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Did you know that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word " mosaic " due to its negative perception in the art world ?
Did you know07, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Jerusalem's historic Stern House houses an Israeli bookstore that once had branches in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad?
Did you know that over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin , Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall , who later became governor of Oregon ?
Did you know that unlike most other elections held in other parts of French West Africa on the same day, the 31 March 1957 assembly election in Senegal was not dominated by the African Democratic Rally (RDA)?
Did you know that 4,000 people applied to be in the audience of Pat Kenny 's new programme The Frontline ?
Did you know that the machinima -based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
Did you know that Australian Army engineers uncovered and destroyed more than 17 kilometres (11 mi) of Viet Cong tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of Operation Crimp during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that Vilhelm Evang served as head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service for almost twenty years, from 1946?
Did you know42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that radio star Rolf Kirkvaag walked through a blizzard with a broken leg to get help after surviving the plane crash at Hummelfjell ?
Did you know that the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence at the Government Law School in Bombay was established in 1855 to honour judge Thomas Erskine Perry ?
Did you know that the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense Complex, a archaeological culture extending acoss Chile from 37° to 55° South?
Did you know that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the Hollywood -area with rich American husbands?
Did you know that the gambrel-roofed David and Maggie Aegerter Barn is the only Linn County, Oregon barn featuring overhang on all sides?
Did you know that Herbert K. Pililaau was the first person from Hawaii to receive the Medal of Honor ?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson donated his birthday, by formal deed , to Henry Clay Ide ' s daughter, Anne, because she was born on Christmas Day ?
Did you know that Pope Sergius I successfully avoided arrest by the Byzantine protospatharios after rejecting the canons of the Quinisext Council ?
Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines senior running back Brandon Minor rushed for 209 yards in his first high school football game and 24 yards in his first college football carry?
Did you know that the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke , the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople , marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm ?
Did you know that the silky shark is the most common source of ornamental shark jaws sold to tourists in the tropics ?
Did you know that Bulgarian far right politician Ivan Dochev died in 2005 despite being given three separate death sentences in the 1940s?
Did you know that the Taxpayer March on Washington was the largest demonstration against President Barack Obama's administration to date?
Did you know that Angelika Amon discovered two gene regulatory networks that regulate the exit of cells from mitosis to the G1 phase ?
Did you know that Cencoroll is a 2009 30-minute Japanese animated science fiction film nearly singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by manga author Atsuya Uki?
Did you know that the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York , were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize ?
Did you know that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games ?
Did you know that baseball player Slick Coffman pitched an 11-inning victory over Hall of Famer Lefty Grove in his first game in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the CART motor racing series changed the 2001 German 500's name to the American Memorial following the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that George Cruikshank , in Artist and the Author , disputed the origin of William Harrison Ainsworth 's stories about evil gypsies , a famous thief , treasonous Catholics , a dark prison , burned sinners , an old miser , a horny king , and a stupid queen ?
Did you know42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that on Sarvapitri amavasya (today), Hindus offer food to the ancestors, who are believed to accept the offering through a crow?
Did you know that Alf Rolfsen has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of Oslo City Hall , where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held every year?
Did you know that center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the Ivy League , and was later named as the first African American All-American basketball player?
Did you know that the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Love Hunter (1972) was confiscated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police , and became the last film to be tried for obscenity in Japan to this day?
Did you know that gymnast Věra Čáslavská was four times elected the Sportsperson of the Year of Czechoslovakia ?
Did you know that the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti- Sékou Touré vote?
Did you know that when Cannes Film Festival officials called Zhang Yimou 's Not One Less a propaganda piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against Chinese cinema and withdrew the film from the festival?
Did you know that Czech Republic orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
Did you know that the radar screen of the prototype reconnaissance version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-14 twin-jet torpedo bomber could be recorded by a special camera?
Did you know that as dean of Columbia College , Carl Hovde advocated for more lenient treatment of participants in the Columbia University protests of 1968 , as "the demonstrations were not without cause"?
Did you know that a persimmon regiment was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating persimmons ?
Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines starting quarterback Tate Forcier got his nickname from the 1991 movie Little Man Tate ?
Did you know that in the wrongful death lawsuit Slee v. Erhard , the plaintiff claimed her son's death was due to est training ?
Did you know that World Cup winning soccer player José Andrade once played drums in a carnival band?
Did you know that although Atka mackerel are most common to the Bering Sea , they have been reported as far south as Redondo Beach, California ?
Did you know that Walter Colquhoun Grant introduced cricket and the invasive plant Scotch broom to the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849?
Did you know that 1991's Hurricane Grace contributed to the formation of the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter , commonly known as the "Perfect Storm"?
Did you know that Human Rights Watch war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco wrote a book on Nazi war medals?
Did you know that while Venice lost some territories in the Peace of Turin in 1381, it was in fact winning the Venetian–Genoese Wars ?
Did you know that music licensing for Rihanna 's song, " Take a Bow ", was offered at a discounted price for the Glee television episode " Showmance "?
Did you know that Heroes Cross on Caraiman Peak , illuminated at night by 300 light bulbs of 500 watts each, can be seen from dozens of miles away?
Did you know that although color-blind , Nicholas U. Mayall was better able to detect faint galaxies than most other astronomers ?
Did you know that William Warren Bartley , author of the biography Werner Erhard , also served several years as philosophical consultant to Erhard 's est training ?
Did you know that Dublin 's 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
Did you know that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the Vienna State Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of Friar Tuck ?
Did you know that Bjørn Kjos , former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle , débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
Did you know that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects of a labor union election campaign funds scandal?
Did you know that the Texas historian Ernest Wallace was once a consultant to the Justice Department regarding suits filed by the Kiowa and Comanche against the U.S. government ?
Did you know08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson of the John Jorgenson Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds ?
Did you know that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of hay ?
Did you know that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China ?
Did you know that the Pakistan National Congress represented Hindus and other minorities and won 28 seats in the East Bengal Legislature in 1954?
Did you know that Maurice Lenz , a physician, professor, and radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
Did you know that the reviewer from The Times was so unnerved by Sarah Waters ' book The Little Stranger that she confessed she had to stop reading it?
Did you know that basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
Did you know07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Oregon Chorale based in Hillsboro, Oregon , USA has performed five tours in Europe?
Did you know that Chick Lathers quit Major League Baseball in 1913 to become a car salesman for Ford Motor Company ?
Did you know that St. Anne's Church in Trani, Italy, was built as a medieval synagogue?
Did you know that Tecolutla, Veracruz is famous for the "Tecolutla Monster" that washed up on shore in 1969?
Did you know that, in a rare set of circumstances, an unnamed hurricane in 1991 formed from the center of another, larger low pressure system ?
Did you know that lawyer Albert L. Gordon , a heterosexual who became a gay rights activist after his son came out , successfully challenged a 1915 California law that criminalized oral sex ?
Did you know that the Moine Supergroup , a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands , is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland ?
Did you know that Lankapura Dandanatha , a general of the army of Parakramabahu I , led an expeditionary force to South India to assist a Pandyan king?
Did you knowthat Star Air Service , founded by three pilots in 1932, is the predecessor to Alaska Airlines ?
Did you know that "Pop" Warner 's undefeated 1917 Pitt Panthers football team, known as "The Fighting Dentists", featured dental students "Katy" Easterday , "Tank" McLaren , "Skip" Gougler and "Jake" Stahl ?
Did you know that in the entire discography of George Michael , the most successful release in his homeland is a 1998 compilation titled Ladies & Gentlemen , which has been certified sevenfold platinum?
Did you know that SS - Untersturmführer Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz , he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
Did you know that the 2006 Honda ad Cog won more awards than any other advertisement in history?
Did you know that the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification and later converted to a post office ?
Did you know07, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the milk shark is so named because of a belief in India that eating its meat improves lactation ?
Did you know that Pabonka Hermitage , near Lhasa , is one of the earliest known buildings built by Songtsän Gampo in the Tibetan Empire and is believed to be the site at which the Tibetan alphabet was invented?
Did you know that, prior to the formation of the Washington, D.C. fire department , building owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control?
Did you know that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd?
Did you know that Hurricane Fred , which formed and dissipated near Cape Verde earlier this month, was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to appear east of 35°W?
Did you know that Cannonball Adderley recorded "I'm on My Way," his 11-year-old nephew Nat Adderley, Jr. ' s first song, for his 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad! ?
Did you know that Charterhouse Cave is the deepest cave in Southern England ?
Did you know that the State of Oregon laboratories for health and environmental quality used to be located in an old parking garage before moving to a new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon ?
Did you know that former PLO member Wahid Khalil Baroud was ordered deported and put on a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in airports for the next eight months?
Did you know that the 120 miles per hour (190 km/h) Healey 1000/4 British motorcycle of 1973 was fitted with a 1000cc engine designed by Edward Turner in 1928?
Did you know that Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass , ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in the same game?
Did you know that the passenger capacity of a public transit system is affected by headway ?
Did you know that William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick , a British flying ace in the First World War , scored his first victory when he was a test pilot and was awarded the Military Cross for capturing that enemy plane?
Did you know that during conversion of the Dequindre Cut into a greenway , the existing graffiti art was left in place and new additions encouraged?
Did you know that retired banker and former Louisiana legislator Loy F. Weaver was as an FBI agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by Director J. Edgar Hoover ?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes , criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants ?
Did you know that French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the basis for video game character Manon Batiste ?
Did you know that Queen Teuta of Issa , who briefly ruled Illyria in the 3rd century BC , is depicted on the Albanian 100 lekë coin?
Did you know that the 16th century Moro blacksmith Panday Pira is known as the "First Filipino Cannon-maker"?
Did you know that the region formed by Ilfov County and Bucharest accounts for 19% of exports and 40% of imports in Romania ?
Did you know that blues singer Jesse Fortune , better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
Did you know that The Chicago Reader in 2007 said the 1971 science fiction theatrical production Warp! "anticipated the Star Wars phenom by several years"?
Did you know that the Geumsansa temple in Gimje , South Korea , served as the training ground for the Buddhist volunteer corps along with monks against Japanese invasions of Korea in the end of the 16th century?
Did you know that Greek monk Maximus the Confessor dominated the Lateran Council of 649 , the first council convened by a pope to claim ecumenical status ?
Did you know that the Peekskill, New York , post office includes neoclassical arched windows in its Colonial Revival design?
Did you know that 20th-century composers including Kagel , Ligeti , and Xenakis wrote music for cellist Siegfried Palm ?
Did you know that Charlie Burns is the only person to have been a player and a head coach for the Minnesota North Stars at the same time , doing so in the 1969–70 NHL season ?
Did you knowthat the British RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish ?
Did you know42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that growth rates for broadleaved trees on the British Isles exceed those of mainland Europe ?
Did you know that Anders Nordberg was elected Orienteer of the year 2007 by Norwegian sports journalists?
Did you know that five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show , Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on the NBC sitcom Sally ?
Did you know that 2009 US Open girls' singles champion Heather Watson was the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games tennis gold-medalist?
Did you know that after being named to the All– Western Athletic Conference team before the 2008 season , American football tight end Rob Myers suffered a turf toe injury that forced him to miss the entire season?
Did you know that Jan Birger Jansen , Johan Scharffenberg and Sven Arntzen , all with background in the Norwegian resistance movement , were later members of the National Association for Referendum ?
Did you know that Icehouse Wilson , a member of " Oakland 's first World Champion Baseball team," had a career batting average of .000 in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that in a 2001 survey of Animage magazine readers, the 50-episode series Digimon Adventure 02 was ranked 17th on the list of anime that should be remembered?
Did you know that although Paul W. Bryant High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named for football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant , a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot?
Did you know that the British anti-Islamist group Stop the Islamification of Europe was inspired by a Danish group of the same name?
Did you know that Lloyd Brazil , once called "the ideal football player," averaged more than eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the University of Detroit ?
Did you know that on the final day of the 1959–60 Football League season , Trevor Meredith scored the goal that won the league title for Burnley ?
Did you know that, as a publicity stunt , the makers of the film Asylum Seekers arranged for a couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's premiere ?
Did you know that the Scottish Referendum Bill 2010 proposes that a referendum on Scottish independence be held on St. Andrew's Day 2010, Scotland's official national day ?
Did you know that Sierra Leonean physician Aniru Conteh saved thousands of lives from Lassa fever before dying from the disease himself?
Did you know that the tower of St Lawrence's in Ipswich houses the oldest ring of church bells in the world?
Did you know that bellum se ipsum alet , "war feeds itself", was a military strategy used during the Thirty Years' War ?
Did you know that jasmine is the national flower of Tunisia ?
Did you know that the Church of St Matthew and St James is described in the Buildings of England series as "one of the best Victorian churches in Liverpool "?
Did you know that in 1900, Wilf Waller was the first South African footballer to play in the English Football League ?
Did you know that grants given to the British Library by the Friends of the British Library have enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the Dering Roll ?
Did you know that Claude Lambie scored Burnley 's first-ever competitive hat-trick ?
Did you know that according to ancient Tibetan annals, the founder of the Tibetan Empire , Songtsän Gampo , is believed to be buried at the Valley of the Kings in modern day Qonggyai County ?
Did you know that the wild population of the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve ?
Did you know that the lawn mower was invented in a small English village called Thrupp ?
Did you know42, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that music on The O.C. included world premieres of singles by the Beastie Boys , Gwen Stefani and U2 ?
Did you know that the City Beautiful -inspired Foster Building was the first terra cotta building in Schenectady, New York ?
Did you know that David Avadon earned his livelihood for 30 years as "a daring pickpocket with dashing finesse"?
Did you know that the 14th Searchlight Battery was the only Finnish Army unit comprised entirely of women during World War II ?
Did you know that the Wii Zapper was first conceived when a staff member of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess's development team created a makeshift gun-like frame using rubber bands and wires?
Did you know that physician Hans Eng was a part of the Osvald Group 's hit list during World War II ?
Did you know that former Motown Records president Skip Miller began his career as a stock clerk and has been credited with helping to develop the rap genre?
Did you know that literary critic Boris Eikhenbaum considered skaz as a central element of Russian culture and literature?
Did you know that, after defeating the troops of Petro Doroshenko in the Battle of Podhajce , John III Sobieski was promoted to Grand Crown Hetman , the highest military rank in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you know that Grunge Lit is an Australian literary genre which features gritty depictions of urban and suburban life revolving around a nihilistic pursuit of sex , drugs and alcohol ?
Did you know that as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, Robert Spinrad oversaw development of such products as Ethernet , laser printers and "the first modern personal computer "?
Did you know that 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York 's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
Did you know that Caleb Green holds The Summit League 's all-time scoring and rebounding records?
Did you know that specimens of the tiger cowry have been found at Pompeii , where they were most likely used as ornaments ?
Did you know that USC quarterback Gaius Shaver was the leading rusher in the American football competition at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games ?
Did you know that at the Blind Chess Olympiad , the players are required to announce their moves, so the games are often recorded on tape rather than paper?
Did you know that the Legal Framework Order, 1970 , issued by Gen. Yahya Khan , set the rules for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan ?
Did you know that Jimmy Melbourne , who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne , was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
Did you know that the city of Anadarko in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is named for the Nadaco , a Native American tribe from Texas ?
Did you know that Josefin Crafoord originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish version of Dancing on Ice because she did not know how to skate ?
Did you know that Havelock Ellis called peau d’Espagne “of all perfumes that which most nearly approaches the odor of a woman's skin”?
Did you know that Michigan center "Bubbles" Paterson was the namesake of an award recognizing academic achievement by football players?
Did you know that the Bridge of Nations Bell which hung in Shuri Castle on Okinawa is so named for the inscription upon it, alluding to the central role of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in the region's maritime trade?
Did you know that Josephus used the chronicles of Demetrius the Chronographer for his Antiquities of the Jews and adopted his chronological system?
Did you know that the Wayne Wonder song " No Letting Go " is about a girl who is not mentioned by name?
Did you know that the Baroque Cherasco Synagogue was built on a courtyard so that the sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger the Jewish community?