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10 March 2016

12:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Main building of Albany International

... that the ponds in the former headquarters of Albany International (main building pictured) were originally built as reservoirs for firefighting?
... that Ayers Rock were the first Mushroom Records artists to sign with an international label, enabling their tour of US stadiums and recording an album in Los Angeles?
... that Janet McNeill, a prolific Irish writer of adult and children's fiction, peopled her adult novels with "menopausal, middle-aged, middle-class Protestants"?
... that the Canadian Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation has been awarded to seven military units, including one in the U.S. Army?
... that World War II Stuka pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel helped protect the identity of former SS-doctor Josef Mengele?
... that Delores Ziegler, who teaches voice at the University of Maryland, appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte for her debut at La Scala, and in the film by Ponnelle and Harnoncourt?
... that the Panama lightfish and the slender lightfish make large vertical migrations each day?

00:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Eivind Astrup

... that Eivind Astrup (pictured) helped introduce the combination of dog sleds and skis on polar expeditions?
... that the Landing at Scarlet Beach on 22 September 1943 was the first time Australian forces had made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
... that Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia, a collaborative cantata by Mozart and Salieri, was lost but found in a music museum in Prague in 2015?
... that Huang An's 1993 album, New Dream of Butterfly Lovers, sold one million copies in Taiwan and six million worldwide, making it one of the country's best-selling albums?
... that the tower attached to All Saints Church in Huntsham, Devon dates to the 14th century, but the rest of the church was completely rebuilt by Benjamin Ferrey in 1854–56?
... that Shahid Afridi's 45-ball century at the Green Park Stadium in 2005 is the fastest by a batsman in One Day Internationals in India?
... that Ghazir was the headquarters of the Assaf dynasty, which at its peak administered the region between Beirut and Homs on behalf of the Ottoman authorities?
... that many fonts named Garamond, such as that included with Microsoft Office, are actually based on work by Jean Jannon more than 50 years after Claude Garamond's death?

9 March 2016

12:00, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Testaroli with pesto

... that testaroli pasta (pictured) dates back to ancient history, originating from the Etruscan civilization of Italy?
... that women's rights advocate Patricia E. Ryan thought she would head the Maine Human Rights Commission for five years, but ended up serving for over three decades?
... that Parsonsia straminea was initially named to honour mathematician and botanist Israel Lyons?
...that Fox is presenting a U.S. adaptation of the Dutch television special The Passion in New Orleans?
... that the medieval era text Subala Upanishad influenced the development of the qualified monism school of Hindu philosophy called Vishishtadvaita?
... that the Mamluk emir Qawsun had Sultan al-Mansur Abu Bakr deposed, executed and replaced by the latter's five-year-old half-brother al-Ashraf Kujuk?
... that Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment was founded by Billy Graham's grandson to help evangelical groups prevent and deal with sexual abuse in their midst?
... that in September 2003, the Zoological Society of London released crickets of the endangered species Gryllus campestris into the wild at the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground?

00:00, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Ruth M. Gardiner

... that the first US Army hospital named for a woman or nurse was named after US Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Ruth M. Gardiner (pictured)?
... that a Bogotan Civil Order of Merit María Currea de Aya is given annually on International Women's Day in honor of the first female president of the Bogotá City Council?
... that Doris Sands Johnson, who wrote a how-to book for voting, lost her initial attempt to run for office but later became the premier woman President of the Bahamian Senate?
... that Woman, Demon, Human, directed by Huang Shuqin, is considered to be China's first feminist film?
... that Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas?
... that Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida became known as Angola's "Mother of the Revolution"?
... that Edith Houghton Hooker claimed that women's suffrage would improve water quality and reduce disease?
... that Sonia M. Johnny, the first woman ambassador to the United States from Saint Lucia, has also represented CARICOM nations' interests in a trade dispute over bananas?

8 March 2016

12:00, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

He Xiangning in 1909

... that He Xiangning (pictured), a feminist and revolutionary who refused to have her feet bound, organized China's first International Women's Day rally 92 years ago today?
... that the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum features Zaharias's three 1932 Summer Olympics medals and a set of her golf clubs?
... that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia?
... that Christiane Floyd was the first female professor of computer science in Germany?
... that Afro-Dominican lesbian feminist scholar Ochy Curiel was a featured musician at the 2004 Teddy Awards in Berlin?
.. that Edith Ellen Greenwood was the first woman and first nurse to receive the Soldier's Medal after she rescued 15 patients from a burning hospital ward?
... that Afro-Curaçaoan writer and educator Joceline Clemencia advocated for Papiamento to become an official language of Curaçao?
... that President Eisenhower praised Mary F. Hoyt, the first woman appointed to the US federal civil service in 1883, as a leader for the hundreds of thousands of women who followed her?

00:00, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Skyway Monte Bianco

...that a golden ice axe was presented to Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, when he officially opened the Skyway Monte Bianco (pictured), a new cable car system in the Alps?
... that the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes by Grace Williams was the first work by a Welsh female composer to be recorded?
... that the Verkeerder Kill in Shawangunk, New York is locally known as Kaidy Kill?
... that during World War II, Office of Strategic Services agent I. S. Dorfman maintained liaisons with exiled socialist leaders of the Stockholm-based "Little Internationale" such as Willy Brandt, Bruno Kreisky, and Ernst Paul?
... that the Daily Mail described The Getaway Car as "the worst TV spin-off since Joey Tribbiani got his own series"?
... that the text Pancabrahma Upanishad, composed before 7th-century CE, discusses the symbolism behind the many faces of the Hindu god Shiva?
... that Lt. Col. Udney Hay, although highly recommended by Gen. George Washington, was not appointed Quartermaster General by the Congress?
... that species of the extinct insect family Kalligrammatidae have sometimes been called "butterflies of the Jurassic"?

7 March 2016

12:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Orissa Ikat from Sambalpur

... that the process of creating Orissa Ikat (pictured), a unique silk art in which the warp and weft threads are tie-dyed before weaving, has been termed "poetry on the loom"?
... that Cibolo Creek Ranch, where Antonin Scalia died, was a shooting location for the films The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, There Will Be Blood, and No Country for Old Men?
... that the Tripura Upanishad is a Hindu text notable as a complete introduction to the Shakta Tantra tradition?
... that the Rochdale Cenotaph was one of the most ambitious of Sir Edwin Lutyens' war memorials to come to fruition?
... that Howard Shane and his team developed the Visual Immersion System to assist people with autism in their efforts to communicate?
... that the Rama tapaniya Upanishad states that the Hindu god Rama is the same as the Atman (soul) and Brahman (ultimate reality)?
... that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach, commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of Warrington, Cheshire?
... that Thomas White taxied his aircraft some 24 kilometres (15 mi) past enemy encampments in Mesopotamia during World War I, in what was later described as a "Keystone Cops adventure"?

00:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... that Margaret Forster's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) rewrites the myth of the invalid poet guarded by an ogre-like father?
... that four men involved in the 1877 Louisville Grays scandal were banned from professional baseball for life?
... that Jewish lecturer Joseph Yasser was interested in Chinese organs?
... that the Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was originally designed as a cenotaph but was changed to an obelisk?
... that the first Hispanic woman principal in the Denver Public Schools system was also the first Latina to have a Denver public school named in her honor?
... that Hyrtl's catfish has been found in waters as warm as 38 °C (100 °F)?
... that as a child, transplant physician Fritz Bach escaped Nazi Germany in the Kindertransport?
... that after the highwayman Jerry Abershawe was hanged, his body was gibbeted outside The Green Man in London?

6 March 2016

12:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Whoopie pie

... that while Maine nutrition educator Katherine O. Musgrave criticized the Fit for Life diet plan, she praised the nutritional benefits of the whoopie pie (pictured), Maine's official state treat?
... that Royal Lao Government casualties outnumbered the People's Army of Vietnam defenders in Operation Sayasila?
... that Ali Brownlee covered over 1,000 Middlesbrough Football Club matches for BBC Tees and Century FM?
... that Toda Embroidery, made exclusively by women of the Toda pastoral community in the Nilgiri mountains, appears like a woven cloth?
... that Rachel Browne established Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Canada's longest-running modern dance company?
... that Northampton War Memorial was designed in 1920 but was not installed until six years later?
... that Min Huifen, called the "Queen of Erhu", performed in support of the student protesters of Tiananmen Square?
... that the Hindu text Vajrasuchi Upanishad questions social classes, and asserts that any human being can achieve the highest spiritual state of existence?

00:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Ivory burning in the Republic of Congo

... that the destruction of ivory (pictured) has been called "indispensable in the fight against trafficking of threatened species"?
... that Adam Frazier has set baseball records for the Mississippi State Bulldogs?
... that "Un-American Graffiti" is the first episode of Veronica Mars not to feature a mystery that takes place over several episodes?
... that the slender knotweed is eaten by people in Africa in times of famine?
... that Canada's status as a bilingual country inspired Janet Werker to study language acquisition?
... that, as well as shooting at Pinewood Studios and on Skellig Michael, additional filming for Star Wars: Episode VIII will take place in Mexico?
... that the contralto Elisabeth Schärtel, known for performing many Wagner parts at the Bayreuth Festival, sang Verdi's Meg Page alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff?
... that when Naborr, an Arabian stallion, was imported to America via ship in 1963, the ship ran low on hay and the horse lost 50 pounds (23 kg)?

5 March 2016

12:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale

... that St John the Baptist Church (pictured) in Rochdale was designed by a dead architect?
... that Debopriya and Suchismita Chatterjee, the "flute sisters", are Indian instrumentalists trained by Hariprasad Chaurasia?
... that the yellow-eyed pigeon is rated as a vulnerable species because it is hunted in both its breeding and overwintering range?
... that Laurie G. Lachance is the first alumna to serve as president of Thomas College of Waterville, Maine, in the school's 118-year history?
... that the medieval era Hindu text Bahvricha Upanishad states that the material cause of the universe is a Goddess?
... that Texas A&M University–Commerce organized a special commencement ceremony for Charles Tuaau when his Kansas City Chiefs minicamp obligations conflicted with his graduation?
... that the inauguration of Argentine president Mauricio Macri was completed by the acting president Federico Pinedo, and not by outgoing president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
... that the 17th-century Chinese poet and government official Song Wan was so scared of rebels that he died of fright?

00:00, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Joseph Tucker

... that the 18th-century shipwright Joseph Tucker (pictured) is best known for designing a 170-gun ship with five tiers of guns that was never built?
... that Bach applied for the Thomaskantor post with Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23, ending in an elaborate setting of the German Agnus Dei from a lost Passion?
... that Sir Clifford Boulton, the 44th Clerk of the House of Commons, was a fan of the soap opera Coronation Street?
... that in 2003 the women's football club Ballymena United Allstars were forced to play on a "disgraceful and embarrassing" park pitch during council renovations at their new ground?
... that General Liu Zhenwu, the first commander of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison, outranked his British predecessors?
... that the Rurouni Kenshin manga character Kamiya Kaoru was originally meant to die, but the author decided to make her survive to give young readers a happy ending?
... that Mark Sanders scored only one first-class century in his cricket career?
... that while Bulgaria's most famous long-distance trail, Kom–Emine, typically takes 20 to 25 days to complete, the record stands at under 5 days?

4 March 2016

12:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Sitatunga

... that the ears of the sitatunga (pictured) are so specialized that they can pinpoint the direction of the origin of a sound?
... that Bas van Bavel has linked Dutch cleanliness to the production of cheese?
... that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works was said to have had a "magnificent" Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
... that Laxman Gole, a contemporary Indian Gandhian described as a real-life Munnabhai, won the Zindagi Live National Award given by IBN-7?
... that the video game Her Story features entirely live-action footage?
... that though Thailand was not at war with Communist China, it still fought Operation Sourisak Montry VIII in 1972?
... that when Jessie Jack Hooper ran for the United States Senate in 1922 against Robert M. La Follette Sr., her husband was one of only two men who donated to her campaign?
... that a catchphrase for Mr. T Cereal was "I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal"?

00:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hurricane Danny as seen from the ISS

... that Hurricane Danny in 2015 (pictured) was the first major hurricane to develop between the Lesser Antilles and West Africa since Hurricane Julia in 2010?
... that the first female chief servant in the history of the White House, Elizabeth Jaffray, was hired in 1909?
... that the web series Go Princess Go has been cut by about a third by Chinese censors concerned about its themes of sex and time travel?
... that the gospel music duo Mary Mary's two sister songstresses' Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell have released solo albums that have charted on The Billboard 200?
... that The Children's Village was the first residential treatment center in the United States to have an on-site psychiatric clinic and a social work training school?
... that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, left Iran for exile nine days after it was suggested at the Guadeloupe Conference?
... that 96% of Dodge Cove residents surveyed opposed construction of a proposed liquefied natural gas facility there?
... that the stretchiness and melting characteristics of pizza cheese can be improved using a blend of vetch milk and cow's milk in its preparation?

3 March 2016

12:00, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Santiniketan pencil boxes made from goat leather

... that Santiniketan Leather Goods (pencil boxes pictured) are generally made of East India Leather from sheepskin and goatskin?
... that Jennifer Childs-Roshak is the first person with a medical degree to become the chief executive of a Planned Parenthood affiliate?
... that the extinct lacewing Araripenymphes shows sexual dimorphism in the two described fossils?
... that Ragnall ua Ímair established himself as king of Northumbria following the indecisive Battle of Corbridge in 918?
... that within a month of the release of Rise of Mana, the game had over one million registered players?
... that Rashan Gary, the first player to be unanimously rated as the top American football prospect, committed in February 2016 to play for the Michigan Wolverines?
... that in India, plum cake is served around the time of the Christmas holiday season, and may have additional ingredients such as rum or brandy?
... that Benoit & Sergio describe their sound as "an alloy of copper and silk"?

00:00, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Portrait of Maria Portinari

... that Hans Memling's Portrait of Maria Portinari (pictured) was probably commissioned as a triptych wing by her politically ambitious Italian husband so he could gain favour with Lorenzo de' Medici?
... that the 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado American football team outscored opponents 491 to 17, and was for many years considered the greatest the South ever produced?
... that the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon led to the highest death toll by population of the First World War?
... that Zorns Lemma by Hollis Frampton was the first experimental feature film screened at the New York Film Festival?
... that Wellesley College president Ellen Fitz Pendleton supported academic freedom for pacifists during World War I and later opposed the 1935 loyalty oath required of teachers in Massachusetts?
... that commensurate line theory is able to convert series connections into parallel connections without changing the circuit response as would normally be expected for such a change?
... that Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home"?
... that the band OK Go filmed their music video for "Upside Down & Inside Out" in zero gravity using a reduced gravity aircraft?

2 March 2016

12:00, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Sarasvati

... that the medieval era text Sarasvati-rahasya Upanishad calls Sarasvati (pictured) the goddess of wisdom who manifests as syllables, words, sentences, and understanding?
... that Antonia Fahberg, a lyric soprano of the Bavarian State Opera for 25 years, recorded Bach with Karl Richter, including an aria described as "a beguiling and beautifully restrained performance"?
... that The Times' suggestion that Insert Name Here made Sue Perkins the first woman to host a UK mainstream comedy TV panel show was refuted by Weaver's Week?
... that Chinese medical pioneer Zhang Xichun was "very good" at curing vomiting?
... that composer and critic Florent Schmitt criticized the Sextet of Francis Poulenc after its premiere for being vulgar?
... that several journalists regarded the low-budget ACE (1985) as one of the best flight simulators of the time?
... that French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui used to set up a portable studio in a public place, such as a market square, and invite interested passers-by to be photographed?
... that the pinkmottle woodwax can grow in fairy rings?

00:00, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Elena Kagan

... that in the patent case Bowman v. Monsanto Co., Justice Elena Kagan (pictured) delivered the unanimous decision against Bowman's "blame-the-bean defense"?
... that people in Syria are using small, portable radio transmitters to create Syrnet, a network of pirate radio broadcasts committed to oppose the Assad regime?
... that Maine food educator and columnist Mildred Schrumpf claimed that the brownie was invented in Bangor?
... that the 1835 opera La casa disabitata, composed by Princess Amalie of Saxony, received its first modern performance in 2012 after its previously lost score was discovered in a library in Moscow?
... that Dorothy Galton, a beekeeper, was suspected by MI5 of being a Russian spy?
... that for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, use of the alien race Sneepers was initially rejected by Marvel's legal department because it sounded too similar to snípur, the Icelandic word for clitoris?
... that the Little Mix song "Love Me like You" garnered comparisons to The Ronettes and The Supremes for its retro doo-wop style?
... that German footballer Antoine Raab was imprisoned for refusing to give the Nazi salute at a football game?

1 March 2016

12:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Le coq blanc

... that Le coq blanc (detail pictured) at the Musée Guimet draws on the myth of the Japanese sun goddess?
... that Juma Namangani fought in Afghanistan for the Soviet Army in the late 1980s and alongside the Taliban in the early 2000s?
... that Khmer, the language of Cambodia and the Khmer Empire, has a 1400-year written history?
... that Hao Jianxiu, an illiterate teenage textile worker, became a model worker and a high-ranking politician after inventing a work method named after her?
... that cobblers known as Mochis were trained in the art form of Kutch Embroidery by the Muslim Sufi saints of Sindh?
... that Ficus neriifolia is an important food item of the black crested gibbon and eastern hoolock gibbon, and is used in bonsai?
... that Xu You foiled Li Congshan's attempt to seize the crown from his older brother by informing on him to the crown prince himself?
... that Hello From the Magic Tavern – hosted by a wizard and shapeshifting badger – was named one of iTunes' best podcasts of 2015?

00:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Main pavilion of building in 2015

... that in 1947, police stood by to ensure that Paul Robeson did not make a speech while giving a concert at Philip Livingston Junior High School (pictured) in Albany, New York?
... that Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from Salem, and boasted of seeing George Washington?
... that the Peterhouse partbooks and Forrest-Heyther partbooks both contain music by the English composer Robert Fayrfax?
... that mods are credited as one of the main reasons behind Minecraft's success?
... that in 2013, Forbes listed Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"?
... that Roman Kukleta was top scorer of the 1990–91 Czechoslovak First League?
... that Macklemore's controversial critiques of Iggy Azalea in White Privilege II are actually criticisms of his own white privilege?

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