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31 August 2018

00:00, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

St. Peter's Church, Malmö

... that St. Peter's Church (pictured) in Malmö, Sweden, was once the largest town church in Denmark?
... that Doug Gurr, head of Amazon UK, has said that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks"?
... that the Beach Boys' Transcendental Meditation-inspired Friends (1968) was their last album of the 1960s to involve former bandleader Brian Wilson?
... that referee Bob Nadin said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
... that the Gut Holzhausen estate is a biodynamic farm and the venue for a festival called Voices?
... that Gaqo Çako was the lead tenor for more than three decades at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania?
... that the entire editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief?
... that LeBron James Jr. received offers to play basketball at Duke and Kentucky by the age of eleven?

30 August 2018

00:00, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Andrew Rowsey

... that in his final college basketball game, Andrew Rowsey (pictured) broke Marquette's single-season scoring record set by Dwyane Wade?
... that the secretary blenny is a slender ambush predator with large eyes?
... that William Preucil has served as concertmaster for four American orchestras—the Atlanta Symphony, Utah Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra?
... that the British Army's Peninsular War battalions of detachments were commended for their gallantry on the battlefield but criticised for their conduct in camp?
... that Dutch dermatologist Rudi Cormane pioneered research on immunofluorescence of the skin?
... that the video game Dungeons 3 was described as the closest its developer came to creating a successor to the popular Dungeon Keeper series?
... that Japanese singer Reona was a cosplayer before starting her music career?
... that the US Drug Enforcement Administration is looking for a man known as The Claw?

29 August 2018

00:00, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

SMS Admiral Spaun

... that after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Admiral Spaun (pictured) escorted the ship carrying his body back to Trieste?
... that as a high school basketball player, Lometa Odom set the Texas single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951?
... that Takuyo-Daisan was once an island in the South Pacific but is now a seamount off Japan?
... that the Thai Buddhist monk Luang Por Dhammajayo launched an anti-smoking and drinking campaign that won an award from the World Health Organization?
... that after his death, politician, jurist, and general Lucius Torquatus was portrayed by Roman writer Cicero as an advocate for Epicurean ethics?
... that Migrant Architects of the NHS recounts how doctors from the Indian subcontinent immigrated to Britain and became general practitioners?
... that maritime fur trader Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe and most of his crew were killed by Native Hawaiians in revenge for the flogging of a chief by Metcalfe's father days before?
... that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic "Loss" was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?

28 August 2018

00:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Geyser cone in El Tatio

... that El Tatio (pictured) is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and one of two worldwide with the highest elevation?
... that during Governor Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, political aide Carol Rasco took over Arkansas's "daily business"?
... that the British TV series Aap Kaa Hak answered health, social and legal questions in Hindi and Urdu?
... that the 1810 Catholic hymnal by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell, with his melodies and organ settings, contains a song included in the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 2013?
... that during World War II, future Oregon state senator Gordon W. McKay participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a Seabee?
... that the diet of the skeleton shrimp Caprella equilibra consists mainly of detritus, but it also feeds on the hydroids to which it clings?
... that the Carpenters received hate mail because they combined a soft ballad with a loud electric guitar?
... that Mormon studies scholars have the sense that they are being watched, following previous excommunications of Mormon historians in the field?

27 August 2018

00:00, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Margot Fonteyn

... that Margot Fonteyn (pictured) was The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in Panama?
... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
... that Ina Hartwig, formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau, published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017?
... that Ralph Vaughan Williams set Psalm 47 in English, O clap your hands, as a motet for choir and orchestra in 1920?
... that after FIBA rules changes limited the availability of NBA players, the U.S. men's basketball team decided to assemble rosters of primarily G Leaguers for the 2019 World Cup qualifiers?
... that a story by Argentine mathematician Magdalena Mouján about a Basque family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the Franco regime?
... that after being rebuilt in May 2018, the open-air Summer Theatre of Tirana held a show in which 400 artists participated?
... that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series under the command of Hugh Martell was the largest detonation of a nuclear device ever to take place in Australia?

26 August 2018

00:00, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Averroes by Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (14th century)

... that Andalusian philosopher Averroes (pictured) theorized that all human beings share a single intellect, and Thomas Aquinas wrote a treatise to refute this theory?
... that Altars of the World was the final recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film before the award was retired?
... that one of the financers of the Spire, a residential building in Seattle, joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping?
... that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join NATO, even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
... that the ancestors of the grey cuckooshrike most likely spread to Africa from the Australo-Papuan region?
... that Serge Blanc was the first to record Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" in France?
... that the single road bridge to Great Island in Cork Harbour is more than 200 years old?
... that in 1964, a school teacher survived for nine months after surgeon Keith Reemtsma transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into her?

25 August 2018

00:00, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Hall at the Palais du Trocadéro in 1878

... that on 24 August 1878, Charles-Marie Widor premiered his Symphony for Organ No. 6 for the inauguration of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Palais du Trocadéro (pictured) as part of the Paris World Exhibition?
... that Hope not Hate released commemorative mugs and teatowels to mark the retirement of Brian Parker, the British National Party's last district councillor?
... that Seattle's Denny Way was originally named "Depot Street" in hopes of luring a major train station?
... that Magema Magwaza Fuze was the first native speaker to publish a book in the Zulu language?
... that the preferred food of the copepod Pseudocalanus newmani includes diatoms of the genus Thalassiosira, which can be toxic to its young?
... that basketball player Norvel Pelle holds citizenship in three countries—Antigua and Barbuda, Lebanon, and the United States?
... that at the end of the unsuccessful Siege of Almería, some of the defeated Aragonese attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
... that the dermatologist Peter Copeman was known as "Dr Spot"?

24 August 2018

00:00, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Ludwigsburg Palace

... that Ludwigsburg Palace (pictured), the "Versailles of Swabia", was home to four of Württemberg's rulers?
... that Lydia May Ames, one of Cleveland's earliest women artists, is sometimes considered its first impressionist painter?
... that the seeds of the Nardouw fountain pincushion are carried underground by ants?
... that the writer İsmet Kür's father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer?
... that the Austro-Italian ironclad arms race led to the Battle of Lissa, the first naval engagement between multiple armored warships?
... that in the midst of being chased by Aṅgulimāla, a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
... that Red W Interactiva, a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?

23 August 2018

00:00, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (1761)

... that social media users made Joshua Reynolds's David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (pictured) into a meme based on the distracted boyfriend meme?
... that Abu al-Juyush Nasr became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of his brother, only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
... that the goose barnacle Conchoderma virgatum rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a porcupinefish?
... that US President Donald Trump's nomination of meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy has been received positively by scientists?
... that Claude Debussy composed The Little Nigar, a cakewalk, for a piano method?
... that voice actress Rie Murakawa's accolades include the Best Funny Radio and Best Comfort Radio awards in 2016?
... that Westbourne Terrace was one of 19 different "Westbourne" streets that appeared in the London Postal Guide in the nineteenth century?
... that Gavin Buckley, the mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, thinks of himself as Australian?

22 August 2018

00:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Alfons Tracki in 1930

... that Alfons Tracki (pictured), a German-Albanian Christian martyr, worked to eradicate Gjakmarrja (blood feuds) from Northern Albania?
... that hairs shed by caterpillars of the brown-tail moth can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to poison ivy?
... that Mimi Mondal is the first writer from India to be nominated for a Hugo Award?
... that after the original 1932 release of the film Scarface, it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years?
... that Jack Kirby created many famous comic book characters including Captain America, but his conception of Spider-Man was rejected for being too heroic?
... that Alexa Bank is probably a drowned atoll?
... that New Zealand-born Vance Drummond won the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot serving with the United States Air Force?
... that Neal McCoy wanted his anti-protest song "Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)" to "bring people together"?

21 August 2018

00:00, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Romani flag

... that the flag of the Romani people (pictured) was a triband, before the red stripe was removed over suspicions that it stood for communism?
... that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853?
... that penis worms very similar to Priapulus caudatus created trace fossils in the early Cambrian period?
... that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
... that Narmakosh, compiled by Narmad, is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
... that video artist Joan Braderman superimposed herself onto scenes from the television series Dynasty to critique the characters, plots, and themes?
... that if the Green Bay Packers football team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to its charitable foundation rather than its shareholders?
... that opera singer Catherine-Nicole Lemaure was imprisoned overnight for refusing to perform?

20 August 2018

00:00, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Clay model of the statue of John of Nepomuk

... that Matthias Rauchmiller, the son of a butcher, designed both the Plague Column in Vienna and the oldest statue on Prague's Charles Bridge (clay model pictured)?
... that the first screening of Venom and Eternity ended early following director Isidore Isou's attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre?
... that Ensign Robert Duncan was the first person to shoot down a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with a Grumman F6F Hellcat?
... that the Redneck Fishing Tournament has seen thousands of Asian carp caught by its participants without the use of fishing poles?
... that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
... that a pair of yellow "dolphin-like creatures" from a 7th-century hanging bowl finds its closest parallel in manuscript art?
... that Eric Rose performed the first successful paediatric heart transplant?
... that flying fox teeth are used as currency on Makira?

19 August 2018

00:00, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Snuffbox

... that the factory producing Capodimonte porcelain (snuffbox pictured), including forty workers and nearly five tons of material, was moved from Naples to Madrid in 1759?
... that Vicars Bell was the "village chronicler" of Little Gaddesden?
... that Stanwood, Washington, was formed by the consolidation of two rival towns in order to fund a modern sewage treatment system?
... that Mindy Alper, the visual artist featured in Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, helped Mary Stuart Masterson prepare for her role as a mentally ill woman in the 1993 film Benny & Joon?
... that the flowers of the common sunshine conebush are pollinated by beetles?
... that Jenny Sabin's installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night?
... that the 2018 roguelike video game Wizard of Legend received nearly 50 percent more than its funding goal in its Kickstarter campaign?
... that U.S. Army Hurricane Aircat airboats could ram and sink Viet Cong boats?

18 August 2018

00:00, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Candy striped flatworm

... that the candy striped flatworm (pictured) appears to glide across the seabed, being moved by cilia on its underside?
... that Leonard Owen oversaw the building of Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale?
... that John F. Kennedy suggested the State of Washington replace its unofficial motto "Alki" with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from "Washington, My Home", the state song?
... that while working for the predecessor of NASA, Chinese physicist Wu Zhonghua pioneered the three-dimensional flow theory, which has been used to design many aircraft engines?
... that Brugada syndrome is known in the Philippines as Bangungut, or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
... that American rapper Gizzle worked as a ghostwriter for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
... that the killer whale Tahlequah carried her dead calf for over two weeks in an apparent showing of grief?

17 August 2018

00:00, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Madonna

... that Madonna's (pictured) 1991 song "Rescue Me" made the highest debut for a song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since the Beatles' "Let It Be" 21 years earlier?
... that publisher Tu Books was created via a Kickstarter campaign, then purchased by Lee & Low Books three months later?
... that adult tapeworms parasitise the intestines of vertebrates but do not have guts of their own?
... that air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf, developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor, is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter global warming?
... that although New York City's Bushwick Inlet Park was proposed in 2005, the land for the park was not fully purchased until 2016?
... that periodontist John Zamet was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
... that the publisher of Life with My Sister Madonna, a tell-all book by the singer's younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
... that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns?

16 August 2018

00:00, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Damage to the painting in 1913

... that the painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been attacked and damaged twice (damage pictured)?
... that Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 contains as its third movement a Marche funèbre, which was composed earlier than the other music?
... that ethnic Croat journalist Štefica Galić has been called the "Schindler of Ljubuški" for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's Bosniaks during the Croat–Bosniak War?
... that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment?
... that South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66, providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest?
... that Charles Darwin made descriptive notes on the Brazilian sandperch after a specimen was caught with hook and line off the coast of Patagonia during the voyage of Beagle?
... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System?
... that members of the Djajadiningrat family fought on both sides of the Indonesian Revolution?

15 August 2018

00:00, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Avro Vulcans

... that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, each of Britain's "V force" squadrons kept one nuclear-armed V bomber (Avro Vulcans pictured) and crew at 15 minutes' readiness?
... that Mary Fenton, the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi, Gujarati, and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau?
... that Helleria brevicornis is the only terrestrial woodlouse that has retained the ancestral aquatic isopod behaviour of mate guarding?
... that American video game producer Ben Judd is fluent in the Japanese Kansai dialect?
... that Loggerheads Country Park has a corn mill with a restored water wheel?
... that the South African composer Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums, marimba, and string orchestra?
... that the deposed Byzantine emperor Maurice was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
... that Atlantis moved from Ireland to Colombia?

14 August 2018

00:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

The Rhinemaidens in 1876

... that Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens (pictured) at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre?
... that Robert Lebel was inducted in the inaugural class of three ice hockey halls of fame?
... that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine scale models of full-size steam locomotives at Royden Park?
... that when King Kamehameha III died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew Kamehameha IV instead of his son Albert Kūnuiākea?
... that Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică, a self-proclaimed "Voivode of the Gypsies", supported Romania's far-right groups, beginning with the National Agrarian Party?
... that Old North, built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on Georgetown University's campus?
... that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
... that the plot of the 1994 comic book Archie Meets the Punisher was modeled after the 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein?

13 August 2018

00:00, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Zheng Pingru

... that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru (pictured), who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its film adaptation?
... that Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
... that Grace Macurdy shaped the field of classics by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
... that the flowers of the Redelinghuys pincushion are pollinated by rodents?
... that Chip Rives was one of the eight people named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 1987?
... that the Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis in southeastern Turkey was originally the baptistery of a Syriac Orthodox cathedral which no longer exists?
... that Michael Martin, project director of the recently completed £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing, was inspired to study engineering through reading back issues of New Civil Engineer?
... that according to some accounts, the legendary Georgian hunting dog Q'ursha had eagle's wings, a thunderous bark and a gigantic leap?

12 August 2018

00:00, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Frescos in Fulltofta Church

... that the frescos (pictured) in Fulltofta Church were discovered in 1907 after being hidden since the Reformation?
... that George Whitney Calhoun and Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers 99 years ago today?
... that in July 2018, U2 topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart for the first time in seventeen years with "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way"?
... that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
... that the flatworm Procerodes littoralis is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
... that plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson had the idea for the Hand Club to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at Guy's Hospital?
... that the Fisher Ridge Cave System is the fifth-longest cave in the United States and one of the longest in the world?
... that the Belgium international player Leander Dendoncker is one of three footballer brothers from a pig-farming family?

11 August 2018

00:00, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Sycamore Gap Tree

... that the Sycamore Gap Tree (pictured) has been featured in a Hollywood blockbuster, a Bryan Adams music video and a TV crime drama?
... that the Russian Liberation Army defected for the second time when it turned against Nazi Germany in the Prague uprising on 6 May 1945?
... that the blazar TXS 0506+056 is the first identified source of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos?
... that in 1965, Benjamin Steinberg, a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini, started the first racially integrated symphony orchestra in America, the Symphony of the New World?
... that Mexican federal deputy Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga and his wife were found to own six properties worth a total of 14 million pesos in the state of Chihuahua?
... that the University Hospital in Pleven was the first hospital in Bulgaria to perform robot-assisted surgery?
... that the research of 2017 Spinoza Prize winner Eveline Crone has led the Netherlands to extend its juvenile detention age limit from 18 to 23?
... that despite being a crustacean, a parasitic copepod found on a flying fish was described as a "gill-worm" by Hans Severin Holten, the Danish naturalist who discovered it?

10 August 2018

00:00, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Teuira Henry

... that Teuira Henry (pictured) reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing Tahitian history by using his notes?
... that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
... that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor?
... that the antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"?
... that the Samec'niero, written by Iase Tushi, contains one of the earliest examples of a Georgian–Persian dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in Iran?
... that brass bands have been a feature of Vale Park since its opening in 1899, when one played the crowd in through the gates?
... that Neocalanus plumchrus is able to uptake dissolved glucose directly from seawater despite its exoskeleton?
... that the footballer Mark Aizlewood once celebrated scoring a goal by flicking the V at fans of his own team?

9 August 2018

00:00, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Torrance Barrens

... that the Torrance Barrens (pictured) is Canada's first dark-sky preserve?
... that Erinea Garcia Gallegos, one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, the governing body for the majority of equestrian sports in Germany, promotes the status of the horse as a cultural asset?
... that Farouk Topan described the English language as "the elephant in the room" in relation to the use of Kiswahili in East Africa?
... that when the besieged town of Berwick-upon-Tweed refused to surrender, the governor's son was hanged outside the town gates?
... that the history of the Jews in Atlanta dates to 1845, the same year the city changed its name from Marthasville?
... that the sea chubs Graus nigra and Medialuna ancietae, the Chilean sandperch, and the Galápagos sheephead wrasse all live in the forest?
... that John Joseph Merlin crashed into a mirror at Carlisle House while playing the violin on the roller skates that he had invented?

8 August 2018

00:00, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Flight Stop, Toronto Eaton Centre

... that each of the sixty geese in Michael Snow's Flight Stop (pictured) is decorated with the image of the same dead Canada goose culled from Toronto Island?
... that Clifford Braimah, head of the Ghana Water Company, is a supporter of Operation Vanguard and its mission to end illegal mining?
... that the rising prosperity of the Wang family of Lingshi County during the Qing dynasty financed the multi-generation construction of a grand residential complex of hundreds of courtyards with over 2,000 rooms?
... that Governor-elect of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, was the first winning gubernatorial candidate to come from the Movimiento Ciudadano party?
... that the YouTube channel ContraPoints releases humorous, left-leaning educational videos responding to the arguments of the growing community of right-wing YouTubers?
... that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice, and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?
... that Neocalanus cristatus nauplii feed off their yolks during the 40 days it may take them to ascend to the surface of the sea?
... that chemical engineer Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone invented a flute made from the aluminium brass tubing used in oil refineries?

7 August 2018

00:00, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Chang and Eng Bunker in their 60s

... that the conjoined liver of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker (pictured) is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia?
... that Malala Yousafzai's 2013 autobiography I Am Malala was banned in 152,000 private schools in Pakistan?
... that followers of the second-century Carpocratian Christian leader Marcellina venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus?
... that in 1918, Richard Strauss composed Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, based on poems by Clemens Brentano, with the voice of Elisabeth Schumann in mind?
... that Carrie Goldberg, who is representing two women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, once served as a case manager for Holocaust victims?
... that US Senate page boys were required to wear knickers when the film Adventure in Washington‎ was made in 1941?
... that British surgeon Jim Dempster published more than 100 scientific articles on kidney transplantation in dogs?
... that jewel anemones split apart but stay together?

6 August 2018

00:00, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Flag of Sioux Falls, South Dakota

... that the pinkish-red portion of the flag of Sioux Falls (pictured) represents the Sioux Quartzite stone which was quarried nearby and used to build early Sioux Falls buildings?
... that when Gaius Hospes wore his award for valour at public gatherings, it was expected that he be applauded by every person present?
... that verses 2 to 6 of Psalm 97 in Czech were set to music by Antonín Dvořák in his Biblical Songs?
... that despite being portrayed favorably in a Soviet propaganda film, Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev was later accused by Leon Trotsky of supporting Chinese monarchism?
... that the pharmacist-to-pharmacy technician ratio has generally increased as pharmacy technicians have become less like retail clerks and taken on more responsibilities?
... that Scott Smith's management and marketing of international events was cited by the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a reason for the growth of Hockey Canada?
... that the announcement of Steel Division 2 came after half the team at Eugen Systems, the video game's developers, went on strike?
... that after Isaac Stevens, the governor of Washington Territory, was found guilty of contempt over his conduct during martial law in Pierce County, he pardoned himself?

5 August 2018

00:00, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Franz Schubert

... that Franz Schubert (pictured), a prolific composer of songs, symphonies and other works, gave only one public concert presenting his own works?
... that butyrolactol A, a polyketide derived from Streptomyces rochei, demonstrates broad antimicrobial activity against fungi, including Candida albicans?
... that John Davy Rolleston highlighted the seriousness of otitis media as a complication of scarlet fever?
... that the video game Detroit: Become Human has three playable characters, each with their own composer and style of cinematography?
... that the mangrove kingfisher, found in Africa, migrates away from mangroves to breed?
... that Kelly M. Quintanilla, the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi?
... that the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the Solid Project to reclaim the Web from corporations and return control of data to users?
... that Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were recognized as the most avid filmgoers in Poland, having seen more than 13,000 movies together?

4 August 2018

00:00, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Several creeping comb jellies on Luzon sea star

... that the creeping comb jelly lives on the surface of a starfish (pictured) in the family Echinasteridae?
... that the 27-year-old Uzbekistani pianist Behzod Abduraimov has already performed at the BBC Proms twice?
... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
... that despite never completing his university studies, R. H. Wilenski was appointed a special lecturer in the history of art at the University of Manchester?
... that specimens of the fish Palatogobius grandoculus were collected as early as 1976 but not identified as a new species until 2002?
... that Gerd Hatje went from being a typesetter to founding the internationally renowned publishing house which still bears his name?
... that some railway surgeons opposed the introduction of first aid kits on trains, maintaining that only doctors should carry out this work?
... that the developers of Vampyr chose to include only one save slot, so that the player's actions would have "real, meaningful impact"?

3 August 2018

00:00, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Delta Beta Tau pledge class of 2018 sitting in meditation

... that Dharma Bum Temple helped organize the first Buddhist college fraternity in the United States, Delta Beta Tau (pledge class pictured), at San Diego State University?
... that Chinese-Indonesian businessman Sutanto Djuhar was the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four" of the Suharto era?
... that the trunk of the King Oak is more than 8 metres (26 ft) in girth?
... that Sara Hershkowitz, who usually appears on the opera stage as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, parodied Donald Trump in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at the Lowlands Festival?
... that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida, a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort?
... that Michael Peter Kaye was the first director of what became the largest registry of heart and lung transplantation data in the world?
... that the purple eagle ray (Myliobatis hamlyni) was named after Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, director of the Queensland Museum?
... that the sport of duck netting may be unique to the Imperial House of Japan?

2 August 2018

00:00, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Seielstad's vision of a "giant meteor" strike

... that in 1939, Benjamin Seielstad drew four different versions of the end of the world ("giant meteor" collision pictured) for Popular Science Monthly?
... that incendiary balloons—made from condoms or party balloons—and incendiary kites have been launched from the Gaza Strip and started hundreds of fires in Israel in 2018?
... that Catherine Gayer, who was a coloratura soprano for four decades at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, premiered Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Venice, and Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival?
... that the time limit in the puzzle game Cloud Kingdoms is calculated in 99 intervals called "manukas"?
... that when biochemist Li Lin was a Ph.D. student, he often went to slaughterhouses and wet markets to buy chicken and pig livers for his experiments?
... that the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub, built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?
... that Averroes wrote on subjects as diverse as philosophy, Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, and astronomy?
... that the first episode of the first Doctor Who series had to be rerecorded because the TARDIS doors would not close?

1 August 2018

00:00, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Gustaf Gabriel Hällström

... that scientist Gustaf Gabriel Hällström (pictured) initiated the first regular meteorological observations in Finland?
... that the Flint Public Library created the Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest to celebrate bad poetry?
... that when Marcus Bibulus opposed a law proposed by Julius Caesar, he was publicly soaked with excrement?
... that Ninurta, the Mesopotamian god of hunting, is believed by many scholars to be the source of the biblical figure Nimrod?
... that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan were uncommon on handheld systems like the Game Boy Advance?
... that Joseph Mohr left Germany when Jesuit institutions were dissolved, and wrote his popular hymn abroad?
... that some leeches feed only twice a year?
... that before she became a star in Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Dee Booher's first professional match was against a 700-pound (320 kg) bear?