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31 August 2016

00:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Ecuadorian cacique

... that both the Ecuadorian (pictured) and solitary caciques have entirely black plumage, whereas the Selva cacique has a yellow rump?
... that Bishop Pavao Dragičević may have selected Elijah as patron saint of Bosnia and Herzegovina due to his veneration by the country's Muslims, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians?
... that Mark Barrott originally planned his second studio album Sketches from an Island 2 to be an extended play?
... that W. Wallace Kellett made the first autogyro used by the United States Post Office Department for carrying mail?
... that the character of Dr. Jim Craig on One Life to Live was played by actor Nat Polen from 1969 until Polen's death in 1981?
... that Heber Robert McBride was an immigrant to the U.S. who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Martin Handcart Company?
... that the 1912 Futurist painting Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash was inspired by Giacomo Balla's fascination with chronophotography?
... that the footballer Derek Dougan handed in a transfer request the day before he played in the 1960 FA Cup Final?

30 August 2016

00:00, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Pylon on the Tucuruí transmission line

... that the Tucuruí transmission line (pylon pictured) carries power for 1,800 kilometres (1,100 mi) through the Amazon region?
... that the clothing historian Janet Arnold was still working on clothes for the Mermaid Theatre just two days before her death from lymphoma?
... that the Soviet 17th Mechanized Corps lost all of its armored vehicles in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk?
... that Mexican parliamentarian Hortensia Aragón Castillo's alternate deputy is her sister?
... that East Texas State Teachers College president James G. Gee declared Sam Rayburn, the congressman and college alumnus, "my personal enemy", during a faculty meeting?
... that Roy Thomas Severn established the biggest centre for the study of earthquake engineering in the UK?
... that after taking up arms against Hungary during the failed 1848 revolution, Ioan Pușcariu, an ethnic Romanian, returned to work in Hungarian government service for decades?
... that exhibits in the Sudha Cars Museum have found their way onto Ripley's Believe It or Not!?

29 August 2016

00:00, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Bronze orange bug

... that the bronze orange bug (pictured) can spray a stinky liquid at a _target up to 60 centimetres (24 in) away?
... that Yuuki Tanaka led Waseda University women's tennis team to their fifth consecutive All-Japan championship in 2010?
... that all four of the American Party of South Carolina's candidates in the state's 2014 elections lost?
... that Melchisedec Ștefănescu was the only Romanian bishop to support the secularization of monastic estates?
... that a judge shot a doctor at Exeter Racecourse during the last duel in Devon?
... that rookie Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Jason Spriggs was named a first team All-American in his senior year of college?
... that the Mexico City wrestling commission did not allow promoter Joaquín Roldán to be at the ringside for Triplemanía XVI as he was not a licensed active competitor?
... that in his will, Humphrey Stafford left his household servants £1 each, his grooms 6s.8d each, his pages 3s.4d each, and £8 for masses for his soul?

28 August 2016

00:00, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Denton Burdick

... that when he served in the Oregon House of Representatives, Denton G. Burdick (pictured) represented a district that was nearly the size of Pennsylvania?
... that the Sugababes' fragrances Tempt, Tease and Touch were among The Perfume Shop's first releases after opening in-store outlets in Superdrug stores?
... that Hero of the Soviet Union Andrey Shebalkov was deprived of his title on charges of sending anti-Soviet letters?
... that the recreation of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus by the Indian realist painter Gopal Swami Khetanchi showed a pearl-clad Rajasthani woman coming out of a lotus?
... that Carl Sagan lived in an Egyptian Revival tomb built on a cliff halfway down a gorge?
... that in 1949, the Bristol Rovers footballer Vic Lambden married one of his team's fans?
... that "Elector Under Will of Oliver Smith" is the title of an elected official in some towns in Massachusetts?
... that philosopher Tamara Horowitz stopped looking in mirrors for two years in her twenties?

27 August 2016

00:00, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Harrild & Sons jobbing press

... that in 1813, a British manufacturer of printing presses (pictured), Harrild & Sons, helped establish the use in London of composition rollers instead of ink balls to ink the printing plates?
... that Petra Lang, who performed the parts of Brangäne and Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival as a mezzo-soprano, was the Isolde of 2016?
... that fearsome Hindu and Buddhist deities are depicted wearing a garland of severed human heads?
... that future New Jersey Assemblyman Arthur Barclay won the state Tournament of Champions as basketball team captain, alongside future NBA player Dajuan Wagner?
... that Queen Elizabeth II was presented with a crate of ale when she visited the Bridge Inn, Topsham?
... that author Annette Lyon loves chocolate so much that she helped out with the Utah Chocolate Show, and wrote her own chocolate cookbook?
... that the outer bark of the downy birch can be stripped off without killing the tree, to make canoes, drinking vessels and roof tiles?
... that the director David Pountney was once part of a mercantile silence, but now is part of the noise?

26 August 2016

00:00, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

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Josephine Butler

... that the English feminist and social reformer Josephine Butler (pictured) wrote more than 90 books and pamphlets over the course of her career?
... that according to legend, Mekhala and Kanakhala decapitated themselves and danced headless to please their guru?
... that CANDLE syndrome was categorized in 2010, with symptoms including skin lesions, organ inflammation, and recurrent fever?
... that the philosopher Lisa Bortolotti argues that the irrationality of delusions does not stop them from being beliefs?
... that the case of the 1996 killing of Sharon Lopatka was reportedly the first time a police department arrested a murder suspect with evidence gathered primarily from email messages?
... that federal deputy Delia Guerrero Coronado previously was the head of nursing at the general hospital of Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí?

25 August 2016

09:46, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Bazman viewed from the International Space Station

... that the Bazman volcano (pictured) in Iran is undergoing active surface deformation?
... that Elizabeth Casson set up an early occupational therapy school with funds borrowed from her brother Lewis?
... that in Hindu mythology, the demon Kalanemi who was killed by Vishnu, was reborn as Kamsa to be eventually killed by Vishnu's reincarnation Krishna?
... that Mexican politician Joaquín Díaz Mena managed a Cancún hotel, taught Telesecundaria classes, and was involved in ranching?
... that Mabel Mudge became the longest-serving landlady in the UK in 1995, having run the Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton, for 75 years?
... that the song "War Paint" performed by American singer Fletcher was the most shared song on Spotify in the United States for the week commencing June 29, 2015?
... that the association footballer Willie Carlin accepted a transfer to Derby County after his wife declared that she wanted to move away from Sheffield?

24 August 2016

15:20, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Mihran Kassabian's hands (1909)

... that the pioneering radiologist Mihran Kassabian photographed his own hands (pictured) to document the progression of radiation-related necroses and amputations?
... that according to Atsushi Inaba, the development of Bayonetta almost "broke" PlatinumGames?
... that Anne-Marie shared a stage with Jessie J as a kid?
... that the Soviet 20th Mechanized Corps was almost entirely destroyed during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk?
... that Claudia Corichi García's arrival in the Citizens' Movement party prompted its director in the state of Zacatecas to resign?
... that before Charles Douglas Carpendale was hired to become John Reith's second-in-command to lead the BBC, he was a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy?
... that ballet dancer Herman Cornejo is "not a fairy-tale prince", but "a believable, 21st-century hero"?

00:00, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

George Rex Flag

... that citizens of the Province of New York unofficially adopted the George Rex Flag (pictured) to protest against freedom of religion granted to Catholics in Quebec?
... that in 2010 Joanne M. Maguire became the first woman to receive the International von Kármán Wings Award?
... that Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton has hit the hardest batted ball, recorded at 123.9 miles per hour (199.4 km/h) by Major League Baseball's Statcast?
... that Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo was jailed after protesting fraud in the 1993 election for municipal president of Tepic, Nayarit, which he lost?
... the Watersnoodmuseum (Flood Museum) in Ouwerkerk is housed in Phoenix caissons that were originally built for the Normandy landings in World War II?
... that in 2015 Stéphane Sparagna captained the France national under-20 football team to their first Toulon Tournament title in seven years?
... that since the Beatles' audio engineer Geoff Emerick used to smoke Everest cigarettes, Abbey Road was originally planned to be titled Mount Everest, Everest or Ever Rest?

23 August 2016

12:00, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Taylor Swift

... that Taylor Swift (pictured) is the first act to have three albums with opening-week sales of one million copies in the United States?
... that the historic district of Pingjiang Road in Suzhou was featured in the Southern Song Dynasty map Pingjiang Tu, produced in the year 1229?
... that Jorge Estefan Chidiac has served on the Finances and Public Credit Commission in each of his three terms in the Chamber of Deputies?
...that awards for The Danish Girl included the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Alicia Vikander's portrayal of Danish painter Gerda Wegener?
... that Red Army Major General Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov died in the Flossenbürg concentration camp?
... that Qal'eh Hasan Ali, originally considered a group of impact craters, is instead a group of maars that may have formed within the last 50,000 years?
... that, after visiting fascist Italy, Herbert Schneider wrote to John Dewey that "a whole new world of the imagination has been created"?

00:00, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

An NMR structure of part of the agnoprotein

... that agnoprotein (pictured) is found in two polyomaviruses that can cause human disease, JC virus and BK virus?
... that the footballer Jordan Green worked as a supermarket shelf-stacker before earning his first professional contract?
... that The Andy Griffith Show was ranked number 1 by Nielsen during its final season?
... that on August 20, 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on Osama bin Laden's Afghan training camps and a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant?
... that Ross Adams worked as a script editor on the soap opera Emmerdale before he was cast as Scott Drinkwell in Hollyoaks?
... that Tomás Ruiz González was the first president of the Mexican Tax Administration Service?
... that Greater Port Harcourt encompasses eight local government areas of Rivers State, Nigeria?

22 August 2016

12:00, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Joe Clarke

... that the Olympic kayaking gold medallist Joe Clarke (pictured) had to write a letter to his school before he was allowed to join their canoeing club?
... that the fungal pathogen Cristulariella depraedans affects sycamore and maple trees and sometimes has epidemic years?
... that composer Harcourt Whyte suffered from leprosy?
... that the Sir Ralph Abercromby public house in Manchester, UK, is the only remaining building in St Peter's Field from the time of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819?
... that in between her two terms in the Chamber of Deputies, Sandra Méndez Hernández spent two years as municipal president of Tultitlán, State of Mexico?
... that Peter Paige originally auditioned for the role of Ted Schmidt in the American version of Queer as Folk?
... that Nine Partners Creek has a tributary named Leslie Creek, is also known as "Leslie Creek", and has been called a tributary of Leslie Creek?

00:00, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Miguel Ángel Yunes

... that cousins Miguel Ángel Yunes (pictured) and Héctor Yunes Landa ran against each other for Governor of Veracruz?
... that the eastern spiny mouse can shed its tail in order to escape from a predator?
... that brothers Derek and Callum Hawkins have been selected to represent Great Britain in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that before recording the Evita soundtrack, Madonna trained with vocal coach Joan Lader to increase her confidence?
... that cyclist Callum Skinner was the inaugural winner of a trophy named after Chris Hoy, the man who inspired him to take up the sport?
... that one reviewer argued that the 2014 book Highland Park and River Oaks laid too much emphasis on Spanish architecture?
... that Edwin Stevens, reporting from his missionary position in Qing-era China, felt that recent erections indicated apprehension, and penetration was difficult?

21 August 2016

12:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Crane fly with wings and halteres

... that flies (crane fly pictured) have a single pair of wings for flight, the hind wings being modified into tiny gyroscopic organs known as "halteres"?
... that Javier Guerrero García is considered a potential contender for the Institutional Revolutionary Party nomination for Governor of Coahuila in 2017?
... that the Guinness World Records listed Madonna under the category of Most Costume Changes in a Film, for wearing 85 dresses in Evita?
... that "MARB" at Brigham Young University is named after agronomist Thomas L. Martin?
... that The Verge identified "Don't talk to me or my son ever again" as the "meme of the summer" of 2016?
... that Dan Bibby scored the golden point for Great Britain in their recent Olympic rugby sevens quarter-final?
... that in order to secure the crown for her sons, the Dioclean queen Jaquinta of Bari had a brother-in-law beheaded, another blinded and castrated, a nephew poisoned and another beheaded?

00:00, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Ashleigh Gentle

... that in the wake of her podium finish in Yokohama, Ashleigh Gentle (pictured) was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio?
... that a bill presented by Federico Döring in the Mexican Senate was compared to the Stop Online Piracy Act in the United States?
... that The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure will be re-themed as Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout! in 2017?
... that musician and model Katelynne Cox also worked as a congressional aide?
... that Va tacito e nascosto uses the sound of the horn to symbolize the dramatic theme of the hunt?
... that Nepalese taekwondo practitioner Nisha Rawal received one of four Tripartite Commission wildcards to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Gulabrai Ramchand was one of the first cricketers to have endorsed commercial brands?

20 August 2016

12:00, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Zoffany House

... that the British architect Philip Hepworth lived in and restored Zoffany House (pictured), formerly the home of the 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany?
... that when the Verrückt opened in July 2014, it surpassed the Kilimanjaro at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort to become the world's tallest water slide?
... that the Australian Greco-Roman wrestler Vinod Kumar Dahiya was once pushed from a moving train by the father of one of his rivals?
... that Baltazar Martínez Montemayor, a former town councilor in Cerralvo, Nuevo León, is the father of the current mayor, the youngest in the state?
... that the association footballer Fred Keenor captained the only non-English team to win the FA Cup Final?
... that the Holby City production team built a new set featuring real pharmaceutical equipment for the introduction of the character Amy Teo?
... that the American engineer John J. Coit, who built and operated miniature railways, died when his locomotive ran into a cow?

00:00, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Sheet music cover

... that Bells Across the Meadows (title page pictured), a characteristic intermezzo by Albert Ketèlbey, was rated one of Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2003?
... that actress Shriya Pilgaonkar trained to become a professional swimmer as a child, and won several medals at school?
... that Fort Michni, one of two recognised towns of Doaba Daudzai Tehsil, had a population of 205 males and 3 females in 1881?
... that Indian Air Marshal Jasbir Walia served as a qualified flying instructor, a pilot attack instructor, and a fighter combat leader?
... that police tipped off the owner of Babette's Supper Club before they raided its illegal backroom casino, and gamblers escaped through a trap door?
... that Kate French qualified for the modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics after missing just one _target in the final event of the 2015 European Championships?
... that 55 years after her death, Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh was found to have secreted away jewels and had a Swiss bank account, with a combined total of over 137,000 francs?

19 August 2016

12:00, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Ramses II at Kadesh

... that the 1275 BC Battle of Kadesh (relief of Ramses II in battle, pictured) is one of the best documented battles in ancient history due to the multiple Kadesh inscriptions?
... that Bryony Page is Great Britain's first-ever Olympic medallist in trampolining?
... that "Stay with Me till Dawn" was Judie Tzuke's only UK top 40 single?
... that Nicole Moerig has competed in road races such as the Amgen Tour of California, Silver City's Tour of the Gila, the Tour de Bretagne Féminin, and the 2016 Women's Tour de Yorkshire?
... that the gothic arches of the Grade I listed Avon Bridge cannot be seen due to a later girder bridge widening it?
... that Asnage Castelly first had to create the Haitian Wrestling Federation before being allowed to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics as his nation's first Olympic wrestler?
... that around the turn of the 20th century, New Jersey amber was burned for heat in the winter?

00:00, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Theodor Lewald in 1900

... that Theodor Lewald (pictured) successfully campaigned for Germany to compete at the 1928 Summer Olympics and host the 1936 Summer Olympics?
... that the Heron Road Workers Memorial Bridge in Ottawa was renamed in 2016 to commemorate the victims of the deadliest construction accident in Ontario's history?
... that London County Council Chief Whip Freda Corbet was known within her party as the 'tiny tyrant'?
... that Kelly's of Cornwall produced the first advertisement shown on national British television to feature the Cornish language?
... that taekwondo practitioner Raheleh Asemani was born in Iran and qualified for the 2016 Olympics as a refugee athlete, but competes at the Games as part of the Belgian team?
... that dead moll's fingers are generally more slender than dead man's fingers?
... that Emily Clarissa Blackman became an assistant teacher at age 15, published a book of Susquehanna County history in 1873, and could allegedly read the Bible in ten languages?

18 August 2016

12:10, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Common gundi

... that the common gundi (pictured) may act as a natural reservoir for the pathogen that causes cutaneous leishmaniasis?
... that in 1974 the anthropologist Reina Torres de Araúz was the first woman distinguished as a full member of the Panamanian Academy of History?
... that Jonathan Brownlee collapsed almost immediately after crossing the finish line at the men's triathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1555 Gabriel Pleydell was found guilty of ring-leading a plot to exile Mary I of England?
... that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology biochemist Jack Buchanan published his work on purine biosynthesis in a series of more than 20 papers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry?
... that Austin's historic federal courthouse may become a homeless shelter?

00:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

David Dahl

... that David Dahl (pictured) had his ruptured spleen removed instead of waiting for it to heal, to return to playing baseball sooner?
... that Margaret Ursula Jones directed work at Mucking, the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Britain, for thirteen years, while living on site year round in a small caravan?
... that to promote Mad Max, Warner Bros invited artists to create artwork on their vehicles with dust, and partnered with Uber for a free ride special offer?
... that Aslaug Haviland was known as "Utah's Helen Keller"?
... that American software firm Cylance Inc. uncovered Operation Cleaver, a planned Iranian cyberwarfare operation _targeting critical infrastructure organizations globally?
... that Norwich City F.C. joint majority shareholder Michael Wynn-Jones attended his first Norwich match in 1953?
... that the Python Package Index is also known as the Cheese Shop, a reference to the Monty Python sketch?

17 August 2016

12:00, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Male and female saffron siskin

... that despite occurring in six protected areas in Ecuador, the saffron siskin (pictured) is rated a "vulnerable species"?
... that while in the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, Vidal Llerenas Morales presented initiatives supporting the legalization of marijuana?
... that KGB mole Aldrich Ames enabled the Soviet Union and Russia to funnel disinformation to the CIA for eight years?
... that Jim Morrison recorded some vocals for the Doors' L.A. Woman in a bathroom doorway?
... that the desert dormouse hibernates for nearly half the year?
... that Charles Soule, creator of the comic book series Star Wars: Poe Dameron, writes English dialogue for the droid BB-8 which is later translated into "bleeps and bloops" for the comic?
... that two hands can sound like three?

00:05, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

459 West 18th Street from the High Line

... that the architects of 459 West 18th Street (pictured) in Manhattan's West Chelsea neighborhood also developed it to make sure it was built as they had designed it?
... that in February 2016, Olympic sprinter Alex Hartmann ran the fastest 200 metres by an Australian since 2006?
... that Pope Francis' apostolic constitution Vultum Dei quaerere amended Catholic canon law pertaining to women's contemplative life?
... that "The Dowry of the Angyar" was the first story set in the fictional Hainish Universe?
... that in 2000, Susan Hanson became the first female geographer to be elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences?
... that serial rapists are more likely to be strangers to their victims than single-victim rapists?
... that Alice Franklin toured Canada to encourage the locals to accept immigrant women who couldn't find husbands in Britain following World War I?

16 August 2016

12:20, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Doiran Memorial

... that the Doiran Memorial (pictured) is both a battlefield memorial and a memorial to the missing for the British Salonika Force that fought on the Macedonian Front during the First World War?
... that along with her classmates at the Chiefs' Children's School, Mary Polly Paʻaʻāina was chosen by King Kamehameha III to be eligible for the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that Max Reger was inspired by his teacher's chorale fantasia to compose Zwei Choralphantasien, Op. 40?
... that José Alfredo Torres Huitrón is the son of a former mayor of Ecatepec de Morelos, the city he represents in the Chamber of Deputies?
... that the brown-headed crow is presumed to have an unknown habitat requirement that prevents it from having a continuous range in Indonesia?
... that Romanian poet Petre Stoica, assigned to study German by a dean meeting a quota, later became an accomplished translator of German-language authors?
... that Protestant missionary Robert Morrison complained that the first Protestant convert in mainland China was "not so docile as I could wish?"

00:00, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Fabian Florant

... that Dutch triple jumper Fabian Florant (pictured) set a new personal best and national record to meet the qualifying standard for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that the song "Up in the Air" by Thirty Seconds to Mars premiered from the International Space Station in March 2013?
... that while he was mayor of Portland, Neal Dow ordered state militia troops to fire upon people protesting his Prohibition law?
... that NASA helped in the development of The Martian?
... that after he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife who disappeared 20 years ago today, Perry March tried to have his in-laws killed?
... that Yona Knight-Wisdom is the first male Jamaican diver to compete at the Olympic Games?
... that some long-tailed spiny rats do not have tails at all?

15 August 2016

12:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Steppe mouse

... that juvenile steppe mice (pictured) build mounds in autumn that may be 4 m (13 ft) in diameter?
... that when artist Annie Poon was a child, her mother gave her a nickel for each artist she could identify?
... that Inca figurines have been found on the Acamarachi volcano?
... that George Blowers presented his household pets to the US National Zoo whilst governor of the Central Bank of Liberia?
... that in 1797, a wealthy Irish heiress was abducted to Vernon Mount and subjected to a forced marriage ceremony?
... that the footballer Joe Cassidy lost 22 lb (10 kg) during the 1924–25 season, due to a severe case of influenza?
... that the release of the 2016 video game This Is the Police was delayed due to a publisher error?

00:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Entrance to the Great Turnstile

... that the Great Turnstile (entrance pictured, right) was originally built to keep cattle out of Holborn?
... that baseball player Bake McBride missed most of the 1982 season due to an eye infection related to his contact lenses?
... that in 2011, a field of red poppies, cornflowers, and marigolds was planted alongside the M32 motorway in Bristol to improve the view?
... that Edgardo Melhem Salinas received the second-most votes out of all Mexican federal deputies in the 2015 elections?
... that the 1986 sex comedy The Decline of the American Empire was the first Canadian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that Elwin Cockett was chaplain to West Ham United F.C. for 20 years?
... that in a 1931 Prohibition-era raid on the Clicquot Club of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Federal agents "poured several thousand dollars worth of alleged whiskies and champagnes down a drain"?

14 August 2016

12:00, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Stafanie Taylor

... that in July 2016, cricketer Stafanie Taylor (pictured) won her eighth consecutive Women's Player of the Year award at the WICB/WIPA Awards?
... that siblings Miguel Ángel and Alma Lilia Luna Munguía were slated to compete against each other for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies until the former was murdered in his campaign office?
... that the 1992 essay collection Black Dixie has been called "an excellent example of African-American history, of urban history, and of collaborative effort"?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Kyler Fackrell took a year off after high school and painted houses for a living instead of playing college football?
... that the New York City Subway stations of Flushing–Main Street and Norwood–205th Street both have provisions for unbuilt subway extensions?
... that Alice of Champagne claimed the Kingdom of Jerusalem, because its infant king, Conrad, had failed to take possession of it within a year and a day after the death of his mother?
... that Bill Palatucci, the planned presidential transition head for Donald Trump, does not like to be hugged?

00:00, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Bushy-crested jay

... that the female bushy-crested jay (illustrated) is assisted by many other jays in caring for her young?
... that Ben St Lawrence qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the first day of the qualification window?
... that 36 years after taking his first job in the city government, Pablo Bedolla López was elected municipal president of Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico?
... that local aboriginal folklore claims they helped shape the current course of the Murray River after its route was modified by the uplift of the Cadell Fault?
... that in 2015 Swedish Olympic pole vaulter Melker Svärd Jacobsson suffered an injury that doctors could not diagnose for eight months?
... that Peter Skewes is the nominee of the American Party of South Carolina in the 2016 United States presidential election?
... that at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Bhutan was one of two nations to have only female competitors?

13 August 2016

12:00, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Luke Patience in 2012

... that the British sailor Luke Patience (pictured) is due to compete alongside Chris Grube in the 470 class at the 2016 Summer Olympics, after his original teammate had to withdraw to undergo treatment for bowel cancer?
... that Harry Diddlebock was a sportswriter for 17 years before becoming manager of baseball's St. Louis Browns?
... that "Hari Kemenangan" is Siti Nurhaliza's first Eid al-Fitr single in more than 10 years?
... that John L. Harmer was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as Lieutenant Governor of California for three months, after the resignation of Edwin Reinecke?
... that the gray tree rat is nocturnal and feeds mainly on fruit?
... that in June 2016, Indian long jumper Ankit Sharma broke the national record twice in one day and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Noemí Guzmán Lagunes earned her undergraduate degree two years after she was elected municipal president of Teocelo?

00:00, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Einar af Wirsén

... that Swedish diplomat Einar af Wirsén (pictured) was a witness to the Armenian Genocide?
... that the British Olympic swimmer Stephen Milne studied in Perth, Scotland, and trained in Perth, Australia?
... that Heckell's thread-finned acara is a South American freshwater fish that has turned up in Singapore?
... that for nearly 25 years, Liborio Vidal Aguilar has donated his salary earned as a public official in Yucatán to charitable causes?
... that fan video blogs created by Kaitlyn Vincie on NASCAR racing attracted enough success that they were shown on stock car racing website SceneDaily?
... that San Blas jays and purplish-backed jays both form social groups which cooperate in the raising of young?
... that 2016 Olympian Rhydian Cowley was inspired when a rival athlete received an Olympic gold medal four years after competing?

12 August 2016

12:10, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Santa Cecilia Chapel

... that the Santa Cecilia Chapel (pictured) is the only surviving medieval chapel on the Maltese island of Gozo?
... that fur and bone fragments from what is thought to be a Maule tuco-tuco have been found in 5,000-year-old owl pellets?
... that the sailor Charlotte Dobson, who was first selected for the Scottish national team at the age of 14, is competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 49erFX event alongside Sophie Ainsworth?
... that just over four months after Pagano made his in-ring debut for AAA, he will work the main event of Triplemanía XXIV, the company's biggest show of the year?
... that María del Carmen Pinete Vargas was the first woman to head the Veracruz state organization of Movimiento Territorial, a branch of the PRI?
... that the British long-distance runner Jess Andrews qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics after beating her personal best in the 10,000 metres by 83 seconds?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Blake Martinez was described as a "business-minded machine" at stopping running backs?

00:00, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski

... that Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski (pictured), one of the earliest promoters of a Unified Europe, proposed a customs union, a central bank, and a single currency as far back as 1885?
... that grapefruit juice may amplify the antihypertensive effect of lercanidipine?
... that in 2014, Danish Olympic rower Jacob Barsøe was part of a crew that won gold medals at both the European and World championships and was nominated for the World Rowing Crew of the Year award?
... that Prisma uses a neural network and artificial intelligence to edit pictures?
... that Julián Nazar Morales has served on ranching commissions in each of his four terms in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies?
... that South African swimmer Douglas Erasmus met the qualification standard for the 50 metre freestyle at the 2016 Summer Olympics by 1/100th of a second?
... that elegant quails make "chip-chip" calls to keep in touch as they forage on the ground?

11 August 2016

12:00, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Variegated squirrel

... that a form of encephalitis that killed three people is believed to have been caused by a virus carried by their pet variegated squirrels (example pictured)?
... that Brazilian Olympic badminton player Lohaynny Vicente won a silver medal in the doubles at the 2015 Pan American Games playing alongside her sister Luana?
... that environmental activists might be opposed to economic globalization, but advocate environmental globalization?
... that at the La Isla wrestling show, the International Wrestling Revolution Group supposedly hung a bag with 50,000 Mexican pesos ($3815) over the ring for eight wrestlers to compete for?
... that American Olympic badminton player Iris Wang won a silver medal in the doubles at the 2011 Pan American Games playing alongside her sister Rena?
... that Bennett's chinchilla rat often shares a burrow with a degu, Chilean rock rat or long-tailed chinchilla?
... that in 2004, Alfredo Bejos Nicolás closed his dental practice in order to replace Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies?

00:06, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Skull of Zinjanthropus boisei

... that early hominin Zinjanthropus boisei (skull pictured) was named for mining engineer Charles Watson Boise?
... that İrem Karamete, daughter of an Olympian fencer mother, qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the first fencer from Turkey since 1984?
... that Jeffrey Grey was the first non-American to become the president of the Society for Military History?
... that the parents of Indian judoka Avtar Singh reportedly gave him their life savings to travel to a 2016 tournament?
... that a reviewer from The New York Times called the film Mr. Rice's Secret "bland and ordinary", apart from a scene where children unearth their neighbour's coffin?
... that 17-year-old Georgia Coates is the youngest swimmer in Great Britain's team for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that the Paradise Club of Atlantic City, New Jersey had to reinforce its wooden stage floor with metal sheeting after novelty act Peg Leg Bates got stuck in it during his "Jet Plane" finale?

10 August 2016

11:11, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Khizr and Ghazala Khan

... that following the speech by Khizr and Ghazala Khan (pictured) at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, sales of pocket Constitutions spiked?
... that Bailey's pocket mouse is the only rodent in the Sonoran Desert to eat jojoba nuts, because they are toxic to most other mammals?
... that the educationist Elizabeth Lachlan was purportedly asked to be Queen Victoria's governess?
... that In a Chinese Temple Garden, an Oriental Phantasy for orchestra, was conducted by the composer Albert Ketèlbey in a historic recording?
... that Ana María Boone Godoy, a member of the Radio and Television Commission of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, is part-owner of a radio station in Monclova, Coahuila?
... that the 2015 drama Room won several awards including the Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress for Brie Larson, who played an abducted mother held captive for seven years?
... that a player challenging the New York Yankees appearance policy by citing Jesus having long hair was told to walk on water if he wanted to be exempt from it?

9 August 2016

21:06, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

William P. Ragsdale

... that the part-Hawaiian William P. Ragsdale (pictured), known as the "King of the Lepers", influenced Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
... that David McKeon and Emma McKeon are the first brother and sister selected to swim for Australia at the same Olympic Games since 1960?
... that Bob Weir's inspiration for his upcoming solo album, Blue Mountain, was the time he worked as a 15-year-old ranch hand in Wyoming?
... that Josiah Holbrook organized the first industrial school in the United States?
... that Luton Town Football Club won their first major trophy in 1988?

08:11, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Sir Duncan Rice Library

... that the Sir Duncan Rice Library (pictured) in Aberdeen is cube-shaped, clad in glass, and built upon Scottish stone?
... that Guy Pearce recommended Damien Richardson for a role in The Hard Word after acting alongside him in a play two years earlier?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie defensive lineman Dean Lowry set a single-game school record with six tackles for loss in a game?
... that Óscar García Barrón founded a union of cattle ranchers in Durango that had more than 22,000 members?
... that the golden Oldfield mouse makes little paths among the mosses and liverworts growing along horizontal tree branches?
... that film director Hur Jin-ho decided to make The Last Princess because he could not forget a scene from a documentary about Princess Deokhye?
... that Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gene Brown taught the same biochemistry course for 50 years?

8 August 2016

19:56, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Centuripe vase

... that Centuripe ware vases (example pictured) from Ancient Sicily have been described as "smothered in ornamental colors and shaped too elaborately"?
... that Louis Victor Plessier is sometimes considered the first French general to be killed during World War I, though four other generals predeceased him?
... that as a student, Einojuhani Rautavaara composed A Requiem in Our Time, a work for brass band and percussion?
... that Edwin Ferdon was one of four archaeologists who traveled to Easter Island on an expedition with Thor Heyerdahl?
... that the terms of the 1796 Armistice of Bologna included payment in cash, goods, and works of art from the Papal States to France?
... that the Domodedovo International Airport bombing in 2011 has been linked to the video game level No Russian?
... that Donald Trump never drank Trump Vodka?

07:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Madeline Groves in 2015

... that Madeline Groves (pictured) was an inaugural recipient of the Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship to study at Bond University?
... that in 2015, the National Confederation of Popular Organizations moved to a new headquarters described as the "most sinister building" in Mexico?
... that when Yosef Rivlin said he would build a Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of Jerusalem and be the first to live there, his family thought he was possessed by a dybbuk?
... that the Twin Towers were viewed as an iconic symbol of Wembley Stadium?
... that botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her?
... that on Easter morning 1972, Black Mafia members gunned down a rival operative at Atlantic City's Club Harlem in full view of a show audience of some 600 people?
... that Irish Olympic boxer Steven Donnelly quit the sport for two years after being sent home from the 2010 Commonwealth Games?

7 August 2016

19:26, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Max Reger in 1890

... that at the age of 19, while composing Drei Chöre, Op. 6, Max Reger (pictured) began his lifetime practice of writing dynamic markings in red?
... that Nigerian Olympic boxer Efe Ajagba won medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 African Games?
... that during the Battle of Gadara, the victorious Nabataean force used a large number of camels in the form of a bulldozer to push the opposing Hasmoneans into a deep valley?
... that by custom, the President of Lebanon must be a Maronite Christian?
... that soap opera writer Agnes Nixon cast actress Doris Belack to play Anna Wolek on the first episode of One Life to Live in 1968, a character she played until 1977?
... that a recent event sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute was described as more like "a left-wing anti-war rally than a gathering hosted by a longtime right-wing institution"?
... that Bradlee Ashby, Helena Gasson, Matthew Hutchins, Corey Main, and Emma Robinson are the five Olympic debutants in a squad of eight swimmers selected to represent New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics?

07:11, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

INS Shivalik

... that fourteen guided missile frigates (INS Shivalik pictured) are operated by the Indian Navy?
... that federal deputy José Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga is the son of a former Governor of the State of Mexico?
... that the Olympic boxer Joseph Cordina won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and was the only British gold medallist at the 2015 European Championships?
... that Manuel Espino was expelled from the National Action Party, even though he had previously served as its president?
... that the Guerra de Campeones professional wrestling show saw championships from four different promotions being defended?
... that Carmen Salinas, a Mexican actress who has appeared in over 110 movies, now serves as a federal deputy with the PRI?
... that Manika Batra started playing table tennis at the age of four, and turned down modelling offers as a teenager?

6 August 2016

12:35, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Victor Milner and Madeleine Carroll

... that Victor Milner (pictured) taught U.S. President Calvin Coolidge to use a camera?
... that Carlos Balderas, who is due to box for the United States at the Rio Olympics, is the first member of his family to be born in that country?
... that Leonard Haigh's mechanical knowledge kept him from the front line in the First World War, but he died from pneumonia instead?
... that Emily Morley is the first Bahamian rower to qualify for the Olympic Games?
... that the 2005 Guerra del Golfo, the first IWRG professional wrestling show of that name, would later become an annual event?
... that sports shooter Lenchu Kunzang was approached by the Bhutan Olympic Committee after topping her rifle shooting class during police training?
... that the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" was the most expensive single ever produced in its time, requiring over 90 hours of recorded tape?

00:50, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

René Pranz

... that René Pranz (pictured) is the only Austrian fencer to have qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Alejandra Barrales, the new president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, twice led Aeroméxico flight attendants out on strike?
... that in The Aachen Memorandum, William Mountbatten-Windsor (son of Charles III) is king of New Zealand, and Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith are arrested as members of the Anti-Federalist Movement?
... that while top-name talent like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Martin and Lewis performed at Atlantic City's 500 Club, an illegal casino operated behind the scenes?
...that initially no prize was offered for winning the IWRG Guerra Revolucionaria, so the winners in 2009 and 2010 did not win anything, but in 2013 the winner got a match for the IWRG Rey del Ring Championship?
... that after Adriana Araújo won a medal at the 2012 Olympics, she said she would not compete at the 2016 Games, but was ultimately given one of the automatic qualification spots?
... that María Ávila Serna's first two spouses were assassinated?

5 August 2016

13:05, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Emma Stone

... that Emma Stone (pictured) had her breakthrough in the 2010 teen comedy Easy A, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Golden Globe Award?
... that judoka Popole Misenga sought political asylum in Brazil following the 2013 World Championships, and will compete for the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Olympics?
... that Amanda Inez Knight Allen and her mission companion were the first single woman LDS missionaries?
... that over 50 wrestlers have lost their mask or had their hair shaved off at a major International Wrestling Revolution Group show?
... that the football manager Isaac McDowell led Linfield to seven trophies in the 1961–62 season?
... that mountain biker Daniela Campuzano has been selected to carry the Mexican flag in the Parade of Nations during the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony?
... that the head of Bohemond II of Antioch was embalmed and sent to Al-Mustarshid, the Abbasid caliph?

01:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Oaxaca mud turtle

... that the Peters's squirrel, the flat-headed myotis, the false canyon mouse, the Chamula mountain brook frog, the Sierra Juarez brook frog, the Tamaulipas pygmy owl, and the Oaxaca mud turtle (pictured) are all native to Mexico and found nowhere else?
... that a team called Europa has represented Gibraltar in the UEFA Europa League?
... that Višeslav was the first Serbian ruler known by name?
... that the packaging of the Alcatel Idol 4S smartphone is also a virtual reality headset?
... that Alberto Youssef has been called a "principal player" in the Petrobras scandal wherein Brazil's state oil firm accepted bribes in return for overpaying construction contracts?
... that 41 U.S. states follow the single-subject rule for legislation, and a proposed constitutional amendment would extend it to the federal government as well?
... that NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon is a global business advisor for his longtime sponsor Axalta Coating Systems?

4 August 2016

13:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Northumberlandia under construction

... that mining waste from Shotton Surface Mine was used to build a giant naked woman (face and breast pictured)?
... that the Monterrey Spanish mackerel is no longer found off the coast of California?
... that the band The Quiet Jungle began as a house act before achieving commercial success with a novelty song composed for Toronto Maple Leafs player Eddie Shack?
... in NHL 17, players can become the general manager of an NHL team and potentially relocate them to another city?
... that Josef Rheinberger composed the six-voice motet Abendlied (Evening song) at age 15?
... that The Question Jury is produced by Monkey?

00:50, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Dean Cullom Smith

... that at the age of 17, Dean Cullom Smith (pictured) was the youngest flight instructor in U.S. Army history?
... that Michael McNabb's "Dreamsong" was labeled by the British composer Adrian Moore as a pioneering work of electroacoustic music?
... that the male Madagascan buttonquail is largely responsible for incubating the eggs and caring for the young?
... that Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, which was overshadowed by a major accident involving Jules Bianchi?
... that the depopulated Palestinian village of Abu Shusha in Haifa has been suggested as the location of the Roman town of Gaba Hippeon, founded in 61 BCE?
... that while working as the commercial manager at Chesterfield, the footballer Jim Brown collected financial records that were eventually used to prosecute club chairman Darren Brown for fraud?
... that the iconic 180-year-old tree from The Shawshank Redemption fell in July 2016?

3 August 2016

13:05, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

INS Mumbai

... that ten guided missile destroyers (example pictured) are operated by the Indian Navy?
... that the 2009 resignations of Yulma Rocha Aguilar and seven other female deputies earned them the nickname "juanitas"?
... that before the reversal of Times Film Corporation v. City of Chicago in 1965, U.S. states and municipalities could legally censor films?
... that Scorpio Jr., winner of the 2008 Rey del Ring, and Ricky Cruzz, winner of the 2009 Rey del Ring, teamed up to win the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship?
... that the Mobi bicycle-sharing system in Vancouver placed stations at least 50 metres (160 ft) away from existing bike shops?
... that in 2011, Argentinian lawyer Elsa Kelly was appointed the first woman judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?

01:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Scaly-foot gastropod

... that the scaly-foot gastropod (pictured) is the only known living animal that uses iron sulfides in its skeleton?
... that Jerome Babe invented the "Yankee Baby"?
... that the 1956 Tamil film Mathar Kula Manickam was based on Rabindranath Tagore's novel The Wreck?
... that Hawaiian chiefess Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg was buried near the Lunalilo Mausoleum, the final resting place of her cousin King Lunalilo?
... that Neelabh Ashk translated Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Lermontov into Hindi?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "Coming of Age in Karhide" depicts socially acceptable sexual promiscuity?
... that the self-titled extended play of indie pop group Weaves combines elements of high-quality recording common in pop music with lo-fi noise music styles to create a "disgusting" yet "catchy" feel?

2 August 2016

13:25, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Flag of Southern Rhodesia

... that the colour of the Flag of Southern Rhodesia (pictured) was chosen to match the RAF ensign to protest British treatment of Southern Rhodesia?
... that Henri Negresco founded the Hotel Negresco, which was used to aid victims of the 2016 Nice attack?
... that Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Band's 1943 number one single "In the Blue of Evening", was later re-recorded as a tribute to Dorsey by Sinatra?
... that physicists Justin Khoury and Amanda Weltman proposed an explanation for the existence of dark energy when the latter was 24 years old?
... that the Irish horse McKinlaigh won an Olympic silver medal while competing for the United States?
... that career military leader Kamal Jit Singh has commanded both an armoured brigade of T-90s in India and a United Nations peacekeeping team in Angola?
... that Audition has been described as an influence on "torture porn"?

01:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Spiny-back eel

... that fish found in the demersal zone include the spiny-back eel (pictured), the whitesaddled and speckled catshark, the whitenose whipray, and the whitespotted grouper?
... that for his light music In the Mystic Land of Egypt, Albert Ketèlbey used a recurring chromatic scale that was called "attractive ... though hardly Egyptian"?
... that Shannen Doherty watched Keeping Up with the Kardashians while preparing for her reality television series Shannen Says?
... that Martin Bickham was trained as a merchant by Stephen Girard after his older sister became Girard's mistress?
... that the Yesharah Society was organized in 1928 as a society for female Latter-day Saint missionaries?
... that Dog Star Adventure was the first text adventure game to be published in source code form?
... that the International Wrestling Revolution Group celebrated the 52nd Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estado de México by having Veneno shaved bald at the end of the show?

1 August 2016

13:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Spotted wood kingfisher

... that the spotted wood kingfisher (pictured) may nest in termite nests in trees?
... that the Football (Disorder) Act 2000 was pushed through Parliament in the United Kingdom in a month following hooliganism during Euro 2000?
... that Sechs Lieder, Op. 35, are six songs by Max Reger on love poems by five authors which inspired "some of Reger's most magical sonorities"?
... that initiation fees at Trump National Golf Club Westchester have dropped $150,000 since 2001?
... that the El Gran Desafío show was supposed to help launch Gran Prix Championship Wrestling, but GPCW ended up holding only one show afterwards?
... that the male Brazilian Leptodactylus pustulatus frog makes 26 calls per minute?
... that Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital has been called the "Mayo Clinic for horses"?

02:10, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Randolph B. Binnion

... that East Texas State Normal College president Randolph B. Binnion (pictured) asked prospective faculty members whether they danced and whether they belonged to a church?
... that in October 2013, The Wheel of Liverpool was struck by lightning but sustained no damage?
... that Hayao Miyazaki's film Howl's Moving Castle contains anti-war imagery, influenced by the director's distaste for the Iraq War?
... that at the 2000 Prisión Fatal professional wrestling show, tag team partners Rody and Burley were forced to wrestle each other, with Rody losing both the match and his wrestling mask?
... that in Laetatus sum for choir and organ, Jules Van Nuffel set a Psalm of Ascent that expresses prayer for the peace of Jerusalem?
... that the Dulzura kangaroo rat often blocks up the entrances to its burrow by day?
... that even though they are siblings and deputies, Hernán Orantes López and María Elena Orantes López do not represent the same political party?