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31 December 2016

00:00, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Big Mac

... that Jim Delligatti created the Big Mac (pictured)?
... that Operation PBFORTUNE, organized by the CIA to topple Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz, was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
... that the number of ways to fold a strip of stamps is always divisible by the number of stamps in the strip?
... that A.M.O. Ghani's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
... that the president of Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was the first boy born to the settlers of Seattle?
... that in 1982, Semra Ertan set herself on fire in a Hamburg marketplace to protest about xenophobia in Germany?
... that both towns connected by the 1931 opening of the Perley Bridge declared a half-day holiday to start at noon?
... that Puaaiki, a blind preacher from Maui, was a former hula dancer for King Kamehameha II?

30 December 2016

00:00, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Tale of the Three Dead and the Three Living

... that the Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (page pictured) show the "rupture in style" that occurred in French illumination at the end of the fourteenth century?
... that on 29 November 2016, Ben Woodburn became Liverpool's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against Leeds United in the EFL Cup?
... that Iris Murdoch's first book, Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, was the first book about Jean-Paul Sartre's work to be published in English?
... that the bearded scrub robin disappeared from the Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve after tsetse deterrent was sprayed there in the 1940s, but had recolonised the area by 1975?
... that Mirjam Wiesemann made award-winning audiobooks for Cybele Records, introducing in music and conversation the composers Hartmann, Apostel, Henze, Boulez, Jacqueline Fontyn and Juan Allende-Blin?
... that the now non-existent Lake Tauca formerly covered large parts of the Altiplano of South America?
... that the Nuclear Reactor Building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle was designed with large glass windows to "proudly showcase" the reactor?

29 December 2016

00:00, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Filibus

... that Filibus (pictured), a fictional sky pirate, has been called one of the first lesbian characters in cinema?
... that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
... that 11-year-old Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in Bomba Estéreo's "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video?
... that Chris Crawford considers The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter to be among the worst video games he created?
... that Colin de Grandhomme's performance of six wickets for 41 runs is the best by any New Zealander on Test debut?
... that the refrain of "Heaven" by Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
... that when Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
... that Time magazine said The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?

28 December 2016

00:00, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Gamaliel Painter

... that graduates of Middlebury College receive a replica of a cane owned by Gamaliel Painter (pictured)?
... that perfumes made from the pungent Warionia saharae desert plant are reputed to employ its "supernatural powers" to make women more seductive?
... that Natalie Sims co-wrote the Iggy Azalea song "Work", which sold over one million copies in the US?
... that the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington, is located inside a former Safeway grocery store?
... that despite being a prolific artist of 19th-century London, Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie died of starvation in Camden Town?
... that when a Beecroft's flying squirrel brings food to its offspring, its cheeks expand to the size of a tangerine?
... that Kalanimoku caused the death of his wife Likelike and their son Lanihau with cannon fire outside their house?
... that publicists promoted the 1999 edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women by projecting a 60-foot (18 m) naked image of the TV presenter Gail Porter onto the Palace of Westminster?

27 December 2016

00:00, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Saint George and the Dragon

... that the spikes of the dragon in the sculpture Saint George and the Dragon (pictured) by Bernt Notke are made of moose antlers?
... that Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
... that cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Greco-Roman wrestling?
... that the Aravalli Mountains contain intensely deformed rocks?
... that Indian Trotskyist state legislator Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
... that the greater long-nosed armadillo is sometimes preyed on by bush dogs which enter its burrow and drag it out?
... that Hawaii's first Protestant minister James Kekela saved an American sailor from cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President Abraham Lincoln?
... that The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?

26 December 2016

00:00, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Adoration of the Kings, National Gallery

... that Adoration of the Kings (pictured) by Gerard David was variously attributed to Gossaert, Memling, "School of van Eyck", "van der Weyden the younger", and the "Flemish School"?
... that the mantou kiln, used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of steamed bread bun?
... that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
... that Reverend Richard Aslatt Pearce was the first deaf person to be ordained as an Anglican clergyman?
... that in the carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
... that the "very remarkable" monumental brass of John Rudying in St Andrew's church in Biggleswade was rediscovered when the floor was lifted?
... that the Taschenphilharmonie, called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?
... that Jackie Evancho's 2016 album Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart?

25 December 2016

00:00, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Nutcracker dolls

... that most modern nutcracker dolls (examples pictured) are not functional, but merely decorative?
... that Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, and Bach's Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
... that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of Apus are red-tinged?
... that the Tongan Soakimi Gatafahefa, the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met Pope Pius IX?
... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
... that Ami Radunskaya, a mathematician who heads the Association for Women in Mathematics, spent ten years as a cellist and music composer between high school and college?
... that the Fashion History Museum in Cambridge, Ontario houses what may be the oldest existing European shoe worn in North America?
... that in 1858 Santa Claus made his first Hawaiian appearance at Washington Place, the home of Mary Dominis?

24 December 2016

00:00, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Ceramic pillow in the form of a reclining girl, Jin dynasty

... that Cizhou ware was popular pottery not used by the Chinese Imperial court, and often made as ceramic pillows (example pictured)?
... that the Advent hymn "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the plague, and witch trials?
... that Sadhan Gupta, elected from Calcutta South East in a 1953 by-poll, was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
... that Glass Buttes is a mountain group in central Oregon named for the large deposits of obsidian found on their slopes?
... that civil engineer Ernest William Moir invented the first medical airlock?
... that young Sloggett's vlei rats have several adaptations that help them cope with severe cold in winter?
... that in 2010, the association footballer Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for Queen of the South in a friendly against his own team, Rangers?
... that HMS Tartar's Prize had oversized cannons, a leaky hull, and a smoky galley, and sank in the Mediterranean when her timbers gave way?

23 December 2016

00:00, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Saint-Chamond tank

... that the steering system on the Saint-Chamond tank (pictured) weighed five tons?
... that Michigan linebacker Mike McCray was named Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his first career start?
... that in 1967, President Hastings Banda established the Order of the Lion, Malawi's second-highest honor?
... that the Iazyges were a tribe of Sarmatians that migrated from Central Asia to the Pannonian Basin?
... that in 2005, Howard Dean was elected as Chair of the Democratic National Committee, despite both Democratic Congressional leaders endorsing Tim Roemer instead?
... that after High Priest Matua of Mangareva converted to Christianity in 1835, his long hair, sacred in the old pagan religion, was cut short?
... that the third movement of the chorale motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme contains a quotation from a Bach cantata which composer J. C. F. Bach included as a tribute to his father?
... that Bertha Bracey was a Hero of the Holocaust?

22 December 2016

00:00, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

John Timoteo Baker

... that Hawaiian brothers John Timoteo Baker (pictured) and Robert Hoapili Baker served as models for the Kamehameha Statues?
... that courtship in the silvery mole-rat includes locking incisors or gently nibbling the mate?
... that the ruling Dutch East India Company drove the Islamization of the eastern salient of Java in the 18th century?
... that Clementia Killewald, abbess of Eibingen Abbey, spoke about its founder Hildegard of Bingen at the ceremony when she was proclaimed a saint and Doctor of the Church by the pope?
... that before qualifying for Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams, agents of the United States Secret Service are required to do pull-ups while wearing a 45-pound (20 kg) weighted vest?
... that in 2015, Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km) Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
... that Marylebone Lane is a "rustic diagonal" in an area laid out on a grid plan?
... that Sir Joseph Rotblat, a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project during World War II, won the Nobel Prize for Peace?

21 December 2016

00:00, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Organ of the Berlin Cathedral

... that Martin Schmeding recorded the complete organ works by Max Reger on thirteen different organs from the composer's period, including the Sauer organ at Berlin Cathedral (pictured)?
... that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
... that lawyer and activist Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
... that you can fly model airplanes or ride model trains behind a flood control dam in Phoenix, Arizona's Deer Valley urban village?
... that the €11 million reported to have been spent by AS Monaco FC in 2012 to sign Lucas Ocampos, was the most ever for a Ligue 2 player?
... that according to a hadith by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, sadaqa removes seventy gates of evil?
... that independent candidate Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the 1962 West Bengal election?
... that White House sentries were abolished by Gerald Ford but reinstated by Ronald Reagan?

20 December 2016

00:00, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Licancabur Lake

... that the environment of Licancabur Lake (pictured) in Chile has been compared to early lakes on Mars?
... that after part of the dome of the New Jersey State House was painted blue, George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
... that one member of South Sudan's delegation to the 2016 Summer Olympics was informed by email eight days prior to the Games that he would not be competing?
... that in the 1980s, the West Bengal Fisheries Minister Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader Phizo?
... that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
... that New England expatriate Thomas Wright Everett became the last Royal Governor of Maui?
... that one critic described the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature rethinking the legacy of the World Wars?
... that Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both the song and the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?

19 December 2016

00:00, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Referee retrieving doll from ring

... that during wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coaches threw plush dolls of Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, into the ring (pictured) if they wished to challenge a referee's call?
... that Hawaiian legislator Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman Solon?
... that the Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of West Bengal?
... that artwork at Othello station in Seattle, Washington, includes African dancers, an Asian-American "totem pole", and stormwater channels?
... that Alice Bota, who writes for Die Zeit and studied in Germany and Poland, won an award for young journalists?
... that after the Mataram conquest of the Duchy of Surabaya, the son of its last duke married the sister of the conqueror, Sultan Agung?
... that in 1980, newspaper editor Willis Tucker was elected the first county executive of Snohomish County, Washington?
... that Cheshire Cheese may be found in Essex?

18 December 2016

00:00, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Malagasy white-eye

... that the Malagasy white-eye (pictured) sometimes indulges in mutual preening?
... that the British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason signed his first record deal on a bus named in his honour?
... that the Swarmjet system was a proposed short-range anti-ballistic missile that fired thousands of unguided rockets like a shotgun against incoming nuclear warheads?
... that U.S. Representative-elect Ted Budd won his first election with 20% of the vote in a 17-candidate field?
... that the idea for Through the Wilderness, a Madonna tribute album, came in a dream to Paul Beahan?
... that a plot led by Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000 SS officers, held as POWs after World War II, was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
... that the 1937 Tamil-language film Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja is based on the life of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja?
... that Becca Pizzi completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, and accepted a marriage proposal on the mound before throwing out the first pitch at Fenway Park?

17 December 2016

00:18, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Machida Hisanari

... that the first director of the Tokyo National Museum was the samurai Machida Hisanari (pictured)?
... that Kurile Lake is the site of the largest volcanic eruption of Holocene Kamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
... that pastry chef Carine Goren was the most googled person in Israel in 2015?
... that aluminium triacetate is used to treat aphthous ulcers and otitis, to relieve the itch from poison ivy, and as an astringent with Mortellaro disease in hoofed animals?
... that during her 1895 trial, Queen Liliuokalani was defended by her former attorney general and tried by a military tribunal led by another former attorney general?
... that the main hall of Shuri Castle was reused as the haiden of Okinawa Shrine before its destruction in the Battle of Okinawa?
... that Mary Barkas was the first female house physician at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London?
... that the Westboro Baptist Church called Houston's Montrose Center "an oozing, purulent sore of sodomite contagion?"

16 December 2016

00:00, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Guan bowl, 12th–13th century

... that Guan ware (pictured) is the "most frequently copied" of all Chinese pottery, despite the glaze being covered in cracks?
... that Josh White is a NASCAR driver and a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve?
... that Rudraveena (1988) was the second Telugu-language film to win the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration?
... that Rhode Island ratified the United States constitution only after being threatened with a trade embargo by the rest of the United States?
... that Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series Macken?
... that I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer Seven had invested six billion won (US$5.24 million)?
... that Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
... that when introducing actress Sharon Stone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?

15 December 2016

00:00, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Parshvanatha temple magic square

... that an inscription at the circa 10th-century Parshvanatha temple features one of the oldest known 4×4 magic squares (pictured)?
... that the labour studies scholar Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
... that Christina Aguilera self-produced a 96-second music video for "Telepathy" as a gift to her fans as the song rose to number-one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart?
... that the Cretaceous snail Condonella was described in 1927, but not placed into a snail family until 2000?
... that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel?
... that the pre-Islamic Arab chieftain Zuhayr ibn Janab destroyed a sanctuary that rivalled the Kaaba of Mecca?
... that at Bexley Hospital, the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
... that the princess Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister Maria instead?

14 December 2016

00:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Mary Chase Walker

... that schoolteacher Mary Chase Walker (pictured) was boycotted in 1866 in San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman?
... that El Progreso Department in Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
... that Hawaiian Colonel John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with a prince?
... that under certain conditions, the woodland dormouse can enter a state of torpor?
... that the focus of Harvard Environmental Law Review was changed because the original format was "too ambitious"?
... that art dealer and gallerist Robert Mnuchin, and his sons Steven and Alan, all worked for Goldman Sachs?
... that the World Health Organization says that a focus on reproductive health alone prevents progress in ensuring quality women's healthcare?
... that since it honors a notionally illegal cult, suburban Shanghai's Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?

13 December 2016

00:00, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Shah Mosque

... that in 1951, Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara was shot dead by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of Fada'iyan-e Islam, while attending a memorial service at Tehran's Shah Mosque (pictured)?
... that Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General Antone Rosa and Interior Minister John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
... that Solange Knowles performed a live cover of Nivea's song "Laundromat" in an actual laundromat?
... that Michael Lane, who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's most trusted assistants?
... that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey's throat resembles a snowball?
... that Dave Somers, the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington, was educated as a fisheries biologist?
... that there was no marker for the grave of theologian Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
... that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads?

12 December 2016

00:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Queen Liliuokalani with her dog Poni

... that after Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii died in 1917, her pet dog Poni (pictured) was given to her confidante and final lady-in-waiting Lahilahi Webb?
... that Brigham Young University has a digitized collection of Mormon missionary diaries that includes the work of 115 diarists and 376 written volumes?
... that Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo was the first announcer to appear on Mexican television?
... that low-level Schedule C political appointees in the United States sometimes attempt to "burrow in" by transferring to permanent merit-based positions?
... that Baxter Langley, who stood for the UK Parliament alongside William Gladstone, was later sentenced to hard labour?
... that despite charting at only 96, "To Build a Home" by The Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed more than 60 million times and featured in several TV shows?
... that expulsion from the Senate did not prevent Gaius Antonius Hybrida from attaining the highest elected office in the Roman Republic?
... that the Pu Songling short story "Stealing Peaches" describes the Indian rope trick?

11 December 2016

00:00, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Kambalny volcano

... that a landslide on Kambalny (pictured) during the Holocene caused debris to travel for 20 kilometres (12 mi)?
... that Brett Smitheram won the 2016 World Scrabble Championship?
... that the 72nd, 86th, and 96th Street stations along the Second Avenue Subway are part of the New York City Subway's first major expansion in over half a century?
... that when he was growing up, U.S. Representative-elect Raja Krishnamoorthi lived in public housing and received food stamps?
... that destruction of ancient Assyrian sculpture by ISIL is reported to have increased in late 2016 with the Mosul offensive?
... that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at Notre Dame, Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the FBI Academy?
... that the mixed choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke, founded 70 years ago for sacred music, was a partner of the WDR from 1957, and performed in Israel and with Ian Anderson?
... that West Bengal Jails Minister Jiban Ratan Dhar had been jailed three times himself?

10 December 2016

00:00, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Uncape parrots

... that almost all the Cape parrots in captivity are actually uncape parrots (pictured)?
... that the British-Hawaiian politician Ferdinand William Hutchison was influential in the development of the leper colony of Kalaupapa, to which his son Ambrose K. Hutchison was exiled in 1879?
... that in the stratified social system of the African Zarma people, the lowest stratum inherited slavery?
... that Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath explores "shocking stories of abuse, heartbreak and harassment" of former members of the Church of Scientology?
... that Sam Manekshaw was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal?
... that Neues Geistliches Lied, a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
... that the third wife of Bohemond III of Antioch was described as a witch by William of Tyre, and as a whore by Michael the Syrian?
... that after decades of prohibition, hemp in Kentucky is a legal crop?

9 December 2016

00:00, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Chenghua dish

... that the doucai style (example pictured) in Chinese porcelain uses colours both over and under the glaze?
... that Merian C. Cooper, director of King Kong, destroyed nearly all 5,000 copies of his autobiography Things Men Die For?
... that the components of the TV Corvi system orbit each other every 90 minutes?
... that Wilhelm von Debschitz founded an art school in Munich which provided a model for the Bauhaus?
... that Pharrell Williams wrote the song "Sexify" based on headlines from the women's fashion magazine Cosmopolitan?
... that journalist Shafiqa Habibi was one of only three women candidates in the 2004 Afghan presidential election?
... that the reliquary of the 11th-century Buddhist monk Miaoyuan was rediscovered in the 1970s during repairs to Songjiang's Square Pagoda?
... that Raphael Demos taught Martin Luther King Jr. the philosophy of Plato and gave him an A for his work?

8 December 2016

00:00, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Cielo Latini

... that the 2006 Argentine book Abzurdah by Cielo Latini (pictured) details the author's youthful struggle with anorexia?
... that XGRS was a Nazi-operated radio station in Shanghai during World War II?
... that despite his subjects' reluctance to accept him as king, Philip III of Navarre proved to be an effective and successful ruler?
... that the European Commission ruled the Republic of Ireland's tax benefits to Apple were an illegal form of state aid, and the company would have to pay €13 billion in back tax as a result?
... that Helen Boyle was the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association?
... that the multiplayer fan project developed for Just Cause 2 was recognized by Avalanche Studios as the game's official downloadable content?
... that an ace member of the Eagle Squadrons, Richard L. Alexander, was one of the first pilots of the P-47 Thunderbolt?
... that the male tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?

7 December 2016

00:00, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Performance of e-baby

... that Jane Caferella's play e-baby (Ensemble Theatre performance pictured) was called "a very rare theatrical beast", as it explores the visceral experience of two women joined by gestational surrogacy?
... that Thomas of Tolentino was martyred for insulting Muhammad during a medieval domestic violence case in India?
... that the criollista novel Carazamba may be seen as an allegory of the incorporation of the remote Petén Department into the Guatemalan nation?
... that U.S. Representative-elect Stephanie Murphy and her family left Vietnam when she was six months old, and were rescued by the U.S. Navy?
... that Guinea-Bissau's participation at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the country's first at a Paralympic Games?
... that the philosopher Gary Varner has argued that all beings, including plants, have morally considerable interests?
... that the future Roosevelt station in Seattle plans to incorporate a preserved Streamline Moderne facade from a music shop that was demolished for its construction?
... that the hairy-breasted barbet has been observed to remove wings and legs from insects by bashing them on branches?

6 December 2016

00:00, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Tarzan of the Apes poster

... that the Beti people were misrepresented in the Tarzan books and films (poster pictured)?
... that Harvard philosopher Ralph Monroe Eaton wrote an unpublished memoir of his experiences during the First World War?
... that "Zhang Hongjian", a short story by Chinese writer Pu Songling, was adapted into two plays?
... that the fossil ant genus Agastomyrma was described from a single queen?
... that Hannah Dadds was the first female train driver on the London Underground?
... that during their conquest of Surabaya, Mataram forces dammed the Brantas River to limit water supply to the city of Surabaya?
... that Malian taekwondo practitioner Ismaël Coulibaly won a gold medal at the 2015 African Games?
... that George Washington's campaign distributed 160 US gallons (610 L) of alcoholic drink to voters on polling day at the 1758 Virginia House of Burgesses election?

5 December 2016

00:00, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Cross-dressing woman playing polo

... that 7th- and 8th-century Chinese pottery Tang dynasty tomb figures include cross-dressing women playing polo (example pictured)?
... that Michael Stevens, creator and host of Vsauce, uploaded his first YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
... that Sound Transit 3 will nearly double the amount of light rail in the Seattle region to 112 miles (180 km) of track?
... that males of the fossil ant Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
... that the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, held in Edinburgh, lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
... that Tamar Halperin recorded music by Erik Satie, playing piano, harpsichord, Hammond organ, and Wurlitzer piano?
... that Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman?
... that fictional journalist Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more 2016 presidential primaries than Nate Silver's statistics blog FiveThirtyEight?

4 December 2016

00:10, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Venice in London programme

... that caterer Sir Joseph Lyons staged Venice in London (programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
... that 45-pound (20 kg) weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
... that President Lyndon B. Johnson credited Agnes E. Meyer with having the most influence over his education policy?
... that in 2003, PSLV-C5 deployed the IRS-P6 satellite, then the heaviest and most sophisticated remote sensing satellite built by the Indian Space Research Organisation?
... that Beatriz de la Cueva, the first female colonial governor in the New World, died in a September 11 disaster two days after taking office?
... that the New York State Insurance Fund once mistakenly categorized puppet making under rubber manufacturing instead of theatrical production?
... that King Henry IV's invasion of Scotland in 1400 has been described as "utterly futile"?
... that the 1000-year-old Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle ended up in Poland after being saved from a watery grave?

3 December 2016

00:00, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Acanthinodera cumingii

... that the larva of the beetle Acanthinodera cumingii (adult pictured) can reach 13 centimetres (5 in) in length?
... that the Washington state 1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include televised debates?
... that Wes McCauley has refereed the Stanley Cup Finals for the last four years?
... that 10 of the military officers involved in the 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt were executed in what became known as the Albrook massacre?
... that the positions of nonzero digits in two reciprocal irrational numbers, 1/3.30033000000000033... = 0.30300000303..., are given by the Moser–de Bruijn sequence and its double?
... that Clarence Ditlow was recommended for a consumer advocacy job because he was a wrestler?
... that Operation Game Warden sought to interdict Viet Cong use of the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War and in so doing, patrolled over 3,800 miles (6,100 km) of natural and man-made waterways?
... that to the speakers of the Ngan’gityemerri language, the flowering of the red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?

2 December 2016

00:00, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Kalākaua is received by President Ulysses S. Grant

... that King Kalākaua of Hawaii was the first foreign leader to head a state visit to the United States (reception pictured)?
... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS?
... that the joystick shipped with the Atari 2600 was described as "the pinnacle of home entertainment controllers in its day"?
... that eleven publishers vied for the rights to Jessie Burton's debut novel The Miniaturist?
... that Don Martina, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, successfully campaigned for a slave leader to become a national hero?
... that the eggs of Oberländer's ground thrush have yet to be described?
... that the elected council of the Free City of Danzig Government in Exile was supposedly recognised in secret as the legal successor to the Danzig Senate by Danzig expatriates in 1951 and 1961?
... that the first known specimen of the dinosaur Tongtianlong limosus, which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?

1 December 2016

00:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Soap-bubble chandelier

... that in La Science Amusante, Arthur Good constructed imaginative scientific apparatus such as the "soap-bubble chandelier" (illustrated) using common items like bottles, candles, and soap?
... that the Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz was the first Pakistani party to use the term "Muhajir" in a political context?
... that according to popular legend, Edward William Purvis gave his nickname, meaning "jumping flea", to the ukulele?
... that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct?
... that Muzoon Almellehan has been called the "Malala of Syria" for her work to keep girls in school?
... that the funeral of the author Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford?
... that in 1880, Stephen P. Moss and Charles A. Cogswell founded the Lake County Examiner to advocate their Democratic political views in southern Oregon?
... that although Egypt boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics, it still sent three athletes to the Games?