This day in history: Did you know...

Saturday, 25 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the oil painting The Fog Warning (pictured) by Winslow Homer shows a lone fisherman in danger of being lost at sea?
... that despite Anthony William Hall's claim to the English throne in the 1930s, King George V didn't want him to be imprisoned?
... that Thornton's Corners GO Station will be built along a rail extension connecting the Canadian National Railway line to the Canadian Pacific Railwayline?
... that Kira Kazantsev is the third consecutive Miss New York to win Miss America?
... that the first church of Bay was constructed from cane and nipa by the Augustinians?
... that the pH of Lake Choctaw increased from 4.5–5.0 to 6.5–7.0 within two months of the installation of a treatment system at the Oneida Number One Tunnel in 2000?
... that Lloyd M. Smith created the world's first glow-in-the-dark DNA sequencer?

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