This day in history

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Henry Lansdell in dress by foreign host

... that Henry Lansdell (pictured) distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and Bibles in hospitals and prisons in Siberia and central Asia?
... that, reaching a height of 325 feet (99 m), Fury 325 will become the world's tallest non-launched roller coaster when it opens in 2015 at the Carowinds amusement park?
... that "The Blonde Bear" supervised the ransacking of black households in the1946 Columbia Race Riot?
... that Wei Yilin, a surgeon during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, created a suspension method for reducing dislocated joints?
... that local tradition holds that the Ponte Conde de Linhares was built by Jesuits in a single night by the light of a single lamp?
... that the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior is trying to raise standards for mouse mutant studies and reduce the unnecessary use of animals in flawed studies?
... that the Rolingas are an Argentine urban tribe composed of fans of The Rolling Stones?

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