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Please add the line ==='''{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}'''=== for each new day and *'''''~~~~~''''' at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.

4 July 2009

14:49, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that during the Soviet era the only country that fashion designer Slava Zaitsev (pictured) was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist country?
... that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
... that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
... that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
... that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?
... that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly?

08:44, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that despite a large leak since its commissioning in 1992, the Samanalawewa Dam hydroelectric power station (pictured) in Sri Lanka continues to function normally?
... that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley?
... that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts?
... that Broadway producer Morton Gottlieb described theater as a profession easiest to start at the top, noting "All you need is chutzpah. You call all the agents and say, 'Here I am — a producer!'"?
... that an East German, upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine, reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
... that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu, written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
... that Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector?

3 July 2009

23:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?
... that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives?
... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?"
... that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father?
... that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
... that the book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America?
... that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?

17:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?
... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
... that the first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth?
... that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet?
... that the Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel?
... that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris?
... that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome?

11:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954?
... that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe?
... that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia?
... that the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
... that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent?
... that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University?
... that the Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record?

05:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the velvet belly lantern shark (pictured) has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc?
... that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc?
... that Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
... that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
... that the works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property?
... that the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office?
... that American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?

2 July 2009

23:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team?
... that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
... that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence?
... that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration?
... that Dutch children's writer Paul Biegel wrote comics for Marten Toonder before publishing his first novel?
... that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day?
... that Max Manus referred to the release of Norwegian resistance member Kolbein Lauring from Grini concentration camp in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the German authorities?

14:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero (pictured) was originally a mining engineer?
... that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma?
... that the killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death?
... that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
... that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
... that the Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed?
... that John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket?

08:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the false earthstar in the fungal family Astraeaceae (pictured) can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity?
... that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
... that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?
... that architect Wilfrid Lacroix, designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons?
... that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery?
... that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?
... that while with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?

02:35, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
... that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
... that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial?
... that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick?
... that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs?
... that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer?
... that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI, colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office?

1 July 2009

20:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Markus Howell (pictured), broke the 1,500 career yard mark in both kickoff and punt returns in 2008?
... that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto, members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
... that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers, four unelected people became ministers, the highest number since 1936?
... that Ham Hill, a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
... that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season, Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
... that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?

14:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Edmonton Eskimos head coach Richie Hall (pictured) is the first African-American head coach in Eskimos history?
... that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication?
... that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, a colonial military force of New France?
... that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement?
... that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid?
... that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?

08:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest?
... that gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history?
... that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?
... that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?

02:35, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

... that the reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?
... that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain?
... that the Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops?
... that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?
... that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication?
... that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
... that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day?

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