This day in history: Did you know...

Monday, 22 September 2014

Did you know...

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Miss Major at San Francisco Pride Celebration in 2014

... that the trans woman activist Miss Major (pictured) was meeting with her girlfriend at the Stonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated the Stonewall riot?
... that Patagosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Patagonia that is known from an almost complete skeleton and partial skull?
... that Darol Froman was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in 1948?
... that little is known of the breeding habits of the fiery-shouldered parakeet?
... that the Australian plant Lomatia arborescens has large serrated leaves when it grows in a sheltered spot and small entire-margined leaves in an exposed location?
... that Robert Pitcairn was only fifteen when he discovered the island which is now named after him?
... that, after playing a detective, the social worker LV Wijnhamer became a suspect?

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