Did You Know?

Blue Blood · **16-02-2007**

...that Mooney Mooney Bridge is the highest road bridge in the southern hemisphere?
...that besides founding Phi Tau Sigma, Guy Livingston was also responsible for developing a sanitation certification program for foodservice managers that was later adopted by the federal, state, and local governments in the United States?
...that kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco?
...that New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
...that the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations?
...that Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I?

Blue Blood · **17-02-2007**

...that the Great Western Railway's Cornish Riviera Express was named following a public competition in The Railway Magazine?
...that one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights?
...that the Bronx, New York farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Varian, mayor of New York City from 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?
...that Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC?
...that Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?
...that grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs?

Blue Blood · **18-02-2007**

...that Eldon Hill in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?
...that Kazimierz Pelczar, a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre?
...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?
...that the non-fiction book Inside Scientology, published in 1972 by Olympia Press, was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?
...that during the 100 point game, Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?
...that Thomas Vose Daily resigned his position as Archbishop of Brooklyn one week after being criticized by the Massachusetts attorney general in a report on the recent Roman Catholic sex abuse cases?

Blue Blood · **19-02-2007**

...that from 1897 until his retirement in 1908, American cricketer John Lester led the batting averages of the Philadelphians?
...that English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals, through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare, to opera?
...that Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere?
...that the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
...that Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season?
...that Sulejman Talović, who went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mallSalt Lake City, Utah, was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina? in
...that Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania?

Blue Blood · **21-02-2007**

...that Charles Dickens composed the epitaph for the tombstone of Charles Irving Thornton despite never having met the dead child or his family?
...that John de Ralston, the chaplain of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld and helped to arrange the marriage of King James II of Scotland to Mary of Gueldres?
...that although the series 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + · · · is ordinarily said to diverge to infinity, there is at least one generally useful method that gives its sum as −1?
...that Ivan Ray Tannehill ruled out weather balloons as the cause of a rash of UFO sightings, which included the Roswell UFO incident, seen during the summer of 1947?
...that a discharge petition can force a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives if the leadership tries to suppress it?
...that children as young as three were employed to hurry around British coal mines?

Blue Blood · **23-02-2007**

...that Bruce Smith was the only member of the first Parliament of Australia to oppose the White Australia Policy?
...that George Crichton's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton?
...that The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John SteinbeckEd Ricketts around the Gulf of California, but neither is mentioned by name in the book? and
...that as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
...that the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka?

Blue Blood · **25-02-2007**

...that there are over 2,300 local historic districts in the United States?
...that British General Sir Charles Harington was president of the Hurlingham Club for over 25 years?
...that in order to accommodate the rock musical Dude, The Broadway TheatreManhattan was turned into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, and trapdoors at a cost of US$800,000? in
...that "Black May" was a turning point in the World War II Battle of the Atlantic?
...that Stephen Gilbert was one of only two British artists to join the CoBrAavant-garde art group?
...that Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI?
...that British architect Stephen Gardiner wrote biographies of sculptors Jacob Epstein and Elisabeth Frink, both of whom were family friends?
...that the Western Blue-tongued Lizard displays its tongue to frighten off predators?

Blue Blood · **27-02-2007**

...that one of the statues at the erotic temple Candi Sukuh in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip?
...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?
...that Kobe Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
...that the lower species diversity among certain mammals of New England compared to mammals of the American West is thought to be due to fewer glacialrefugia in the Eastern United States?
...that according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova, who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?

Blue Blood · **28-02-2007**

...that a Drascombe is a class of small sailing boats designed by John Watkinson?
...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?
...that the National Language Authority in Pakistan is the first autonomousregulatory institution to have internationally standardized the Urdu language code table and Urdu keyboard for typewriters, teleprinters, and computer software?
...that in the Lithuanian calendar, three months are named for birds and two for trees?
...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
...that the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great?

Blue Blood · **02-03-2007**

...that the Eastgate Clock in Chester is the second most photographed timepieceUnited Kingdom, after Big Ben? in the
...that the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins?
...that Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of ArgentinaParaguay? and
...that Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
...that many Australian wool, dairy, and wheat towns were created overnight when demobilized WWI and WWII soldiers accepted Crown land in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?
...that the Life Assurance Act 1774, still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling?

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