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 * 22:24, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was challenged, he showed that to understand a text of Pindar he had to know how Mount Etna (pictured) had appeared to a passing sailor?
 * ... that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Hans Joachim Sewering‎, a former Nazi?
 * ... that Willie Mitchell won the Michigan High School basketball championship in 1992 and 1993, but lost to his future Wolverines teammate Robert Traylor in 1994?
 * ... that Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
 * ... that following Neil Dewar’s transfer from the club, a Manchester United director was forced to resign due to his daughter eloping with the player?
 * ... that pomologist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick devoted separate monographs to cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, and plums?


 * 17:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Rufous Songlark (pictured) is an Australian songbird that sometimes ends up as roadkill?
 * ...that Sir William Gregory was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1679 after only a year in parliament?
 * ... that the sawmill in Aumond, Quebec, built in 1862, also provided electricity and remained in operation until 1989?
 * ... that Tropical Storm Andrew, which caused 50 deaths, was the deadliest storm of the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season?
 * ... that Francis Coleman worked as a conductor, magazine editor and musical director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet before, at age 29, producing CBC's coverage of Elizabeth II's coronation?
 * ... that Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
 * ... that Kevin Smith, a fan of the Degrassi franchise, had to cancel an appearance in the Next Generation pilot, "Mother and Child Reunion"?


 * 10:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that adventurer Martin Johnson died when a Western Air Express Boeing 247 (example pictured) crashed into Pinetos Peak, but his wife Osa continued their lecture tour in a wheelchair despite neck and back injuries?
 * ... that ethnic Dayaks in Borneo resorted to the ancient practice of headhunting to chase away migrant Madurese during the Sampit conflict in 2001?
 * ... that Sherman Maxwell, who is believed to be the first African American sportscaster, was rarely paid for his radio broadcasts?
 * ... that during the 30 Rock episode "Cleveland", scenes set in Cleveland, Ohio were actually filmed in Battery Park City in Manhattan?
 * ... that Charles T. Barney, president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, committed suicide after the collapse of his company sparked the Panic of 1907?
 * ... that the People's Republic of China made its Olympic debut at the 1952 Summer Games, but the team arrived in Helsinki too late to compete except for one race by a single swimmer?


 * 03:36, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in addition to Boswell's famous Life (1791) (pictured), major accounts of Samuel Johnson's life include Biographical Sketch (1784), Anecdotes (1786), the rival Life (1787), Essay (1792), and Thraliana?
 * ... that the election of Pope Urban VI, the last non-cardinal to become pope, by the papal conclave, 1378 precipitated the Western Schism?
 * ... that E.E. Cummings was inspired to write Santa Claus: A Morality after reuniting with his daughter, Nancy?
 * ... that Stylianos Pattakos, a principal of the 21 April 1967 coup in Greece, after his conviction at the Greek junta trials, enjoyed amenities such as a pond with 21 goldfish while imprisoned?
 * ... that Charles Sawyer Russell commanded the 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War, which suffered nearly fifty percent casualties at the Battle of the Crater?
 * ... that Bulgarians in Romania helped construct the Black Church in Braşov, Transylvania?
 * ... that Queen Victoria had the ancient Stewart Sapphire set into the Imperial State Crown in 1838?
 * ... that the cape of Inamuragasaki was so named for its similarity in shape to a stack of rice at harvest time?
 * ... that in 1895, the North Star Mine Powerhouse's Pelton wheel was the largest in the world?


 * 18:08, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Will Dockery, by building Dockery Plantation (pictured),  home of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, was fundamental to the development of the blues?
 * ...that Edwin Thumboo ' s 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "Merlion poem"?
 * ... that, on opening night of Samuel Johnson's Irene, audiences cried "Murder!" after seeing the main character strangled on stage?
 * ... that while in Venezuela for the Winter Leagues current Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Gary Glover was robbed at gunpoint?
 * ... that SS Pennsylvanian, an American cargo ship, was one of the first two steamships to travel eastbound through the Panama Canal after it opened in August 1914?
 * ... that Eastbourne Borough is the fifth football club for which Jean-Michel Sigere and Simon Wormull have played together?
 * ... that the population of Conquista, Minas Gerais decreased due to falling global demand for coffee, and the need for workers to create Brasilia?
 * ... that New Zealand politician John Key once promised Grey Power, a lobbyist group for people over 50, that he would resign if he ever lowered the superannuation?


 * 12:11, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that seal (pictured) is the most important part of the Inuit diet?
 * ... that Blair Fairchild, Arthur Nevin, Preston Ware Orem, Thurlow Lieurance, and Carl Busch were among the American composers associated with the Indianist movement?
 * ... that although Paul Gondjout founded the Gabonese Democratic Bloc, Léon M'ba soon overthrew him?
 * ... that the potoos of the Neotropics have slits in their eyelids so that they can watch for danger without opening their large conspicuous eyes?
 * ... that German biologist Hubert Markl, who received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 1992, was President of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002?
 * ... that the disappearance of Ann Gotlib in broad daylight in 1983 helped spur the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children?
 * ... that Alberto Bimboni and Charles Sanford Skilton received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award for American opera for their operas on American Indian subjects?
 * ... that medieval art from Quedlinburg was discovered in a mineshaft, and stolen by a soldier who had taken art appreciation classes?


 * 05:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that unlike other cuckoos, the Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (pictured) does not lay its eggs in other birds' nests?
 * ... that champion shooter Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at any Olympic Games?
 * ... that the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has won 1,950 games in 98 seasons and holds the record for consecutive 20-win seasons, with 31 seasons from 1970 through 2001?
 * ... that French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg?
 * ... that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand?
 * ... that the roller ship was a steamship, raised above the water like a hydrofoil and moving on several large wheels?
 * ... that the Creation Evidence Museum sponsors hunts for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea?
 * ... that rising 600 feet above the surrounding plains, Double Mountain in Stonewall County, Texas is the most prominent point for 159 miles?
 * ... that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union, Cordtz fired him for insubordination?
 * ... that Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?
 * ... that a Western Hartebeest can run at speeds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph), making it one of the fastest antelopes?


 * 19:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill (pictured) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
 * ... that the Russian frigate Oryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red Russian flag?
 * ... that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?
 * ... that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot?
 * ... that the 30 Rock episode "Secrets and Lies" was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike?
 * ... that when the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia?
 * ... that the 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing My Way?
 * ... that in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India?
 * ... that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
 * ... that mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003?


 * 12:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that due to disappointing previous tests, the third prototype of Avro 533 Manchester plane (example pictured) was never fitted with engines?
 * ... that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai?
 * ... that Šalata is the first neighborhood in Croatia to use digital homes?
 * ... that Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music?
 * ... that in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris?
 * ... that Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school?
 * ... that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?
 * ... that Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut has been owned and run by seven generations of the same family since 1807?
 * ... that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing "Jack in the Box" at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest?


 * 06:12, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Spanish AMX-30E (pictured) underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the tank's mobility, firepower and accuracy?
 * ... that Roger Connor, whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds?
 * ... that David Pendleton Oakerhater, a Cheyenne warrior who fought at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, was declared a saint of the Episcopal Church in 1985?
 * ... that, on the day he broke Mark Spitz' 10-year world record in the 100 meters butterfly, Joe Bottom overslept and missed his pre-race warmup swim?
 * ... that in building Arthur De Wint Foote's Foote's Crossing Road, Italian stonemasons constructed high embankment walls above the Middle Yuba River?
 * ... that the colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic?
 * ... that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation?
 * ... that the Paul MacCready-designed Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?


 * 23:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that William Hogarth was paid sixty guineas to paint Taste in High Life (engraving pictured), a 1742 oil-on-canvas that pokes fun at the fashion of the upper class?
 * ... that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos?
 * ... that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?
 * ... that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare's plays?
 * ... that Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
 * ... that the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?
 * ... that as a publicity stunt, Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States?


 * 16:31, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that William Hogarth was paid sixty guineas to paint Taste in High Life (engraving pictured), a 1742 oil-on-canvas that pokes fun at the fashion of the upper class?
 * ... that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos?
 * ... that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?
 * ... that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare's plays?
 * ... that Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
 * ... that the Jolimont Workshops, part of Jolimont Yard, were built for Melbourne's new fleet of suburban trains in 1917?
 * ... that as a publicity stunt Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the U.S.?


 * 16:12, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that André Raponda Walker (pictured) was the first Catholic priest from Gabon?
 * ... that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale, live in Neston Park, an English country house in Wiltshire?
 * ... that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops?
 * ... that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine"?
 * ... that British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
 * ... that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
 * ... that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?


 * 10:33, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Carl Rungius (pictured) was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America?
 * ... that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis, Saba and Dominica?
 * ... after being headmaster of St. Bees School, George Mallaby joined the army, rose to Colonel, became High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted?
 * ... that international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík, Iceland, from a peaceful demonstration?
 * ... that in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?
 * ... that the American football team the Cardinals has had 36 head coaches?
 * ... that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
 * ... that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees, flies, Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger?
 * ... that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?


 * 03:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that a lantern in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (pictured) was the rear lamp of the Fort Sumter Range Lights?
 * ... that Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
 * ... that according to Pliny the Elder, Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?
 * ... that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?
 * ... that the Bardwell-Ferrant House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was built in 1883 as a Queen Anne style house and then given onion-domed towers in an 1890 Moorish Revival makeover?
 * ... that taxis in Brunei have license plates with white letters on a green background to distinguish them from private vehicles?
 * ... that the FC Büsingen, a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?


 * 15:55, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Passer Angelfish (pictured) undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from juvenile to sexually mature, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?
 * ... that law professor and anti-tobacco activist John F. Banzhaf III started his career as an electrical engineer?
 * ... that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union?
 * ... that the Barcol hardness test was developed during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps to check that airplane rivets had not been sabotaged?
 * ... that the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater, residence, cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel?
 * ... that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?
 * ... that delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
 * ... that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania, William Yardley, moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of shoes?


 * 07:34, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the yellow flesh of the edible mushroom Russula aurea (pictured) distinguishes it from the peppery-tasting and inedible sickener?
 * ... that Marilyn Roman was the first female Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey?
 * ... that the Melaka Zoo is the second-largest zoo in Malaysia?
 * ... that the sudden collapse of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history?
 * ... that young people are more literate in Hakha Chin than their elder counterparts?
 * ... that in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder?
 * ... that the Least Killifish is the smallest fish found in North America?
 * ... that Steve Brye, in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball, led the Minnesota Twins in doubles?


 * 00:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains (example, Siniolchu, pictured) were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe"?
 * ... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
 * ... that Puerto Rican journalist Héctor Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
 * ... that after two previous buildings burned down, the Town of Southeast, New York, built its 1896 town hall of less flammable material?
 * ... that female Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals?
 * ... that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress?
 * ... that Ireland's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom, Fawlty Towers?
 * ... that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington?
 * ... that Mal Cochrane is the hooker in the New South Wales Rugby League ' s "Indigenous Team of the Century"?


 * 17:52, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that according to local tradition, on Midsummer's Eve the capstone of the Neolithic St Lythans burial chamber (pictured) in Wales spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river?
 * ... that during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council?
 * ... that the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America?
 * ... that the New Orleans-based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?
 * ... that The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter, sheltered suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, sometimes helping them to flee abroad?
 * ... that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma?
 * ... that the scientific name of Longnose trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys) means "golden eyebrow"?
 * ... that an episode of 30 Rock, "Jack the Writer", contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?


 * 11:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Andy Tillman (pictured, with llama) was the first North American llama breeder to win top honors at a major South American llama and alpaca show?
 * ... that the boiler was the only part of the British steam locomotive 60163 Tornado that could not be made in Britain, and was instead built by the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works in Germany?
 * ... that Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon?
 * ... that Kay Chorao's Cathedral Mouse was considered one of 1988's best picture books by the New York Times?
 * ... that unlike Jesus, the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange?
 * ... that the "Howell Code", the legal code enacted by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature, was named after Judge William T. Howell?
 * ... that the cartoon depiction of British model Christabel Leighton-Porter was said to have inspired the British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy in 1944?
 * ... that the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage?


 * 03:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Macleay's Spectre (pictured) is a stick insect that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?
 * ... that National Cleavage Day was started in South Africa in 2002?
 * ... that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester (1744), launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
 * ... that Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age?
 * ... that eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
 * ... that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon?
 * ... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
 * ... that the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
 * ... that on May 29, 1913, Johnny Beall was traded to the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, only to return to his original major league team a month later?
 * ... that the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov?


 * 17:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that white kimchi, Shiitake mushrooms, and rice cakes made with mung beans are elements of Korean temple cuisine (pictured)?
 * ... that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II?
 * ... that the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela?
 * ... that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York?
 * ... that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest?
 * ... that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?
 * ... that Pisanosaurus, from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur?
 * ... that after the First National Bank of Brewster, New York, closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
 * ... that only one of the cardinal electors in the papal conclave, 1304–1305, which elected Pope Clement V, who began the Avignon Papacy, was French?
 * ... that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?


 * 10:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that all four remaining species of island raccoons (examples pictured), found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered?
 * ... that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson's greatest poem?
 * ... that in 1899, Bill Lange, a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
 * ... that the protracted papal conclave, 1314–1316, the first of the Avignon Papacy, was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs in succession?
 * ... that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
 * ... that the name of Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
 * ... that ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
 * ... that blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?


 * 04:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that though the mushroom Lactarius subdulcis (pictured) is considered edible, it has a taste similar to ivy?
 * ... that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America?
 * ... that hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii?
 * ... that Central African general Jean-Bédel Bokassa claimed that he seized his country's power to prevent Jean Izamo from doing the same?
 * ... that Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker, Norway?
 * ... that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state?
 * ... that Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia?
 * ... that on July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining?
 * ... that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States?