Did you know...

20 April 2010

* 06:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


* ... that in Canadian women's ice hockey history, the Fernie Swastikas (pictured) were the 1923 champions of the Banff Winter Carnival?
* ... that Risley C. Triche, originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
* ... that the active biological dispersal of land snail Xerocrassa geyeri is about 3 meters during one year?
* ... that the popularity of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, at the turn of the 20th century, rivaled that of Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah?
* ... that the website Wikileaks released a video in April 2010 in which photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and eleven others were killed during an airstrike by American helicopters in Baghdad?
* ... that the show group Dizzie Tunes won the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or in Montreux in 1973 with Sim Sala Bim?
* ... that East Chicago native Art Murakowski survived a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa and was named the most valuable football player in the Big Ten Conference in 1948?
* ... that MiKandi is the world's first mobile porn app store?

* 00:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


* ... that Roger Sherman (pictured in 1890) was accused of offering a football player $600 to play for Michigan and later served as president of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations?
* ... that Mockado is a woollen pile fabric made in imitation of silk velvet?
* ... that essayist William Francis Barry had his writings about the medieval papacy censored by his superiors?
* ... that Ewelme Cottage was used in the production for the 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano?
* ... that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial liaison type despite having folding wings?
* ... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew?
* ... that Arnold Frutkin was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal by Thomas O. Paine?
* ... that in the Brander–Spencer economic model, it is possible for a national government to increase a country's welfare through export subsidies but the policy is of the beggar thy neighbor type?
TOPIC : Did you know...20 April 2010  SOURCE : Linguistic Studies ** http://languages.forumactif.org/