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3 September 2010

12:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner (pictured), Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
... that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bennie Oosterbaan included John Ghindia (1949), Lou Baldacci (1953-1954), and Jim Maddock (1954-1956)?
... that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War?
... that Jon Hess, Chris Massey and Jesse Hubbard formed the 1996, 1997 and 1998 national champion Princeton lacrosse potent offense, while Christian Cook led the defense and Josh Sims developed as a midfield scoring threat?
... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?

06:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships (battle pictured), taking two as prizes?
... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
... that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city's property tax revenue?
... that both Patrol 35, based in Israel, and Tsagaan Khass, based in Mongolia, are openly neo-Nazi organizations?
... that Michigan's starting quarterbacks under head coach Bump Elliott included Stan Noskin (1957-1959), Dave Glinka (1960-1962), and Wally Gabler (1965)?
... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
... that the Sam Mills company supplies 40% of the Romanian corn pasta market?
... that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?

00:00, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis (pictured) had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
... that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
... that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?

2 September 2010

18:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, (pictured) stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?

12:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Dora Ratjen (pictured) was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
... that the debut albums by rock bands Illinois Speed Press and Aorta, together with those by Chicago Transit Authority and The Flock, were released simultaneously in 1969 and were marketed as "the Chicago Sound"?
... that Pedro Almod�var's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
... that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
... that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?

06:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge (pictured) was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
... that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
... that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?

00:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the eastern mole (pictured) is the most widely distributed mole in North America?
... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?

1 September 2010

18:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that the Maslenica Bridge (pictured) carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
... that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
... that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?
... that Moustache, a French poodle, is said to have been awarded a medal by Marshal Jean Lannes for saving a regimental flag at the Battle of Austerlitz?

12:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden (both pictured) made their debut as the band MGMT playing the theme to the movie Ghostbusters over and over for hours?
... that Lusia Harris, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 1977 NBA Draft, was the first and only woman ever drafted in the NBA?
... that a riot ensued when a Catholic rang the bell of St. Martin's Church, Biberach during a Protestant wedding?
... that Princess Anne of L��wenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was the first woman to attempt, and to perish in, a transatlantic airplane flight?
... that the Woodlawn Preserve is one of the most biologically diverse habitats in Schenectady County, New York, due to the combination of swamp, wetlands, water bodies, and dune vegetation?
... that British Museum keeper John Thomas Smith wrote a life of the sculptor Joseph Nollekens that was noted for its "malicious candour"?
... that the winemaker of the eponymous Piemonte wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, is known as "the genius of Neive"?
... that in the early history of Baptists in Kentucky there were three church Associations and twelve churches recorded in Asplund's Register for 1785?
... that the American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Vinson co-wrote the blues standard, "Sitting on Top of the World"?

06:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that Giora Romm assumed command of Israeli Air Force 115 Squadron a day before the Yom Kippur War broke out, making his debut flight in the A-4 Skyhawk (pictured) on a combat mission?
... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?
... that Lugu Lake is the highest lake in China's Yunnan Province?
... that with an area of over 40,000 square feet (3,700 m²), etnies Skatepark is the largest free to use skatepark in California?
... that trade unionist Lt-col. David Watts Morgan CBE DSO JP was known by the miners he represented as "Dai Alphabet"?
... that death is directly mentioned in 19 of the 38 poems in Maya Angelou's first book of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie?
... that while Romanian politician Viorel Hrebenciuc was pushing to have President Traian Băsescu removed from office, his son was dating the President's daughter Elena?
... that CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano originally trained as an engineer?
... that the iron furnace at Old Furnace State Park in Connecticut produced horseshoes for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War?

00:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

... that in 1838, Henriette d'Angeville (pictured), the first woman to climb Mont Blanc on her own strength, received a calling card from a Polish nobleman on her way to the summit, at 10,000 feet?
... that even though the Dollarway Road, Arkansas' first road, is now covered by Arkansas Highway 356, a portion of the road has been preserved by the National Register of Historic Places?
... that, in 1888, Henry Porter pitched the only no-hitter in the two-season existence of the Kansas City Cowboys Major League Baseball franchise?
... that the only production of Don Quixote in a non-German speaking country was in Moscow in 1911?
... that Wilson Industrial Park in Edmonton, Alberta, is named in honour of Herbert Charles Wilson, who served as the city's mayor in the late 19th century?
... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Famer Kevin Lowe has scored overtime game-winning goals in both an NCAA Championship game and a Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup Championship game?
... that the Albion River Bridge, the only wooden bridge on California State Route 1, has been proposed for replacement by the California Department of Transportation?
... that when Luis Figo was taking a corner in a football match against FC Barcelona, the Boixos Nois threw a pig's head after him?

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