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- 01:40, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
Altenberger Dom
- 01:55, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
Alf Ramsey
- 02:10, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
Electric fire engine (left) and steam fire engine
- 00:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
Unita Blackwell
- 00:00, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
Statue of Rishabhanatha
- 00:00, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Big Chief Restaurant
- 00:00, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Washington at Verplanck's Point
- ... that Washington at Verplanck's Point (pictured), a gift from John Trumbull to the president's wife, Martha Washington, was praised as “the most perfect extant” by her grandson?
- ... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
- ... that the plant species Antirrhinum filipes has been discovered on slopes in the Grand Canyon, within the Mojave Desert, and within the Sonoran Desert?
- ... that Javed Agrewala and his team developed a vaccination program against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for which he holds a United States patent?
- ... that Kenny and the Kasuals' "Journey to Tyme" is considered one of the earliest songs to incorporate elements of psychedelic music?
- ... that Brigadier General Salvador Estrella earned the moniker red blooded for his courage in battle?
- ... that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
- ... that the Sceriman family, a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained Roman citizenship in 1696?
- 00:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
A Caltrain express train
- 00:00, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
- 00:00, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Sagunto Castle
- 00:00, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
Harry Lewis with his senior thesis project
- 00:00, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
[[File:|x120px|Jadwiga Szubartowicz in 2016 |link=File:Jadwiga Szubartowicz (2016).jpg]]
Jadwiga Szubartowicz
- ... that Jadwiga Szubartowicz (pictured aged 110), the oldest living Pole, witnessed the October Revolution?
- ... that in 1957 no fewer than 13 variations of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were in use across the U.S.: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas/Missouri, Chicago, Ohio/New York, Georgia, Iowa/Nebraska, Indianapolis, Idaho/Utah, West Texas, East Texas, Minneapolis, and Alabama/Tennessee?
- ... that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
- ... that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days?
- ... that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber, many people lost their hands?
- ... that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire?
- ... that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
- 00:00, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Chupe de camarones
- 00:00, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Rimatara lorikeet
- ... that Queen Tamaeva V saved the Rimatara lorikeet (pictured) from extinction through a royal taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
- ... that the 20th-century Easter hymn "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" takes its melody from "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts?
- ... that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs?
- ... that the tongue of the golden-belted bumble bee is about two-thirds as long as its body?
- ... that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
- ... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach?
- ... that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
- ... that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
- 00:00, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Magnolia grandiflora,
Ellen Thayer Fisher
- 00:00, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
Page from Bach's
St Matthew Passion
- ... that Bach wrote the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" (O Lamb of God, innocent) in red between the music for the two choirs in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion (pictured)?
- ... that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
- ... that the Good Friday hymn "Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said" was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern?
- ... that Major Somnath Sharma, a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma, former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
- ... that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct, London?
- ... that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
- ... that the government of ancient Macedonia was a monarchy, yet the Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies and annual elections?
- ... that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
- 00:00, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior
- 00:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
- 00:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Wrigley Field ivy
- 00:00, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
Monument of States
- 00:00, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
"Honour to Agnata
Frances Ramsay"
- 00:00, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Coat of arms of Andorra
- 00:00, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Big A Sign
- 00:00, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
René Beeh
- 00:00, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Schloss Bruchsal
- 00:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Gutenberg Bible in the Diocesan Museum
- 00:00, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Mount Davis
- 00:00, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Giyorgis of Segla
- 00:00, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
White-throated honeyeater
- 12:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Dance of drunks in the fog
- 00:00, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
Stone relief of a Marquesan Dog