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31 May 2005
- 11:51, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Joseph Rainey became the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870?
- ...that the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world?
- ...that Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
- ...that the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy?
- ...that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?
30 May 2005
- 17:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Tell Halaf in Syria contains the archaeological remains of a Neolithic culture characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs?
- ...that Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?
- ...that Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom?
- ...that Nippon Steel Corporation, the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs?
29 May 2005
- 14:48, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Blister Beetles are so named because they secrete cantharidin, a poison causing blistering of the skin and painful swelling if consumed?
- ...that Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
- ...that in Greek mythology, Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
- ...that the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
27 May 2005
- 23:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that the Scottish composer and pianist Ronald Stevenson composed an 80-minute passacaglia for solo piano based on the four-note motif D-E♭-C-B?
- ...that backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania, an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations, resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union?
- ...that footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
- ...that extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X?
25 May 2005
- 23:52, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Jinnah House was the Mumbai residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and is the centre of a property dispute?
- ...that Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, known as The Woodies, are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
- ...that the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois, and Iowa City?
- ...that Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematode, some species of which are notable for the manipulation of the behaviour and growth of their hosts?
- ...that William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment?
- 10:37, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- ... that Didiereaceae is a family of cactus-like flowering plants that make up the spiny thickets of Madagascar?
- ... that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women?
- ... that the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?
- ... that Harvey Hubbell (1857–1927) invented the electrical power plug?
- ... that Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
23 May 2005
- 22:18, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
- ...that Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
- ...that the Vietnam War protest song "War," originally recorded by the Temptations, was Motown artist Edwin Starr's only number-one hit?
- ...that Temple Beth-El, built in 1876, is the oldest synagogue in the U.S. state of Florida?
- 09:00, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
- ... that Bigleaf hydrangeas bloom in different colors depending on the soil pH?
- ... that Hampshire County Cricket Club has produced three English national cricket captains in its 141-year history?
- ... that Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States?
- ... that British actress Stephanie Beacham played a nun on American sitcom Sister Kate after playing the glamorous Sable Colby on the drama Dynasty?
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