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18 March 2020

00:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Emerson Emory

... that African-American physician Emerson Emory (pictured) hung both a Confederate flag and a photograph of Hillary Clinton in his office?
... that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad "Tum Hi Aana" to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
... that Cleveland Museum of Art director William Griswold negotiated the restitution of a Hanuman sculpture and a portrait of Drusus Julius Caesar after their questionable provenances were discovered?
... that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
... that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II?
... that the sea slug Berthella ocellata hides during the day and feeds on sponges such as Corticium candelabrum at night?
... that Charles Carroll MacTavish, the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was briefly a member of the British House of Commons?
... that the Apache Powder Company used a fleet of fireless locomotives to prevent accidental explosions?

17 March 2020

00:00, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Common toothwort flowers

... that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort (pictured), as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem?
... that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks?
... that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of Shiva, was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
... that violinist Günter Kehr, director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
... that the premiere of the television series Arrow's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow?
... that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion?
... that 26 Broadway, the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil, has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron?
... that the residents of Ely, Cardiff, rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?

16 March 2020

00:00, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Liberty County Jail

... that Liberty County Jail (pictured) in Hinesville, Georgia, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was once described by the state governor as a "rotten, filthy rathole"?
... that Frieda Caplan, a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
... that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
... that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin?
... that Ohio television station WSWO-TV went off the air the same week that its owner was arrested for stealing equipment from other stations?
... that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
... that a new wireless-charging standard for electric vehicles guides the driver over the charging spot by triangulating the charger's signal?
... that Nikolai Moskvitelev, a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?

15 March 2020

00:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Royal Navy officers boarding Chesapeake

... that Gordon Falcon was one of the British officers who boarded the USS Chesapeake (depicted) to search for Royal Navy deserters during the Chesapeake–Leopard affair?
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
... that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
... that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre?
... that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia?
... that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
... that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it?

14 March 2020

00:00, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Cover of The Victorian
Railway Murders (1979)

... that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book (cover shown) on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
... that Joywave's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
... that larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
... that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests, despite being called for by the Amazon synod?
... that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray?
... that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot?
... that police officers once arrested a Mexican Panther who was involved in drug trafficking?

13 March 2020

00:00, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Conan Gray

... that the upcoming debut album Kid Krow by Conan Gray (pictured) grew out of his experiences as a mixed-race child in Texas?
... that the design of the 2018 Melita bullion coins is based on a series of stamps issued almost a century earlier?
... that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
... that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
... that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa, a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
... that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by NKVD while working on his farm?
... that the American Stock Exchange Building was built to get the New York Curb Exchange off the street?

12 March 2020

00:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Mary Helen Johnston

... that Mary Helen Johnston (pictured) was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space?
... that the nucleoid keeps the bulk of a bacterium's DNA both compact and well organized?
... that a pub on Wincheap in Canterbury is believed to be the oldest continuously trading in the city?
... that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis, was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency?
... that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
... that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
... that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies?
... that asphaltite powers Şırnak Silopi?

11 March 2020

00:00, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Kakwkylla

... that Kakwkylla (depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of an Irish abbot's gender?
... that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
... that Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged as "one of the founding fathers" of intensive care in the UK?
... that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
... that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions, and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of his works?
... that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
... that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached?
... that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of "React" on a family programme?

10 March 2020

00:00, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Washington Building

... that the Washington Building (pictured) was described as "probably the first building to attract the foreigner" who arrived in Manhattan?
... that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission, but later employed slaves as hucksters?
... that the title of the play The House of Yes came from a piece of bathroom graffiti seen by its author?
... that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount, west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides, hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
... that industrialists John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
... that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition?
... that three communities in New Hampshire vote at midnight during the state's presidential primaries and elections?
... that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?

9 March 2020

00:00, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Marie Rennotte

... that Belgian teacher and physician Marie Rennotte (pictured) became a women's rights activist in Brazil?
... that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
... that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs, to study memory?
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
... that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas?
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?

8 March 2020

00:00, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Gessner Harrison

... that when Gessner Harrison (pictured) was a student at the University of Virginia, he declined Thomas Jefferson's invitation to Sunday dinner, saying that it would be a violation of the Sabbath?
... that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
... that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song "Money Jane" is credited with launching Sean Paul's international music career?
... that "The Country Without a Post Office" describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising?
... that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus, the most prevalent cause of the common cold?
... that Jon Favreau, creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, also voiced the character of Paz Vizla?
... that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
... that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?

7 March 2020

00:00, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

SARS-CoV-2

... that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
... that President Idi Amin ensured the Uganda Army's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
... that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
... that the Strokes revealed the release date for their sixth album The New Abnormal while performing at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders?
... that three Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, even though the diocese is nominally only a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou?
... that baritone Michael Volle has appeared as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival and was awarded Der Faust for portraying Wozzeck?
... that 110 North Wacker in Chicago replaced a building that was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places?
... that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook a manor, but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?

6 March 2020

00:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Asmundtorp Church

... that Asmundtorp Church (pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the Middle Ages?
... that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
... that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer?
... that the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the first overall victory for a hybrid electric vehicle at the race?
... that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press, and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin?
... that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir?
... that in her song "Bad Idea", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari-chan" in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
... that Adrian Long's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?

5 March 2020

00:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Portrait of Eliodoro Bianchi by Luigi Rados (c. 1820)

... that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi (depicted) performed in many world premieres of operas, with Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
... that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
... that General Raymond W. Bliss opened the United States Army's first radioactive-isotope laboratory in 1949?
... that the crested oyster has been eaten by humans for at least 6,000 years?
... that Alasdair Cochrane's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights?
... that Texas radio stations KMJR, KXAI, and KBPA are part of a three-station facility change that will give the Educational Media Foundation a city-grade signal in San Antonio?
... that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman's last film, Saraband?
... that North Seattle's waste transfer station has a viewing room and a playground?

4 March 2020

00:00, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Title page of Summa de arithmetica

... that the Summa de arithmetica (title page shown), thought to be the first printed work on algebra, contains the first published description of double-entry accounting?
... that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage in the US?
... that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes?
... that Ocean Wind, a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
... that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Danish Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest trade union centre, promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
... that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
... that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader?

3 March 2020

00:00, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Shōji in a historic Dutch-Japanese interior

... that shōji (examples pictured), like other traditional Japanese partitions, serve as doors, windows, and walls, both interior and exterior?
... that Tayseer Sboul, one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
... that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico, was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas, and in Richmond, Virginia?
... that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
... that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic, and the Erie Railroad?
... that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
... that Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
... that "Anyone" by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards?

2 March 2020

00:00, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Wembley Stadium

... that in today's 2020 EFL Cup Final at Wembley (pictured), Manchester City retained the EFL Cup for the third consecutive year with a 2–1 victory against Aston Villa?
... that the blood-sucking bug Primicimex cavernis survives in a cave in Texas while the bats on which it feeds overwinter elsewhere?
... that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo, Pfitzner's Palestrina, and Herbert Willi's Elias?
... that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an RAF base to try to reach the continent?
... that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology?
... that Sefer ve Sefel, a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
... that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington?
... that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School?

1 March 2020

00:00, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Dr K

... that YouTuber and public piano performer Dr K (pictured) considers a Holocaust survivor who became an international concert pianist to be his mentor?
... that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
... that Yang Xin, the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
... that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park?
... that Edward I. Devitt was the first alumnus of Woodstock College to become a member of its faculty?
... that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
... that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
... that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show?

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