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 * 23:42, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House (pictured) that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome"?
 * ... that Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds, points, and assists in the same season?
 * ... that patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents?
 * ... that the Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana?
 * ... that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water?
 * ... that Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges?
 * ... the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables?
 * ... that WrestleMania, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span?
 * ... that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?
 * ... that Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
 * ... that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable?


 * 15:53, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that HMS Sans Pareil (pictured), a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?
 * ... that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California?
 * ... that The GrooveGrass Boyz, a bluegrass/funk group, had chart success in 1997 with a country version of the "Macarena"?
 * ... that Charles Mears was known as the "Christopher Columbus of the West Coast"?
 * ... that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial?
 * ... that in the Bombay Presidency, the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?
 * ... that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
 * ... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
 * ... that Bill Ricker, one of the founders of fisheries science, developed the Ricker model, which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery?


 * 10:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Great Mosque of Gaza (pictured), completed by the Mamluks in 1344, is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip?
 * ... that Project CHLOE, a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles, was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24?
 * ... that the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government?
 * ... that German-born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language?
 * ... that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California, but the company only completed portions at each end?
 * ... that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"&mdash;rudimentary flamethrowers&mdash;against the defending Parliamentarians?
 * ... that Alfred Merle Norman, whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in London, was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?
 * ... that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia, Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?
 * ... that the Alamogordo Museum of History owns a rare 47-star U.S. flag, thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States?


 * 04:50, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Varanus albigularis (pictured), a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa, may be able to count as high as six?
 * ... that pro wrestler Gregg Groothuis ' s ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
 * ... that the Orsini podestà of Viterbo was displaced by Charles of Anjou and replaced with a magistrate willing to expel the Orsini cardinals from the papal election, 1280–1281?
 * ... that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer-to-be Tom Seaver, as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?
 * ... that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes?
 * ... that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?
 * ... that after being declared defeated, Henry Overstolz successfully contested the mayoral election and unseated James Britton to become the twenty-fourth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri?
 * ... that 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten?
 * ... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
 * ... that at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Indian freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games?


 * 00:12, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that nearly 10% of dog attacks in the United States were caused by canines trained to be attack dogs (pictured)?
 * ... that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
 * ... that Ross Jenkins played for Watford F.C. when they were both bottom and top of The Football League?
 * ... that Manhattan's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden, where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit?
 * ... that California's Gold Country quartz-mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill?
 * ... that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia, he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics, is of Jamaican origin?
 * ... that the Kirkfield Lift Lock is located at the highest section of the Trent-Severn Waterway?
 * ... that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa?
 * ... that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II?


 * 17:09, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque (pictured), the tutor of the future William II of the Netherlands, obtained a doctorate honoris causa from Oxford in 1811 while accompanying the young prince there?
 * ... that Leon Johnson, a West Indian cricketer, captained the West Indies team at the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup?
 * ... that when the Japanese visual novel Memories Off was released for the PlayStation Portable, it shared its opening theme song with the visual novel Memories Off 2nd for the same system?
 * ... that although Gretna F.C. 2008 represents the town of Gretna, Scotland in association football, it has never played there, instead playing its home games eight miles away in Annan?
 * ... that the namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
 * ... that 1994's Hurricane Gilma is the most intense Pacific hurricane to occur in July?
 * ... that the lyrics of Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast, the royal anthem of Denmark, first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald?


 * 11:05, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Winston Churchill (pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
 * ... that the Amethyst Initiative, signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?
 * ... that the underground Home Army courier, Irena Adamowicz, provided communication and moral support for the Jewish ghettos of several distant cities during the occupation of Poland?
 * ... that Nollaig Ó Gadhra's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language?
 * ... that The Gift, the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian, was initially poorly received and partially rejected?
 * ... that Hermitage Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
 * ... that sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation?
 * ... that a phrase from poet Rosemonde Gérard became well-known when a jeweler engraved it on a medallion?


 * 05:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Bulgarian village of Petrevene (pictured) celebrates "Watermelon Day" every August?
 * ... that the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Trucks were made bulletproof for the Japanese military deployed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
 * ... that Redruth railway station was only moved to its present site when a viaduct was built 61 ft above the streets of the town?
 * ... that seeding trials are a marketing technique, conducted in the name of research, designed to create loyalty and advocacy towards a brand?
 * ... that Bagheera kiplingi, named after the black panther Bagheera from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, is the only spider species known to subsist on a mostly vegetarian diet?
 * ... that the King road drag, a road grader widely used across North America for grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King?
 * ... that former Major League Baseball player Kid Durbin, who was a baker at a restaurant after his career, died only one day after his 57th birthday due to coronary thrombosis?
 * ... that Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan?
 * ... that Ruby Bundleflower, an abundant weed in parts of Mexico, produces beans used in salsa?


 * 23:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that NTR Gardens (pictured), which was built in the memory of actor-politician N. T. Rama Rao, was actually a water body until 1994?
 * ... that the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum had to auction off the world's largest mastodon skull to pay a defamation judgement after the curator made disparaging Internet comments about former partners?
 * ... that Gabon's national park system takes up ten percent of its land area?
 * ... that Joseph McGahn, an obstetrician elected to the New Jersey Senate, was eulogized by The New York Times as the "principal architect" of legislation bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City?
 * ... that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
 * ... that João Maria de Sousa is the current Attorney General of Angola?
 * ... that although routine annual medical examinations are popular with the public, there is limited evidence of their effectiveness and they are considered inadvisable by some health organisations?
 * ... that INSOR is the only non-government organization headed by president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev?
 * ... that Kay Cannon, a writer for 30 Rock, appeared in an episode of the series "Episode 209", as a Human Table?


 * 16:57, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that early in World War I, the cargo ship SS Montanan (pictured) of the then-neutral United States, was fired upon and stopped by a Japanese warship?
 * ... that while Sulla's reforms in 82BC attempted to constitutionally strengthen the Roman Senate, it was his rule by dictatorship that ultimately became the model for Imperial Rome?
 * ... that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad?
 * ... that the Supreme Court of Christmas Island once said the islanders live in a "legal twilight" because ancient Singaporean law applies to an Australian island?
 * ... that steel guitarist John Hughey was known for the "crying sound" of his playing, which relied heavily on the instrument's upper range?
 * ... that the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894?
 * ... that Allen Bares, a former member of the Louisiana State Legislature, was awarded the Medal of Merit by France for promotion of the French language?


 * 11:24, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Harlan Kredit (pictured) was the first teacher from the U.S. state of Washington to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame?
 * ... that according to Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
 * ... that Michael Redgrave owned White Roding Windmill during World War Two?
 * ... that mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
 * ... that the 12-story Lincoln Tower is the tallest building in Washington County, Oregon?
 * ... that the Oslo City Council bought the city's two private street tram companies in 1924, and merged them into what would become Oslo Sporveier?
 * ... that the steam tugboat William C Daldy is credited with saving the partially constructed Auckland Harbour Bridge during a 1958 storm?
 * ... that while Bruce Springsteen's song "One Step Up" is about a relationship breaking up, the backing vocal was sung by his future wife Patti Scialfa?


 * 05:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Phacelia sericea (pictured) is a native subalpine perennial plant listed by the Federal Highway Administration for roadside landscaping in Colorado?
 * ... that Anglo-Irish baronet Sir Thomas Chapman lived part of his life under the name of Thomas Lawrence and was the father of Lawrence of Arabia?
 * ... that the 2000-seater laser auditorium at Hyderabad's Lumbini Park is the first of its kind in India?
 * ... that Steve Grilli is credited as the losing pitcher in the longest professional baseball game after he gave up a run in the thirty-third inning?
 * ... that a type of cast net was used by gladiators in Ancient Rome in a parody of fishing?
 * ... that Uncle Tupelo's 1990 album No Depression is so associated with alternative country that its title is sometimes used as a synonym for the genre?
 * ... that Prince Carl of Denmark landed at Vippetangen when he arrived in Norway to assume the throne in 1905?
 * ... that film producer Shauna Robertson became an assistant to filmmaker Mike Binder after meeting him at the summer camp memorialized in his 1993 film Indian Summer?


 * 20:28, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the battleship Illinois (pictured), exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, was actually a full scale, detailed replica made of brick and cement?
 * ... that Giovanni Battista Bugatti executed 516 people between 1796 and 1865 on behalf of the Papal States?
 * ... that the Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House in New Paltz, New York, is the last 18th-century stone house in the area still owned by the same family that built it?
 * ... that Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work?
 * ... that 66th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was once proposed by Donald Trump as the site of a 150-story building that would have been the world's tallest?
 * ... that Lactarius blennius has been described by various mycologists as edible, inedible and even poisonous?
 * ... that the North Baltimore Aquatic Club has produced seven Olympians, including Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff?
 * ... that Sandra Stevens and Nicky Stevens have been with the British pop group Brotherhood of Man since 1973?
 * ... that in the 30 Rock episode "Fireworks", series writers Kay Cannon and Dave Finkel briefly appeared as a married couple?


 * 12:20, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Obelisk of Theodosius (pictured), installed in Istanbul since 390, was originally erected in Egypt by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC?
 * ... that W. Otto Miessner founded the first public high school band in the United States in Connersville, Indiana?
 * ... that Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?
 * ... that in the papal election, 1198 the new pope was elected per scrutinium for the first time?
 * ... that "Jack-Tor", an episode of 30 Rock, was the first episode of the series to air as part of NBC's "Comedy Night Done Right"?
 * ... that after New York Mets second baseman Kelvin Chapman made his Major League Baseball debut in 1979, he had to spend more than four years in the minor leagues before returning to the majors?
 * ... that Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei established Scandinavia's first electric tramway in 1894?
 * ... that New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley was a key force behind the creation of the Garden State Parkway, derided by North Jersey legislators as "Farley's Folly"?


 * 06:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Meller's Chameleon (pictured) catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue?
 * ... that Charlie Gardiner is the only goaltender to captain his team to a Stanley Cup victory?
 * ... that in 1935, Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus founded the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands to avoid destruction of socialist history documents by Nazi Germany?
 * ... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
 * ... that the tides at Kachemak Bay, Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
 * ... that Japanese scientists have found anticancer activity in some Brazilian traditional remedies?
 * ... that pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America?
 * ... that Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory?


 * 11:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that stencils known as Empègue (pictured) were placed by youths on houses in Beauvoisin, France in August 2000?
 * ... that the rare fallopian tube cancer is more prevalent in carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 mutations?
 * ... that the Russian Tax Code was hastened into legislation in 1998 due to a growing financial crisis?
 * ... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
 * ... that the silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history?
 * ... that in 1965 Rankin M. Smith, Sr. paid a then unprecedented 8.5 million dollars for the ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, a team in the NFL?
 * ... that Jerzy Sosnowski, a top Polish spy in Weimar Germany, caused two of his two lovers, each a German noble woman, to be executed by the axe?
 * ... that the U.S. and Canadian ships escorting the British merchant ships of Convoy ON-67 in 1942 had one working radar between them, lacked sufficient binoculars and had never operated together before?


 * 02:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Photuris pennsylvanica (pictured), a species of lightning bug, is Pennsylvania's state insect?
 * ... that tax rates in Switzerland are set by voters through instruments of direct democracy?
 * ... that newspaper writer Constance Drexel gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of Philadelphia's Drexel family?
 * ... that the Anglo-Zanzibar War, considered the shortest war in history, lasted around forty minutes?
 * ... that New York State Route 192 and its suffixed route, 192A, were two of only three decommissioned routes in Franklin County's section of Adirondack Park?
 * ... that the Israeli mafia have extended their activities to foreign countries like the United States, South Africa, and the Netherlands?
 * ... that Petticoat Hill, a nature reserve in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, is said to be named after laundry hung on a clothesline?
 * ... that England's Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday?


 * 19:10, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 430-foot-tall (131 m) Kyoto Tower (pictured) is the tallest man-made structure in the city of Kyoto, Japan?
 * ... that Temple Beth Israel of Niagara Falls, New York was subject to repeated attacks leading to a federal investigation?
 * ... that mazzatello&mdash;a method of execution employed in the Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries&mdash;involved smashing a mallet into the head of the condemned?
 * ... that Pinoy is a demonym referring to Filipino people in the United States, the Philippines and around the world?
 * ... that the wild mushroom Lactarius piperatus, which oozes peppery milk when cut, has been used in the treatment of viral warts?
 * ... that the Archdiocese of New York fought unsuccessfully to have the National Museum of Catholic Art and History remove the word "Catholic" from its name?
 * ... that some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle?


 * 12:58, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Joseph H. Rainey House (pictured), was the Georgetown, South Carolina home of the first black United States Congressman, a former slave?
 * ... that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public policy?
 * ... that a feather attributed to the ancestor of the Antillean Piculet has been found in 25 million year old amber?
 * ... that a show horse belonging to Rielle Hunter was killed as part of an insurance fraud scheme, and that the event was adapted as part of the novel Story of My Life?
 * ... that Robert Park acted simultaneously as a professor, a college football coach, and a minister?
 * ... that the sinking of the year-old American cargo ship SS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
 * ... that Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School?
 * ... that Seymour Reit, co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost, claimed that Da Vinci had painted two Mona Lisas, one of which was in a bank vault in New Jersey?
 *  06:39, 23 August 2008 (UTC) 
 * ... that Kristiania Sporveisselskab (pictured) established the first tramway in Oslo, Norway, in 1875?
 * ... that the 6th century Mahakuta group of temples in Karnataka, India, exhibit pan-Indian architectural forms?
 * ... that the discovery of 189 fossils of the mid-Cambrian Odontogriphus thrust it into the centre of a heated debate about the evolution of molluscs, annelids and brachiopods?
 * ... that Operation Strikeback had the first use of single-sideband voice communications for tactical operations by the U.S. Navy?
 * ... that there are Dinosaur Footprints in the Connecticut River Valley?
 * ... that the 1298 collapse of the Gran Tavola papal depository bank devastated the economy of Siena for decades?
 * ... that Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?
 * ... that Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire was allowed to enter the papal conclave, 1769, in spite of restriction of the attendance to cardinals?
 * ... that Dave and Kevin Huntley are the only father–son duo to win two NCAA Championships in their respective Division I Lacrosse careers?
 * ... that Tiptree Windmill has walls that are 4 ft thick?
 * ... that a laboratory accident by S. Donald Stookey led to the invention of CorningWare?


 * 22:24, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that John Webb's Mill, Thaxted (pictured) has walls 4 ft thick at the base, and that it was used for a time as a Scout hut?
 * ... that photorejuvenation has been successfully used to improve the appearance of rosacea and reduce the redness associated with it?
 * ... that Ratsimilaho established the Betsimisaraka who make up 15% of Madagascar's population?
 * ... that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
 * ... that the smallest Natural Area in Pennsylvania protects a stand of box huckleberry, but another stand nearby is the oldest plant in the United States?
 * ... that the Venetian Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon, was renamed as the Town Theater in 1956 only to be renamed again as the Venetian in 2008?
 * ... that the Duty to God Award gets its name from passage Alma 7:22 in the Book of Mormon?
 * ... that fashion designer Tory Burch, who has dated numerous celebrities and socialites, has a mother who dated Steve McQueen and a father who dated Grace Kelly?
 * ... that the 1964 film Man in the 5th Dimension was shown in the 70mm Todd-AO widescreen process exclusively at the Billy Graham Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair?


 * 15:04, 22 August 2008
 * ... that an HM V-type tram on the Helsinki tram network was converted into a pub, renumbered to 175 and renamed Spårakoff (pictured) in honour of the 175th anniversary of the Finnish brewery Sinebrychoff?
 * ... that pseudodementia is a condition in older people where a treatable psychiatric illness such as depression may mimic dementia?
 * ... that the winners of Oxford's Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse include the fictional Duke of Dorset in Max Beerbohm's 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson?
 * ... that in 1937, Oscar Garcia Rivera, Sr. became the first Puerto Rican to hold public office in the United States?
 * ... that a flower robot mimics the appearance of a common flower and contains simple sensing and home appliance functionalities, thus making it a service robot?
 * ... that Harriet Burns designed the original prototype models of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square?
 * ... that urban survival syndrome can be seen as a version of the battered woman syndrome?
 * ... that Sultan Mohammed IV drowned in the Agdal Gardens near Marrakesh in 1873 when his steam launch capsized in the Sahraj el-Hana (Tank of Health)?


 * 07:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that SS Dakotan (pictured), a 1910 American cargo ship, was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II and continued sailing into the 1960s?
 * ... that adherents of the Biblical archaeology school believe there is physical evidence for Old Testament events?
 * ... that James Russell Lowell's satirical poem A Fable for Critics (1848) made fun of many poets of the day, including himself?
 * ... that the book Passionate Minds is a novel about Voltaire and his mistress Émilie du Châtelet?
 * ... that American physician John Ziegler pioneered anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy athletes are putting themselves in the same category as drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
 * ... that Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus is being released for the 15th anniversary of the original manga, Dengeki Bunko?
 * ... that one member of the Dughlats, Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, conquered lands belonging to other members of the Dughlat clan?
 * ... that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials?
 * ... that Jimmy Jack returned to his hometown of Perth after an argument with his The Black Balloon co-writer?