This day in history: Did you know...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
... that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media?
... that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" ofcomputer role-playing games?
... that Todd Lake in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon is well known for its summer wildflowers display?
... that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death, produced by Roger Corman, is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
... that Francis Henry Medcalf was Mayor of Toronto for five years – spread over a twelve-year period?
... that umpires in German hobby horse polo force punitive sherries on non-galloping players?

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