Did You Know?

Blue Blood · **19-01-2007**

...that Creobroter (pictured) is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry as an adult?
...that Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-Americanmayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota?
...that the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
...that Arthur William Hodge may have been the first white person in the Americas to be executed for killing a black person?
...that the largest wave of Russian settlers in Bulgaria, the White Guards, arrived following the events surrounding the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War?
...that Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?

Blue Blood · **20-01-2007**

...that the Soviet pilot Sergey Gritsevets (pictured), twice awarded the honorary title of Hero of Soviet Union, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes?
...that the Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate victory?
...that Camp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the first adult film to be released in the HD DVD format?
...that Hawayo Takata, a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both JapanUnited States, introduced Reiki to the Western World? and the
...that the Ajacan Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
...that Japanese writer Naoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed his pen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?

Blue Blood · **23-01-2007**

...that Ernest "Boots" Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima (pictured), was able to enlist in spite of being color blind by memorizing the results of another man's test?
...that Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed "Acerolaagriculture? Capital" for its
...that Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
...that Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?
...that fewer than 100 of 500 colonists in the Virginia Colony survived the Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
...that the Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner for post-war service?
...that a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?

Blue Blood · **24-01-2007**

...that poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
...that the female Smith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed, court, mate, and lay eggs?
...that John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?
...that the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands?
...that the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec, Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
...that cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?

Blue Blood · **25-01-2007**

...that William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day shows a sign for a pie shop with a picture of the severed head of John the Baptist and the words "Good Eating"?
...that the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
...that Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
...that the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983?
...that Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School?
...that James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System?
...that the first German U-boat sunk by the United States Navy in World War IIwas U-656, sunk on 1 March 1942?

Blue Blood · **26-01-2007**

...that the Hunnestad Monument (pictured), one of Scandinavia's largest Viking18th century? memorials, was destroyed at the end of the
...that Eriogonum parvifolium is a California endemic dunes shrub that is host to several endangered butterflies?
...that the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22, 1941, by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division?
...that the Anjajavy Forest holds many endangered species including four of the 99 pairs of Madagascar Fish Eagle?
...that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
...that J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in Jamaica?

Blue Blood · **27-01-2007**

...that Poecilostomatoida are parasitic crustaceans?
...that the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?
...that Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts?
...that La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
...that criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him? in the
...that 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?

Blue Blood · **28-01-2007**

...that the Securities and Exchange Commission (seal pictured) of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation?
...that labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
...that Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist of My Fair Lady, also co-wrote a disastrous musical version of Nabokov's Lolita?
...that Soviet actor Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
...that NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
...that snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead?

Blue Blood · **30-01-2007**

...that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard (pictured)?
...that as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship?
...that in 1955, What's the Story, an American game show, was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network?
...that the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?
...that the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prisonsentences for the owners?
...that Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life?
...that Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?

Blue Blood · **31-01-2007**

...that one sample of a proposed United States aluminum cent , dropped by a US Congressman, was found by a US Capitol Police officer and is now known as the Toven Specimen?
...that Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
...that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
...that Donald Cameron of Lochiel, a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
...that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
... that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well?

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