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16 November 2016

00:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

A gold coin of Govindachandra

... that a hoard of 800 gold coins (example pictured) of king Govindachandra was discovered at Nanpara?
... that the hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock anti-Donald Trump conservatives?
... that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of Kingston, Mississippi, include actors William Holden and Patrick Swayze?
... that women conductors lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American symphony orchestras?
... that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for the best English-language book on the history of mathematics?
... that the short story "Black Destroyer" was the basis for A. E. van Vogt's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, as the plot of the movie Alien matched it so closely?
... that Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to lead a political party and become a government minister in Madagascar?
... that the cocoon of a tiny wasp that parasitises the alfalfa weevil can "jump"?

15 November 2016

00:20, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

The Segara Anak caldera

... that the 1257 eruption of Samalas (caldera pictured) was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the Little Ice Age and famines in Europe?
... that Hugues Fabrice Zango was Burkina Faso's only medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade?
... that the One Piece Treasure Cruise mobile game has been one of the highest grossing titles in Japan and the US?
... that the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel wrote the lyrics of an oratorio Laudato si', including writings by Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis, and the Magnificat?
... that the eighth-century Umayyad Painting of the Six Kings is badly damaged, partly as a result of Alois Musil's attempts to remove it from its site in Quseir Amra, Jordan?
... that the fairy gerygone nests near wasp nests, possibly to keep itself safe from predators?
... that the English footballer Roy Jennings scored 60 goals during his career, 51 of which were penalties?
... that the Tumbuka people's Vimbuza tradition uses dance, music, and singing to heal illness?

14 November 2016

00:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Todd McKenney and Nancye Hayes

... that Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, starring Todd McKenney (pictured waltzing with Nancye Hayes) in his first non-musical role, is the "most successful" play in the Ensemble Theatre's 58-year history?
... that seeking to challenge both Fatah and Hamas, five left-wing factions united to jointly contest the 2016 Palestinian local elections, which have since been postponed?
... that the auction in 1973 of 50 pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the "nouveaux riches cashing in"?
... that the Güney Waterfall, a natural monument, was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
... that the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is heavily based on the city of Miami?
... that Harry Norwitch served five terms on Philadelphia's City Council but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
... that the closest relative of the Caribbean sea slug Pleurobranchus areolatus is Pleurobranchus varians from the central Pacific?
... that "eloquent" Holbrook, "popular" Humble, ex-Congregationalist Miller, and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's, Huddersfield, England?

13 November 2016

00:00, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Tommy Tucker

... that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes (pictured), became famous during World War II, selling war bonds and entertaining children?
... that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh?
... that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
... that Salar de Coipasa, Salar de Uyuni and Lake Poopó were formerly part of the larger Lake Minchin?
... that Comoran Olympian Maoulida Darouèche has competed in both the 400 metres hurdles and the javelin throw?
... that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were tried in the Shire Hall at Dorchester?
... that Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León was the longest serving Governor-General of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period?
... that before she became a famous aviator, Amelia Earhart was a social worker at Denison House in Boston?

12 November 2016

00:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Alfred Harmsworth

... that Alfred Harmsworth (pictured) was the father of two viscounts, one baron, and two baronets?
... that the 1994 bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad left at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured?
... that Burundian Abraham Niyonkuru finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie despite being only 0.03 seconds behind the silver medallist?
... that the modern Palestinian village of Beit Qad is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the Book of Kings as the site of a massacre?
... that the French Consul to Hawaii Marie Gabriel Georges Bosseront d'Anglade accompanied Queen Liliuokalani on her visit to the leper settlement of Kalaupapa in 1891?
... that flowerpots for the Ming emperors were made in official Jun ware?
... that a 1994 John F. Gaffney proposal would have allowed Donald Trump to own four Atlantic City casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
... that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi?

11 November 2016

01:10, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams

... that al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams (pictured), was leveled to the ground by Wahhabis in 1806 and in the mid-1920s?
... that Ralph Nader was nominated by the Ecology Party of Florida as a presidential candidate in 2008?
... that SMS Custoza was the first Austro-Hungarian major warship to have an iron hull?
... that the British long-distance runner Andy Vernon won silver and bronze at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, losing out to Mo Farah both times?
... that tunnel nests of the rosy bee-eater become submerged in the rainy season?
... that Kentucky family court judge Timothy N. Philpot says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
... that the award-winning Bulgarian film Glory was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?

10 November 2016

00:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Inès de Bourgoing

... that nurse Inès de Bourgoing (pictured) was named Honorary Corporal of the Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
... that athletes from more than 50 countries who had a prior doping offence were allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that John J. Horn supported New Jersey's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
... that no official conservation measures are in place to protect the critically endangered Iris cedreti, endemic to Lebanon?
... that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the Umayyads caught the Turgesh khagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
... that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza, who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
... that the Peak Farmland theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
... that Katsura Hoshino says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series D.Gray-man after falling asleep in her bath?

9 November 2016

00:00, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

Paul Nahaolelua

... that Paul Nahaolelua (pictured) was president during the elections of two kings of Hawaii?
... that the author of Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future argues we are living in a golden age?
... that Gertrude Foster Brown encouraged New York women to exercise their new right to vote in her 1918 book Your Vote and How to Use It?
... that although the black grasswren was discovered in 1901, its nesting habits remained unknown for nearly one hundred years?
... that Christiana Willes is sometimes incorrectly attributed as the founder of roundarm bowling?
... that in 1972, Idi Amin expelled Hindus and other Asians from Uganda after he said God told him to do so in a dream?
... that Māori tribal leader and baptized Mormon Mere Mete Whaanga and her sister-in-law made quite a spectacle on the streets of Salt Lake City sporting traditional facial tattoos?
... that Rhodesian athletes were permitted to attend their events at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but not participate in them?

8 November 2016

00:00, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Water bottle flipping

... that flipping water bottles (pictured) has been banned in some U.S. and British schools?
... that during the Second World War, Kenneth Le Couteur worked at Bletchley Park on Tunny?
... that the Suffolk University Political Research Center included mobile phones in its polls for the first time in 2012?
... that when queen consort ʻAnaseini Takipō and King George Tupou II did not have a son, his daughter from his first marriage, Sālote Tupou III, ascended to the throne of Tonga upon his death?
... that Luscombe Castle in Devon has an American Garden developed between 1812 and 1814?
... that Adrian Moss was named Indiana Mini Mr. Basketball when at high school?
... that Robert Forward invoked van Vogt's short story "Far Centaurus" when discussing the problem of interstellar travel?
... that Mary Chubb was an "accidental archaeologist" who only took a job with the Egypt Exploration Society so she could pay for art school?

7 November 2016

00:00, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

West Horsley Place

... that in 2014, West Horsley Place (pictured) was "accidentally" inherited by Bamber Gascoigne?
... that Peter Reulein composed the oratorio Laudato si‘ for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in Limburg Cathedral?
... that Archive of Our Own hosts over two million stories and artworks by fans of media franchises?
... that Ernest Titterton performed the countdown for the American Operation Crossroads nuclear tests, and witnessed British nuclear tests at Maralinga in Australia?
... that the Japanese steamship Nunobiki Maru undertook an ill-fated delivery of military supplies from Nagasaki to the Philippines in 1899?
... that hurdler Ned Justeen Azemia was the youngest member of the Seychelles team at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that the Russian gay propaganda law has been blamed for an alleged increase in homophobic attacks?
... that police noted that the disappearance of Sky Metalwala five years ago today was "strikingly similar" to an episode of Law & Order: SVU broadcast the night before?

6 November 2016

00:00, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Rogožarski IK-3

... that the prototype Rogožarski IK-3 (pictured) crashed during a test flight when its windscreen detached and half a wing broke off?
... that peace activist Margaret Thorp was punched, scratched, and kicked by women at a pro-conscription rally?
... that in the 1966 Championship Game, Texas Western became the first team to field an all-African-American starting lineup in an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final?
... that Charles Husband was the engineer behind what was, on completion, the world's largest fully-steerable radio telescope?
... that two arches of a Roman bridge were found in the basement of the Mausoleum of Danyal during renovations?
... that the journalist and author Carolin Emcke was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2016?
... that Horsey Island in Essex was the basis for Swallow Island in Arthur Ransome's Secret Water?
... that French physician Victor Despeignes thought that cancer was a parasite which could be killed with radiation?

5 November 2016

00:00, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall

... that while Sydney Robert Elliston was vicar of St Thomas, Killinghall (pictured), his fellow clergy appreciated an "improvement in their incomes"?
... that Nike Wagner removed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from the program of the festival Beethovenfest?
... that while working for the American Fur Company, trapper Warren Angus Ferris was one of the first people to map and describe Yellowstone?
... that the white-eared night heron had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
... that in order to increase his name recognition, Lawton Chiles walked 1,003 miles (1,614 km) across Florida for his United States Senate campaign in 1970?
... that Australian W-League association footballer Gabe Marzano was appointed to the Professional Footballers Australia executive committee in May 2016?
... that scholars in the field of Mongolian studies are often referred to as Mongolists?
... that Jason Graae had to use his ad libbing skills when a fake moustache "started to take on a life of its own" on the opening night of Little Me?

4 November 2016

00:00, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Anton Malej

... that Slovenian gymnast Anton Malej (pictured), a bronze medallist in the 1928 Summer Olympics, died after falling from the rings on the first day of competition at the 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that tsunamis build up their height according to Green's law, as they travel from the ocean towards the coast?
... that harpsichordist Jean Rondeau has been called a classical music "sex symbol"?
... that despite having been formed in 1932, the Lesotho Football Association did not gain FIFA membership until 1964?
... that Stanley Silverstein won an American Shoe Designer Award in 1963 for a ballerina flat he created using "leftover scraps of leather"?
... that the greenbug is the vector of several plant viruses?
... that journalist Stephen Kurkjian claims murdered Boston mobster Robert Donati masterminded the world's largest art theft to get his boss out of jail?
... that Captain America: Civil War was originally going to feature the Madbomb storyline from the comics, where Captain America would fight other heroes who had been zombified?

3 November 2016

00:00, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Taiwan whistling thrush

... that Robert Swinhoe called the Taiwan whistling thrush (pictured) the "Formosan Cavern-bird"?
... that the Mapenduma hostage crisis lasted for more than four months?
... that the 1987 Czechoslovak film Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker is based on a fairy tale by Communist writer Jan Drda?
... that the head of hajduk commander Bajo Pivljanin was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
... that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste whey per month, which was processed using an anaerobic digester?
... that the bioarchaeologist Charlotte Roberts once worked as a nurse on a burns unit?
... that Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon of Jerusalem was the fourth yeshiva established on three continents by Rabbi Simcha Wasserman?
... that Juanita's Galley was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?

2 November 2016

00:28, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

OREYA in 2009

... that the Ukrainian mixed chamber choir OREYA (pictured) won a special prize for the best interpretation of a religious choral work at the 14th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf?
... that the 1973 Indian film Kaadu, which won the National Award for Second Best Feature Film, was based on the novel of the same name by Srikrishna Alanahalli?
... that John F. Good's role in the Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle, though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
... that FUNCINPEC started as a Cambodian resistance movement and later became a political party?
... that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of Ava?
... that the ant Pachycondyla oligocenica is one of three Pachycondyla species with described fossil males?
... that Lidiane Lopes holds the Cape Verdean record in the women's 100-metre sprint?
... that the artwork of the West African Senufo people inspired Pablo Picasso?

1 November 2016

00:00, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Pterosaur portrayed as spawn of Satan

... that early in the history of pterosaur research, these flying Mesozoic reptiles were variously mistaken for aquatic animals, bats, birds, and even the spawn of Satan (pictured)?
... that Vlad Dracula forced Dan III of Wallachia to dig his own grave?
... that the ant Pachycondyla aberrans was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?
... that the ghost of Henry Trigg is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?
... that the French punished a queen by sending her to Hellville?
... that before he became mayor of Charleston, West Virginia, Danny Jones worked as a gravedigger?
... that the racket-tailed roller makes a racket as it rockets?
... that the "Gates of Hell" could be found in Washington, D.C.?

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