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09:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the orchid Odontoglossum crispum (pictured), first discovered in the Andes Mountains in 1841, was highly sought after in Victorian England, when varieties sold at auction for more than 150 guineas?
... that Hurricane Holly was the first Atlantic hurricane by this name, having replaced Hattie after the 1961 season?
... that Antonín Dvořák arranged his Romantic Pieces from a trio he originally wrote to play with one of his mother's tenants?
... that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, "Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
... that the Prague trade union centre Odborové sdružení českoslovanské was founded in 1897, as Czech unionists considered that the Austrian unions were neglecting them?
... that the USS Timbalier, a Barnegat class seaplane tender, served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989?
... that the first two steamboats on the Kootenay River sank when they were overloaded with supplies by the Northwest Mounted Police en route to quell an uprising?
... that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956?

03:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the core group of paintings in the Orleans Collection (a Rembrandt pictured) remained together for two centuries in Prague, Stockholm, Rome, Paris and London?
... that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common, near Sheffield, for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
... that the oak mazegill fungus Daedalea quercina has been used as a horse-comb and as a bee anesthetic?
... that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned at Sitabuldi Fort in Nagpur from April 10 to May 15 in 1923?
... that Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?
... that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms?
... that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick, most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
... that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices, people become indecisive and unhappy?

20:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman (illustration pictured) has been described as "the best poem written anywhere in the 19th century"?
... that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law, Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU?
... that Serenity High School, the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas, has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
... that the 1932 National Hunger March, the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London?
... that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar?
... that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
... that Paul McCartney's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" was that Lisa, who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
... that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?

14:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Erie Land Light (pictured) was the first lighthouse built by the United States Government on the Great Lakes?
... that Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, at a cost of US$48 million?
... that the exoperidium of the Bovista plumbea peels off at maturation in hot, dry conditions?
... that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York?
... that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist-influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja-dominated Polish government?
... that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York, in 1941?
... that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway?

08:35, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that due to the subtly non-local nature of quantum reality, apparent telepathy can be achieved in games between separated players (example pictured)?
... that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp?
... that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania, USA, is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
... that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London?
... that although Chuck Daly is a Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers he had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
... that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot?
... that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre?
... that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees?

02:30, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

... that forage fish (anchovy pictured), which feed the world's great marine predators, are now being removed from the oceans on an industrial scale and fed instead to farmed fish, pigs, and poultry?
... that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
... that after executing Caesar Gallus, officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum, and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
... that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states?
... that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
... that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
... that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
... that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair?

20:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Panamanian Night Monkey (pictured) is one of the few monogamous monkey species?
... that Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism?
... that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?
... that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan?
... that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg, founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig?
... that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS AgamemnonTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen, in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
... that John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion?

14:20, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a St. Andrew's cross (pictured) was printed in four positions in place of a stamp on each sheet of the 1850 Austrian stamps so that the price would be an even number of Gulden?
... that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
... that Byron's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Théodore Géricault?
... that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
... that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
... that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
... that Wahsatch, Utah, established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad?

08:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America (pictured) from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag?
... that the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
... that Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
... that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield, .455 Webley, .476 Eley, and .455 Colt all interchange?
... that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire, England?
... that French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War?
... that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?

02:10, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario (aftermath pictured), was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history?
... that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
... that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
... that the Fremont Canning Company, owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
... that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD, Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass?
... that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
... that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?

14:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that California hunter Seth Kinman (pictured), who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?
... that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture?
... that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York?
... that Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
... that the winning cup for the European club champion of football is now kept by the final winners?
... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS EdgarTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS AgamemnonTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances, ran aground?
... that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?

07:50, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Ueli Maurer (pictured), the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election?
... that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
... that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
... that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
... that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
... that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government?

01:45, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

19:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj , a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?

13:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Florizel von Reuter (pictured), a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
... that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia?
... that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
... that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
... that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers?

07:20, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne (pictured) gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States?
... that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean?
... that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
... that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
... that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?
... that Lucie Skeaping, a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music, has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman, historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd?
... that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted?
... that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys, a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?

01:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

... that a blue Rayon I postage stamp of 1850 (pictured) is the most expensive Swiss stamp ever sold at auction?
... that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth NOK 78 million?
... that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes?
... that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game?
... that the radiator layout of the McLaren M20 was initially intended to increase driver comfort, but also led to a more aerodynamically efficient bodywork design?
... that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale?
... that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
... that the Muncy Creek Railroad tried to save money by using wooden rails in 1875, but found they were too light to support its trains?

19:06, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
... that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth?
... that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
... that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
... that Frank Tepedino, former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks?
... that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
... that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs?
... that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas?

13:01, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley (pictured) because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him?
... that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey?
... that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
... that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?
... that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
... that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
... that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia?
... that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?

06:55, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the border between Wales and England (The River Dee pictured) has followed broadly the line of Offa's Dyke since the 8th century, but was only finally determined in law in 1972?
... that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
... that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
... that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
... that Tom Gish's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining?
... that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi)?
... that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives?
... that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?

00:30, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Hillary Rodham Clinton (pictured) may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
... that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail?
... that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
... that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
... that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
... that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?
... that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer?

18:25, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that Ilse Stanley (pictured), a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938?
... that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
... that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639?
... that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks?
... that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis?
... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?
... that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?

12:20, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that the Bar-winged Prinia (pictured) is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia?
... that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
... that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals?
... that Exchange Plaza, the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange, is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club?
... that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
... that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba?
... that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
... that in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?

06:15, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

... that during the War of the Castilian Succession, the Order of Calatrava supported Isabella (pictured) even though its Grand Master sided with Isabella's opponent, Juana?
... that, on the way to Liverpool, the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
... that Pulicat Lake, a 450 km² (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary, adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1?
... that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
... that Aaron Edlin, an expert in law and economics, co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press?
... that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
... that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 y

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