This day in history: Did you know..

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that actress Florence Pernel (pictured) portrayed Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife Cécilia in the 2011 film La Conquête?
... that Kiswe Mobile's app for the WNBA's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
... that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
... that Uzo Aduba won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress asOrange Is the New Black's "Crazy Eyes", while Taylor Schilling was nominated forOutstanding Lead Actress as Piper Chapman?
... that University of Santo Tomas Baybayin Documents are part of the biggest collection of extant baybayin scripts?
... that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois, William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?