What is the first horror movie made?
The House of the Devil (Le Manor du Diable)
[quote]The House of the Devil, released in 1896, was the first horror movie ever made, showcasing horror elements such as skeletons, witches, and objects moving on their own.[/quote]
https://movieweb.com/first-horror-movie-ever-made/ (elburcher)
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Apr 03 26 by GBfan
Did the Polish city of Lublin have a German name?
According to popular legend, the city's name originates from a Polish prince and the Bystrzyca River.
When the prince visited the unnamed settlement, he asked the local fishermen to catch a fish to help him name the town. The fishermen caught two types of fish: a pike (Polish: "szczupak") and a tench ("lin"). Unable to decide between the two, the prince asked, "Pike or tench?" ("Szczupak lub lin?"). Over time, these words merged to form the name Lublin, according to the legend.
https://lublin.eu/en/lublin/about-the-city/lublin-legends/#id_11
During the German occupation (1939-1944), Lublin was maintained as the administrative center of the so-called "Lublin District". The German authorities continued to use the name Lublin in official documents, although they attempted to "germanize" the city through the settlement of ethnic Germans. Today, Lublin is considered the largest Polish city whose name was not translated into German. (wellenbrecher)
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Apr 05 26 by chabenao1
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Apr 04 26 by GBfan
What were the most number of hurricanes to hit Florida in one 12 month span?
The biggest number of hurricanes to hit Florida in one year was in 2004 when Hurricanes Charles, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne hit Florida.
https://www.noaa.gov/stories/4-hurricanes-in-6-weeks-it-happened-to-one-state-in-2004#:~:text=Florida%20experienced%20four%20unique%20storms,officials%20and%20heed%20their%20advice.
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Apr 05 26 by chabenao1
What is the lifespan of a tussock moth?
There are multiple types of moths called tussock moths, I think you'd need to clarify this question before an accurate answer could be given.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymantriinae (maripp2002)
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What song has reached the Billboard Hot 100 the most times counting by different artists?
As best as I can tell, after searching the charts and various lists with songs that have appeared by multiple artists, it is most likely to be the 1961 Ben E. King song "Stand By Me". The song has been recorded over 500 times, and several of these made the chart. In all, seven versions of "Stand By Me" have charted.
1961: Ben E. King (peaked at No. 4)
1967: Spyder Turner (peaked at No. 12)
1970: The Ruffin Brothers (peaked at No. 61)
1975: John Lennon (peaked at No. 20)
1980: Mickey Gilley (peaked at No. 22)
1985: Maurice White (peaked at No. 50)
1998: 4 the Cause (peaked at No. 82)
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Who was Vesta Stoudt?
Duct tape was created during World War II by a woman named Vesta Stoudt. She was working at the Green River Ordnance Plant near Amboy, Illinois (and had two sons serving in the U.S. Navy) when she noticed that the ammunition boxes she was tasked with packing and inspecting had a flaw. The boxes were sealed with paper tape and then the whole package was dipped in wax to make it waterproof. Although a tab was included to make the paper tape easy to open, it often tore off, so soldiers often struggled to pick away the wax to unseal the ammunition boxes while under fire. Stoudt was concerned, so she came up with the idea of creating a waterproof fabric tape and suggested it to her supervisors, but was unable to get support.
https://www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the-history-of-duct-tape
(pehinhota)
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Apr 03 26 by serpa
The "Mana Lisa" is displayed in which Boston museum?
If you go to the Museum of Bad Art, you can see the 'Mana Lisa' painted by the Canadian artist, Andrea Schmidt.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/treasures-from-the-museum-of-bad-art/
https://museumofbadart.org/ (Lottie1001)
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Apr 03 26 by serpa
Who was the first European to have been to the Southern hemisphere?
Prior to landings in Australia, the Portuguese had many excursions that crossed the equator. Wikipedia suggests that it was Diogo Cão who first landed south of the equator. [quote]In August 1482, Cão arrived at the Congo River mouth and marked it with a padrão erected on Shark Point, commemorating the Portuguese occupation. This padrão stood until 1642 when it was destroyed by the Dutch during their occupation of the Congo.[7]
Cão sailed up the great river for a short distance and [...] then proceeded south along the coast of present-day Angola where he erected a second padrão, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cabo de Santa Maria.[13°25?07?S 12°32?00?E].[/quote] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Cão (odo5435)
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Who was the first European to have been to the Southern hemisphere?
Willem Janszoon.
While many European explorers crossed the equator in the 15th and 16th centuries, Willem Janszoon is generally credited with the first recorded European landing in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia) in early 1606. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first to reach Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642.
Key Explorers of the Southern Hemisphere:
Willem Janszoon (1606): Dutch navigator who, in the Duyfken, landed on the western side of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia, marking the first confirmed European landfall in the Southern Hemisphere.
Pedro Fernández de Quirós (1606): Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain who reached the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).
Luis Vaez de Torres (1606): Navigated the strait between Australia and New Guinea, proving New Guinea was an island.
Abel Tasman (1642): Dutch explorer who discovered Tasmania (which he named Van Diemen's Land and was the first European to sight New Zealand.
https://www.google.com/search?q=first+European+to+visit+southern+hemisphere&oq=first+European+to+visit+southern+hemisphere+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCjExMDI0NmowajeoAhSwAgHxBecqurMYJHhT&client=ms-android-hmd-terr1-rso1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#lfId=ChxjMe (elvislennon)
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Mar 31 26 by chabenao1
Did Marco Polo visit the island of Hormuz?
[quote]Hormuz Island has gone through a series of name changes over the centuries. The ancient Greeks referred to the island as Organa. During the Islamic period, it was called Jarun. Finally, the island was named Hormuz after the important harbor town of the same name. Several notable explorers have traveled to Hormuz Island, including Marco Polo, who visited the island in 1290. The island was later visited by famous Arab explorer, Ibn Battuta. In the 15th century, a Chinese fleet sailed to the island as part of their voyage to explore the Indian Ocean.[/quote] www.worldatlas.com/islands/hormuz-island.html
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Mar 29 26 by chabenao1
The colony of which European kingdom issued the first anti-slavery proclamation in America in 1654, limiting the duration of slavery to six years and setting a wage?
The English Colony of Rhode Island issued a limitation in 1652, it limited the term of servitude to 10 years.
[quote]On May 18th, 1652, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to ban slavery. The good intentions of those who wrote the law, however, went unheeded - the statute was largely ignored for over a century, as many merchants in the state became leading slave traders in colonial America.
The act read,
"Whereas, it is a common course practiced amongst English men to buy negroes, to that end they have them for service or slave forever: let it be ordered, no blacke mankind or white being forced by covenant bond, or otherwise, to serve any man or his assighnes longer than ten years or until they come to bee twentie four years of age, if they be taken in under fourteen, from the time of their cominge with the liberties of this Collonie."[/quote]
https://whatsupnewp.com/2025/05/this-day-in-ri-history-may-18-1652-rhode-island-becomes-the-first-colony-to-pass-an-anti-slavery-law/ (elburcher)
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What was the name of the last dog sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1960?
Zvyozdochka.
On the March 25th of 1961, the last dog-cosmonaut named Zvyozdochka (in translation from Russian: Little Star) completed a successful space flight. Her contribution to science gave the Soviet scientists enough confidence to start sending humans to space. Zvyozdochka was launched just a couple of weeks before the first human, Yuri Gagarin, stepped out to journey into the outer space.
https://leaderofthepackdogtraining.org/zvyozdochka-the-last-dog-in-space/
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Does Brian May have any brothers or sisters?
The key line from the source states that "Brian, an only child, grew up in the middle?class, suburban comforts...", which confirms he has no brothers or sisters.
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Why would an airline pilot transmit a 'Pan-Pan' call rather that an 'Mayday' call?
Both terms originate from French to ensure they were easily understood by pilots and controllers on both sides of the English Channel in the 1920s.
- "Mayday" derived from the French "m'aider" (from "venez m'aider"), meaning "help me". It was proposed in 1923 by Frederick Mockford to provide a clear, unmistakable distress signal for voice radio.
- "Pan-Pan" derived from the French word "panne", meaning a "breakdown" or "mechanical failure". It is used for urgent situations that are not yet life-threatening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-pan (wellenbrecher)
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Mar 18 26 by odo5435
In which month did the French revolution start?
Tensions and financial issues preceded, but May 1789 is when the Estates-General, an advisory group consisting of clergy, nobility, and commoners, was convened and represented the start of the French Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_General_of_1789 (Rizeeve)
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Which knight and military leader was sentenced to death by King Edward II of England for his unauthorized truce with his rebellious northern kingdom, but only three months later had to conclude a thirteen-year truce with the Scottish rebels?
Sir Andrew Harclay (or Hartley) (anglicized from Andreas de Harcla), Earl of Carlisle
[quote]In 1321 he was summoned to parliament as a baron. The next year he gathered and led the northern forces that defeated and captured Thomas, Earl of Lancaster at Boroughbridge. On 25 March, just three days after Lancaster's execution, Harclay was created Earl of Carlisle, being girded with the comital sword by King Edward II himself. In addition he was promised land grants suitable for that rank.
The defeat of the rebels enabled the king to turn his attention to Scotland. Harclay raised another considerable force towards this campaign, but was unable to meet up with the royal forces before their disastrous defeat at Old Byland.
Afterwards the north of England became very hard to defend against Scottish raiding, and apparently Harclay decided to take matters into his own hands, and met with Robert I of Scotland to propose peace terms. Several different versions of the resulting agreement are extant, which has led to a lack of consensus amongst historians regarding the reasonableness of the proposal.
In any case King Edward could deem it nothing less than treason. Harclay was arrested, and hanged, drawn and quartered on 3 March 1323.[/quote]
https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Andrew-de-Harcla-1st-Last-Earl-of-Carlisle/6000000010400801935 (elburcher)
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