This day in history: Did you know...

Sunday 9 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Martinus Rørbye's painting View from the Artist's Window(pictured) is considered one of the highlights of the Danish Golden Age of painting?
... that Titanica was the second feature-length IMAX film released, and included footage of the wreck of the RMS Titanic taken using twoMir submersibles?
... that Confucius compared his disciple Zai Yu to rotten wood because he slept during the day?
... that large holes on the side of a Cumbrian mountain show where 18th-century mine workings in Greenside Mine have collapsed?
... that Matilda Cullen Knowles is considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens?
... that with a width of 4.6 feet (1.4 m), Little Tomhicken Creek is the narrowest named stream in the Catawissa Creek watershed?
... that physicists Wallace Leland and Harold Agnew put a shark in the bed ofMarshall Holloway, director of the Ivy Mike thermonuclear test?

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