Did You Know?

Blue Blood · **02-02-2007**

...that a banjee is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion?
...that since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age?
...that historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
...that the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island?
...that Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek?

Blue Blood · **03-02-2007**

...that the Golden Conure is also known as the Queen of Bavaria conure?
...that Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania's independence in 1918?
...that the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
...that Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr?
...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
...that Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States?
...that Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?
...that Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism?

Blue Blood · **04-02-2007**

...that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
...that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
...in 1293, the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke VytenisTeutonic Knights? for protection against the
...that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
...that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?

Blue Blood · **06-02-2007**

...that the Lumber Exchange Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City with more than eleven floors?
...that the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?
...that the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro was the setting for the coronation of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1822 and several other important historical events?
...that the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier?
...that modern dye tracing techniques are capable of detecting concentrations of dye as low as one part per trillion?
...that U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II?
...that highwayman Henry Simms invented a plot against the King to try to gain a pardon?

Blue Blood · **08-02-2007**

...that the Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, features a woman lifting three stars, the emblem of a united Latvia?
...that French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
...that Calabazas Creek in Sonoma Valley cuts through a volcanic watershedhot springs? with nearby relict
...that Torbjörn Nilsson is considered to be one of the greatest Swedish footballersnational team? of all time, despite only having played 28 matches for the
...that the levée of Louis XIV, the privilege of removing the king's nightshirt, was a great honour only accorded to a high noble?
...that the Gippeumjo is a "pleasure group" that was established in 1978 during the administration of Kim Il-sung?

Blue Blood · **09-02-2007**

...that the painting by Melchior d'Hondecoeter known as the The Floating Feathergained its name from a tiny detail he added to the pool?
...that on February 1, the National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, replacing the Fujita scale?
...that Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S.Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez?
...that in 1965 Marguerite Legot became the first female Belgian federal government minister?
...that link-boys were paid to carry a torch to guide pedestrians at night before street lighting became commonplace?
...that the Tomlin order, a court order in England and Wales under which a court action is stayed on terms which have been agreed in advance between the parties, is named from a 1927 ruling of the High Court judge, Mr Justice Tomlin?

Blue Blood · **10-02-2007**

...that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?
...that the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?
...that Radishchev Museum in Saratov founded by Russian painter Alexey Bogolyubov was the first museum in the country opened to the general public?
...that the Ganesha Purana is a religious text in Hinduism dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha and was produced by the Hindu sect Ganapatya?

Blue Blood · **12-02-2007**

...that Gerhard Schröder sponsored a star for Dieter Hildebrandt on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret during his time as Chancellor of Germany ?
...that the advertising campaign "Love in the Afternoon" only became lucrative for ABC when advertisements chronicling the troubled union of Luke and Laura were aired, bringing General Hospital to the top of the U.S. soap opera ratings?
...that Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?
...that aojiru, a vegetable drink made from kale, tastes so bad that it is commonly used as a punishment on Japanese TV game shows?
...that even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?
...that the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt?

Blue Blood · **13-02-2007**

...that Charles Calhoun, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, served in the United States Navy during World War II before enlisting in the Coast Guard?
...that the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania?
...that the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud'sOliver Cromwell's troops? execution trial, and has bullet holes made by
...that Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel, the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign?
...that John Oliver Wheeler and his grandfather Arthur Oliver Wheeler mapped the Selkirk Mountains?
...that George Washington's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn?

Blue Blood · **15-02-2007**

...that French geologist Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was the first to arrange the chemical elements by atomic weight, but his design was ignored by many chemists?
...that a road in Charlcombe, Somerset, England is closed for two months every spring to allow frogs and toads to cross safely?
...that Colin McDonald and George Thoms were Australian cricketers who, uniquely, opened the batting for their club, state and national teams in the same season?
...that the 101 female Members of Parliament elected in the United Kingdom in Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 were popularly known as Blair Babes?
...that plant cells go through an additional stage in their cell cycle, the preprophase, which does not occur during mitosis in animal cells?
...that the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers?

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