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23:35, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson (pictured) transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
... that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
... that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan?
... that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals?
... that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
... that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone?
... that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy?

17:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River (pictured), intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
... that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
... that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
... that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
... that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
... that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
... that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a branch line?
... that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?

11:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Manitowoc, Wisconsin, held a "Sputnikfest" in 2008 to celebrate a piece of the Soviet Sputnik 4 spacecraft that crashed near the Rahr West Art Museum (pictured) in 1962?
... that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
... that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
... that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
... that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax?
... that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
... that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
... that John Daly, a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?

05:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

... that in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
... that in Norse mythology, Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr, a fire jötunn?
... that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
... that the soil-dwelling nematode-killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
... that "Still Alive", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge, was written by Rami Yacoub, who has also written material for Britney Spears?
... that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson, only certain wines can improve significantly with age, and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
... that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle, a concept used in chemical catalysis, is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
... that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City?

23:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
... that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
... that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
... that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland?
... that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick, political activist Emma Goldman, and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
... that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe?
... that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?

17:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that George J. Seabury with Robert Wood Johnson I developed a medicated adhesive plaster (pictured) with a rubber base as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid?
... that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
... that Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition," has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
... that Terence Mitford, who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War?
... that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
... that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?

11:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
... that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?
... that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
... that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings, ending their 84 game winning streak?
... that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
... that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
... that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?

05:00, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Symphony in C by Georges Bizet (pictured) was a completely unknown piece until it was discovered at the Paris Conservatory library in 1933, nearly 60 years after Bizet's death?
... that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
... that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
... that Frank Filchock, Jack Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, John Ralston, and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos?
... that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
... that Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
... that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear?

22:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem (pictured) was awarded the prestigious Collier trophy in 2001?
... that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
... that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist?
... that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan?
... that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
... that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse?
... that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?

16:50, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
... that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
... that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
... that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War?
... that wine writer Malcolm Gluck has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
... that Eduard August von Regel, a 19th-century German botanist, named and described over 3,000 new plant species?

10:45, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Li Yong (pictured with Guido Mantega) was the first and second secretary to the United Nations Mission from China?
... that the day after his birthday, General Archibald Gracie III was looking out at the Union lines through his telescope when an artillery shell exploded in front of him killing him instantly?
... that Sir Philip Cohen has written over 470 peer-reviewed papers, and was the third most cited academic in the UK during the 1990s?
... that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness?
... that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin?
... that Zeno Vendler's model of lexical aspect, first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
... that physician William Beierwaltes, a pioneer in nuclear medicine, was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes?
... that John Trudeau established the Britt Festival in Oregon in 1962, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., and now a four-month long celebration of music and musical theater?

04:40, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta (pictured), commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway?
... that the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m² (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?
... that Michael Higgins prepared himself for a career in the theater by working to rid himself of his Brooklyn accent as a teenager?
... that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia?
... that Caterpillar Inc. employs 4,000 Central Illinois workers at its Peoria headquarters?
... that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
... that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra?
... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?

22:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the top of the 51-storey Central Park tower (pictured) in Perth, Western Australia sways about 30 cm (12 in) in the wind?
... that French opera singer Gustave Huberdeau performed roles ranging from lead roles to character roles to mute roles?
... that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide?
... that the intricate rococo decoration of the Grand Church of the Winter Palace was recreated in papier-mâché after a fire destroyed most of the original interiors of the Winter Palace in 1837?
... that the proposed Bigeye bomb was designed to spray VX nerve agent over a target area by gliding through the air over it?
... that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean?
... that the first journal articles written by the entomologist Robert Perkins were published when he was a classics student with no scientific education?
... that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar?

16:30, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Henry Pitkin and his brother produced the first American-designed pocket watches (pictured) with machine-made parts?
... that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta?
... that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond, which is a fjord in Canada?
... that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
... that the members of Montreal-based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
... that protests by Rev. Abraham Woods about the 1990 PGA Championship at the Shoal Creek country club led the club to admit its first black member?
... that "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born?
... that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris?

10:25, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Richard Maack (pictured) was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East?
... that Taishō Baseball Girls is a light novel series about an all-girl baseball team set in Taishō era Japan?
... that Thirumangai Alvar, considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism, was a robber before becoming a saint?
... that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?
... that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16, which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I, was the only boat of the U-10-class to sink during the war?
... that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9, 1968?
... that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials?
... that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season, fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network, hoping to persuade it to renew the series?

04:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the final section of the La Nouvelle branch (pictured), a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi?
... that following In re Bilski, a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
... that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
... that the Mucking excavation, one of the largest archaeological digs of its time in Europe, uncovered artifacts spanning a period of some 3,000 years?
... that overseas revenues rose tenfold during the decade that Richard Rompala helped to lead the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar?
... that "Hindu Taliban" is a pejorative term used by some tolerant or "secular" Hindus to describe the supporters of the Hindutva movement?
... that Juniper Networks has updated its JUNOS software every 90 days since its creation in 1998?
... that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang?

22:15, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Psilocybe montana (pictured), the type species of the well-known genus of hallucinogenic mushrooms, does not contain any psychedelic compounds?
... that one poetic focus in William Wordsworth's early life, especially in the "Lucy" poems, the "Matthew" poems, We are Seven, and Lucy Gray, is man's relationship with death and nature?
... that Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II?
... that Vânia Fernandes, who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, was Portugal's first entrant to qualify for the Contest's final from its semi-final round?
... that the President of Colombia's administrative department has an annual budget of over COL$16 billion?
.. that after a federal jury in Portland, Oregon decided against the defendant in Byron v. Rajneesh Foundation International, an inner circle of Rajneesh followers plotted to murder the plaintiff?
... that Japanese admiral Ogasawara Naganari, close confidant and biographer of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro, was tutor to Emperor Hirohito on naval matters?
... that, due to his support of Kentucky's efforts to secede from the Union, Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?

16:10, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that a large earthquake monitoring network was established in China's Yunnan Province 25 years after the 1970 Tonghai earthquake (location pictured)?
... that SOE officer Joachim Rønneberg was a leader of the Norwegian team attempting to sabotage the German nuclear energy project during WWII?
... that legend has it that Nainital Lake in Uttarakhand, India, was created when three pilgrims dug a hole which filled from the sacred Tibetan Lake Manasarovar?
... that the growth of Astragalus brauntonii, a species of milkvetch, is spurred by fire?
... that Beninese political figure Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin remained under house arrest from 1972 to 1981 after being overthrown in a coup d'état?
... that St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York, was originally built as a replica of a Church in New Haven, Connecticut?
... that Norwegian Constituent Assembly member Nicolai Wergeland was father of feminist writer Camilla Collett and poet Henrik Wergeland?
... that, when amateur club TSV Vestenbergsgreuth beat German champions FC Bayern Munich 1–0 in the 1994-95 DFB Cup, a memorial stone was later erected to commemorate the event?

10:05, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Royal Coachman (pictured), first made in 1878, may be the world's best-known fly?
... that Ranulf le Meschin ruled Cumberland before becoming Earl of Chester in 1120?
... that Rheinmetall's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators?
... that Izzat Darwaza, the Arab nationalist leader of al-Fatat, was a principal organizer of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine?
... that the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on the anniversary of the day that the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Marines?
... that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion's album Chill'em All, and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville?
... that the football rivalry between ASV Herzogenaurach and FC Herzogenaurach can be traced back to the rivalry between the clubs' sponsors, Adidas and Puma?
... that Mike Tompkins, the Natural Law Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. elections, is a direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams?

04:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Montigny mitrailleuse (pictured), an 1860s mobile volley gun, was very heavy at 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
... that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, for the right not to remarry?
... that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist?
... that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel?
... that Andreas Lauritz Thune, who took over the manufacturing company Thune at the age of 23, was among the founders of the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in 1889?
... that Jack Bruce's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream?
... that Joe Wendryhoski, an inaugural member of the New Orleans Saints, played every offensive snap as the starting center for the team's first two seasons?

21:55, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that plant collector Charles Curtis, who first introduced the Nepenthes northiana (pictured) variety of pitcher plant to England, went on to become the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens?
... that the successful escape from the multi-ship mutiny at the Nore by Royal Navy Captain Charles Cunningham in 1797 led to that mutiny's failure?
... that in 1969, Toyota Motor Corporation imported McLaren M12s and installed their own V8 engines in a bid to better compete against Nissan in Japanese Group 7 races?
... that Amy Peterson competed in the first five Olympics in which short track speed skating was a sport?
... that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as "Winston Churchill's Toyshop"?
... that because Fred Perrett switched from rugby union to rugby league he was often left out of lists of Wales players who died in action during World War I?
... that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria?
... that on July 8, 1942, pitcher Doyle Lade threw a no-hitter and won the game 1–0, with his solo home run providing the only run support for his team?

15:50, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the insectivorous plant Heliamphora nutans (pictured) was re-discovered in British Guiana in 1881 and successfully introduced to England by David Burke?
... that Charles Taylor was the first of thirteen Welsh international rugby players to die in action during World War I?
... that Almoloya del Río, a Mexican small town with the population of 7,992, hosts an international biker rally every year?
... that Hurricane Lisa of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season attained forward motion of over 58 mph (93 km/h) on October 9?
... that The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers has been in charge of publishing Finland's ethical guidelines on engineering for over 40 years?
... that the first submarine boat and self-propelled torpedo, and the engines for the ironclad warship USS Monitor were all built at the foundry operated by Cornelius DeLameter?
... that the Ropar Wetland, in addition to being home to several endangered and threatened species, was the site of the signing of an 1831 treaty between the English and the Sikhs?
... that Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Massachusetts features over 7 miles (11 km) of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?

09:45, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that despite having only 28 men to his opponent's 92, William Rogers (pictured) not only defended his ship from a privateer, but boarded and captured her with just five men?
... that Grace Church is one of few remaining structures from the once-thriving town of Ca Ira, Virginia?
... that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists?
... that in 2007 the Kenyon Athletic Center was surrounded by Knox County residents to "form a shield of protection" in preparation for a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association event?
... that the Commission on Social Welfare, from 1983 to 1986, reviewed social welfare in Ireland?
... that former American Medical Association president Ronald Davis played a major role in the AMA's 2008 apology to black doctors for the organization's history of racial discrimination?
... that at 440 meters (1,444 ft), Della Falls in British Columbia is the tallest waterfall in Canada and 16th-tallest in the world?
... that Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?

03:40, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

... that eight Kaba class destroyers (destroyer pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy were based in Malta in World War I?
... that Tarab Abdul Hadi co-founded the first Palestinian women's organization in 1929?
... that arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators on high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover?
... that the Stella Artois television advertisement Good Doctor won more awards than any other television campaign in 2002?
... that relief pitcher Doug Nickle was assigned to seven different clubs over the course of his six-year major league baseball career?
... that with his appointment to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to hold a U.S. Cabinet Secretaryship?
... that Finnish-born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
... that Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?

21:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Bernard Courtois was the discoverer of iodine (crystal structure shown)?
... that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, a gold ornament discovered at Cwmystwyth, is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales?
... that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi?
... that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?
... that before becoming a full-time professional footballer at the age of 21, Mike Bickle worked as a milkman?
... that the Lebanese Navy SEALs undergo heavy military training, which spans three months and sometimes reaches 20 hours per day?
... that U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appointed James R. Tanner Commissioner of the Pension Bureau in 1889, but had to remove him six months later because he vastly exceeded his office's budget?

15:30, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the force-feeding (pictured) of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage?
... that men from the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment were the first explorers to climb down the 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to reach the shore of Crater Lake?
... that Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul, Korea?
... that athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959, 1963 and 1971?
... that the Australian band Spy vs Spy had to change its name to avoid legal action from the publishers of Mad magazine?
... that of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin-containing M55 rockets?
... that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology?
... that the first same-sex kiss on an American soap opera was between fictional characters Lena Kundera and Bianca Montgomery in 2003, who were also American soap opera's first lesbian couple?

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