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... that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth

page_title: Doctor Who
short_description: British science fiction TV series (1963–2025)
page_title: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
short_description: 1964 Doctor Who serial
... that soprano Hermine Finck became the third wife of Eugen d'Albert (couple pictured), who composed songs and a cantata based on The Little Mermaid for her?

page_title: Hermine Finck
short_description: German opera singer
page_title: Eugen d'Albert
short_description: Scottish-German pianist and composer (1864–1932)
page_title: The Little Mermaid
short_description: 1837 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
... that P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the Korean War?

page_title: P.O.W. (The United States Steel Hour)
short_description: 1st episode of the 1st season of The United States Steel Hour
page_title: Korean War
short_description: 1950–1953 conflict in Korean Peninsula
... that Hargovinddas Kantawala defeated Mahatma Gandhi to become the president of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1919?<!--Special occasion hook for October 25-->

page_title: Hargovinddas Kantawala
short_description: Gujarati-language writer from India
page_title: Mahatma Gandhi
short_description: Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
page_title: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
short_description: Literary institution promoting Gujarati literature at Ahmedabad, India
... that Hounslow West is the only station on the London Underground to be step-free for manual-wheelchair users only?

page_title: Hounslow West tube station
short_description: London Underground station
page_title: London Underground
short_description: Rapid transit system in England
page_title: Wheelchair
short_description: Chair with wheels used by people with mobility deficiencies
... that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central Oregon?

page_title: Wesley O. Smith
short_description: American businessman and politician
page_title: Oregon
short_description: U.S. state
... that Doppler radio direction finding is capable of measuring the direction of a stationary radio transmitter despite the Doppler effect being a phenomenon of movement?

page_title: Doppler radio direction finding
short_description: Method of radio direction finding
page_title: Doppler effect
short_description: Frequency change of a wave for observer relative to its source
... that the smooth jazz–jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?

page_title: Smooth jazz
short_description: Commercially oriented crossover jazz
page_title: Jazz fusion
short_description: Music genre combining jazz methods with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues
page_title: Worth Waiting For
short_description: Jeff Lorber jazz album
page_title: Jeff Lorber
short_description: American jazz keyboardist (born 1952)
... that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany?

page_title: Verfassungsblog
short_description: German legal blog on matters constitutional
page_title: Supreme Court of Poland
short_description: Highest court in Poland
page_title: Federal Court of Justice
short_description: Highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction in Germany
... that the first large bathhouse in York was built at the bottom of Marygate (pictured) in 1836?

page_title: Baths and wash houses in Britain
short_description: Public baths in Britain
page_title: York
short_description: City in North Yorkshire, England
page_title: Marygate
short_description: Street in York, England
... that Eli is an opera by Walter Steffens, who based the libretto on a mystery play by Nelly Sachs which dealt with the suffering of Israel?

page_title: Eli (opera)
short_description: Opera by Walter Steffens, 1966
page_title: Walter Steffens (composer)
short_description: German composer
page_title: Libretto
short_description: Text used in an extended musical work such as an opera or musical
page_title: Mystery play
short_description: Medieval European play
page_title: Nelly Sachs
short_description: Jewish German-Swedish writer, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate (1891–1970)
... that journalist Robert Evans had his hand broken by a member of the Proud Boys while covering the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon?

page_title: Robert Evans (journalist)
short_description: American journalist, author and podcast host
page_title: Proud Boys
short_description: American neo-fascist organization
page_title: George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon
short_description: 2020 civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd
... that according to Slavic mythology, the creation of the world required the cooperation of a "good god" and an "evil god"?

page_title: Slavic paganism
page_title: Slavic creation myths
short_description: Cosmogonic myth in Slavic mythology
... that If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the Publishing Triangle?

page_title: If You Could Be Mine
short_description: 2013 young adult novel by Sara Farizan
page_title: Publishing Triangle
short_description: American association of LGBT publishers
... that Pellegrino Strobel worked with Luigi Pigorini to study the Bronze Age Terramare culture in northern Italy?

page_title: Pellegrino Strobel
short_description: Italian ornithologist, zoologist and naturalist
page_title: Luigi Pigorini
short_description: Italian politician
page_title: Terramare culture
short_description: Archaeological culture in Northern Italy
... that the essay "In Praise of Polytheism" dismisses all similarities between Enlightenment philosophy and striptease?

page_title: In Praise of Polytheism
short_description: Essay by Odo Marquard
page_title: Age of Enlightenment
short_description: European cultural movement
page_title: Striptease
short_description: Erotic dance
... that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of Samuel Corson patients to regain his speech after 26 years?

page_title: Samuel Corson
short_description: American psychiatrist (1909–1998)
... that the 2019 film Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the life of astronaut Lisa Nowak (pictured)

page_title: Lucy in the Sky
short_description: 2019 film directed by Noah Hawley
page_title: Lisa Nowak
short_description: American astronaut (born 1963)
... that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the table?

page_title: 2001 Malta Grand Prix
short_description: Snooker tournament
page_title: Electrical wiring
short_description: Electrical installation of cabling
page_title: Billiard table
short_description: Bounded table on which cue sports are played
... that the oath to Hitler sworn by members of the SS may have inspired the Hitler oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht after 1934?

page_title: Oaths to Hitler
short_description: Oaths of organisations in Nazi Germany
page_title: Hitler Oath
short_description: Oath sworn by members of the German armed forces and civil service from 1934
... that Japanese voice actress Nene Hieda was a member of a 3x3 basketball team?<!--Special occasion hook for October 23-->

page_title: Nene Hieda
short_description: Japanese voice actress
page_title: 3x3 basketball
short_description: Basketball variant played on half of a regulation court
... that Bang the Drum Slowly, in which Paul Newman stepped in and out of character to double as a Greek chorus, was called "daring television of rare quality"?

page_title: Bang the Drum Slowly (The United States Steel Hour)
short_description: 2nd episode of the 4th season of The United States Steel Hour
page_title: Paul Newman
short_description: American actor and filmmaker (1925–2008)
page_title: Greek chorus
short_description: Group of performers who comment on a drama
... that the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, formed by principal players of the Berlin Philharmonic, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a recording of all of Beethoven's string quartets?

page_title: Philharmonia Quartet Berlin
short_description: German string quartet
page_title: Berlin Philharmonic
short_description: German orchestra
page_title: Ludwig van Beethoven
short_description: German composer (1770–1827)
page_title: String quartet
short_description: Musical ensemble of four string players
... that California maintains 16 checkpoints along its borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic lifeforms?

page_title: California
short_description: U.S. state
page_title: California Border Protection Stations
short_description: Checkpoints along California land borders with other states
page_title: Oregon
short_description: U.S. state
page_title: Nevada
short_description: U.S. state
page_title: Arizona
short_description: U.S. state
page_title: Outline of life forms
short_description: Overview of and topical guide to life forms
... that William Cuming missed the Battle of Trafalgar because he had to take Robert Calder back to England for a court-martial?

page_title: William Cuming (Royal Navy officer)
short_description: Officer in the Royal Navy during the American and French revolutionary wars
page_title: Battle of Trafalgar
short_description: Battle of the Trafalgar campaign
page_title: Robert Calder
short_description: Royal Navy officer (1745–1818)
... that the lounging odalisques in The Interior of the Palm House (detail pictured) were added as exotic objects, a common Orientalist trope?

page_title: Odalisque
short_description: Female slave or concubine in an Ottoman seraglio
page_title: The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam
short_description: 1834 oil painting by Carl Blechen
page_title: Orientalism
short_description: Imitation or depiction of Eastern cultures
... that the Japanese pop group Yaen, originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?

page_title: J-pop
short_description: Japanese popular music genre
page_title: Yaen
short_description: J-pop group
... that the Vaccine Confidence Project was developed in response to a boycott of polio eradication efforts in Nigeria?

page_title: Vaccine Confidence Project
short_description: International vaccination information project
page_title: Global Polio Eradication Initiative
short_description: Initiative to eradicate polio
... that Ann Oakley published the first sociological research that shows housework as being actual work?

page_title: Ann Oakley
short_description: British sociologist, feminist, and writer
page_title: The Sociology of Housework
short_description: Non-fiction book by Ann Oakley
page_title: Homemaking
short_description: Overseeing the operations of a house or estate
... that Baptist Hoffmann, a leading baritone at the Berlin Court Opera, appeared as Jochanaan in the first production of Salome there in 1906?

page_title: Baptist Hoffmann
short_description: German operatic baritone
page_title: Baritone
short_description: Type of classical male vocal range
page_title: Berlin State Opera
short_description: German opera house in Berlin
page_title: Salome (opera)
short_description: Opera by Richard Strauss
... that the English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?

page_title: English Law (Application) Act 1962
short_description: Law of Gibraltar
... that the sponge Halisarca caerulea forms part of a "sponge loop", absorbing large quantities of dissolved organic carbon, and returning the carbon to the sea as detritus?

page_title: Halisarca caerulea
short_description: Species of sponge
page_title: Dissolved organic carbon
short_description: Organic carbon classification
page_title: Detritus
short_description: Dead particulate organic material
... that Thomas Patrick Payne received the US Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed five years ago today while liberating hostages during the offensive against ISIL in northern Iraq?<!--Special occasion hook for October 22-->

page_title: Thomas Payne (soldier)
short_description: US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1984)
page_title: Medal of Honor
short_description: Highest award in the United States Armed Forces
page_title: Islamic State
short_description: Salafi jihadist militant organisation
... that Japan National Route 37 (pictured) was the only evacuation route for the town of Abuta during the March 2000 eruption of Mount Usu?

page_title: Japan National Route 37
short_description: National highway in Hokkaido, Japan
page_title: Abuta, Hokkaido
short_description: Town in Hokkaido, Japan
page_title: Mount Usu
short_description: Active volcano in Hokkaido, Japan
... that Paleo-Indians began inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?

page_title: Paleo-Indians
short_description: Classification term given to the first peoples who entered the American continents
page_title: Indigenous peoples of Maryland
... that Nabela Qoser, a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt Cantonese as a child by watching television?

page_title: Nabela Qoser
short_description: Hong Kong journalist (born 1986)
page_title: Cantonese
short_description: Prestige variety of Yue Chinese
... that the character Nina Cortex was intended by Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game Crash Twinsanity, but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?

page_title: Crash Bandicoot
short_description: Video game franchise
page_title: Traveller's Tales
short_description: British video game developer
page_title: Crash Twinsanity
short_description: 2004 platform game
... that American mine owner Charles Butters risked execution by firing squad to protect his mines during the 1926–27 Nicaraguan Civil War?

page_title: Charles Butters
short_description: American metallurgist & engineer
page_title: Nicaraguan Civil War (1926–1927)
short_description: Conflict
... that Francis Poulenc composed his Sinfonietta on a commission from the BBC?

page_title: Francis Poulenc
short_description: French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
page_title: Sinfonietta (Poulenc)
page_title: BBC
short_description: British public service broadcaster
... that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award, one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?

page_title: Milkha Singh
short_description: Indian athlete (1929–2021)
page_title: List of Arjuna Award recipients (2000–2009)
short_description: List of recipients of a sports honor in India
page_title: Arjuna Award
short_description: Indian sports award
... that the swamp scenes in The Caribbean Mystery feature a  alligator named Ben, who was appearing in his 435th film?

page_title: The Caribbean Mystery
short_description: 1945 film by Robert D. Webb
page_title: Alligator
short_description: Large reptile in the genus Alligator
... that actress Gloria Swanson created an inventions and patents company to employ refugee scientists whom she and her former husband Marquis Henry de La Falaise (both pictured) helped escape Nazi Germany?

page_title: Gloria Swanson
short_description: American actress (1899–1983)
page_title: Henry de La Falaise
short_description: French-American film director
page_title: Nazi Germany
short_description: German state from 1933 to 1945
... that ontopoetics holds that the world is psychoactive and can respond to us if engaged?

page_title: Ontopoetics
short_description: Philosophical concept
... that Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the Office of Surface Mining?

page_title: Kathy Karpan
short_description: American politician (1942–2025)
page_title: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
short_description: Branch of the United States Department of the Interior
... that Nogiwa Park was built around a 17th-century reservoir?

page_title: Nogiwa Park
short_description: City park in Aomori, Japan
... that The New York Times review of the 1955 television play No Time for Sergeants questioned whether Andy Griffith was "versatile enough to qualify for other important roles"?

page_title: No Time for Sergeants (The United States Steel Hour)
short_description: 14th episode of the 2nd season of The United States Steel Hour
page_title: Andy Griffith
short_description: American actor and singer (1926–2012)
... that an investment banker was arrested after getting drunk and defecating on a food cart in the first-class section of an international flight 25 years ago today?<!--Special occasion hook for Oct 20-->

page_title: United Airlines Flight 976
short_description: 1995 air-rage incident
... that before he died aged 46, Anton Ausserer had described 38 new species of tarantula?

page_title: Anton Ausserer
short_description: Austrian naturalist specialising in spiders
page_title: Tarantula
short_description: Family of spiders
... that it took Jerome Robbins two years to choreograph the 16-minute-long ballet A Suite of Dances for dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov?

page_title: Jerome Robbins
short_description: American choreographer and director (1918–1998)
page_title: A Suite of Dances
page_title: Mikhail Baryshnikov
short_description: Latvian and American dancer (born 1948)
... that Charles Dickens used the Saracen's Head (plaque pictured) as the place for Nicholas Nickleby's first encounter with the one-eyed schoolmaster Wackford Squeers?

page_title: Charles Dickens
short_description: English writer and journalist (1812–1870)
page_title: Saracen's Head, London
short_description: Pub in London
page_title: Nicholas Nickleby
short_description: 1838–1839 novel by Charles Dickens
... that the Inuit identity of sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender?

page_title: Inuit
short_description: Ethnic group
page_title: Sipiniq
short_description: Third-gender person in Inuit culture
... that Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg?

page_title: Wiebke Lehmkuhl
short_description: German contralto
page_title: Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
short_description: 1824 symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
page_title: Elbphilharmonie
short_description: Concert hall in Hamburg, Germany
... that thunderstorms from Hurricane Dolores flooded the Moreno Valley, destroyed a bridge on Interstate 10, and killed a man by lightning strike?

page_title: Hurricane Dolores (2015)
short_description: Category 4 Pacific hurricane in 2015
page_title: Moreno Valley, California
short_description: City in California, United States
page_title: Interstate 10
short_description: Interstate Highway across the southern US
... that the 8th-century Chinese poet Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars?

page_title: Niu Yingzhen
short_description: Tang dynasty poet
... that the solution to Pell's equation was mistakenly attributed to mathematician John Pell?

page_title: Pell's equation
short_description: Type of Diophantine equation
page_title: John Pell
short_description: Topics referred to by the same term
... that Claude Rains's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?

page_title: Claude Rains
short_description: British and American actor (1889–1967)
page_title: Judgment at Nuremberg (Playhouse 90)
short_description: 28th episode of the 3rd season of Playhouse 90
... that the Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of ant?

page_title: Gustav Mayr
short_description: Austrian entomologist (1830–1908)
page_title: Ant
short_description: Family of insects
... that on this date in 1766, the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a cheese wheel (example pictured) whilst trying to stop the Nottingham cheese riot?<!--October 18 special occasion hook-->

page_title: Nottingham cheese riot
short_description: 1766 riot over food prices in England
... that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?

page_title: Alice Kahn
short_description: American writer (born 1943)
page_title: Grateful Dead
short_description: American rock band (1965–1995)
page_title: Jerry Garcia
short_description: American guitarist and singer (1942–1995)
... that the pre-launch test of the mobile game One Piece Bounty Rush had one million players?

page_title: One Piece Bounty Rush
short_description: 2018 video game
... that the private collections of Giuseppe Saverio Poli formed the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples?

page_title: Giuseppe Saverio Poli
short_description: Italian physicist and biologist (1746–1825)
page_title: Zoological Museum of Naples
... that the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with Wigstock events for drag queens, a bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival?

page_title: Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival
short_description: Annual LGBTQ event in Knysna, South Africa
page_title: Wigstock
short_description: Annual outdoor drag festival in Manhattan, USA
page_title: Drag queen
short_description: Entertainer dressed and acting with exaggerated femininity
page_title: Bear (gay culture)
short_description: LGBTQ slang and cultural identifier for large, hairy men
... that former math teacher Dominic Gates won a Pulitzer Prize for his aerospace reporting?

page_title: Dominic Gates
short_description: Irish-American aerospace reporter
page_title: Pulitzer Prize
short_description: Awards for American journalism and arts
... that the weekly radio show The Northern Messenger read out personal messages from around the world to friends and family in the Arctic who could not be reached in any other way during the winter?

page_title: The Northern Messenger
short_description: Canadian Arctic radio program
... that in the 2003 ballet Carnival of the Animals, actor John Lithgow appeared as a school nurse and a female elephant?

page_title: Carnival of the Animals (ballet)
short_description: Ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon
page_title: John Lithgow
short_description: American actor (born 1945)
... that Swiss architect Gion A. Caminada designed a "death room" (pictured) for Vrin, his native village?

page_title: Gion A. Caminada
short_description: Swiss architect
page_title: Vrin
short_description: Former municipality in Graubünden, Switzerland
... that when the Bureau of Medical Services was ordered to shut down all U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals, the director of the Seattle hospital simply refused to stop admitting patients?

page_title: Bureau of Medical Services
short_description: Defunct US federal agency
page_title: List of U.S. Marine Hospitals
short_description: Former system of hospitals
page_title: Pacific Tower (Seattle)
short_description: Hospital in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
... that Keiji Nishioka, a Japanese botanist, was the first foreigner to receive the Bhutanese honorific Dasho?

page_title: Keiji Nishioka
short_description: Japanese botanist (1933–1992)
page_title: Bhutan
short_description: Country in South Asia
page_title: Dasho
short_description: Bhutanese honorific
... that a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on NBC and CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?

page_title: The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
short_description: 1953 television special
page_title: NBC
short_description: American broadcast television network
page_title: CBS
short_description: American broadcast television and radio network
... that visitors leave offerings of makeup and Barbie dolls at a shrine to a German girl who died in Singapore in 1914?

page_title: German Girl Shrine
short_description: Religious place in Pulau Ubin, Singapore
... that the tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the pigeon pea in India?

page_title: Clavigralla gibbosa
short_description: Species of true bug
page_title: Pigeon pea
short_description: Species of perennial legume