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 * 21:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that, in a video released by the Millennium Wrestling Federation, the Iron Sheik (pictured) challenged Seinfeld character Kramer to a match?
 * ... that French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
 * ... that while chartered to the United States Army during World War I, SS Kentuckian ' s Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship?
 * ... that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann?
 * ... that the Mount Rennie rape case in the 1880s in Sydney, Australia was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?
 * ... that Franciscan friar Matfre Ermengau (d. 1322) was also a troubadour, encyclopaedist, and master of laws?


 * 15:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Hurricane Noel caused 4 million dollars' worth of beach erosion (example pictured) in the U.S. state of Florida, including washing away most of a 20 ft sand dune?
 * ... that the only salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)?
 * ... that Fred L. Schiele, who managed Edwin Edwards' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross?
 * ... that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion?
 * ... that professional wrestler Antonio Pugliese was a fan of opera music and would sing opera before his matches?
 * ... that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?


 * 09:02, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel (pictured) built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred?
 * ... that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants?
 * ... that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships?
 * ... that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
 * ... that, besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
 * ... that Alaska's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
 * ... that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome, after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime?
 * ... that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?
 * ... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?


 * 00:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948?
 * ... that tennis player Julie Coin, ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open?
 * ... that the Palomares Adobe, Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera, built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County?
 * ... that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres, Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games?
 * ... that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon, is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County?
 * ... that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
 * ... that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater?


 * 18:28, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (pictured) has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
 * ... that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
 * ... that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
 * ... that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza?
 * ... that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work "Engineer Rerberg"?
 * ... that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK?
 * ... that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement?


 * 11:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?
 * ... that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia?
 * ... that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering, murder and drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States?
 * ... that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
 * ... that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing?
 * ... that the state of Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi and forced him to commit suicide?
 * ... that Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?
 * ... that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in ?


 * 06:04, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that 19th-century American actor and playwright Steele MacKaye (pictured) invented a variety of theatrical devices, including folding theatre seats?
 * ... that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry?
 * ... that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker?
 * ... that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval, as punishment for an affair?
 * ... that Charles Van Riper, a severe stutterer, was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology?
 * ... that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?


 * 22:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?
 * ... that Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
 * ... that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls?
 * ... that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?
 * ... that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?
 * ... that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?
 * ... that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War?
 * ... that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of Satan?


 * 15:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that of the ninety historic Synagogues of Kraków, Poland active before World War II, only the Remuh Synagogue (pictured)  still serves as a Jewish house of prayer?
 * ... that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K?
 * ... that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia?
 * ... that Selmo Cikotić was recently appointed Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
 * ... that Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
 * ... that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament, Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
 * ... that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?
 * ... that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", she was never arrested in real life?


 * 10:53, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Andrew Carnegie (pictured) founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?
 * ... that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh, now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, used the nom de guerre of "Ho Chi Minh" during the Namibian War of Independence?
 * ... that the Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands, which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
 * ... that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
 * ... that Rob Stewart made the 2007 documentary film Sharkwater after learning that longline fishing in the Galapagos Islands was killing the sharks?
 * ... that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
 * ... that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?


 * 01:56, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that two future kings stood sponsor at the christening of the daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and "Queeney" Thrale (pictured), herself a child prodigy and friend of Dr Johnson?
 * ... that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors?
 * ... that the Rose Museum ' s collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall?
 * ... that Yang Jia, a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
 * ... that Malcolm Fraser, a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment?
 * ... that The17, a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond, never records its music, or performs for audiences?
 * ... that Lonnie Wright played football for two seasons for the Denver Broncos and switched to playing basketball for the Denver Rockets just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?


 * 18:55, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the largest sheet of mica (example pictured) ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada?
 * ... that California Gold Rush-era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers, after being run out of several cities by vigilantes, was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
 * ... that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
 * ... that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
 * ... that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys?
 * ... that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square, New York City in 1859?
 * ... that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering, others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
 * ... that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg?
 * ... that Alice Arden and her son Russ Hodge are the only mother–son Olympians in American history?


 * 13:00, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Sunset Tower (pictured) in West Hollywood, California was home to gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?
 * ... that a play by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam using animal characters to criticize the Ethiopian court prompted Empress Zewditu to ban all theatre in the country?
 * ... that according to People v. Beardsley, it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
 * ... that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford?
 * ... that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide?
 * ... that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus?
 * ... that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
 * ... that the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?
 * ... that when the Disley Tunnel was constructed, the navvies used 24 simultaneous working faces?


 * 07:47, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints (pictured) in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?
 * ... that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
 * ... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
 * ... that thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
 * ... that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham, Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
 * ... that Dick Jones, a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
 * ... that Cooleemee, a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
 * ... that former Mayor of Auckland Colin Kay was also twice the New Zealand triple jump champion?


 * 07:40, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina (pictured) has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?
 * ... that biochemist Harvey Itano, who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease, was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences?
 * ... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark?
 * ... that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
 * ... that Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan?
 * ... that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles?
 * ... that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
 * ... that Georg Prahl Harbitz, a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?


 * 01:38, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen (pictured) is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage"?
 * ... that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles?
 * ... that Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?
 * ... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
 * ... that the 1995 Burkina Faso film Keïta! l'Héritage du griot is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita's 13th-century epic, Sundjata?
 * ... that the novel The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association?
 * ... that Yalo, a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war, was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite-era city of Aijalon?
 * ... that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?
 * ... that Walter G. Alexander was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly?


 * 14:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros (pictured) has led the J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?
 * ... that Taisto Mäki, one of the so-called Flying Finns, was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
 * ... that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
 * ... that Tiny Thompson was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to make a save by catching the puck?
 * ... that the Israeli kibbutz Gvat was established in commemoration of the 35 Pinsk Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre?
 * ... that, after succeeding Lai Tian, Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
 * ... that the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style?
 * ... that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?
 * ... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?


 * 08:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that film director and griot Dani Kouyaté (pictured) is the son of one of the first Burkinabé actors, Sotigui Kouyaté?
 * ... that while in service as a troop transport after World War I, SS Ohioan (1914) carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre, one of which was a homing pigeon?
 * ... that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name?
 * ... that the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection?
 * ... that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre?
 * ... that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States?
 * ... that Johan Collett Falsen served as Norwegian Minister of Justice on four non-consecutive occasions between 1870 and 1879?
 * ... that the Conflict of the Orders which supposedly occurred in the ancient Roman Republic may not have actually happened?
 * ... that Darrin Winston still holds the baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
 * ... that Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street?


 * 03:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in Hindu mythology, the demoness Putana (pictured, centre) tried to kill the infant-god Krishna by breastfeeding him poisoned milk?
 * ... that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music, Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat?
 * ... that the sloop-of-war Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War?
 * ... that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother?
 * ... that American cargo ship SS Panaman once delivered 40000 lb of canned hominy to Los Angeles?
 * ... that Australian politician Rick Colless’s great-great-grandfather Richard Hargrave and great-great-uncle John Hargrave all served in the New South Wales Legislative Council?
 * ... that an Estonian feature film set the absolute box office record in the history of the Soviet Union?
 * ... that Mike Cather earned his first major-league win in an 11-inning Atlanta Braves’ win, the same night the Braves earned the National League Eastern Division title?
 * ... that the Battle of Kokenhausen saw one of the most successful uses of the Polish hussars?
 * ... that after suffering a heart attack, John G. McCullough moved to California and was elected as its Attorney General in 1863?


 * 17:15, August 30, 2008. (UTC)
 * ... that Shō Tai (pictured) was the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom who abdicated when the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan in 1879?
 * ... that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer?
 * ... that George Hammond Whalley, a British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery?
 * ... that some cypress trees in Louisiana's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto's explorations of the area?
 * ... that On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover, a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was described as a treatise of "sociology, psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica"?
 * ... that following show jumper Denis Lynch ' s Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games?
 * ... that the Mulberry Harbour built at Arromanches in 1944 by John Holmes Jellett landed two million men and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe?
 * ... that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle?


 * 11:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 1864 Banning House (pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
 * ... that former Olympic champion Ángel Matos received a lifetime ban from the World Taekwondo Federation after attacking a referee in a bronze medal match at the 2008 Olympics?
 * ... that people with kidney ailments used to crawl on all fours three times round the sarcophagus of Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral?
 * ... that four Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the American west after the mysterious crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
 * ... that more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
 * ... that despite leaving the South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats, Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament?
 * ... that Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?
 * ... that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije?


 * 02:27, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in the Greek mythology tale of Iole, Deianira (pictured) inadvertently killed her husband Heracles with a love charm because of jealousy?
 * ... that Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?
 * ... that the young Bing Crosby once tried out to sing at Seattle's elegant Butler Hotel, but was told he needed more experience?
 * ... that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk also was selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team?
 * ... that Maoist rebels and Nepali government forces engaged in four attacks in Sandhikharka between 2002 and 2005?
 * ... that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch?
 * ... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
 * ... that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse?
 * ... that the position of the President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence?
 * ... that Tang Dynasty generals Li Zhengji, Li Baochen and Tian Chengsi all ruled Chinese territories effectively independent of the imperial government?


 * 00:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory (pictured) on school grounds?
 * ... that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan called the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards?
 * ... that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar-nominated Ni liv, later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema?
 * ... that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose ' s debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
 * ... that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?
 * ... that according to the New Mexico Legislature, the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate"?
 * ... that Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?
 * ... that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band?
 * ... that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?


 * 18:10, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Bhutanatha temples (pictured) in India have a pillared hall extending into a lake?
 * ... that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston, claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution?
 * ... that the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Otsu version) was the first diesel-powered tank to be mass-produced?
 * ... that Tom Welling, who plays Clark Kent on Smallville, believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance?
 * ... that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
 * ... that a vitamin B-fortified beer was developed for the Philippine beer market?
 * ... that Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
 * ... that in 1979, Chicago White Sox pitcher Ron Schueler retired mid-season to replace his own pitching coach who had died earlier that season?
 * ... that the synagogue built in 1925 by Congregation Beth Israel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
 * ... that Daba Modibo Keïta, 2008 Olympian for Mali, was the first Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion?


 * 11:38, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the widely consumed porcini mushroom is often confused with the fungus Boletus pinophilus (pictured)?
 * ... that a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity?
 * ... that most strong hurricanes that have struck South Florida since 1900 have passed through one of two Hebert boxes on their way to landfall?
 * ... that Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Hall cites J. R. R. Tolkien as a key influence and re-reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy every year?
 * ... that the Chinese government revoked the manufacturer's license for diet pill Slim 10 after it was linked to several liver failures and deaths?
 * ... that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Francis Charles Lawley ' s attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?
 * ... that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles?
 * ... that Jack DiLauro ' s 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?
 * ... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
 * ... that the native copper products of the Northern Canadian aboriginal Copper Inuit were highly regarded in the Bering Strait trade network?
 * ... that actor Roger Moore likened his starring role in the 1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?


 * 04:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse (pictured) was built after a grand jury indicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and deeds in the previous courthouse?
 * ... that Froduald Karamira, sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country?
 * ... that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/s, enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US?
 * ... that the 19th-century fad of Pedestrianism started with gambling over the speed of footmen by the British aristocracy?
 * ... that the neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee surrounding the former site of the Baron Hirsch Synagogue, the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in the United States, has become a historic district?
 * ... that Voltaire's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans, was banned in most of Europe?
 * ... that Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods?
 * ... that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester, in the 19th Century?
 * ... that for the Tang Dynasty, whether to honor the general Zhang Xun for his deeds during the Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism?
 * ... that the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada?