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31 May 2017
00:45, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Wynee
... that Wynee(pictured) was the first Native Hawaiian to travel outside the islands on a foreign vessel?
... that the Pediatric Symptom Checklist identifies children with problems in psychosocial functioning by measuring inner distress and mood, behavior, and attention?
... that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy?
... that the borders negotiated after the Song-Lý War largely remain as the current boundaries between China and Vietnam?
... that parts of southern New Mexico and Chihuahua were covered by the former Lake Palomas, the remnants of which existed as recently as 500 years ago?
... that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948?
... that Sallekhana is a religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death?
... that during the 1678 Kediri campaign, the VOC–Mataram army purposely split itself and took a longer route to Kediri, in order to impress more people?
... that the prosecution of Theoris of Lemnos is the most detailed account of a witch trial to survive from Classical Greece?
... that the diet of the white woodpecker includes wasps and bees, their larvae and honey?
... that during the March 1605 papal conclave, a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected?
... that the Custer Wolf, a North American gray wolf referred to as the "master criminal of the animal world", killed livestock worth almost $300,000 in today's money?
... that The Duals' "Stick Shift" was the first hot rod song to chart nationally in the United States?
... that Narendra Kumar is the co-developer of the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation, a theory on multi-channel conductivity using the principle of maximum entropy?
... that it takes Barn the Spoon(pictured) between twenty minutes and two hours to carve a spoon out of green wood?
... that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong, and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure?
... that Rosalie Keliʻinoi, the first female legislator in the Territory of Hawaii, passed a bill which gave married women the right to sell their property without their husbands' permission?
... that the Grand Canyon's Thunder River is the steepest in the United States?
... that Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli played the titular character in Carmen in 1907 with "the allurement of sheer wickedness", and was accidentally stabbed on stage?
24 May 2017
00:00, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Corrour Bothy
... that visitors can stay overnight free of charge in any of over ninety bothies(Corrour Bothy pictured), but must bring their own fuel in order to watch "bothy TV"?
... that the Twin Bing has been described as "two brown lumps, about the size of golf balls, roughly textured, and stuck to one another like Siamese twins"?
22 May 2017
00:00, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
Pregnancy portrait
... that there was a fashion in England for pregnancy portraits(example pictured) in the decades around 1600?
... that Katy Perry first teased the release of her song "Bon Appétit" with a cherry pie recipe?
... that in 1970, Austrian Post issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring the composer and bass singer Thomas Koschat?
... that in 1959, an Alabama state senator said a children's book about two fuzzy rabbits, The Rabbits' Wedding, was "propaganda for integration and intermarriage" and tried to get the book banned?
... that Electrada Corporation, a 1960s-era conglomerate, ran into difficulties after its management reportedly spent more time on acquisitions and financial markets than on actually running the business?
... that the McLoughlin Promenade(pictured) sits on a bluff in Oregon that was occupied by the Molala people thousands of years before the arrival of settlers of European ancestry?
... that Max Thurn, who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
... that the McLoughlin Promenade(pictured) sits on a bluff in Oregon that was occupied by the Molala people thousands of years before the arrival of settlers of European ancestry?
... that Max Thurn, who founded the NDR Chor in 1946, conducted a series of Bach cantatas and prepared the choir for a live recording of Isang Yun's Om mani padme hum in 1964?
... that Arlington, Texas, was the largest city in the United States without public transportation until it launched the Metro Arlington Xpress in 2013?
... that classically trained pianist Jon Schmidt augments his live performances by playing the piano with his toes and performing while upside-down?
15 May 2017
03:36, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Cornell Pulpwood Stacker
... that a steep catwalk leads to the top of the 175-foot (53 m) high Cornell Pulpwood Stacker(pictured)?
... that the Rugrats episode "Mother's Day" addressed the absence of Chuckie Finster's mother by revealing that she had died of a terminal illness?
... that the Train Track Park, containing 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of walking and biking trails, was built over the century-old route of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway?
... that the Dark Hedges tree tunnel, a popular tourist destination since it was used as the King's Road in Game of Thrones, might not last twenty years?
11 May 2017
04:36, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Flag of Weihaiwei
... that the flag of Weihaiwei(pictured) was redesigned to include Mandarin ducks, as it was felt inappropriate to have a Chinese imperial dragon on a British flag?
... that Anne Penfold Street, one of Australia's leading mathematicians, earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before switching to mathematics?
... that the Guatemalan labor organization Committee for Peasant Unity once led a strike that forced a minimum wage increase of nearly 200%?
... that French singer-songwriter Indila, who has described herself as a "child of the world", is of Algerian, Cambodian, Egyptian, and Indian descent?
... that mathematician Donald G. Saari advocates deciding elections by the Borda count instead of plurality voting, because it leads less often to paradoxical outcomes?
... that the Whitehorse Trail uses a railroad that was abandoned after major floods in 1990?
... that due to the English North-South divide, Craig, a character in "The Bill", is unfamiliar with diddlums, piss-mints, and bluecocks?
9 May 2017
05:06, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Hotpants
... that hotpants(example pictured) were originally short shorts made from materials such as velvet, silk, and fur?
... that in 1950, Hans Grischkat compiled and conducted a concert Vom Reiche Gottes from single Bach cantata movements to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer's death?
... that Frederick Wiseman intended his 1969 documentary Law and Order as "a chance to do in the pigs", but as he made the film he came to understand the "fear that cops live with"?
... that the population of the endangered sea snakeAipysurus fuscus is thought to have declined by at least 70% between 1998 and 2013?
... that African-American mathematics professor Thyrsa Frazier Svager and her physics professor husband Aleksandar Svager lived on one salary to build a scholarship fund?
... that the leafhopper species Eurymela distincta(pictured) is often accompanied by ants that eat its sugary excrement?
... that the Dutch admiral Cornelis Speelman called the Javanese Muslim nobleman Raden Kajoran a "prophet of the devil"?
... that The Formation World TourbyBeyoncé featured a 60-foot (18 m) tall rotating LED cube as the stage's focal point, nicknamed the "Monolith" by designers?
... that James Niehues, who paints ski resort trail maps, has been called "the Michelangelo of snow" and "Monet of the mountain"?
... that part of the Kansas highway K-99 honors the war dead of Frankfort, which lost more men per capita in World War II than any other community in the United States?
... that substitution of a hazardous chemical can backfire if it turns out to be a "regrettable substitution" that unwittingly introduces a new hazard?
... that Mia Borders has an arm tattoo of a saying which means "Better to die standing than to live on your knees"?
... that Indonesian political prisoner Pramoedya Ananta Toer researched his historical novel Footsteps from memory and composed it through oral narration to his fellow inmates?
1 May 2017
01:25, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Aphaenogaster dlusskyana
... that the Aphaenogaster dlusskyana ant fossil (pictured) was collected in 1972 and described in 2016?
... that Myrtle Florence Broome and the Canadian epigrapher Amice Calverley traveled together throughout Egypt taking trains and often driving across the desert in a Jowett car they named Joey?
