This day in history: Did you know...

Thursday, 20 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that both dancers in the cendrawasih dance (pictured), depicting the mating ritual of the "bird of the gods", are women?
... that Sir Robert Risson is credited as "the man who savedMelbourne's trams"?
... that the 1845 University Boat Race was the first time the event was contested along The Championship Course?
... that the completed English localization of 1989 video game Mother was abandoned only to be rediscovered and later uploaded to the Internet?
... that the literary motif of "forced seduction" was called a male rape fantasy, an attempt by the hero to get to know the heroine, a useful lesson for women to not dress sexy, and an enjoyable fantasy?
... that Shirley Clarke called Goodbye in the Mirror the first "real woman's film"?
... that drinking from the Hoofprint of Einion's Horse, a petrosomatoglyph in Wales, was thought to cure what ailed you?

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