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3 January 2025

12:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Saint Amalberga of Temse

... that Saint Amalberga of Temse (pictured) is the patron saint of upper-limb injuries, because of the legend that Charlemagne broke her arm while trying to force her to marry him?
... that critics argued that involving actresses in civilized drama would promote obscenity?
... that five percent of Barbados's population turned out to protest the death of Milton King in Cape Town police custody?
... that about 200,000 Jews served in the Polish Army and related formations during World War II?
... that Pete Vann recovered from spinal meningitis to set an NCAA single-season passing record?
... that St Bride's Church still has loopholes from use as a military outpost in the 19th century?
... that Glaive recorded the first track for I Care So Much That I Don't Care at All at the age of 17?
... that according to George K. Teulon all of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Republic of Texas, and four-fifths of its government officials, were freemasons?
... that a Mountain Landscape is difficult to capture with photography?

00:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Orbits of some fictional planets of the Solar System

... that fictional planets of the Solar System (diagram pictured) include planets between Venus and Earth, planets on the inside of a hollow Earth, and a planet "behind the Earth"?
... that Sonya Friedman developed the idea of supertitles, which translate words being sung on stage in opera?
... that multiple scenes in Papa feature cotton-tree flowers, even though it was not scripted and the falling cotton simply kept drifting into the shot?
... that Canadian rapper Apt Exact, who has been described as "not gangster", was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2024?
... that the Canaanite ivory comb contains the earliest known sentence in a Canaanite language?
... that schools in Wales during the Second World War were held in village halls?
... that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years?
... that the apartment building the Manhasset caught fire in 1999, just as its renovation was being completed?
... that Chen Dingshan has been called the last heir of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school?

2 January 2025

12:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Memorial statue of Ethel Preston

... that the grave of Ethel Preston in Leeds, England, has a life-sized statue of her (pictured) stood in front of black marble doors, left ajar?
... that meetings between Biblical and post-Biblical characters, such as when Moses sees Rabbi Akiva teach and be martyred, are rare in Talmudic stories?
... that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France, and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party?
... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen, an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a "modern folk tale"?
... that a critic called Benjamin Britten's Tema "Sacher" a "truncated and barely coherent page [of music]" and "a pathetic fragment"?
... that the 1980s Beechcraft BQM-126 target drone could be launched from aircraft based on aircraft carriers?
... that children's author Mary Chalmers owned ten cats and a Pomeranian dog, whose poses helped her draw illustrations for her books?
... that in the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections, the Bolshevik Party won 97 percent of the votes of the soldiers at the heavy artillery workshops?
... that Flora Hommel, after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples?

00:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Paora

... that following public backlash over the mistreatment of Paora (pictured), Zoo Miami stated: "We have offended the nation of New Zealand"?
... that lacrosse player Austin Staats was undefeated in his college career?
... that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus, is other paddle crabs?
... that Arab Christian physician Abu Sulayman Da'ud served both Latin Christian and Arab Muslim rulers?
... that jazz dancer LaTasha Barnes used to be a sergeant in the U.S. Army?
... that the basic tune for "As Long as You're Mine" from 2003's Wicked was written by Stephen Schwartz in the 1970s?
... that Jing Tsu remembers being called "female tiger" because her schoolteachers' punishments had little effect on her?
... that booing heard after the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was reportedly either a response to past football hooliganism, claims of lip syncing, or alleged plagiarism of the Supremes?
... that the 2024 American Samoan gubernatorial election was won by Pula and Pulu?

1 January 2025

12:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

1991 Andover tornado

... that the 1991 Andover tornado (pictured) narrowly avoided hitting two warplanes equipped with nuclear warheads?
... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees?
... that insurers paid out about NZ$171 million in damages caused by a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand?
... that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction-industry blacklist?
... that the dragonfly Antiquiala was described from a single wing found in the state of Washington?
... that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War?
... that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew?
... that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, a contender for China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?

00:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Zeng Laishun

... that Qing-dynasty official Zeng Laishun (pictured) attended the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant?
... that the male standard-winged nightjar grows a wing ornament more than twice the length of its body during breeding season?
... that John Green was UCLA's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden's 12 Final Four teams?
... that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
... that a fighter-bomber group under the command of Walter G. Benz Jr. during the Korean War became the first United States Air Force unit to complete 50,000 combat sorties?
... that because of the cultural impact of Dragon Ball in Mexico, Goku has been described as "a Latino icon"?
... that Chrystal read law before beginning a music career?
... that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever?
... that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T?

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