Did You Know?

Blue Blood · **28-04-2007**

...that the Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
...that 18% of all deaths occuring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
...that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
...that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuseBible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"? can take place in the context of doctrinally sound,
...that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?

Blue Blood · **29-04-2007**

...that the teponaztli (pictured) is an Aztec wooden slit drum?
...that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
...that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?

Blue Blood · **30-04-2007**

...that Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
...that the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses?
...that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
...that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
...that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
...that ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language, seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
...that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?

Blue Blood · **02-05-2007**

...that Albert Tissandier (pictured) and his brother Gaston demonstrated the first electric powered flight?
...that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine?
...that the South Wales Gas Pipeline is the United Kingdom's largest high pressure gas pipeline?
...that the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team has won two NIT championships and made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, but has also had a winless season?
...that children in a test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so devastated by the show that producers declined to air it?
...that Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears?

**05-05-2007**

...that the current rendering of the mermaid in the coat of arms of Ustka (pictured) is the result of a two-year debate over the size of her breasts?
...that from around 900 to 1500 the Mixtec people wrote using pictorial representations and symbols?
...that Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center archivist Larry Pile has a military intelligence background with the U.S. Army Security Agency?
...that Philadelpian Nelson Graves was only 14 years old when he made his first-class cricket debut?
...that the Kentucky bar examination is the only one in the United States that uses the Multistate Essay Examination without also using the Multistate Performance Test?
...that The Man Who Came Early, a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson, was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

Blue Blood · **12-05-2007**

...that housetruckers in New Zealand live in old trucks and school buses (pictured) that have been converted into mobile homes?
...that former Boston Red Sox player Matt Young was only the second pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter and lose, accomplishing the feat against the Cleveland Indians in 1992?
...that the current constitution of Nicaragua, the ninth in the country's history, was the final step in the institutionalization of the Sandinista regime?
...that two of the four known species of the worm-eating shrewlike rats from Luzon Island, Philippines were first described in April, 2007?
...that the Kent Music Report was a weekly table of Australian music singles and albums which was the primary record chart in that market from 1974 to 1988?
...that Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?

Blue Blood · **13-05-2007**

...that Moldavia's Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica (pictured) ordered the abolition of slavery after being shocked by the suicide of a Roma cook?
...that a Hocktide initiation ceremony in Hungerford, England involves a blacksmith driving a nail into the initiate's shoe?
...that Margaret Singer was mandated to attend a PSI Seminars course by a United States federal court order?
...that Russian television implied that Filipp Kirkorov won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with "Kolibelnaya Dlya Vulkana" when he in fact only came 17th?
...that British Labour politician Margaret Hodge defeated five challengers in the Parliamentary Barking by-election in 1994, including Conservative Theresa May and UKIP's Gerard Batten?
...that the oldest ornamental water tower in the world is the Louisville Water Tower, which is even older than the famed Chicago Water Tower?

Blue Blood · **15-05-2007**

...that the GTP category of the IMSA GT Championship (car pictured) was credited with innovations including antilock brakes, traction control and active suspension?
...that Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas?
...that the Atari 8-bit computer game Dandy was originally written as its developer's MIT thesis?
...that the lyrics of one of the most popular French folk songs, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, which has the same melody as the English song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, were written on a false rumour?
...that the concept of a communist crime was introduced in Polish law to facilitate studying and prosecution of crimes committed by people in authority against Polish citizens or the nation?
...that Kendal mint cake was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first successful ascent of Everest?

Blue Blood · **19-05-2007**

...that on average, laying the track leading up to the final spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway cost $112,000 a mile?
...that the Defense Production Administration, a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization, was abolished after only two years?
...that the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil?
...that John Vesey, a 16th-century bishop of Exeter, had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
...that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
...that after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster, baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?

Blue Blood · **26-05-2007**

...that the main building for the MacPhail Center for Music (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota was designed so it could be easily converted into a retail/office space should the school fail?
...that Jeremiah Arkham, the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics, held Batman captive in his comic book debut?
...that Byzantines were skilled at using diplomacy as a weapon of war?
...that the late Sir William Northam was the oldest Australian to win an Olympicgold medal?
...that Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome?
...that nearly every known example of the New Zealand-designed Charlton Automatic Rifle was destroyed in a fire at the storage depot shortly after World War II?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Plan for Greater Baghdad included a 300 foot gilded statue of Harun al-Rashid?

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