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30 September 2017

05:00, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Goliath imperial pigeon

... that the goliath imperial pigeon (pictured) is also known as the notou?
... that William Tassie thought parents would send their children to private schools if other schools did not provide the opportunity to learn Latin at an early age?
... that the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act has been criticized for weakening Section 230 safe harbors?
... that the future of clinafloxacin as a new drug is less bright due to its risk of drug-induced light sensitivity?
... that 15 policemen were killed in a 2015 ambush in Jalisco, Mexico?
... that after baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle recovered from MDS, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 as Beckmesser, staged by the festival's first Jewish director?
... that although the Smith's red rock hare is a nocturnal species, it occasionally comes out during early mornings or late afternoons in places where it is not hunted?

29 September 2017

05:00, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

John Ford in a rare acting role

... that John Ford (pictured) portrayed an Office of Strategic Services officer in an OSS training film that he directed in 1943?
... that the Yarkand hare is hunted as game and, between 1958 and 1981, about 10,000 furs annually were produced from the species?
... that American soprano Pamela Coburn appeared as Mozart's Countess in Vienna and New York, and as Ellen, the friend of Peter Grimes, in Munich and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino?
... that Farrakhan v Home Secretary was the first court case to successfully overturn a client's ban on entry to the United Kingdom—only to be overturned itself on appeal?
... that illustrator Ida Waugh met her life partner Amy Ella Blanchard when the latter was hired as a tutor for her younger brother, future painter Frederick Judd Waugh?
... that in 1989, the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Estonia denounced the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?
... that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been accused of plagiarizing his PhD thesis?
... that the Delaware Railroad was sued in 1863 because it did not have enough freight cars to transport a bumper crop of peaches?

28 September 2017

00:45, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

The Elbphilharmonie

... that Kent Nagano commissioned Jörg Widmann's oratorio Arche for the opening celebrations of the Elbphilharmonie (pictured), and conducted 300 performers in the premiere?
... that Ada Bell Maescher produced Night Life in Hollywood as a propaganda film to depict Hollywood as a model city populated by home-loving people?
... that Titian intended his painting of the Pietà to hang over his grave, but it never did?
... that before working with Bob Crewe and Dusty Springfield, folk singer Norma Tanega performed at summer camps and a mental hospital?
... that Saunders' embiids live in silken tubes and camouflage their eggs, perhaps to prevent cannibalism?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin's 2006 novel Voices has been compared to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which also prominently features the destruction of books?
... that during the Rhine Campaign of 1796, the French troops were hampered by having to steal their supplies, which turned the local populations against them?
... that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a "Bandit Queen"?

27 September 2017

01:00, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Alice Creek Fire

... that as of 12 September, 48 wildfires in Montana (example pictured) were actively burning?
... that Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir was killed on the spot after he shot dead a general who had tried to take over the Special Forces Command HQ during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt?
... that the comic book Ultimate End was made by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, who had created the Ultimate Marvel imprint 15 years before?
... that Tre Canti di Leopardi, three orchestral songs by Wilhelm Killmayer, are based on poems from Canti, addressing the infinite, the self, and the moon?
... that the anti-illegal immigration bill Georgia House Bill 87, which was signed into law in 2011, was partly based on Arizona's SB 1070 immigration bill?
... that the Martian dunes of Ogygis Undae consist of two different sand types, and look similar to the dunes in Grand Falls, Arizona?
... that Shirley Pitts was trained by the Forty Elephants and became the "queen of shoplifters"?

26 September 2017

13:15, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

White-crowned forktail

... that white-crowned forktails (example pictured) breed between mountaintops in Borneo, but not with individuals of the same species in adjacent lowlands?
... that Alex Virot is the only journalist to have died whilst covering the Tour de France?
... that the dark, organic setting of the graphic adventure video game Oxenfree was designed to contrast with its bright, geometric, supernatural elements?
... that two years after Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby, fought alongside King Richard II in the 1385 invasion of Scotland, the king and queen stayed the night in Ferrers' castle?
... that Xafecopy Trojan attacked at least 4,800 Android users in just a month?
... that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani, champion of the "direct method" of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA?
... that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan described the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement as the "great prize"?
... that astronomer Alan Duffy is constructing a dark matter detector 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) underground in a gold mine?

01:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

The Tribute Money

... that Titian's 1516 work The Tribute Money (pictured) was painted to be a cupboard door?
... that the Glover's pika was at different times treated as a subspecies of the Turkestan red pika and the Chinese red pika, but is now accepted as an independent species?
... that carbon-carrying minerals are known as organic minerals, except for some that were considered inorganic before 1828?
... that Dua Lipa said that her song "New Rules" talks about setting rules to keep "your distance from someone who's bad for you"?
... that while working on the representations of the Lorentz group, an encounter with Dirac convinced Harish-Chandra that he did not have "the mysterious sixth sense which one needs in order to succeed in physics"?
... that residents of Uttan aided Gilbert Mendonca's candidacy in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election by refusing to allow other candidates to campaign in their town?
... that in Women's One Day International cricket, India has the fourth highest number of victories?
... that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated?

25 September 2017

12:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Tom Doerr's lambda

... that the lambda (pictured) designed by Tom Doerr as a symbol for the Gay Activists Alliance was chrome yellow, a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow?
... that the St. Collins Lane luxury shopping centre replaced a building considered one of Melbourne's worst?
... that the bluffs near where Hiram Scott died in 1828 bear his name?
... that a canoeist bore the São Tomé and Príncipe flag at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, but at the closing ceremony it was carried by an unnamed volunteer?
... that Maryam Mirzakhani won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for women in mathematics a year before she won the Fields Medal for the same work?
... that the acorn worm Saccoglossus bromophenolosus is named after a chemical found in its tissues?
... that as part of her journalism degree, sportscaster Kelly Crull worked at KOMU-TV?
... that while many people think "Trapped" is a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1980s, it was written and recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1972?

00:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

John Doubleday with the Portland Vase

... that after a drunkard smashed the Portland Vase into hundreds of pieces, John Doubleday (pictured) was dubbed "the prince of restorers"?
... that Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik used concrete sewer pipes for construction of the Church of St. Michael?
... that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta?
... that after the Stadt Zürich collided with another ship in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy?
... that Hippopotamus is Sparks' first UK top-ten album in over 40 years?
... that architect Mikhail Eisenstein and his film-director son Sergei fought on opposite sides of the Russian Civil War?
... that the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a boy with spinal tuberculosis?
... that Tubulanus superbus and Tubulanus annulatus are both known as "football jersey worms"?

24 September 2017

12:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Fire of Kraków

... that the Kraków Fire of 1850 (pictured) destroyed approximately 10% of the city?
... that Nannie C. Dunsmoor, a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club?
... that the call of the slaty-backed forktail can easily be mistaken for that of the Blyth's kingfisher?
... that the Massachusetts Convention of Towns in 1768 created a war scare, causing prices to drop on the London Stock Exchange?
... that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
... that when the Pass A L'Outre Light began to sink into the ground, its floor was raised and a new door cut in its side to compensate?
... that Frederick Brundrett, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, was one of Britain's oldest first-class field hockey players?
... that the Cup of Solid Gold, China's first national anthem, was never performed publicly?

00:00, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Perspective view of Rupes Tenuis on Mars

... that Rupes Tenuis (pictured), the Martian north polar scarp, may have been in retreat since the Late Amazonian period?
... that cowboy Little Joe Monahan's gender became a national news story in 1904?
... that the Hashemite dynasty, Jordan's royal family, claims custodianship over Jerusalem's holy sites?
... that one year ago today Chapel Hill, North Carolina, police released an image of a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth homicide based purely on DNA left at the crime scene?
... that South African footballer Lorenzo Gordinho joined the Kaizer Chiefs academy at the age of 15?
... that the Yunnan hare was formerly considered a subspecies of the woolly hare but is now treated as a separate species?
... that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival, he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani?
... that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics, a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?

23 September 2017

12:00, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Natal red rock hare

... that although it drinks when it gets the chance, the Natal red rock hare (illustration pictured) can obtain all the moisture it needs from its food and the dew?
... that Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water by Frederick Delius are wordless songs for an a cappella choir, described as being amongst the composer's "most transcendently ecstatic moments"?
... that when Kyrgyz politician Bakyt Torobayev stood as candidate for speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in 2016 along with Kanat Isayev, the result was a tie?
... that the snake sea cucumber will break itself into bits to escape from a predator?
... that software pirates created an unofficial port of Sega's 1991 video game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features Mario instead of Sonic?
... that Lebanese singer Layal Abboud worked as a police officer before becoming a pop star?
... that Younis Khan holds the records for most runs and centuries for Pakistan in Test cricket?
... that scholar Rupert Bruce-Mitford funded his education by burning a book?

00:00, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Kőbánya cellar system

... that the cellar system (pictured) under the Kőbánya district of Budapest, Hungary, has served as a limestone quarry, a beer cellar, an aircraft engine factory, and a bicycle race venue?
... that schoolmaster Elijah Corlet helped Cotton Mather correct his stammer?
... that the season two premiere of the Canadian television series 19-2 featured an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera sequence of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal?
... that last month, Kirti Kumari, a sitting member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, died of an H1N1 infection?
... that some of the mounds of the Martian formation of Abalos Colles are similar to volcanoes in Iceland?
... that in Telemaco, one of Alessandro Scarlatti's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
... that German Jewish architect Ludwig Levy designed many synagogues across Germany in the late 19th century?
... that USS Omaha (CL-4) was the last United States Navy ship to be awarded prize money?

22 September 2017

12:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Keyhole limpet shell

... that the scale worm Arctonoe vittata protects the keyhole limpet (shell pictured) with which it lives by attacking predatory starfish?
... that 14-year-old Lai Ning died fighting a forest fire in China in 1988 and was subsequently declared a revolutionary martyr?
... that Vince Lombardi began his football coaching career at New Jersey's St. Cecilia High School, where he taught algebra, chemistry, physics and Latin, in addition to his coaching duties?
... that the Martian wedge-shaped mound Abalos Mensa has been described as "an enigmatic wedge of material"?
... that Anette Hosoi designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial snail slime?
... that the 2017 Washington wildfires caused ash to fall "like snow" on Seattle?
... that Ōrora Satoshi is the heaviest ever wrestler in professional sumo?
... that television showings and online streaming of the documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence were stopped after a blogger discredited its key photograph?

00:25, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Organ loft in the church of Stainz

... that the Styriarte music festival publicly screened Mozart's Coronation Mass, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, from the church of Stainz (organ loft pictured)?
... that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory, the war memorial erected in Cheppy, France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I?
... that the creator of the popular YouTube channel Ali-A has been called a "YouTube megastar" by the BBC?
... that Jiva Pandu Gavit is the only Communist Party of India member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly?
... that during his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared on the covers of records by the Ramones, Fela Kuti, Bootsy Collins, and The Clash?
... that heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lidia left a sinkhole engulfing a street in central Mexico City?
... that King Hussein responded to the 1989 Jordanian protests by lifting martial law and reintroducing parliamentary elections?
... that Irene Clennell was deported from the UK, despite having a British husband, because she had spent too long abroad?

21 September 2017

12:40, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Illustration of Spirit of the Confederacy

... that the purpose of the statue Spirit of the Confederacy (illustration pictured) in Houston, Texas, unveiled on Robert E. Lee's birthday in 1908, has been questioned since the 2015 Charleston church shooting and the 2017 Unite the Right rally?
... that Raymond Leane was described as the "foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I?
... that in the American West from the 1860s to the 1880s, nearly 25% of cowboys were black?
... that Paolo and Francesca, the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer, was performed in New York and Chicago?
... that the Martian dunes of Aspledon Undae may have formed due to erosion of part of the Planum Boreum?
... that the house of Judith Ellen Foster, the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement, was burnt down, presumably by her opponents?
... that Steps achieved thirteen consecutive top-five singles in the United Kingdom?
... that the absurdist Twitter writer known as dril continues to insist that he is not owned, even as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corncob?

00:00, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Niagara Falls panorama, 1845

... that Frederick Langenheim made the first set of panoramic images (example pictured) of Niagara Falls and a sequential set of images of the first American total solar eclipse ever photographed?
... that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat?
... that the Cook Islands flashlightfish produces light with the help of bioluminescent bacteria?
... that the French Football Federation issued a reversal of a league win after Amiens SC disputed Olympique Noisy-le-Sec player Frédéric Boniface's eligibility to play in the match?
... that the common loon used to be known as call-up-a-storm in New England, because its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather?
... that at age 16 years 204 days, Sneha Deepthi became the youngest cricketer ever to represent the India women's Twenty20 International team?
... that the producers of the horror podcast Tanis have never confirmed whether the show is fictitious?
... that although Tammy Kingery left her keys inside her South Carolina house when she disappeared from it three years ago today, the door was found locked from the outside?

20 September 2017

12:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Bird-headed Jewish man baking matzo

... that the oldest surviving illuminated Passover Haggadah depicts Jews as humans with the faces and beaks of birds (detail pictured)?
... that Ivy Wedgwood's retirement after 21 years in the Australian Senate was reported with the headline "Ivy is a housewife again"?
... that Henry Purcell's eight-voice anthem Hear my prayer, O Lord features "pungent" harmonies in a long, "inexorable" build-up to a "towering dissonant tone cluster" right before it ends?
... that during the American Civil War, Ephraim C. Dawes almost lost his lower jaw to a bullet wound, but went on to become a noted public speaker?
... that the extinct ant genus Electromyrmex includes an undescribed species from Bitterfeld amber?
... that as a high school student, Evin Demirhan supported her family of 13 by wrestling, and later became a bronze medalist in the 2017 World Wrestling Championships?
... that although the British commander was accused of incompetence following the Battle of the Basque Roads, he was controversially acquitted at his court-martial?
... that Alan Akaka led a campaign to deny the ukulele a place as the official state instrument of Hawaii?

00:00, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Zerai Deres

... that both Eritrea and Ethiopia consider Zerai Deres (pictured) a folk hero of anti-fascism and anticolonialism?
... that in 1964, Bob Dylan recorded songs for Quest in Toronto that CBS had rejected for broadcast in the US?
... that state senator Jane Kitchel and her sister chair both of the Vermont Legislature's appropriations committees?
... that the song cycles by Wilhelm Killmayer, written across five decades, set poems by authors from Sappho to Peter Härtling, with a focus on the late poems by Hölderlin?
... that Norman Mailer wrote "The Man Who Studied Yoga" in 1952 in order to free himself from the past success of his first novel?
... that Theresa Meikle became the presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court in 1955, the first woman elected to such a position in any major American city?
... that the two distinct forms of the Martian dunes of Hyperboreae Undae apparently cannot coexist?
... that the British climber and YouTuber Ally Law was globally banned from all sites owned by Merlin Entertainments after trespassing in Thorpe Park and climbing the Stealth roller coaster?

19 September 2017

12:00, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Basket weaver working with kagome pattern

... that learning Japanese bamboo weaving (pictured) involves a lengthy apprenticeship and the skills require at least a decade to fully master?
... that before becoming a state representative and state senator, George Merryman served as a ship's doctor on a commercial steamship traveling between Portland, Oregon and the Far East?
... that N. K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky has been favorably compared to works by famed science fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and William Gibson?
... that five churches have stood at the top of Shandon Street since 1624?
... that as a member of the communist student movement, Bihar legislator Umadhar Singh was jailed for eight years with his legs in chains?
... that the clarinetist Jörg Widmann composed Babylon, an opera in seven scenes, on a commission from the Bavarian State Opera to a libretto by Peter Sloterdijk?
... that Una R. Winter reported in 1935 that there was very little interest in women's suffrage in Mexico?
... that after a deal with Shark Tank member Mark Cuban fell through, meal kit delivery service Plated earned a deal with another shark?

00:00, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Berlin Street Scene

... that in 2006, the English communist Anita Halpin recovered Berlin Street Scene (pictured) by Ernst Kirchner, which was looted from her grandfather by the Nazis, and sold it for £20.5 million?
... that "The Madness of King Scar" was recorded and storyboarded for The Lion King, but Disney removed it, probably due to its explicit content?
... that Hanno Müller-Brachmann appeared as Papageno in Claudio Abbado's award-winning recording of Die Zauberflöte, and recorded Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Michael Gielen?
... that the Fort Bragg Game was the first regular-season professional sporting event held at an active military base?
... that the coral Pavona maldivensis can emit a bright orange fluorescence?
... that Sheryl Lee was originally given the role of Mary Alice Young on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, but the producers decided to replace her with Brenda Strong?
... that the Kangri Garpo mountain range contains the lowest-altitude glacier in Tibet?
... that Enver Baig accused the Pakistan national cricket team's players of being involved in match fixing?

18 September 2017

12:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Sutton Hoo helmet replica

... that when only 23 years old, Nigel Williams was tasked with restoring "the most iconic object" (pictured) from a spectacular archaeological discovery?
... that the amphipod Luckia striki was named after the location of its discovery, the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent?
... that Ghanaian legislator Samuel Atta Akyea suggested that the fight against galamseyers required military support?
... that Krake ZK 14 was a floating poet's workshop?
... that the video game developer Dontnod Entertainment found success in narrative-driven games after their debut action game had poor sales?
... that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford, despite not having an undergraduate degree?
... that the opera Das Schloß by Aribert Reimann, on his own libretto after Kafka's novel, premiered in 1992 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
... that Two Ton Baker played piano in place of Duke Ellington?

00:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Rose coral skeleton

... that rose coral (skeleton pictured), a member of the family Mussidae, can right itself if it gets turned over?
... that by portraying Alex Parrish in Quantico, Priyanka Chopra became the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series?
... that although the 8.0M_w 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastated towns near Beijing, China, during the Qing dynasty, another large earthquake along this fault is not expected for 6,500 years?
... that 19th-century concert singer Sarah Mundell Crane was the mother of silent movie actor Harry Ogden Crane?
... that Kalasipalyam in central Bangalore, India, known for its traffic congestion and unhygienic conditions, is also a transportation hub for 800,000 bus passengers a day?
... that Don Checco, composed by Nicola De Giosa, was one of the greatest successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa and a favourite of King Ferdinand II?
... that an 1847 shipment of Massachusetts foreign aid to Ireland was called repayment for an Irish donation to Massachusetts in 1676?
... that Eleonore von Grothaus, a writer and poet, raised thirteen children, including seven from her husband's first marriage, and educated a future queen?

17 September 2017

12:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

High altar, Basilica of St. James

... that the Basilica of St. James in Levoča contains the world's tallest carved wooden altar (pictured)?
... that Edith Kawelohea McKinzie was named a Living Treasure of Hawai'i after indexing early 19th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers and documenting the genealogy of the chiefs of Kahoolawe?
... that the name of Tekken character Lars Alexandersson was proposed to the development staff by an unknown woman from the Swedish embassy in Japan?
... that Kim Cobb used coral to profile El Niño over seven thousand years?
... that the First Toungoo Empire adopted the Wareru Dhammathat, the customary law code of the defeated Hanthawaddy Kingdom, as its basic law?
... that Grant Liddle discovered Liddle's syndrome, a genetic cause of high blood pressure?
... that each sign of the zodiac can be further subdivided into twelve parts?
... that librarian Jacqueline Noel gave Almond Roca candy its name?

00:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

PGM-17 Thor IRBM

... that British crews launched Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles (example pictured) from Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of Project Emily?
... that Roland Poska's painting From Blue to Blue, which appears in Milwaukee's Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza Building, is 270 feet (82 m) long?
... that the branching worm living inside a sponge is unlikely to be able to sustain itself solely through what it eats?
... that Reah Whitehead, the first female justice of the peace in Washington state, started her legal career as a stenographer?
... that cultural governance could refer to anything from cultural policy regarding concerts to broad governance of language and meaning?
... that from 1981, Swiss set designer Marco Arturo Marelli also directed operas, and in 2010 staged the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera?
... that the Labor Congress of Liberia was closely tied to the Liberian government and membership fees were paid directly to the governing True Whig Party?
... that Cara Mund is the first contestant from North Dakota to win the Miss America pageant?

16 September 2017

00:00, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Lyndsey Scott

... that between modelling for Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, and Prada, Lyndsey Scott (pictured) develops mobile apps for iOS?
... that Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park was based on her brother's residence Godmersham Park, Kent, which she frequently visited?
... that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera, and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms?
... that Ginza Six, a new shopping complex in Tokyo, contains artwork by Yayoi Kusama?
... that starting at age nine, Carlos Cuevas acted for six years in the Catalan television series Ventdelplà?
... that a lyric video for the song "Walk on Water" by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States?
... that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University?
... that at Modena Park 2017, rock singer Vasco Rossi broke the world record for the largest ticketed concert?

15 September 2017

00:00, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire

... that following the Rwandan Civil War, two million Hutu refugees fled to neighboring countries (Rwandan refugee camp pictured), fearing reprisals?
... that in Buddhism, the doing of good deeds, known as merit-making, is seen as a form of saving for the future?
... that Egyptian tomb S9 suffered deliberate, extensive, and state-sanctioned stone- and grave-robbing?
... that Ida Hinman, author of a popular Washington, D.C. guidebook, died in poverty and her body was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution?
... that the red colour of the ribbon worm Tubulanus polymorphus may warn predators that it is toxic or unpalatable?
... that baritone Georg Nigl, who names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mozart's Papageno, and Alban Berg's Wozzeck, created the title role of Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night?
... that residents of three adjacent counties in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado have the longest life expectancy in the U.S.?
... that someone told Kate Brew Vaughn that her eggless, sugarless, and butterless World War I Victory Cake was "joyless", but then ate three pieces?

14 September 2017

00:00, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

"The Owl and the Pussycat" (1888)

... that the second of Five Childhood Lyrics, compositions for an unaccompanied choir by John Rutter, is Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" (illustration shown)?
... that Harold Joe Waldrum took thousands of Polaroid photos of the adobe churches and Penitente moradas of Northern New Mexico?
... that Europol was able to identify a hotel used in child porn using Twitter and a crowdsourced website?
... that Daniel H. Coakley was impeached after he secured a pardon for mobster Raymond L. S. Patriarca?
... that a single armed squad of the Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) carried out nearly 30 robberies in 1974?
... that in 2014, Iva Honyestewa created the pootsaya, a combination of coil and sifter basket, "a rare innovation in Hopi basketry"?
... that the UK organization Serious Hazards of Transfusion discourages hospitals from using some blood products donated by women?
... that Katsura Hoshino acceded to her editor's demand to draw her D.Gray-man manga character Lenalee Lee with long hair, but then had her lose part of her hair in a fight?

13 September 2017

00:00, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Peter Gabriel

... that Peter Gabriel (pictured) wrote "Biko" after learning of the death of Steve Biko in police custody on 12 September 1977?
... that Danish-born Jørgen Jensen was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action during which he pulled the pin from a hand grenade with his teeth?
... that Fran Dunphy has more wins than any other Penn Quakers basketball coach with 310 overall including 191 conference wins?
... that Una B. Herrick was called a "trailblazer" as she "made a place for women" at Montana State College?
... that Phyllodoce mucosa can form "roads" as they crawl across the beach towards carcasses?
... that Reinhard Peters conducted several new operas and Wilhelm Killmayer's Tre Canti di Leopardi, and a number of his recordings were chosen for the CD compilation Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000?
... that during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Postal Service deployed a Mobile Mail-Screening Station to Vancouver, Canada, to detect mail-borne nuclear threats?
... that Reid Moore, Jr. ran for a Florida House of Representatives seat in 1976 with the campaign slogan "We need More in Tallahassee"?

12 September 2017

00:00, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Opera house in Chemnitz

... that the Theater Chemnitz has staged "rediscovered" operas, such as Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama, in the opera house (pictured)?
... that Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald helped found the first secret society in a women's college?
... that larvae of the coral Flabellum curvatum are expelled from its mouth at an advanced stage of development, and settle nearby?
... that biostatistician Rafael Irizarry is a founder of Bioconductor, an open-source software project for the analysis of genomic data?
... that Kunphela, a favorite personal attendant of the 13th Dalai Lama, was a co-founder of a political party that aimed to restructure Tibetan society through revolution?
... that an 1844 Oregon law required all slaves to be freed—and all freed slaves to leave Oregon?
... that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy was in James Clark Ross's party—the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole?
... that the only independent radio station in Eritrea is not in Eritrea?

11 September 2017

00:00, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

2D representation of finafloxacin's chemical structure

Chemical structure of finafloxacin

... that finafloxacin (chemical structure shown) is a new treatment for swimmer's ear?
... that sculptor Thea Tewi, known for her work in stone, was also one of the United States' top lingerie designers?
... that Players Weekend was the first time the New York Yankees had a name on their uniforms?
... that Ghanaian highlife musician C. K. Mann added western instruments to Osode, a traditional form of fishermen's music?
... that the two forms of the red seaweed Bonnemaisonia hamifera are so unlike each other that they were at first thought to be different species?
... that the murder of Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, a federal judge, was a rare incident in the ongoing Mexican Drug War?
... that American novelist Cynthia Propper Seton, who wrote about affluent, middle-aged wives and mothers dissatisfied with their lives, was often compared to Jane Austen?
... that the Martian dunes of Siton Undae are mostly composed of volcanic glass?

10 September 2017

00:00, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

John Grisham

... that John Grisham (pictured) said his novel Camino Island was conceived on a road trip to Florida while talking about stolen books with his wife?
... that single cell epigenomics includes ways to map the three-dimensional conformation of chromosomes in individual cells?
... that Gerhild Romberger, an award-winning contralto and professor of voice, was a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) separating the New York City Subway's JFK Airport and Broad Channel stations is the longest distance between two consecutive stations in the system?
... that Chris Rowley is the first West Point graduate to pitch in Major League Baseball?
... that Navayana is a modern Buddhist movement that abandons precepts such as meditation and enlightenment?
... that Michael Bolton and Diane Warren felt Barbra Streisand would be the perfect artist to sing "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore"?
... that 300,000 people watch every time Christian Guzman trains?

9 September 2017

00:00, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Trump and Macron shaking hands

... that Donald Trump's handshake (pictured) with Emmanuel Macron at the Bastille Day celebrations was 29 seconds long?
... that the Kingdom of Bosnia allowed the Ottoman Turks to penetrate deep into their territory before inflicting a heavy defeat on them at the 1388 Battle of Bileća?
... that the mirror suggested by Elsie de Wolfe and added by James Amster to make his Amster Yard look bigger is still in place today?
... that Fantasia's single "Sleeping with the One I Love" was described as "five minutes of slow-burning flame"?
... that Adele Schulenburg Gleeson, an American sculptor active in Missouri and Connecticut, studied sculpture under George Julian Zolnay and Charles Grafly?
... that Wolfgang Fortner composed the chamber opera In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa after Lorca for the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, where it opened the Festival in 1962?
... that Wilfrid Oulton was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking three U-boats in one month?
... that Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack wrote a book based on an index card?

8 September 2017

00:00, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

First Presbyterian
Church of Portland

... that the bell of the First Presbyterian Church (pictured) in Portland, Oregon, was cast from Civil War cannons?
... that former Howard University professor George Gyan-Baffour opposed Ghana's decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund?
... that Cardiff City F.C. is the only non-English team to have won the FA Cup?
... that a Buncombe County, North Carolina, deputy sheriff interrupted his convalescence from back surgery to investigate a body discovered 20 years ago today and crushed his sciatic nerve as a result?
... that after ABC passed on the television pilot Marvel's Most Wanted in May 2015, it was reworked, only to be passed on again the following May?
... that the premiere of the opera Wintermärchen by Philippe Boesmans, based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, featured jazz-rock music by the Belgian group Aka Moon?
... that when her husband was shot by police during a Quit India protest march, Tara Rani Srivastava bandaged his wounds with her sari and continued leading the march?
... that an animal called the "Seaweed of Death from Hana" has caused poisonings of aquarium hobbyists?

7 September 2017

00:00, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Deodoro in 1908

... that the Brazilian coastal defense ship Deodoro (pictured) was once mistaken for a war-bound privateer?
... that Bipin Ganatra, an electrician by trade, has voluntarily helped Kolkata firefighters battle more than 100 fires over the past 40 years?
... that with Classics in 2014, the musical duo She & Him charted their fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard charts for Folk Albums?
... that Oshkosh Alpha's ShieldAll armor incorporates research conducted for NASCAR after the death of Dale Earnhardt?
... that the Indian film editor Beena Paul made her feature film debut with Amma Ariyan (1986)?
... that one reviewer thought that voice samples from Lindsay Lohan would have "pepp[ed] things up" for the video game Herbie: Fully Loaded?
... that according to reviewers, soprano Simone Schneider of the Staatsoper Stuttgart "expresses Alcestis' agitation, nobility and joy with a moving simplicity" and "was a headstrong, vibrant Empress"?
... that the Bartley-Fox Law mandated a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of illegally carrying a firearm in Massachusetts?

6 September 2017

00:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Visual kei fans at Jingu Bashi

... that Jingu Bashi bridge in Tokyo is a tourist attraction frequented daily by cosplay, visual kei (pictured), and gothic Lolita fashion fans?
... that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki co-wrote the German libretto of Ubu Rex, his only opera buffa, based on the French play Ubu Roi?
... that though Mohsin Raza was made the Minority Affairs Minister of an Indian state, he was a member of neither the state legislative assembly nor the legislative council?
... that evidence of beavers in Opossum Brook was first detected in 1929, by a man on his way to Hell's Kitchen?
... that Danish historian Elisabeth Munksgaard was given a "fine finale" to her career with a costumed eleventh-century king?
... that a marine species of dinoflagellate was implicated when 200 Italian beachgoers became ill in 2005?
... that Adeline Palmier Wagoner wrote Madame Beaulieu: A Colonial Dame, a biography of her ancestor, a social leader in Cahokia?
... that the online game slither.io was the most Googled game in the United States in 2016?

5 September 2017

00:00, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Still Life: Vanitas, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem

... that the largest theft in Canadian history occurred 45 years ago today, when jewellery and 18 paintings (example pictured) were stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
... that Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened the first commercial photography portrait studio in the world?
... that after appearing in more than 50 films, Priyanka Chopra's first-ever audition was for the American television series Quantico?
... that thousands of Jews fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
... that Liberian labor leader Amos Gray became involved in labor activism while being a part-time port worker during his college years?
... that the social thriller film genre has been popularized in the United States by Get Out director Jordan Peele and in India by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan?
... that Geneve L. A. Shaffer, known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot?
... that Pachycondyla succinea queens were first described in 1868, but males were not described until 2009?

4 September 2017

00:00, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Manon Antoniazzi

... that Manon Antoniazzi (pictured) gave Welsh lessons to Prince William, the son of the Prince of Wales?
... that scrap metal from demolition work during construction of the Capitol Hill station was sold to fund meals for the homeless?
... that Kofi Dzamesi, the Minister for Chieftancy and Religious Affairs in Ghana, survived an assassination attempt in 2008?
... that Brahms composed the first of Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano more than 20 years after the second?
... that the ciliate Zoothamnium niveum is so densely covered by symbiotic microbes that it appears white to the naked eye?
... that Michael M. York and Jeffrey A. Marx received death threats for their 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning series exposing improper cash payoffs to Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players?
... that the Casualty episode "Exile" was filmed entirely in Bucharest?
... that an Edmonton man who unknowingly bought a $1.2 million artwork stolen six years ago today, kept it in his bedroom next to Star Wars figures and stuffed animals?

3 September 2017

00:00, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Auesee in wintertime

... that the artificial lake Auesee (pictured) has become a popular recreation spot known as the "jewel" of Wesel?
... that tango music composer Cátulo Castillo was once featherweight champion of Argentina, and went to the 1924 Summer Olympics?
... that Transformers character Bumblebee will feature in his own film, which is currently in production in California?
... that Carol Smith appeared as Verdi's Eboli, Amneris and Azucena at the Opernhaus Zürich, and recorded his Mrs. Quickly in German?
... that prior to the season, the 2016–17 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team lost two players to graduation, three others who transferred, and two assistant coaches who took head coaching jobs?
... that the navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders is thought to be buried under Platform 15 at Euston railway station?
... that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II?
... that Bohemia Interactive bought a T-72 tank, stating: "A massive tanks goes out to everyone who has supported the studio and its games throughout the past 16 years"?

2 September 2017

00:00, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

... that when Helen Huntington Hull inherited Among the Sierra Nevada, California (pictured) by Albert Bierstadt, she had it glued directly to a wall of her mansion?
... that the Daniel Webster Debate Society of Phillips Exeter Academy, founded in 1818, is the oldest secondary school literary society in the United States?
... that Elisabeth Kulman, Gora in the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera, changed from soprano to mezzo, and from opera singer to concert singer?
... that Steve Smith has scored seven of his twenty Test centuries against India?
... that Lillie Rose Ernst, the first woman assistant superintendent of instruction in the St. Louis public school system, was the mentor of The Potters?
... that forest rings had gone unnoticed by geologists until aerial photography became a common surveying tool in the 1950s?
... that Ghanaian entrepreneur and journalist Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, who heads the newly created Ministry of Business Development, has pledged to triple the country's GDP?
... that American Jewish cuisine has been influenced by a geographical gefilte fish line?

1 September 2017

00:00, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Dolomedes schauinslandi

... that Dolomedes schauinslandi (pictured), one of New Zealand's largest spiders, could be capable of ballooning between islands?
... that E. Joy Johnson wrote The Foreman of the J.A.6. based on her experience owning a ranch in frontierland Wyoming?
... that the Thirteenth Doctor, to be portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, will be the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the continuity of Doctor Who?
... that the 2007–08 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team did not lose a single game in the month of February?
... that surgeon Sir Terence English, who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK in August 1979, had an earlier career in mining engineering?
... that the wildlife of Turkmenistan includes 82 species of reptile but only 5 of amphibian?
... that three hospitals and two other medical facilities were combined to form the Queens Hospital Center in New York City?
... that as CEO of Nestlé Mexico, Eugenio Minvielle Lagos pushed for the "pull strategy"?