that sank its sister ship Morse (pictured) six months earlier?
... that Eliza Hamilton Dunlop was the first Australian poet to try to transliterate Aboriginal songs?
... that New York City's Edgemere Landfill was declared a Superfund environmental cleanup site after nearly 3,000 toxic waste drums were discovered during a routine excavation?
... that in 1983, Bruno Reichart performed Germany's first combined heart–lung transplant?
... that literary critic Ron Charles said that the "beauty of Daniel Mason's new novel, The Winter Soldier, persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony"?
... that the music of Japanese dōjin artist Akari Nanawo has been viewed more than 9 million times on the video sharing site Niconico?
... that the springtail Allacma fusca can tolerate a 10% level of carbon dioxide for a few hours while Folsomia candida, which lives deeper in the soil, can survive under the same conditions more than six weeks?
... that William Montgomerie wished that the men who destroyed the Singapore Stone had been more superstitious?

21 December 2018

12:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Hurricane Ophelia, 2017

... that since 1851, 162 Atlantic hurricanes (example pictured) reached a peak intensity of Category 3 on the Saffir–Simpson scale?
... that Jean-Claude Zehnder, for decades the head of the department for organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, has edited organ works by Bach for a recent new edition?
... that Sitaris muralis, a species of blister beetle, is a kleptoparasite of digger bees?
... that Basil Cardew, whose father was killed in a road accident, became one of the pre-eminent motoring journalists in Britain?
... that a documentary which follows Geert Wilders's campaign for Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 2017 compares him to Donald Trump?
... that in 1959, Lois Graham became the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in mechanical engineering?
... that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism or homosexuality?
... that when the Pokémon Meltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go, many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch?

00:00, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Jackson Nelson

... that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Jackson Nelson (pictured) finished a game against Hawthorn despite breaking his wrist in the second quarter?
... that Poèmes pour Mi is a song cycle by Olivier Messiaen, who set his own poems for a grand soprano dramatique and orchestra, and dedicated it to his wife?
... that Daniel Goldhagen threatened to sue Ruth Bettina Birn for libel for her critique of his work Hitler's Willing Executioners?
... that the white-crested turaco has a wider range than Bannerman's turaco, perhaps because it was able to adapt to new habitats when climate change reduced forest cover?
... that viceroy-general Sam Lek of Hanthawaddy retook Donwun with just 300 troops by employing the same ruse used by rebel forces to seize the town a year earlier?
... that in the early history of the Earth's crust, the dichotomy between oceanic crust and elevated continental crust may have been caused by a massive meteorite bombardment?
... that U.S. Representative-Elect Joe Cunningham is an Eagle Scout?
... that after the French-built Japanese submarine No. 14 was requisitioned by France and commissioned into its navy as Armide, the Japanese built their own No. 14 to the same design?

20 December 2018

12:00, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Natwest Tower

... that Roger Norman Sainsbury was named a joint winner of Construction News "man of the year" award in 1979 for his work on the Natwest Tower (pictured)?
... that the Pasadena orogeny was responsible for uplifting many mountain ranges in Southern California and might be still underway?
... that Rabbi Michael Robinson and 15 other Reform rabbis were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida?
... that the specific name of Hydrolagus homonycteris refers to a professor at Illinois Wesleyan University known as "bat man" by his students?
... that at age 62, Alice Harrell Strickland was elected the first woman mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia on a platform to rid her town of "demon rum"?
... that as an ally of the Mamluk Sultanate, the Kingdom of al-Abwab provided an Assassin to watch over the Mamluk puppet king in Dongola?
... that Karabo Mathang-Tshabuse is South Africa's first female FIFA-accredited soccer agent?
... that in 2015, the Edinburgh City Council sold Bridgend Farmhouse and its land for £1 despite receiving another offer of £215,000?

00:00, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

... that Kathleen Hall Jamieson (pictured), author of Cyberwar, thinks it "highly probable" that Russia changed the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
... that habitat loss, a low reproductive rate, and a very small range make Rhacodactylus trachycephalus one of the rarest gecko species in the world?
... that Yohana Yembise is the first female minister in the Government of Indonesia to come from Papua?
... that billionaire businessman Mark Cuban funded the operations of the investigative reporting site Sharesleuth by short-selling the companies the site reported on?
... that the first of a planned three-volume series by A. Wilson Greene on the Siege of Petersburg was recently published?
... that the Soviet Union seized the Romanian destroyer Regina Maria and commissioned it into their navy despite Romania having switched sides to join the Allies?
... that artist Go Mishima selected his pen name as a tribute to his friend, the writer Yukio Mishima?
... that data from Media Bias/Fact Check was used to train an artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm to identify fake news?

19 December 2018

12:00, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

The Cloughmore Stone

... that the Cloughmore Stone (pictured) in Kilbroney Park is said to have been thrown there by Finn Mac Cool?
... that in 1901, Charlotte Reeve Conover led the Young Women's League in taking over publication for a day of the Dayton Daily News?
... that optically stimulated luminescence thermochronometry determines when rocks cooled, by measuring light released from energy stored in minerals?
... that anime musician Yuiko Ōhara was selected as a brand ambassador of Japan's Baseball Challenge League?
... that the United States Army's new "Army greens" uniform was influenced by the "pinks and greens" uniform of the 1920s?
... that Adruti Laxmibai introduced free education for girls in the Indian state of Odisha?
... that sales of the video game Night Trap were initially boosted following the 1993 US congressional hearings on video game content ratings because it was one of the games under discussion?
... that supporters of armed group leader Din Minimi portrayed him as an Acehnese Robin Hood?

00:00, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

The church in 2011

... that the 1964 church (pictured) for the new parish Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels) in Hanover was designed by Josef Bieling to symbolize the tent of God among men?
... that in the five years since the disappearance of Heather Elvis, there have been several trials related to the case but her whereabouts are still unknown?
... that AJ Gil, who placed eighth on season 1 of American Idol, sang the national anthem at the first concert ever held at Seattle's Seahawks Stadium?
... that a star system located around 8,000 light years from Earth may produce a gamma-ray burst?
... that in 1985, Jack G. Copeland successfully implanted the Jarvik 7 artificial heart as a bridge to transplantation?
... that in German war crimes trials after World War II, Befehlsnotstand, the necessity to obey orders, was successfully used as a defence, but was rarely justified?
... that the frigate HMS Latona rescued the ship-of-the-line HMS Bellerophon on the Glorious First of June?
... that the entirety of the film LOL was improvised?

18 December 2018

12:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Leonard Hall

... that Leonard Hall (pictured), a leading member of the British Independent Labour Party, worked as a cowboy in the United States?
... that the first own goal and penalty kick in MLS Cup history were caused by the same player at MLS Cup 2003?
... that Wang Guangying, the brother-in-law of Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
... that in 2011, the serra antwren was found 200 km (124 mi) further north than its previously known range, when it responded to recordings of its song?
... that singer-songwriter Sharon Dyall translated the song lyrics from the Disney film Frozen into Swedish?
... that the far-right newspaper National Zeitung received funding from the West German government?
... that the gay manga artist Jiraiya has been called "kind of a Tom of Finland for the Asian market"?
... that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos aims to land rockets on a moving ship?

00:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Mace pagoda flowerhead

... that the mace pagoda (pictured) was twice presumed extinct, but in each case reappeared in its natural habitat from seed after a wildfire?
... that Canadian radio and sports personality Jack Devine ended his broadcasts on CJBQ by saying: "To play a sport, you must be one"?
... that an airplane carrying an emergency shipment of blood plasma for victims of the Lackawanna Limited wreck landed on a runway illuminated by automobile headlights?
... that Brazilian musicologist Helza Cameu was the first to write about many types of indigenous instruments in Portuguese?
... that Slovak paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany participated in the two largest massacres in Slovakia during World War II?
... that Aurelia Henry Reinhardt was the longest serving president in the history of Mills College?
... that a 2017 ruling of the Supreme Court of India about the governance of Delhi stated: "There is no room for absolutism and there is no room for anarchism also"?
... that in 1961, the surgeon Charles Rob successfully used his shirt to repair an aortic aneurysm?

17 December 2018

12:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Cave painting of bull

... that Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave contains what is believed to be the world's oldest figurative art (pictured)?
... that Max Rose, the U.S. Representative-elect for Staten Island and south Brooklyn, is the recipient of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
... that Lorik Cana is the most capped Albanian footballer of all time?
... that in 1887, Temulji Bhicaji Nariman co-founded one of the first maternity hospitals in Bombay?
... that at the Battle of Damme, a smaller English fleet captured 300 French ships and burned another 100?
... that in the late 19th century, Australian author Louis Becke's infant daughter went on a trip to Tamakautoga without him?
... that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional footballer?
... that Escher sentences such as "More people have been to Russia than I have" may initially be perceived as meaningful despite being ungrammatical nonsense?

00:00, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

A murder stone

... that murder stones (example pictured) were historically erected in the United Kingdom to mark the locations of unlawful killings?
... that gymnast Pierre Payssé, who won two gold medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games, later helped organise women's football matches?
... that the Kenya Coast Guard Service commissioned its first vessel last month?
... that Roz Young's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the women's pages?
... that the existence of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia was so brief that Chief Justice Robert French characterized it as "[t]he tide went in, the tide went out"?
... that with an average age of 14.4 years, Sexy Zone became the youngest music act to top the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with its eponymously named debut single?
... that the eleven-armed starfish Coscinasterias muricata can reproduce by binary fission, splitting apart to make two new individuals?
... that Eratosthenes, the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, calculated the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy in the third century BC?

16 December 2018

12:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Hakea pulvinifera

... that the shrub Hakea pulvinifera (pictured) was first described in 1962, believed extinct in 1971, and rediscovered in 1988?
... that when the student Li Xifan published articles criticizing the scholar Yu Pingbo, Mao Zedong praised the "nobody" Li and launched an attack on the "bigwig" Yu?
... that "House of the King" by Focus has been a theme tune on British television twice?
... that chef Moshe Basson forages for wild plants and herbs in the Jerusalem hills to use in his traditional regional cuisine at The Eucalyptus restaurant?
... that Ameenpur Lake is both the first water body and the first urban environment in India to be declared a Biodiversity Heritage Site?
... that Latvian artist Rūdolfs Pērle was sent to the Caucasus front in World War I as an expert on observation balloons?
... that an Armenian church in Istanbul was demolished in 1958 and rebuilt years later half as wide, to make room for the street?
... that Journal Herald columnist Marj Heyduck was photographed in a different hat for each of her daily columns, totaling more than 2,500 different hats?

00:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Agnes Ballard

... that architect Agnes Ballard (pictured) once said she designed "apartments, residences and hot dog stands"?
... that a record-breaking solar storm of August 1972 is thought to have caused the spontaneous detonation of numerous U.S. Navy sea mines in North Vietnam?
... that Brenda Jones is serving in the Detroit City Council and US House of Representatives concurrently?
... that King's Cross St Pancras is the busiest station on the London Underground?
... that journalist Russ Conway became a hero to retired National Hockey League players for investigating pension fraud?
... that the police force of a town in Jalisco, Mexico, was disarmed in 2015 after their own officers ambushed the national police?
... that having fought in three wars and numerous battles, Yao Baoqian said the most tragic experience of his life was the Great Tangshan earthquake?
... that in the film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha, 75-year-old Melvin Van Peebles plays himself, while his mother is 40 years younger than him, and his lover is young enough to be his granddaughter?

15 December 2018

12:00, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Iron coin issued by Gongsun Shu

... that Gongsun Shu proclaimed himself emperor of Chengjia and issued his own iron coins (example pictured), in defiance of the Han dynasty?
... that President Donald Trump's comment that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" inspired a viral protest song?
... that in 2019, the Super League XXIV will be adopting the golden point rule during the regular season?
... that "Dr. Birdbath", a voice actor known for mimicking the sounds of birds and other animals, was the voice of Cheetah in the Tarzan movies?
... that in 2018, the pay television service on channel 51 of MVS TV in Mexico City had only three subscribers?
... that the death of Venezuelan politician Fernando Albán Salazar led to protests in Caracas, and calls for investigations by the European Union and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner?
... that since the Konin Lakes became hotter, non-native species which have become established there include one species of flatworm, three of bryozoa, three of crustacean, seven of mollusca, and at least six species of fish?
... that Paul Tuttle is known for designing the "Z" chair, also known as the "Rocket Launcher"?

00:00, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Gants Hill tube station concourse

... that the design of Gants Hill tube station concourse (pictured) was inspired by stations on the Moscow Metro?
... that Tadashi Suzuki, librettist for the opera Vision of Lear, also served as stage director and costume and lighting designer for its premiere at the 1998 Munich Biennale?
... that Qerim Sadiku, an Albanian Catholic blessed, said "Long live Christ our King. Long live Albania!" just before his execution?
... that the Estadio Jesús Martínez "Palillo" in Mexico City has housed Olympic field hockey, professional American football, and Central American migrants?
... that before becoming a writer for Saturday Night Live, actress Alison Gates said "my dream job would be writing instead of performing"?
... that the underwater Ujlān volcanic complex in the Marshall Islands is a potential site for cobalt mining?
... that Erin Zwiener ran for the Texas House of Representatives after her incumbent representative blocked her on Facebook?
... that a member of a Waffen-SS lobby group contributed to Germany's official history of World War II?

14 December 2018

12:00, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Bishop John Carroll statue in 2010

... that when the statue Bishop John Carroll (pictured) was unveiled in 1912, a plaster cast version was secretly used instead?
... that Wolfgang Rennert conducted the world premieres of Louise Talma's Die Alkestiade at the Frankfurt Opera and Rainer Kunad's Sabellicus at the Staatsoper Berlin?
... that in 2016, a researcher used the Statcheck software package to scan more than 50,000 peer-reviewed psychology articles for statistical errors, and then posted the results on PubPeer?
... that Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier's transfer to Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
... that after the 1980 coup d'état that overthrew and killed Liberian President William Tolbert, the People's Redemption Council took power pending a rewrite of the country's constitution?
... that Kate McComb did not decide to become a professional stage actress until she was 52 years old?
... that the former Shanghai Jewish Hospital is now a hospital for eye, ear, nose, and throat?
... that the Royal Air Force thought that Green Garlic was very good indeed?

00:00, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Martin Hellinger

... that the Nazi dentist Martin Hellinger (pictured), convicted of removing dental gold from victims at Ravensbrück, was released in 1955 and given a special grant to reopen his dental practice?
... that the Indonesian video game Rage in Peace was loosely inspired by the works of Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho?
... that as a child, Japanese voice actress Nichika Ōmori wanted to become a magical girl after gaining an interest in the anime series Sailor Moon?
... that a research group led by Amnon Marinov claimed in 2008 that the hypothetical element unbibium could be found occurring naturally in thorium deposits?
... that Susanna Dinnage is expected to become the first female chief executive of the English Premier League early next year?
... that Meghan Trainor's 2019 album Treat Myself has been characterized as "filled with self-love anthems"?
... that the world's oldest known printed texts are 8th-century Buddhist charms called dharani preserved in Korean and Japanese temples?
... that David Hughson perambulated around London in the early 1800s?

13 December 2018

12:00, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Reconstructed mount of Irritator

... that Irritator (model pictured), a spinosaurid dinosaur, was named due to the frustration of palaeontologists who discovered that its skull had been covered with plaster by fossil dealers?
... that Native American poet Jennifer Foerster co-directs a program fostering arts education for women and girls of the Muscogee Nation?
... that the French submarine Regnault, built to fight in the First World War, was named after a 19th-century chemist?
... that Derrick Barnes, author of the award-winning children's book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, began his career as the first black male copywriter for Hallmark?
... that thousands of bats are protected by monks at the Bat Pagoda in Sóc Trăng City, Vietnam?
... that the footballer Wayne Matthews started his own manufacturing business by embroidering sportswear in his bedroom?
... that a geologic fault was discovered in the Yakima, Washington, area during construction of Interstate 82?
... that after a force of Anglo-Gascon cavalry defeated a French force, they had to walk home because the surviving French had captured their horses?

00:00, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Throne Hall of Dongola

... that the Throne Hall of Dongola (pictured) is the oldest preserved mosque in Sudan?
... that U.S. Representative-elect Dan Crenshaw lost an eye to an improvised explosive device while serving with SEAL Team Three in Afghanistan?
... that visual novel localization company Sol Press was formed because the founder was unhappy with the slow translation processes of other publishers?
... that until at least 2009, Chen Chuangtian's laboratory was the only one in the world that could make the nonlinear optical crystal KBBF?
... that lymphocytic esophagitis is a rare and poorly understood medical condition that can lead to food getting stuck in the esophagus?
... that in the only season W. Webber Kelly served as president of the Green Bay Packers, the team went undefeated and won their first NFL Championship?
... that structures which helped create oxygen in the atmosphere today persist in a group of salty turquoise lakes?
... that Marion Leane Smith is the only Aboriginal Australian woman known to have served in the First World War?

12 December 2018

12:01, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Kawaji Toshiyoshi

... that the reforms of Kawaji Toshiyoshi (pictured) to standardize police swordsmanship contributed to the development of kendo?
... that the perpetrators of the 2016 Maryland shooting spree and the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks ate at the same Boston Market restaurant?
... that footballer Sammy Ameobi scored the fastest goal by a substitute in Premier League history?
... that although the lyrics of Bob Seger's song "Her Strut" were criticized for being misogynistic, they were inspired by Seger's admiration for Jane Fonda?
... that before Melvin Cohn became a co-founder of the Salk Institute, he studied the after-effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?
... that MLS Cup 2002 was the first of five MLS Cups lost by the New England Revolution and the first of five won by the LA Galaxy?
... that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is set to become the first Ecuadorian-born member of the United States Congress?
... that Prunus kansuensis, the Gansu peach, has pits that are not pitted?

00:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Eyrewell ground beetle

... that the critically endangered Eyrewell ground beetle (pictured) is known from just one locality—a pine plantation in New Zealand which is currently being cut down and turned into dairy farms?
... that after he was diagnosed with a heart condition, rodeo cowboy Louis Brooks agreed to retire if he won a second All-Around Cowboy title?
... that the construction of the Ceintures de Lyon was motivated by fear of an Austrian invasion?
... that in 2018, Sara Cox became the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby match?
... that Young Voters for the President helped Richard Nixon capture 52 percent of the "under 30" vote during the 1972 United States presidential election?
... that Karel Sperber escaped to England after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, but was sent to Auschwitz after the ship on which he served as a doctor was sunk by the Germans?
... that the British construction industry was told to modernise or die by a 2016 government report?
... that Cecil Cowles made her debut as a pianist when she was eight years old?

11 December 2018

12:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Ridder Arena

... that Robert and Kathleen Ridder helped the Gophers get the first ice rink for women (pictured) in college hockey?
... that Panzer Aces, a book series about World War II widely read in the US, was described as portraying "an almost heroic version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war crimes"?
... that the live concerts of the rock band Sumika feature performances by non-musicians such as painters, sculptors, architects, potters, and poets?
... that Ahmadou Ahidjo was the first president of Cameroon following its independence?
... that Edgecliff, an Illinois estate completed in 1930, had the highest residential property tax in Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
... that Yang Kuo-shu, who earned the first PhD in psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese psychology and studied such phenomena as yuanfen, guanxi, and face?
... that Adrien Agreste's superhero identity, Cat Noir, is a tribute to the comic book character Catwoman?
... that in 1794, a silver statue of the Virgin Mary from the chapel at Notre-Dame de la Garde was melted down at the mint of Marseille located on Rue du Tapis-Vert?

00:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Li Minhua

... that while raising two young children, Li Minhua (pictured) became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at MIT?
... that though Landsat 4 suffered a second failure in 1993 that stopped it from transmitting most scientific data, it continued broadcasting telemetry, tracking, and command data until 2001?
... that the footballer Ted Gorin scored Scunthorpe United's first goal in the Football League?
... that the worm Polydora glycymerica bores into the shell of bivalve molluscs, mainly Glycymeris yessoensis, and lives inside it?
... that Angela Brower performed her signature role as Octavian at the Colombian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier?
... that the French submarine X was the first to use twin shafts?
... that Chinese film director Lü Ban was banned from film-making for life for his satirical comedies, the last of which, also banned, discussed the topic of film censorship?
... that the Provisional Army of the United States had only seven officers?

10 December 2018

12:00, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Fragments of the
Baal Cycle

... that among the best-known Ugaritic texts are epic poems called the Baal Cycle (pictured), the Legend of Keret, and the Tale of Aqhat?
... that Chinese violinist Sheng Zhongguo was named by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as one of the world's greatest artists?
... that Tell al-Hara is the highest point in Syria's southern Daraa Governorate?
... that the 17th-century traveller Peter Mundy described Mirza Zulqarnain as the "chiefest" Christian of the Mughal Empire?
... that two Nazi propaganda films were made in Theresienstadt concentration camp?
... that Gern Nagler and Billy Howton successfully used a draft antitrust lawsuit to convince NFL Commissioner Bert Bell to create the league's player pension?
... that Aigrette, the first diesel-engine submarine to be launched, had a hydrogen leak and explosion in its battery?
... that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter?

00:00, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible

... that Dennis Albaugh's collection of about 150 classic Chevrolet convertibles includes all Tri-Fives (1957 Bel Air pictured) and models from 1912 to 1975?
... that larvae of the beetle Meloe franciscanus trick male bees into landing near them by mimicking the pheromones released by a female bee?
... that Indonesian transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi plays the acoustic guitar and sings in a band with other government ministers?
... that the removal of an antisemitic and antiziganistic statement delayed the release of a Slovak documentary about a post-Holocaust pogrom?
... that Ray Evrard, a three-term district attorney of Brown County, Wisconsin, served as the second president of the Green Bay Packers during the 1928 NFL season?
... that the oboe quartet Phantasy, composed by Benjamin Britten as a student, was the work that won him international recognition?
... that Lee Brian Schrager, known for his work with the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, opened a gay bar called Torpedo in 1987?
... that India's Train 18 was designed in 18 months and was completed in 2018?

9 December 2018

12:00, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Fulton

... that the French submarine Fulton (pictured) was named after Robert Fulton, the American inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat?
... that U.S. Representative-elect Antonio Delgado once released a rap album?
... that the sea anemone Mesacmaea mitchellii uses the base of its column to burrow into the sediment?
... that 16-year-old artistic gymnast Ana Padurariu won silver on beam at her first senior world championships, becoming the second-ever Canadian world medalist on the apparatus?
... that the perpetrator of the 2018 Tallahassee shooting identified with the involuntary celibate community and denounced interracial dating?
... that Prince Nyi Kan-Kaung helped his half-brother Binnya Nwe seize the throne of Hanthawaddy Pegu, only to be executed by him four years later?
... that "temporary" bridges have provided a road crossing of the River Trent at Walton-on-Trent, England, for more than 70 years?
... that Buzz Aldrin's father, Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr., married Marion G. Moon?

00:00, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Maria Josepha of Saxony

... that Bach composed the cantata Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! to honor Maria Josepha of Saxony (pictured) on her birthday on 8 December 1733?
... that Andy Levin will succeed his father in the U.S. House of Representatives?
... that in only its second season, Atlanta United FC has reached the MLS Cup, which will be played tonight?
... that Zhang Yonglian, who spent 20 years doing classified research for the Chinese government, founded a laboratory to study sperm?
... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather?
... that Jack Brooksbank, husband of Princess Eugenie of York, was not given a peerage following his marriage, as there is no general precedent in Britain for a commoner to be given one on marrying a princess?
... that Comic Arts Brooklyn was inaugurated in 2013, following the cancellation of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival?
... that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?

8 December 2018

12:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Wu Zhaonan

... that Wu Zhaonan (pictured), a comedian recognized by the government of Taiwan as a "national treasure", also created Mongolian barbecue?
... that the wildlife of Iceland includes around 550 species of lichen but no reptiles or amphibians?
... that in 1342, John FitzWalter accused men from Colchester of invading and damaging his park at Lexden, and soon after besieged Colchester for more than two months?
... that Fatih, originally named Deepsea Metro II, is Turkey's first drillship?
... that palaeontologist Varavudh Suteethorn has helped name and describe more than 25 fossil species from Thailand, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, turtles, and crocodylomorphs?
... that the 2018 Zürich ePrix was the first circuit car race held in Switzerland since the 1954 Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten?
... that Wallachian statesman Stroe Leurdeanu was sentenced to live as a monk for conspiring against a rival family?
... that the genome of the flatworm Otomesostoma auditivum is nearly six times larger than the human genome?

00:00, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

The permanent trumps in Ramsen

... that Ramsen is a traditional Austrian and Bavarian card game with the unusual feature of four permanent trump cards (pictured) ranking just below the trump Sow?
... that Russian anti-syphilis campaigner Volf Bronner was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and later executed?
... that Chevy Commons in Flint, Michigan, is a former Chevrolet factory being redeveloped into a park with restored grasslands, wetlands, and woodlands?
... that in 1919, missionary Henry Harness Fout reported his conclusion that a third of the Armenian population of Turkey had been exterminated in the Armenian Genocide?
... that Lord Keith followed orders not to approve the Convention of El Arish, which would have ended the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, despite personally agreeing with it?
... that Vorombe titan, an extinct elephant bird from Madagascar, shared its habitat with dwarf hippos, giant lemurs, and giant tortoises?
... that Oswald Boelcke has been described as the father of air combat tactics, the organization of squadrons, and the German Air Force?
... that Hillary Clinton is not with I'm with Her?

7 December 2018

12:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

The Purple Noon's Transparent Might

... that Arthur Streeton's 1896 painting 'The purple noon's transparent might' won critical acclaim at the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London?
... that Toshio Hosokawa composed several operas based on Japanese Noh theatre, including Vision of Lear after Shakespeare?
... that mathematicians disagree about whether a proof in Georg Cantor's first set theory article actually shows how to construct a transcendental number, or merely proves that such numbers exist?
... that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia, despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust?
... that seven of eight major bridges on Washington State Route 504 were destroyed by a lahar during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens?
... that Wang Enduo survived breast cancer to become an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences?
... that 79 years after Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns, a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
... that Tracy LaQuey Parker received more than 5,000 emails over two days in 1997 because of spoofing?

00:00, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Bedford Presbyterian Church

... that New York's Bedford Presbyterian Church (pictured), said to have excellent acoustics, has hosted concerts such as Bach's Mass in B minor and Britten's Saint Nicolas?
... that Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush was the first woman to call roll for the Democratic National Convention, doing so for 12 straight conventions?
... that 75 years ago today, the first Holocaust train from Milan left Platform 21 of the Milano Centrale railway station for Auschwitz carrying 169 Jews, of whom only 5 survived the Holocaust?
... that a book chapter by Clara Lanza about the women clerks of New York was published as a souvenir of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
... that most Buddhist discourses start with the words Thus have I heard, which are traditionally attributed to the attendant of the Buddha?
... that Bryn Davies was one of the first footballers to enlist during World War II?
... that one of the producers of the television series Disappearing World acknowledged that the episodes "more often reflect a changing world than a disappearing one"?
... that Siti Qomariyah was Amat Antono's deputy, successor, and predecessor as regent of Pekalongan, Indonesia?

6 December 2018

12:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Helmoreus sharpi by Des Helmore

... that the artist Des Helmore illustrated more than 1,000 insect species from the New Zealand Arthropod Collection and had a weevil genus (species pictured) named after him?
... that the Gascon campaign of 1345 was the first successful land campaign of the Hundred Years' War, eight years after it started?
... that Filipino footballer Neil Etheridge is the first Southeast Asian to play in the Premier League?
... that during the karuka harvest, entire households move upland and start speaking a pandanus language?
... that the mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch became known internationally when she appeared as Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden?
... that the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, merged with another congregation that was renting space in its synagogue building?
... that Lady Juliana was the physician in charge of King Akbar's royal harem?
... that the French submarine Perle was sunk by Allied aircraft after being mistaken for a Nazi U-boat?

00:00, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Helen Hays

... that over the course of 45 years of conservation work by ornithologist Helen Hays (pictured), the tern population of Great Gull Island increased tenfold?
... that ALQST is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation created by a former Royal Saudi Air Force officer?
... that John Hanger, the governor of the Bank of England, was a character in W. Harrison Ainsworth's novel about the South Sea Bubble?
... that the interactive game Your Call Football allows participants to call plays in real time for live exhibition American football games, featuring some former NFL and CFL players?
... that based on her discoveries, Chen Saijuan developed treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, turning it into a highly curable disease?
... that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to change the names of Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"?
... that Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman was elected in 1935 into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as one of its first women members?
... that the hollow Pwllpriddog Oak is said to have been used as the hiding place of a king, a meeting spot for lovers, a pig sty, a duck roost, and a music venue?

5 December 2018

12:00, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Nevado Sajama

... that in 2001, a football match took place on the summit of Nevado Sajama (pictured), the highest mountain in Bolivia?
... that this month, the armour and explosives researcher Penelope Endersby became the first female chief executive of the Met Office?
... that South Africa is considering restricting expression when it is directed in a hateful way?
... that Les Joslin wrote a book detailing the history and architecture of 75 United States Forest Service ranger stations in 12 western states?
... that the LeCompte maneuver helps surgeons switch a baby's aorta and pulmonary artery?
... that Armin Frieder, the leading Neolog rabbi in Slovakia, was arrested for his participation in an illegal smuggling ring?
... that the brownfish is harvested commercially over most of its range despite being described by the IUCN as a vulnerable species?
... that Hal Trumble was both an Olympic ice hockey referee and an international baseball umpire?

00:00, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

The Atomic Tank at Robertson Barracks

... that The Atomic Tank (pictured) was subjected to the Operation Totem nuclear tests, but remained operational for another 23 years, including 15 months in the Vietnam War?
... that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Carly Rae Jepsen teased "Party for One" by posting a picture of herself?
... that the English poet Robyn Bolam published her first poem at the age of 15 in an anthology titled Next Wave Poets 1?
... that members of the Brisingidae family hold up their arms while members of Freyellidae do not?
... that in 2008, a team led by French astrophysicist Anne-Marie Lagrange directly imaged Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet, confirming predictions of a massive planet existing around the star Beta Pictoris?
... that blankets are used to teach the history of indigenous peoples in Canada?
... that Alice and Alastair MacLennan, both experts in reproductive health, were caught by surprise and had to deliver their own baby at home?

4 December 2018

12:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Kevin Beattie

... that the footballer Kevin Beattie (pictured) was described by former England manager Bobby Robson as the best England player he had ever seen?
... that French explorer Théodore Monod discovered more than 2,000 brass ingots from the 11th or 12th centuries at the Ma'adin Ijafen archaeological site in Mauritania?
... that American businesswoman and suffragist Anna Shelton was driven to eschew traditional women's roles because of a bigamy scandal involving her sister's husband, a Fort Worth mayor?
... that instead of meeting the blockade runner MV Alsterufer at a fixed rendezvous point in the Atlantic Ocean, the German torpedo boat T23 encountered two British cruisers?
... that palaeontologist Lü Junchang identified the pterosaur genus Darwinopterus, and "Mrs. T", a pregnant female discovered with her egg?
... that in 1346, a French army more than 15,000 strong besieged Aiguillon for five months, but failed to cut its supply lines?
... that Andreas Bauer has appeared in bass roles such as Mozart's Sarastro, Verdi's Philip II of Spain, and Wagner's Marke, but also as Bluebeard and Ibn-Hakia?
... that Cameron's Seafood Market ships thousands of dollars of crab meat each month to former National Basketball Association star Gilbert Arenas?

00:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

K2 from Godwin-Austen Glacier

... that on the 1939 American K2 expedition, Dudley Wolfe and three Sherpas died high on the mountain (K2 pictured) after the Sherpas had climbed from base camp to rescue Wolfe but he would not come down?
... that Ismail Amat was one of the highest-ranking Uyghur politicians in the history of the People's Republic of China?
... that Patti Smith's title for her second memoir, M Train, refers to a "mind train", the train of thought that "goes to any station it wants"?
... that Antonio Falzon is the earliest known Maltese architect, but is often erroneously described as being Italian?
... that India's National Police Memorial has a "Wall of Valour" bearing the names of 34,844 police personnel who died in the line of duty since the country's independence in 1947?
... that David Bennett was hired as general director of the San Diego Opera after his predecessor tried unsuccessfully to shut the opera company down?
... that the gut-like sea cucumber moves by peristalsis because it has no tube feet?
... that the British surgeon J. I. P. James parachuted into German-occupied Yugoslavia to provide medical support to the partisan resistance, and operated in sheds and caves by candlelight?

3 December 2018

12:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Shannon Evans

... that the mother, grandparents, and great-aunt of basketball player Shannon Evans (pictured) helped him pay for prep school?
... that Singer Presents...Elvis attracted 42 percent of the American television audience when it aired 50 years ago today?
... that Molly Morgan became the mistress of a ship captain so that she could escape from the colony where she lived?
... that Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans formed a 40,000-strong secret army in West Germany in 1949?
... that Hans-Joachim Schulze introduced 226 Bach cantatas in weekly broadcasts on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk over a five-year period?
... that Mattawa residents opposed to a roundabout on Washington State Route 243 later apologized to the state government for their stance on the project?
... that Mufti Nemat, the commander of a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, surrendered to the Afghan government after a Taliban offensive against his group in 2018?
... that a colony of the arboreal ant Cephalotes atratus used their heads to repel a column of army ants?

00:00, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

A 2009 Stock Victoria line train

... that the London Underground Victoria line (train pictured) was so named because it sounded "just right"?
... that Jack Vainisi scouted and recommended drafting or acquiring eight future Pro Football Hall of Famers during his ten-year career with the Green Bay Packers?
... that Mistigri is a German card game named after the French word for pussycat, a nickname given to its highest trump, the Jack of Clubs?
... that songwriter Paul Gilley gave a neighbor the lyrics to the 1950 Hank Williams song "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" before it was heard on the radio, as proof that he had written it?
... that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
... that in 1910, Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist Dossibai Patell became the first female member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England?
... that after Soviet air attacks damaged the fuel system of the Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand in May 1944, an unsuccessful attempt was made to refuel the ship using a bucket brigade?
... that George Fleming made topsoil for the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival out of dredgings from the River Clyde?

2 December 2018

00:00, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Renate Behle

... that Renate Behle (pictured) made her operatic debut in 1968 and appeared as Sara in the premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Lot at the Staatsoper Hannover in 2017?
... that the German torpedo boat T22, along with two other torpedo boats, was blown up by naval mines while laying a minefield?
... that Pachara Chirathivat was actually suffocating during a strangling scene in the 2012 film Countdown, but the film crew thought he was just acting?
... that more than 1.6 million Britons held a Construction Skills Certification Scheme card in December 2017?
... that Gilles Bouchard was the first person in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to be named coach of the year and general manager of the year in the same season?
... that the bathypelagic starfish Freyella elegans is probably not a suspension feeder?
... that Juma Butabika was appointed to high-ranking military positions in the government of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin despite being considered psychopathic, even by his colleagues?
... that Mark Judge wrote a book about how dancing helped him stop drinking?

1 December 2018

00:00, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

University of Reading War Memorial

... that the University of Reading War Memorial (pictured), designed by Herbert Maryon in memory of fatalities from World War I, now also serves as a memorial to servicemen who died in World War II and Afghanistan?
... that Japanese singer Eir Aoi initially did not show her mouth in physical release images as she wanted to have a "mysterious aura" and emphasize her "powerful" eyes?
... that chiropractor Tim Robards appeared in the first season of Australia's version of The Bachelor?
... that volunteer firemen from the fire station in Schäflohe claim to be the only people in the German district of Upper Palatinate to play the traditional Bavarian card game of Lampeln?
... that Ankita Bhakat's archery team, who entered the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships seeded ninth, won India's fourth overall world youth championships title?
... that The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican are an English parody band whose "mission is to keep their spiritual father Val Doonican's legacy alive"?
... that whistles were attached to pigeons to deter birds of prey?