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20:42, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
... that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
... that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
... that the neighborhood of Elm Park in Winnipeg, Canada, was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley use?
... that although the first type of wind turbine, the panemone, is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
... that country singer Philip Claypool's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love"?

14:00, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the African Agricultural Union, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny (pictured), received the support of nearly 20,000 plantation workers shortly after it was established?
... that the arcade game Heiankyo Alien was originally designed as a personal computer game by the University of Tokyo's Theoretical Science Group?
... that as of May 2008, the International Harvester strike of 1979–1980 is the fourth-longest national strike in the history of the UAW and the longest in the history of International Harvester?
... that the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?
... that the episode of 30 Rock entitled "Sandwich Day" was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode "Tracy Does Conan"?
... that Ivorian politician Jean Konan Banny invented a non-alcoholic drink he described as "a wine [made] from pineapples"?

07:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
... that one Prior of Ecclesfield (priory pictured), near Sheffield in England, was accused by Benedictine authorities of "embezzlement of the priory's goods" and of living an "evil life"?
... that author Michael Connelly got the idea for his novel The Concrete Blonde from an actual case in a professional forensic book?
... that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?
... that residential lots in the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District of Bend, Oregon—with views of the Deschutes River and the Cascades Mountains—originally sold for US$100 to US$250?
... that the final twenty minutes of the 1941 documentary film Kukan shows an air attack by Japanese bombers against Chongqing, the World War II capital of China?
... that in the 2008 baseball season, Randy Ruiz got a hit in 24 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak by a Rochester Red Wing player since 1979?

23:28, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Robert Nanteuil's engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre (pictured) was described as "the most beautiful engraved portrait that exists"?
... that Science, Evolution, and Creationism was published by the National Academy of Sciences to address the creation-evolution controversy?
... that the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 was the largest battle of the Silesian Uprisings?
... that Jamie Howarth's music restoration company, Plangent Process, received a Grammy award for restoration of a 1949 performance by Woody Guthrie?
... that unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
... that the 79th Street Boat Basin, featured in the 1998 film You've Got Mail, is the only marina that allows year-round residency by Manhattan boat owners?
... that Cinimod Studio in London, United Kingdom, designed a virtual sky ceiling for a Snog frozen yogurt outlet with clouds whose speeds and colors depend upon the time of day?

14:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Princes Pier (pictured) in Port Melbourne, Australia, suffered fourteen fires from 2001 to 2004?
... that novelist Lucy Jane Bledsoe, a Stonewall Book Award winner and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, primarily writes LGBT literature?
... that the Corfu Channel Incident, involving the United Kingdom and Albania, is considered one of the early episodes of the Cold War?
... that Spednic Lake, which forms part of the Canada – United States border, is renowned for its smallmouth bass fishing?
... that William Chaffey, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 33 years, was also a U.S. Bronze Star recipient?
... the pranksters behind the Martian Monkey hoax were fined US$40?
... that the turnout in the 2002 Algerian legislative election was Algeria's lowest yet since independence in 1962?
... that jockey Ralph Neves, pronounced dead after a fall in 1936, arrived at the racetrack later the same day demanding to ride?

07:27, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Tower Hill Water Tower (pictured) in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is reputed to be the oldest remaining water tower in England?
... that Majdi Halabi, an Israeli Druze soldier from the village of Daliyat el-Karmel, disappeared on duty near Haifa and was formally declared to be missing in action in June 2005?
... that the 2008 Chino Hills Earthquake shook Southern California with a magnitude of 5.4, and was felt as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada?
... that in 1993, police officer Bob Geary launched a successful ballot initiative in San Francisco, California to allow him to carry a ventriloquist's dummy on patrol?
... that after a collision with the Scottish clipper Loch Earn, the French steamship Ville du Havre sank in only 12 minutes, with the loss of 226 lives?
... that the album title Even Heroes Need a Parachute was chosen to emphasize "the common ground that all humans share"?
... that Robert Byington Mitchell, who was Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, served as Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869?

01:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the earliest written record of Scotland during the Roman Empire is the submission of the King of Orkney to the Emperor Claudius (pictured) at Colchester in the year 43?
... that Haruji Matsue was the first person to manufacture the sugar cube in Japan?
... that the tugboat Tuff-E-Nuff, built in 1895 by Neafie & Levy, was still working commercially in 2007 after 112 years of service?
... that Swazi police told Gabriel Mkhumane's mother that he would come home "wrapped in a black bag" hours before his death was reported?
... that the mushroom fire-milk Lactarius is so named because of its acrid taste?
... that John Harfield Tredgold who helped slaves in the Cape Colony in the 19th century, was also a chemist?
... that a German Shepherd named Rajah was the first police dog in New Zealand?
... that baseball pitcher Marc Wilkins balked on Rob Ryan's first at bat, on the day of Ryan's major league debut, making the Arizona Diamondbacks score one run?

19:22, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
... that "eggs" of the foul-smelling, insect-attracting dog stinkhorn (pictured) have been eaten in West Virginia?
... that British athlete Stan Cox was nearly killed after being struck with a javelin while working as a judge for the British Amateur Athletic Association?
... that the Plan Dog memo, one of the best known documents of World War II, laid the basis for America's Europe First policy?
... that Richard Tapper Cadbury helped his son John start a tea and coffee business that would become Cadbury plc?
... that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby load-bearing points have separate foundations?
... that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka‎ is the largest meantone organ in the world?
... that Joe Allison is a former American football placekicker who won the inaugural Lou Groza Award, presented to the nation's top kicker?
... that the Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway, but does not operate any trains?

13:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
... that a subspecies of Black Lemur (pictured) is the only primate other than humans to have blue eyes?
... that U.S. diplomat Pamela E. Bridgewater was the first African-American woman appointed Consul General in Durban, South Africa?
... that in Australia many unions and employers are working around the WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
... that scuba divers concerned about the deterioration of the Samuel P. Ely shipwreck worked underwater to install reinforcing tie rods that would hold the hull together?
... that the upright bugle often interbreeds with its more widespread cousin, the common bugle, producing hybrid offspring?
... that at the Convention of 1836, delegates approved the Texas Declaration of Independence with no debate?
... that Polish writer Adam Wawrosz fought in the Polish Army in the Battle of Kock during World War II?
... that Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock, his father's Garrison, New York, mansion, to accommodate his family?

07:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument (pictured) outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?
... that liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis?
... that the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario?
... that before earning a B.A. at New School for Social Research, science writer Mary Batten worked as a library clerk at the New York Public Library?
... that the Japanese visual novel Eternal Fantasy consists of an overworld map and a combat system, typical of console role-playing games, other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?
... that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
... that Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park is the only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the Vietnam War?
... that former Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs set the NCAA Division I-A record for consecutive American college football games with a rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl?

22:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that 52 ships of the German High Seas Fleet were successfully scuttled in Scapa Flow (example pictured) in 1919, but many were later salvaged?
... that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
... that according to Franz Oppenheimer's book The State, the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated?
... that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?
... that although the longfin trevally is a prized table fish in Thailand and Cambodia, it is overall too rare to sustain commercial fisheries?
... that Ronald Ribman's play The Journey of the Fifth Horse, based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev, won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman?
... that many slogans and several mottoes currently used in heraldry originated as war cries or battle cries?
... that the only trio of brothers to appear in a Major League Lacrosse game as members of the same team are Michael, Gregory, and Stephen Peyser of the New Jersey Pride?

15:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the Highland Park Police Station, where the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (emblem pictured) once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?
... that Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the South Col on the first ascent of Mount Everest by the 1953 British Expedition?
... that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
... that the 1946 Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States until 1983?
... that what is now the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica according to the SWEAT model?
... that a group of Irish publishers tried to print pirated copies of Samuel Richardson′s final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, before the actual first edition was released?
... that the Muleshoe Heritage Center in Muleshoe, Texas, greets visitors with a 22-foot-high muleshoe which weighs 15,000 pounds and was an Eagle Scout project?
... that the Payne-Desha House in Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the ninth governor of Kentucky?

01:06, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the golf course (pictured) around the buildings of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in Garrison, New York helps preserve their historic rural character?
... that future admirals Samuel Barrington, George Darby, Hugh Palliser, Thomas Pasley, Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse?
... that the town of Kendenup in Western Australia was featured in a classified advertisement in the New York Times in 1922?
... that Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original orphanage in California?
... that John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a composer and scrivener that his son, John Milton—author of Paradise Lost, never had to work for a living?
... that the Okinawa Prefectural Museum was originally established under the U.S. Occupation in 1946?
... that Italian composer Francesco Portinaro survived an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed 12,000 to become maestro di capella at Padua Cathedral?
... that the Neutra Office Building, once the office of Modernist architect Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?

01:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (pictured), a painting by Eugène Delacroix, is believed to be a preparatory work for his portrayal of the 1822 Chios Massacre?
... that the first conversion of a New Caledonian to the Bahá'í Faith took place in 1961?
... that the British Columbia mountain search and rescue organization North Shore Rescue was originally formed for responding to an urban nuclear attack?
... that although £5 tickets were available for the Doctor Who Prom, tickets were touted on eBay for £250?
... that Burr Caswell built his farmhouse in 1849 out of old driftwood and it is now a museum centerpiece?
... that Tropical Storm Kiko, a tropical cyclone of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, caused at least 15 deaths at sea?
... that Diverse Harmony is the first gay-straight alliance chorus in the United States?
... that 19 crewmen of the Russian oceanliner {{SS|Czar}} received the Silver Sea Gallantry Medal from King George V of the United Kingdom for rescuing 102 survivors from a burning ship in October 1913?

14:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the original viewports of the pioneering submarine Ictineo II (replica pictured) ended up as bathroom windows?
... that Lloyd Seay, described by NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's moonshine business?
... that there are 64 varieties of mammal in Tam Dao National Park in Vietnam and some are on the menu?
... that the Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was the first floating battery to engage in hostilities during the American Civil War?
... that Felix Mendelssohn walked out in disgust in the middle of the 1827 premiere of his opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho, and cancelled the remaining performances?
... that Robert Berning first introduced Trader Joe's private wine label as a way to get around California's fair trade laws that made it illegal to sell wines at a cheaper price than branded competitors?
... that the Rockies Express Pipeline, currently under construction, will be one of the largest natural gas pipelines ever built in North America?
... that Argentine adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?

06:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the type of degree offered by a veterinary school (pictured) can vary widely, ranging from the Bachelor of Science to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine?
... that organisations such as Unilever PLC, Tate Gallery, Penguin Books, and Prudential all have collections of Laura Ford's sculptures?
... that through Khitan, the Islamic rite of male circumcision, Muslims are the largest single religious group to circumcise males?
... that Achille-Louis Foville was made a professor at Charenton in 1840, filling the vacancy created by the death of his old teacher Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol?
... that the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers, and it took an act of Congress to build it?
... that Henry Conway, nicknamed "Queen Sloane," once showed up to a London nightclub in a horse drawn carriage?

00:00, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
... that The Birches (pictured) in Garrison, New York, was known as the Honeymoon House because both of William Osborn's sons lived there after their weddings?
... that the defection of Saddam and Hussein Kamel helped prompt the 1995 Iraqi presidential election?
... that Salem Hospital has the busiest emergency room in the state of Oregon?
... that Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
... that "Pink Fairhead" is a common name for Calocybe carnea, a small pink mushroom of grassy areas in Europe and North America?
... that T-shirts which featured Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, which were seen in a 30 Rock episode entitled "Jack Gets in the Game", were made commercially available by NBC?

14:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Jane Meutas (pictured) was drawn by Holbein and engraved by Bartolozzi?
... that during production of the film The Natural, Robert Redford was coached by Major League Baseball pitcher Spec Shea on how to pitch in an old-time style?
... that one of the chief motivations for anarcho-capitalist revolution is the impossibility of implementing anarchy through peaceful means?
... that Henrik I. Christensen, a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was the founder of the European Robotics Research Network (EURON)?
... that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco, near Ormond Beach, Florida, is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?
... that the Regimental Pipes and Drums of The Calgary Highlanders mistakenly wore the Royal Stewart tartan until they arrived in England during World War II and were told to stop?

03:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the Giant Dead Leaf Mantis (pictured) falls to the ground and lies motionless when threatened?
... that the Virginia Capital Trail connects three historic capitals of Virginia (Williamsburg, Jamestown and Richmond) with a {{convert|54|mi|km|adj=on}} long paved bicycle and pedestrian trail?
... that the Swansea and Welsh rugby duo Dick Jones and Dicky Owen were known affectionately as the Dancing Dicks?
... that the forthcoming Canadian film Smash Cut will feature a cameo appearance by filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis who invented the splatter film genre?
... that the highlight of Aliwan Fiesta is a four-kilometer dance parade of different cultural festivals of the Philippines?
... that the faculty of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara boast of two Nobel Prize winners and one Millennium Technology Prize winner?

21:30, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Eliza Ridgely of Baltimore and Hampton is Thomas Sully's Lady with a Harp (pictured)?
... that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?
... that archedictyon is a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects?
... that "Blooddrunk", a track by Finnish band Children of Bodom about self-destructive behaviour, debuted at number one in Finland?
... that after a gift of candles they sent was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show, sales at Wicks n' More increased fivefold?
... that Donald Colman invented the football dugout in the 1930s while working as coach of Aberdeen?
... that the Smith Estate was the home of a writer on occultism, the head of a railroad, and a deputy mayor, and the shooting location for the cult film Spider Baby?

14:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the old Lodge Room at the Highland Park Masonic Temple (pictured) has been preserved with original anaglyphs and cherry wood paneling?
... that the Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?
... that Christopher Smart's two oratorios, Hannah and Abimelech, are based on the story of biblical women who became fertile because of their devotion to God?
... that the 335th and 336th squadrons are the oldest in Greece's Hellenic Air Force, having been formed as units of the British RAF in the Second World War?
... that the opposition Democratic Party refused to accept the results of the 2001 Albanian parliamentary election and boycotted Parliament for six months after?
... that New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico?

08:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
... that John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral (pictured)?
...that the Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly, convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature?
... that Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for Swansea and cricket for Glamorgan at St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?
... that the "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) by Bruce Springsteen was a real-life fortune teller on the Asbury Park boardwalk?
... that while setting a Guinness World Record for distance travelled by a solar vehicle, the University of Waterloo's Midnight Sun VII was twice mistaken for a UFO?
... that Sidney Weighell, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left?
... that David Nichtern, who wrote "Midnight at the Oasis", is the son of the first female to win a Tony Award?

01:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
... that ice hockey goaltender Paddy Moran (pictured) aggressively defended the area in front of his net by using his stick to slash opposing players near his net and exhaling at them while chewing tobacco?
... that the stages-of-growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations?
... that military sociology, one of the branches of sociology, looks at issues such as gender, minorities and power in the military?
... that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?
... that while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear?
... that the Laurel Valley Store in Laurel, Oregon, opened in 1893 and is still in use?