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31 October 2017

00:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Ustonson invoice

... that Onesimus Ustonson (invoice pictured) supplied fishing tackle to the naturalist Joseph Banks for the second voyage of James Cook?
... that the Ethiopian hare is endemic to Africa, and is found in the Afromontane Biozone of Ethiopia and the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone?
... that during the Dubin Inquiry, lead counsel Robert P. Armstrong questioned Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson about his anabolic steroid use?
... that officers from the Albuquerque Police Department lied to the Albuquerque Journal when providing details regarding the death of Victoria Martens?
... that a GRIM test on a sample of published psychology articles revealed that over half contained at least one mathematically impossible result?
... that Catie Munnings, winner of the 2016 FIA European Rally Championship Ladies' Trophy, was the first British driver to win a European rally title in 49 years?
... that the bazaar fly is a vector for trachoma, the leading global cause of preventable blindness?
... that instead of giving the keys to the city to visiting dignitaries, the mayor of Calgary "white hats" them?

30 October 2017

00:00, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Stanley McDougall

... that Sergeant Stanley McDougall (pictured) was awarded the Victoria Cross for single-handedly killing many Germans with a Lewis gun during the First Battle of Dernancourt?
... that Francis Poulenc composed the motets for male voices Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise on the request of a relative who was a Franciscan friar?
... that the film NUDE is about a talent search that was inspired by the Pirelli Calendars of the 1970s?
... that Jean Ginsburg established one of the first clinics in Britain for menopausal women?
... that Brigham Young Unversity's International Harp Archive has more than 11,000 scores and sound recordings that feature the harp?
... that Cuban parliamentarian Teté Puebla is the first female general in the nation's history?
... that when breeding, the polychaete worm Syllis prolifera produces a detachable "stolon" which joins other stolons to swarm in the water column?
... that Usain Bolt and Roger Federer have each won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year a record four times since its inception in 2000?

29 October 2017

00:00, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

An-70 during take-off

... that the Antonov An-70 (pictured) was the first aircraft to take flight powered only by propfans?
... that computer science lecturer Cynthia B. Lee promoted the use of gender-neutral language across her department at Stanford University?
... that Topolnița Cave is home to the largest colony of greater horseshoe bats in Europe?
... that the brief biographies of Italian artists by the Anonimo Gaddiano were written before Vasari's Lives of 1550, but not published until 1892?
... that Cranston Public Library delivered 4,657 items to homebound residents of Cranston, Rhode Island, in 2016 alone?
... that Czech linguist Miroslav Komárek spent his entire six-decade academic career at Palacký University in Olomouc?
... that in 2013, the Irish Famine Memorial was described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"?
... that Floor's use of the "bomb string" on their album Oblation was described as "a guitar string tuned so low it flaps like a pensioner's bingo wing"?

28 October 2017

00:00, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

AirTrain JFK vehicle

... that AirTrain JFK (vehicle pictured), an airport rail link in New York City, took almost 30 years to plan?
... that Eleri Rees became a judge without ever practising as a barrister?
... that a Vector General 3D terminal was used to create the 3D animation near the end of the original Star Wars?
... that Karam Singh was the first living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration?
... that Drake's song "KMT" sampled the theme "His World" from the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog?
... that the 1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash was one of three fatal helicopter accidents Bristow Helicopters suffered in little more than a year in the North Sea?
... that the musicologist Beatrix Borchard researched female musicians such as Clara Schumann, Amalie Joachim, and Pauline Viardot, and worked for the Goethe-Institut in Portugal, Romania, and China?
... that a global search yielded two mating partners for Jeremy, a rare left-coiled snail, but they began to mate with each other instead?

27 October 2017

00:00, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Cremation pyre for King Bhumibol Adulyadej

... that the cremation pyres (example pictured) built for Thai royal funerals symbolize Mount Meru, the Hindu centre of the universe?
... that Robert Traill was featured in an episode of Victoria, written by his great-great-great-granddaughter Daisy Goodwin?
... that the Arago hotspot may have been creating volcanoes, islands, atolls, and seamounts such as Îles Maria, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands for the past 120 million years?
... that John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk's preparations for the 1415 Agincourt campaign cost him £2,000 and included a seat for his own toilet?
... that during the summer of 2017, the Milli Fire burned over 24,000 acres (97 km²) of forest land in Oregon, much of it in the Three Sisters Wilderness area?
... that Altan Xire, the main township of a rural county in Inner Mongolia, has an extensive urban skyline?
... that the first opera by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini premiered at the Theater Erfurt, the second at the Theater Basel, and the third at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2017?
... that The Black Swan at Oldstead is rated the best restaurant in the world by TripAdvisor?

26 October 2017

00:00, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

S. viticola galls

... that although the gall midge Schizomyia viticola can produce up to 135 galls (pictured) on a single grape vine leaf, the plant is not harmed?
... that the hymn "Den Herren will ich loben", which Maria Luise Thurmair based on the Magnificat to a popular 1613 melody, was arranged with trumpets and timpani for a papal visit in Munich's Frauenkirche?
... that Ashley Hatch was named 2017 NWSL Rookie of the Year and helped the North Carolina Courage win the 2017 NWSL Shield, scoring seven goals in 24 games?
... that the Mackinlay's cuckoo-dove can be distinguished from the bar-tailed cuckoo-dove by the dark spotting on the breast of the former caused by bifurcating feathers?
... that Latvian-born Lazar Bach became chair of the Communist Party of South Africa, but died in a Gulag?
... that the new tour by "Weird Al" Yankovic focuses on Yankovic's original songs, as opposed to his staple parody songs?
... that researchers found that sending birthday cards to 21-year-olds did not help reduce harmful birthday drinking?
... that Abbie Hutty hopes there really is life on Mars?

25 October 2017

00:00, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Siegfried Fietz

... that Siegfried Fietz (pictured) wrote a popular melody for "Von guten Mächten", one of more than 3,000 song melodies he composed?
... that in a sample of medical reviews, useless treatments were just as likely to be recommended for further research as were useful treatments?
... that Theresa Goell spent much of her life working on excavations at Nemrud Dagh in Turkey, but never discovered the tomb of Antiochus I of Commagene that she hoped to find there?
... that the coral Pocillopora elegans is considered "vulnerable" after being severely depleted in the eastern Pacific during the 1982–1983 El Niño event?
... that Rebecca Thomas wrote and directed Electrick Children, a film with a budget of US$1 million, while she was still a university student?
... that Everything Everything's third album, Get to Heaven, was at one point bookmakers' favourite for the 2015 Mercury Prize, but was ultimately not even nominated?
... that Niaz A. Naik played a pivotal role in back-channel talks during the Kargil War between India and Pakistan?
... that "Old Love / New Love" was written by Twin Shadow for a fictional radio station?
... that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada?

24 October 2017

00:00, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Perspective view of Rupes Tenuis on Mars

... that Rupes Tenuis (pictured), the Martian north polar scarp, may have been in retreat since the Late Amazonian period?
... that Leo Nocentelli was one of the primary songwriters of the New Orleans funk band The Meters?
... that the 2017 Vegas eRace carried a total prize fund of $1 million, the largest in eSports racing history?
... that Karim Morani teamed up with Shah Rukh Khan in 2013 to co-produce the commercially successful film Chennai Express?
... that the forged Morey letter may have helped 1880 U.S. Presidential candidate Winfield S. Hancock win California and Nevada?
... that the Chinese government sponsors a gangsta rap group called CD Rev?
... that although Arthur Schopenhauer had not invited her and initially refused to cooperate, Elisabet Ney nevertheless sculpted his portrait bust?
... that Sam Bosworth is the first male coxswain to win an international elite rowing event with a female crew?

23 October 2017

00:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Male R. pulchellus

... that Rhipicephalus pulchellus (pictured) is sometimes known by its common name "the zebra tick", both because zebras are one of its main hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?
... that in the 1951–52 Indian general election, the 27-year old Sunkam Achalu was elected by the largest margin?
... that Governor David B. Hill prevented New York from carrying out a state census in 1885?
... that looming war between the Dacian king Burebista and Julius Caesar was preempted by the assassination of both leaders?
... that Icelandic chess grandmaster Margeir Pétursson founded the country's only commercial bank that did not crash during the financial crisis of 2007–08?
... that the Canales investigation heard 80 witnesses describing murders, kidnappings, and other crimes committed by the Texas Rangers in the early 20th century?
... that John Potter's story of his role as a secret agent in occupied France was exposed as false only after his death?
... that people have suffered an Antabuse-type reaction from eating the club foot mushroom and drinking alcohol?

22 October 2017

00:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Artist's conception of a multitude of tiny diamonds next to a hot star

... that extraterrestrial diamonds (pictured) in meteorites preserve their history from before the Solar System formed?
... that the family of Tejano lawmaker José Tomás Canales feared he would be assassinated during his 1919 investigation into the Texas Rangers?
... that Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is the highest grossing film in India, with a domestic collection of over ₹12.53 billion?
... that Melahat Okuyan, a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health?
... that the midden inkcap can be used as ink?
... that Krishna is the Hindu god of compassion, tenderness, and love?
... that a host venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be built in Kamaishi, which suffered major damage during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that Agnes Robertson served in the Australian Senate until she was 79, and switched political parties at the age of 73?

21 October 2017

00:00, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Lady Macbeth, detail

... that Elisabet Ney's Lady Macbeth (detail pictured), whose face resembles the artist's own, has been interpreted as a self-portrait and expression of personal grief?
... that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can directly influence the origin of new species?
... that Matt Page humorously edited historical images to include Axl Rose eating snacks?
... that the Dominican amber ant Odontomachus spinifer was named for its very large spine?
... that Averil Mansfield, a former president of the British Medical Association, was Britain's first female professor of surgery?
... that Guizhou Plateau forests are prone to drought stress despite high rainfall in the region?
... that N. Somana is one of only two Kodagu district politicians to be elected to the Lok Sabha?
... that Duke Huan of Qi's corpse was left to rot in his bedchamber while his sons fought for the throne of Qi?

20 October 2017

00:00, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Northern rosella

... that the northern rosella (pictured) was previously known as the smutty rosella?
... that Australian surgeon Helen Sexton came out of retirement to open a field hospital in France during World War I?
... that the United States Coast Guard and China Coast Guard regularly deploy officers aboard each other's vessels as a part of United States–China security cooperation?
... that out of the thirteen Nippon Professional Baseball seasons that have included interleague play, the Pacific League has beaten the Central League in all but one?
... that Sheila Callender helped to establish the medical discipline of haematology?
... that blister coral was not recognised as a new species until 1971?
... that after Nagapattinam Member of Parliament S.G. Murugaiyan was killed in broad daylight, his party retained the seat in the subsequent 1979 by-election?
... that the discovery of a fossilized frog in the Caves of Kesh in 1901 disproved a common belief that the species was only introduced into Ireland in 1699?

19 October 2017

00:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Loggerhead Key

... that Loggerhead Key (pictured) was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western Hemisphere mangroves and coral reefs?
... that mezzo-soprano Patricia Johnson appeared as Eboli at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and created the roles of a Nabokov Princess and a Henze Baroness?
... that the sea gastropod Coriocella nigra has an internal shell and four or five bosses on its body?
... that the workshop of August Volz supplied decorations for the Latvian National Opera, Latvian National Theatre, Latvian National Museum of Art, and Art Academy of Latvia?
... that California High-Speed Rail's proposed Pacheco Pass Tunnel is expected to become the longest rail tunnel in North America?
... that Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with Monteverdi?
... that Selna Kaplan led the first clinical trials of artificial growth hormone in the United States?
... that the banded nemertean ribbon worm readily breaks into pieces, each of which can regenerate into a new individual within four weeks?

18 October 2017

00:15, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

St Paul's Cathedral Choir

... that in his Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral (interior pictured), Herbert Howells uses slow and spacious changes in harmony and tonality to suit the building's long echo?
... that following her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, the British Vogue health editor Deborah Hutton campaigned to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking for teenage girls?
... that chalice coral and porous lettuce coral can be confused underwater?
... that upon his retirement in January 1979, A. M. Aikin Jr. was the longest-tenured legislator in the history of Texas?
... that the Ex is a target practice mannequin that spouts blood when shot?
... that the name of the desert area Xiangshawan (literally, "resonant sand gorge") in Inner Mongolia derives from the loud boom and whistling sound created when sliding down its sand dune?
... that in the Credo section of his Missa Ave Marie, composer Ludwig Daser clearly stated his Protestant beliefs to the Catholic court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria?
... that Chains of Love was described as "televised prostitution"?

17 October 2017

00:30, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Canan Bayram

... that Canan Bayram (pictured) was the only member of Alliance 90/The Greens directly elected to the German parliament in the 2017 election?
... that besides feeding on carpets, the larvae of the common carpet beetle can destroy dried insects in collections?
... that Fawad Khan appeared in Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2014, 2015, and 2016?
... that Grangemoor Park in Cardiff, Wales, was created on top of a former landfill site of household and commercial rubbish?
... that captured women and girls were sold for 10 to 20 Mexican dollars during the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong?
... that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi, subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built?
... that the barred cuckoo-dove is similar to the little cuckoo-dove, but is larger and darker, and is black-barred at the mantle, breast, covert, and tail?
... that one critic described the plot of Nude for Satan as "the Devil is bored and wants to have an orgy. Oh, and Calderoni gets molested by a giant spider"?

16 October 2017

00:45, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

View of State Reception Room with Mohawk carpet

... that the State Reception Room (pictured) in Olympia, Washington, has what was once the world's largest single-loom carpet?
... that after nearly six decades of collecting Inuit sculptures and other art, Jacqui Shumiatcher gifted 1,310 pieces valued at CAD$3 million to the University of Regina?
... that the earliest record of the Toronto cocktail is from 1922, when the city of Toronto was under prohibition?
... that Andy Boarman ran a popular music store and instrument workshop out of his Hedgesville barber shop?
... that pesticides may have detrimental effects on beneficial insects such as bees?
... that John D. Hoffman was the only member of the Manhattan District to be awarded the Soldier's Medal, the United States Army's highest award for heroism in a non-combat situation?
... that based on genetic data, the western oriole and the green-headed oriole are sister species?
... that after viewing footage from his 1970 film Serene Velocity, director Ernie Gehr felt nauseated?

15 October 2017

01:00, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Hell's fire anemone

... that although most sea anemones (example pictured) are harmless to humans, a few are venomous and some can be lethal?
... that student activists joined forces with the military to overthrow the Cuban government during the 1933 Sergeants' Revolt?
... that in 1471, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, considered himself unable to attend parliament in London with a sufficiently large retinue for a duke, and so refused to do so?
... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"?
... that H. Rex Lee was the last non-elected Governor of American Samoa?
... that the black-necked grebe is flightless for two months of the year?
... that Myron Prinzmetal gave his name to Prinzmetal's angina, a type of chest pain that occurs at rest?
... that Qit'at Jaradah, an island in the Persian Gulf, rises only 0.4 metres (1 ft 4 in) above water at high tide?

14 October 2017

01:15, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Cinder Butte Fire

... that in August 2017, the Cinder Butte Fire (pictured) threatened important archaeological sites in Central Oregon?
... that Prince of Wallachia Radu Paisie was deposed by his Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"?
... that both sides in the Battle of Emmendingen lost their commanding general, one to a musket ball, the other to a cannonball?
... that filmmaker Nicholas McCarthy and humorist John Hodgman co-edited a controversial high school magazine?
... that the milky ribbon worm feeds on soft-shell clams, inserting its proboscis through the siphon and devouring the soft tissues?
... that until 1968, some 5,000 people on the "Indian List", so-called due to the automatic inclusion of indigenous people, were prohibited from buying liquor from BC Liquor Stores?
... that the butterfly Calycopis pisis has a junior synonym named after American cartoonist Gary Larson?
... that Erich Mühe, the first surgeon to remove a gallbladder by laparoscopy, was initially mocked by his colleagues for performing "Mickey Mouse surgery"?

13 October 2017

01:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Optima Signature

... that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature (pictured) have access to a private club in the building?
... that the Roman consul, urban prefect, and jurisconsult Plotius Pegasus was named by his father, a naval commander, after a ship he commanded?
... that the New Britain bronzewing is rated as a "vulnerable species" because the population is in decline and there are fewer than 5,000 birds in total?
... that Christof Loy received the Der Faust award for staging Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that Michele Strazzabosco played in a preseason game with the Buffalo Sabres prior to the 2006–07 NHL season, becoming the first Italian-trained player to do so in National Hockey League history?
... that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of sodium carbonate?
... that Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?
... that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in Moscow?

12 October 2017

01:45, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Nakhl Gardani ritual in Iran

... that Nakhl Gardani (pictured) is a ritual in which a woody structure symbolizing Husayn ibn Ali's coffin is carried on the day of Ashura?
... that in his 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Maurice Duruflé "shows his particular genius for invoking the spiritual element of plainsong in a polyphonic context"?
... that the western bronze-naped pigeon is found in many countries across Africa?
... that former Dutch Chess Champion Jorden van Foreest is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest, a three-time Dutch Chess Champion?
... that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as "Frederick the Great" after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War?
... that M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that the song "Why Didn't Rosemary?" from the 1969 album Deep Purple was inspired by the film Rosemary's Baby?
... that in 2014, Sarah Barrow won the first individual European gold medal for a female British diver in 87 years?

11 October 2017

02:00, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Antonio Conte

... that Antonio Conte (pictured) is the only person to win the Serie A Coach of the Year award three times in a row?
... that Charles Macdonald called for the creation of a single university for Nova Scotia in his inaugural address at Dalhousie College?
... that the scarlet-breasted fruit dove is normally a quiet bird, but sometimes emits deep, soft, oohoo calls?
... that Sharad Panday was a pioneer of bloodless open heart surgery in India?
... that the planthopper Alicodoxa is one of a number of insects found in both Rovno amber and Baltic amber?
... that in 1995, American filmmaker Mark Romanek directed two of the most expensive music videos ever made?
... that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies?
... that the footballer George Poland was rejected by Cardiff City F.C. as an outfield player before making his debut two years later as a goalkeeper?

10 October 2017

02:15, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Benty Grange helmet

... that warriors in the epic poem Beowulf wear helmets like the boar-crested Benty Grange helmet (pictured)?
... that Leaena Tambyah founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities in 1979?
... that titanium dioxide nanoparticles prevent cancer when used in sunscreens, but may cause it if inhaled by production workers?
... that during his Presidential campaign, Alton B. Parker refused to criticize the lynchings and denial of Black suffrage in the Southern United States?
... that the Birka female Viking warrior has been described as a shield-maiden similar to Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones?
... that the Comoros blue pigeon has a habit of perching in full sun and raising one wing to expose it to the sun?
... that "Mehmetçik", the common name for Ottoman and Turkish soldiers, is thought to commemorate Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş, who fought during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
... that The Rolling Stones are a British rock band? Okay, you probably did...

9 October 2017

02:30, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Blyth's kingfisher

... that the scientific name of the Blyth's kingfisher (pictured), which grows up to 23 centimetres (9 inches) long, derives from the Greek demigod Hercules?
... that in 2005 Atanasio Monserrate and two other ministers resigned from the Manohar Parrikar-led government, leaving it in a minority and thus prematurely bringing down the Government of Goa?
... that the Border Police of Georgia have continued to help enforce Georgian sovereignty over Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the end of the Russo-Georgian War?
... that larvae of the orange-tipped sea squirt are brooded, and settle on the seabed close to the parent within minutes of being released?
... that S. Sashikanth was an award-winning architect before launching his own film production company, Y NOT Studios?
... that even though he won the popular vote by a 51–48% margin, Samuel J. Tilden failed to win the U.S. presidency in 1876?
... that Eugene Reimer, who played wheelchair basketball with Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, was the first disabled athlete to receive the Order of Canada?
... that hall of fame horse Eternal Sun's owner purchased him with an IOU written on a corner torn from the page of the seller's catalog?

8 October 2017

02:45, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

1951 Muntz Jet

... that the Muntz Jet (pictured) was a car that came with the option of a liquor cabinet and ice chest under the rear seat armrests?
... that Alison Van Eenennaam is working on a collaborative research project focused on the production of hornless dairy cattle through gene editing?
... that when Pál Turán was forced to work in a brick factory during World War II, the bumpy crossings of the cart tracks inspired him to ask how to draw graphs with few crossings?
... that Fragmentarium digital research laboratory hopes to reunite lost fragments of medieval manuscripts?
... that despite being urged to do so, William Jennings Bryan refused to drop his free silver plank when he ran for U.S. President in 1900?
... that a 13-city tour for Just the Beginning, a November 2017 album release by 13-year-old America's Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal, sold out in September?
...that the Forrest's pika has at different times been treated as a subspecies of the Moupin pika, the Royle's pika, and the steppe pika?
... that Jason Chee won a gold medal in table tennis despite losing both his legs, his left arm, one right finger, and his right eye?

7 October 2017

03:00, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Gypsy Madonna, Titian, 1510–11

... that the landscape in Titian's Gypsy Madonna (pictured) virtually repeats part of that in the Dresden Venus?
... that Horace Greeley died shortly after he lost the U.S. Presidency to Ulysses S. Grant?
... that the Thomas's pika is sympatric with the Gansu pika?
... that Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta's unusual name inspired a book?
... that 18 cities in the Soviet Union had a population of at least one million in 1979?
... that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
... that the Philippine cuckoo-dove was formerly listed as a subspecies of the ruddy cuckoo-dove and the brown cuckoo-dove?
... that a 1912 party hosted by Vine Colby made the news for its originality?

6 October 2017

03:15, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Alice by John Tenniel

... that Lewis Carroll may have based Alice (pictured) on Alice?
... that the Olympia, Washington war memorial Winged Victory features a Red Cross nurse?
... that Lancastrian lord John Clifford was killed, possibly by an arrow in the throat, while the main Lancastrian army was only a few miles away?
... that in 1974, Mattoon, Illinois's Cross County Mall became the first shopping center in the US to have J. C. Penney, Sears, and Kmart, then the nation's three largest retailers?
... that as UK secretary in the Economic Directorate of the Allied Control Council in post-war Berlin, Lorna Arnold slept with a revolver under her pillow?
... that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?
... that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?
... that the black-backed forktail has a call reminiscent of a squeaky hinge?

5 October 2017

03:30, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Siphopteron quadrispinosum copulating

... that while mating, some species of bat-winged slugs (pictured) stab each other with a two-pronged penis?
... that after William Lunn's wedding, people destroyed the door of a police watch house in Montreal?
... that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost, setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus, "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
... that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council, but died before she could take her seat?
... that the California Central Valley city of Porterville purchased an abandoned rail right-of-way to preserve it for the proposed Cross Valley Corridor passenger rail service?
... that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all-female juvenile court with a homelike setting?
... that the Ethiopian highland hare was originally described as a subspecies of the Cape hare, but it was later raised to full species status?
... that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?

4 October 2017

03:45, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Silence=Death poster

... that after Silence=Death posters (pictured) appeared around Manhattan, William Olander created a New Museum exhibit highlighting public indifference to AIDS victims?
... that Linguamyrmex vladi is named for Vlad the Impaler, who was the inspiration for Count Dracula?
... that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny, both multiple ECHO Jazz winners, recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem?
... that during the Sprague Fire in Glacier National Park, the interior of the historic Sperry Chalet completely burned, leaving only the exterior stone walls standing?
... that The Inquiry, a study group established by US President Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
... that Tajama Abraham survived Hurricane Hugo by hiding in a commercial refrigerator with her family?
... that the plain-breasted piculet is usually inconspicuous but may be detected by the pecking sounds it makes while foraging?
... that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union?

3 October 2017

04:00, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

A Chinese wedding door game in action

... that as part of Chinese weddings, the groom may be made to swallow pungent wasabi, chilli padi, and bitter tea before receiving the bride at her family home?
... that Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's golf events?
... that the producers of "Drew Live II" kept many elements of the episode a secret from the cast?
... that Yttralox, a transparent ceramic, was accidentally discovered in the course of fuel cell research in the mid-1960s?
... that the limpet Iothia emarginuloides is commonly found on the red alga Phyllophora antarctica growing under the Antarctic sea ice?
... that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos, with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche, was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year?
... that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of Cuba?
... that before his death at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?

2 October 2017

04:15, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Lydia Zvereva

... that Lydia Zvereva (pictured) was the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license?
... that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
... that the phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" helped Grover Cleveland win the 1884 U.S. Presidential election?
... that Prussia entered a secret armistice with Austria in October 1741, but Frederick the Great pretended to continue fighting the First Silesian War for another two months?
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?
... that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder, Op. 105, as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto?
... that a hydroelectric diversion project and a dark matter research lab have been developed deep under the Jinping Mountains in Sichuan, China?
... that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones, while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch?

1 October 2017

04:30, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Royal Nine-Tiered Umbrella over the Phuttan Kanchanasinghat Throne

... that until the coronation of the Thai monarch is completed, the ruler is considered only a regent and may not sit under the Royal Nine-Tiered Umbrella (pictured)?
... that by winning the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series sprint race, Stefano Coletti became the first Monegasque racing driver to win a motor race in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931?
... that Sayaka Harada decided to become a voice actress in anime despite not having watched many Japanese cartoons?
... that Californians have a right to access medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act?
... that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera?
... that Tibet's Moupin pika is a burrowing mammal that makes haypiles to store food?
... that Gene Rambo won the International Rodeo Association all-around championship four times?
... that 21 of the 26 Michelin 3-star restaurants in Paris serve Kaluga Queen caviar?