Professional Documents
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6c ... that Pinal de Amoles, Querétaro, Mexico hosts an annual national level Huapango dance
competition ^
6c ... that Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and
Chairman of
the Cabinet of Ministers, was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
against Mikhail Gorbachev
6c ... that the sculpture Ñ
by Robert Stackhouse and Carol Merrit was inspired
by Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
6c ... that Stanford University graduate Charles Coiner, a Republican Idaho Senator from 2004
to 2010, supported efforts to teach about Japanese-American internment in Idaho public
schools
6c ... that the Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000
Soviet soldiers who fell in the Vienna Offensive of World War II
6c ... that in 1886, 200,000 salmon and salmon trout fry (young trout) were deposited in
the Chamcook Lake in New Brunswick
6c ... that Maud Gage Baum forced her husband to eat stale doughnuts because he did not
consult with her before buying them
6c ... that Bach composed 2
, for Palm Sunday as his
first cantata for the Schlosskirche ^ of the court in Weimar
6c ... that the first car that had a body entirely of plastic was manufactured by the Ford Motor
Company in 1941
6c ... that the Codex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Vulgate
6c ... that the design of the West Washington Street Bridge in Muncie, Indiana was inspired by
the work of an American Civil War engineer who built military bridges
6c ... that Tell Arslan in the Sands of Beirut was the oldest known neolithic village settlement
in the Beirut area
6c ... that missionary E. E. Aiken was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale in 1881 and the
next year wrote a book denouncing such secret societies
6c ... that in ü
, the UK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back
400 years to allow an expert witness to be sued for professional negligence
6c ... that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established the Elite 88 Award in
2009 to recognize the student athlete with the highest grade point average at each NCAA
championship
6c ... that 84% of Botswana is covered by the Kalahari Desert ^ , a flat terrain known as
a "thirstland", which harbours some of the wildlife of Botswana
6c ... that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in
southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching
from Chicago to Mexico
6c ... that Monte do Gozo, a hill in Spain, is most known for its view of a sight below, a view
that is now largely obscured
6c ... that preacher John "Zion" Ward was jailed for blasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition
to Parliament by Henry Hunt, and a speech in the House of Commonsby MP Joseph Hume
6c ... that the German destroyer Z9
had exhausted her ammunition after
the Second Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to be scuttled by placing demolition
chargesafter she had been beached
6c ... that Hospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital of Buenos Aires that
specializes in mental illness in children and adolescents
6c ... that nearly all orders for Nintendo's Laser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a
result of the 1973 oil crisis, plunging the company ¥5 billion into debt
6c ... that the original walk-in safe from a bank that once occupied the first floor of the Wheeler
Opera House ^ in Aspen, Colorado, is still on display in the lobby
6c ... that Zenith Productions, which produced
, was later also responsible
for Ant & Dec's ! " #
6c ... that Ivan Silayev was the last Premier of the Soviet Union
6c ... that editor John Jympson was fired during production of ! because
director George Lucas disliked his rough cut of the film
6c ... that, according to the excavator, the more than 3000-year-old "Green Palace" of Tell al-
Fakhar in Iraq was pillaged and burned with the defenders still inside
6c ... that bizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary
shapes to be introduced into silk design" before the development of Art Nouveau
6c ... that Neptune, god of the sea, can be found in Henderson Street, Edinburgh
6c ... that the Spirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully
than any other utopian group in the United States
6c ... that three million trees, including pine, oak, sweet chestnut, and acacia ^ , are
being planted every year as part of reforestation efforts in Cape Verde
6c ... that Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, who later became a prominent writer for the Drury
Lane pantomime, began writing for "$ "
when he was 17 years of age
6c ... that â $, composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse, is performed today
in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse
6c ... that the Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System in Utah was the world's
largest solar cell power plant when it opened in 1980
6c ... that singer Jenny Silver debuted with the Swedish dance band Candela, when it was
signed to Bert Karlsson's label Mariann Grammofon
6c ... that in the Indian state of Bihar, pressure from communist Party Unity guerrillas forced
the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organization MKSS
6c ... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe
and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of ! %
and the&
&$
6c ... that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies·s new opera about student activism,
', was
intended to be performed by students
6c ... that the extinct Eocene parasitic wasp ^ was named from
the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"
6c ... that the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibits neolithic relics from the Beqaa
Valley recovered by Jesuits
6c ... that recycling in Canada is administered by the provincial and local governments
6c ... that Hamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in
the world
6c ... that Sir Henry Primrose, the chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue, played
two international football matches for Scotland in the 1870s
6c ... that a performer's authenticity in art may involve conforming to the composer's intention
or ignoring it
6c ... that the Fordwich stone in the Church of St Mary in Fordwich, Kent, may have been part
of the shrine of Saint Augustine of Canterbury
6c ... that Alaska Supreme Court Justice Craig F. Stowers worked as a park ranger before he
earned his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law
6c ... that American artist Colin Campbell Cooper helped rescue survivors of the "
, and
during the rescue created several paintings ^( which document the events
6c ... that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited
by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary
6c ... that the Tasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species of possum
6c ... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series (2000) event ended
with one wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly with his opponent trapped
inside
6c ... that Warren Matthews, a graduate of both Stanford and Harvard appointed
by Republican Governor Jay Hammond, was the second-longest serving Supreme
Court justice inAlaska history
6c ... that Lumley Chapel is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton
6c ... that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple
6c ... that Romania's Symbolist movement ^
$ fostered the literary careers
of far-right theorist Nae Ionescu, defrocked monk Tudor Arghezi, and Dadaco-
founder Tristan Tzara
6c ... that Ruislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at the turn of the 20th
century until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1912
6c ... that during World War II, Germany and Japan wanted to divide all of Asia between each
other along a line on the 70th meridian east longitude
6c ... that although described as one of the finest buildings in Glasgow, The Egyptian
Halls may be demolished
6c ... that former Hillsboro, Oregon, mayor Harry T. Bagley worked to get a conviction
overturned from a trial his brother George R. Bagley presided over
6c ... that Blackbutt, Christmas Bells, and Turpentine grow in the Garawarra State
Conservation Area
6c ... that John Fenn, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his colleagues
at Monsanto "practically bathed" in PCBs during the early 1940s
6c ... that coach Billy Gillispie once made Kentucky Wildcats center Josh
Harrellson ^ sit in a bathroom stall during half-time of a game
6c ... that under the ongoing Russian police reform, the name of Russia's law enforcers was
changed from "militia" to "police"
6c ... that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, India, built on the site of the original Kashi
Vishwanath Temple, still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and
rear
6c ... that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song "Three Fishers" in the late
1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending
6c ... that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no
fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures
6c ... that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry
in Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshiwambo
6c ... that soon after he was ordained, John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet
Marston, Buckinghamshire
6c ... that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory, George M.
Willing claimed to have created the word "Idaho" as a name for Colorado
6c ... that the 75-metre (246 ft) tall towers of St. Florian's Cathedral ^ in Warsaw's
eastern district of Praga highlight its role as a form of protest against
theRussian domination of Poland
6c ... that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M.
Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States and one of the
clearest in the world
6c ... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus & is known from only two fossils found
in Baltic amber
6c ... that Ditsworthy Warren House, built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren, was
used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie 2
6c ... that the German destroyer
2
was forced to transfer fuel oil to the
destroyer )$ â during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return
toGermany
6c ... that the Mariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found
at House of Taga on Tinian, may have originated with the Rota Latte Stone Quarry
6c ... that Hospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's first radio station broadcast from
inside a psychiatric hospital
6c ... that James FitzGerald ^ , the first editor of the #
", later founded its
main competitor, "$ *
6c ... that riparian forests contain some ß of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin
6c ... that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation
Deadstick
6c ... that the Chapman Swifts, a flock of Vaux's Swift, inspired a Portland, Oregon,
community to raise over US$60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could
have the old chimney to roost
6c ... that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad
Vincula in Colemore, Hampshire, the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the
southtransept removed
6c ... that %$ may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior
6c ... that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his pistol in it in 1853
6c ... that staff of the historic The Press Building ^ were two weeks away from moving
into a new office building when the 2011 Christchurch earthquakestruck, killing one
6c ... that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar
Ekeland
6c ... that Llanwenarth House was a recipient of "$ + 2 + César Award for Best
Welsh Country House of the Year 2002
6c ... that Hurricane Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States
6c ... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle
against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a
book with an Orthodox rabbi
6c ... that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon, for
complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat
6c ... that in the early 19th century, the word , wasn't in the dictionary
6c ... that the George Washington Masonic National Memorial ^ was proposed in 1852,
began construction in 1922, dedicated in 1932, and finished in 1970
6c ... that pirate leader Emilio Changco operated out of Manila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s
6c ... that above the arcade in the chancel screen of St Mary's Church, Capel-le-
Ferne in Kent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England
6c ... that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich
Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists andpercussionists"
6c ... that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in France,
because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes
6c ... that the commander of the heavy cruiser *
- â
, Captain Helmuth Brinkmann, was
a classmate of the battleship 's commander Ernst Lindemann
6c ... that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election, incumbent Mark Hatfield's opponent in
the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-
growth logging
6c ... that San Francisco fireboat *$
( ^ pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML)
of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
6c ... that Rudolf Fränkel's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, with its rooftop searchlights, probably
influenced Cecil Clavering's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding
6c ... that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose
instead to play basketball for Israel
6c ... that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross, Halifax built in 1911, is
dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the
prior church built in 1846
6c ... that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang "Follow
the Yellow Brick Road" after committing a sectarian killing
6c ... that the extinct Miocene redwood, !.
$
, is the probable ancestor to
the giant sequoias in California
6c ... that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III's first girlfriend was
former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de
Manila University
6c ... that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin ^ is believed to contain the souls of people
who died while trying to save others from drowning
6c ... that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF's
increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency
6c ... that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep
Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film
6c ... that the two branches of New Zealand's Ashburton River flow in parallel less than
3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join
6c ... that the adjective "Polish-Lithuanian" refers to pre-
nationalistic, multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unlike the
modern understanding of the twonationalities
6c ... that R. E. Grant Govan, founder of Indian National Airways Ltd, also co-founded
the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Club of India
6c ... that, according to legend, on the advice of Xenoclea, Hercules agreed to become a slave of
the Queen of Lydia
6c ... that approximately 6,500 out of a national population of an estimated 56,452 people
(2010) in Greenland are employed in the fishing industry ^
$
6c ... that the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year's Red Summer, began when
a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's
illegitimate son
6c ... that the Ottoman torpedo boat !
$ attacked and seriously damaged
the Australian submarine HMAS &â in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine
went down in the Sea of Marmara
6c ... that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to
avoid German bombings during World War II
6c ... that Abu Ali Iyad was one of the last remaining Fatah commanders fighting
the Jordanian Army until he was killed near Ajloun during a major offensive by the latter
6c ... that the French ship of the line Ñ
was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795
after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship
6c ... that ,, a guide book to understanding the Bible, was popular
in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century
6c ... that Princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, created the
world's first museum ^
6c ... that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV station WJXT in Jacksonville,
Florida, George Winterling helped develop television weather forecasting
6c ... that traditionally, each season of cross country running in Italy concludes in March
with Trofeo Alasport on the island of Sardinia
6c ... that goaltender Ben Scrivens signed with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs organization
mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coach François Allaire
6c ... that Perry Como's musical arranger, Nick Perito, also helped Bob Hope's wife, Dolores,
revive her singing career after 60 years
6c ... that in Jalpan de Serra in Querétaro, Mexico, there is an annual festival to celebrate
"countrymen" visiting from the United States
6c ... that the North American Star League, a professional e-sports league for players of the
video game !Ñ
, will award US$100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season
6c ... that the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda ^( in Querétaro, Mexico,
have been classified as "mestizo architecture" because of the mixture of European and
indigenous influences
6c ... that Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter to Lieutenant Charles
Inglis congratulating him for his part in the action of 31 March 1800
6c ... that on July 28, 2006, Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set a Florida State
League record by hitting four home runs in a game against the Clearwater Threshers
6c ... that Frank Searle designed the X-type and B-type bus, and was the Managing Director
of Daimler Airway and Imperial Airways
6c ... that the Großgaststätte Ahornblatt, a concrete building in the shape of a maple leaf in
former East Berlin, was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000
6c ... that Pele's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved at Devastation Trail after the 1959
eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater
6c ... that 19th-century English artist John Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his
mouth, after a fall from a tree left him paralysed below the neck
6c ... that the *(-class revenue cutters &$,
,
,
and *( were all sold in 1867 after barely three years service, but their sister ship #
, ^ retired in 1915 as the Coast Guard's oldest cutter
6c ... that Jerry Harper was the first Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his
team in scoring all four years
6c ... that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting +
$ ! $ be displayed on an
easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and
Museum in Figueres
6c ... that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-
time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer, author of "$ &
$
6c ... that Keipert syndrome affects the nose and big toes
6c ... that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British
Library included the archives of *
$ magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6c ... that Tommy Lyttle, the leader of the Ulster Defence Association's West Belfast Brigade,
liked to read ü
novels
6c ... that in 1986, a possible image of President Abraham Lincoln was discovered in an 1860s
photo ^ of the deck of revenue cutter USRC
6c ... that the German town of Bingen am Rhein has used Klopp Castle for city administration
since 1897
6c ... that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's
books on Pennsylvania State University's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture
books published in 2009"
6c ... that the crew of the !
tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels,
into the Gaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt
6c ... that the Jersey J-Cup, patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament,
is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States
6c ... that the Museo Soumaya, a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art
collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France
6c ... that the old television game show * $ ) asked contestants to recognize glimpses
of nearly forgotten persons from their past
6c ... that the U.S. government imprisoned the Baron of Arizona ^ after learning he had
damaged books in Mexican and Spanish libraries
6c ... that the proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam on the Euphrates in Syria threatens
the Roman²Byzantine sites of Halabiye and Zalabiye
6c ... that the land at West Weber, Utah, was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of
the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden
6c ... that Alexander Gradsky is believed to be the first Russian artist to have performed rock
and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old
6c ... that the Blockade of Wonsan in the Korean War was the longest naval blockade in
modern history, lasting 861 days
6c ... that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident
severely disfigured his face ² and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal
cartilage
6c ... that as a teenager, Justine Thornton, the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed
Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedy 2 2
6c ... that the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is named after
the British ship ^ , which sailed with the explorerCharles Darwin in 1833²
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6c ... that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by ? /
" music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s
6c ... that the city of Ajdabiya, newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging
post on the crossroads of two key trading routes
6c ... that the Franciscan Church in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century
Poland
6c ... that as a senior, basketball player Pete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given
annually to the University of Nevada's top male athlete
6c ... that the neo-realist film &
Y
is a strong critique of the obsession with
consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin
6c ... that Isaac Perrins, an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter, was described as "the
knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"
6c ... that although the nuclear policy of the United States regulates the nuclear
energy industry more strictly than most others, there have been 52 incidents ^"$
costing an estimated $8.56 billion
6c ... that just one day after arrest, Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas
Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and
missing testicles
6c ... that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados, named after British
Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great
Hurricane of 1898
6c ... that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP, a director of the East India
Company, a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West
Florida
6c ... that Marino Murillo, the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, believes the
Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale
private market
6c ... that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors, the permanent
database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison
6c ... that Acid-Fest, a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid, featured one of the
largest battle royals ever held
6c ... that Henry Seidel Canby compared the ruins of Isabella Furnace ^ to a 12th-
century Persian mosque
6c ... that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship,
continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and
manned by a British crew
6c ... that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final, Somerset County Cricket Club won their
first trophy since forming 104 years earlier
6c ... that the documentary film
&
, has historical significance in that it
documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin afterWorld War II
6c ... that Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire is believed to have been founded by Saint Teilo in
the 6th century
6c ... that although the despot of Valona John Komnenos Asen plundered a Venetian ship in
1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later
6c ... that in the )
episode "The Ghost Network", the writers wanted guest actor Zak
Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to
6c ... that trolleybuses in Derby ^( last operated in 1967, but there are still five
preserved by collectors
6c ... that Gent Strazimiri, who began his career as an anti-communist activist, is now a
member of the Albanian parliament for the Democratic Party of Albania
6c ... that the influential 2000 oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features
that all cancers have in common
6c ... that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen, a German missionary in South-West Africa, married
an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of
that time
6c ... that the 1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a
hurricane
6c ... that Jayden Pitt, the lightest player on the Fremantle Football Club playing list at only
70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of
the2011 AFL season
6c ... that John T. Cunningham, who has chronicled much of New Jersey's past, once said,
"My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"
6c ... that some whales "lunge feed" on bait balls ^ , an extreme method of feeding
which has been called the largest biomechanical event on Earth
6c ... that former Kennel Club Chairman Leonard Pagliero flew supplies to the Norwegian
resistance movement during World War II
6c ... that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity, established by the Obama Administration in
2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation
6c ... that The inSpiral Lounge is a vegetarian restaurant, organic bar and live music venue
in Camden Lock, London that hosts performances of acoustic and electronic music
6c ... that
0 â
2
!
, by Timothy D. Snyder, discusses the
estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945
6c ... that "$ $
* named Libyan female lawyer Iman al-Obeidi, who
accused Muammar Gaddafi's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance
against Gaddafi"
6c ... that the Major League Baseball career of Larry McLean ended at the Buckingham
Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, during a drunken encounter with his manager, John McGraw
6c ... that during a raid on Berlin in 1944, RAAF Squadron Leader Bill Brill's ^ Avro
Lancaster was struck by incendiary bombs dropped by another Allied aircraft above him
6c ... that Anesrif is managing the construction of the High Plateau line, a railway
across Algeria
6c ... that Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the
Year in American football, women's basketball, and men's basketball, respectively
6c ... that Mehadia, Romania, is located on the site of the ancient Roman colony Ad Mediam,
noted for its Hercules baths
6c ... that before the Hershey²Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed
that genes were carried by proteins
6c ... that French marshal Victor-Perrin, on his way to command the Siege of Kolberg (1807),
was captured by a Prussian freikorps
6c ... that Trey Songz' 2011 single "Love Faces" is a mid-tempo piano-based ballad that
discusses facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse
6c ... that Alice Manfield ^ , commonly known as Guide Alice, worked as a mountain
guide on Australia's Mt Buffalo for forty years from the 1890s
6c ... that the yacht &-
's former owners include Arthur Lowe of the British sitcom %1
&
6c ... that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform
spaces
6c ... that the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan in Swindon, England, has been linked to the
1996 unsolved murder of Melanie Hall
6c ... that John Adams' "Christian Zeal and Activity" from &
!
is an
arrangement of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", a popular hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan
6c ... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk
after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the
Polish Post Office in Danzig
6c ... that 37 photographs, 12 home movies, a bunch of books and a search warrant have had
their day in the U.S. Supreme Court
6c ... that at the height of battle the wolf's head of the Dacian Draco ^ , with its several
metal tongues, made a shrill sound and its strips of material waved in the wind
6c ... that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them
"poems of light"
6c ... that in the churchyard of All Saints Church, in Little Somborne, Hampshire, is the grave
of Thomas Sopwith, the pioneer aviator
6c ... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four
decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's )
, of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe"
6c ... that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsored fixed markets never replaced
"tianguis" or open air markets in Mexico
6c ... that in 1918 Morris S. Halliday, a New York State Senator for the forty-first Senate
District, resigned his seat to enter the United States Army Air Service
6c ... that a parrot was branded sectarian after being heard whistling "Follow Follow"
6c ... that Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych ^ , known for the "Carol of the Bells",
was nicknamed "Ukrainian Bach" in France
6c ... that George, a Jack Russell Terrier, died from injuries sustained while protecting several
children from an attack by two Pit Bulls
6c ... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in
aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning
6c ... that the mass of the extrasolar planet Kepler-11g could not be determined because its
orbit is too far from those of its sister planets
6c ... that former $
" editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the
paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church
6c ... that Kenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work
for *
$ in the magazine's early years
6c ... that Grant Hill's response to Jalen Rose's comments in "$ ), )³the highest-
rated ESPN documentary³was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next
few days
6c ... that Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina is named after Nahuel Huapi
Lake ^ , with
$ and $ meaning "jaguar" and "island" in theMapuche
language
6c ... that the M-64 highway designation in Michigan was moved twice in two years by
exchanging the number with different roads
6c ... that the first manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written by Benedikt
Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought
6c ... that in the 1970s, Shreveport historian Walter M. Lowrey headed a project
on Louisiana Methodism, which included a study of circuit riders
6c ... that two of the venues used for the Four Hills Tournament have also been used
for Olympic ski jumping competitions
6c ... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album #
)
6c ... that Miss San Antonio 2010 Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant
officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"
6c ... that Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond ^ was known as the "Double
Duchess"
6c ... that Czech actor Martin Miller portrayed Kublai Khan in % $
6c ... that near the end of its lengthy run, the television series "$ !$
introduced the future novelist Jacqueline Susann as a panelist
6c ... that Norwegian behavioral neuroscientist Terje Sagvolden showed that the spontaneously
hypertensive rat strain is a valid animal model for the attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder
6c ... that a tavern in Baltimore, the Henry Fite House, served as the United States capitol for
two months
6c ... that Ray William Johnson is the second most subscribed person on YouTube
6c ... that the dimachaerus, a type of gladiator, used a fighting style adapted to defend with his
weapons rather than a shield
6c ... that in the *
Y
episode "Camping", protagonist Leslie Knope (Amy
Poehler) revealed she once dreamed of being happily married to the fictional alien ALF
6c ... that Cubs' pitcher Carl Lundgren ^ had "speed to burn green hickory and an
assortment of curves that would keep a cryptograph specialist figuring all night but he was
wild as a March hare in a cyclone"
6c ... that Hezekiah Holland reckoned in 1650 that the end of the world and the Day of
Judgment were then 216 years away
6c ... that the 2011 Jerusalem bus stop bombing was a bomb attack carried out in a bus
station in downtown Jerusalem which killed a 59-year-old British national
6c ... that the Argentine superhero live-action TV series # 2
is influenced by the 34
film series, 2 and ! 2$
6c ... that sociologist Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown after his father, Max Weber
Sr., suddenly died following a father²son argument
6c ... that Polish State Forests oversee 77.8% of forests in Poland
6c ... that Rebecca Black's "Friday", dubbed the "worst song ever" by some critics, has made
Black a "viral star" with the video attracting over 80 million Youtube hits
6c ... that the Lion Gate ^ , the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel
of Mycenae in Greece, is the sole surviving monument of Mycenaean sculpture
6c ... that for her second novel, "$ !
Ô, Indian-American writer Thrity
Umrigar modeled the character of Bhima after a real-life domestic servant who worked for
her family
6c ... that Pensacola Dam on the Grand River in Oklahoma is referred to as the longest
multiple-arch dam in the world, with 51 arches
6c ... that the extinct mason bee species &
$ ($ and &
$ are
known from the Eocene Florissant Formation in Colorado
6c ... that the music to the hymn "Follow On" was later adopted by Rangers F.C. as the music
for their anthem, "Follow Follow"
6c ... that Minnette Gersh Lenier used stage magic to teach remedial reading
6c ... that at Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery in East Sussex, England, Mr. Bacon is buried
next to Mrs. Egg
6c ... that the Bank Street Historic District in Waterbury, Connecticut, has a rare Queen Anne
Style commercial building ^
$
6c ... that 425,000 German prisoners of war were held in 700 camps throughout the United
States during World War II
6c ... that James Monroe Smith, who had been forced from the presidency
of LSU on fraud charges, was thereafter named vocational rehabilitation director at
theLouisiana State Penitentiary
6c ... that the extinct parasitic wasp $
is thought to have preyed upon
wood-boring beetles
6c ... that entrepreneur Ralph Høibakk was one of a group of Norwegians who skied to
the South Pole in 1990, the first people to do so since Roald Amundsen
6c ... that television producer Eugenio Derbez sends actors and actresses to Mexico City's La
Lagunilla Market to pick up the vocabulary and accents of the people they will portray in
his reality series
6c ... that netball became an Olympic-recognised sport in 1995 after 20 years of lobbying
6c ... that Boston Beaneater Bobby "Link" Lowe ^ was the first Major League player
to hit four home runs in a game and was selected in 1911 as the bestutility
player in baseball history
6c ... that the early Britons were skilled horsemen and faced Julius Caesar with a well-
organized force of 4,000 horse-drawn chariots
6c ... that after more than 40 years as a recording artist, 31 studio albums and one award as
an art director, Neil Young won his first Grammy Award as a musician for "Angry World"
6c ... that Adolf Eichmann felt he was given his "big break" by fellow Austrian Leopold von
Mildenstein
6c ... that Beidha, a major archaeological site near Petra in Jordan,
had Natufian, Neolithic and Nabataean occupations
6c ... that Virginia Woolf stayed at the Carbis Bay Hotel in the spring of 1914 for three weeks
whilst recovering from a bout of mental illness
6c ... that Paraguayan actor Arnaldo André used to slap telenovela actresses who worked with
him
6c ... that among the replicas exhibited in the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Colunga, Spain,
are the copulating "
( dinosaurs ^
6c ... that North Carolina A&T State University President James B. Dudley organized a society
whose aims included discouraging African American farmers from getting mortgages
6c ... that after a series of austerity measures were voted down in the Portuguese
parliament in March 2011, Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for alegislative
election
6c ... that conductor Christoph Poppen played Bach's *
?7 interspersed with
related Bach chorales, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble
6c ... that in the 1950s, Woolverstone Hall was the Inner London Education Authority's only
state-run boarding school
6c ... that Chris Hill is one of only three Big Ten Conference men's basketball players to have
been named an Academic All-America three times
6c ... that after receiving a letter during the 1702 Siege of Nöteborg, Peter the Great offered the
defending officers' wives safe passage, if they took their husbands with them
6c ... that Oxford Terrace Baptist Church ^ , collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch
earthquake, was considered by the dean of ChristChurch Cathedral as one of the "iconic
churches of the city"
6c ... that Jane Austen's brother, Francis, captured two French merchant ships and fought off
their escorts while captaining the sloop-of-war HMS *
6c ... that Keith Richards made a guest appearance on Phantom, Rocker & Slick's debut
album
6c ... that members of the 2010²11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team won
earned CCHA Best Defensive Forward and Best Goaltender awards
6c ... that Everett Bowman was the founder of the Cowboys' Turtle Association, the first
organization of professional rodeo cowboys
6c ... that the Zagreb School of Economics and Management is the largest private
institute for higher education in Croatia
6c ... that because it depicts a same-sex marriage, the children's picture book
8
was
the subject of a question in the 2008 Democratic U.S. presidential primary debates
6c ... that the Italian wine grape Vespaiola is named after the wasps ^ that are
attracted to the sugary pulp of the ripening grapes
6c ... that artist Will Henry Stevens was inspired for his subject matter by writers Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman
6c ... that, starting in 1944, a Nazi labor subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp was set
up outside every HASAG arms factory in Germany
6c ... that St Elmo Courts, a heritage building registered as Category II with the New Zealand
Historic Places Trust, is currently being demolished
6c ... that Arnold Schoenberg has been only one of many composers to set poems from Albert
Giraud's *
to music
6c ... that a rare breed of horses found in the high mountains of Sierra del
Sueve in Asturias, Spain, does not trot but moves with an easy gait, leading to its popularity
as a "ladies' mount"
6c ... that Anthony Robles won a national NCAA wrestling title despite being born with only one
leg
6c ... that larvae of Cuban endemic firefly &
^ attack land snails
6c ... that Polish anti-Communist fighter turned Stalinist informant Edward
Wasilewski committed suicide in 1968, on the day of the Warsaw Pact invasion of
Czechoslovakia
6c ... that nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography can be used to explore features
of microcrystalline formation too fine to be seen through X-ray, neutron, orelectron
diffraction
6c ... that Ñ
+ magazine wrote that "$
$ % holds
"very little appeal for anyone but the most patient and geeky PC-head"
6c ... that the publisher of "$ "
newspaper, Renton Nicholson, once engaged in a public
feud with rival publisher Barnard Gregory
6c ... that in 1903, The Kennel Club merged four breeds of toy spaniels into the King Charles
Spaniel
6c ... that doctor Bohdan Pomahač performed the first full face transplant in the United
States
6c ... that, in 1960, Volkmar Wentzel photographed Capt. Joseph Kittinger making a record-
setting 102,800-foot (31,300 m) skydive ^
6c ... that, even though the Valle d'Aosta is surrounded by the Alps in the far northwest region
of Italy, nearly 90% of its wines are red and 6 made from varieties likePetit Rouge
6c ... that the titular character of the 15th-century romance ! %
was called the
"perfect romance hero" precisely because he was untouched by love
6c ... that the larva of the Texas beetle, $
, can live for over two years without
feeding
6c ... that Charles Edward Roehenstart was the natural son of a Catholic archbishop and
a duchess
6c ... that Revlon named a fragrance "Charlie" after the company's founder, because
competitor Estée Lauder released one called "Estée"
6c ... that, after leaving UCLA and the University of Georgia, basketball player Nicole
Kaczmarski started waiting tables at Outback Steakhouse
6c ... that "special correspondent" military artists followed Victorian armies round the British
Empire, sending back illustrations ^ ( that "left an indelible stamp on
the art of the comic strip"
6c ... that Louisiana educator Stephen A. Caldwell became a school principal 14 years before
he received his bachelor's degree
6c ... that figure skating was the first Winter Olympic sport to hold all of its events indoors,
during the Winter Olympics in 1932
6c ... that in 2007, the FAIR USE Act, which would have prevented the Supreme Court from
levying damages against companies for secondary infringement, was introduced in
the 110th U.S. Congress
6c ... that Romanian art historian Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş, the alleged son of King Carol I,
was police chief under German occupation during World War I
6c ... that for the 2003 horror film % )-, director John Carl Buechler created a
giant trilobite as the "monster"
6c ... that former 7 actor Rob Stone later became a producer of documentaries,
including a short film on homelessness that featured Mr. Belvedere himself
6c ... that the California Senate passed a bill making the sale
of balloons ^ illegal in January 2011
6c ... that 14-metre (46 ft) tall Siberian crabs are being used in experimental breeding
programs
6c ... that a wanderer survived both the French Revolution of 1789²99 and the Russian
Revolution 127 years later
6c ... that in early 2010 reporters claimed that an unprecedented attack on Jordan was
targeted at both terrorists from Al-Qaida and U.S. military bases
6c ... that the inhabitants of the Sand Ridge Site ate drums
6c ... that Clubfoot George was executed by vigilantes because they believed that he was
innocent
6c ... that the U.S. military hopes to incorporate Transformers into its combat units
6c ... that the noble lady Sayyida al Hurra became well respected for her booty
6c ... that Thomas Jefferson wished to practice free love but the object of his affections became
pregnant and gave birth to Frankenstein
6c ... that the Australian government requires high-risk sex workers to wear full-
face respirators ^(
6c ... that Ntrepid was paid $2.76 million by the U.S. military to create sock puppets
6c ... that Batman is half female
6c ... that nesting is not used by breeding Mute Swans but they do use this thing
6c ... that Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of a crime for releasing a worm
6c ... that Dr. Who's parents are Brazilians from a family known for pineapples
6c ... that even small amounts of dead cat can explode when heated
6c ... that Europe was ruled by a child during the American Revolutionary War
6c ... that a typical #,
is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and equipped with
pincers
6c ... that there is a desk full of candy ^ on the floor of the US Senate
6c ... that Rudyard Kipling's final resting place is at the bottom of the sea off the coast
of Ireland
6c ... that recent quantum chemical calculations have established that arsoles are only
moderately aromatic
6c ... that St. Joseph has been in Egypt since 1852
6c ... that in 2010, three survivors of the "
were rescued by the USCGC Ñ$
6c ... that a real Bastard commanded Africa in the nineteenth century
6c ... that a species of crab, "$ , has been found living on an asteroid
6c ... that ice cream grows in Florida
6c ... that the 2011 Honda CBR250R sport bike ^ , styled after the VFR1200F, shows
design influence from the Chrysler 300 car
6c ... that Matt Howard is the first player named to the Horizon League Men's Basketball
Tournament All-Tournament team four times
6c ... that the Munich Biennale is an opera festival created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze,
focused on opera premieres of young composers
6c ... that the stoning murder of two Israeli boys on the outskirts of their settlement in
the Judean desert in 2001 led to U.S. legislation cracking down on killers of Americans
overseas
6c ... that La Nueva Viga Market in Mexico City is the second-largest seafood market, after
the Tsukiji fish market
6c ... that during Operation Kita in February 1945, six Imperial Japanese Navy warships,
sailing from Singapore to Japan, evaded the 26 Allied submarines which were positioned to
attack them
6c ... that the + cover of The Beatles' "Blackbird", included on an upcoming album, marked
the first time the song charted on the , Hot 100
6c ... that in Early Medieval art Christ treading on the beasts ^ often
showed Christ trampling on a lion, asp, basilisk and dragon, all representing the devil
6c ... that Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, son of French World War II hero Jean de Lattre de
Tassigny, was one of 21 sons of French marshals and generals to be killed in the First Indochina
War
6c ... that the SOE assassination operation Bittern received severe criticism from the Norwegian
resistance movement
6c ... that Lý Anh Tông, the sixth emperor of the Lý Dynasty, was considered the first ruler of Đi
Vi t who promoted Buddhism as the state religion
6c ... that after a quiet tour, ball tampering allegations and problems with the review system caused
controversy in the third and fourth Tests of the England²South Africa series in 2009²10
6c ... that Pirot-born Krastyo Krastev, the first professional Bulgarian literary critic, was
a shorthand writer for the National Assembly of Bulgaria while still a schoolboy
6c ... that ?$, marked the film debut for C. N. Annadurai, who later went on to
become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
6c ... that during the 2001²02 season, Hibernian F.C. sacked manager Franck Sauzee just 69 days
after he had been appointed
6c ... that five of the seven German battlecruisers ^SMS
"
took part in
the Battle of Jutland, where they sank three of their British rivals
6c ... that at age 19, Felix Barker became the youngest drama critic working on Fleet Street
6c ... that the Ngwenya Mine in Swaziland is one of the oldest mines in the world
6c ... that 28 people died in a 1922 fire in the Palacio de la Aduana in Málaga, Spain
6c ... that John Usher was called to the Bar and made an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn at the
same time
6c ... that the barbeled houndshark is the only shark with a spherical placenta
6c ... that if rugby union player Tom Prydie appears for Wales in the 2010 Six Nations, he will
become the youngest cap in the team's history
6c ... that the BBC Radio 4 panel game & / & was voted by readers of the British Comedy
Guide the "Worst British Radio Panel Show/Satire 2008"
6c ... that nearly 25% of all the wine grapes grown in Mendocino County ^ are
farmed organically ² the largest percentage of any California county
6c ... that the character actor Tom Greenway, shot down as a pilot in World War II, spent more than
a year in Italian and German POW camps
6c ... that in Minuscule 545 iota adscript occurs up to Luke 1:77, then ceases
6c ... that Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, is opening a law school in Boise, Idaho
6c ... that the land on which Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico, stands was under Lake Texcoco until
the early 20th century
6c ... that the 1925 Rochester Jeffersons season included the final seven games of a twenty-three
game streak without a victory
6c ... that the hieroglyphic inscriptions at the Early Classic Maya city of Bejucal in
northern Guatemala were all made within a narrow 40 year period
6c ... that Barack Obama's most recent State of the Union address was almost scheduled to
preempt the broadcast of "LA X", the final season premiere of the television show #
6c ... that pioneering aeroplane pilot and racing driver Henri Rougier won the inaugural Monte
Carlo Rally in his Turcat-Méry car ^
6c ... that the omissions due to $
are unusually frequent in Minuscule 544
6c ... that Fritz Bultman, an original Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, missed a photo
shoot for the #
magazine article that established his colleagues' reputations
6c ... that Guyanese president Forbes Burnham was president of the Guyana Labour Union twice,
from 1952 to 1956 and again from 1963 to 1965
6c ... that the character actor Tom Greenway, shot down as a pilot in World War II, spent more than
a year in Italian and German POW camps
6c ... that Elders Colonial Airways ceased flying to Bathurst in The Gambia after its Short Scion
Senior sank in the city's harbour in August 1939
6c ... that John Douglas' design for 78²94 Foregate Street, Chester was so unlike any of his
previous architectural styles that it "shocked the City Council Improvement Committee"
6c ... that David Haig-Thomas who rowed for Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics was an
ornithologist, arctic explorer and commando officer who was killed in action on D-Day
6c ... that Jacob Svetoslav ^
, a 13th-century Bulgarian noble of Russian origin and
ruler of Vidin, twice changed allegiance between Hungary and Bulgaria and vice versa before
possibly being poisoned
6c ... that during the 1960s Air Guinée was managed by Alaska Airlines and Pan American World
Airways, each for a short time
6c ... that basketball player Bill Spivey sued the National Basketball Association and its
commissioner in 1960, claiming that the league blacklisted him
6c ... that in 1894, after the * +- mocked what became the Viking Society for Northern
Research, a member wrote, "The fiercest warriors, even savages, drink tea and coffee nowadays"
6c ... that settlement money given to the city to close the Harbour Island People Mover was utilized
in the creation of an endowment to cover the operating costs of the TECO Line
Streetcar in Tampa, Florida
6c ... that Charles Terront used a prototype pneumatic tyre made by Edouard Michelin when he
won the inaugural Paris-Brest-Paris cycle race in 1891
6c ... that on the brink of the American Civil War, there was a movement in the mid-Atlantic
states to secede from the Union and form a Central Confederacy
6c ... that John Smith, a noted 18th century London housebreaker, managed to
avoid execution three times, and was eventually transported to Virginia
6c ... that the Hatadage, Nissanka Latha Mandapaya, and Rankoth Vehera were all built by
King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka
6c ... that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life
imprisonment
6c ... that when Townsville financial advice company Storm Financial collapsed in 2009, victims
included cricketer Andrew Symonds, who lost at least AU$1 million
6c ... that former actress Esme Church founded a theatre school in Bradford, England, where stars
such as Tom Bell, Bernard Hepton and Robert Stephens received their training
6c ... that the mayors of six Parisian suburbs took part in founding the Socialist-Communist
Union in 1923
6c ... that if anyone appeals to the Pashtunwali doctrine of Nanawatai, even his sworn enemy will
have to give him sanctuary
6c ... that Arne Rettedal, county mayor of Rogaland from 1988 to 1991, died on the birthday of his
successor Odd Arild Kvaløy
6c ... that although it was first classified as a reptile, the extinct genus ^
is now known to be a microsaur amphibian
6c ... that former Louisiana State Senator Lawson Swearingen in 1990 cast one of three critical
votes to sustain Governor Buddy Roemer's veto of a restrictive anti-abortion bill
6c ... that the 900 South station was the first infill station constructed as part of the UTA
TRAX light rail system in Salt Lake City, Utah
6c ... that Shenandoah and Alison Krauss' "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" won a Grammy
Award in 1995, and its b-side "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)" was also nominated for one
6c ... that in 1916, William Gilbert Gosling's 12-man governing commission of St. John's,
Newfoundland, allowed for legal proceedings to be instigated against the town's tax evaders
6c ... that the Hill 50 Gold Mine was Australia's most profitable mine between 1955 and 1961
6c ... that during the construction of the Manila Film Center, its scaffolding collapsed, where at
least 169 workers fell and were buried under quick-drying wet cement
6c ... that Diane Keaton accepted the lead role in ! â(
& because she thought she
couldn't do it
6c ... that of the six torpedoes fired to scuttle ^ the Russian pre-dreadnought
battleship ! during the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, only one worked
6c ... that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom,
whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, had died in World War Iat the First Battle of Ypres
6c ... that Bob Matthewson, an English footballer and referee, was recently portrayed in the 2009
film "$ %
Ô
6c ... that forty-three butchers' shops were built around the outside of Borough Market in Halifax,
England, along with three pubs
6c ... that Bracetti Plaza, an NYCHA development in the East Village, New York City, is named
after Mariana Bracetti
6c ... that Scorpions were transported to Cyprus in 1974 to protect the British Sovereign Base
Areas during the Turkish Invasion
6c ... that 13-year-old Emer Jones's "Research and Development of Emergency Sandbag Shelters"
helped her win the 2008 Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, the youngest ever and her
school's debut
6c ... that the Nanodragster is a nanocar which is 50,000 times thinner than a human hair and has
a top speed of 0.014 millimeters per hour
6c ... that during England's Peasants' Revolt in 1381, William d'Ufford, 2nd Earl of
Suffolk ^ had to flee the rebels disguised as a groom
6c ... that the Louisiana State Rep. H. Lawrence Gibbs in 1956 authored legislation which outlawed
social events and athletic contests including both African Americansand whites
6c ... that the blind crustacean *$ $ preys on fish and on other crustaceans,
probably acting as an ambush predator
6c ... that when James Cudworth introduced the 0-4-4T to the South Eastern Railway, they were
the first locomotives of this wheel arrangement in England
6c ... that Starobrno Brewery annually produces a special batch of green beer distributed only
on Maundy Thursday
6c ... that despite being a famous pre-war career criminal with a very
controversial war record, Johannes "The Yellow Cheese" Andersen gained the friendship and
patronage of KingHaakon VII of Norway
6c ... that the Swedish zoo Skånes Djurpark displays almost a hundred different animal species,
most of which are part of the Nordic fauna
6c ... that Chekhov's White Dacha in Yalta, where he wrote his finest works, was visited by Leo
Tolstoy, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Kuchma andVladimir
Putin
6c ... that the Hindu mythical beast Sharabha ^ !$ !$,$, described as
mightier than the lion and elephant, is included in the list of edible animals in the $,$
6c ... that Bredtveit is one of three women's prisons in Norway
6c ... that the cap of the mushroom 3 $
resembles a navel when the
mushroom matures
6c ... that after retiring from professional wrestling, Ida Mae Martinez was one of the first nurses
in Baltimore to work with AIDS patients
6c ... that the out-of-service Fairmount Avenue station building still wears the same coat of paint it
received in the 1960s
6c ... that Muhammad Naguib, who would later lead a coup d'état in Egypt, was relieved of his
command of a brigade for its failures in the Second Battle of Negba
6c ... that the American Delta blues pianist and singer, Willie Love, never employed
his musician friend, Sonny Boy Williamson II, on any of his own recordings
6c ... that screenwriter Ian Brennan wrote the first draft of the musical comedy-drama + with the
aid of !
%
6c ... that completion of the Howard A. Hanson Dam ^ in 1961 ended a 70-year era
of flooding in the Green River Valley, and by 1996, the dam had prevented an estimated US$694
million in flood damages
6c ... that the western outlaw L.H. Musgrove "calmly puffed a cigar to its bitter butt" as he
awaited hanging by vigilantes in Denver, Colorado, in 1868
6c ... that 13 and 14-year-old Liam McCarthy and John D. O'Callaghan achieved fame in 2009 for
"The Development of a Convenient Test Method for Somatic Cell Count and Its Importance In
Milk Production"
6c ... that #1
?, an opera semiseria by Gaetano Donizetti, was completed but never
performed due to the bankruptcy of the theater company Donizetti contracted
6c ... that in 1991, John C. Ensminger of Monroe defeated Frank Snellings, the husband of U.S.
Senator Mary Landrieu, for a seat in the Louisiana State Senate
6c ... that after decommissioning, the Commandant's Quarters of the Dearborn Arsenal was used as
a library, American Legion hall, town hall, police station, school, newspaper office, and finally
a museum
6c ... that American football defensive tackle O'Brien Schofield, who completed his college career
for Wisconsin in 2009, is a cousin of the National Football League veterans Vonnie
Holliday and Bobby Engram
6c ... that United States Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia reportedly hates the
word "choate", because it is a back-formation from "inchoate"
6c ... that the Bedford Village Archeological Site in Pennsylvania was discovered on the grounds of
a living history museum ^
6c ... that John Haworth is the only Burnley manager to date to have led the team to an FA
Cup victory
6c ... that the Classic Period Maya site of El Zotz, in Guatemala, takes its name from the enormous
quantity of bats that live in a cave under the ruins
6c ... that singer-songwriter Gillian Welch met her musical partner David Rawlings at a successful
audition for the only country band at Berklee College of Music
6c ... that many of the canopies at the light rail transit stations in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah are
designed to resemble the canopy of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building
6c ... that William Ashwell Shenstone, a published chemist, listed "experimental work" among his
recreations in $1 $
6c ... that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime
after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état
6c ... that Donald Goerke invented SpaghettiOs, choosing the "O" over pasta shaped like baseballs,
cowboys, and spacemen, and later ran the company's dog food division
6c ... that Cincinnatus Leconte ^ , president of Haiti, died when the National Palace exploded
in August of 1912, just months after his nephew became the only black man to perish on
the "
6c ... that the Swetman House was known as the "architectural gem" of Seward, Alaska
6c ... that John Sheridan commanded the bomb vessel HMS " during the Battle of Baltimore,
the action that inspired the writing of the poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner"
6c ... that the documentary film was shelved for three years by Israeli television because
of the controversy that would result from airing it
6c ... that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death
on January 10, 2010
6c ... that former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was initially delighted by the
1975 Stringband song "Dief Will Be the Chief Again" but later refused to comment about it
6c ... that when GNU Oleo became officially part of the GNU Project, a 1996 article in 3
-
dubbed it as "GNU's response to Excel"
6c ... that Jan C. Gabriel is credited for the tagline "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!", along with
bringing NASCAR and NHRA to television
6c ... that before captaining the *
on Columbus's first voyage, Martín Alonso Pinzón ^
had already sailed to the Canary Islands and Guinea
6c ... that coal accounts for 86% of South Africa's carbon dioxide emissions
6c ... that Jon Hippe, who suggested higher taxes as a way to reduce the gap between rich and
poor, was appointed leader of the Norwegian Financial Crisis Committee by the Ministry of
Finance
6c ... that the Philippine Commission on Elections cited the Bible and the Koran to disqualify
the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party from the 2010 party-list election
6c ... that Victorian psychiatrist L. Forbes Winslow was involved in the cases of Jack the
Ripper, Percy Lefroy Mapleton, Florence Maybrick, and Amelia Dyer
6c ... that in 1920 Hungarian socialists such as Sándor Garbai, Zsigmond Kunfi and Vilmos Böhm,
exiled after the crushing of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, founded the 99emigré group
6c ... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation
of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui, Hawaii
6c ... that Cultivator No. 6 was an enormous fighting machine conceived by Winston Churchill and
developed in Britain early in World War II
6c ... that after engaging ten German fighters single-handed on 16 August 1917, Alexander
Pentland ^ found that four bullets had penetrated his flying suit without injuring him
6c ... that the March 18²20, 1956 nor'easter left snow drifts 14 ft (4.3 m) high
6c ... that Enoch Cobb left land in his will to be used to raise funds that would benefit public school
students of the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts
6c ... that US Project Exploration received a Presidential Award for creating collaborations between
scientists and students, especially girls and minorities, traditionally underrepresented in
science
6c ... that after scouting him at South Carolina, current Philadelphia Eagles running
backs coach Ted Williams advised the Eagles to take Duce Staley with a third-round draft pick in
the 1997 NFL Draft
6c ... that the Byzantine emperor Justin II had his cousin, the general and former consul Justin,
murdered in his sleep as a potential rival to the throne
6c ... that "$ *, a 1996 limited series comic book written by Mark Hamill and Eric
Johnson, was originally written as a screenplay
6c ... that the Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, is the only building in the world in which floors can
independently rotate 360° in either direction
6c ... that the Isaac M. Wise Temple ^ in Cincinnati and the Old Main building of Bethany
College in West Virginia are both U.S. National Historic Landmarksdesigned by architect James
Keys Wilson
6c ... that Andy Hayman, the police officer in charge of investigating the 7 July 2005 London
bombings, was awarded the CBE for his role
6c ... that Hurricane Barbara of 1953 uprooted trees left standing intact after the more
intense Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944
6c ... that the assembly of the Vermont Republic voted in June 1781 to expand its borders into
parts of New Hampshire and New York during the Haldimand Affair
6c ... that John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, rescued Edward II of England from being captured
by Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Old Byland
6c ... that the Great Western Railway operated ships in connection with their trains to provide
services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France
6c ... that seed of the flowering shrub
made its way from King George
Sound to the United Kingdom, before it was finally described from plants growing inBayswater,
then a London suburb
6c ... that after being stranded by Ghana Airways at Banjul's international airport, a group of
disgruntled passengers threatened to burn the airline's aircraft and offices at the airport
6c ... that according to clan tradition, the wife of chief Iain Ciar MacLeod had two of her
daughters buried alive within the dungeon of Dunvegan Castle ^
6c ... that the English Statute of York has been described as "the end of a period of revolutionary
experiments in English government"
6c ... that HMS &
's surgeon for nearly five years was William Beatty, who in 1805 attended
the dying Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar
6c ... that the Norwegian Seamen's Church in San Pedro, California, is visited by the crews of about
160 Norwegian ships every year
6c ... that the 2007²2008 Nazko earthquakes in British Columbia, Canada, are the only recorded
earthquakes in the Canadian Cordillera away from the coastresulting from magma moving in the
Earth
6c ... that Samuel Fox helped start the first free adult school in Britain, at Nottingham in 1798
6c ... that National Bolshevik Ernst Niekisch played an important role in formulating the ideological
line of the Old Social Democratic Party of Germany
6c ... that Syrian-American Mohammed Loay Bayazid, a former member of al-Qaeda, was noted for
"always teasing bin Laden"
6c ... that Suvarnadurg ^ , on the west coast of India, which was called a "Golden Fort" and
the pride of the Marathas, was a naval fortification built to defend against European colonialist
attacks
6c ... that in 1974 an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18 crashed after performing a night-time forced landing on
the road from Ouagadougou to Niamey, killing at least 47 people
6c ... that Minuscule 543, a manuscript of the four Gospels, has additional non-biblical material ²
#
$ ) *$
6c ... that Milorg pioneer Arne Laudal, who was shot at Trandumskogen in 1944, was honoured
with the British King's Commendation for Brave Conduct
6c ... that according to the 10th century Jain text Dravyasamgraha, the three jewels of Jainism³
rational perception, rational knowledge and rational conduct³are essential for
achieving liberation
6c ... that Aaslaug Aasland was Norway's first female head of a government ministry
6c ... that the English Statute of Enrolments, believed to have been emergency legislation, contains
no preamble and was drafted by the Clerk of the House of Commons rather than a legislator
6c ... that Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha has described the decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt
as "an issue of national security"
6c ... that American racehorse Goldsmith Maid ^ set a world harness racing record at the
age of 17
6c ... that David Thomas Lenox was the captain of the first wagon train on the Oregon Trail to travel
all the way to Oregon
6c ... that "$, scheduled for release in 2011, was envisioned and pitched to 20th Century Fox as
early as 1990
6c ... that clan tradition states that Iain Borb MacLeod was wounded in the head at the Battle of
Harlaw in 1411 and that the wound's reoccurring bleeding caused his death 31 years later
6c ... that the # &
" wrote in 1914 that American football player Walter
Rheinschild had been rated as "the highest salaried amateur athlete in the business"
6c ... that the Stark County Courthouse and the Zanesville Federal Building are both listed on
the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and designed by architect George F. Hammond
6c ... that in 1862, Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas proposed the colony of Linconia to fulfill
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's vision for African-American emigration to Central America
6c ... that a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham's "woolly
pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in
their own hats
6c ... that the superior design of HMS *
, a former Spanish ship captured ^ in 1740,
led to the Admiralty initiating a series of increases in British warship dimensions
6c ... that 2001's European of the Year Tommie Gorman's half hour interview with a central
figure in the 2002 Roy Keane incident became the most viewed television programme of May
2002
6c ... that Bank Buildings, in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, was built by the Bank of Liverpool,
later occupied by Martins Bank, and now houses shops and offices
6c ... that despite damage from a tramway, the Deffenbaugh Site is one of the most
valuable archaeological sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania
6c ... that in 1985 the Canadian company Sound Ideas became the first to release a sound
effects library on compact disc
6c ... that the Mastaba of Mereruka, Vizier to king Teti of the sixth dynasty Old Kingdom period
of Ancient Egypt, is the largest and most elaborate of all the non-royal tombs inSaqqara
6c ... that Z Special Unit member F. G. L. Chester gained the nickname "Gort" due to his physical
resemblance to the British Army Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
6c ... that the American wine critic Robert Parker is credited with popularizing the use of
numerical wine ratings
6c ... that mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland ^( were dominant
between 1550 and 1650, when they were finally replaced with baroque
6c ... that attorney William Lair Hill codified the laws of both the states of Oregon and Washington
6c ... that the krill species â $ $ was first described from specimens caught
from a hole bored during Robert Falcon Scott's % expedition
6c ... that Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe is friends with the current Labour Prime Minister of
Norway, Jens Stoltenberg
6c ... that at the Dong Xuan night market in Hanoi, one can not only buy goods but also enjoy
traditional performances such as ca trù or xm
6c ... that the Chester architect John Douglas showed his designs for Wrexham Road Farm,
Eccleston, and Saighton Lane Farm at the Royal Academy in 1888
6c ... that in 2001 the Richland County Public Library was named National Library of the Year by
the Library Journal and the Gale Group
6c ... that one of the victims in a recent rare shooting in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, was
the gunman's mother-in-law
6c ... that the wine industry in the Barossa Valley ^ was founded by German immigrants
fleeing persecution from the Prussian province of Silesia
6c ... that Vimcy received an award from the Kerala State Sports Council for his lifelong
contributions to sports journalism
6c ... that Mallee Cliffs National Park has no public access in order to preserve the mallee
eucalyptus habitat of the mallee fowl
6c ... that the 2 â &,,
, a 12th century chronicle from Abingdon Abbey,
describes the collapse of the abbey's church tower and the narrow escape the monks had
6c ...
that Napaljarri artists include Biddy, Daisy, Susie, Kowai, Wentja, Peggy, Doris, Parara, Eileen, L
ouisa, Lucy, Helen, Linda, Kitty, Sheila, Valerie, Maggie, Topsy,Nora, Ada, Ngoia, Molly, Mona an
d Norah
6c ... that the Jain polemic Tamil epic ? was written as a rebuttal to
the Buddhist epic
6c ... that Grete Prytz Kittelsen is known as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design"
6c .... that after travelling to Australia in 1888 aboard the Y
^
!
for the
colony's 26 January centenary, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovichsupported
expanding relations between Russia and Australia
6c ... that Northwestern University's appearance in the 2003 Motor City Bowl marked the first time
a Big Ten team played in that bowl game
6c ... that the electors of Inuvik Boot Lake have not voted in a Northwest Territories general
election since 1999, as in every election since only one candidate has registered to run
6c ... that an 1867 Tintara claret became the oldest surviving bottle of Australian wine after the
previous record holder was accidentally broken by a Christie's office cleaner
6c ... that Brad Johnson, the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series &
:, portrayed
one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan's 1951 film
-
6c ... that the pebble-mound mice of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their
burrows up to 10 m2 in area
6c ... that Basil Hayden was not only the University of Kentucky's first All-
American basketball player, but probably also its shortest
6c ... that the French poet Victor Segalen admired the four tortoises ^ ( that
had glorified Prince Ancheng of Kang for almost one and a half millennia
6c ... that the schools designed by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of
Westminster in Eccleston and Waverton, Cheshire, are considered to be the best of his village
schools
6c ... that in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed
to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta, Georgia, street corner
6c ... that the molecularly distinct Abrotrichini group of South American rodents was not recognized
as distinct from the Akodontini until the 1990s
6c ... that construction innovator Olav Selvaag started Norway's first music school
6c ... that the passage of the A.B. 390 by California's Public Safety Committee marked the first time
in United States history that a bill legalizing marijuana passed a legislative committee
6c ... that Frederick Hobbs, after singing leading roles from 1914 to 1920 with the D'Oyly Carte
Opera Company, became its stage manager and then business manager for the last two decades
of his life
6c ... that the Cucuteni-Trypillian people experienced a considerable abundance of food, which
contributed to why they had no evidence of war throughout their entire existence
6c ... that Tinsley Green in West Sussex has hosted the World Marble Championships ^
every year since 1932
6c ... that Nicolas Andry gave the field of orthopedic surgery its name with his 1741
book :$ 6
6c ... that parts 2 and 3 of the BBC television documentary series
were watched by
approximately one million people in the United Kingdom
6c ... that Yakubu Mu'azu is one of a group of Nigerian former military administrators who formed
the United Nigeria Development Forum, a political pressure group
6c ... that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Hayato Matsuo went straight to work
under Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the %
; video game series
6c ... that the last known specimen of the Styre, a once-famous variety of cider apple, was felled in
1968
6c ... that Endre Berner, Bjørn Føyn, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Eiliv Skard, Harald K.
Schjelderup and Anatol Heintz were among the professors at the University of Oslo who were
arrested by Nazis during World War II
6c ... that Captain George Eyre narrowly escaped death in 1810, when he was hit in the head by
a musket ball and three others passed through his clothes
6c ... that when 30 Bridge Street, Chester was rebuilt in 1890, it was unique at that period in the
city because it was no higher than the building it replaced
6c ... that, in Montreal, since a shish taouk is not grilled on a skewer, it would better be called a
chicken shawarma
6c ... that in 2001, when Nina Frisak became the first female leader of the Norwegian Office of the
Prime Minister, she left the position of Supreme Court Justice
6c ... that in rodents, the position of the zygomatic plate varies from nearly horizontal to nearly
vertical
6c ... that Ossetian jurist and politician Alan Parastaev has been a member of the governments of
both South Ossetia and Georgia
6c ... that Towers Watson is world's largest employee-benefits consulting firm by revenue
6c ... that up to 2 million illegal immigrants are estimated to live in Pakistan's commercial
capital Karachi alone
6c ... that although most famous for inventing the Quarter Pounder ^ , Al Bernardin felt that
his most important contribution to McDonald's was his development of frozen french fries
6c ... that although he has composed music for over 20 video games and conducts the +
# concert series, Jack Wall has a degree in civil engineering
6c ... that embryonic development in the bluntnose stingray does not start until several months
after mating
6c ... that the Toledo Rockets played the Boston College Eagles in the 2002 Motor City Bowl, the
first time that a bowl game was played in then-new Ford Field
6c ... that the palm & $
, which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts
of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, is present at such low densities that it is considered arare species
6c ... that in 2009, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Enuk Pauloosie called on
the Government of Nunavut to ban all of its employees from flying Air Canada to support
Canada's northern airlines
6c ... that Yale University's Street Hall (1867), designed by architect Peter Bonnett Wight, was the
first collegiate art school in the U.S.
6c ... that the Italian producer Azienda Agricola Testamatta once had a wine banned in
the U.S. because of its label's suggestive imagery that included the Firenze slang term forfellatio
6c ... that the Jensen FF ^ introduced anti-lock braking systems to the automotive world
with the Dunlop Maxaret system, prompting ! to call it "the safest car in the
world"
6c ... that despite allowing the second most goals in the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey
Championships, Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz was selected an all-star and named the best
goaltender of the tournament
6c ... that during the Great Northern War, the army that relieved the Siege of Stralsund was forced
to surrender when trapped in the Siege of Tönning
6c ... that musical style of Czech singer Zuzana Navarová was inspired by Latin American music
6c ... that the town of Chase, Wisconsin, purchased the Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn and it is
planning to create a park to preserve this historic barn
6c ... that Julius Gehl, the vice president of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, was a mason by
profession
6c ... that longnose stingrays are born in relatively fresh water, move into saltier water soon after,
and then move back into less salty water when they mature
6c ... that St Cuthbert, according to the 2 !
Ñ$,, caused a Scottish army
preparing to fight King Guthred of Northumbria to be swallowed up by the earth
6c ... that the engines of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship â
^ were
disabled when the crew of the battleship *
mutinied in June 1905 to prevent her from
joining *
6c ... that in response to the growing National Socialist influence, the Social Democratic Party of the
Free City of Danzig formed a 4,500-man strong paramilitary force
6c ... that the 2005 Liberty Bowl was the first time Fresno State played a college football bowl
game east of the Mississippi River
6c ... that now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in
the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea
6c ... that although â
,
is common in parts of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental,
the type specimen was collected from a disjunct population of trees in the Rio Grande
Valley, Texas
6c ... that St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English
Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and
unintelligible preaching
6c ... that Charles Dickens wrote his novels 2, 2 ", # % and & "
"
Ñ at his Tavistock House home
6c ... that in response to sightings of Osama bin Laden in the United States, his face was added
to facial recognition programs for the 2002 Olympics
6c ... that despite losing his right arm and having no formal civil engineering education, Henry
Perrine Baldwin ^ oversaw a pioneering sugarcane irrigation system on the Hawaiian
island of Maui in 1876
6c ... that Castle Green in London was named after a castellated house built from around 1800 that
survived until 1938
6c ... that Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the head of the Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe, is also a member of parliament from Antalya Province
6c ... that Nigeria's Bakolori irrigation project, one of the world's most expensive irrigation schemes,
adversely affected downstream farming in the floodplains
6c ... that there was a Czech section of the Austrian Y ,
$ !$-,
, associated with
the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in Austria
6c ... that British literary critic Clement King Shorter turned his large Brontë-related literary
collection into four books on the sisters
6c ... that landslides from the 1981 Irian Jaya earthquake destroyed 150 homes and cut off
transportation for more than 2,000 people
6c ... that Olympic freestyle skier Patrick Deneen first skied when he was only 11 months old
6c ... that architect Frederick W. Garber based his design for the Walnut Hills High
School ^ in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the rotunda of Thomas Jefferson·sUniversity of Virginia
6c ... that comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to
negotiate better payment for New York's comedians
6c ... that the present-day Honduran island of Roatán was the site of a battle in the American War
of Independence on March 16, 1782
6c ... that professional wrestler Ángel Blanco was killed in a car accident that left his long-time tag
team partner Dr. Wagner an invalid
6c ... that Hunter-Schreger bands strengthen the enamel of the incisor in rodents
6c ... that the American photographer Kenneth Josephson is one of the founding members of the
Society for Photographic Education
6c ... that Prince Rupert's white poodle Boye was given the rank of Sergeant-Major-General, and
was believed by some to be the Devil in disguise
6c ... that it is thought that Rochdale Town Hall ^ was so admired by Adolf Hitler that he
wanted to ship it, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the UK been defeated in World War II
6c ... that the Byzantine general Justinian plotted twice to overthrow Emperor Tiberius II, but was
pardoned both times when the plot was discovered
6c ... that Nottingham Catchfly is the county flower of Nottingham, even though it is not found
anywhere in Nottinghamshire
6c ... that New Zealand's historic Arapuni Suspension Bridge received little mention when under
construction as it was part of a much larger project
6c ... that Rhodesian cricketer Ray Gripper's score of 279 not out in a 1968 game against Orange
Free State was a Currie Cup record
6c ... that 51 armed mercenaries attempting to overthrow President France-Albert René in 1981
travelled to Seychelles on board a Royal Swazi National Airways flight
6c ... that Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is widely credited with isolation of zinc though he was not
the first to achieve that
6c ... that in order to play for the All-American Basketball Alliance, one must be a natural-
born US citizen "with both parents of Caucasian race"
6c ... that the Pinzón brothers ^ played so crucial a role in Christopher
Columbus's first expedition that some historians credit them as "co-discoverers" of America
6c ... that the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911,
establishing a new record time
6c ... that the first Premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Hiram Blanchard, served for
less than three months before his party was defeated in an election
6c ... that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash of an Air Bissau aircraft during
a sandstorm in the Libyan desert in 1992
6c ... that Orval Prophet was among the earliest Canadian country music artists who recorded in
a Nashville, Tennessee, studio
6c ... that the type specimen of
$ represents the first turtle skull described from the
pre-Holocene era in Madagascar
6c ... that Andy White replaced Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles's first single, "Love Me Do"
6c ... that the mushroom Ñ $
contains clavaric acid, which
slows tumor development in mice
6c ... that in the 1990s, the Government of Thailand ran a short-lived captive breeding program
for endangered freshwater stingrays, including the marbled whipray^ and the white-edge
freshwater whipray
6c ... that former strongman Joe Rollino, who died at the age of 104, earned five medals, including
three Purple Hearts, for military service during World War II
6c ... that the German chemist Rudolf Christian Böttger synthesised the first organocopper
compound, the explosive copper(I) acetylide Cu2C2, in 1859
6c ... that Australian government approval of the sale of mining assets including Golden Grove
Mine to a Chinese corporation was only given when Prominent Hill Mine was excluded on
national security grounds
6c ... that a 19th century antiquary considered that a saga character named Ljótólfr was
the eponymous ancestor of the Clan MacLeod
6c ... that many rice rats have pits at the back of their palates recessed into a deep depression
6c ... that despite describing county cricket as being "a little over done", Joseph Gibbs made
five first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club
6c ... that Indians perform the second most Google searches for Ayn Rand after Americans
6c ... that the Williamson trade-off model ^ $ , which compares costs and benefits
of horizontal mergers, has been used by the American legal scholarand former judge, Robert
Bork, to evaluate antitrust laws
6c ... that the start and finish of the Via Crucis in Seville, Spain, have both changed over the years,
as has the number of stations of the cross represented
6c ... that Michigan halfback Paul Magoffin later coached the George Washington "Hatchetites" on
the White House Ellipse
6c ... that the yellow nectar of the western Australian wildflower
$ congeals to a
thick, olive-green mucus
6c ... that upon completion in 1151, Anping Bridge in present-day Fujian was the
longest bridge in China till 1905
6c ... that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical
therapy, used "Sybil" as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University
6c ... that thousands of people watched the Action of 31 July 1793 between British and French
frigates from the New Jersey shoreline
6c ... that Roxxxy, described as the world's first sex robot, has an artificial intelligence engine
programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes
6c ... that the Upper Harz Water Regale ^ , a network of dams, lakes, ditches, and tunnels
built between 1536 and 1866 to supply water to the mines of theHarz mountains in Germany, is
the largest of its kind in Europe
6c ... that the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy
6c ... that while at Leeds University, the late Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert
Hamer wrote a satirical column for the student newspaper titled "Rupert Hamer on Friday"
6c ... that the destroyer HMS "$
evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after
the Japanese began their attack
6c ... that the daisy and pearl stingrays are characterized by a "pearl spine", an enlarged dermal
denticle in the middle of their backs
6c ... that the Byzantine general Vitalian led a large-scale revolt against Emperor Anastasius I, was
pardoned and named consul by his successor, Justin I, and was murdered seven months into
his consulship
6c ... that South Africa beat Hong Kong in the final of the 2009 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes by hitting
a six off the last ball of the match
6c ... that the last execution by firing squad in France took place in 1963 at Fort d'Ivry in Ivry-sur-
Seine, Paris
6c ... that the bleeding tooth fungus ^ secretes a red juice that contains
an anticoagulant similar in biological activity to heparin
6c ... that Norwegian SOE agent Odd Starheim was killed in 1943 when the coastal steamer he and
his team had seized off the coast of occupied Norway was sunk by German bombers
6c ... that Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska, and
performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-dayPort Etches
6c ... that Cathy Davey "despised" performing the songs from her debut album !$ live
6c ... that one of Canada's most prolific mass murderers, Dale Nelson, had been still hiding at the
scene of his first killing when police left the scene
6c ... that the video game :,4
1 &
chronicles the events of the film ! â
0 "$ *$
, but from the perspective of Obi-Wan Kenobi
6c ... that Manchester United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, originally had separate
doors for men and women
6c ... that a study concluded that the ideal temple design described in
the Hindu text $
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is based on Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh^
6c ... that Tim Westoll painted more than ten thousand bird species in watercolour
6c ... that tufo is a Mozambican dance said to have originated when the Islamic
prophet Mohammed migrated to Medina
6c ... that the medieval English monk Thomas of Marlborough wrote the Ñ$
&,,
â$ to help Evesham Abbey's legal case against Mauger, Bishop of Worcester
6c ... that Betsy Warland edited a collection of essays named
0
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#,
which was published in 1991
6c ... that animals recorded from Australian Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary and adjacent waters
include the Masked Owl, Spectacled Hare-wallaby, Loggerhead Turtle andShovelnose Shark
6c ... that the Lawless Court had only natural light and charcoal to see and write with, could only
end its session when a cock crowed, and arose after the local lord discovered a plot to murder
him
6c ... that the fruit bodies of the fungus & (
^ have adapted to growth in dry
habitats
6c ... that the books of educator and mayor of Holmestrand, Norway, Fredrik Ording (1870²1929),
were still being reissued as late as 1974
6c ... that during certain points in a grapevine's growing season, irrigation is often withheld in order
to put the vine through water stress because it is believed to improve wine grape quality
6c ... that Ilya Chaiken's film #, won Critics' Pick from both "$ ? / " and ?
/ -
6c ... that John Ash partially owed his 1865 election to the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver
Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, whose employees constituted the majority of the voting
population
6c ... that Minuscule 541, a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament, has an unusual
number of iotacistic errors
6c ... that 1090 Vermont Avenue was one of five new structures built in the late 1970s which helped
rejuvenate Vermont Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
6c ... that the acronym , contained in Tama Easton's popular New Zealand internet
forum vorb.org.nz stands for "Vaguely Organised ² Ride Bikes"
6c ... that British sculptor Marcus Cornish has created a sculpture of the fictional Paddington
Bear ^ and a statue of Jesus Christ dubbed "Jesus in Jeans" by the media
6c ... that the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing, West Sussex, occupies a Grade II-listed Greek
Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel
6c ... that Waddell Wilson built the engine used in the first NASCAR car to exceed 200 miles per
hour (320 km/h)
6c ... that although nebulium was discovered spectroscopically in 1864, it took until 1927 to show
that it was actually doubly-ionized oxygen
6c ... that during the 1880s, businessman Guillaume Bresse joined a syndicate which bought a
railway from the Quebec government, and sold it to Canadian Pacific Railway for substantial
profits
6c ... that the eggs of the Oceanic Gecko have a long incubation period and may take up to 115
days to hatch
6c ... that Y 1
1 Y * $, the only album on which Rick Wakeman sang lead vocals, received
criticising reviews that described it as "goofy", "novelty", and like "pressing the self-destruct
button"
6c ... that the defunct Wichita Wind ice hockey team once had their coach and a public relations
employee on their roster
6c ... that film director Vicente Aranda used the Wharf of the Caravels ^ , a museum in Palos
de la Frontera, Spain, as a set for both # and "
6c ... that the Gaelic Athletic Association's inter county championships have taken place since
1887
6c ... that Elton John created the name by which he became famous out of the names of two of the
musicians in his previous band Bluesology
6c ... that Richard Reid, who in 2001 attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his shoes aboard an
aeroplane, used to attend the Brixton Mosque in London, England
6c ... that plans for St Werburgh's Mount, Chester, should have been submitted at the same time as
those for St Werburgh Chambers, but were delayed because its architect John Douglas was ill
6c ... that Israeli chess Grandmaster Ronen Har-Zvi first met his wife playing online chess at
the Internet Chess Club
6c ... that the Schnütgen Museum of religious art in Cologne was founded with the collection of a
priest known for his "zealous and sometimes crafty collection tactics"
6c ... that disagreements about the appointment of Johannes Ording as theology professor at Royal
Frederick University sparked the foundation of a new school of theology
6c ... that tempest-tossed aboard the ?< ^ while returning from his first
voyage, Christopher Columbus and his crew vowed to perform
several vigils andpilgrimages should they live
6c ... that King Vasabha (67²111 AD) started a new dynasty and pioneered the construction of large
scale irrigation works in Sri Lanka
6c ... that in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galaţi County, the first
in Moldavia (eastern Romania) since 1937
6c ... that the actor-stuntman Paul Stader broke both heels when he fell from the second floor of a
burning building in the filming of the 1949 movie $ ü /
6c ... that the â
-class battleship + *,
was the only ship of her class to use
guns in battle when she fired three rounds at the +,
during her bombardment
of Sevastopol in 1914
6c ... that Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi, who designed the flag of Togo, was inducted as
a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009
6c ... that Meru Betiri National Park in East Java is known as the last habitat of the Javan
Tiger which is now considered extinct
6c ... that future National Hockey League player Tom Martin was traded by his junior team in
exchange for a bus
6c ... that the Barnsley fern ^ was first described by and named after a mathematician, and
despite its name, it is not a real fern
6c ... that the actor Tyler MacDuff played Billy the Kid in the 1954 film "$
:$,
which inspired the !
television series
6c ... that Robbins Island is the largest freehold island in the Australian state of Tasmania
6c ... that at age 10, fiddler Ruby Jane Smith became the youngest invited player to perform at
the +
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6c ... that the Topos de Tlatelolco volunteer professional search and rescue team is in Haiti
assisting with relief efforts after the 2010 Haiti earthquake
6c ... that the sixteen-year cabinet term of Stephen Kakfwi is the longest in the Northwest
Territories' history
6c ... that Yukon Eric lost part of his ear after a botched move in a professional wrestling
match against Wladek Kowalski
6c ... that the Gymnasticon was an eighteenth-century exercise machine claimed by its inventor to
effectively treat gout, palsy, and other illnesses
6c ... that Mazunte ^ , now home to the Mexican National Turtle Center, was the site of a sea
turtle slaughterhouse until 1990
6c ... that Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King rebounded from the 1931 Beauharnois
scandal to be elected to another 13 years in office
6c ... that Mel Brooks credited Sidney Glazier, the producer of the original "$ *, as "the
man who made it happen"
6c ... that the February 1969 nor'easter resulted in the first time in history that the New York Stock
Exchange closed for a full day due to the weather
6c ... that Henry Stafford became 1st Baron Stafford despite his father being executed for treason
6c ... that Mickey Cochrane is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history with at least
3,000 plate appearances and a career .400 on-base percentage
6c ... that the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake destroyed all the buildings of Port-au-Prince, in the
French colony of Saint-Domingue (the future Haiti)
6c ... that despite being fired from his first job, English entrepreneur Ray Ingleby was a millionaire
by the age of 21
6c ... that Schloss Rosenau, Coburg ^ , was the "happy birthplace" of Queen Victoria's
husband, Prince Albert
6c ... that in the Border Cave of Swaziland a 35,000 years old tally stick was found in the 1970s
6c ... that Rudyard Kipling's 1922 poem, "$
1 *, describes a journey made by King
George V to the World War I cemeteries and memorials being built in France and Belgium
6c ... that due to the insistence of Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose, the record of debates in the Senate
of Canada was translated into French as early as 1877
6c ... that the European great raft spider eats small fish and tadpoles
6c ... that because of the Rwandan Genocide, Air Rwanda stopped operating domestic flights
within Rwanda in 1994
6c ... that comedian Will Arnett starred alongside his real-life wife Amy Poehler in the *
Y
episode, "The Set-Up"
6c ... that fashion designer Charles Kleibacker earned the nickname "Master of the Bias" for the
complex designs of his women's clothing, carefully cut from fabric at a diagonal to the weave
6c ... that during the Cultural Revolution, after the crosses of St. Michael's
Cathedral ^ in Qingdao were cut from its steeples by the Red Guard, they were buried by
loyal Catholics to protect them
6c ... that Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years
as the host of TV Asahi's !
"$ until a week before his death
6c ... that the origins of the baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège, usually dated 1107²
1118, have been much disputed by art historians
6c ... that Eunice W. Johnson, who created â,
together with husband John H. Johnson in the
1940s, suggested the magazine's title to match that of the fine blackebony wood
6c ... that the tail of the Indonesian Long-tailed Starling can be longer than its body
6c ... that researcher Günther Theischinger broke his ribs while on a trip to Tasmania to search for
the larva of the dragonfly !
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6c ... that Afro-Abkhazians may be related to the descendants of Ethiopian Jews, and place names
of Abkhazia resemble those in Ethiopia
6c ... that Charles Benham invented a "miniature twin elliptic pendulum harmonograph" described
as being "a good means of entertaining friends at home or elsewhere"
6c ... that the thorntail stingray ^ is one of the subjects of
potential stingray ecotourism at Hamelin Bay, Western Australia
6c ... that architects in the Pretzinger family designed several buildings in Dayton, Ohio, that are
listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including theDayton Daily News Building
6c ... that Making Our Economy Right, a free market think tank in Bangladesh, was established in
1991 by Nizam Ahmad
6c ... that the founder of Nassau Valley Vineyards had to lobby the Delaware legislature and even
draft the bill that overturned the state's Prohibition-era laws which banned wine production
6c ... that architect George J. Wimberly came to Hawaii in 1940 as a journeyman architect doing
naval work at Pearl Harbor before establishing a successful reputation for the design ofresorts
6c ... that traversing all the guns of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Ñ$ to one side as
far as they could go produced a list of 7.6°
6c ... that the German chemist Lorenz von Crell published the first periodical focusing on
chemistry in 1778
6c ... that no man could own stock in the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association
6c ... that the Red Army prevented the incomplete
class battlecruiser - ^ from
being converted to a carrier by gaining control of a commission appointed to review the needs of
the Navy
6c ... that Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates
from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932
Democratic National Convention
6c ... that Bertrand Tavernier's 1996 film Ñ
Ñ
is based on a 1934 novel by Roger
Vercel
6c ... that in 1919 Hungarian and German social democrats in Slovakia formed a party of their own,
as they differed with the Slovak social democrats on the Hungarian Soviet Republic
6c ... that Captain Cedric Howell was awarded the DSO for bringing down eight Central aircraft in a
four-day period in July 1918, including destroying five in a single action against ten or fifteen
planes
6c ... that nearly half of all horse chestnut trees in Great Britain (used by generations of children for
the game of conkers) are now infected by the potentially lethal disease Bleeding Canker of Horse
Chestnut
6c ... that today ² on Ganesh Jayanti (Ganesha's birthday) ² the Hindu god Ganesha ^ is
worshipped by couples to beget a son
6c ... that Saint Indract of Glastonbury was the subject of a lost work by William of Malmesbury
6c ... that the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the
U.S. state of Connecticut
6c ... that masked Mexican professional wrestler Metro is sponsored by the major Mexico
City newspaper "Metro" and has the paper's logo on his tights
6c ... that the Office of Thrift Supervision was the primary regulator for American International
Group when it needed a bailout
6c ... that the mushroom " , has been described as "beautiful, but bitter-
tasting"
6c ... that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society lodged a piracy complaint against the captain and
the crew of the MV Shōnan Maru 2 in the Dutch courts following the sinking of theAdy Gil
6c ... that electronic musician DJ Champion played percussion on a bicycle alongside Benoît
Charest and Béatrice Bonifassi at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony
6c ... that the Hindu Morgaon Ganesha temple ^ ² the most important Ashtavinayak shrine
² has four minarets around its boundary wall, suggesting Islamic architecture influence
6c ... that while serving as State Conciliator of Norway for eleven years, Preben Munthe was also
economics professor at the University of Oslo
6c ... that the early-February 1995 winter storm was the only major nor'easter of the 1994²1995
winter
6c ... that the 13th and 14th century Hebridean chieftains Tormod and Torquil were once believed
to have been brothers, and sons of Leod; but now Torquil is considered as a grandson of
Tormod
6c ... that after winning the 1960 general election in Burma, premier-elect U Nu said, "I guess
people like us"
6c ... that Wallis Simpson said she fell in love with Prince Edward during a cruise in 1934 on W E
Guinness's private yacht Y
6c ... that singer Robb Johnson based the central character in his song cycle "$ +$
# on a
girl he had taught while working as a schoolteacher
6c ... that during the period of hyperinflation in Germany of 1921²1923, there were reports of
people suffering from zero stroke, a disorder where they had the desire to write endless rows of
zeros
6c ... that with 14 goals, Jordan Eberle ^ is the highest scoring Canadian to participate in
the International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-20 Championships
6c ... that in 1925 the Labour and Socialist International urged the League of Nations to accept
the Rif Republic as a member
6c ... that Arthur E. Bartlett co-founded Century 21 Real Estate with a single office in 1971 and saw
the firm grow to 7,700 offices worldwide by the time of his death in 2009
6c ... that in Jain cosmology, the universe is made up of six substances, called dravyas³
souls, matter, the principle of motion, the principle of rest, space and time
6c ... that Sir Samuel Shepherd repeatedly refused judicial posts, partially due to his deafness,
before becoming Lord Chief Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer in 1819
6c ... that Villagers have toured with Tracy Chapman, are the only Irish act to have signed
with Domino Records and were named sixth best band in Ireland by "$ $ " without
releasing an album
6c ... that "$
actor Dule Hill voiced the audiobook of Jacqueline Woodson's young adult
novel =
6c ... that the daughter of Canadian adventurer Tillson Harrison claims that her father's life served
as the inspiration for the Indiana Jones film series
6c ... that nearly all the trees and mangroves of La Ventanilla, Oaxaca, Mexico ^
,
were destroyed by Hurricanes Pauline and Rick in 1997
6c ... that former Northern Ireland footballer Phil Hughes is the only goalkeeper ever to have won
international caps while playing for Bury
6c ... that early humans inhabited the area surrounding Aransas Bay as early as 6,000 to 8,000
years ago
6c ... that Calgary Flames' defenceman Adam Pardy grew up in Bonavista, Newfoundland, a town of
about 3,800 people
6c ... that Ñ $ , is the only bryophyte that grows underground and obtains all its
nutrients by parasitizing a fungus
6c ... that it is said that when the 10th-century Viking leader Onlafbald invoked the power of his
Norse gods Thor and Odin, he was miraculously killed by the spirit of the 7th-century English
saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
6c ... that the Pullman Company boycotted Transpo '72 after the US government provided millions
in funding so military contractors could show their attempts to enter the mass transitfield
6c ... that Anandita Dutta Tamuly ate 51 ghost chillis in two minutes and squeezed the seeds of 25
onto her bare eyes in just one minute
6c ... that the Polonnaruwa Vatadage ^ is considered the "ultimate development"
in vatadage architecture
6c ... that as the chairman of the U.S. Reform Party, Russ Verney asked its highest elected
official, Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, to resign from the party
6c ... that in 2007 the Côte-Rôtie producer Guigal set the record for the most expensive Rhône
wine ever released with the 2003 vintage of their single vineyard "La La"wines
6c ... that the Liverpool businessman Sir Arthur Forwood was the first shipowner to become
an Admiralty minister, and the first serving town councillor to be appointed as a privy
councillor
6c ... that poker tool software program SitNGo Wizard has a quiz mode that serves as poker's
electronic analogue to flash cards
6c ... that Sir John Gurney first rose to fame as a barrister within two months of qualifying
6c ... that artist Harry Bertoia's sculpture "Textured Screen" was labelled "a piece of junk painted
up" when it was unveiled at the Old Dallas Central Library building in 1955
6c ... that Sealyham Terrier Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice, best in show at Crufts in 2009, sometimes
sleeps next to his owner's toilet
6c ... that Paduka ^ , a footwear, is generally worn by mendicants and saints
of Hindu and Jain religions, with significance in Hindu mythology linked to the epic Ramayana
6c ... that the Anevo Fortress, a medieval castle near Sopot in central Bulgaria, was the capital of a
short-lived quasi-independent domain in the late 13th century
6c ... that the Russian battleship !
was the first large warship to use triple expansion steam
engines
6c ... that Arne Kjelstrup from the Norwegian heavy water sabotage team also participated in the
anti-demolition operation Sunshine
6c ... that using the Preston curve, Pritchett and Summers found that more than half a million child
deaths in 1990 could have been prevented by higher income growth in the 1980s
6c ... that the Surtees Society was founded in 1834 by James Raine in order to honour the memory
of his friend and fellow-antiquarian Robert Surtees
6c ... that % 2 and
are two windmills in Dokkum, the Netherlands that are fitted
with a pair of Common sails and a pair of Ten Have sails
6c ... that after a falling out in 1877, Georgina Weldon refused to return Gounod's original score for
his opera *, forcing him to rewrite it
6c ... that the Yantai, blackish, and Chinese stingrays are the three most commonly
sold stingrays in China
6c ... that Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by
archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil Warbattleground
6c ... that actress Naya Rivera from the musical comedy series + had a talent agent before she
was even one year old
6c ... that colitis-X is a fatal form of acute colitis in horses, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain,
shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours
6c ... that the leaders of the Bourla-papey revolt in 19th century Switzerland were sentenced to
death but then amnestied to defend the government they opposed
6c ... that although the name of the palm genus & $
means "always conspicuous", many of its
species are actually small plants which are inconspicuous in the forest understorey
6c ... that the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at the University of
Oxford by William Laud ^ , the Archbishop of Canterbury
6c ... that the ground floor of the Aceh Tsunami Museum is modeled on the design used
by Acehnese houses that were best equipped to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
disaster
6c ... that biographer Andrew Lycett has claimed the spirit named 'Dodd' in Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's "$ ? Y
is that of cricketer Surgeon-Captain John Trask
6c ... that comparatively warm temperatures following the February 1987 nor'easter caused snow in
the affected Mid-Atlantic U.S. states to quickly melt
6c ... that Hockey Hall of Famer Dan Bain, also a champion figure
skater, trapshooter, gymnast, roller skater and cyclist, was named Canada's top athlete of the
last half of the 19th century
6c ... that John Douglas's design for a shop in Sankey Street, Warrington, Cheshire, was said to be
influenced by Ruskin and G.G. Scott
6c ... that in 1935, the Italian Governor-General in Libya, Italo Balbo, founded the Arab Lictor
Youth, a fascist youth movement that trained Arab youth for military service
6c ... that during the Metropolitan Opera premiere of "$ Ñ, tenor Richard
Versalle suffered a fatal heart attack after singing the line "You can only live so long"
6c ... that Vivary Park ^ in Somerset, England, is named for the medieval fish farm,
or vivarium, for Taunton Priory on which it was laid out
6c ... that the music of video game music composer Masaharu Iwata has been described as among
the most well-recognized in the tactical role-playing game genre
6c ... that after the Battles of Kfar Darom and a prolonged Egyptian siege, the Israelis evacuated the
village on July 8, 1948, but not knowing this, the Egyptians staged an offensive on the next day
6c ... that a 66-year-old man named Johnny Lee Wicks opened fire at a Las Vegas federal
courthouse on January 4, 2010, allegedly over cuts to his Social Security benefits
6c ... that Byzantine general Peter Phokas was originally born a slave and made a eunuch, but rose
to become one of the senior-most commanders of the Byzantine Empire in the 960s and 970s
6c ... that Knut Getz Wold served as a State Secretary in a Labour Party cabinet despite belonging
to the Liberal Party
6c ... that the music video game ü %
features MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch
This", Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam", and the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out"
6c ... that one head of the English Court of Chancery was appointed not due to his legal skill, but
because the Queen was impressed by his dancing
6c ... that Jean-Baptiste Aubert-Dubayet was born in French Louisiana in 1759, became Minister of
Defense of France in 1795, and died as French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire ^ in
1797
6c ... that Michael T. Flynn is the top U.S. military intelligence officer in Afghanistan and has been
pushing for closer cooperation with Afghans
6c ... that the Wiltshire hundred of Whorwellsdown was named after a hill on which its court met
under an oak or thorn tree
6c ... that Admiral John Elliot transported the members of the Carlisle Peace Commission to North
America
6c ... that the freshwater whipray is the only Australian stingray restricted to fresh and brackish
water
6c ... that Susan Bower, the Executive Producer of ?$,, got her break into television writing
by providing & Ñ
* with medical information
6c ... that the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d.
1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"
6c ... that despite the masculine pen name, British author George Paston was a woman
6c ... that Corta Atalaya in the province of Huelva, Spain, is the largest open-pit mine in Europe
6c ... that Calvisius Sabinus and Marcius Censorinus were the only two senators who tried to
defend Julius Caesar during his assassination
6c ... that the John Tigard House in Tigard, Oregon, was moved and is still listed on the National
Register of Historic Places
6c ... that Norman Lind, who among other things survived Operation Sunshine of World War II, was
killed many years later by a landmine in Guatemala
6c ... that in a plebiscite of June 18, 1950, 57% of the people in North Rhine-Westphalia ratified
its new constitution
6c ... that the Gaelic Athletic Association's relaxing of Rule 42 allowed the staging of the 2008²09
Heineken Cup semi-final in Croke Park and the breaking of the rugby union club world
attendance record
6c ... that the marriage settlement of Richard Basset (d. before 1144) still survives and assigns his
wife Matilda a dowry of four knight's fees
6c ... that St Andrew's Church ^ in Worthing, West Sussex, stood unused for two years after
its completion as controversy raged over the "Worthing Madonna"
6c ... that recently knighted actor Patrick Stewart is the patron of domestic violence charity Refuge,
which was founded in Chiswick in 1972 by Erin Pizzey
6c ... that * 7 Ô7!7 expressed the principle that the legal theories of > and
do not apply to Congressional reference cases
6c ... that the &
$ $
is often called the Japanese anemone, but is actually native
to China
6c ... that the Bethany settlement house in Laredo, Texas, serves nearly 300,000 free meals
annually to the homeless and other indigent
6c ... that Shmuel Rechtman was the first member of the Knesset to be sent to prison
6c ... that the marathon course at the 1972 Summer Olympics was designed to represent the
first Olympic mascot, Waldi
6c ... that Cake Man Raven baked the world's tallest wedding cake and unveiled it on +
& in 2005
6c ... that the world's first air force, the French Aerostatic Corps, was founded in 1794 and
used balloons ^ for reconnaissance
6c ... that Craig Biggio, a first-round draft pick of the Houston Astros, is a member of the 3000 hit
club
6c ... that $,
$, a type of actinic elastosis caused by sun exposure to the back
of the neck, is preventable with regular sunscreen use
6c ... that using a dynamic aspect weaver has been shown to improve the performance of aspect-
oriented software by 26%
6c ... that the Enclave of Treviño in northern Spain is part of the territory of the Castilian-
Leonese province of Burgos, but is completely surrounded by the territory of theBasque province
of Álava
6c ... that following the Liberal Wars, the owner of Fonseca Guimaraens had to flee Portugal in an
empty Port wine barrel because of his support of liberal reforms
6c ... that one of Bodley's Librarians at Oxford University had been in the King's African
Rifles, another wrote about French anarchy, another had sixteen siblings, another used boys for
routine library tasks, and another later died of a "surfeit of cherries"
6c ... that amongst the policies included in The People's Manifesto created by British satirist Mark
Thomas are introducing a maximum wage and renaming Windsor "Lower Slough"
6c ... that the Australasian bird family Cinclosomatidae contains such birds as quail-
thrushes ^( , jewel-babblers, whipbirds and wedgebills
6c ... that although the current mayor of the Valle de Villaverde enclave belongs to the Regionalist
Party of Cantabria, a previous mayor in 1987 advocated integrating it into
the Basque province of Biscay
6c ... that music journalist Jim Carroll co-founded the Choice Music Prize, known for its tendency
to come to "some pretty eccentric decisions"
6c ... that a naval museum in Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico, has a battle simulation room based
on the technology of the Xbox 360
6c ... that, because he was only 17, professional wrestler Jim White needed a signed permission
slip from his father in order to wrestle in his first match
6c ... that in 1194, one of the taxes in medieval England imposed a 25% tax on all personal property
and income
6c ... that several publications, including GamePro and IGN, consider Jade to be one of video
games' greatest heroines
6c ... that the Simon & Garfunkel song "The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" is about the
advertisement on Madison Avenue in New York City
6c ... that the Jarkov Mammoth ^ was found when Simion Jarkov noticed the protruding
tusks on a hunting trip
6c ... that St Oswald's Chambers in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built on land purchased by
the architect John Douglas to enhance the view towards Chester Cathedral
6c ... that while living in Saddam's Iraq, heavy metal band Acrassicauda was banned from head
banging because it looked similar to Jews praying
6c ... that Harrytown Catholic High School originated as a convent school within the 250 year
old Harrytown Hall
6c ... that the oil spill which spread from the Wei River to the Yellow River was ultimately contained
in the Sanmenxia reservoir
6c ... that Jain text Atma Siddhi propounds six fundamental truths: the soul exists, is eternal, is
doer of action, enjoys or suffers its actions, liberation exists, and means to achieve liberation
exists
6c ... that friends of the family raised $3,500 for Laurie Phenix to travel to the 2000 Summer
Olympics and see her daughter Erin Phenix win a gold medal
6c ... that Donald Trounson distributed chocolate to soldiers returning from Dunkirk, escorted
captive Italians to prison camps in Algeria, and founded the National Photographic Index of
Australian Wildlife
6c ... that one of the # ,
is the )
^ , from which Christopher
Columbus's crew, for his first voyage, are believed to have taken their drinking water
6c ... that Haim Bar Lev said that the Battle of Nirim decided the outcome of the 1948 Arab²Israeli
War
6c ... that the Dickson Tavern is the oldest building in Erie, Pennsylvania
6c ... that publishers at first considered Nora Roberts' debut novel $ "$$, to be too
ethnic because the heroine was from Ireland
6c ... that Swedish landscape painter Alfred Wahlberg was awarded with medals at the Paris
Salon in 1870 and 1872, and at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris
6c ... that the E-mu Modular System is a modular synthesizer made in the early 1970s that
produces musical sounds by the manipulation of patch cords to create connections among its
various modules
6c ... that Harrington Bridge is a listed building, except for the central section which crosses
the River Trent into Derbyshire, England
6c ... that Stephen Reay, Under-Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was remembered by
colleagues for his habit of "hovering over hot-air gratings in search of warmth"
6c ... that the pinwheel Marasmius ^ releases its spores in response to rain, rather
than circadian rhythm like other mushrooms
6c ... that the actor Jonathan Cecil, whose film roles include Hercule Poirot's assistant Hastings,
has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era"
6c ... that until 1974, all visits of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the Soviet Union were
hosted by the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee rather than government representatives
6c ... that before it was scientifically described, the stingray % was often confused
with % -
6c ... that in 1883, Carl Schotten and Eugen Baumann discovered how
to synthesise amides from amines and acid chlorides
6c ... that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in Heene, West Sussex, stand the
"somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor
6c ... that with the Peace of Travendal, Sweden forced Denmark-Norway out of the Great Northern
War in the first war year
6c ... that Ashley Madison is an online dating service for people currently in a relationship who wish
to cheat on their partners
6c ... that today on Mattu Pongal, the bull riding sport Jallikattu ^ ² that has led to deaths
in the past ² is traditionally conducted in the villages of Tamil Nadu, India
6c ... that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years
6c ... that soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor
Youth, a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement
6c ... that & $
,
, a palm species known only from two locations in Ecuador, is named
for the notched tips of its leaves which are said to evoke the horns of an antelope
6c ... that Charles Gray was one of the original trustees of the British Museum
6c ... that no more than 250 mature northern river sharks are estimated to live in the wild
6c ... that Htoo Group of Companies, among Myanmar's largest privately held companies, has been
under sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since 2008
6c ... that drummer Dave Clark was a stuntman who performed in over 40 films before he formed
the 1960s British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five
6c ... that the first modern U.S. presidential debate between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E.
Stassen ^ in 1948 was heard by approximately 40 million people
6c ... that the 8 + episode "Fagel Attraction" was actor Michael Douglas' first television
acting role in almost thirty years
6c ... that Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford built his Honeymoon House from plans drawn
by his wife Clara, using lumber he cut and finished himself
6c ... that the most prominent leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish
minority, Karol Śliwka, died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943
6c ... that 1960's Tropical Storm Brenda, which made its initial landfall in Florida, dropped record-
breaking rainfall on New York City
6c ... that fairy-like insect people feature in the classic Czech children's book Broučci by Jan
Karafiát
6c ... that Lowell, West Virginia, was first settled in 1770, making it the oldest community
in Summers County
6c ... that Sir John Ramsay was the first Australian surgeon to apply heart massage to revive
a dead man
6c ... that the York Imperial apple ^ is easily identified by its lop-sided shape and was
developed by Quaker Jonathan Jessop
6c ... that within ten years bass singer Klaus Mertens recorded all vocal works of Johann Sebastian
Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
6c ... that workers employed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were banned from reading
the communist newspaper Y$,, and could be fired if they did
6c ... that the English coin collector Roger Gale (d. 1744) not only donated his collection of coins
to Cambridge University, but translated a book that helped new coin collectors avoid being
cheated
6c ... that the Snow Patrol song "An Olive Grove Facing the Sea" was recorded in two different
studios, The Stables and Substation
6c ... that 21 October is now an annual public holiday in the Bulgarian city of Kardzhali to
commemorate a battle victory in 1912 during the First Balkan War
6c ... that Texas' northernmost extensive beds of seagrass can be found in Redfish Bay, where they
are protected by state law
6c ... that during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw
Dykes Roman earthwork
6c ... that Edward Pritchard Gee discovered Gee's Golden Langur ^ and was influential in
the creation of Chitwan National Park, the first National Park inNepal
6c ... that the Hannah Robinson Tower in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, is named after a woman
whose life of poverty had one of her last moments at an overlook over Narragansett Bay
6c ... that Lenny Fant, as coach of the University of Louisiana at Monroe men's basketball team
from 1957 to 1979, compiled eighteen consecutive winning seasons
6c ... that one day after Mexican soldier Melquisedet Angulo Córdova was honored as a hero at his
funeral, his mother and three relatives were gunned down in retaliation by drug cartel hitmen
6c ... that despite snowfall totals exceeding 24 in (60 cm), the effects of the December 2000
nor'easter were minimized due to its weekend arrival
6c ... that Royal Navy Captain Francis Laforey successfully sued the Admiralty over the amount
of prize money he should be awarded for the capture of the French frigate HMS Ñ at
the frigate action of 29 May 1794
6c ... that disgruntled at not being rewarded for his capture of Antioch in 969 ^ ,
the Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes participated in the assassination ofByzantine
emperor Nikephoros II Phokas
6c ... that Hans Christian Andersen Award-winning author and illustrator Wolf Erlbruch illustrated
his first book so his son could boast, "Look, my papa made a children's book"
6c ... that *
,, is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean
Sea
6c ... that Zairean President Mobutu gained renown for treating Air Zaïre as his personal service,
and would commandeer its aircraft for shopping trips abroad
6c ... that the Austrian chemist Guido Goldschmiedt determined the structure of
the opium alkaloid papaverine in 1889
6c ... that the pitted stingray is one of only two stingrays with a "W"-shaped groove on its
underside
6c ... that although formally banned, the Iranian communist Central Council of United Trade
Unions was able to revive its activities under the rule of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the early
1950s
6c ... that an inch-long bristly crab can carry 4000 eggs
6c ... that :$ ^$ lives only in tropical hardwood hammocks in Florida
6c ... that a Sunday assassination attempt against Malkiat Singh
Sidhu caught Canadian authorities off-guard, as information about the threat received on Friday
was not passed along until Monday
6c ... that Hondo Creek, a tributary of the Frio River in Texas, was the site of both an 1842 battle
between the Republic of Texas and Mexico, and an 1866 Indian attack
6c ... that among the recipients of the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award are fiddler Sigbjørn
Bernhoft Osa, actress Ella Hval, and long term editor of&,
Nils Johan Rud
6c ... that prior to becoming a St. Louis County park, Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park was
a resort and the site of numerous boating events
6c ... that ) was intended by designer Jenova Chen to fill what he saw as a gap in the
"emotional spectrum" offered by video games
6c ... that the Master of SS $
committed suicide in a pub after he was blamed for the
collision with the windjammer *?
in 1905
6c ... that Old Ephraim, a giant grizzly bear that lived in Utah, was known as "Old Three Toes" by
shepherds because of a congenital deformity on one foot
6c ... that Howard C. Hillegas was the first journalist to report that the fighting between Britain and
the Boers had started in the Second Boer War
6c ... that in Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico, there is a group of people called ´pintosµ or
´Ñutisµ who have patches of yellow, black, red, white and even blue on their skin due to a genetic
mutation
6c ... that Slovakia recently sent explosives to Ireland on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230
6c ... that May Day was first celebrated in Persia in 1922, and during the 1920s thousands of
people participated in the May Day rallies of the Central Council of Trade Unions inTehran
6c ... that pin-up girl Gloria Nord attracted more than a million people to her rolling skating
exhibitions in 1942 and 1943 and later gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II
6c ... that a Spanish vessel blown into Texas' Saint Charles Bay by a storm, was allegedly stranded
in a creek and later taken apart to construct houses
6c ... that the !
episode "Million Dollar Maybe" will feature a new character created by the
winner of a fan-contest organized by the staff of the show
6c ... that the royal fly agaric ^ was the German Mycological Society's "Mushroom of the
Year" in 2000
6c ... that the Irish novelist Lady Morgan was married to the private physician Thomas Charles
Morgan after a meeting engineered by the wife of his employer
6c ... that in 1965 Congo-Brazzaville national airline Air Congo was renamed to avoid confusion
with an airline of the same name from Congo-Kinshasa
6c ... that 51-year old Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg will represent Mexico at the 2010
Winter Olympics
6c ... that Johannes Andenæs, himself a concentration camp prisoner of Nazis during WWII,
criticized the harshness of the legal process against Nazis in Norway after the war
6c ... that the Mary Rose Trust, the charitable trust that salvaged the Y in 1982, played an
important part in preserving historical shipwrecks in the UK from exploitation
6c ... that Andrew Lloyd Webber is concerned about casting a dog in the forthcoming BBC television
series : $ Y
,
6c ... that the Lalitha Mahal ^ , a palace in Mysore, India, was built in 1921 on orders of
the Maharaja of Mysore for exclusive stay of the Viceroy of India
6c ... that on December 14, 1947, a rival government-supported Iranian union, ESKI, carried out an
attack on a club building of the Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran
6c ... that Cyclone Gwenda of the 1998²99 Australian region cyclone season was the most intense
Australian tropical cyclone on record
6c ... that the bombing of an Italian courthouse, the arrests of five Indian police officers, and the
funeral for Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto's son are among the events in organized crime so far
this year
6c ... that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar
6c ... that the Nigerien politician Issa Lamine ignored the opposition calls for a boycott of the 2009
parliamentary election, and was elected as an independent
6c ... that Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009,
months before his death
6c ... that New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was a finalist for the 2009 Cycle Friendly
Awards in the 'Cycling Champion of the Year' category
6c ... that in "$ # "$, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke ^ moved
the equator north to Sri Lanka to allow for the building of a space elevatorthere
6c ... that in the first naval engagement of the War of 1812, the
American privateer %$ captured HMS $
but the US released her, telling her captain to
leave American waters as soon as possible
6c ... that the fungal genus * is known from a single specimen found growing on dung of
the North American porcupine
6c ... that Jonathan Richardson wrote "the first significant work of artistic theory in English"
6c ... that during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia the site of the Maritime Museum was used
as logistic storage for the Japanese army
6c ... that according to a mediaeval chronicle, saga, and later clan tradition, Páll, son of
Bálki blinded and castrated the son of a Manx king³a son who would in time
become kinghimself
6c ... that American basketball player Kobe Bryant has scored forty points or more in 113 games in
his career
6c ... that three Canadian Sikhs accused of plotting to blow up Air India Flight 112 in 1986 were
released when it was revealed that wiretaps had been mistranslated
6c ... that only eastern Northern American strains of the bitter oyster ^ , a widely distributed
mushroom species, are bioluminescent
6c ... that the father and daughter, mathematics professor Ralph Tambs-Lyche and women's
rights activist Guri Tambs-Lyche, were both members of left-wing organizations, Clarté and
the Communist Party respectively
6c ... that the undefeated 1930 Michigan Wolverines football team was led by Harry Newman,
referred to by the United Press as the "crack Jewish field general"
6c ... that Rodrigo Pérez de Traba's knights unlawfully imprisoned Arias Muñiz, the archdeacon
of Trastámara, in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
6c ... that although the first season of the NBC series *
Y
was critically panned, it
was considered one of the best comedies of the year during its second season
6c ... that after losing his House of Commons seat, Denis Shipwright found he "cannot get work"
and resorted to advertising in "$ "
6c ... that the Vardy Community School in Hancock County, Tennessee, was started
by missionaries to educate children who were barred from public schools because they
wereMelungeons
6c ... that during spring training in 1997, Mexican baseball player Tavo Alvarez was mistakenly
introduced as Taco Alvarez
6c ... that the Black-winged Starling ^ was once considered a potential problem for the
threatened Bali Starling but is now an endangered species itself
6c ... that the crew of the Russian battleship + *,
mutinied themselves when they
confronted the mutinous battleship *
in Odessa Harbor in June 1905
6c ... that Sigmund Freud visited Worcester State Hospital in 1909 during his only trip to America
6c ... that the first photography subjects of the German photographer Aenne Biermann were her
own children
6c ... that Rosario Rodríguez was the youngest baseball player in the National League during the
1989 season
6c ... that the smalleye stingray may have convergently evolved a shape and swimming mode akin
to that of manta rays
6c ... that German traffic psychologist Karl Peglau designed the iconic East
German Ampelmännchen traffic lights ^ , one of the few GDR symbols to remain popular
after reunification
6c ... that Jason Little won two Ignatz Awards in consecutive years for his graphic novel !$,
)
6c ... that Z Special Unit member Major G. S. Carter went on to found the Kundasang War
Memorial and Gardens in Sabah
6c ... that the juvenile leaves of the Australian Queensland rainforest tree !
reach 115 cm long, but the adult leaves only 14 cm long
6c ... that before he won a record seven short course off-road racing championships, Carl
Renezeder was an All-American in water polo
6c ... that the 20-metre (66 ft) tall trestle bridge on the former Noojee railway line is the tallest
surviving trestle bridge in Victoria, Australia
6c ... that cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church
for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico
6c ... that the Metzgeriales always produce their sex organs on their backs
6c ... that the Orange Bowl stadium ^ first hosted the college football bowl game of the same
name in 1938
6c ... that Eustace fitz John, the founder of Alnwick Abbey who fought against his own countrymen
at the Battle of the Standard, had only one eye
6c ... that the release of + Ñ$
, a book about the 2008 United States presidential election,
led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made
about President Barack Obama
6c ... that Unė Babickaitė, a Lithuanian actress who appeared in American silent films, was
sentenced to five years in a Soviet gulag
6c ... that Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, located in East Java, is the only conservation area
in Indonesia that has a sand sea
6c ... that the late Wyoming politician Tom Walsh made 14 trips to Southeast Asia at his own
expense looking for Vietnam War POWs and MIAs
6c ... that the horse Authentic has won three Olympic medals and two World Equestrian
Games medals
6c ... that "
0 "!ÑÑ's "Self Made Man" references franchise star Arnold
Schwarzenegger with its Skynet plot to assassinate the Governor of California on New Year's
Eve2010
6c ... that Carl Sagan's book Ñ, which accompanied the Cosmos television series, became the
best-selling science book in 1980
6c ... that the Major League Umpires Association's executive director and 22 umpires were fired
after they tried a mass resignation campaign in 1999
6c ... that the Todd Manning and Marty Saybrooke rape storylines from the American daytime
drama :
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# have been the subject of various academic works, as well as outrage from
leading anti-sexual assault organizations such as RAINN
6c ... that the BBC program :-
2$ %
Ñ$ was described in the press as Oz
Clarke and Hugh Dennis divining that the true spirit of Christmas is "getting hammered"
6c ... that Swiss defenceman Tim Ramholt played just 45 seconds in his National Hockey
League career
6c ... that France-Americas relations ^ were initiated in 1524 with the explorations
of Giovanni da Verrazzano in the service of Francis I of France
6c ... that Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness, which forced bachelors and childless
families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union
6c ... that the anonymous composer of the 15th-century carol "I syng of a mayden" used traditional
imagery deriving from Old Testament texts to celebrate the Annunciation of Jesus
6c ... that at the 2010 Olympics, 20-year-old Drew Doughty is to become the youngest ice
hockey player since Eric Lindros in 1991 to represent Canada in a major best-on-best
tournament
6c ... that the Colombian palm & $
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Colombian endemics in the same genus, & $
. and & $
,
are vulnerable to extinction
6c ... that the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr
prison
6c ... that the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion is the administrative organisation
responsible for monitoring the accounts of professional football clubs in France
6c ... that while recording their album )$ $ ", Sanctus Real's guitarist tried putting nail
polish on his fingertips because they were raw from continuous playing
6c ... that the 90-ton Mingun Bell ^ in Mingun, Myanmar, was the world's heaviest hanging
bell until 2000, when the 116-ton Bell of Good Luck was erected inPingdingshan, China
6c ... that Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 1921 promotion to first-class status was strongly aided
by early fund-raisers organised by Vernon Hill
6c ... that Billfrith, the Northumbrian saint whose name appears in the Durham #, , is
credited with providing the original gold, silver and jewel ornamentation for the#
+
6c ... that the Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially available CD player
6c ... that John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Ernle-Erle-Drax raised and supported the East
Kent militia during the 1830 Swing Riots
6c ... that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as "Australia's first living fossil freshwater turtle,
an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon"
6c ... that Ange Diawara, the leader of the Congolese rebel group , sought inspiration from Che
Guevara and the Cameroonian UPC
6c ... that in 1992, the Greece men's national junior ice hockey team lost 1²47 to Latvia
6c ... that there are more than 80 geysers ^( at the southwest end of Shoshone
Lake in Wyoming, US, one of the highest concentrations of geysers in the world
6c ... that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois, Bishop of Lincoln from
1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century
6c ... that in 1831 John D. Defrees founded the first newspaper in Northern Indiana
6c ... that after ten years of service in the Royal Navy, the brig-sloop HMS Ñ became involved
in the drug trade, and sold £330,000 worth of opium in China in 1833
6c ... that "$ " 2
was originally banned from sale by a High Court injunction issued
the day of its official release
6c ... that it is unclear who designed the Majestic Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, due to conflicting
records on the building's plans and permits
6c ... that State Representative Lanny Johnson was inducted in 1982 into the Louisiana Basketball
Hall of Fame for the 1958²1962 seasons at the University of Louisiana at Monroe
6c ... that Clayton, West Virginia, was named after a balloonist from Cincinnati who landed in the
community after a record-setting 300-mile (480 km) flight in 1835
6c ... that Swedish painter Hugo Birger's most famous work is )
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^ ,
which depicts several famous Nordic painters having breakfast together on the day of the Paris
Salon's opening
6c ... that the satirical radio comedy "$ ? is based on a column in *
â magazine
6c ... that Laumeier Sculpture Park in Sunset Hills, Missouri, does not have any recreational
facilities because its founder wanted a passive park
6c ... that the cellar of 23 Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, contains the remains
of columns from the
of the Roman fortress that previously stood on the site
6c ... that no member of the U. S. Congress has been appointed to the United States Supreme
Court since the 1949 nomination of Sherman Minton
6c ... that the ! !- class battleship ! was cancelled on 19 October
1940 after it was discovered that 70,000 rivets used in her hull plating were of inferior quality
6c ... that between 2000 and 2009, ten singles sold more than 1 million copies in the United
Kingdom
6c ... that after his ship was torpedoed, Captain Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice was picked up from
the water, apparently with his monocle still firmly in place
6c ... that old Atlantic ghost crabs ^ may dig burrows in the sand up to 400 metres from the
sea
6c ... that the Etzioni Brigade participated in the first ever Israeli Haganah operation that deployed
more than one brigade
6c ... that, according to a medieval source, the Anglo-Saxon Fenland noble Æthelstan
Mannessune donated a piece of the True Cross to Ramsey Abbey
6c ... that at the 1949 congress of the government-sponsored Iranian trade union centre â! , only
two out of 36 delegates were workers
6c ... that the employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa, Ñ:#*&â), was significantly
weaker than its West African counterparts, as employers in Equatorial Africa were highly
individualistic
6c ... that Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch
of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII
6c ... that the edible mushroom 2 $ $ smells like almonds
6c ... that Rod Stewart ^ , Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson and The
Beatles have all received the Chopard Diamond award
6c ... that the attack on Camp Chapman in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009, was the most lethal
sustained by the CIA in 25 years
6c ... that Patrick Whelan allegedly assassinated Thomas D'Arcy McGee four months after warning
the police about a similar plot against the Canadian politician
6c ... that the civil flag of Monaco utilizes the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi
6c ... that after having covered the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent journalist Lise
Lindbæk worked to aid Spanish refugee children in France
6c ... that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse by
injecting DNA from Simian virus 40
6c ... that Blind Willie Johnson's gospel-blues song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
was included on the Voyager Golden Record to represent human loneliness to extraterrestrial
life
6c ... that Andrew Cowper ^ was awarded the Military Cross three times in the First World
War for his efforts in destroying 19 German aircraft
6c ... that American artist William Allen Rogers worked with 2 1 as a political
cartoonist for 25 years, and with the ? / 2 for an additional 20 years
6c ... that artifacts uncovered in Kafr Misr, an Arab village located to the south of Mount Tabor,
Israel, attest to Jewish, Christian and Muslim habitation over the centuries
6c ... that Thomas Humber was apprenticed as a blacksmith and went on to found the Humber
bicycle company in 1869 which evolved into Humber automobiles
6c ... that the Minuscule 536 is one of the manuscripts purchased by philanthropist Baroness
Burdett-Coutts (1814²1906)
6c ... that in 2003 Curtis Gatewood became the first college football recruit from Memphis to sign
with Vanderbilt since 1997
6c ... that the top half of the Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light was part of another tower
originally used at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
6c ... that the prototype Tracked Hovercraft high-speed train ^
was expected to
reach 300 mph on its test track north of London, but had only broken 100 mph on a short
portion before the program was cancelled in 1973
6c ... that approximately 6,000 years ago in central Oregon, Lava Butte exploded, and eventually
created Benham Falls
6c ... that as a child, Jerry Kennedy, who later produced for legendary musicians such as Elvis
Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, recorded several songs with Chet Atkinsfor RCA Records
6c ... that the Wayang Museum in Jakarta contains the tombstone of Jan Pieterszoon Coen
6c ... that after turning down an invitation to play with the Americans, Brandon Kozun scored
the shootout winning goal for Canada to defeat the United States during round robin play at
the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
6c ... that Lykke Friis, the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, was not a member of
the party Venstre before becoming a minister
6c ... that while filming "$ Y, director Adam White stumbled upon the Red Tail Project,
which led to the production of Y " Y,
6c ... that, to promote their Glacier Mints (iconified by Peppy the polar bear), Fox's
Confectionery used to exhibit a stuffed polar bear at public events
6c ... that the 1833 territorial division of Spain ^ $
into provinces has persisted with only
small changes down to the present day
6c ... that Icelandic modernist Einar Bragi, one of the original Atom Poets, translated poetry from all
major European languages
6c ... that the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of
the Dutch East India Company
6c ... that same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions has been allowed in
the Coquille Tribe of Oregon despite the state's defense of marriage amendment
6c ... that installation of about 25,000 pail closets in 19th-century Manchester, England helped
clear the city's drains and rivers of up to 3,000,000 gallons of waste
6c ... that Uniontown, Washington, D.C.'s first "suburban" community, is part of the Anacostia
Historic District
6c ... that !
is an award-winning film that depicts a real-life battle between French
Colonial Forces and an African queen
6c ... that William Gurney Benham collected and arranged over fifty thousand quotations in one of
his books
6c ... that Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman ^ scored 12 double centuries during
his Test career, the highest number by any batsman
6c ... that "$ Ñ
was an 2009 Afghan reality TV show that pitted youth against each other
in a mock presidential election
6c ... that semi-professional footballer Dean Clark made over one hundred appearances
for Northwood F.C.
6c ... that the High Court of Andalusia is the highest court of not only Andalusia, but also
the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
6c ... that it is uncertain whether the brown and white American star-footed Amanitas are different
species
6c ... that Obie Award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson only took up acting after being laid
off from his job as a traveling computer salesman
6c ... that Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, who founded and edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's
independent newspapers, was arrested at his Tehran home in the aftermath of the 2009 Ashura
protests
6c ... that the episodes of the anime series
' do not tell the events in chronological order
6c ... that the Villers²Bretonneux Australian National Memorial ^ , the last of the great
memorials to the missing of World War I, was unveiled just over a year before World War II broke
out
6c ... that William L. Reilly's twelve-year tenure as president of Le Moyne College was the longest in
the Jesuit school's history
6c ... that the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and
a Romano-British painted pebble
6c ... that Clay Buchholz, a first-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, threw a no-hitter in only
his second major league start
6c ... that the director of the 2009 film "$ )
$ chose to use mostly untrained actors
because he feared that professional actors would be too egotistical
6c ... that Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the
head of Mine Safety and Health Administration
6c ... that " magazine described Aake Anker Ording, who initiated the
international fundraiser Ô
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, as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed,
idealistic U.N. Staffer"
6c ... that in 1122 Suero Vermúdez donated his private monastery at Cornellana to the Abbey of
Cluny, but in 1128 gave it instead to the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, sparking a
centuries-long dispute
6c ... that Princess Alice of the United Kingdom ^ was married to Prince Louis of Hesse in
an atmosphere described by Queen Victoria as "more of a funeral than a wedding"
6c ... that prior to the 10th century in Western art, no attempt was made to portray God the
Father in terms of a human form
6c ... that while Stan Benjamin was a scout, the Houston Astros used his evaluation of Jeff
Bagwell as the basis to make a trade for him on August 30, 1990
6c ... that as a result of the Scarman report into the 1981 Brixton riots, the independent Police
Complaints Authority was established in 1985
6c ... that the Louisiana sheriff Elliot D. Coleman was one of the police bodyguards on duty at the
time of the 1935 assassination of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, Jr.
6c ... that Royal Marine Francis Harvey, the mortally wounded commander of HMS #
's 'Q' turret,
was awarded the Victoria Cross for ordering the magazine flooded, which saved the ship during
the Battle of Jutland
6c ... that the Goose Creek Oil Field in Galveston Bay had the first offshore oil wells in Texas, U.S.,
and the removal of oil led to subsidence of the overlying terrain
6c ... that in June 2005, Intel threatened photo printing company FotoInsight with legal action over
their use of the name "The 'INSIDE' format" saying it infringed their trademark "Intel Inside"
6c ... that Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse ^ on
the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads
6c ... that the oil in the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which killed upwards of 10,000 birds and
numerous other creatures along the coast of California, U.S., came from the Dos Cuadras
Offshore Oil Field
6c ... that Swiss writer Dominique Caillat briefly worked as an international lawyer before turning to
literature and the stage, which helped her receive a basic training in acting and directing
6c ... that * $ dragonflies lay their eggs along stream margins because their larvae are
semi-aquatic
6c ... that Slade's Case has been called a "watershed" moment in English law
6c ... that Frederick Brocklander became a Major League Baseball umpire during a 1979 strike and
continued umpiring for 12 more years in the National League
6c ... that a skimmington, a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public
procession, occurred in England as late as 1917
6c ... that the bronze Gniezno Doors, of about 1175, are the only Romanesque doors in Europe
decorated with scenes from the life of a saint ^$
6c ... that Ya'qub Bilbul, an Iraqi Jew who wrote in Arabic, is considered a pioneer of the Iraqi novel
and short story
6c ... that five Fablok Luxtorpeda trains were constructed under the leadership of Klemens Stefan
Sielecki
6c ... that the Xian H-6K, which made its first flight in 2007, has been described as "China's first
proper strategic bomber"
6c ... that French team handball player Mariama Signate was selected into the all-star team at
the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship in China
6c ... that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge
6c ... that Loren Singer's 1970 book "$ *( , later made into the 1974
thriller starring Warren Beatty, allowed Singer to leave a job as a printing salesman
6c ... that the floral clock in Frankfort, Kentucky, has a face that is 34 feet (10 m) in diameter and
is composed of more than 10,000 individual flowers
6c ... that sculptor Henry Kirke Brown's nephew, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, created four works
at Gettysburg Battlefield: a bust of Abraham Lincoln and statues of
Generals Meade, Reynolds ^ , and Sedgwick
6c ... that upon the death of Louisiana newspaper publisher Sam Hanna, his state's press
association in 2006 renamed its "Best Regular Column" award in his honor
6c ... that it took six weeks for developer Garry Kitchen to write and complete
the iPhone and Nintendo DSi video game & 2 ,
6c ... that during the recording process of Stone Sour's second album Ñ $^
drummer Joel Ekman decided to leave the band following the diagnosis of his
son'sbrainstem glioma
6c ... that Rev. Elias Bond (1813²1896) used proceeds from a Hawaiian sugar plantation to fund his
church and a girls' seminary
6c ... that a previously undescribed species of coral called * 7 was found off the coast
of Puerto Ángel, Mexico
6c ... that Harlan Sanborn coached the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team to their
lowest offense score ever with the team only scoring eight points during a game
6c ... that screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day
and declaring himself a Republican
6c ... that extensive droughts have caused Washoe Lake ^ at Washoe Lake State
Park in Nevada to dry up, most recently in 1992, 1994, and 2004
6c ... that Norwegian musicologist Christian Leden was the first person to record film in
the northern Arctic
6c ... that disagreement over the relocation of a nursery during construction of the Washington
Metro's Anacostia station required an Act of Congress to resolve
6c ... that Sir William Garrow, a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely
forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of
Criminal Appeal case
6c ... that the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade, originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic, is still
held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas
6c ... that Sir Hugh Norman-Walker was forced to decline the appointment of the Lieutenant
Governor of the Isle of Man in 1973 because his wife would not take up the new post with him
6c ... that the palm & $
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is considered to be vulnerable to extinction because none
of the seven known populations lie within Ecuador's network of protected areas
6c ... that author and anti-globalization advocate Tim Costello started his writing career in the back
of his truck while traveling as a long-haul truck driver
6c ... that The Langley Schools Music Project inspired Karen O ^ to incorporate an
untrained children's choir into the song "All Is Love"
6c ... that the British monitor # Ñ was stationed in the Thames Estuary in 1916 to shoot
down approaching German Zeppelins with shrapnel shells fired by her 12-inch (305-mm) main
guns
6c ... that Greek professor Albert Pattengill played on Michigan's 1867 baseball team, nominated
"azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors, and was one of the founders of the Big Ten
Conference
6c ... that !,, @
) - ) is the most successful detective series produced by the ZDF
6c ... that coloratura soprano Alice Verlet gave a 1922 opera and song recital at Carnegie
Hall accompanied on violin by a young Xavier Cugat, who later achieved fame as the "rhumba
king"
6c ... that the European Court of Human Rights in !$
+ Ô found that the discharge
of personnel from the British Army on the basis of sexual orientation was a breach of their right
to a private life
6c ... that Y " Y,
, which chronicled the Red Tail Project's restoration of the P-51 Mustang,
won regional Emmy Award recognition
6c ... that, although champion boxer Jack Dempsey refused a challenge from Billy Sandow to fight
professional wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the Ñ$ ",
predicted that Lewis would win in
38 minutes
6c ... that Adolphe Clément, an orphan who had been apprenticed to a blacksmith, rose to become
a leading French manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic
tyres,motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships ^(
6c ... that the underwater volcanoes of the Vance Seamounts are pocketed by multiple calderas,
many of which have been almost erased by newer flows
6c ... that Rebbie Jackson felt that her brother Michael would "spin in his grave" if he thought that
his children were going to appear in "$ ü
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6c ... that Josef Hora was one of the seven Czech Communist writers who denounced the
new Stalinist leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald in 1929
6c ... that the Spanish Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park hosts at least
2170 plant species, 34 of them found nowhere else
6c ... that actor Leonid Kharitonov's lyrical singing in the war film, "$ !
, made
him an all-Soviet heart-throb in 1955
6c ... that Matford Vic, a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased
at one time for only £2
6c ... that 1930s NFL fullback "Iron Mike" Mikulak got his nickname because he wore a metal chest
protector over his protuding sternum
6c ... that Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet
Leigh, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis all stayed at the Hotel Valley Ho^ in Scottsdale,
Arizona
6c ... that between 1926 and 1938, HMS & $ served as a steam yacht for W E Guinness
6c ... that the 1950 Salad Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona, drew nearly 20,000 fans, setting a new
statewide attendance record for football
6c ... that the Japanese Law for the Conservation of Cultural Properties provides for the existence
of Living National Treasures
6c ... that Norwegian Christian Aug. Thoring tried several times to become mayor of Rogaland
County, but lost out to Beint Bentsen in 1975, John S. Tveit in 1979 and Lars Vaage in 1983
6c ... that the eight volcanoes of the President Jackson Seamounts are heavily pocketed by
29 calderas and pit craters
6c ... that five houses with pilasters are preserved in the Manlius Village Historic
District near Syracuse, New York
6c ... that ten married couples were candidates in the 2004 Wyre Forest Council
election in Worcestershire, England
6c ... that a project aiming to lower the salinity of the Colorado River has triggered thousands
of earthquakes in Colorado's Paradox Valley ^
6c ... that two months after the final five Green Line stations on Washington, D.C.'s Metro opened,
more than 30,600 riders per day boarded at the stations³three times as many as originally
estimated
6c ... that World War II German fighter ace Heinrich Hoffmann was the first non-commissioned
officer and first posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
6c ... that the infant massage of preterm babies has been shown to have many benefits, including
the gaining of extra body weight
6c ... that although SS â,$ was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport during
World War II, she did not become an Empire ship until 1947
6c ... that Kevin Hopps, writer of the ! ! 4
episode "The Uncertainty Principle",
kept in mind previous battle sequences in the series in order to "up the stakes"
6c ... that in 792 the Bulgarians captured the tent and treasury of the Byzantine emperor during a
battle at the fortress of Markeli near modern Karnobat, Bulgaria
6c ... that 2004 Olympic gold medalist Rhi Jeffrey left competitive swimming just four months
before the U.S. Olympic Trials for Beijing
6c ... that the Lower Saxon Mill Road is 2,800 kilometres long and links over 300 historic
mills ^( across North Germany
6c ... that during the inter-war period, Helge Krog was known as a member of the "radical
triumvirate" in Norway, along with Øverland and Hoel
6c ... that Liverpool businessman Sir William Bower Forwood raised money for the building of
the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral
6c ... that Lincoln Hall at Portland State University was used as classroom space for several years
despite being condemned
6c ... that before making his major league debut, pitcher Alfonso Pulido drew comparisons
to Fernando Valenzuela after winning 17 games in the Mexican League in 1983
6c ... that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking
it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk
6c ... that Ukrainian mathematician Samuil Shatunovsky developed axiomatic theory independently
from David Hilbert
6c ... that the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon, was named were cut down
in 1957
6c ... that the shores of Dal Lake in India ^ contain Mughal gardens Shalimar
Bagh and Nishat Bagh known as "the jewel of Kashmir valley"
6c ... that the British cargo ship â was handed over to the Polish Government on
completion in January 1942
6c ... that researchers finally collected a larva and an adult female "
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which
match an earlier male specimen
6c ... that the Battle of Maryang San is regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest victories of
the Korean War
6c ... that the Polish²Czech Friendship Trail was closed to tourists outside the two countries until
the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993
6c ... that Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio, was one of the founding members of the Union for Reform
Judaism
6c ... that in 2008, Lund's former mayor Kjell Erfjord lost a vote to become board chairman of
the Norwegian Missionary Society
6c ... that the Black-fronted Tern of New Zealand is known as the ploughboy or ploughman's friend
for its propensity to eat worms and grubs in newly ploughed ground
6c ... that the Red Tail Project evolved after a United States Air Force P-51 Mustang ^ flown
by the Tuskegee Airmen was passed through several owners for over 40 years
6c ... that the existence of Outer Temple, a body that is thought to be one of the ten Inns of
Chancery and was disestablished in the 16th century, was only confirmed in 2008
6c ... that the Royal Indian Navy auxiliary patrol vessel ü
was originally built for HH The
Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar
6c ... that Theobald Burke, son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, was born at sea in 1567, shortly
before his mother's fleet engaged in a battle with Barbary pirates
6c ... that from 1999 to 2003 the Cal Golden Bears had five consecutive Pac-10
Conference swimmers of the year; Marylyn Chiang, Haley Cope, and three-time winner Natalie
Coughlin
6c ... that Woody Freeman, one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of
Arkansas, claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account
6c ... that Blanche Cave, in Australia's Naracoorte Caves National Park, used to exhibit
an indigenous man's mummified remains, which were stolen in 1861 and never returned
6c ... that the letters "IXL" in the IXL Historical Museum in Hermansville, Michigan, are a derivative
of the words "I excel"
6c ... that the crew of the Russian battleship &
^ refused to suppress
the mutinous garrison of Fort Konstantin defending Kronstadt in August 1906
6c ... that as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas, Lynn
Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War
6c ... that a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers
union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943
6c ... that former Parliament of Norway member Inger Lise Husøy is currently the manager of
the Norwegian Burma Committee
6c ... that Bryan Adams sang backing vocals on Glass Tiger's 1986 hit single "Don't Forget Me
(When I'm Gone)"
6c ... that Fritz Crisler developed the platoon system of American football in which separate squads
play offense and defense and designed the winged football helmet used by theMichigan
Wolverines
6c ... the H.W. Wilson Company considered Albert Payson Terhune's 1922 novel )$ &
# one "of the most useful books covering all classes of literature"
6c ... that when LeT militants barged into her home in Rajouri, Rukhsana Kausar started a counter-
attack wielding an axe, and later drew praise from the President, Prime Minister andHome
Minister of India
6c ... that the High Court of Singapore ^! Ñ
is the sole court
in Singapore exercising original criminal jurisdiction that may impose thedeath penalty
6c ... that the winemaking technique of involves adding the pomace of leftover grape skins
from the fermentation of Amarone to Valpolicella to give the wine more body, color and flavor
6c ... that anti-nuclear activist Ole Kopreitan is known for spreading leaflets and selling campaign
buttons from a cart in Norway's main street, ü$
6c ... that while voicing the character of Doctor Octopus in the "$ ! ! 4
episode
"Reaction", Peter MacNicol chose to base it on late actor Laird Cregar
6c ... that the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren
Island near Albany, New York
6c ... that two sections of the British 1973 Sale of Goods Act were completely identical
6c ... that, according to the 2 !
Ñ$,, Eadred, abbot of Carlisle, tried to take the
body of St Cuthbert to Ireland, but was thwarted by the weather
6c ... that prominent American Jewish leader Alan Solow called President Barack Obama "the first
Jewish president"
6c ... that one way that winemakers determine physiological ripeness of some grape varieties is by
watching the change in the stems from flexible and green^ to hard and brown
6c ... that because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of
multiple assassination threats and alleged plots
6c ... that besides mechanical failures, fuel leaks and collisions, the passenger liner SS , also
suffered multiple fires and blackouts, and twice grounded in theSuez Canal, before she was
finally decommissioned in 1972
6c ... that Quality Bicycle Products is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in
the bicycle industry, with revenues of $150 million in 2008
6c ... that the video game %
) is a simulation of dogfights between World War
II fighters and feature such planes as P-47 Thunderbolt, PZL.23 Karaś and five variants
ofMesserschmitt Bf 109
6c ... that during the Italian occupation Tefik Mborja was, as General Secretary of the Albanian
Fascist Party, included in the Albanian cabinet as an ex-officio member
6c ... that in & # # â
,$, Percy Bysshe Shelley made an argument for tolerance of
all published opinion, even when false
6c ... that John Cage caused a sensation at the 1963 Music Biennale Zagreb by crawling under the
piano during his stage performance, despite promising not to
6c ... that the Ottonian jewelled Cross of Lothair of about 1000 AD has at its centre an ancient
Roman cameo of the Emperor Augustus ^
6c ... that Guillermo Algaze received the MacArthur "Genius" Award two years in a row
6c ... that Pro Bowl guard Jahri Evans attended Bloomsburg University not on an athletic
scholarship, but rather an academic scholarship
6c ... that Joseph K. Yamagiwa was a Research Bombing Analyst for the U.S. Strategic Bombing
Survey which took place in Washington D.C. and Tokyo
6c ... that the Jewel Box in St. Louis, Missouri, is a greenhouse but doesn't have a glass roof
because of frequent hailstorms
6c ... that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20
years
6c ... that in the 1946 French legislative election the incumbent parliamentarian from French
India, Deiva Zivarattinam, received only 18 votes
6c ... that the Y was a Tudor period warship that sank during the Battle of the Solent in
1545 and was salvaged ^ by maritime archaeologists 437 years later
6c ... that Michigan sprinter Clayton Teetzel coached the BYU basketball team to an 11²1 season
and later coached the Utah State football team to an undefeated season outscoring opponents
164 to 0
6c ... that the music of the Russian band Lesopoval is inspired by the six years its co-
founder Mikhail Tanich spent in a Soviet labor camp
6c ... that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 has begun core testing even though its only
application, the Cessna Citation Columbus, has been canceled
6c ... that Political Correspondent with "$ $ " Harry McGee described the Irish budget,
2010 as maybe "the most austere Budget in the history of the State"
6c ... that Lynn A. Davis stopped illegal gambling in Hot Springs in a 128-day career as head of
the Arkansas state police
6c ... that the Persian cat breed has won the CFA International Cat Show's "Best of Show" a record
ten times as of 2009
6c ... that the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana, in Guatemala, was a colony
founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in Mexico
6c ... that 58 ships ^
of the 16th-century navy of Henry VIII of England were illustrated
in the Anthony Roll
6c ... that at age 36, Populist Party Chairman Marion Butler of North Carolina obtained his law
degree from the University of North Carolina while serving in the U.S. Senate
6c ... that Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered
to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day
of gunpowder remaining
6c ... that Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida, and the third in
the United States, equipped to show sound film
6c ... that the Russian battleship %
& served as the stand-in for
the *
during the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's "$ $ *
6c ... that the South American rice rat :- is threatened by competition with
the Black Rat
6c ... that only one of the thirty-nine DART Light Rail stations in Greater Dallas, Texas, is located
underground
6c ... that at the 2008 Great Brook Run, English politician David Cameron ran through a muddy
stream faster than a man dressed as Spider-Man
6c ... that because of its aquatic origin and resemblance to the vulva, the shankha ^ (
is linked with female fertility and is an integral part of Tantricrites
6c ... that Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard
Wagner's autobiography,
#,
, be composed of a vulture and the constellation The
Plough
6c ... that in Ñ 7 Ô
!, the United States Supreme Court established the principle that
the Court of Claims could rehear Congressional reference cases
6c ... that the Democratic Association of Victoria, the first Australian socialist organisation founded
in 1872, lasted only ten months
6c ... that in January 2009, a lorry burst through the stern doors of the fast ferry !
while the ship was at sea
6c ... that in 1971, Cambodian army officer Um Savuth offered Richard Nixon his pet elephant as a
gift
6c ... that as a Squadron Leader in 1936, future diplomat Charles Eaton ^ was arrested and
held for three days in Koepang, Dutch Timor, while undertaking a clandestine mission for
the RAAF
6c ... that The Irish Filmography is a reference source for nearly 2,000 films made from 1896 to
1996 in Ireland, about either Ireland or the Irish
6c ... that 1938²39 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team player Bobby Anet broke the NCAA
Tournament trophy during the championship game, which Oregon won
6c ... that at 26 million years, the Taney Seamounts are almost as old as the seafloor they stand
on
6c ... that Peter P. Dubrovsky, Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed
libraries during the time of the French Revolution
6c ... that as a result of 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision +
Ñ7 7
, the Court of
Claims did not accept new Congressional reference cases until 1966
6c ... that the neo-romantic Ñ$A
movement based in Young Poland's fascination with folk
culture inspired Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański to marry a peasant wife in 1900
6c ... that fossilized remains of giant sea turtles have been found at an elevation of 7,696 feet
(2,346 m) within Vega State Park in Colorado
6c ... that Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei ^ made three secretive trips to Paris to
prepare for his design of the Louvre Pyramid
6c ... that the Montserrat national football team has only won two matches in their history, both
victories coming against Anguilla
6c ... that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many
important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the nowBritish overseas
territory of Gibraltar
6c ... that "Canonsburgh Comet" Leo Koceski, halfback for Michigan's 1948 national
championship and 1950 Rose Bowl championship teams, was inducted into the Pennsylvania
Sports Hall of Fame
6c ... that "Kashi", the name of an all natural, seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla,
California, means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese
6c ... that Pavel Antseborenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for
detonating a live hand grenade to avoid capture, killing himself and several German troops in the
process
6c ... that Jesse G. James' company West Coast Choppers earns 60% of its revenue from sales of T-
shirts and other tie-in merchandise
6c ... that Wally Teninga played football for Michigan's undefeated 1947 and 1948 championship
teams and later became vice chairman and chief financial officer of Kmart Corporation
6c ... that Mutzig's Château des Rohan ^ belonged to several families of noblemen
and bishops of Strasbourg before being turned into a rifle factory after theFrench Revolution
6c ... that the song "La Cima del Cielo" recorded by Ricardo Montaner became his first number-one
single in the , Top Latin Songs chart
6c ... that the mechanism of the Winchester Model 1911, an autoloading shotgun made from 1911
to 1925, is so tricky that in 2005 four people shot themselves accidentally while clearing the
weapon
6c ... that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was said to
have overseen the "cleanest mayor's election in modern times" in New Orleans
6c ... that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness is thought to have taken its name
from Thurbrand the Hold, killer of Uhtred the Bold
6c ... that the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946
election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party
6c ... that North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as
well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself afree person
of color
6c ... that between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese military personnel are estimated to
have surrendered during World War II, despite being prohibited from doing so
6c ... that the !66 Y
gave the observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre ^ to
the French state because it could not afford the cost of its construction
6c ... that in 1997, Steve Carell played chef Yorgo Galfanikos in the ABC sitcom : $ "
6c ... that INFORM, a British charity providing impartial information on new religious movements,
was established with the support of the Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches
6c ... that Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest
ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I
6c ... that Roanoke, Virginia, television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United
States to shut down
6c ... that P. Munuswamy Naidu became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency after the 1930
election
6c ... that Howard Yerges began his football career with the Ohio State Buckeyes and finished it as
the quarterback of Michigan's 1947 "Mad Magicians" national championship team
6c ... that Farnham Maxwell-Lyte ^ developed the "honey process" in photographic
processing
6c ... that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the
current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York, as a "growth"
6c ... that credit for describing the Jolthead porgy goes to both Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann
Gottlob Schneider in 1801, though Bloch died in 1799
6c ... that the 1931 film &
was the first talking picture to be based on Lewis
Carroll's book &1 &
6c ... that current Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is a professional magician who
has performed in both Las Vegas and Hollywood
6c ... that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle
farms
6c ... that the Genoese have contributed significantly to Gibraltar's architectural and culinary
heritage
6c ... that despite being a clone of the Apple II, the Soviet Agat computer cost as much as twenty
times the average monthly Soviet salary
6c ... that the triskelion in MacLeod heraldry ^ originates from a mistaken belief that
the clan's founder, Leod, was a son of a king of Mann
6c ... that American professional wrestler Jigsaw was trained by Chris Hero and Mike
Quackenbush
6c ... that the Maharishi University of Management stabbing drew international attention because it
occurred at an institution with a founding principle of reducing crime
6c ... that Cheryl Cole debuted her song "Parachute" whilst performing a Latin dance with Derek
Hough on the television special Ñ$ Ñ1 ?$
6c ... that the first religious leader of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, was Simon Lazarus, a
clothing merchant who founded what would become Lazarus department stores
6c ... that Mamajuda Island in the Detroit River, which once contained a lighthouse, has since been
eroded away to nothing more than a few boulders seen only during times of low water levels
6c ... that Ragnar Kalheim was one of the main architects behind the formation of the Socialist
Electoral League in Norway
6c ... that with their extensive vineyard holdings in the Douro and many Port wine brands,
the Symington Family Estates are considered a "Port empire"
6c ... that the 1895 Michigan football team ^ outscored its opponents 266 to 14 and
clinched a claim to the Western championship of American football
6c ... that the 9th Bomber Regiment was tasked to lead groups of Soviet fighters and attack aircraft
(over 2,000 aircraft in total) to their targets during 1941 because their pilots could not navigate
on their own
6c ... that while recording swordfights for ,
, the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly
took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the filmÑ
$ %
6c ... that plans were shelved for the Southside Connector over concerns that it would pollute
aquifers that were later found to be polluted inadvertently by the military
6c ... that as a consequence of Earl Rivers' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of
the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, was changed to the Bear's Paw
6c ... that Johan Kling, a Swedish filmmaker whose career started with making TV shows
and McDonald's commercials, won the award for best Swedish film for his debut movie,%
6c ... that chef Aaron McCargo Jr. became host of the Food Network series %1 2 as
the grand prize for winning the fourth season of the reality series, "$ ?( ) ? !
6c ... that Spanish singer-songwriter Bebe received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best
Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for her second studio album titled /7
6c ... that during its operational history 1874²1926 the Argentine Corvette Ô ^ was
a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, and Antarcticrescue vessel, and is now
a museum ship in Buenos Aires
6c ... that Margaret Formby, the daughter of Texas ranchers, was the founder of the National
Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth
6c ... that on December 26, 2009, Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a Football
Bowl Subdivision bowl game, when she served as line judge for theLittle Caesars Pizza Bowl
6c ... that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park, Australia, encompasses
about 1/10th of New South Wales
6c ... that Swedish history painter Johan Fredrik Höckert died of natural causes at the age of 40,
only two years after becoming professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
6c ... that the actress cast as Amy Pond, a companion character to the Eleventh Doctor on %
$, had previously portrayed a soothsayer on an episode involving the Tenth Doctor
6c ... that between the years 2000 and 2009 in North Carolina, the deadliest tropical cyclone
was Tropical Storm Allison
6c ... that the Little Zigzag River begins on Zigzag Glacier, flows down Little Zigzag Canyon, over
Little Zigzag Falls, and enters the Zigzag River upstream of Zigzag, Oregon
6c ... that Matilda of Brandenburg might have had an affair with Henry IV Probus before their
marriage
6c ... that Benigno Fitial, the current governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, once sued
the
? 8 newspaper for defamation
6c ... that the 1894 Michigan football team played Chicago in a sleet storm as the grandstand was
"packed with yelling collegians" and the carriage rooms "filled with society people"
6c ... that the flamboyant Louisiana Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier once spent seven days in his own jail
upon conviction, after a sensational trial, of malfeasance in office
6c ... that, on the orders of King Edward the Elder and Ealdorman Æthelred,
the English thegn Uhtred bought back land at Hope and Ashford in Derbyshire from the Vikings
6c ... that the Swaraj Party refused to form a government despite winning the 1926
election in Madras Presidency
6c ... that the 1896 Michigan football team ^ appeared in the first college football game
played indoors and under electric lights
6c ... that there are different theories about the parentage of Piast princess Constance, who ruled
over Wodzisław Śląski until her death in 1351
6c ... that the third season and its episodes of the animated sitcom 2 won two Pulcinella
Awards in 2003
6c ... that Anna Mendelssohn, who spent five years in jail over Angry Brigade bombings, later
became a published poet
6c ... that the second Fred Quilt inquiry into the Tsilhqot'in's death at the hands of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police found that injury was caused by a blunt force applied by an unknown
object
6c ... that the French Minister of Cooperation Pierre Abelin initiated the process that culminated
with the signing of the Lomé Convention in 1975
6c ... that Dane Erik Holtved was the first university-trained ethnologist to
study Greenland's Inughuit
6c ... that Hereford, Texas, broadcaster Clint Formby's daily commentary is the longest-running
program by a single host in radio history
6c ... that after taking the 1899 Michigan football team to an 8²2 season, coach Gustave
Ferbert ^ resigned to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush and became a millionaire
6c ... that the French resistance activist Michel Zunino was the sole former socialist Popular
Front parliamentarian who was later re-elected as a communist
6c ... that the Council on Religion and the Homosexual once held a fundraiser dance despite
intimidation from San Francisco police
6c ... that in the late 1480s, students of the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Sulpizio da
Veroli presented the first Senecan tragedy mounted since Antiquity
6c ... that the San Diego neighborhood of Old Town was the site of the first European settlement in
present-day California
6c ... that twice in the Dakar Rally, a Mercedes-Benz support truck for the Citroën team got caught
up in armed conflicts resulting in the driver's death
6c ... that stand-up comedian Louis C.K. is writing, directing, editing, producing, and starring in his
upcoming FX comedy series, #
6c ... that in 1989, a block of flats in Worthing, England, was named in commemoration of
the Ñ , wrecked off the coast in 1891, but the name was accidentally misspelt
6c ... that the Lyceum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, ^ was built as a school and it
is planned to develop part of it as a museum
6c ... that Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later
became New York's Chinese Inspector
6c ... that Nepal's capital Kathmandu only had one restaurant in 1955
6c ... that former Louisiana State Rep. Raymond Laborde defeated future Governor Edwin
Edwards in 1943 in the race for senior class president of Marksville High School
6c ... that the 13th-century Chinese mathematician Li Zhi solved polynomial equations and
advised Kublai Khan
6c ... that the 1897 Michigan Wolverines football team won the inaugural game in the Michigan-
Ohio State rivalry by a score of 34 to 0
6c ... that Polish publicist and politician Jan Ludwik Popławski was one of the first chief activists
and ideologues of the right-wing National Democracy political camp
6c ... that the 1692 Jamaica earthquake, which destroyed Port Royal, occurred at 11:43 a.m.,
according to a stopped pocket watch found in the harbour
6c ... that newly-named New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano ^ has been
cited five times for meritorious acts in a 40-year FDNY career
6c ... that the Y episode "At the Movies" introduced the character of Reptar, who became a
heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-
ins
6c ... that Sir Denys Roberts was the first and only Colonial Secretary and Chief Secretary who was
appointed Chief Justice in Hong Kong
6c ... that although the original text of the ðÐ B was lost during the fourth Chinese
domination of Vietnam, its contents were still preserved in other books such as the ðÐ B
C
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6c ... that Norwegian politician Beint Bentsen was a member of four different municipal councils
6c ... that microchromosomes are very tiny gene-rich chromosomes which are a
typical genetic component in birds, and some groups of non-mammalian animals
6c ... that the longest retreat of the U.S. Army was 120 miles (190 km)
6c ... that professional wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams has called working on the
sitcom #
$ Y the "most painful $2,000" he ever earned
6c ... that the hallucinogenic mushroom *,
^ was first
discovered in a tropical rain forest in the Uxpanapa Region of Veracruz, in
southeastern Mexico
6c ... that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only
because Manny Pacquiao's friend drank three bottles of beer
6c ... that the roughtail stingray is the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean, at up to
2.2 metres (7.2 ft) across and weighing 300 kilograms (660 lb)
6c ... that Ebba Haslund's adolescence novel ?$
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was virtually ignored
by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded
as one of her most important books
6c ... that the community of Weed Heights, Nevada, was built to support the open
pit mining operation at the Anaconda Copper Mine
6c ... that Ælfhelm, ealdorman of York, was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot, king
of England
6c ... that the NBC anthology series "$ ü $ Ñ
!$ (1956²1957)
featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the
woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination
6c ... that Tang Dynasty official Wei Chun changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to
observe a naming taboo for Emperor Xianzong, whose personal name was Li Chun
6c ... that the Chattri ^ in Brighton, England, stands on the site of
the ghat where Hindu and Sikh soldiers of the First World War were cremated after
dying while being treated at the Royal Pavilion
6c ... that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American
production of "$ ?
6c ... that the original Sinhalese Sports Club Ground was situated on land of Victoria
Park with sandy soil and covered with cinnamon trees
6c ... that future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her
divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan
6c ... that the property of Sjøholmen in Bærum, Norway, started out as a farm,
was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school where children are
taught to be mariners
6c ... that during his study of the palm family, Harold E. Moore collected all but 18 of
the approximately 200 genera of palms, and earned membership in The Explorers
Club
6c ... that the Galápagos hotspot, located in the east Pacific Ocean, is responsible for
the creation of the Galápagos Islands
6c ... that association footballer Mikkel Diskerud played both for and against
the United States national youth team in the spring of 2008
6c ... that Konstantin Danzas ^ was arrested for his role as Russian
poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel with d'Anthès and sentenced
to hanging
6c ... that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom
and
species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data
from north European (
6c ... that Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky, at the time Ambassador of the Russian
Empire to the Austrian Empire, commissioned three string
quartets fromBeethoven
6c ... that in 1709, Ninguta, an important center of commerce, provided government-
sponsored ginseng-harvesting expeditions
6c ... that Native American sculptor Willard Stone became a master wood
carver despite an accidental explosion that cost him his right thumb and
two fingers when he was 13 years old
6c ... that the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's
Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences
of Auschwitz
6c ... that Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to
receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards
6c ... that footballer Chic Brodie's professional career ended when he collided with a
dog on the playing field
6c ... that Gerhard Schøning's ^ historical research papers documented travel
through Norway in 1773²1775, becoming a "minor travel classic"
6c ... that of the 55 miles (89 km) of railways on the Isle of Wight inherited by British
Railways in 1948, only 14 miles (23 km) are in use today
6c ... that "$ ? / " said that trumpeter Stephen Burns "uses
his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias"
6c ... that the willow-leaved cotoneaster, Ñ
, is a woody plant
which is native to Western China, with over 30 cultivars which range from
tinygroundcovers to large shrubs
6c ... that in 1953, Christen Gran Bøgh administered the inaugural Bergen
International Festival
6c ... that the PlayStation Portable video game &
7 *0 Y. had a
shorter development cycle than the film it was based on
6c ... that footballer Bob Wilson was the last player to captain the original Accrington
Stanley club in a professional match
6c ... that each city council in the Philippines has a sectoral representative for women
6c ... that natural interbreeding between the banded stingaree ^ and
the yellowback stingaree represent one of the few known cases
of hybridization incartilaginous fishes
6c ... that Oregon radio station KBZY is the flagship station for the Salem-Keizer
Volcanoes of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball
6c ... that Sir Ronald Holmes, the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, made no
compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city
6c ... that video game )
%'s theme of slaying cute creatures was inspired
by the short story â$
Ñ
by Jhonen Vasquez
6c ... that Debbie Kruger based her 2005 book !
! on interviews with
songwriters when publicising the 2001 Top 30 Australian songs list for the at
the APRA Awards
6c ... that the McClellan Committee served 8,000 subpoenas, took testimony from
1,526 witnesses (343 of whom invoked the Fifth Amendment), and compiled almost
150,000 pages of evidence
6c ... that Gerhard Gran was appointed professor in the history of literature at
the University of Kristiania in 1899, despite there being remarks about "the holes
present in his knowledge"
6c ... that the 1933 film %
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is about three Americans in Paris and their
risqué 6
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6c ... that Daniel Thompson, poet laureate of Cuyahoga County, published work in
the street newspaper 2 +
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6c ... that the Ruby Cycle Co Ltd was bankrupted when a large motorcycle order from
the Imperial Russian Army was stopped by the Russian Revolution
6c ... that former Houston Astro Craig Biggio won his first Silver Slugger Award as
a catcher before winning four at second base
6c ... that young escapees from a military police boot camp in Serei Saophoan
District, Cambodia, are beaten by other residents when they are recaptured
6c ... that while commonly found in central California, & can sometimes
be found at the campus of Stanford University under the eucalyptus located there
6c ... that despite being a professor of Finno-Ugric languages, Knut Bergsland spent
his final years studying the unrelated language Aleut
6c ... that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper + " relocated from New
York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following
the February Revolution
6c ... that the development of %
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, an expansion for
the computer game ?
?$, was coordinated mostly over Skype
6c ... that the clade mesangiosperms ^ , representing one of four major clades
of flowering plants, contains 99.95% of flowering plant species
6c ... that after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny, his successor Wen
Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice
6c ... that Laura Wilson's 2004 novel "$ # is a fictionalized account of Gordon
Cummins, a British airman turned serial killer who began murdering prostitutes in
London during World War II
6c ... that while Northman and Waltheof were ealdormen in
northern Northumbria, Bamburgh was sacked by the Viking king Óláfr Tryggvason
6c ... that paper locals, which can be used to extort money from employers or
secure sweetheart contracts, are denounced by the AFL-CIO Code of Ethical
Practices
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty general Zhang Hongjing exhumed the bodies of the Anshi
Rebellion leaders An Lushan and Shi Siming and destroyed their caskets
6c ... that "New Boss" is the first of six episodes of the U.S. version of "$ :
with
appearances by "$ actor Idris Elba
6c ... that the rules of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna forbade
mentioning any country or conflict by name, and instead human rights had to be
discussed in the abstract
6c ... that radio stations WHOW and WEZC broadcast from a "big red
barn" ^ just south of Clinton, Illinois
6c ... that pianist Mona Golabek wrote a book about her mother's experience as part of
the Kindertransport, a mission to rescue children threatened by the Nazis
6c ... that only two of the seven non-Soviet ruling Communist political parties in the
Eastern Bloc used the word "Communist" in their names when they were first
established
6c ... that Leslie George Katz founded the Eakins Press, which printed a number of
books by his wife Jane Mayhall, using funds from the sale of several Thomas
Eakins paintings that Katz's father had secretly collected
6c ... that â
reported comedian Ellie Kemper is set to take on the
role of Dunder Mifflin receptionist in NBC's U.S. version of "$ :
6c ... that in 2007, internet users in Slovenia had the highest Firefox use rate
among European countries
6c ... that Robert Tills was the first American naval officer killed during the Battle of
the Philippines, and had a ship named in his honor
6c ... that if the beak-like rostrum on Ñ
is broken off, it will regrow
itself
6c ... that all six species of the genus â ^ of parrots are native to
only Indonesia
6c ... that the 1948 All-America team was the first to include separate offensive and
defensive college football teams
6c ... that Alberto Cavos designed and rebuilt Bolshoi Theatres³one in Saint
Petersburg and one in Moscow
6c ... that Grace Kelly made her screen debut in )
2, a 1951 film about a
man contemplating suicide
6c ... that the postponement of the 2000 PBA All-Filipino Cup series
between Purefoods TJ Giants and Tanduay Rhum Masters was the first one that
was not for atyphoon, earthquake or bomb threat
6c ... that the Ñ
8 Ñ
. series has three main factions: The Global Defence
Initiative, the Brotherhood of Nod and the Scrin
6c ... that London's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway was built at the
start of the 20th century, from parts of three other railways' routes
6c ... that even though he had inherited a fortune, the "millionaire hobo" James Eads
How chose to live as a homeless vagrant
6c ... that the harefoot mushroom ^ lasts only a few hours before
its gills dissolve into a black liquid
6c ... that Arthur W. Ryder taught the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit to J. Robert
Oppenheimer, who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at
theTrinity nuclear test explosion
6c ... that the first SS class blimp entered service on 18 March 1915, fewer than three
weeks after work began on it
6c ... that the Fifth Avenue Theatre became the first air-conditioned theatre in the
world in 1877
6c ... that Sir Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, chief of Clan Scott, survived
the Battles of Flodden and Pinkie Cleugh only to be murdered in the High
Street of Edinburgh in 1552
6c ... that the Ñ$
!
once described radio station KSLM (now KVXX)
in Salem, Oregon, as "a barricade holding questionable advertising material from
the ears of listeners"
6c ... that Captain George Murray led Nelson's fleet at the attack on Copenhagen using
knowledge he had gained from surveying the area a decade earlier
6c ... that the founders of the Pipeline, an early internet service provider, got together
because of a shared interest in bridge
6c ... that Michigan, France, and the United States have all sued for claim to the ´holy
grailµ of Great Lakes shipwrecks, French explorer La Salle·s ship #
+
6c ... that ?
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^ , a bird's nest fungus in the genus ?,
produces a chemical that is a major component of raspberry flavor
6c ... that two of cellist Jeffrey Solow's recordings were nominated for a Grammy
Award
6c ... that Operation Bringing Home the Goods was launched by Israel to
capture Palestinian prisoners in Jericho to make sure they were not released
6c ... that the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai got its name from Job
Charnock, the founder of Kolkata, whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St.
Thomas Mount
6c ... that Glenn Sundby, a co-founder of what is now USA Gymnastics, appeared
in Y 1 : ?' after walking down all 898 steps of the Washington
Monument on his hands
6c ... that the collectivization of agriculture in the Eastern Bloc economies was less
violent and disruptive than it had been in the Soviet Union
6c ... that golfer Jane Park reached the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur
Championship in 2003 and 2004, and won the latter event
6c ... that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one
of &
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as a sign of a resurgent
interest inanarchist philosophy
6c ... that the Illinois Centennial Monument ^ is a marble Doric column built
to scale with the columns of the Parthenon
6c ... that baritone William Dooley performed the title role in the world premiere
of Marcel Mihalovici's one character opera #
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in 1961
6c ... that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator 2 was thought to be a
number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was
reconstructed in March 2009
6c ... that Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical
Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
6c ... that one year after a fire damaged Lausanne Hall at Willamette University,
the dormitory had to be evacuated due to a suspicious package
6c ... that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro
active in Russia during the civil war, one in the Bolshevik government and the
other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it
6c ... that Asad Ali Khan, one of a few remaining rudra veena players, was awarded the
Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008
6c ... that
magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song "The Heart
of Rock & Roll" one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"
6c ... that George A. Steel ^ was elected as Oregon State Treasurer after his
company went bankrupt
6c ... that although the name "Joni" was retired after the 1992²93 South Pacific
cyclone season by the WMO, it remained on the naming lists to be used again
for Cyclone Joni (2009)
6c ... that Carter Brey was appointed the principal cellist of the New York
Philharmonic in 1996
6c ... that the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon may be a hybrid species of
the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon
6c ... that former American football linebacker Craig Sauer has three brothers who
have played professional ice hockey
6c ... that murri, an Arabic condiment akin to soy sauce, is made from barley dough
allowed to ferment for 40 days
6c ... that the long jumper Fred Salle originally represented England in international
competitions, then changed allegiance to Cameroon before returning to England
some years later
6c ... that original $
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television as a news reporter for &" "
6c ... that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas mentioned the National Natural
Landmarked Sunfish Pond ^ in his dissenting opinion in the ! Ñ, 7
case
6c ... that the son of Sultan Ali of Johor, Tengku Alam Shah, inspired the Jementah
Civil War in 1879 after he failed to claim inheritance of his father's territory at
Kessang
6c ... that KNOE-FM, founded in 1967 by former Governor of Louisiana James A. Noe,
was one of five stations in Louisiana that Noe named for himself
6c ... that when Bobby Folds joined Gillingham F.C. in 1966, he became the club's
first ever apprentice-professional footballer
6c ... that with the winning Audi R15 TDI averaging a speed of 117.986 mph
(189.880 km/h), the 2009 running was the fastest 12 Hours of Sebring in its
history
6c ... that Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of "$ 2
from
1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil
servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar
6c ... that the 1957²1958 CBS sitcom 7 &
â featured Howard
Duff and Ida Lupino, then married to each other in real life, as a fictitious
husband/wife acting duo living inBeverly Hills
6c ... that after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic, Nazi General Arno
von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism" in 1949
6c ... that the Bjørvika Tunnel, financed through Oslo Package 1, will allow urban
renewal of Bjørvika ^ and Sørengautstikkeren by HAV Eiendom, as part of
the Fjord City in Norway
6c ... that the 16-volume series of theatre history books, "$ #
!, by J. P.
Wearing has been called "invaluable, thoroughly accurate" and "a proverbial mine
of useful information"
6c ... that the Miami Hurricanes won 26 Big East Conference football awards in the
14 years they belonged to the conference (1991²2004)
6c ... that Indian social worker and 2009 Padma Bhushan awardee, Sarojini
Varadappan is a daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras, M. Bhaktavatsalam
6c ... that the &
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ü
is allegedly read every month by half of
the 1 million lawyers in the United States
6c ... that Polish writer Henryk Rzewuski fought for Poland's independence in 1809
but later collaborated with the Russian Imperial Viceroy of the Kingdom of
Poland, Ivan Paskevich
6c ... that in 1960, the CBS anthology series "$ %*
!$ $ ü
&
featured Harpo Marx in the role of a deaf mute who witnesses a gangland
murder
6c ... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Quan Deyu was said to be able to write poetry at
age three
6c ... that one ethnographic source suggests that the Zombie palm, ,
^ , a native of the island of Hispaniola, can be used to
awaken zombies or protect against their spying
6c ... that American architect Edward Brickell White contributed designs for buildings
for five National Historic Landmarks and three on the National Register of Historic
Places in South Carolina
6c ... that Romain Gary's 1970 fictional memoir $ %, originally released as Ñ$
, attacks Marlon Brando and Jean Seberg for their activist activities in the
1960s
6c ... that when Dorothea Holt Redmond was hired in 1938 in the "heretofore
exclusively male field" of film production design, male co-workers demanded that
she work in an area separated from them
6c ... that French submarine % was sunk by German submarine Ô4F in May 1940,
after being ordered to sortie with significant damage, rendering it unable to dive
6c ... that crew chief Drew Blickensderfer helped driver Matt Kenseth become the fifth
driver to start a NASCAR season with back-to-back wins
6c ... that the building of the Festning Tunnel made it possible to
turn Rådhusplassen, Oslo into a car-free square
6c ... that George Hedges, a lawyer who represented Hollywood stars and studios, was
part of an archaeological team that discovered the remains of the
ancient frankincense trading city of Ubar
6c ... that the white bird's nest mushroom Ñ, ^ produces a
chemical that inhibits an enzyme implicated in the formation of cataracts in
individuals with diabetes mellitus
6c ... that flautist Eugenia Zukerman has been the Classical Music Correspondent
for Ñ! ? !
since 1980
6c ... that the original Liberty ship was designed by the owners of J.L. Thompson and
Sons shipyard in Sunderland
6c ... that Charles Scribner II's country house in Cornwall, New York, combined
a Shingle Style exterior with a Colonial Revival interior
6c ... that after being imprisoned for allegedly leading Islamic
militants in Azerbaijan, Ahmad Salama Mabruk began leading a new militant group
within prison
6c ... that when the Vika Line opened in 1995, it was the first new street line of
the Oslo Tramway since 1939
6c ... that politician Warren Tolman ran a campaign for governor of
Massachusetts while suing to implement the state's Clean Elections law
6c ... that ! )$ character Rufus has been listed as 12th on +%'s
"Top 25 Most Bizarre Fighting Characters" list
6c ... that galbitang ^ , a Korean soup made from beef short ribs called ,, is
a representative dish served at wedding receptions in South Korea
6c ... that the future of newspapers in the United States is in doubt: as of 2005, an
estimated 70 percent of older Americans read a newspaper daily, while fewer than
20 percent of younger Americans did
6c ... that Kristian Kristiansen's main literary work is a trilogy about a boy growing up
in an orphanage in the late 1600s
6c ... that the and , of the Dutch Batavier Line, were captured,
released, and later sunk by four different submarines
6c ... that, fourteen years after the release of their debut album, heavy metal band Iced
Earth charted on the , 200 for the first time
6c ... that the 1908 &
$ Ñ # was the first
journal of comparative law in the United States
6c ... that British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be
on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings
6c ... that the mockumentary Y â. is the most viewed ! video
on YouTube
6c ... that Mount Triumph ^ in North Cascades National Park is well-known
among regional climbers for its lack of easy climbing routes
6c ... that the father and son combination Cecil Fielder and Prince Fielder each won
a Silver Slugger Award at first base
6c ... that a Fairey Swordfish from HMS &$ was the first aircraft ever to land
on Ascension Island
6c ... that Sultan Ali of Johor signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong
which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over Johor
6c ... that, according to the &
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Ñ$
, the eldest son of Earl Siward of
Northumbria, Osbeorn, died in battle against King Macbeth of Scotland in 1054
6c ... that in 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in % 7
that it was
acceptable to prohibit religious polygamists from voting
6c ... that a sub-marine eruption near the Hunga Tonga-Hunga
Ha apai volcano in Tonga began spewing steam, smoke, pumice, and ash
thousands of feet into the sky on March 16, 2009
6c ... that the Borromeo String Quartet uses laptops instead of paper sheet
music when they perform
6c ... that the 6th-century St. Augustine Gospels ( ) is the oldest
surviving illustrated Latin Gospel book, but is still regularly used
6c ... that in the early 20th century there were two American newspapers called 2,
?, one published by the IBWA, a mutual aid society for migratory workers
6c ... that Kyryl Studynsky was among the first academics to protest against
the Holodomor
6c ... that writer-director Joel Hopkins made # Ñ$
2 to recreate the
chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a
theatre production
6c ... that the history of the Oslo Tramway started with the construction of
a horsecar line to Homansbyen in 1875
6c ... that Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina, is a Gothic
revival church designed to resemble York Minster
6c ... that the discovery of feather-like structures on the
primitive dinosaur "
raises the possibility that ancestral dinosaurs were
feathered
6c ... that the !$ * episode "The Coon" spoofs such dark comic book movies
as "$ %
$, "$ ! and $
6c ... that the Cairo International Book Fair ^ is the oldest and largest book
fair in the Arab world
6c ... that the U2 song "Magnificent" was originally titled "French Disco"
6c ... that Adolf Pilch, Polish resistance fighter trained by SOE during WWII, fought
against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
6c ... that after the September 11 attacks, Korean Air Lines Flight 85 accidentally sent
out a hijack signal
6c ... that Indian historian V. Kanakasabhai, who was the first to attempt a
systematic chronology of Tamils, was of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry
6c ... that the PSP video game
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uses the PSP's
internal clock to continually train the player's monsters, even when the console is
not in use
6c ... that child actor Johnny Washbrook, though educated at two London art
academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts
6c ... that # ü
, a French comics magazine first published in 1934, is
credited with "the birth of the modern bande dessinée"
6c ... that the USCGC Ñ ^ was rammed by the marijuana-smuggling ship
MV *
!, which was scuttled by its crew
6c ... that Chinese American sculptor Hai Ying Wu's work includes the Fallen Fire
Fighters Memorial in Seattle and the Auto-Lite Strike Memorial in Toledo, Ohio
6c ... that the Straits Lumber mill at the ghost town of Red Gap, British Columbia was
once the largest in the Pacific Northwest
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fan sought to dissuade Emperor
Xianzong from seeking immortality by citing the failed examples of Qin Shi
Huang,Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang
6c ... that the Database Console Commands are a set of Transact-SQL statements
used to check the consistency of a Microsoft SQL Server database
6c ... that mezzo-soprano Stephanie Novacek created roles in the premieres of two
important operas, the role of Maria Callas in Daugherty's ü : and the role of
heroine Jo March in Adamo's #
6c ... that Sandomierz Voivodeship (1939), a proposed administrative unit of
the Second Polish Republic, was projected to be 24,500 km and to incorporate 20
or 21 powiats
6c ... that when only given enough money to paint half his ship, John
Phillimore protested by asking the Navy Board which half they wished him to paint
6c ... that all the Dukes of Courland are buried in Jelgava Palace ^
6c ... that one episode of the western TV series )
) depicts 26th U.S.
President Theodore Roosevelt, played by Frank Albertson, trying to halt a range
war
6c ... that sentences with reduced relative clauses, such as $ $ $
,
, can lead you down a garden path
6c ... that Sweden could have been represented in the Eurovision Song Contest
2009 with the Greek song "Alla"
6c ... that the )
$ + #, with semi-nude figures, was not dedicated
until after Chicago changed its obscenity laws for public art in 1913
6c ... that Martin Knowlton conceived the Elderhostel concept, in which senior citizens
take college-level courses in the summer, to overcome "the disturbing concept that
people are all used up after age 65"
6c ... that
goes by the common name of "Porcupine Banksia"
6c ... that in the first eight years after 2 + was published in mainland China,
the number of Chinese applicants to Harvard increased tenfold
6c ... that the woman depicted in the painting &
^ was
one of artist Thomas Eakins' most gifted students
6c ... that % Ñ (1954²1955) was the first miniseries in the history
of television, although the term "miniseries" had not yet been coined
6c ... that according to the -$ "
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, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Pei Ji raised
the assessed value of goods to avoid undue tax burden on people who paid taxes
with goods
6c ... that St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British
overseas territory of Gibraltar
6c ... that the first textbook in Hungarian, an encyclopedia by János Apáczai Csere,
was written and published in The Netherlands
6c ... that the jilted bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who is buried in Camperdown
Cemetery, may have been the model for Charles Dickens' reclusive Miss Havisham
6c ... that Chilkat weaving, a traditional technique of indigenous
peoples of Alaska and British Columbia, is so complex that it may take a year to
weave a blanket
6c ... that Trooper Patrick Fowler spent most of World War One hiding in
a wardrobe in German-occupied France
6c ... that "
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, the Japanese cicada, makes a melancholy
sound ^( $ after sunset, when the temperature has dropped, or when it
becomes cloudy
6c ... that during the 2008²09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball
season, Wooden, Naismith, and Robertson Award committees all selected
different Big Tenplayers for their midseason top candidates lists
6c ... that the Antelope Ground, Southampton was the first home of both Hampshire
County Cricket Club and of Southampton Football Club
6c ... that in 1905, Edmund Harbitz declined to join the cabinet of his former law
firm partner Christian Michelsen
6c ... that the edibility of the small woodland mushroom & is disputed,
with some sources claiming edibility and others warning of gastrointestinal
discomfort
6c ... that the main house at Brykill Farms in Gardiner, New York, was expanded in a
similar style and material 200 years after the first section was built
6c ... that +
failed to win any prize at the 4th British Academy Video
Games Awards, even though it was nominated for six
6c ... that, despite wrestling alongside each other for years and holding a tag
team championship together, brothers Mark Starr and Chris Champion used
different last names
6c ... that Native Americans occupied the Rogue River around the Rogue River
Ranch ^ over 9,000 years before European settlers arrived
6c ... that when Per Øisang hosted the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's election
debates in the early 1960s, the questioning of politicians was conducted by other
politicians
6c ... that Faith Lutheran College, Redlands was the first independent Christian school
opened in the Redlands Shire, South East Queensland
6c ... that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team
All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008²09
Big Ten Conference men's basketball season
6c ... that the porch of Macclesfield Castle in Macclesfield, dating from the reign
of English King Henry II and the only standing part of the castle, was replaced by
cottages and shops in 1932
6c ... that judge and law school dean George G. Bingham was once the coroner
for Yamhill County, Oregon
6c ... that Australian Made, a 1987 concert tour promoting "Good Times" and
the mateship of nine local acts, was headlined by INXS and ended with
two band managers coming to blows
6c ... that James Beach was selected to run for the Camden County, New Jersey Board
of Chosen Freeholders after appearing at a candidate recruitment interview
complaining and waving his tax bill
6c ... that after the Battle of Glenmama in the Wicklow Mountains ^ in
999, Brian Boru's Munster forces occupied the city of Dublin for over a week
6c ... that Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and
translated select writings of Procopius, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, and John
Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian
6c ... that the "Golden Ticket" episode of the U.S. version of "$ :
6c ... that Orion P. Howe ^ was awarded the Medal of Honor for his childhood
service as a Union Army drummer boy during the American Civil War
6c ... that the blind cave beetle # $$
, originally discovered in 1831
in the Postojna cave system, was the first animal to be recognized as a true cave
dweller
6c ... that excavations at Locust Grove in Dillwyn, Virginia, revealed the grave of
an infant in the kitchen garden
6c ... that Hulda Garborg was co-founder of Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, which was
established in 1912
6c ... that Hudson Stuck, who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley's
South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits
in Alaska
6c ... that India's S. Srinivasa Iyengar resigned as Advocate-General of Madras
Presidency and returned his Order of the Indian Empire in protest against
the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
6c ... that Laurelwood Academy moved to Eugene, Oregon, after 103 years
in Laurelwood, Oregon, but did not change its name
6c ... that 17th-century baronet Sir Thomas Peniston received £50 per year as a
member of the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, and that his wife,
Martha, was the Earl's mistress
6c ... that according to legend, clams casino ^ , a dish that is popular
with Italian-Americans, was first created in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 1917
6c ... that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac
Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of
Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages
6c ... that the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning was an inspiration for Bernard
Osher's funding Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes for adults over age 50 at over
120 universities and colleges
6c ... that it was at the urging of Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Jifu that Emperor
Xianzong ordered that husbands be found for imperial princes' daughters
6c ... that the 2007 video game !
$ Ñ$ contains nearly 10,000 words in the
game's dictionary that the player can learn
6c ... that Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for
her role in
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, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era
6c ... that the Association of Polish Artists and Designers was disbanded by the Polish
military authorities for opposing the 1981 imposition of martial law in communist
Poland
6c ... that American Summit in Alaska is the location of what has been called one of
the most remote liquor stores in the world
6c ... that even though the Mammoth Cave system has passages directly
beneath Great Onyx Cave ^ , they have never been connected
6c ... that the 1916 children's novel ü % was the second in a series of four
consecutive bestsellers in the United States for Eleanor H. Porter
6c ... that in the Battle of Lalakaon in 863 AD, three Byzantine armies, marching from
different directions, converged on time to surround an Arab army
6c ... that Darby Hinton, who played Fess Parker's son on NBC's %
, as an
infant lost his father in a plane crash but remains close to Parker nearly 40 years
after the series ended
6c ... that during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven
Chu, Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from "$ )
0 &
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6c ... that the Kikuchi samurai clan was descended from the royal family of the Korean
kingdom of Baekje
6c ... that Nolan Bushnell, founder of both &
and Ñ$ â7 Ñ$1 *--4"
"$, was made a fellow of BAFTA at the 5th British Academy Video Games
Awards
6c ... that the Islamic Cultural Center of New York ^ , which opened in 1991,
was the first purpose-built mosque in New York City
6c ... that Norwegian surrealist poet Triztán Vindtorn changed his first name into the
name of his favorite pub
6c ... that, in the 1999 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament, the Loyola
Greyhounds under head coach Dave Cottle became the only first-seeded team ever
to be eliminated before the semifinals
6c ... that Allah Bux Soomro, Premier of Sindh, renounced his OBE and the title
of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of
India during the Quit India Movement
6c ... that the Gable Mansion is one of the last Victorian Italianate mansions of its
style, size, and proportion in California
6c ... that Lawrence Herkimer invented the cheerleading jump known as the herkie by
accident while a cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in the 1940s
6c ... that Swedish writer, photographer, film maker, and artist Jan Lindblad kept
two Bengal tigers as pets
6c ... that Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry
on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles
6c ... that after losing the 1962 race for governor of California, Richard
Nixon ^ held what he called his "last press conference" promising the media
that "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more"
6c ... that during World War II, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works under the management
of Charles E. Moore built one 137-ton Liberty ship engine every 40.8 hours
6c ... that the first and so far the only mathematics paper by Bill Gates was published
in % $ in 1979
6c ... that the little skate pushes itself along the sea floor using a pair of leg-
like fin lobes, a mode of locomotion known as "punting"
6c ... that record label manager TobyMac pulled his car over to the side of the road
when he first heard Christian hip hop artist B. Reith's music
6c ... that Dadabhai Naoroji Road in South Mumbai, starting in Crawford Market and
leading to Flora Fountain at its south end, is studded with neoclassical-
and Gothic-style buildings of the 19th century
6c ... that the indie video game +
+
adapts the FPS " ) into
a 2D shooter game with 8-bit graphics
6c ... that salsa music promoter Ralph Mercado got his start with "waistline parties",
live music events where women paid based on their waist size (thinner women paid
less) and Mercado measuring at the door
6c ... that marks remain on the Sloat House ^ in Sloatsburg, New York, from
the accidental shooting death of John D. Sloat's father, who became the first burial
in Old Sloatsburg Cemetery
6c ... that Lou Reed said "I knew I was in the presence of an angel" after hearing
the Antony and the Johnsons song "Cripple and the Starfish"
6c ... that &
$ $$
is a species of semi-
terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics
6c ... that John Dyneley Prince, who later served as U.S. Ambassador
to Denmark and Yugoslavia, learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which
helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp
6c ... that Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yin opposed issuance of commissions
for eunuch commandants on hemp paper, saying it was reserved for commissions
of imperial princes andchancellors
6c ... that the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the
Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname 1
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6c ... that Doris Abrahams started producing on Broadway as a teenager and co-
produced the Tony Award-winning â. with Kermit Bloomgarden
6c ... that the recently discovered dracula fish lost its teeth then re-evolved a set of
bony fangs from its jawbone
6c ... that Lac de Monteynard Avignonet, a lake in the French Alps, has a 220-metre
(720 ft) long, 85-metre (279 ft) high simple suspension bridge ^ for non-
motorized use
6c ... that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley
Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National
Congress
6c ... that in the Philippines, double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of
disease, which is sold for human consumption
6c ... that Tom Coughlin, head coach of the New York Giants, founded the Jay
Fund charity to honor Jay McGillis, a player Coughlin coached at Boston
College who died of leukemia
6c ... that after Tang Dynasty general Wu Chongyin died, his officers cut off and
burned the flesh from their thighs as a sacrifice to him
6c ... that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's 1936 recording of "Indian Love Call"
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 72 years later
6c ... that Charles S. Lieber's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused
by alcohol, not malnutrition
6c ... that a date stone beetle virgin will have sex with her first son to
reach maturity before eating him and all of his brothers
6c ... that the pineapplefish ^ is also known as the "port-and-starboard light
fish", because the two luminescent organs on its head resemble ship navigation
lights
6c ... that the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located
in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada
6c ... that the 2009 book Ô
) argues that bans on gays in the military were
based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data
6c ... that during their first football game against Yale in 1884, the Dartmouth Big
Green were routed, 113²0
6c ... that Indian National Congress politician and member of Indian parliament P.
Thanulinga Nadar was a leader of Hindu nationalist organisation Hindu
Munnani in his later years
6c ... that George Frideric Handel's cantata â #
was first published in 1999,
292 years after it was composed
6c ... that the assassins of the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wu Yuanheng decapitated
him and took his head with them
6c ... that the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, known for annually
returning egrets and herons, has not had any return since 2000
6c ... that Royal Navy frigate HMS Ñ was captured by the French in 1794, but
was retaken ^ just 20 days later
6c ... that Jim Cramer's appearance on "$ % !$ $ ü
! led to "$
% !$ website's highest day of traffic in 2009
6c ... that the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive is part of a series of "forgotten
operations", almost completely ignored by Soviet archives and historiography
6c ... that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard's Cape
Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business
boomed
6c ... that the term Rock of Israel was the subject of controversy just hours before the
promulgation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
6c ... that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry called the western entertainer Eddie Dean the
best cowboy singer of all time
6c ... that in the Battle of Barnet, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick was fighting
for Henry VI, whom he formerly deposed, and against Edward IV, whom he had
helped to gain the throne
6c ... that Julien's Auctions sold ! " star William Shatner's kidney
stone for US$25,000
6c ... that Jasper Cropsey may have helped design the Jacob Sloat
House ^ in Sloatsburg, New York, which combines the Greek
Revival and Picturesquearchitectural styles
6c ... that Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison
6c ... that the German +$
division, located 50 miles (80 km) east
of Târgu Frumos, repelled three Soviet divisions and recaptured the town 48 hours
after receiving its initial order
6c ... that Robert E. A. Lee was executive producer of & "
, a cinéma
vérité documentary about efforts to bridge race relations among Lutherans
in Omaha, Nebraska
6c ... that YF, an R23X class airship, recorded the only success by any British
wartime rigid airship when she took part in the sinking of German submarine Ô4
G in 1918
6c ... that New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in
the history of hip-hop
6c ... that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc,
underground distribution of clandestine information became common
6c ... that in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P.
Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult
in Louisiana
6c ... that the Triumph Tiger Daytona motorcycle ^ was named after Buddy
Elmore's win in the 1966 Daytona 200, Triumph's first Daytona victory
6c ... that when footballer Morten Knutsen left Odd Grenland due to persistent injury
problems, he joined FK Arendal, only to immediately sustain another injury
6c ... that most of the 156 episodes of the 1950s series "$ Ñ were filmed in
color, more than a decade before color television became common
6c ... that having suffered a stroke in 1972, neuroanatomist Alf Brodal published the
article !
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journal
in 1973
6c ... that in the last 50 years, 17 championships have been retired by
current professional wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment
6c ... that Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down
10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942
6c ... that New Jersey's Pigeon Swamp State Park, named for 18th-century landowner
Ann Pidgeon, was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct
in the early 20th century
6c ... that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served
in honey, but its power to extinguish fires was a myth
6c ... that Tecumseh's Confederation began as a nativist religious movement led
by Tecumseh's brother Tenskwatawa ^ , a Shawnee witch hunter
6c ... that six idols from the Sivagurunathaswamy temple in Sivapuram, India, were
secretly smuggled out of the country in the 1950s
6c ... that from 1963 to 1991, only four nations³
Canada, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the Soviet Union³won medals at the Ice
Hockey World Championships
6c ... that Frederick Stokes captained the England rugby team in the first ever
international rugby match in 1871
6c ... that Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church in South Carolina has one of the
oldest congregations in continuous service
6c ... that when cut, the poisonous mushroom # $$ bleeds white
milk which quickly turns sulphur-yellow
6c ... that in 1892, future I.C.C. commissioner Henry C. Hall was journeying
to California for his health, but stopped off in Colorado and liked it so much he
settled there
6c ... that the cult of Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent deity, was the
first Mesoamerican religion to transcend earlier linguistic and ethnic divisions
6c ... that at 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), Rex White ^ is the smallest person to
ever win a NASCAR championship
6c ... that Australian thriller
Y
1 + was an early film by director Rolf
de Heer, who would go on to make the AFI Award-winning "
Ñ
6c ... that the twenty-four Liebherr T282B trucks at Barrick Gold's Cortez Gold
Mine account for 10% of that model's sales worldwide
6c ... that the brownsnout spookfish is the only vertebrate known to use a mirror to
focus an image in its eye
6c ... that the Saginaw Trail's name comes from the Ojibwe word for "where
the Sauk were"
6c ... that in 1697 French Huguenot refugee Élie Bouhéreau brought church records
from La Rochelle to Ireland to save them from destruction, and they remained there
for nearly 200 years
6c ... that Barry Bonds has won 12 Silver Slugger Awards in his career as
an outfielder in Major League Baseball
6c ... that over time, comets expel most of the volatile material from their nuclei and
become extinct comets, small asteroid-like lumps of rubble
6c ... that Józef Turowski's groundbreaking book about the World War II massacres of
Poles in Volhynia ^ was published only after the collapse of the Soviet
Union
6c ... that the Wild Rugby Academy, formed in 2007, aims to enable Germany to
participate in the 2015 Rugby World Cup
6c ... that Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs covered the Jape song "Floating", from
the album "$
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, without the band's
permission
6c ... that the three drunken Wierix
brothers of Antwerp influenced Ethiopian iconography
6c ... that for the first four decades of its existence, the altar of the Reformed Dutch
Church in Bloomingburg, New York, was on the same end as the main entrance
6c ... that Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an
embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film "$ *
,
6c ... that Sara Christian had the highest female finish in the history of NASCAR's top
series at the 1949 Heidelberg Raceway event
6c ... that the Performing Garage, an off-Broadway theater, was never actually
a garage
6c ... that from the 1860s, the New Zealand government established a network
of castaway depots ^( on their sub-antarctic islands for the use of
shipwreck survivors
6c ... that Major General George F. Hopkinson was the only British airborne general to
be killed during the Second World War
6c ... that Junkie XL's
/ was released by a joint
venture between game developer EA and music company Nettwerk
6c ... that in 1996, the Kinjo family sued Lori Padilla for ¥62 million
(US$580,000) blood money after a car Padilla was driving killed three of their family
members inOkinawa
6c ... that the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program searched Florida's Lake
Crescent for the wreckage of &, a paddle steamer used by
archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore
6c ... that Hew Pike was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his "cool example
and inspiring leadership" during a fierce battle in the 1982 Falklands War
6c ... that the Centre College Praying Colonels participated in the first game
of American football played south of the Ohio River in 1880
6c ... that when refused leave to go to London with the order that he could only travel
as far on land as he could get in his barge, Captain Henry Paulet put the barge on a
cart and went anyway
6c ... that the recently discovered Cobbe portrait ^ may be one of only
two portraits of William Shakespeare done from life
6c ... that Adolph Diesterweg, a German educationist, is sometimes credited as
originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"
6c ... that the viral video !
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portrays $
character Rorschach as a friend to the animals
6c ... that Desiderius Erasmus knew three unrelated people called Jacob Faber
6c ... that Bengaluru Pete, established by Kempegowda I in 1537 with roads laid
in cardinal directions with entrance gates at the end of each road, is an integral
part of the present-day Bangalore, India
6c ... that Chris Mullin was named the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of
the Year three consecutive times from 1983 to 1985
6c ... that the Oslo Tramway reached its greatest length with the opening of the Sinsen
Line in 1939
6c ... that when the German U-boat Ô4H sank the neutral Dutch ocean
liner ",
in March 1916, one of the German excuses was that the torpedo had
been fired ten days before and just happened to hit the ship
6c ... that anethole, cause of the ouzo effect ^ in anise-flavored alcoholic
beverages, yields a derivative drug that may be used in novel self-microemulsifying
drug delivery systems
6c ... that the New York Philharmonic featured cellist Lorne Munroe as a soloist more
than 150 times
6c ... that L-form bacteria are regarded either as insignificant laboratory curiosities, or
important but unappreciated causes of disease
6c ... that triple quartets from Finland's oldest choir Akademiska
Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki
6c ... that the American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for
discovering the concept ofMRI
6c ... that the Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb, was a
scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military
6c ... that the album Y by Jape recently won the Choice Music Prize
6c ... that Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as
the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey
6c ... that the Cape Kumukahi Light ^ was saved from destruction in the 1960
eruption of Kilauea when the lava flow parted and went to either side of it
6c ... that the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement
in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson's film &
6c ... that the British Council sponsored a "Rock the Referendum" concert for the 2005
Armenian constitutional referendum
6c ... that the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon, starred in a
2008 production of the Ô,
?, his eighth year appearing in the annual
performance
6c ... that the Boulton and Watt steam engine preserved in the Powerhouse
Museum in Sydney, Australia, is the oldest surviving rotative steam engine
6c ... that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer
Prize for History for her book $
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6c ... that British heavy metal band Iron Maiden was nominated in the Best Live
Return category at the 2008 Vodafone Awards, but disagreed with their nomination
and asked to be withdrawn
6c ... that university founder Andrew White prevented the Cornell Big Red football
team from playing Michigan, saying "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles
merely to agitate a bag of wind"
6c ... that the Atlantic stingrays ^ living in St. Johns River, Florida, are the
only permanent freshwater population of cartilaginous fish in North America
6c ... that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok, Russia,
after his opponent was killed by a grenade left outside his office
6c ... that the science fiction novel "
$ ! by Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century
6c ... that Galen T. Porter was a New York City police captain who led the defense of
the NY Draft Office when it was attacked by angry firefighters and mobs during the
1863 New York Draft Riots
6c ... that in &
, the ; book of quotations, Alan Davies wrote the
following proverb: "A small pie is soon eaten"
6c ... that medievalist Knut Helle led the editorial committee of the ten-volume
encyclopedia ? ,
6c ... that Operation Cockade, a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War
II, was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being ´at best a piece of
harmless play actingµ
6c ... that Siward, the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to
have been descended from a polar bear
6c ... that traffic light control and coordination systems include Pegasus
crossings ^ for horse riders
6c ... that Einar Sverdrup, CEO of a Svalbard-based coal mining company, died
during World War II during an attempt to secure Svalbard
6c ... that Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as
the most historic building in the village
6c ... that Romanus, the second Bishop of Rochester, drowned in the Mediterranean
Sea
6c ... that Kathryn Erbe, who had previously played a murderer in :-, was cast
as Det. Alex Eames in the first season of # 8 :0 Ñ
because
producers thought she "just looked like a real cop"
6c ... that 17th-century Hungarian painter Jakob Bogdani highlighted his paintings
with exotic red-coloured birds such as the Scarlet Ibis, Red Avadavat and Northern
Cardinal
6c ... that the Royal Australian Navy's
, class ships can carry two Australian
Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow
6c ... that in 1952, after giving the Checkers Speech, Richard Nixon dictated
a telegram resigning as Eisenhower's running mate, but his campaign
manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent
6c ... that Ireland's 2008 Meteor Awards featured a duet between Sinéad
O'Connor and Mick Pyro and a performance by Gary Lightbody and Lisa
Hannigan ^ of the song "Some Surprise", taken from the self-titled
album of The Cake Sale which was organised by former Bell X1 member Brian
Crosby
6c ... that the black swallower can swallow fishes over twice its length and ten times
its weight
6c ... that the U.S. Senate confirmed Winthrop M. Daniels as an I.C.C.
commissioner by 36²27 after some opposing Democrats voted in favor so as not to
offend PresidentWoodrow Wilson by rejecting his friend
6c ... that the operation of malthouses in the UK were once strictly regulated to comply
with the malt tax
6c ... that American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet
on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"
6c ... that the founder of the artists' group Les Nabis, Paul Sérusier, spent long visits
painting in the Breton village of Châteauneuf-du-Faou
6c ... that traditional performers, the Mulkerrin Brothers from the Aran Islands,
won "$ &
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!$ two days ago
6c ... that the annual Skyfest fireworks display was held at the Rock of
Cashel ^
F5 in County Tipperary in 2008, the first time it was held
outside Dublin
6c ... that Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories
during the Second World War, before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October
1944
6c ... that Damien Dempsey's critically-acclaimed 2005 album, !$, contains a track
called "Saint Patrick's Day"
6c ... that Slovenian graphic designer Miljenko Licul designed two national currencies,
the tolar and (with others) the Slovenian euro coins
6c ... that the 1780 Atlantic hurricane season is the only season to date that had
three hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 deaths each
6c ... that John Penn, the engineer famed for introducing wood bearings for screw-
propeller shafts in steam-powered ships, was also president of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineerson two occasions
6c ... that Fat Cupid died on St. Patrick's Day
6c ... that the 14"/50 caliber railway guns ^ , used in France during World War
I, were created when the U.S. Navy mounted five spare battleship guns on specially-
made railway cars
6c ... that the small farming community of Laurelwood, Oregon, was the site of
four execution-style murders in the 1970s ordered by the Hells Angels
6c ... that the Irish TV series + #9 focused on an incident which
preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan's "thundering disgrace" remarks
and PresidentCearbhall Ó Dálaigh's resignation
6c ... that Yuki Kataoka, a character from the Japanese manga Saki, seems to play
better at mahjong if she eats tacos
6c ... that Brodir and Ospak of Man were two 11th-century Danish brothers who
fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014
6c ... that despite attracting the highest ratings ever for a comedy show debut on BBC
Three, 2
8 Ñ
was described by one critic as, "about as funny as credit
default swaps"
6c ... that the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, established Ireland's
first mint ^
! in the 990s at Dublin
6c ... that "Tomorrow Never Dies", Sheryl Crow's theme song to the James Bond film of
the same name, received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song
6c ... that archaeologist Luigi Pernier, who found the Phaistos Disc, has been accused
of having forged it
6c ... that the TV documentary series :
$ ! $ / # featured
contributions from locals, historians and the Grand Marshall of the 2008 Saint
Patrick's Day parade in Kilkenny, Ireland
6c ... that the Butler's frogfish can hold onto objects with its finger-like pectoral
fin rays
6c ... that though actors James Whitmore and Audra Lindley were divorced in 1979,
the two starred in Tom Cole's 1990 production of &, ", as an elderly couple
identified only as Old Man and Old Woman
6c ... that "$ !
episode "In the Name of the Grandfather", scheduled to debut
on Sky One, will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the
United States
6c ... that, despite being the type species of the genus Ñ
, the colour of the
mushroom Ñ
^ is so dark it is only comparable with
members of other genera
6c ... that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating
the eponymous Beers Criteria, listing prescription medications that may have
negative side effects in older patients
6c ... that during the campaign for the 2007 Bermudan general election a bullet was
mailed to the Premier of Bermuda, Ewart Brown
6c ... that in 1453, John Norman was the first Lord Mayor of London to travel by water
to swear his oath at Westminster, a tradition that continued until 1856
6c ... that ! ?, sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989,
became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide
6c ... that Alfred Madsen, a high-ranking politician in the Norwegian Labour Party,
started his career as a lithographer
6c ... that Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Pictures over a short clip they
placed in front of %$
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, a film based off of his play of the same
name
6c ... that in the indie video game Ñ
&', the eyes of all humans leave their
bodies, fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, taking over
several countries
6c ... that Aleksander Świętochowski ^ was a founder and the leading
ideologist of Polish Positivism
6c ... that the !$ * episode "$ Y
parodies the Jonas Brothers and
the marketing tactics of Walt Disney Company in using the band to
pledge abstinence
6c ... that Jules De Martino of The Ting Tings was once in an indie band called
"Babakoto" who played as a backing group for Bros
6c ... that logarithmic differentiation is a technique used in differential
calculus to differentiate complicated functions by taking the natural logarithm of
both sides of the equation =
(()
6c ... that the medieval citizens of the English town of Oxford called William de
Chesney their alderman before such honorific was in common use
6c ... that at least 212 drawings by Douglas Hamilton illustrate his big game
hunting experiences, forestry operations and Army surveys of new hill
stations in Tamil Nadu, South India, in the mid 1800s
6c ... that Odd Langholm, who started out as a researcher of business administration,
later won recognition for his studies of mediaeval economic thought
6c ... that the whitefin dogfish has light-producing organs on its upper eyelids
6c ... that !
^ was named after the town of "Tingi", now known
as Tangiers, even though the plant has never been found growing there
6c ... that singer Katie White named her group The Ting Tings after a Chinese girl who
worked with her in a boutique
6c ... that the Haldane Reforms of 1906²1912 included the creation of the British
Expeditionary Force and the Territorial Force
6c ... that George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council
of Everett, Massachusetts, in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create
individualized fliers for each voter
6c ... that voters in the 2005 Egyptian constitutional referendum could get free public
transport in Cairo
6c ... that Prussian general Friedrich August Peter von Colomb commanded
the Prussian forces throughout the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848
6c ... that Northern Canada·s Rivière La Roncière had its existence disputed since its
discovery in 1868 by Émile Petitot until J. Keith Fraser determined in the 1950s
that it was actually the Hornaday River
6c ... that the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show featured models Stephanie
Seymour, Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal
6c ... that the Hadwiger conjecture ^ implies that the surface of
any three-dimensional convex body can be illuminated by only eight light sources,
but the best proven bound is that 16 lights are sufficient
6c ... that Richard Pankhurst, founder of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, is the son
of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst
6c ... that a 175-year-old shagbark hickory tree next to the Masten-Quinn
House in Wurtsboro, New York, has helped to date its construction
6c ... that Robert Gentilis graduated from the University of Oxford aged 12 and became
a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, aged 17, below the minimum fellowship age of
18
6c ... that Plasmatron television screens combined rows formed from liquid
crystals with columns formed from plasma cells
6c ... that in the 1770s, Thaddeus Dod became the second minister to settle west of
the Monongahela River and the first to establish a presbytery west of the Allegheny
Mountains
6c ... that the flesh of the mushroom Y
tastes hot, while its smell is
fruity
6c ... that Ernest Trova was best known for )
, a series of works "about man
at his most imperfect" depicting an armless human figure that appeared in
sculptures, paintings, prints and wristwatches
6c ... that while normally a scavenger, the snubnosed eel ^ also burrows into
the bodies of larger fish to feed, and two specimens were found inside the heart of
a shortfin mako shark in 1992
6c ... that the Prussian general Karl Wilhelm von Willisen was forced out of the Grand
Duchy of Posen only two weeks after his arrival
6c ... that Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise's 1857
$ &, an effort at a prayer
book for American Reform Jews, was supplanted by the Ô
* in the
1890s, which in turn was replaced by +
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then $
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6c ... that according to the -$ "
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, Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Yuanji painted
an archery range with the blood of a family he had executed
6c ... that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote "$ %
² a book on Indian history ²
while he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort during the Quit India Movement
6c ... that Oregon politician Medorem Crawford's son was the first white American
male born on the west side of the Willamette River
6c ... that adult and juvenile snake mackerels both make daily vertical migrations, but
in opposite directions
6c ... that Dan & Dave both won Olympic medals, but lost their endorsement deal
6c ... that the emphasis on erotic mythological subjects ^( $ in late Northern
Mannerism reflected the taste of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
6c ... that Clement O. Miniger, founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company, lost
$5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression
6c ... that the Toronto Women's Bookstore is the largest nonprofit, feminist bookstore
in Canada
6c ... that T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar was responsible for the creation of the
first encyclopedia in Tamil
6c ... that revenue from trading cards was one of the key issues, and among the last to
be resolved, during the 1992 NHL players' strike, the first such labor
stoppage inNational Hockey League history
6c ... that Isabella Gilmore reestablished the female diaconate in the Anglican
Communion
6c ... that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
in Robert Chesley's erotic and emotional play ü takes place entirely over the
telephone
6c ... that despite being Member of Parliament for Chippenham, Wiltshire, for nearly
24 years, Joseph Neeld never spoke in the House of Commons
6c ... that a single egg case of the big skate ^ may contain up to
seven embryos
6c ... that Anthony Deane-Drummond, a British Army officer, made two parachute
drops, was taken prisoner after both, and escaped each time
6c ... that the 1935 Disney cartoon "$ : $
was later censored for having
negative portrayals of African Americans
6c ... that James Allan scored 12 goals in one match, when Sunderland beat
Castletown 23²0 in an exhibition football game
6c ... that the expression of HMGA2 in cancer cells is linked to
poor prognosis in cancer patients, but also with these cells' sensitivity to some
forms of treatment
6c ... that when Barbara Parker left a law career to take a master's, her thesis went on
to be short listed for an Edgar Award as a best first mystery novel
6c ... that the University of Cambridge's West Cambridge site includes the site of an
ancient Roman settlement
6c ... that the film "$ Ñ %, by Indian director Mani Kaul, features
a parrot telling erotic stories
6c ... that the World War II Marine Corps Air Station in Santa Barbara ^ is
now home to the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara
Municipal Airport
6c ... that English printer John Wolfe's business practices so incensed his
contemporaries, they accused him of Machiavellianism
6c ... that 1 ü *
, a children's book, was heavily criticized
by Republican Congressman Mark Souder, who argued that it
supported marijuana use by children
6c ... that sports agent and author Colleen Howe, known as "Mrs. Hockey", passed
away from Pick's disease
6c ... that German U-boat Ô4K was sunk in August 1915 by a fishing smack
6c ... that Charlie Biederman was the last surviving dog sled mail carrier in the United
States when he died in 1995
6c ... that In Case of Fire were the opening act for the 2009 Kerrang! awards tour
supporting Bring Me the Horizon, Black Tide, Dir en Grey and Mindless Self
Indulgence
6c ... that a modeling agency once demanded that swimsuit model Ariel
Meredith have breast reduction surgery, but she refused and was dropped from the
agency
6c ... that Vicars' Close, Wells ^ was called "that rarest of survivals, a planned
street of the mid-14th century" by John Julius Norwich
6c ... that high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko won the World Junior
Championships bronze medal in 2006 and the gold medal in 2008, both times with
a 2.26 metres (7.4 ft) jump
6c ... that the non-profit SAME Cafe in Denver, Colorado, serves food for either an
hour of work or whatever you can pay
6c ... that Henry Seymour King, Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull
Central for 25 years, was the first climber to reach the summits of Mont
Maudit andAiguille Blanche de Peuterey
6c ... that country music singer Ty Herndon's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel
music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years
6c ... that American historian Roy Franklin Nichols won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for
History for his book "$ %
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%
6c ... that the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton, England, has been used as a public
toilet, printworks, Scout headquarters, wartime observation tower and artist's
studio, but its original function is unknown
6c ... that Mexican wrestler Octagón took his name from the 1980 film "$
:
starring Chuck Norris
6c ... that an equitable coloring of a graph ^ , in which the numbers of vertices
of each color are as nearly equal as possible, may require far more colors than
a graph coloring without this constraint
6c ... that the sharptail mola has become an important commercial fish in Taiwan,
since the promotion of an ocean sunfish festival in Hualien County
6c ... that the Canadian Mohawk chief, the Flemish Bastard, was considered the
primary spokesman for the pro-French faction of Canada in the 17th century
6c ... that the DVD boxsets of the first three seasons of # 8 :0 Ñ
were released out of order to encourage viewers to watch season 4
6c ... that according to the
"
, Tang Dynasty general Li Guangyan, while
in mourning over the death of his mother for three years, did not return to his
wife's bedchambers
6c ... that Clare Potter was one of the first fashion designers in the United States to be
known by name and is credited with inventing American sportswear
6c ... that after the Australian light destroyer project was canceled, the Australian
Government ordered frigates which the Royal Australian Navy had previously
assessed as being "second rate escorts"
6c ... that the equipment designed by the physicist Gwyn Jones to liquefy small
amounts of helium for work at temperatures near absolute zero was made from
parts of a motorcycle engine
6c ... that after London Road viaduct ^ in Brighton, England, was bombed in
1943, trains were using it again within 24 hours even though the road below was
visible through gaps in the damaged brickwork
6c ... that Pavel Lednyov has won seven Olympic medals in modern pentathlon, more
than anybody else in this sport
6c ... that in the English plural, the letter 4 is pronounced differently in words like
"cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule
6c ... that human rights activist Ayse Nur Zarakolu, an Amnesty
International "prisoner of conscience", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for
violating censorship laws in Turkey
6c ... that the fish king-of-the-salmon is so named because, according
to Makah legend, it is responsible for leading salmon to their spawning grounds
6c ... that the British rigid airship No. 9r, completed in 1916, featured an early
example of thrust vectoring
6c ... that George Washington Hill was the American businessman who introduced
women to cigarettes
6c ... that the opposition in Nagorno-Karabakh ironically described the 2005 Nagorno-
Karabakh parliamentary election as having "fair and transparent irregularities"
6c ... that the deep-sea unicorn crestfish ^ can expel a cloud of black ink as a
defense against predators
6c ... that Wilfried Dietrich won five Olympic medals during his career, more than any
other Olympic wrestler
6c ... that the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne led to the outbreak of Tecumseh's War and
the subsequent Battle of Tippecanoe
6c ... that no matter how biased a coin one uses, flipping a coin to determine whether
each edge is present or absent in a countably infinite graph will always producethe
same graph, the Rado graph
6c ... that Gary O'Donnell is the first person in 26 years to be awarded a
second George Medal, the last one posthumously for "immense bravery"
in Afghanistan
6c ... that in the June 2005 Swiss referendum, Switzerland became the first country
in Europe to hold a referendum on increased rights for same-sex couples
6c ... that osteoblast milk protein added to Mengniu Deluxe milk in China is supposed
to promote bone growth, but its safety has been questioned
6c ... that psychologist John Neulinger envisioned a future society based on leisure
6c ... that Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace was intended to mirror the opulent Stroganov
Palace ^ on the opposite side of Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg
6c ... that Henry Wilde melted iron bars to demonstrate the power of his self-
energizing dynamo, a machine based on his paper presented to the Royal Society in
1866
6c ... that the upcoming U2 360° Tour is named for a new kind of stage design that
will permit all-round viewing in football stadiums
6c ... that author Guillaume Prévost created "$
" series to help children
understand that history can be fascinating
6c ... that in 2008, chronic bee paralysis virus was discovered in the carpenter
ant Ñ
6c ... that early sources suggested that Moses had taken an Ethiopian wife
named Tharbis after laying siege to her city, prior to his ascendancy
to prophethood in the Jewish faith
6c ... that while the history of rugby union matches between Argentina and
France dates back to 1949, Argentina did not win a match until their 16th clash in
1985
6c ... that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine
Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became
the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation
6c ... that the new Polish party called Forward Poland rejected an alliance with Declan
Ganley's Libertas
6c ... that Tony Bennett literally threw up before recording his 1970 album "
!
$ + 2
"', a misguided collection of Beatles and other current songs
done under record company pressure
6c ... that the medieval scheduled monuments of Cheshire include Vale Royal
Abbey ^ which was the largest Cistercian church in England
6c ... that after seeing a performance by child pianist Joseph Alfidi of Yonkers, New
York, Pope John XXIII said he may turn out to be "the next Mozart"
6c ... that the MV
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was carrying a cargo of sorghum when she
was torpedoed and sunk on 14 April 1945
6c ... that Thomas Forester, the only American stock mutual fund manager to make a
profit in 2008, had previously been one of only two mutual fund managers to make
a profit in the second quarter of 2002
6c ... that the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team
ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer
Olympics
6c ... that William Joseph Rainbow's work, & Ñ
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, was the
first catalogue of Australian spiders
6c ... that American rock band Disturbed has released three consecutive number-one
debuts on the , 200 chart since 2002
6c ... that Buffalo Bills punter John Nies and younger brother Eric Nies (later
of MTV's "$ Y fame) posed nude for photographer Bruce Weber
6c ... that the founding members of Congregation Mickve Israel ^ were Jews
who arrived in Savannah, Georgia, in 1733, the same year that the colony was
founded
6c ... that Itoro Umoh-Coleman was one of two Hephzibah High School graduates to
play on the Nigerian women's national basketball team in the 2004 Summer
Olympics
6c ... that listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges,
two aqueducts and a former privy
6c ... that Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering
from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended
6c ... that Gilling Abbey, located in present-day Yorkshire, was founded shortly after
651 AD on an estate granted as weregild
6c ... that the CEO of toonlet has also worked on "$ !, !Ñ and !
6c ... that the Moon of Pejeng in Bali is the largest single-cast bronze kettle drum in
the world
6c ... that Dr Delano Meriwether won the 100 yard event at the 1971 Amateur
Athletics Union championships wearing a hospital shirt, swimming trunks and
gold suspenders (braces)
6c ... that John Thomas North ^ , originally a Yorkshire mechanic, became a
friend of the future King George V and was worth $10 million in 1889
6c ... that when torpedoed in May 1915 by German submarine Ô4, SS
was
disguised as the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS "
6c ... that the only countries to medal at all three Nordic skiing disciplines (cross-
country skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping) at the FIS Nordic World Ski
Championships 2009 were Germany, Norway, and the United States
6c ... that a woodcut by the German Renaissance block-cutter Hans
Lützelburger showed himself and the artist nearly naked
6c ... that it was said of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Judson C. Clements that
no opinion ever written by him had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court
6c ... that the U2 song "White as Snow" was written from the perspective of a dying
soldier in Afghanistan
6c ... that Charlie Chaplin Studios, founded in 1917 and now home to Jim Henson
Productions, has a 12-foot (3.7 m) color statue of Kermit the Frog dressed as the
"Little Tramp" above the main gate
6c ... that Doug Hele designed the three-cylinder Triumph Trident and developed it
into the most successful race bike of the time
6c ... that several thousand bauls, a community of wandering minstrels who sing
devotional songs, assemble annually for the fair at Jaydev Kenduli ^
in West Bengal, India
6c ... that engineer William Mylne fled to America following the collapse of his North
Bridge in Edinburgh in 1772, but later returned to run the Dublin Water Works
6c ... that Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx have separate dependent and independent
verb forms
6c ... that television writer Steve Higgins was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his
work on ! ?$ # before becoming the announcer for NBC's # ?$
$ ü )
6c ... that the Dacia Duster is the first concept car entirely made by
the Romanian automaker Automobile Dacia
6c ... that Welsh military pilot and journalist, Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs,
published two volumes of wartime memoirs 49 years apart: ? *
! (1943) and " # (1992)
6c ... that Michael Jackson's official concert tour website could not deal with the
traffic³16,000 applications a second³for pre-sale ticket registration
6c ... that visits to the workshop of Hieronymus Andreae by Maximilian I gave rise to
a Nuremberg saying "The Emperor has gone to the women's alley again"
6c ... that until December 2008, the Red Lemur and the Red-fronted
Lemur ^ were considered the same species
6c ... that motorcycle racer Percy Tait was estimated to have driven over a million
miles road-testing Triumph motorcycles
6c ... that Jane Sterk joined the Green Party of British Columbia after witnessing
environmental degradation in Mexico and became its leader six years later
6c ... that when German U-boat Ô4H disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915, she
was the first of her class to be lost
6c ... that the plot of Abel Gance's 1931 science fiction film, â
$ , features
a comet hurling toward Earth as the world prays for help
6c ... that the percentage of Sudanese-born persons living in the Australian electoral
district of Yeerongpilly is twelve times the national average
6c ... that the medieval bishop John de Breton was credited with having written a legal
treatise regarding statutes created after his death
6c ... that Thomas Sangster had to learn how to play the guitar left-handed to
portray Paul McCartney in the upcoming John Lennon biopic ?$
6c ... that the land snail
^ lives only in the rainforests of
the Western Ghats, in India
6c ... that Smith Clove Meetinghouse in Highland Mills, New York, is the oldest
religious building in the town and village of Woodbury
6c ... that Rhena Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer's only child, married David C. Miller, a
doctor who cared for her father, and the couple traveled around the world offering
aid to victims of famine and war
6c ... that KCET Studios, where
$ !
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longest continuously-producing studio in Hollywood
6c ... that Josh Billings was the Tigers Opening Day starting pitcher in 1928, despite
being only 20 years old and having only won five Major League baseball games prior
to the season
6c ... that Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists, which as of February 2009
consists of over 600,000 members, and 3 million submissions
6c ... that in the late 1800s, Charles Patrick Daly, president of the American
Geographical Society, was also Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common
Pleas
6c ... that the No Parking Whitebeam, a rare tree, was named after a road sign nailed
to the type specimen
6c ... that Winston Churchill and his daughter, Diana, visited Bernard
Baruch's Hobcaw Barony ^ near Georgetown, South Carolina
6c ... that the spiny butterfly ray stuns its prey with blows from its wing-like pectoral
fins
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty general Gao Chongwen asked to be moved from his post
at Chengdu as he was illiterate and disliked the paperwork
6c ... that the now-defunct Arbogast & Bastian abbatoir in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
could process most of the 850,000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania
6c ... that the architectural designs of Mannerist painter and printmaker Wendel
Dietterlin (d. 1599) have been characterized as a "bizarre ornamental fantasy"
6c ... that a decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of
four lines of ten syllables, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB
6c ... that the biologist Lourens Bass Becking was imprisoned by the Germans and
spent his time studying typhoid fever as it spread amongst the inmates
6c ... that the classical "boy band" Blake formed via the social
networking website Facebook and replaced a member by using Twitter
6c ... that prior to the creation of the Winter Olympics, an ice hockey
tournament ^
was held at the 1920 Summer Olympics
6c ... that although #
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is the third opera that Saint-Saëns· composed,
it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage
6c ... that author Jonathan Krohn gave a two-minute speech at the 2009 Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) at age thirteen
6c ... that Sheldon Manor, a Grade I listed building, is Wiltshire's longest continuously
inhabited manor house
6c ... that Yakub Hasan Sait, who served as the Minister of Public Works for
the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939, was a native of Nagpur and a former
member of the All India Muslim League
6c ... that Tropical Storm Faxai of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season injured six people
when a plane encountered severe turbulence produced by the storm
6c ... that Alan Landers, who was featured in Winston cigarette ads, became an anti-
smoking advocate calling himself the "Winston Man" and died of laryngeal
cancer after a longtime 2½-pack-per-day habit
6c ... that Interstate Commerce Commissioner John H. Marble died in 1913 following
an attack of acute indigestion after only eight months in office
6c ... that the 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in
southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals
6c ... that American baritone James Billings has portrayed more than 175 opera roles
on stage during his long career
6c ... that election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during
the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean
6c ... that Samuel Brand, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi
Germany, was officially the first immigrant to enter Israel after its creation
6c ... that two psychedelic frogfish were recognized as "something different" in 1992,
but were not declared a new species until this year
6c ... that the tough skin of the cowtail stingray ^ is used to polish wood
6c ... that the Showtime television series %( has won two Primetime Emmy
Awards
6c ... that bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian
missionaries to India, 300 CE
6c ... that although the summit of underwater volcano Loihi is 969 metres (3,180 ft)
below sea level, it is still twice as tall, measured from the base of its southern flank,
as Mount St. Helens ever was
6c ... that Boris Eikhenbaum was a key member of the Society for the Study of Poetic
Language (OPOJAZ)
6c ... that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan
Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio
6c ... that the Peninsular Gneiss rock exposure in the Lalbagh botanical gardens
in Bangalore, India, is a National Geological Monument
6c ... that Robert Bruce, a former wrestler, played a small role in the 1971 science
fiction film & Ñ :
6c ... that doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland,
Oregon, installed at his drug store
6c ... that in 2006, a descendant of the 17th century Hebridean chieftain who once
fortified himself in Stac Dhòmhnaill Chaim ^ , scaled the stack and found a
piece of possibly Neolithic pottery
6c ... that film director Arie Posin's father did not allow him to watch television as a
child despite being a professional filmmaker himself
6c ... that after the Glorious Revolution Scottish troops who deserted couldn't be
punished until the passage of the first Mutiny Act in 1689
6c ... that Jean Desbouvrie persuaded the government of France to test swallows as an
alternative to carrier pigeons
6c ... that slaves comprised roughly one percent of the population of China during
the Han Dynasty (202 BCE ² 220 CE)
6c ... that in 1999, Somalian Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the first person to have
his case overturned by the UK's Criminal Cases Review Commission, 45 years after
his execution
6c ... that King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) granted Regenbald, a royal clerk, the
status of a bishop without the actual office
6c ... that
# is a 1968 sexploitation film about a topless go-go dancer who
becomes a serial killer after ingesting LSD
6c ... that George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny ^ who was killed at the age
of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of
King Charles I of England
6c ... that the Overland Trail was the first road to reach the Klondike gold fields in
Canada's Yukon
6c ... that syndicalist trade unionist Frank Hodges once played a game of golf
with George VI of the United Kingdom
6c ... that although it is considered a gamefish, the flat needlefish is seldom eaten
because of its green-colored flesh
6c ... that former FedEx Office CEO Ken May was elected the March of Dimes' board of
trustees chairman in 2007
6c ... that the Belt of Orion Award, for organizations that have advanced aviation in
Canada, was bestowed upon the Air Cadet League of Canada in 1989
6c ... that before becoming Governor of Pennsylvania, John K. Tener was a Major
League Baseball player who once explained the game to the future King Edward
VII
6c ... that, due to a pressing error, the first shipment of Faryl Smith's debut
album ) instead contained the music from The Fall's album (
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6c ... that Force India's 2009 Formula One car, the VJM02 ^ , is painted in the
colours of the Indian flag, but the team is based in England and neither of the
drivers is Indian
6c ... that Swedish singer Sofia Berntson entered Sweden's Melodifestivalen with the
Greek song "Alla" and won the international jury vote
6c ... that before it was merged into the Department for Constitutional Affairs in 2003
the Lord Chancellor's Department was the oldest existing Government
Department in the United Kingdom
6c ... that the Jurassic crocodile relative *$
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type resembled those of some herbivorous dinosaurs, indicating it may not have
been a strictcarnivore
6c ... that until U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt named him to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Edgar E. Clark had served for 16 years as Grand Chief
Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors
6c ... that Hurricane Fausto of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season reportedly
produced hurricane-force winds on Socorro Island despite being 115 mi (185 km)
away from the island
6c ... that Sir Allan Quartermaine, a former member of the British Royal Fine Art
Commission, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the First World War
6c ... that the western yellowjacket, an invasive species in Hawaii, can
be baited with poisoned catfood
6c ... that Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley ^ piloted the first
trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919
6c ... that the 17th-century Knights of the Royal Oak received silver medals that
displayed the Royal Oak where Charles II of England hid after the Battle of
Worcester
6c ... that at the Tiananmen Square protests, Cui Jian gained notoriety for performing
"Nothing To My Name" while wearing a red blindfold
6c ... that Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, is best remembered for his role
in the execution of a favourite of Edward II
6c ... that in a Spanish language scene of the %( episode "Return to Sender",
actor David Zayas learned all of his dialogue in English and translated each line
mentally during each take
6c ... that the Alpirod, a defunct 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) European sled dog race, was
the longest competition of its kind outside of North America
6c ... that American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive
passion,
$ %, into a movie before he finished reading it
6c ... that French Pass has the fastest tidal flows in New Zealand, reaching nearly
nine knots and capable of stunning fish
6c ... that Ñ
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American bark scorpions belonging to the same species group
6c ... that former Union Army Brigadier-General Patrick Henry Jones acted as a
negotiator in the Alexander Stewart body snatching case
6c ... that the highest circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom at the start of the
19th century sold only 4,000 copies a day
6c ... that "You Are Everything", 2008's most-played song on contemporary
Christian radio, was recorded after singer Matthew West's surgery for vocal
fold hemorrhaging
6c ... that monastic historian David Knowles wrote that Dominic of Evesham (who died
before 1145) authored the deathbed account of the Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham in
the Ñ$
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6c ... that Viper's Creed, a Mecha action anime series, takes place after the Earth's
cities are underwater due to global warming and a third world war has caused
calamity and turmoil
6c ... that the Triumph Bonneville T140 ü, model of 1977 ^ was launched
as a limited edition of 1,000 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth
II
6c ... that Utah Governor Stephen S. Harding used his home in Milan, Indiana, to help
slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in Indiana
6c ... that film critic Stephen Holden of "$ ? / " called the 2004
documentary film "$ H Y
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6c ... that Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Paul Herman Buck was the
first Provost of Harvard University
6c ... that a Jones reductor can be used to prepare solutions of ions, such
as chromium(II), Cr2+, which are immediately oxidized on contact with air
6c ... that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur, Oregon, are 18 inches
(460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer
months
6c ... that when Will Sessoms ran for mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2008 he
had a US$321,000²$5,600 fundraising edge over the incumbent mayor, Meyera E.
Oberndorf
6c ... that 1972 is seen as a pivotal year for Christian music due to the Explo
'72 Christian music festival
6c ... that images of 243 Ida ^ returned from the space probe +, and
processed on 17 February 1994, provided the first confirmation of a moon orbiting
an asteroid
6c ... that CBS's 2
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in a comedy/western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude
Ranch inNevada
6c ... that Rome needed eight years to confirm the election of Peter Jarweh as
Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church because he had received funds from
Protestant missionaries to buy a printing press
6c ... that Eric Blau, co-creator of the Off Broadway show ü. &
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approached by fans of the comedian
6c ... that Chilean Líder supermarkets sold Cuban rum at half price to eliminate it
from stock in anticipation of becoming a Wal-Mart subsidiary, causing a
controversy in Chile
6c ... that the original cast of ! "0 "$ ?( +
will appear in "Not All
Dogs Go to Heaven", a seventh season episode of ) +
6c ... that Muir's Corella is listed in Western Australia both as a ¶declared pest of
agriculture· and as ¶rare or likely to become extinct·
6c ... that answering service operator Mary Printz, who served New York's theater and
business elite, was the inspiration for the 1956 Broadway musical &
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and the 1960 film of the same name
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6c ... that the Western Australian carnivorous plant % -
was first
witnessed flowering in 1954, 106 years after it was described as a new species
6c ... that baritone Hans von Milde sang for nearly forty years at the Staatskapelle
Weimar where he performed the role of the High Priest in the world premiere
of Saint-Saëns's !
% in 1877
6c ... that in 1969, building work in the Southgate area of Crawley, England,
uncovered evidence that northern Sussex was a pre-Roman industrial area
6c ... that NBC's "$ Y featured Andrew Prine and Brenda Scott in 1966 as
brother and sister though the actors had been married to each other
6c ... that fashion model Frankie Rayder has posed with her sisters Molly
and Missy for Gap holiday ads
6c ... that Moissaye Olgin ^ , a member of the communist Workers Party,
translated several books including Jack London's Ñ
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Engels·"$ *
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into Yiddish
6c ... that the extinct Pliocene dolphin & $ from the Vestfold
Hills of Antarctica has been described as an example of convergent
evolution with whales
6c ... that Captain Thomas Dundas's ship, HMS ?, towed the
crippled HMS through a gale to safety after the Battle of Trafalgar
6c ... that Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium, Washington & Jefferson
College's combined lacrosse, baseball, and soccer facility, is the largest
continuousartificial playing surface in the world
6c ... that big-game hunters, Douglas Hamilton and Victor Brooke, shot the
largest elephant ever killed in South India
6c ... that the United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the ASEAN Treaty of
Amity and Cooperation for its provisions on regional cooperation
6c ... that before his political career, future Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Charles A. Prouty worked at an observatory until he returned home
to Vermont due to ill health
6c ... that "Care", the first episode of # 8 :0 Ô, is a remake of an original #
8 : episode from 1992
6c ... that Australian flying ace Charles Scherf ^ was credited with 14½ aerial
victories from 38 operational sorties during the Second World War, with an
additional nine aircraft destroyed on the ground
6c ... that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army, the Potomac Creek
Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days
6c ... that the Dominica Freedom Party of former Prime Minister Eugenia
Charles failed to win any seats in the 2005 Dominican general election for the first
time in 35 years
6c ... that Nonnie Moore, a woman who had been fashion editor
at and 2 1 -, was hired by +; in 1984 in a move that was
called an "an odd choice, but... was actually the perfect choice"
6c ... that in 1940 the unarmed Norwegian steamship %
was sunk
by German aircraft while she was flying Red Cross flags and carrying a company of
medical personnel
6c ... that the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is one of only ten
urban National Wildlife Refuges in the United States
6c ... that despite the office existing for 118 years, only nine individuals ever served
as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
6c ... that Don Chafin, the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia, received bribes of at
least $32,700 annually for preventing the unionization of coal miners
6c ... that the Black-headed Spider Monkey ^ , a New World monkey, is
estimated to have declined by more than 80% over the past 45 years due to
humanencroachment on its habitat
6c ... that Ranga Ediriwickrama could become the first Australian Football
League player of Sri Lankan descent
6c ... that the 2.5-litre, 68-bhp diesel Land Rover engine was also used in the Austin
FX4 London Black Cabs and the Freight Rover 300 commercial vans
6c ... that Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League's leading scorer
in 1954
6c ... that Al-Firdaws Madrasa, established in 1236 under the patronage of Malik az-
Zahir's wife, Dayfa Khatun, is the largest and best known of
the Ayyubid in Aleppo
6c ... that German bass Hans Herbert Fiedler sang the role of Moses in the original
1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg's
&
6c ... that the American militia group known as the Yellow Jackets gained their name
by having dyed bright yellow cuffs and fringes on their buckskins and wool coats
6c ... that Gail Trimble, captain of the team which won BBC TV's Ô
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before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google" and the
"Usain Bolt of general knowledge"
6c ... that the Early Christian Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (c. 359) shows Pontius
Pilate making a gesture to avert the evil eye ^ $ during his trial of
Jesus
6c ... that Japanese video game designer Makoto Kanoh worked on the first
three games, as well as 17 other games for Nintendo
6c ... that the Rothschild Prayerbook has been since 1999 the most
expensive illuminated manuscript ever sold at auction
6c ... that Camille Saint-Saëns's 1911 opera %6>
was originally a
1898 play accompanied by symphonic music, choruses and a ballet
6c ... that Irishman Henry Nugent was created Count Valdesoto before he was
appointed Governor of Gibraltar
6c ... that the Rushmore Memorial Library in Highland Mills, New York, takes its name
from Charles E. Rushmore, the same man Mount Rushmore is named for
6c ... that Nordahl Rolfsen's readers for elementary school, #L,
(published 1892²1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in
Norway
6c ... that the largest native land slug species in Australia is the red triangle slug,
which can be yellow, cream, pink, red, grey or olive green ^
6c ... that the ?-class battleships laid down in 1907 were the first class
of German dreadnoughts built in response to the British HMS %
$
6c ... that the Navarrese prince Ramiro Garcés was betrayed and murdered
at Rueda in 1083
6c ... that Jane Austen's novel !
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, is a critique of Charlotte Turner
Smith's novel of sensibility Ñ
6c ... that Bangladesh's first Citizenship Order after it gained independence was issued
by the President of Bangladesh in 1972
6c ... that Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in
1803
6c ... that the 1983 translation of the Gospel into Azerbaijani by Mirza Khazar has
been republished five times in subsequent years
6c ... that Claud Schuster served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's
Department for a record 29 years under 10 different Lord Chancellors
6c ... that Scarlet Robins ^ defend a territory not only from rivals of their
own species but also from those of the related Flame Robins
6c ... that solar power in Romania has, as of 2007, an installed capacity of 0.81
megawatts
6c ... that Rwandan film-maker Eric Kabera was inspired to start a career in film after
losing 32 family members in the Rwandan Genocide
6c ... that the non-ferrous smelter built for the Phoenix Mine in 1900 by the Granby
Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company was the largest in theBritish
Empire
6c ... that the Yukon Quest is considered the toughest sled dog race in the world
6c ... that Wilbert Tatum, editor of the ? / & ?, ran front-page
editorials from 1986 to 1989 critical of Mayor of New York Ed Koch with the title
"Why Koch Should Resign"
6c ... that the stegosaurid had more neck vertebrae than almost all of
the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks
6c ... that the 2001 best seller +0
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includes the case in which followers of Osho sprayed salmonella onto salad
bars in The Dalles, Oregon
6c ... that George Frideric Handel's )- !
^?7 H $ were not originally
intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948
6c ... that the engineers of the Triumph Bonneville 790 motorcycle deliberately built in
some vibration to give it "character"
6c ... that the aquaculture industry in New Zealand aims to be a sustainable NZ$1
billion industry by 2025
6c ... that Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong, as well as the
French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language
6c ... that the "Hilo Massacre" resulted in 50 casualties after Hawaiian police fired on
200 union protesters
6c ... that operatic tenor Franz Ferenczy portrayed the role of Samson in the world
premiere of Saint-Saëns's !
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6c ... that according to the U.S. Supreme Court's 7 $
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* ruling, state officials are not always people for legal purposes
6c ... that in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar
Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido
6c ... that in the midst of battle, Joseph W. Revere ( , grandson of Paul Revere,
apparently overwhelmed by news of his new command, rode to his men and yelled
"Rearward!", causing him to be court-martialled
6c ... that Camille Saint-Saëns's opera 26D
was recorded in 2008 after not being
heard since 1919
6c ... that at #425 on the ATP Singles Rankings, Ivaylo Traykov is the second-highest
ranked Bulgarian tennis player
6c ... that Sony sold 280 million Trinitron televisions and monitors during the 40 years
they were being produced
6c ... that according to a local legend, shoemaker Hans von Sagan heroically took the
initiative and led the Teutonic Knights to victory in the Battle of Rudau
6c ... that American historian Fred Albert Shannon won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for
History for his two-volume book "$ :
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6c ... that the author of the "'Gersony Report", the controversial conclusion
by UN contractors that the new government in post-genocide Rwanda had carried
out systematic killings of civilians, was instructed never to discuss his findings
6c ... that when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein's son was a high
school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a
basketball camp
6c ... that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey ^ is the only Central American monkey
species that occurs in all seven Central American countries
6c ... that the oldest bell in St Michael's Church, East Peckham was cast in 1747
6c ... that the Gloster Gannet aircraft, which was originally built solely to compete in
the Lympne Trials, never flew at the event due to engine troubles
6c ... that Modern School activist Harry Kelly founded the most successful and longest
lasting anarchist colony in America
6c ... that the Moravian Duets was the starting point for subsequent works which
propelled Antonín Dvořák to international fame
6c ... that Marcus Adam, who competed in three sprint events at the 1992 Summer
Olympics, later shifted to bobsleigh and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics
6c ... that the British Indian passport was seen as a symbol of colonialism and was
only valid for travel in the British Empire and seven other countries
6c ... that, during a television interview, Romanian politician Elena Udrea made
reference to the "President of Norway", apparently unaware that the country is
a monarchy
6c ... that Donizetti wrote the title role of his opera & for Giuseppina
Strepponi ^ , the second wife of Giuseppe Verdi
6c ... that the former Checkerboard Inn in Monroe, New York, got its name because an
early owner supposedly painted it in a checkerboard pattern to attract travelers
6c ... that Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth was awarded the Victoria Cross during
the Battle of Omdurman for saving the lives of two war correspondents
6c ... that the Haudenosaunee women's lacrosse team will be the first team of women
to represent the indigenous peoples of the Americas when they play in the 2009
World Cup
6c ... that Barbara Tuge-Erecińska, the Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United
Kingdom, became Poland's first female Deputy Foreign Minister in 1999
6c ... that the front cover of Rufus Wainwright's album Y $ ! is from
the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar
6c ... that Peter N. Myhre was the first leader of the Youth of the Progress
Party in Norway, from 1978 to 1984
6c ... that in 1920 the publishers of the White Pine Series of Architectural
Monographs invented the fictional town of Stotham, Massachusetts, as the
purported home for several early New England structures
6c ... that the grey knight ^ is a small, edible mushroom that is often confused
with the larger and poisonous dirty trich
6c ... that Emperor Frederick II exempted the hospitaller Order of Saint James of
Altopascio from taxes
6c ... that Mexican professional wrestler Charly Manson was injured so badly that
a surgical steel plate on his femur bent more than 20 degrees and had to be
replaced
6c ... that 35 species of woodlice are native to the British Isles
6c ... that former professional footballer Charlie Sillett was one of two Royal
Navy gunners killed when the Norwegian steamship SS Ñ was sunk by
a torpedo launched from theGerman U-boat Ô4I
6c ... that Thai students pay respect to their teachers in the $ ceremony near
the beginning of every school year
6c ... that Robin Buckston, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1960, was previously the
captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club
6c ... that male Western Bowerbirds attract potential mates with bowers decorated
with fruits, shells, and bones, as well as man-made objects like bullet casings and
glass
6c ... that the archaeological site of Topoxte ^ has the best surviving example
of Postclassic Maya architecture in the Petén region of Guatemala
6c ... that if its congestion pricing proposal is approved, San Francisco will be the first
U.S. city to implement this method of reducing traffic congestion
6c ... that Preah Netr Preah District in Cambodia is home to the ´Dam of Widowsµ
6c ... that Mosby Tavern, a private residence, has served as the courthouse and jail for
both Cumberland County and Powhatan County, Virginia
6c ... that with eight world titles, the UAE's Victory Team is one of the most successful
in the sport of offshore powerboat racing
6c ... that the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians is the smallest Indian tribe in the
U.S., with only eight members
6c ... that although John Thompson Productions' pornographic films have won several
awards, they have been banned in several countries,
including Canada and Switzerland
6c ... that a Khmer Rouge dam has now become a refuge for an endangered
crane ^
6c ... that a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of
the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American
Museum inPort Washington, New York
6c ... that Indigenous Australian actor Steve Dodd worked as a stockman before going
on to appear in twenty Australian films spanning more than fifty years
6c ... that although the Jersey Act of 1913 limited the registration of American-
bred Thoroughbreds in the British General Stud Book, it wasn't actually a law
6c ... that in the first Gulf Art Fair in 2007, the Pékin Fine Arts gallery exhibited a Mini
Cooper car painted with coloured spots by Damien Hirst
6c ... that the Gloster Survey, a 1920s British photo-survey biplane, had only
two prototype models made before production was discontinued
6c ... that the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen were one instance of only two
publicly known cases of alleged fraggings involving United States military forces
during the Iraq War
6c ... that the Inner Hebridean
M of Dùn Anlaimh may be the remains of a
fortified island dating back to the late Middle Ages
6c ... that baseball pitcher Walter Johnson ^ made 14 Opening Day starts for
the Washington Senators between 1910 and 1926
6c ... that St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast
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versions of Nintendo's most popular franchises
6c ... that John Ordronaux, an American Civil War army surgeon, went on to become a
professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on medical jurisprudence andU.S.
constitutional law
6c ... that Stan Smyl was the longest-tenured Vancouver Canucks captain
6c ... that German socialist politician Siegmund Glücksmann initiated the
first socialist protests against the Piłsudski government in Poland
6c ... that American Airlines Flight 6780 crashed on approach to Newark Airport in
1952, killing everyone onboard including pilot Thomas J. Reid, with the plane
crashing just blocks from his home
6c ... that Syrian Orthodox bishop Michael Jarweh with a large number of his faithfuls
revitalized the Syrian Catholic Church
6c ... that the White-capped Albatross breeds in New Zealand's subantarctic
possessions but nonbreeding birds may range to the southwestern South Georgia
and the South Sandwich Islands
6c ... that the Umpqua Bank Plaza ^ , a high-rise in Portland, Oregon,
remained named for a failed savings and loan association for 15 years until
adopting the present moniker
6c ... that twin brothers Yuen and Yong Poovorawan from Thailand are both
Outstanding Researcher Award-winning scientists, although in the different fields
of computer science and medicine
6c ... that the Pirate Party of the United States was formed after a 2006 raid by
the Swedish police on the servers of The Pirate Bay, a popular file sharing website
6c ... that earliest mention of the Slavs occurs in the 6th century, in %
of Procopius
6c ... that the ABC children's TV series "$ $
+
$ *, considered
primitive even for 1950, was telecast live to stations on the West Coast and seen
elsewhere bykinescope
6c ... that the Secret Military Printing Works of the WWII Polish resistance Home
Army was probably the largest underground publisher in the world
6c ... that Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii
6c ... that the Japanese manga
0 Ñ- !$
went on a hiatus
because the mangaka fell ill, though there was speculation that the hiatus was
caused by a fan controversy over Nagi's virginity
6c ... that The Concert Singer ^ was Thomas Eakins' first full-length portrait of
a woman
6c ... that Ludvig Meyer, the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile
censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party
6c ... that Jupiter is the only planet capable of pulling an interstellar comet into
a Sun-centered orbit
6c ... that New Zealand journalist Bill Ralston was shot at a Soweto school in South
Africa in 1986
6c ... that even though the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma only has 519 members, they
created the first and only eagle rehabilitation center in Oklahoma
6c ... that Typhoon Conson of the 2004 Pacific typhoon season was the first of the
record ten typhoons to impact Japan that season
6c ... that New York City Police Commissioner Douglas I. McKay was so successful in
reviving the use of the police lineup that the police department kept it on a
permanent basis
6c ... that a foreshock before the 1930 Salmas earthquake caused residents of Dilman
to sleep outside, probably saving thousands of lives from the actual earthquake
6c ... that gigantotomy is the art of carving human-shaped hill figures such as
the Cerne Abbas giant ^
6c ... that Derrell Palmer, winner of both AAFC and NFL championships with
the Cleveland Browns, was called one of the two best defensive tackles he ever
coached byPaul Brown
6c ... that, upon hearing they were to be laid off, 100 Waterford
Crystal workers occupied the plant, accompanied by a Sinn Féin politician
6c ... that Ted Pickett has been called "probably the greatest all-round
sportsman Tasmania has produced"
6c ... that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Branch Office is located in
a historic building designed in 1926 in the Second Renaissance Revival style
6c ... that archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the
first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth
6c ... that the winner of the first Coupe Charles Drago, predecessor of the Coupe de la
Ligue, was decided by a coin-toss, after the scores finished equal after extra time
6c ... that English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School's 300-
year history to be permitted to direct a school play
6c ... that the fishing trawler -$ is considered to have been pulled under
by a submarine that got caught in its lines
6c ... that the Italian island of Asinara ^ is inhabited by a wild population
of albino donkeys
6c ... that Native American activist Robert Robideau was acquitted in the 1975
shooting deaths of two FBI agents, for which his cousin Leonard Peltier was later
convicted and is serving two life sentences
6c ... that although it was prohibited by a 1951 law, Pakistan now officially allows its
citizens to hold dual citizenship with 16 other countries
6c ... that ?
!) is the earliest of the notable science
fiction anthology series published in the 1960s and 1970s
6c ... that Russian poet Alexander Pushkin stopped at
Ñ
located at historic Kotomin House before heading off to a duel where
he was mortally wounded
6c ... that the TV series *
â( (1959²1960) roughly coincided with
the centennial of the real Pony Express that operated from 1860 to 1861
6c ... that a record 25 candidates stood in the 2005 Anguillan general election
6c ... that J. Max Bond, Jr. ignored a Harvard professor's advice not to pursue a career
in architecture due to his race and went on to oversee the museum at the National
9/11 Memorial
6c ... that the Soviet atheist magazine -,-$
^ accused
some rabbis of having organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire
6c ... that in 132 CE, Zhang Heng, a Chinese court astronomer during the Han
Dynasty, produced a seismometer with an inverted pendulum that indicated the
direction ofearthquakes that occurred hundreds of kilometers away
6c ... that the World's Largest Cedar Bucket was burned by arsonists in 2005
6c ... that Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in 1965, described the recently built Crawley
Hospital in the town's West Green neighbourhood as "easily the best building
in Crawleyup to date"
6c ... that The Salt Box, one of the first Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, was
razed by fire seven months after being relocated to make room for a $500 million
skyscraper development
6c ... that Norwegian poet Gunnar Reiss-Andersen is grandfather to mystery
author Berit Reiss-Andersen, a former Norwegian Secretary of State
6c ... that Rogatien Vachon, who was the head coach of the Los Angeles Kings for
three non-consecutive stints, coached the fewest games of any of the Kings' head
coaches
6c ... that in 1917, a fleet of 47 naval drifters, used by the British to blockade
the Otranto Straits, was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian Navy
6c ... that the death of the chimpanzee Travis inspired a ? / * cartoon that
was later called racist
6c ... that Polish historical painter Juliusz Kossak ^ was the progenitor of a
family of painters and poets spanning four generations
6c ... that Cyclone Arthur of the 2006²07 South Pacific cyclone season reached its
peak intensity just 18 hours after being named
6c ... that Charles Hoff was the first Norwegian to set a world record in a track and
field event
6c ... that a series of innovative computers, including the first transistor computer and
the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working atManchester
University between 1947 and 1977
6c ... that during World War II, the Tunnel Railway in Ramsgate, England, became
part of an air-raid shelter capable of housing more than 60,000 people
6c ... that when 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world
record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record
time set at theChicago Marathon
6c ... that the A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville, Oregon, was opened in
1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building
6c ... that Joseph Ferguson Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin, was painted by Philip de
László
6c ... that $>
is a kind of Korean (soup) consumed as a remedy
for hangovers
6c ... that Xiuhtecuhtli ^ , the Aztec god of fire, was one of the nine Lords
of the Night even though he was a solar deity
6c ... that the band Animo is said to derive its name from Spanish slang for "get
going"
6c ... that the 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne dictated that the Native Americans were
given up to 150 bushels of salt
6c ... that despite being an object of ridicule in popular culture, over 8 million British
Rail sandwiches were sold in 1993
6c ... that the tunnel on the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link, under construction in South
Korea, is slated to become the deepest immersed roadway tunnel
6c ... that Peter of Canterbury, who drowned near Boulogne, was the first abbot of
what became St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury
6c ... that during the filming of "$ #
in the Andes, the cast coped with altitude
sickness by drinking coca leaf tea
6c ... that the Western Australian carnivorous plant % $$- was split into
four related subspecies in 1992
6c ... that Christ Church in Greenville, South Carolina, has a window depicting
the Last Supper dedicated to Confederate general and bishop Ellison Capers
6c ... that the 1909 silent short film , $
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considered to be the first-ever use of aerial movie photography
6c ... that the highly-regarded edible mushroom Ñ
is known as the
granny's nightcap in Finland
6c ... that Cornwall Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Cornwall,
New York
6c ... that over 400,000 people consulted over 4 million documents during the Central
Case Examination Group's investigation of President Liu Shaoqi of thePeople's
Republic of China in 1968
6c ... that Muzzammil Hassan is the CEO of Bridges TV, the
first American Muslim television network to broadcast in English
6c ... that during the Brazilian Tenente revolts the Prestes Column
of guerrillas marched more than 25,000 kilometers (16,000 mi)
6c ... that the Palm Court, called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles," has been
the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph
Valentino danced with starlets
6c ... that according to Ernst Lohmeyer, "the Christian faith is only Christian as long
as it retains in its heart the Jewish faith"
6c ... that
ü
featured Dennis Weaver, in his first TV series
since +
, as a widowed veterinarian and guardian of a 10-year-old Chinese
orphan
6c ...that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman"
was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage ^
6c ...that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of
statements and claims
6c ...that the Hearst Medical Papyrus, considered to be an authentic ancient
Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake
6c ...that two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner
Fassbinder committed suicide
6c ...that Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United
States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S.
Supreme Court
6c ...that Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history
of Vietnam
6c ...that Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha, went on to be the
foremost nun in the practice of jhana
6c ...that Belinda Dann, a member of Australia's Stolen Generation, died just months
after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a
century
6c ...that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the
publication of its scientific description
6c ...that # ? Ñ
is the oldest French-language academic journal in
North America
6c ...that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who
wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by
the British public
6c ...that in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's ( ) lesser-
known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer
6c ...that the award for European Parliament's newly established cinema prize, Lux,
consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an
original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing
6c ...that due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., under US law an expert
witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense
6c ...that Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-
200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort
6c ...that the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most
major AIDS clinics in the US
6c ...that PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to
use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for
over USD$100 per bottle
6c ...that after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League, Marc
Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams
6c ...that when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election, he became the
third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of
Commons
6c ...that the Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS ü ^ was nicknamed "The
Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the North Koreans claimed that she
had been sunk on three occasions
6c ...that in "
7 %, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual
punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death
penalty
6c ...that archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish ^&
has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern
sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains
6c ...that Bob Odom, Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28
years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official
6c ...that U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto
Preminger's film &
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6c ...that the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the
largest freshwater marine protected area in the world
6c ...that Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the
Australian state of New South Wales
6c ...that the medical papyri ^ show that ancient Egyptian physicians of
the 19th century BC knew about migraines
6c ...that Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become
an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news
program+ Ô!&
6c ...that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus,
the patron saint of Nuremberg, his veneration continued even after the Protestant
Revolution
6c ...that before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at
the 1992 Winter Olympics, she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing
career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"
6c ...that the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties,
and Poland's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations' ethnic
minority-protection regime
6c ...that before competing in luge, Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on
a field hockey scholarship
6c ...that the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the
Apostles in the Bible
6c ...that the African pompano ^ , a tropical marine game fish, is not
a pompano, but belongs to the genus &
6c ...that only three of the largest islands of the United States ³ the Big
Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico ³ are greater than 3,000 square
miles(8,000 km ) in size
6c ...that descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing
Company, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, and theElectric
Smelting and Aluminum Company
6c ...that at King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot
high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most
famous moments in professional wrestling
6c ...that the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry, street
theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change
6c ...that Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading
center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century
6c ...that José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the
resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress
6c ...that the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar ^ in Spain is reputed to be the
first church dedicated to Mary through history
6c ...that the hydroid 2
, was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in
honor of a fellow marine biologist, Frederick Bayer
6c ...that visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered
the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs
byCIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl
6c ...that the rent control program in New York State is America's longest-running
6c ...that Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of
Agriculture and Forestry
6c ...that the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the
state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)
6c ...that Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the
first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then convinced
the High Commissionerto sign it
6c ...that Culbone Church ( ) is the smallest English parish church still holding
services
6c ...that Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt
elk ever recorded
6c ...that the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift
to Prairie School architecture
6c ...that Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of
General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974
6c ...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural
disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages
6c ...that the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a
development of real tennis
6c ...that the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was
constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum
6c ...that the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with
a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips
6c ...that in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural
railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route
6c ...that a 120-year old Bodhi tree ( ) in Jin Long Si Temple, standing over
30 m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found
inSingapore
6c ...that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy
the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted
6c ...that scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases
6c ...that the book "$ ? "$ #
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State Senator Jackie Speier, has twice reached the !
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seller list
6c ...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created
in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars
6c ...that Chris Cosentino, a contestant on "$ ?(
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famous for cooking offal,
hated his grandmother's tripe as a child
6c ...that poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were
detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II
6c ...that near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid
behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud
farm at the behest of captured German officers
6c ...that Piffles Taylor ( ) quarterbacked the Regina Roughriders to the Western
Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I
6c ...that ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of
Przebraże
6c ...that Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his
actions on his steamboat at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe
6c ...that in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a
"divorce" from his mother
6c ...that Goose Creek State Park, a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound, is in
an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and other pirates
6c ...that Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash
investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air
disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986
6c ...that Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the
Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel
6c ...that NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for
three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race
winner Johnny Beauchamphad actually finished second behind Lee Petty
6c ...that American sports car racing driver Dick Thompson ^ was known as
the "Flying Dentist"
6c ...that the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of
Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British
soldiers since the Korean War
6c ...that sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work
commissioned for his popular "Life Underground" subway installation
6c ...that Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped
bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the
internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland
6c ...that Singapore·s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by
the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the
"Wash-out Fort"
6c ...that in his 1968 Declaration of Perth, British Conservative leader Edward
Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed
by Margaret Thatcher
6c ...that the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army
of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock
troops
6c ...that the training exercises in )$ ) were developed under the supervision of
a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology
6c ...that the Delaware and Hudson Canal ^ was the first American business
with a million-dollar market capitalization
6c ...that the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer
bottle in his rectum, was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985
and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia
6c ...that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes
would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"
6c ..that numerous references to Wikipedia on "$ Ñ, Y , an
American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by
consensus, rather than fact"
6c ...that in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection, the tortoise and hare move at very
different speeds, but always finish at the same spot
6c ...that Molly Badham, co-founder of Twycross Zoo, trained the chimpanzees who
appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements
6c ...that during the first six years of the Australian edition of $
E nobody won the top prize of one million dollars
6c ...that Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home,
frequently walking them on the streets of the city
6c ...that Turkish shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat ^ are
supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed
down the construction of a mosque
6c ...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public
library, an appliance store, and several other things
6c ...that Alexey Ekimyan, the author of many Soviet hits, was considered the only
popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the
same time
6c ...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the
largest effusive eruption ever witnessed
6c ...that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA
Music Award; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"
6c ...that cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong
Kong in international cricket
6c ...that the giant jellyfish Ñ$ $ is the largest invertebrate discovered in
the 20th century
6c ...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom
alone
6c ...that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite
pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for
the cost of the trial
6c ...that the book / %
1 ? by Peter Cox ^ , the first chief executive
of the Vegetarian Society, is the best-selling vegetarian book of all time
6c ...that St Patrick's Marist College, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist
Brothers, started out as a primary school
6c ...that William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle
in Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland
6c ...that Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission
of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms, William Dugdale,
travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670 to destroy
them
6c ...that the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production,
building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century
6c ...that former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle
with his rival David Koresh and seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted
from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco
6c ...that South Africa and England had already played each other during pool play
before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final
6c ...that a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140
males and 10 females in one year
6c ...that Stevens Arch ^ is one of the many geological features formed
from Navajo Sandstone along Coyote Gulch in southern Utah, USA
6c ...that in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman (2, Ñ
) is said to
be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that
returns every year on St. Sebastian s Day to hunt human victims
6c ...that some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted
from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent
6c ...that Walter Plunkett's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the
1930s and early '40s, second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress
6c ...that Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was
nicknamed
for his common practice of vetoing many bills he
considered were not in the best interest of his nation
6c ...that English actor, singer and playwright Arthur Williams ^ , best
remembered for his comic operas, Edwardian musical comedies and
musical burlesques, played over 1,000 roles in his career
6c ...that country musician Johnny Sea's spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a
response to Barry McGuire's protest song, "Eve of Destruction", was a Top 40 hit in
the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award
6c ...that leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor
of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years
6c ...that Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish
sports journalist
6c ...that "
was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant
commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music
chart
6c ...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first
person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to
cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds
6c ...that mounting blocks ^( , stone or wood blocks for mounting and
dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790
6c ...that John Popper, now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler, once convinced
a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo
performance of the song "She Blinded Me with Science"
6c ...that Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate
the Bible into Tamil
6c ...that the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera, a veteran of
the Spanish-American War, pioneered radio technology in his native country
6c ...that although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit, the fort William
Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually
named Fort Lernoult
6c ...that British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly
with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez
Crisis
6c ...that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without
having interviewed the defendant
6c ...that Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately
successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he
underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks
6c ...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay (
) was killed while
kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-
USA extradition treaty
6c ...that merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the
Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade
between Brisbane and London
6c ...that Gatot Soebroto, who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence
movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting
6c ...that Dudley Ryder, a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was
also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded
his father as 7thEarl of Harrowby
6c ...that Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney" for
building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university
6c ...that the book !$ *
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philosophical concepts
6c ...that Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his
heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England
6c ...that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver ( ) became notorious after it was
revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice
6c ...that the freshwater weed &- may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough
vigour to plunge the world into an ice age
6c ...that North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack"
wildland fires before they get out of control
6c ...that in the USSR, people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed
from photos to erase them from Soviet history
6c ...that sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure
balloon for ballast
6c ...that lignosulfonates, wood pulp byproducts, are used to
make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin
6c ...that Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian
leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat
6c ...that a translocation mutation in chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell
lymphoma
6c ...that though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single
speech in the House of Commons
6c ...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used
on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning
Tower of Pisa
6c ...that in an upcoming presentation ceremony at the White House, the late Navy
SEAL Michael P. Murphy ^ will become the first person awarded the Medal
of Honor for actions in the current War in Afghanistan
6c ...that there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to
the British Armed Forces Memorial
6c ...that the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall,
offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally
constructed as a brewery
6c ...that when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia,
he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of
EmperorHaile Selassie
6c ...that missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New
Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to
the incarnation of Jesus
6c ...that from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks
6c ...that Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known
as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the
fictional city in the 1993 movie %
6c ...that the stock for the captive breeding program of the Galapagos Land
Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated
from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s
6c ...that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted
to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to
starve by his own relatives when he returned home
6c ...that in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth
suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give
14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state
elections
6c ...that low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface,
that are used to explore its structure and composition
6c ...that the accuracy of Al Gore's &
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the English High Court of Justice case % !
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6c ...that United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of
fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet
remains near the bottom ofstatewide polls
6c ...that early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the
16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country
6c ...that Albrecht Dürer's ü$
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one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as
an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human
frailties
6c ...that Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the
small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at
the same time in the later 13th century
6c ...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found
in Yorkshire using a metal detector
6c ...that Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in
what is now southeastern Utah spent several months widening a "Hole-in-the-Rock"
for the passage of wagons
6c ...that the development of the Lockheed XF-104, a single-engine, high-
performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype, earned aircraft
engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958
6c ...that Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who
contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War
6c ...that the Tower of the Sun ^ , created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto for
the 1970 Expo, has three faces, representing the past, the present and the future
6c ...that the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's
Island during the War of 1812
6c ...that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the
skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime
6c ...that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has
a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit,
an Elizabethan chalice and chairsfrom the time of Charles II
6c ...that in Bigby v. Dretke, the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the
judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself
6c ...that the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by
a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck
6c ...that Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech
University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the
state's history
6c ...that Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940,
remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945
6c ...that Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West
Africa at the time of his death in 1955
6c ...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United
States, the Calhoun Colored School ^ focused on vocational
education forAfrican Americans instead of classical education to protect the school
from being closed down
6c ...that the wine-producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest
continually flowing river in Western Australia
6c ...that Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story ? $ % /
2 spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism
6c ...that on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding
technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year
6c ...that John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing
weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot
6c ...that Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and
large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film
6c ...that Milly Witkop ^ and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker were
denied admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally
married
6c ...that former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election
by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience
6c ...that Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village
called Udappu in Sri Lanka
6c ...that Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron
Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later
6c ...that the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-
Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein's orders in 1971
6c ...that Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major
daily newspapers in the U.S.
6c ...that the Red-chested Goshawk ^&
, a hawk of West Africa, was
named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel
6c ...that some experts believe a cylinder seal ^ from the prehistoric San
Andrés site is evidence for an Olmec writing system
6c ...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has
a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel, but "effective" was not defined
until
7 !$ in 2003
6c ...that Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University
of Ceylon and Annamalai University
6c ...that the Folly Theatre, which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe, was
originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip
Neri in London
6c ...that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas, celebrating their
completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the
2,711-pageBabylonian Talmud is studied each day
6c ...that Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and
the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing
on insects and popular science
6c ...that Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying
from England to Cape Town
6c ...that a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was
named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign
by the International Rhino Foundation
6c ...that the Southern black bream ^ , a species endemic to Australia valued
for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to salinity and is of possible
use for inland aquaculture in saline dams
6c ...that Ô
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upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found
guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial
evaluation
6c ...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival
architecture
6c ...that the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster
of khachkars (
) in Armenia
6c ...that Russell Adam Burnham, the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became
the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007
6c ...that bromopyruvic acid, a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a
potential treatment for cancer
6c ...that Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by
33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish
6c ...that Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in
the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses
to befall any violators
6c ...that John Pegram ( ) was the first former U.S. Army officer to be captured
while in Confederate service
6c ...that the Kerguelen Shag, a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands, is the
smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags
6c ...that the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known
6c ...that Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of
the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia
6c ...that George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine
6c ...that British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps' assistant right after
defeating Cripps' nephew in an election
6c ...that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve
the economy of Mysore kingdom
6c ...that the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan
6c ...that in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New
York's Metropolitan Opera
6c ...that one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made
at India's Kolar Gold Fields
6c ...that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that
date, the Rollei 35 ^
6c ...that bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions
of William Shakespeare's Y
ü by comparing damaged type used in his
other works
6c ...that in 1956, "$ ? / " ran a front-page story featuring Winston H.
Bostick's "plasma gun"
6c ...that Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West
Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990
6c ...that despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball
tournament, the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-
Manila 2-0 in the finals series
6c ...that according to the U.S. landmark court case Y
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, an involuntarily
committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric
medication
6c ...that c.300, Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide,
an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison'
6c ...that the Hogettes ( ), a group of Washington Redskins fans who dress
in drag and wear pig snout masks, have collected over US$100 million for charity
since 1983
6c ...that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of
the novel 2, whose protagonist is a gay teenager
6c ...that a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood
in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830
6c ...that the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details
of bones, teeth, eggshells, and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other
animals
6c ...that Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and
the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation
6c ...that Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented
against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in
council votes
6c ...that Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings who
stayed in Novgorod, Russia
6c ...that only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal
6c ...that after only six games in 2007, college football player Michael
Crabtree ( ) broke the record for mosttouchdown receptions in
a freshman season
6c ...that Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by
specific artists
6c ...that the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian
Revolution of 1905
6c ...that an American Revolution-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's
Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall
6c ...that in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the
preservation of endangered historic buildings
6c ...that the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New
York
6c ...that Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the $
,
a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII
6c ...that Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it
6c ...that Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for
refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to
a mental institution
6c ...that gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that
may explode as hypernovae (â Ñ
)
6c ...that Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading
British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head
6c ...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was
sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake
6c ...that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award
at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany
6c ...that when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in
1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan
6c ...that Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at
campaign events
6c ...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an
unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her
6c ...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized
statue of a warrior ^ dating from around 500 BC
6c ...that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after
contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite
6c ...that the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the
first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world
6c ...that Ipi Tombe, a Thoroughbred racehorse, was sold for the equivalent
of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents
6c ...that William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile
dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co
6c ...that Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when
Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line
tape
6c ...that before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy
Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National
Assembly
6c ...that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the
esophagus ^
6c ...that the academic journal &
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6c ...that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating
advances and retreats of fjord-carving glaciers ( ) terminating in tidewater
6c ...that the Indo-Burma barrier, a 1,624 kilometer-
long barrier between India and Burma, is being built to
curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking
6c ...that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not
allowed to contain more than 35% fat
6c ...that in Orangeville, Illinois, four of the five Registered Historic Places: Union
House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House are all within three
blocks of each other
6c ...that Chinua Achebe's novel &
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to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that
Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance
6c ...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester ^ questioned
Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the
Mainwaring family
6c ...that in the post-World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J.
Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days
6c ...that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British
India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore
6c ...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the
remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents
recognised
6c ...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential
house of canonesses in Bavaria
6c ...that least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency
spectrum, based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions
6c ...that the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha,
Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years
later
6c ...that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection
of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is
invisible"
6c ...that the Vincent Thomas Bridge ^ was named after Vincent Thomas,
a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during
itsconstruction
6c ...that the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants
6c ...that the reconstruction of the Saalburg, Germany's most completely
reconstructed Roman fort, began under Kaiser Wilhelm II
6c ...that the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was
one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War
6c ...that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West
Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage
6c ...that William Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode
to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of
anunrequited love, than with the death itself
6c ...that the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles
6c ...that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly
misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side
6c ...that Sloan·s Urania ^Ô
^ , a Jamaican day flying moth of
the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895
6c ...that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the
19th century United States
6c ...that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in
the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola
6c ...that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short
story "$ :$ %$
6c ...that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of
the economy was initially rejected by his peers
6c ...that Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic
books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck"
6c ...that the Züschen tomb ^ and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany,
are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture
6c ...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to
be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ) 7
$
6c ...that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in
the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned
a Ph.D.from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival
6c ...that the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to
collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling
6c ...that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by
total wins and percentage
6c ...that early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of
the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885²1886
6c ...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National
Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's
decision in theY 7 abortion case
6c ...that despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still
occurred in Poland
6c ...that Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas
Jefferson's Monticello plantation
6c ...that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin ^ , a 16 year
old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help
6c ...that "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders
Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure
groupWelsh Language Society
6c ...that Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares
elements with Chrétien de Troyes' # Ñ
+
6c ...that Outhwaite Park in Auckland, New Zealand, is named after early settlers,
the Outhwaite family
6c ...that in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-
operative movement could be modernized
6c ...that Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of
Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces
in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation
Torch
6c ...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at
least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age
6c ...that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (
) was the world's longest and
tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was
knocked down by a tornado in 2003
6c ...that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("ghetto desks" or "ghetto
benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily
forJewish students
6c ...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode
Island includes three books bound in human skin
6c ...that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round
Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County,
Illinois during the early 20th century
6c ...that the Susukino district was established as a red-light
district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō
6c ...that most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom,
with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation,
dating back to theprehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana
6c ...that English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children
increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone
Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet
Tollemache-Tollemache
6c ..that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health ^ is one of the most
frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually
6c ...that in his book ü $ $
ü, Robert Eisenman contends that
the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual
smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus
6c ...that Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the "principal boy"
in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London
6c ...that Simon Girty's
son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they
opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War
6c ...that a dispute about S$60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over
S$120,000 in legal costs
6c ...that moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional
meeting places for
lairdly courts and courts of law
6c ...that an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French
soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that
annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day
6c ...that English opera singer and actress Florence Perry ( ) was best known
for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th
century
6c ...that the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house
in Kane County, Illinois
6c ...that construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over
nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827
6c ...that 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was
simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that
office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin
6c ...that Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly
6c ...that South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and
professional athlete
6c ...that Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him
in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists
6c ...that the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the
conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic
Knights
6c ...that Ebenezer Rhodes ^ , Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt
after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire
6c ...that Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won
five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40
years inexile in Canada after the Communists came to power
6c ...that Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride
parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since
1976
6c ...that in the landmark decision Ô
! 7 :
$, the U.S. Supreme
Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases
6c ...that Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of
responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $17
million investigationof 148 cases
6c ...that the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the
year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the
Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day
6c ...that Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental "Behind
My Camel" (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even
buried the tapeof it in a garden
6c ...that the Akhtala monastery ( ) was originally an Armenian
Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in
the 1200s
6c ...that Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's
first penitentiary
6c ...that Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper
6c ...that the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of
the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft
6c ...that the cuisine of
Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese influences
6c ...that Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in
the 1920s and 1930s
6c ...that German physical chemist Max Volmer became head of a design bureau for
the production of heavy water in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
6c ...that English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 ² 1969) was a pioneer in the field
of comparative biochemistry
6c ...that Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was
his country's War Minister for 10 months
6c ...that British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt, great-nephew of Nobel Prize-winning
physicist Lord Rayleigh, declined an offer of peerage, as did his great-great-
grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt
6c ...that whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the
death of Claudius is debated to this day
6c ...that the Espoo Cathedral ^ was built as a church in the 15th century but
did not become a cathedral until 2004
6c ...that Richard Honeck, an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64
years of a life sentence, reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole
6c ...that Singaporean Venerable Ho Yuen Hoe worked nineteen-hour
days hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing
home at age 61
6c ...that both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar
proportions
6c ...that the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was
originally intended as the city's main street
6c ...that Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20
years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB
6c ...that Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-
Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his
posthumous trilingualKawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished
in English in 1971
6c ...that the EPA's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking
water to 15 parts per billion
6c ...that the first Swedish alphabet book, the Y
&Ñ, was mainly intended to
teach the runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin one
6c ...that the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-
shaped pottery ^
6c ...that R. C. Evans, an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, became the leader of a schismaticsect in 1918 after concluding
that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet
6c ...that Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British
Army in the reign of Queen Anne, becoming Lieutenant-General of the
Ordnance despite having no particular military ability
6c ...that Mary Howitt wrote "The Spider and the Fly" (the poem parodied in &1
&
) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian
Anderson
6c ...that the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped
to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners
since 1984
6c ...that a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a
building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson, the first
American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics
6c ...that Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral
reef system and the largest in the Philippines
6c ...that the bluestripe snapper ^ was introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as
a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish for space and food
6c ...that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently elected president of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his
youth
6c ...that the Freedman's Savings Bank, created in 1865 for emancipated African-
Americans, had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the
height of its success
6c ...that the Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel
for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
6c ...that Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors
on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago
6c ...that Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in West Bengal, that
could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new
port town in 1867
6c ...that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon
from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world
6c ...that over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described
6c ...that
$
^ , a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has
been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment
for high blood pressure
6c ...that the first drive thru in the United States is at Maid-Rite Sandwich
Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois
6c ..that the Tsalenjikha Cathedral, a medieval cathedral in Georgia, is decorated
with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries
6c ...that English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-
wheeled automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from
adequately testing it because it exceeded the legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the
time
6c ...that although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five
years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations
in Chicago
6c ...that Prince Dimitri Romanov is the first member of the Romanov dynasty to be
married in Russia since its fall in 1917
6c ...that Reinald, a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross,
was nicknamed , French for "skinny"
6c ...that the Emin Minaret ^ in Turfan, Xinjiang, built in the 18th century
during the reign of Qing Emperor Qianlong, is the tallest minaret in China
6c ...that the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, had a self-supported
spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower
6c ...that natural oil polyols from soy beans are used to make car parts and
mattresses
6c ...that Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as
Dale and Grace while singing with other singers
6c ...that in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a
legal suit by the Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a
region on the arms of another was illegal
6c ...that Anne Montgomery, who has been a sportscaster for several local television
stations as well as ! Ñ
, was the first female football referee in Arizona
6c ...that in graph theory, a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but
cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles
6c ...that in April 1802, Georgian nobles who opposed the Russian annexation of
Georgia were assembled in Tbilisi's Sioni Cathedral ^ , surrounded
byRussian troops, and forced to take an oath to the Imperial Crown of Russia
6c ...that the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley
Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of
"bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930
6c ...that Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take
a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills
6c ...that Holmöarna, an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia, forms the largest
island nature reserve in Sweden
6c ...that the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was
also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois
6c ...that the seeds of Ñ found
in Yunnan, China contain mabinlins, sweet-tasting proteins more than 100 times
sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis
6c ...that Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú,
began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group
6c ...that Singapore's Gallery Hotel ^ , with its twisted cuboid form and
seemingly random and multi-coloured windows, stands like a massive pop
artsignpost
6c ...that gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave
Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the
largest in Oregon history
6c ...that the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his
favourite fell, Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District
6c ...that Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag was a founding member of
the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a
world which cannot be seen
6c ...that the autobiography has been called the oldest form of Egyptian literature
6c ...that in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley
and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit
in Australia, England or New Zealand
6c ...that singer Al Bernard, known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C.
Handy's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie
Hare
6c ...that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station ^ in Dwight, Illinois was the longest
operating filling station along U.S. Route 66
6c ...that King Narasaraja Wodeyar II, who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of
Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute or preferred to remain
silent throughout his rule
6c ...that political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible in
2006
6c ...that Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal
case in court
6c ...that a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty,
who was convicted
,
for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer
killed during The Troubles
6c ...that Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country
of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him
working as a bellhop in anAtlanta, Georgia hotel elevator
6c ...that the arcade conversion of the 2001 video game features a unique
reclined seating cabinet
6c ...that Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but
rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War
6c ...that wood paneling from the ruins of Colden Mansion in Montgomery, New
York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
6c ...that Victoria Mansion ( ) in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many
conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold
running water, gas lighting and a servant·s call system
6c ...that in 1924, the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to
compete for the Stanley Cup
6c ...that U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,
and can be closed several times per week for missile tests
6c ...that relative volatility in a liquid mixture of chemicals measures the difficulty of
separating them by distillation
6c ...that Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer
of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"
6c ...that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder
magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been
manufactured there since 1976
6c ...that Belgium's sillon industriel was the first fully industrialized area
in continental Europe
6c ...that, prior to English physicist C.G. Darwin·s 1952 conception of man as
a human molecule, in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a
"point atom"
6c ...that the song "Swanee" was written in ten minutes by George
Gershwin and Irving Caesar, and sold over two million copies after being recorded
by Al Jolson in 1919
6c ...that the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought
between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance
6c ...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training
of grape vines, and the +4 is extensively used throughout vineyards in
Europe
6c ...that Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship
by coming back from a score of 196²42 to win by a score of 200²197, an event
called the best comeback in billiards history
6c ...that the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles
( ) in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's
day
6c ...that fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more
than six days
6c ...that actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English
poets and then toured England talking about America
6c ...that the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, won an award for
valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty
6c ...that the Orthodox Church of France is a Western Rite Orthodox church that uses
a restored Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain
6c ...that the Italian invasion of Albania was launched by Benito Mussolini in April
1939 as a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and was
completed within five days
6c ...that players had to submit their turns by ZX Microdrive cartridge in the play by
mail version of video game Dark Sceptre
6c ...that the 1999 Athens earthquake and the 1999 İzmit earthquake, which
happened less than a month earlier, gave rise to the "Greek-Turkish earthquake
diplomacy"
6c ...that the International Plaza ^ is the tallest commercial building with
residential apartments in Singapore
6c ...that labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been
appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand
6c ...that the Belgian French Community Holiday celebrates a victory over the Dutch
army, while the Dutch speaking region's holiday celebrates a victory over
the French army
6c ...that Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's
"patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham
Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908
6c ...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors
from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the
forests of Sundarbans, but none since
6c ...that an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing
driver Patsy Burt, who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"
6c ...that many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide
temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (( )
6c ...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in
the
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6c ...that three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time
during the 2001²02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their
tenthStanley Cup
6c ...that British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged
former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe
seat
6c ...that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee
6c ...that in the late 17th century, the staveless runes (
)
of Scandinavia were purported to be the origin of stenography
6c ...that the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's % , by
Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book
with engraved illustrations
6c ...that Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a
mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park
6c ...that the play Ñ$ Y has a script consisting of the almost-
verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters
6c ...that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl
game in college football history even before it went into overtime
6c ...that Walter Scott's narrative poem "$ #
$ # is in six cantos, each of
which concerns the action of a single day
6c ...that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School
in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow
her daughters to wear hijabsin school
6c ...that musical theatre star Phyllis Dare ( ) published her autobiography in
1907, but continued to perform in Edwardian musical comedy and on stage until
1951
6c ...that in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for
the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world
6c ...that under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or
published books in this Protestant city could be put to death
6c ...that mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and
thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones
6c ...that the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to
bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie
6c ...that the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan's rule from
815 to 838 CE
6c ...that Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy
Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program
6c ...that "$ , a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual
crime scenes
6c ... that after serving in the Swedish and French militaries, Thure de Thulstrup later
gained a reputation as "the foremost military artist in America" ^( $
6c ... that the Norwegian airline Braathens' destinations included seven offshore oil
fields served by Braathens Helikopter
6c ... that Sister Pearl Corkhill was one of only seven Australian military nurses to win
the Military Medal in the First World War
6c ... that the 2006 The Dawn album " ? % was not intended to serve as
a soundtrack album for the film of the same title
6c ... that in eastern Turkey around 1900 BCE, a Near East mass migration set in
motion a vast wave of refugees that changed the population of Greece forever
6c ... that Canadian writer Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed
version of the screen adaption of her novel, "$ Y ,
#, despite being
involved in the pre-production of the film
6c ... that rigged elections to the People's Assemblies of Western Ukraine and Western
Belarus became an official legitimization of Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in
1939
6c ... that when the play "
6c ... that the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881 ^ received the
approval of both Great Britain and Germany, but that Italy protested in vain
6c ... that bankers, airline executives, Academy Award-winning directors, Bob
Geldof and a representative from Coca-Cola were among delegates who attended
theGlobal Irish Economic Forum in September 2009
6c ... that lawyer, politician and anti-immigration activist Erik Gjems-Onstad also
initiated the cyclosportive Styrkeprøven
6c ... that the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided
a ? "
in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora
6c ... that in 1960, Archbishop Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara became the first papal
representative to visit the British Houses of Parliament in four centuries
6c ... that Matt Brown, from Idalou, Texas, won the gold medal for discus with a
prosthetic leg at the 2008 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro
6c ... that unlike most Depression-era armories in New York, the Schenectady
Armory was built in the center of its city rather than on its outskirts
6c ... that "Pawnee Zoo", an episode of the American television comedy *
Y
, features a fictional same-sex marriage between two penguins
6c ... that the Sky Room atop the Breakers Hotel ^ was the local Airwatch
headquarters in World War II
6c ... that ferritic nitrocarburizing is a ferrous case hardening process that causes
little shape distortion because of its low temperature (below 650 °C)
6c ... that Mette Hanekamhaug, at 22, became the youngest parliamentarian elected in
the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election
6c ... that the first United States national track and field championships were
organized by the New York Athletic Club in 1876
6c ... that the "severe" and "assertive" former St Peter's Church in Shoreham-by-
Sea was converted into a nursing home, retaining many of its original features
6c ... that former Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dale Sittig was credited with
obtaining lighting for the Louisiana State University at Eunice's baseball stadium
6c ... that Marcel Oopa, French National Assembly member from Tahiti and
the Polynesian autonomist R.D.P.T, died on Bastille Day 1961
6c ... that Buster Keaton built a trestle bridge near Culp Creek, Oregon, just to burn it
down for a movie
6c ... that ü %, the epic poem by Torquato Tasso ^ , has
inspired at least 100 operas set in the Crusades
6c ... that Admiral Sir Francis Wheler's mangled body was washed up two days after
the loss of his flagship HMS !( in 1694
6c ... that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California,
vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps
6c ... that the historical region of Colchis in which the Kolkheti National Park of
western Georgia is now located appears in the Jason and the Argonauts myth
6c ... that the 1955 Hindi film $
marked composer Ravi's debut as a film music
director
6c ... that after the Division I men's basketball coach Norman Shepard went
undefeated in his first year, he quit
6c ... that Travis Touchdown, the anti-hero of the Wii video game ? 2, was
so named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"
6c ... that only one Skinner & Eddy ship built for World War I service was lost in that
conflict, but 31³including #$, â, â,
2
^ , 2,, 2$ and (³were lost to
enemy action in World War II
6c ... that Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's
largest agricultural event
6c ... that Yilun Yang is ranked as a 7 dan in the board game Go
6c ... that the 1920 film !(, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider
dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania
6c ... that the rice rat ":- $
", first identified from bones collected from
caves in Antigua and Barbuda as early as 1958, still lacks a formal scientific name
6c ... that B.G. Dyess was elected to the Louisiana Senate at the age of 73
6c ... that no one was allowed to take photographs of the Beardmore Relics for more
than thirty years
6c ... that the first practical amphibious helicopter was created in 1941 when Igor
Sikorsky fitted floats to his VS-300 ^
6c ...that when Friedrich Giesel discovered actinium independently from André-Louis
Debierne, he wanted to call it "emanium"
6c ... that the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond, Oregon, is the city's oldest
church
6c ... that Emanuel Levenson married the widow of the record producer of his only
surviving recording
6c ... that Lunugamvehera National Park is one of the protected areas where the near
threatened species Tufted Gray Langur occurs
6c ... that Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco deemed critic Şerban Cioculescu "stupid
by obligation" during a cultural debate of the 1930s
6c ... that Guo Moruo wrote a poem about the Liujiaxia Dam, while the displaced
farmers received about RMB 364 per person
6c ... that Jo Swerling initially declined to rewrite Frank Capra's first draft screenplay
for the 1930 film #
# because he thought it was a "putrid piece
of gorgonzola"
6c ... that hardstone carvings in semi-precious stones range from Neolithic Chinese
jades and Olmec face masks ^( to tiny animals by Fabergé
6c ... that besides being a clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of
hand magician, vaudevillian Avner the Eccentric is a certified Ericksonian
hypnotist
6c ... that the blurred and smooth lanternsharks form a species group distinguished
from the rest of their family by the shape and arrangement of their dermal
denticles
6c ... that John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States
Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account
of their culture in 1869
6c ... that Bath, the only entire city in England to be a World Heritage Site, was
awarded that status largely because of its buildings and architecture
6c ... that Robert Bloet, a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon
as Dean of Lincoln
6c ... that Trondheim Airport Station opened as the Nordic Countries's first airport rail
link in 1994
6c ... that Andy "The Bull" McSharry, who was jailed for banning hillwalkers from his
land, compared his opponents to the Mafia and patrolled his farm on a quad
6c ... that Great Grey Shrikes ^ have been known to skilfully skin toads to
prevent the poisonous skin secretions from spoiling the meat
6c ... that physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize-winning
husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of
employment at theU.S. Naval Research Laboratory
6c ... that reviewers called "$
the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its
star, Louise Glaum, "the greatest vampire woman of all time"
6c ... that Sandouping, China, has not only the world's largest power plant, but also
1,000 hectares of citrus orchards
6c ... that after limited success in film, actor Patrick McVey won starring roles in
three television series: "
,
!, and
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6c ... that the United States revenue cutter ü
6c ... that the nose and tail sections of the Soviet Ilyushin Il-32 prototype cargo
glider ^ were hinged to open up to 95° to facilitate the loading of cargo
6c ... that the Sanni Yakuma is a traditional Sinhalese exorcism and dance ritual that
calls various demons believed to be ailing humans and humiliates them through
comic and obscene enactments
6c ... that as of 2009, Liz Shuler is the first woman and youngest person to hold the
position of AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, and the highest-ranking woman in
thelabor federation's history
6c ... that "Gossip", the sixth season premiere of "$ :
6c ... that only about 200 fragments and 15 complete objects of early Roman cameo
glass survive, including the Portland Vase ^
6c ... that the song "Sentimental Lady," written by Bob Welch, which appeared
on Fleetwood Mac's 1972 album, ", was re-recorded to feature on his
1977 debut album, )
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6c ... that during the 1527 sacking of Rome by imperial troops, William of
Enckenvoirt paid 40,000 scudi to protect his house and properties
6c ... that Du Jun was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in Hong
Kong's biggest insider trading case
6c ... that the Suceava North railway station in Suceava was selected as a location for
the film +,1 ü
because the filmmakers believed the architecture was
reminiscent of World War II
6c ... that some geologists say the Great Falls Tectonic Zone is a shear, while others
argue it is a suture
6c ... that John T. Elson, who famously asked, "Is God Dead" in 1966, is dead at age
78
6c ... that the largetooth cookiecutter shark has the largest teeth relative to its body of
any living shark
6c ... that the adult ^ and juvenile specimens of the Red-capped Parrot were so
different that its discoverer Heinrich Kuhl gave it the specific name ,
meaning "illegitimate"
6c ... that the Italian comune of Acerno in the Province of Salerno was founded by
refugees from Picentia, destroyed by the Romans after the Second Punic War
6c ... that the Carolina Liar single "Show Me What I'm Looking For" was described as
"rock music for anyone who finds Snow Patrol a bit too giddy sometimes"
6c ... that % % is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that
sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money
6c ... that the Ilyushin Il-18 airliner was installed with different engines than those
originally intended, but the plane was then cancelled because its engines were
unreliable
6c ... that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, " ",
as a
cause of the Tulsa race riot, but all copies of that page of the newspaper have
apparently disappeared
6c ... that the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents
of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as
being "exceptional" and "temporary"
6c ... that after the release of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" in March 1968, radio
personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and
over for two hours
6c ... that one of the two tjaskers at Zeijen, Drenthe ( ) is listed as
a Rijksmonument
6c ... that the Chief Kno²Tah statue in Hillsboro, Oregon, was designed to incorporate
features of Chief Joseph
6c ... that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs
emerged from Alice O'Sullivan's victory in the 1959 Rose of Tralee pageant
6c ... that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian sound film, %
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from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage
production six years earlier
6c ... that Tennessee politician Tommy Burnett easily won re-election to the state
legislature while he was in U.S. federal prison
6c ... that Union College in Schenectady, New York, has the first comprehensively
planned college campus and had the longest-serving college or university
president in the United States
6c ... that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought Manichaeanism east
into Sogdiana, and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death
of Mani
6c ... that the AFL-CIO gained its latest member union when the 265,000-
member UNITE HERE reaffiliated on September 16, 2009
6c ... that many of the freighters built by Skinner & Eddy for World War I service³
including â
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quickly commissioned into the United States Navy on completion
6c ... that Sankey Tank in Bangalore is named after Sir Richard Hieram Sankey, an
officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in British India
6c ... that the namesake of the Victorian Bembridge House was strangled to death in
1999 at the house where she had lived for 81 years
6c ... that Trimön, a Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the
officials involved in the search and recognition of the reincarnated 14th Dalai
Lama in 1935
6c ... that the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve in the Santa Cruz
Mountains of California contains an ancient seabed with fossils of various marine
lifeforms, such as sand dollars andbivalves
6c ... that the history of Bulgarians in Italy dates to the 7th century, when groups
of Bulgars settled in several regions of the Italian Peninsula
6c ... that the first Red-fronted Parrot to be scientifically identified was named Congo
Jack
6c ... that among the Taíno people of the Caribbean, a zemi ^ is a spirit or a
sculpture representing the spirit
6c ... that Robert Searcy, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, was
employed after the war by United Airlines cleaning aircraft
6c ... that Arbois is the only grape variety besides Chenin blanc permitted in the Loire
Valley wine of Vouvray
6c ... that the South African film ü is based on the real-life case of
an organized crime figure taking over real
estate in Johannesburg's Hillbrow neighborhood
6c ... that a weir built to aid fish traveling up a fish ladder in Little Butte Creek was
destroyed just three months later
6c ... that Viola Tree, her father Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and her son David Tree all
performed in premieres of play or film versions of George Bernard
Shaw's *
6c ... that "$
compares Werner Erhard's est training to "$ "$
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by Carlos Castaneda
6c ... that before the 2008 International Bowl, American football linebacker Jamaal
Westerman was asked questions about the weather in Toronto, because he had
lived there
6c ... that pulque ^> was a popular Mexican alcoholic drink made
from sap of the maguey plant
6c ... that actor Bret Harrison's first role was in : "
at the Hillsboro Artists'
Regional Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon
6c ... that the coronation ceremonies of Russian Tsars Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas
I were decorated by Italian theatre set designer Pietro Gonzaga
6c ... that violence in the 1970 Koza riot against US military presence in Okinawa was
directed specifically against white servicemen, while care was taken to avoid
attacking black MPs
6c ... that the site of Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural work was Mexico
City's Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters
6c ... that Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips
to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas
6c ... that Romania's ruling Social Democratic²Democratic Liberal coalition was
divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the
appointment of school directors
6c ... that when Cooper Arms opened in Long Beach, California, it boasted the latest
amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"
6c ... that the extinct New Zealand Little Bittern ^ was described as always
being found alone and standing for hours in one place
6c ... that although the 1954 Guinean by-poll was marred with irregularities, only
the communists and the African Democratic Rally voted against validating the
results in the French National Assembly
6c ... that the Long Beach Post Office has been called "Post-Quake Moderne" due to
the local prevalence of the style after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933
6c ... that Rafael Trujillo's daughter presided as ;
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6c ... that Carl Rubin made significant modifications to Meir Dizengoff's house
changing it into an art museum, which would later become Israel's Independence
Hall
6c ... that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off
taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario
6c ... that Rancho Las Mariposas, unwanted by John C. Frémont until gold was
discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest rancho in California
6c ... that Queen Elizabeth II was taught constitutional history by Henry Marten
6c ... that despite its name, the edibility of the rhubarb bolete ^ is unknown
6c ... that 50 years ago today, on an Iowa farm, farmer and hybrid
corn salesman Roswell Garst hosted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
6c ... that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 World Orienteering
Championships, Martin Johansson was injured by a wooden stick penetrating
12 centimetres (5 in) into his leg
6c ... that !
was the first film with an all-black cast in the science fiction-
horror film genre
6c ... that of Japanese band Supercell's eleven members, only one of them makes the
music and the rest are illustrators and designers
6c ... that the !
episode "The Revenge" was based on an experience by
screenwriter Larry David, who once quit his job at ! ?$ # and returned
the following morning as if nothing had happened
6c ... that the machine shop in the Dry Dock Engine Works-Detroit Dry Dock
Company Complex ^ was built with a then-novel load-bearing steel frame,
but has curtain walls of traditional brick construction
6c ... that the 1999 anime series %
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was first seen as an imitation
of Nintendo's *6
franchise when its episodes first aired in North America
6c ... that Mirosław Iringh, a leader of Slovak Platoon 535, wore a white-blue-
red armband made out of a French military decoration once bestowed upon a
fellowinsurrectionist by Marshal Foch
6c ... that the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon, was once the
largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States
6c ... that John Lawford was the only captain who fought at Copenhagen in 1801 to
receive an honorary reward specifically for his actions during the battle
6c ... that in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from
93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148
6c ... that Arnold Laven directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer,
an army of giant mollusks and George Armstrong Custer, and episodes of "$ &4
"
6c ... that Palms Depot ^ was known as the "Grasshopper Stop" because
"grasshoppers were present in veritable clouds" when it opened
6c ... that the tomb of Pope John V was destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 846 AD,
centuries before nearly all of the remainder of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's
Basilica were demolished
6c ... that Japanese manga Y Ñ â has an eponymous single performed
by Morio Agata, which ranked seventh in Japan's Oricon charts in 1972
6c ... that Clayton W. Williams, Sr., an oilman and rancher from Fort Stockton, Texas,
was part of the group that formed the American Legion in Paris in 1919
6c ... that visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International
Braille Chess Association
6c ... that the land for 53rd Avenue Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, was purchased from
exercise equipment maker Soloflex
6c ... that during the absence of Byzantine emperor Heraclius from Constantinople in
622²626, the patrician Bonus defended the city from a major Avar siege in July
626
6c ... that when describing his time fighting >$ in Afghanistan, Mohamad
Elzahabi said "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"
6c ... that the Scottish Rite Cathedral ^ , covered in some 250 tons of
ornamental terra cotta, was among the first eight structures designated as a Long
Beach Historic Landmark
6c ... that Tajammul Hussain Malik headed an unsuccessful coup attempt
against Pakistani dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1980
6c ... that Metallica's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove
published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album %$
6c ... that after the merger of UNITE and HERE in 2004, the merged union UNITE
HERE owned the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago
6c ... that Czech ice-hockey goaltender Josef Mikoláš' career injuries included eight
lost teeth, a broken cheekbone, a double fracture of his lower jaw and 35
head sutures
6c ... that single-pass bore finishing can finish a bore to a size tolerance of 0.001 mm
and a geometry tolerance of 0.0003 mm
6c ... that the prewar AVA Radio Company, in Warsaw, built all the electro-
mechanical equipment used by Poland's Cipher Bureau to break
German Enigma ciphers
6c ... that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in +
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, but is best known for
saying "Shazam" in Ñ
, the first big screen depiction of a comic book
superhero
6c ... that after events of the Gulf War in February 1991, the highway which
connects Kuwait City to Al Jahra became known as the Highway of
Death ^$ $
$ $$
6c ... that Mike Milligan was a Division I head coach for football and basketball at two
different institutions
6c ... that ABC aired the , 7%7 episode "The Outrage" despite having
been zapped for the earlier episode "The Other Martin Loring"
6c ... that Captain Isaac Coffin rescued a man from drowning while
commanding HMS &, but injured himself in doing so
6c ... that the largely residential community of Dockton on Maury Island, Washington,
was once an industrial center
6c ... that
, a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale,
relocated Niccolò Machiavelli's
into Phanariote-era Bucharest
6c ... that Gordon Faber, as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, once carried an ax while
wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review
6c ... that the Tutte 12-cage ^( is a 3-regular graph with
126 vertices and 189 edges
6c ... that Columbia College acting dean Henry S. Coleman, held hostage in
the Columbia University protests of 1968, later wrote law school recommendation
letters for some of his student captors
6c ... that in writing the 1973 song "Hypnotized", Bob Welch drew upon his perception
of the Benifold mansion in Hampshire that Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the
time, and where the song was recorded
6c ... that a casket discovered by Anant Sadashiv Altekar near Vaishali, on display at
the Patna Museum, is said to contain the remains of the Buddha
6c ... that Yreka phlox, an endangered flowering plant that grows in serpentine soil, is
the official city flower of Yreka, California
6c ... that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual cantilever frame, though never hugely
popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today
6c ... that the prewar AVA Radio Company, in Warsaw, built all the electro-
mechanical equipment used by Poland's Cipher Bureau to break
German Enigma ciphers
6c ... that in Zoroastrian tradition ^)$ , Zoroaster was met with
hostility when he arrived at the court of his future patron Vishtaspa
6c ... that Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling saw the reunions of both Tekno Team
2000 and the father and son team of Dusty and Dustin Rhodes
6c ... that Nikolay Karamzin compared the architectural projects of Vasili
Bazhenov to Plato's Y , and Thomas More's Ô
6c ... that the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save
six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945
6c ... that after seeing 2, a play about the life of actor Zero Mostel, Theodore
Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we
thought was long extinct"
6c ... that the West African trade union centre CGTA, a splinter-group of
the French CGT, rejected the notion of class struggle, stating that there were no
antagonistic classes in Africa
6c ... that only 1% of students attending Oregon Connections Academy live within the
school district
6c ... that a pyramid ^1
that contained the grave of Queen
Amanishakheto was located in Wad ban Naqa and her stone stela was discovered
in Naqa, both of which are in modern-day Sudan
6c ... that Andrew Berg, a Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of Alaska, became the
Territory's first licensed hunting guide
6c ... that the 1921 Triumph Ricardo British motorcycle was capable of over 70 mph
and set three world speed records
6c ... that Kilkenny beat favourites Galway in a semi-final match of the All-Ireland
Senior Camogie Championship 2009 despite one third of their team being under
the age of twenty
6c ... that Alfred Gottschalk performed the 1972 rabbinic ordination of Sally Priesand,
the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism
6c ... that the depiction of Eros and Psyche on the Marlborough gem,
a carved onyx cameo from as early as the first century CE, was copied or
reproduced by Cipriani, Bartolozzi,Wedgwood and Flaxman
6c ... that one of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Deasy's last acts before
dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards
6c ... that in October 1945, shortly after unexpectedly entering a cloud, National
Airlines Flight 16 crashed into a lake in Lakeland, Florida, drowning two
passengers
6c ... that more than 90 percent of the night sharks ^ caught off northeastern
Brazil contain mercury concentrations higher than that considered safe by the local
government
6c ... that the first African American to see the Great Falls of the Missouri
River was York, a slave who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition
6c ... that two foiled attacks by N.D.F.L.O.A.G. guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a
conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Oman
6c ... that IOC organizers proposed to demonstrate American football at the 1932
Summer Olympics as a match-up between the defending national
champions atUSC and East Coast powerhouse Yale University
6c ... that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman had a wide range of interests
including Māori ethnology
6c ... that the artist who made a stone relief of the Menorah in Israel's Migdal
Synagogue in 50 BCE ² 100 CE may have seen the original Menorah in the Second
Temple before its destruction in 70 CE
6c ... that though he has won six nonconsecutive elections to the Louisiana State
Senate, Joe McPherson of Rapides Parish has twice failed in bids for his
state's Public Service Commission
6c ... that Australian band The Sundance Kids was formed in a shopping centre car
park over takeaway pizza
6c ... that collectors of engraved gems ^( include Julius Caesar, Pope
Paul II, Rubens, Christina of Sweden and Catherine the Great
6c ... that Akaitcho, Chief of the Yellowknives, was John Franklin's Coppermine
Expedition guide
6c ... that the luxurious Villa Riviera was the second tallest building in Southern
California from the time of its completion in 1929 through the mid-1950s
6c ... that James Aubrey, who appeared in the 1963 film version of #
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made his professional acting debut in
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6c ... that the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, asked residents to donate their
used Christmas trees for planting at Turner Creek Park
6c ... that Lars Peder Brekk was Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal
Affairs for only 56 days, due to his cabinet withdrawing shortly after he was
supplemented into it
6c ... that the French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of a
trading post in Saint-Louis
6c ... that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover Doris Gibson,
Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"
6c ... that Harvey Locke ^ conceived the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation
Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous wilderness corridor from Yellowstone
National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Canada
6c ... that the rheology of food affects how pleasant a food feels in the mouth and
therefore how desirable it is to the consumer
6c ... that prior to writing the book " ! , Mary Alice Chrnalogar had
belonged to the religious group Church Universal and Triumphant
6c ... that while serving in the California Assembly, Republican Michael D. Duvall was
described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize gay marriage
6c ... that the southern African frilled shark preys mainly on smaller sharks, which it
swallows whole with its greatly distensible mouth
6c ... that City View was the first charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon, when it opened
in 2004
6c ... that Norwegian ship-owner Ludvig G. Braathen founded the airline Braathens
SAFE in 1946 to serve his ships in the Far East with supplies and crew
6c ... that the co-founder of the New England Institute of Religious Research was a
court-appointed guardian of 13 children removed from a religious sect in Attleboro,
Massachusetts
6c ... that the 1919 BSA Model E British motorcycle ^ was the first of a long
line of popular V twins
6c ... that the Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict involved the houses
of Ascania, Hohenzollern, Luxembourg, Pomerania, Sweden and Wittelsbach
6c ... that Hayden Bridge, a covered bridge on the National Register of Historic Places,
had to be repaired in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it
6c ... that a car-driving collie recently auditioned for the second series of "$ &
"
!$
6c ... that Barbara Atkinson appeared with the National Theatre Company for their
1969²1970 season
6c ... that the AIDS activist group ACT UP twice shut down production of the
$
Ñ episode "After It Happened", believing that it would
encourage vigilantism against people with AIDS
6c ... that in only his third full Major League Baseball season, Chuck Workman hit 25
home runs, second in the National League
6c ... that the Bromley equation is important for the understanding of ions in river,
lake and sea-water
6c ... that the Azores Noctule ^ is the only species of bat that primarily hunts
during the day
6c ... that Jon Olav Alstad was elected to the Norwegian Parliament at the age of 25
6c ... that two windmills in Burdaard, the Netherlands, are named after the
elephant and the swallow, and that both mills are Rijksmonuments
6c ... that the Cannock Chase murders sparked one of the
largest manhunts in British history
6c ... that the mineral processing plant at the Kittilä mine includes a bomb shelter, as
required by a 1917 law
6c ... that Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version
of Shakespeare's sonnets, produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest
6c ... that Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul launched the world's
largest dredger in June 2008 with the 46,000m capacity Ñ, Ñ
6c ... that James A. Kowalski, dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New
York, had a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother, but they joined
the Episcopal Church when they started a family
6c ... that the Honda DN-01 motorcycle is the first road-going consumer vehicle
with hydrostatic drive ^
6c ... that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in
the UEFA Women's Champions League
6c ... that Arthur P. Luff is considered one of the founders of 20th century forensic
medicine
6c ... that almost 30 years after quitting his career as a composer, Gervase
Hughes returned to music in 1960 as a writer of books on musical subjects
6c ... that Rancho Buena Ventura, the northernmost Mexican land grant in California,
was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican
citizen
6c ... that the #
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was ostensibly published by Martin
Luther King in 1967, but is actually a forgery that first appeared 30 years after
King's death
6c ... that Italian Gigi Peronace has been described as the first football agent in
England
6c ... that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded
an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "mosaic" due to its
negative perception in the art world
6c ... that James Wilkes Maurice defended Diamond Rock ^ for three days in
1805 until surrendering due to water and ammunition shortages
6c ... that Jerusalem's historic Stern House houses an Israeli bookstore that once had
branches in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad
6c ... that over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with
the Bend
, Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom
McCall, who later became governor of Oregon
6c ... that unlike most other elections held in other parts of French West Africa on the
same day, the 31 March 1957 assembly election in Senegal was not dominated by
the African Democratic Rally (RDA)
6c ... that 4,000 people applied to be in the audience of Pat Kenny's new
programme "$ )
6c ... that the machinima-based music video %
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was featured at
the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006
6c ... that Australian Army engineers uncovered and destroyed more than
17 kilometres (11 mi) of Viet Cong tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of Operation
Crimp during theVietnam War
6c ... that Vilhelm Evang served as head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service for
almost twenty years, from 1946
6c ... that Countess Mariya Volkonskaya ^ renounced her rights, titles and
possessions to follow her husband in Siberian exile
6c ... that radio star Rolf Kirkvaag walked through a blizzard with a broken leg to get
help after surviving the plane crash at Hummelfjell
6c ... that the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence at the Government Law
School in Bombay was established in 1855 to honour judge Thomas Erskine Perry
6c ... that the archaeological site of Chan-Chan gives its name to the Chanchaense
Complex, a archaeological culture extending acoss Chile from 37° to 55° South
6c ... that the series !
2
follows Swedish women living a
glamorous lifestyle in the Hollywood-area with rich American husbands
6c ... that the gambrel-roofed David and Maggie Aegerter Barn is the only Linn County,
Oregon barn featuring overhang on all sides
6c ... that Herbert K. Pililaau was the first person from Hawaii to receive the Medal of
Honor
6c ... that a French engineer who built the Bellary Fort ^ was executed
by Hyder Ali because the fort was lower than a nearby hill
6c ... that Robert Louis Stevenson donated his birthday, by formal deed, to Henry Clay
Ide's daughter, Anne, because she was born on Christmas Day
6c ... that Pope Sergius I successfully avoided arrest by the
Byzantine $ after rejecting the canons of the Quinisext Council
6c ... that 2009 Michigan Wolverines senior running back Brandon Minor rushed for
209 yards in his first high school football game and 24 yards in his first college
football carry
6c ... that the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke, the main ceremonial
entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, marked the beginning of
the Byzantine Iconoclasm
6c ... that the silky shark is the most common source of ornamental shark jaws sold
to tourists in the tropics
6c ... that Bulgarian far right politician Ivan Dochev died in 2005 despite being given
three separate death sentences in the 1940s
6c ... that the Taxpayer March on Washington was the largest demonstration
against President Barack Obama's administration to date
6c ... that the House of Chaim Weizmann ^ , the first President of Israel, was
made by architect Erich Mendelsohn for under £15,000 after lengthy price
negotiations
6c ... that Angelika Amon discovered two gene regulatory networks that regulate the
exit of cells from mitosis to the G1 phase
6c ... that Ñ
is a 2009 30-minute Japanese animated science fiction film nearly
singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by manga author Atsuya
Uki
6c ... that the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York,
were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize
6c ... that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held
in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the
modern Olympic Games
6c ... that baseball player Slick Coffman pitched an 11-inning victory over Hall of
Famer Lefty Grove in his first game in Major League Baseball
6c ... that the CART motor racing series changed the 2001 German 500's name to
the American Memorial following the September 11 attacks
6c ... that George Cruikshank, in &
$ &$, disputed the origin of William
Harrison Ainsworth's stories about evil gypsies, a famous thief, treasonous
Catholics, a dark prison, burned sinners, an old miser, a horny king, and a stupid
queen
6c ... that the leader of the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Parkany ^
was later executed for failing to defend their Hungarian lands
6c ... that on Sarvapitri amavasya (today), Hindus offer food to the ancestors, who are
believed to accept the offering through a crow
6c ... that Alf Rolfsen has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of Oslo City
Hall, where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held every year
6c ... that center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930²31 to its first title in
what was to become the Ivy League, and was later named as the first African
American All-American basketball player
6c ... that the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film # 2
(1972) was confiscated by
the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, and became the last film to be tried for obscenity
in Japan to this day
6c ... that gymnast Věra Čáslavská was four times elected the Sportsperson of the Year
of Czechoslovakia
6c ... that the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of
the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the
anti-Sékou Touré vote
6c ... that when Cannes Film Festival officials called Zhang Yimou's ? :
# a propaganda piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against Chinese
cinema and withdrew the film from the festival
6c ... that a joint Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk ^ was held on
September 22, 1939, to display the power of the newly formed Soviet-Nazi pactto
the whole world
6c ... that World Cup winning soccer player José Andrade once played drums in a
carnival band
6c ... that although Atka mackerel are most common to the Bering Sea, they have been
reported as far south as Redondo Beach, California
6c ... that Walter Colquhoun Grant introduced cricket and the invasive plant Scotch
broom to the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849
6c ... that 1991's Hurricane Grace contributed to the formation of the 1991 Halloween
Nor'easter, commonly known as the "Perfect Storm"
6c ... that Human Rights Watch war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco wrote a book
on Nazi war medals
6c ... that while Venice lost some territories in the Peace of Turin in 1381, it was in
fact winning the Venetian²Genoese Wars
6c ... that music licensing for Rihanna's song, "Take a Bow", was offered at a
discounted price for the + television episode "Showmance"
6c ... that Heroes Cross on Caraiman Peak, illuminated at night by 300 light bulbs of
500 watts each, can be seen from dozens of miles away
6c ... that the 10th century reservoir Surajkund ^ and the 8th century
dam Anagpur are both located in Haryana, India
6c ... that although color-blind, Nicholas U. Mayall was better able to detect
faint galaxies than most other astronomers
6c ... that William Warren Bartley, author of the biography
â$, also served
several years as philosophical consultant to Erhard's est training
6c ... that Dublin's 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw
electronic timing used for the first time
6c ... that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the Vienna State
Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role
of Friar Tuck
6c ... that Bjørn Kjos, former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now
CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006
6c ... that the public activist group Citizen Action shut down in 1997 due to the effects
of a labor union election campaign funds scandal
6c ... that the Texas historian Ernest Wallace was once a consultant to the Justice
Department regarding suits filed by the Kiowa and Comanche against the U.S.
government
6c ... that the outlying islands of Scotland include the highest sea stack in the British
Isles and one of the most isolated islets ^ in the oceans of the world
6c ... that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson of the John Jorgenson
Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film 2
$ Ñ
6c ... that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the
work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of hay
6c ... that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half
Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the Flying
Tigersin Burma and China
6c ... that the Pakistan National Congress represented Hindus and other minorities
and won 28 seats in the East Bengal Legislature in 1954
6c ... that Maurice Lenz, a physician, professor, and radiation therapy pioneer, was
internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian,
French, German, Portuguese and Spanish
6c ... that the reviewer from "$ " was so unnerved by Sarah Waters' book "$
# !
that she confessed she had to stop reading it
6c ... that basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an
outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of
a basket"
6c ... that Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim ^ , an influential figure in Haifa and a leader
of the Istiqlal, was exiled to the Seychelles for his role in the 1936 Arab
revolt inPalestine
6c ... that the Oregon Chorale based in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA has performed
five tours in Europe
6c ... that Chick Lathers quit Major League Baseball in 1913 to become a car salesman
for Ford Motor Company
6c ... that St. Anne's Church in Trani, Italy, was built as a medieval synagogue
6c ... that Tecolutla, Veracruz is famous for the "Tecolutla Monster" that washed up on
shore in 1969
6c ... that, in a rare set of circumstances, an unnamed hurricane in 1991 formed from
the center of another, larger low pressure system
6c ... that lawyer Albert L. Gordon, a heterosexual who became a gay rights activist
after his son came out, successfully challenged a 1915 California law that
criminalized oral sex
6c ... that the Moine Supergroup, a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming
the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands, is named after 'a'Mhoine',
a peat bog in northern Sutherland
6c ... that the observation deck atop Trzy Korony ^ in Pieniny National Park
(Poland) hangs over a 500-metre (1,600 ft) precipice with a near perfect view of
the Dunajec River Gorge
6c ... that Lankapura Dandanatha, a general of the army of Parakramabahu I, led an
expeditionary force to South India to assist a Pandyan king
6c ...that Star Air Service, founded by three pilots in 1932, is the predecessor
to Alaska Airlines
6c ... that "Pop" Warner's undefeated 1917 Pitt Panthers football team, known as "The
Fighting Dentists", featured dental students "Katy" Easterday, "Tank"
McLaren, "Skip" Gougler and "Jake" Stahl
6c ... that in the entire discography of George Michael, the most successful release in
his homeland is a 1998 compilation titled # 8 +
, which has
been certifiedsevenfold platinum
6c ... that SS-Ô
O$ Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of
prisoners at Auschwitz, he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself
when a medical orderly did not turn up
6c ... that the 2006 Honda ad Ñ won more awards than any other advertisement in
history
6c ... that the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification
and later converted to a post office
6c ... that the first seaplanes to be used in combat were based on the Austro-
Hungarian battleships of the Y- class in 1912 (the lead
ship Y- pictured)
6c ... that the milk shark is so named because of a belief in India that eating its meat
improves lactation
6c ... that Pabonka Hermitage, near Lhasa, is one of the earliest known buildings built
by Songtsän Gampo in the Tibetan Empire and is believed to be the site at which
the Tibetan alphabet was invented
6c ... that, prior to the formation of the Washington, D.C. fire department, building
owners in the city were required to provide leather buckets for fire control
6c ... that sale of the Wii Classic Controller was briefly discontinued in the United
States due to a lawsuit by Anascape Ltd
6c ... that Hurricane Fred, which formed and dissipated near Cape Verde earlier this
month, was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to appear east of
35°W
6c ... that Cannonball Adderley recorded "I'm on My Way," his 11-year-old nephew Nat
Adderley, Jr.'s first song, for his 1967 album $ & " ! '
6c ... that Charterhouse Cave is the deepest cave in Southern England
6c ... that block books ^ , short religious books printed from woodcuts
containing both the text and illustrations, were once believed to pre-date
the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), but are now known to date mostly from the 1460s
and later
6c ... that the State of Oregon laboratories for health and environmental quality used
to be located in an old parking garage before moving to a new facility inHillsboro,
Oregon
6c ... that former PLO member Wahid Khalil Baroud was ordered deported and put on
a plane by Canada, but since no countries would agree to host him, lived in
airports for the next eight months
6c ... that the 120 miles per hour (190 km/h) Healey 1000/4 British motorcycle of
1973 was fitted with a 1000cc engine designed by Edward Turner in 1928
6c ... that Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass, ran 80 yards for a
touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in
the same game
6c ... that the passenger capacity of a public transit system is affected by headway
6c ... that William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, a British flying ace in the First
World War, scored his first victory when he was a test pilot and was awarded
the Military Cross for capturing that enemy plane
6c ... that during conversion of the Dequindre Cut into a greenway, the
existing graffiti art was left in place and new additions encouraged
6c ... that a six-year-old boy was killed in 2004 when his head was crushed in
a revolving door at the entrance of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower ^ in Tokyo
6c ... that retired banker and former Louisiana legislator Loy F. Weaver was as
an FBI agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by
DirectorJ. Edgar Hoover
6c ... that the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to
prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by
training them as domestic servants
6c ... that French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the
basis for video game character Manon Batiste
6c ... that Queen Teuta of Issa, who briefly ruled Illyria in the 3rd century BC, is
depicted on the Albanian 100 lekë coin
6c ... that the 16th century Moro blacksmith Panday Pira is known as the "First
Filipino Cannon-maker"
6c ... that the region formed by Ilfov County and Bucharest accounts for 19% of
exports and 40% of imports in Romania
6c ... that blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man,"
passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers
at his Chicagobarbershop
6c ... that as many as twenty generations of the agricultural pest green peach
aphid ^ have been reported in warmer climates over the course of a year
6c ... that "$ Ñ$ Y in 2007 said the 1971 science fiction theatrical
production ' "anticipated the ! phenom by several years"
6c ... that the Geumsansa temple in Gimje, South Korea, served as the training
ground for the Buddhist volunteer corps along with monks against Japanese
invasions of Korea in the end of the 16th century
6c ... that Greek monk Maximus the Confessor dominated the Lateran Council of 649,
the first council convened by a pope to claim ecumenical status
6c ... that the Peekskill, New York, post office includes neoclassical arched windows in
its Colonial Revival design
6c ... that 20th-century composers including Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis wrote music
for cellist Siegfried Palm
6c ... that Charlie Burns is the only person to have been a player and a head coach for
the Minnesota North Stars at the same time, doing so in the 1969²70 NHL season
6c ...that the British RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish
6c ... that songwriter and composer Paul Dresser ^ amassed a large fortune
writing songs in the 1890s but spent and gave away most of it before dying
penniless in 1906
6c ... that growth rates for broadleaved trees on the British Isles exceed those
of mainland Europe
6c ... that Anders Nordberg was elected :
$ IIJ by Norwegian sports
journalists
6c ... that five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on "$ #
!$, Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on
the NBC sitcom!
6c ... that 2009 US Open girls' singles champion Heather Watson was the 2008
Commonwealth Youth Games tennis gold-medalist
6c ... that after being named to the All²Western Athletic Conference team before
the 2008 season, American football tight end Rob Myers suffered a turf toe injury
that forced him to miss the entire season
6c ... that Jan Birger Jansen, Johan Scharffenberg and Sven Arntzen, all with
background in the Norwegian resistance movement, were later members of
the National Association for Referendum
6c ... that soccer club Atlético Independiente changed to play in red after seeing Harry
Linacre ^ and Nottingham Forest F.C. on the club's first foreign tour in
1905
6c ... that Icehouse Wilson, a member of "Oakland's first World
Champion Baseball team," had a career batting average of .000 in Major League
Baseball
6c ... that in a 2001 survey of &
magazine readers, the 50-episode
series %
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I was ranked 17th on the list of anime that should be
remembered
6c ... that although Paul W. Bryant High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named
for football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, a court order prevented the school from using
"Bears" as its mascot
6c ... that the British anti-Islamist group Stop the Islamification of Europe was
inspired by a Danish group of the same name
6c ... that Lloyd Brazil, once called "the ideal football player," averaged more than
eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the University of
Detroit
6c ... that Sakae Menda ^ was the first person in the history of Japan to
be exonerated while on death row
6c ... that on the final day of the 1959²60 Football League season, Trevor
Meredith scored the goal that won the league title for Burnley
6c ... that, as a publicity stunt, the makers of the film & ! arranged for a
couple to be married on the red carpet immediately before the film's premiere
6c ... that the Scottish Referendum Bill 2010 proposes that a referendum on Scottish
independence be held on St. Andrew's Day 2010, Scotland's official national day
6c ... that Sierra Leonean physician Aniru Conteh saved thousands of lives from Lassa
fever before dying from the disease himself
6c ... that the tower of St Lawrence's in Ipswich houses the oldest ring of church
bells in the world
6c ... that , , "war feeds itself", was a military strategy used during
the Thirty Years' War
6c ... that jasmine is the national flower of Tunisia
6c ... that the Australian swellshark ^ can survive out of water for more than a
day
6c ... that the Church of St Matthew and St James is described in the
â
series as "one of the best Victorian churches in Liverpool"
6c ... that in 1900, Wilf Waller was the first South African footballer to play in the
English Football League
6c ... that grants given to the British Library by the Friends of the British Library have
enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the Dering Roll
6c ... that Claude Lambie scored Burnley's first-ever competitive hat-trick
6c ... that according to ancient Tibetan annals, the founder of the Tibetan
Empire, Songtsän Gampo, is believed to be buried at the Valley of the Kings in
modern day Qonggyai County
6c ... that the wild population of the critically endangered Helmeted
Honeyeater comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the Yellingbo
Nature Conservation Reserve
6c ... that the lawn mower was invented in a small English village called Thrupp
6c ... that the Buddhist Pantheon ^
incorporates more than
3,000 Buddhas and deities
6c ... that USC quarterback Gaius Shaver was the leading rusher in the American
football competition at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games
6c ... that at the Blind Chess Olympiad, the players are required to announce their
moves, so the games are often recorded on tape rather than paper
6c ... that the Legal Framework Order, 1970, issued by Gen. Yahya Khan, set the rules
for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan
6c ... that Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the
first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level
6c ... that the city of Anadarko in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is named for the Nadaco,
a Native American tribe from Texas
6c ... that Josefin Crafoord originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish
version of %
because she did not know how to skate
6c ... that Havelock Ellis called =â
´of all perfumes that which most
nearly approaches the odor of a woman's skinµ
6c ... that after ingesting caffeine, spiders fail to build a proper web ^
6c ... that Michigan center "Bubbles" Paterson was the namesake of an award
recognizing academic achievement by football players
6c ... that the Bridge of Nations Bell which hung in Shuri Castle on Okinawa is so
named for the inscription upon it, alluding to the central role of the Ryūkyū
Kingdom in the region's maritime trade
6c ... that Josephus used the chronicles of Demetrius the Chronographer for
his &
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6c ... that the Wayne Wonder song "No Letting Go" is about a girl who is not mentioned
by name
6c ... that the Baroque Cherasco Synagogue was built on a courtyard so that the
sounds of Jewish worship would not reach Christian ears, and possibly endanger
the Jewish community
6c ... that Virginia Shehee, Louisiana's first woman state senator, once bought a pig at
a 4-H show, the proceeds of which helped a boy with cerebral palsy to learn how to
walk
6c ... that the residents of England's Butt Hole Road raised £300 to have the name of
the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name
6c ... that in 2008, Cole Hamels ^ became the fifth player in Major League
Baseball history to win the World Series MVP Award and the League Championship
Series MVP Award in the same season
6c ... that Finnish soldiers nicknamed the 20 ITK 40 VKT "Vekotin", or "gadget"
6c ... that William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter,
and
, who was convicted by Isaac Newton, sent to Newgate Prison,
and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn
6c ... that Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Ñ
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(1981), was once called "the most significant piece of
legislation enacted in Montana in this century"
6c ... that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob
Zombie's 2
films and has been noted for being part of the the "singer-
songwriter trend" of women nurturingfolk music's rebirth
6c ... that the YPP !$ Q, founded in 1893 by former royal prince Shō Jun, was
the first newspaper in Okinawa
6c ... that the Oregon Geographic Names Board was established by Governor George
Chamberlain in 1908 to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in
naming geographic features within the state of Oregon
6c ... that the lollipop catshark is shaped like a tadpole and has an
almost gelatinous body
6c ... that the range of the Central American Squirrel Monkey ^ within
Panama has been reduced, and no longer includes its type locality of David
6c ... that as Clarenceux King of Arms, Robert Cooke arranged the state funeral of
Sir Philip Sidney
6c ... that the prototype of the Soviet Il-22 jet bomber made the first ever Soviet jet-
assisted take-off on 7 February 1948 with a pair of SR-2 boosters
6c ... that the Louisiana oral historian Hubert D. Humphreys was a charter member of
the faculty at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
6c ... that University College London Union is the oldest students' union in England
6c ... that Burkinabè politician and revolutionary ideologue Valère Somé was forced
into exile to Congo-Brazzaville after the overthrow of Thomas Sankara
6c ... that Chrysler vehicles won 34 races in the 1966 NASCAR season, after winning
only six in the previous season
6c ... that somebody jumped 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high on a pogo
stick at Pogopalooza this year
6c ... that George William Beatty ^ $ flew his first solo flight on July 23,
1911, and set a U.S. altitude record with Al Welsh ^
that same day
6c ... that after the German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in
Norway in February 1944,
was the only one remaining with contacts to
the leadership of the civil resistance
6c ... that William Sharman, a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World
Championships in Athletics, is also a classically trained pianist and has
a master'sin banking and finance
6c ... that in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Indonesian Murba
Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba
6c ... that the Louisiana short story writer Ada Jack Carver Snell had
a French grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits
6c ... that the first time the Soviet prototype of the Ilyushin Il-40 ground-attack
aircraft fired its guns in the air its pilot was temporarily blinded and both jet
engines flamed out
6c ... that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to
his life sentence
6c ... that the Automatic Complaint-Letter Generator generates complaint letters that
are "general enough to be true or fit anyone and everyone, yet specific enough to
mean something"
6c ... that Bhima Devi Temple Complex ^ in Haryana, India, includes the
restored ruins of a Hindu temple dated from the 8th to 11th century AD and Pinjore
Gardens from the 17th century
6c ... that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the New York State Assembly that
preserved the right to declare "loss of fetus" as a serious injury in automobile
accidents
6c ... that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea
rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox
6c ... that The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed
as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut"
6c ... that according to 1996 research into sexuality in music videos, hip-
hop and R&B scored highest in an analysis of sexual content
6c ... that part of Audenshaw, Greater Manchester and a section of an ancient
ditch that according to folklore was the site of a bloody battle
between Saxons and Vikings, was destroyed in the 19th century by the
construction of Audenshaw Reservoirs
6c ... that Syrian political activist Faeq al-Mir was arrested and potentially faced life in
prison for a phone call
6c ... that Maltman Barry, a British political activist, was a friend of Karl Marx, but
stood for election as a Conservative
6c ... that in Dutch Golden Age painting a lute ^( , stocking or bird may
represent a visual sexual pun
6c ... that the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely
with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953
6c ... that halfback Andy Hastings led the 1916 Pitt football team to a national
championship and was also elected president of Pitt's University Glee Club
6c ... that after being driven mad, some survivors of the
Brazilian cruiser $ jumped off of their rafts and were eaten by sharks
6c ... that two of the three daughters of the Louisiana real estate developer
and Springhill mayor Jesse L. Boucher became Hollywood actresses
6c ... that Vickers Viscount G-ALWE crashed on approach to Ringway Airport,
Manchester when a bolt on the starboard flap mechanism failed
6c ... that the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces
inside a neutral country
6c ... that after being reported as dead in LIFE magazine, Don Bell was greeted with
"Hello, Lazarus" by General MacArthur
6c ... that American Dumbo rescue flights ^
worked
with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War
6c ... that when the Vladimir Dudintsev novel ? , &
was published in
the Soviet Union in 1956, it was so popular that copies sold for five times the cover
price
6c ... that the Romanian²American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded
by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II
6c ... that "Kicks," a 1966 hit single by Paul Revere & the Raiders, was called "a dumb
anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter David Crosby
6c ... that Ñ, a 2009 ad designed to promote domestic violence awareness, was
deemed too violent to appear on British television
6c ... that the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two
female criminals as bouncers
6c ... that Shirley Huffman, the first female mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, worked to
change the city's charter to allow her more time in office
6c ... that while racing in the 2009 World Orienteering Championships gold
medalist Thierry Gueorgiou rescued an injured competitor
6c ... that France's Madagascar expedition of 1883 ^,,
was
triggered by the will to remove British economic and religious influence from the
island of Madagascar
6c ... that Caroline Moore was 14 years old when she discovered supernova 2008ha
6c ... that the Scolanova Synagogue, one of four synagogues confiscated and turned
into churches in Trani, Italy in 1380, is now a synagogue again
6c ... that in 1729, when his plantation Corotoman was destroyed, Robert "King"
Carter I lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his wine cellar
6c ... that David Snell, who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its
own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, later became a writer for #
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6c ... that in the legal case
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the plaintiff claimed charges of libel and slander for being referred to as a
"destructive cult"
6c ... that the film based on the novel ?
, is the most
successful Estonian film in terms of box office profits
6c ... that in May 2008, an amateur astronomer discovered an unusual supernova-like
object in the galaxy NGC 300 ^
6c ... that forensic techniques in antiquity included pulling donkey tails and filling the
mouths of suspects with rice
6c ... that director Frank Capra cast street people from Downtown Los
Angeles as extras in the 1933 film #
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6c ... that a is different from a farce in that it uses allegorical protagonists, rather
than real people
6c ... that the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York, includes
one President of the United States, a Secretary of State from both the Union and
the Confederacy, and numerous Congressmen
6c ... that in 2007, Jon Willis became the first British fencer to win a World Cup since
1981
6c ... that Fighter Wing 71 is the sole unit in the #
6c ... that Giuseppe Verdi did not want Eugenia Tadolini ^ to sing Lady
Macbeth in his opera ,$ because her voice was too beautiful
6c ... that the video sharing website Trilulilu is one of the most visited websites
in Romania, with an average of 2.2 million unique visitors per month
6c ... that in the lawsuit ? 7 #
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a default judgment of over US$500,000 was entered against Erhard
6c ... that the Tasmanian Masked Owl is threatened by competition for nest
hollows by feral bees, kookaburras and possums
6c ... that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Beyond Words Publishing's first book retailed for
over US$2,000, with one copy presented as a gift to the Japanese Emperor
6c ... that the
+- of November 18, 2008, included the Papineau-Labelle
Wildlife Reserve in the 10 hot spots of Quebec's wilderness that "you should
experience before you die"
6c ... that the 1964 British BSA Thunderbolt motorcycle was capable of over 100 miles
per hour (160 km/h)
6c ... that Arsenal Park Transilvania, one of Europe's few military-themed amusement
parks, has villas named after Douglas MacArthur, Julius Caesar, and Eremia
Grigorescu
6c ... that the mica cap mushroom ^ has glistening particles on top that are
remnants of a universal veil
6c ... that Yaakov Bodo played the character "Moishe Ventilator" more than 1,000
times
6c ... that the author of the American book 2 $ !
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is
from the Midwestern United States and has no Scottish in his ancestral
background
6c ... that the F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union, founded in 1960, is the oldest
member of the Ñ
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6c ... that the one off Winton Train commemorates Sir Nicholas Winton, the
"English Oskar Schindler"
6c ... that CFL rookie Bobby Keyes won a $1,000 player pool for grabbing
the Edmonton Eskimos' first interception of the 2009 season
6c ... that Ñ
, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one
incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina
6c ... that Fred Allison erroneously claimed to have discovered new chemical elements
he called alabamium and virginium in 1930
6c ... that William Britten illustrated many images from Lord Tennyson's early poems,
including: a lonely woman ^ , a corpse, a jilted lover, drug users, an odd
saint, a sleeping lady, a knight, and waves
6c ... that Ridge A in Antarctica has been identified as the coldest, driest, calmest
place on Earth
6c ... that, at seventeen years old, Charles L. Gilliland was the youngest Medal of
Honor recipient of the Korean War
6c ... that the declared purpose of the Texas Psychological Association is to advance
the field of psychology as a science, profession, and means of promoting human
welfare
6c ... that Albert Pape scored a goal for Manchester United against Clapton Orient in
1925, despite only completing a transfer from Orient to United an hour before kick-
off
6c ... that singer Myriam received a gold certification in México for an album that
included a cover version of the number-one song "Simplemente Amigos"
6c ... that the Yibir are a Somali clan of itinerant magicians who give blessings to
newborns and newly married couples
6c ... that the daggernose shark can adjust the timing of events in its reproductive
cycle by several months
6c ... that after B-50 Superfortress # # ^ ended the first round-the-
world airplane flight, Curtis LeMay of SAC said the USAF could now fly to "any
place in the world that required the atomic bomb"
6c ... that at the 2000 Camp David Summit, Yasser Arafat denied that a Jewish
Temple ever existed in Jerusalem
6c ... that Pavel Argeyev, a Russian flying ace, fought on both the Eastern Front and
the Western Front for both Russia and France during the First World War
6c ... that the Indonesian Murba Women's Union ran programmes to help women
start batik and weaving household industries
6c ... that while heading the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Harry
Fett worked for the preservation of the site Bryggen in Bergen, and the mining
town Røros
6c ... that the then Crown Prince of Austria Karl I praised Galicia's Jews for their
patriotism during the Russian occupation of 1914²15
6c ... that Chamchuri Square, an office/residential/retail building complex
in Bangkok, Thailand, stood uncompleted for almost ten years due to the 1997
Asian Financial Crisis
6c ... that after leading Illinois to "the greatest football upset of all time," Bart
Macomber left school for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit
6c ... that 70 paintings of Sofia ^( , the capital of Bulgaria, by Tyrolean-
born painter and engineer Joseph Oberbauer are to be exhibited in Sofia's planned
museum of local history
6c ... that decltype can be used to "clean up function syntax mess"
in C++ programming
6c ... that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Alma was once the biggest centre
for growing olives in the District of Safad
6c ... that Buffalo's "Ockie" Anderson scored more points in the 1920 NFL season (the
league's first) than four entire teams
6c ... that the pilot in the Soviet Il-20 ground attack aircraft prototype sat on top of the
engine, directly behind the propeller
6c ... that Martha Wollstein became the first female member of the American Pediatric
Society in 1930
6c ... that Judge Richard Posner's 2009 book, & )
Ñ , moves away
from his past advocacy of free-market capitalism and criticizes the Bush
administration's policies
6c ... that Eddie Gillette led the Wisconsin Badgers football team to an undefeated
season and in baseball "beat some of the best pitchers in the 'Three-Eye League'"
6c ... that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the Belgaum Fort ^ during
India's struggle for independence
6c ... that before 1977, hundreds of wild elephants in North-East India were captured
each year by mela shikar, a traditional method involving a lasso
6c ... that Sir John Henry Pelly was Governor of the Hudson's Bay
Company and Governor of the Bank of England
6c ... that although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, Thomas Z.
Morrow's brother-in-law and son were both elected governor of Kentucky in 1895
and 1919, respectively
6c ... that the HAWAII MR1 mapping system was used to find the USS /
, a
shipwreck 17,000 feet underwater
6c ... that Hillsboro, Oregon, native Rick Dancer announced he was running
for Oregon Secretary of State while on air working for KEZI
6c ... that the murder of 17-year-old Raonaid Murray has still not been solved ten
years after it occurred
6c ... that iPod Touch/iPhone game Doodle Jump has been the top paid downloaded
app in five countries including the US
6c ... that British auto racing team CR Scuderia won races in all three series it
participated in during 2008 as well as two championships
6c ... that Pope Constantine, in 711, was the last pope to visit Constantinople for over
1250 years
6c ...that Tropical Storm Wendy of 1999 was labeled "the most serious storm of the
century" by the local government in Wenzhou, China, where it killed 133 people
6c ... that Charles of Lorraine-Commercy was the one of the most trusted lieutenants
of Prince Eugene of Savoy
6c ... that the CSCT is the largest container terminal in the Black Sea basin, having an
annual traffic capacity of 1,500,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs)
6c ... that ? ü Y. is highest selling release from the discography of Phil
Collins, having been certified diamond for sales of over 10 million copies in
the United States
6c ... that between studying maths at Cambridge University and becoming a highly
cited neuroscientist, Stephen Dunnett was a social worker in the London Borough
of Southwark in the mid-1970s
6c ... that U.S. President Herbert Hoover was once the manager of the Gwalia Gold
Mine in Western Australia
6c ... that Egawa Hidetatsu ^ designed and built in 1853²54 the artillery
batteries of Odaiba at the entrance of Edo (modern Tokyo), to prevent an intrusion
by theUnited States fleet of Commodore Perry
6c ... that the Nyack, New York, post office has been renamed in memory of two local
police officers and a security guard slain in the 1981 Brinks robbery
6c ... that Wilhelm Munthe served four years as president of the International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
6c ... that Faith Bible High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, closed for a day after a
student received a threatening message on AOL Instant Messenger
6c ... that Fred Griffiths, who played twice for the Wales national football team, was
killed in action during the First World War
6c ... that the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when
President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties
6c ... that Carrie Underwood's single "Cowboy Casanova" was rush-released
on YouTube after an unfinished mix of the song leaked online
6c ... that after losing both arms in a coal mining accident, Vladislav Titov wrote
several books by holding a pen with his teeth
6c ... that the fragrance of the flowers of
R
^ has been
likened to that of a pineapple
6c ... that the U.S. Coast Guard's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron uses .50-
caliber rifles to shoot out the engines of fleeing drug runners
6c ... that Tore Gjelsvik headed the Norwegian Polar Institute for more than twenty
years
6c ... that Francisco Goya's series of etchings "$ %
was not published
until 35 years after his death, when there was no risk of political repercussions
6c ... that the ILO's Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention neither
authorizes nor prohibits union security agreements, "such questions being matters
for regulation in accordance with national practice"
6c ... that Samuel Clucas was offered a soccer scholarship in the United States after
studying sports development at Lincoln College
6c ... that the owners of the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts in Alamogordo, New
Mexico, gave the building away to local government so that state funding could be
used to renovate the building
6c ... that the songs on Ferdinand Richard's solo album â
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are sung in eight
different languages
6c ... that the 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m2) Thomas H. Hoatson House in Laurium,
Michigan ^ , is the largest mansion in the western Upper Peninsula of
Michigan
6c ... that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during World
War II, she started the theatre group ) ? !
, together with her
husbandHalfdan Christensen
6c ... that in Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc, the mortal remains of the last Aztec
emperor are on public display
6c ... that in 1949, a monument in recognition of Dr. Niels Ebbesen Hansen and his
contributions to the Horticultural Department was erected on the campus of South
Dakota State College
6c ... that 94% of the Members of Parliament elected in the 1992 election in Burkina
Faso were male
6c ... that Dr. Wacław Olszak, Polish physician and former mayor
of Karviná, Czechoslovakia, was murdered by Nazis just ten days after the war
started
6c ... that the religious Vision Interfaith Satellite Network evolved into the Hallmark
Channel
6c ... that according to Hindu mythology, god Shiva proposed to his
consort Parvati at Guptakashi
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of South Africa are so named because they curl into a ring when
threatened and "shyly" cover their eyes with their tails
6c ... that 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners at the Chinese Jiabiangou labor camp died
within three years, mostly from starvation
6c ... that the recently discovered !
is an
eyeless crustacean equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs
that function ashypodermic needles
6c ... that while filming Ñ
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placing cue cards around the set because lead actor John Barrymore kept
forgetting his lines
6c ... that Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Ñ
2, was a
professor at the University of London even though he never taught there
6c ... that in 1770, James Cook named two landmarks near Cook Island, New South
Wales, Mount Warning and Point Danger because he nearly shipwrecked there
6c ... that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are
from the private collection of Peter Tamm, who started collecting when he was
six years old
6c ... that Georgia Tech halfback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee "Stroop"
Strupper used lip-reading to overcome deafness
6c ... that Takashima Shūhan ^ was the first major proponent of
Western firearms at the end of Japan's Seclusion period in the 19th century
6c ... that a Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 was the first plane to land at Oslo Airport,
Fornebu in Norway, nine months before it opened
6c ... that Norman Luxton sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a 100-year
old Nootka dugout canoe for five months before being forced to stop from injuries
6c ... that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams
of Oslo, Norway, were ordered until all units were in service
6c ... that the 122 miles (196 km) Dorcheat Bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana was
once navigable for several months a year to access the Red River
6c ... that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to
the Norwegian Parliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna
Rogstad, ten years earlier
6c ... that in Taxco during Holy Week some perform penance walking with
50 kilograms (110 lb) bundles of thorned blackberry canes on their backs
6c ... that Yummy Dough is modelling clay that can be eaten as well as played with
6c ... that Jens Book-Jenssen ^ was Norway's best-selling recording artist of
the 20th century
6c ... that several & species are bioluminescent
6c ... that Clarence Cazalot quadrupled Marathon Oil's net income during his first year
as chief executive
6c ... that the Election Commission of Nepal oversaw approximately 10,000 polling
places, 10,000 candidates, and 234,000 election workers during voting for
theNepalese Constituent Assembly
6c ... that William of Pagula's book : !, intended to be a manual for
parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it
6c ... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres
(35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14
and widowed at 17
6c ... that semi-professional football player Nevin Saroya featured in the football-
themed film
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6c ... that Katsura Hoshino based her manga character Allen Walker on a female
character, only altering the hair length
6c ... that after William Finch described Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-
two gates, more Gates of Delhi ^( were built by
the Mughalsand British ³ but only 13 gates still exist in good condition
6c ... that Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial
photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast
6c ... that at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state
highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak-maintained railroad
tracks
6c ... that Brandenburg and Pomerania settled their conflicts in the Treaty of Soldin,
but fought it out when Pomerania disobeyed
6c ... that the Swedish reality show has been described as a children's
version of !
6c ... that Jim Bunning, currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, was the Pittsburgh
Pirates' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968
6c ... that Polish archaeologist Mieczysław Domaradzki, who was based in Bulgaria for
22 years studying the archaeology of Thrace, discovered the ancient market
centre Pistiros
6c ... that Beverly Hills, California, produces more than 874,000 barrels of oil a year,
with approximately 11 million barrels in reserve, and oil wells on campus at
the local high school
6c ... that Kiliaen van Rensselaer ^ is an ancestor of the van Rensselaer
family of New York, which included two Lieutenant Governors, five Congressmen,
and the tenth-richest man in American history
6c ... that the gorgon Medusa is a common theme in the mosaic decoration of Villa
Armira, a Roman villa near modern Ivaylovgrad, Bulgaria
6c ... that Jacques Callot's series of etchings "$ #
were so called
to distinguish them from a smaller set of
6c ... that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone
pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links Delhi·s history with
theAshokan era (273²236 BC)
6c ... that the Simpson Railroad is one of the last operational logging railroads in the
continental United States
6c ... that Austrian Jewish author Elfriede Gerstl as a child had to hide in a wardrobe
to avoid deportation to a concentration camp
6c ... that all but one of Masami Hirosaka's IFMAR titles were won driving cars
by Yokomo and their home market distributor Associated Electrics
6c ... that in the world's northernmost university it is obligatory to take self-defence
shooting classes
6c ... that commissioners of the Alaska Road Commission declared that it had "no
pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel" ^,
6c ... that Gershom Schocken was the editor of 2- for over 50 years
6c ... that the $ or water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first
water organ found in Greece, and believed to be the oldest excavated to date
anywhere in the world
6c ... that the history of transport in Somerset has gone from the Sweet Track, an
ancient causeway, to a modern international airport
6c ... that polyaryletherketone (PAEK) is a family of thermoplastics that are used in
high temperature applications and surgical implants
6c ... that mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo chose director Tatsumi
Kumashiro's "$
+$ as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973
despite its being in the softcore Y
genre
6c ... that the 2009 Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crash killed Lieutenant Colonel Rade
Randjelovic, Serbian Air Force's display pilot and commander of the 98th Air Base
6c ... that Leonese nobleman Fruela Díaz gave, as a gift to Queen Urraca of León, a
horse worth the equivalent of 5,000 sheep
6c ... that the spadenose shark ^ exhibits the most advanced form of placental
reproduction in fishes
6c ... that No. 6 Commando, a British commando unit, used American uniforms and
equipment during Operation Torch in an attempt to placate the Vichy French
6c ... that The Homestead, one of the oldest buildings in Haverstraw, New York, has
been home to a state legislator and congressman, the county sheriff and the
local school superintendent
6c ... that the thirteen-year-old Kumawakamaru took revenge for his father by
assassinating the monk Homma Saburō with his own sword
6c ... that the two roads that use former New Jersey Route 65, Port Street and
Doremus Avenue, dead-end just after their respective intersection
6c ... that Edward Atienza made his London theatrical debut in 1954, as
the Mole in "
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6c ... that the United States Navy conducted Operation Teardrop in 1945 in the
mistaken belief that German U-boats were
to attack the United States east
coast with V-1 flying bombs
6c ... that Japan's incoming First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama claims to have been
abducted by aliens in a triangular-shaped UFO and to have known Tom
Cruise when he was Japanese in aprior incarnation
6c ... that Holy Trinity Church, Trowbridge ^ is known locally as "The Church
on the Roundabout"
6c ... that prior to reclamation of the Polaris mine, the 700 feet (210 m) long
warehouse that stored concentrated ore was the largest building in Nunavut
6c ... that in 1947 a group broke away from the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)
and founded the rival Red Communist Party, in protest of the PKI leadership's
willingness to negotiate with the Dutch
6c ... that the Russell Drysdale's 1948 painting "$ has been described as
"possibly the most famous Australian painting of the 20th century"
6c ... that the Battle of Oldendorf was one of only two battles in the Thirty Years'
War where both armies attacked
6c ... that the political cabaret show ? &
is the first of its kind to be
broadcast on the second German public-service channel since 1979
6c ... that British Isles and Australian rugby player Blair Swannell played every game
in the same pair of unwashed breeches
6c ... that in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II, German soldiers were
ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog
6c ... that the pet parrot species the Yellow-billed Amazon ^ is only found on
the island of Jamaica
6c ... that the giant Tiber oilfield was found 6 miles (10 km) down, in some of the
oldest offshore rock layers ever drilled for oil
6c ... that !
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received awards for reporting
on Japanese American internment, environmental policies of the Reagan
administration, and effects of Proposition 13
6c ... that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale, Cheshire, England, is the
grave of John Middleton, who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall
6c ... that Haitian pianist and composer Ludovic Lamothe was hailed as the
"black Frédéric Chopin" after years of recitals to the Haitian elite
6c ... that the four
, class battleships were the first ocean-
going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy
6c ... that in the United Kingdom a drought is defined as fifteen consecutive days or
more with less than 0.2 millimetres of rainfall
6c ... that ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev was premiered in Mahen
Theatre ^ , Brno, Czech Republic
6c ... that Romanian DJ David Deejay was the first artist in the country to release two
songs simultaneously, Ñ
) and ! -- [], with the last becoming a
number one hit
6c ... that Ford developed a people mover system known as ACT, but the only one to
see passenger service was built between the Hyatt Regency hotel and Fairlane Town
Center shopping mall on Ford-developed lands in Dearborn, MI
6c ... that Pope Pius XII appointed Hilarius Breitinger as Apostolic Administrator to
the Reichsgau Wartheland, the portion of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany
6c ... that during the 2009 Big Ten Conference football season nine teams open their
seasons at home
6c ... that the building of the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Crete was once the
main church of a Franciscan monastery and survived a major earthquake in 1595
6c ... that African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-
sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park
6c ... that SS>
T, a Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, is known both for its depth and
its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward,
horizontally and vertically
6c ... that the appearance of the decorated Pholiota ^ at a 1994 North
Carolina mushroom foray led to its re-classification two years later
6c ... that Christian Kølle introduced the feminine grammatical gender in Norway in
an anonymous work released in 1785
6c ... that a signified a cavalry squadron of 30 men in the Roman army, but
evolved into a regiment of up to 6,000 men in the Byzantine Empire
6c ... that German CDU politician Karl-Josef Laumann was appointed Minister of
Labor, Health and Social Affairs for North Rhine-Westphalia in 2005
6c ... that Turner Contemporary, a visual arts venue in Margate, has begun
construction atop a promenade so that it won't be destroyed by the North Sea
6c ... that bonnetmouths can be found at depths from 3 to 90 metres (9.8 to 300 ft),
but mainly occur in schools at about 64 metres (210 ft) deep
6c ... that the British Velocette Valiant motorcycle launched in 1956 was criticised for
its underpowered engine
6c ... that Singaporean author Rex Shelley wrote his first novel "$ !$ * ,
about the Eurasian community in Singapore, in 1991 at age 61
6c ... that the Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal ^ on Maine's Kennebec
River originally had a bell run by a clockwork counterweight mechanism that had
to be wound by hand every four hours
6c ... that the herald Robert Glover was appointed to the office of Norroy King of
Arms jointly with his 82-year-old father-in-law William Flower in 1580
6c ... that Hamburg's Wellingsbüttel Manor was the former home of Duke Friedrich
Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and used as a student's resident hall
from 1964 till 1996
6c ... that Lewis A. "Tam" McArthur paid to have his book, :
+ $ ?,
published in 1928 and that the book is still in print today
6c ... that in the 1894²95 Madagascar expedition, France lost only 25 men in combat,
but as many as 4,800 men to diseases
6c ... that Helga Karlsen, who was the first female Member of Parliament from
the Norwegian Labour Party, died only four days before she could be elected for a
third term
6c ... that members of the 15th Arizona Territorial Legislature used a glass eye and the
services of a prostitute to ensure passage of the session's first act
6c ... that Kielder Viaduct ^ in Northumberland, England, was built in 1862 in
a baronial style and decorated with a battlemented parapet and faux arrow slitsin
order to gain approval of the local landowner
6c ... that the former secretary to the French embassy to Constantinople and army
officer Étienne Soulange-Bodin set up a horticultural institute near Paris to
rivalKew in the early 19th century
6c ... that Shirley Temple film vehicles Ñ " and "$ # Y, were both
named to 1s list of top box office draws for 1935
6c ... that Old Norse poems attributed to Torf-Einarr describe his defeat of Hálfdan
Longlegs
6c ... that De Eendracht, a smock mill in Anjum, Netherlands, is used as a tourist
information office as well as being a working mill
6c ... that George Quaintance was an American artist whose "idealized,
strongly homoerotic" depictions of men appeared in physique magazines
6c ... that the deepest living demersal fish ever retrieved, &,, $, was
found in the Puerto Rico Trench at a depth of 8,370 metres (27,453 ft)
6c ... that John MacBride ^ defeated 2 and in a single battle
6c ... that Lake Bistineau in northwestern Louisiana was originally formed in 1800 by
flooding stemming from a large log jam on the nearby Red River
6c ... that on New Year's Day in 1980, 60 people were killed by an earthquake in the
Azores Islands
6c ... that when designing "$ ! ! 4
Victor Cook looked at the style
of 2,0
which he directed, for inspiration
6c ... that the RAF Memorial Flight Spitfire Mk IIa P7350 is the only surviving
Spitfire from the Battle of Britain still flying
6c ... that "
&
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is the first Methodist church built in China that provided
services in the English language
6c ... that Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing
linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as "cannibals" devouring "a
civilized man"
6c ... that the closure of the Tethys Sea 10²14 million years ago led to the sicklefin
lemon shark ^ and the lemon shark becoming separate species
6c ... that Sapta Puri represents the seven holy Hindu cities
of Ayodhya, Dwarka, Haridwar, Ujjain, Kanchipuram, Mathura and the
holiest, Varanasi
6c ... that many well-known works of Renaissance art passed through the hands of
connoisseur art dealer Stefano Bardini of Florence
6c ... that Winnfield, home of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, is
known as "the birthplace of Louisiana politics" because
three governors, Hueyand Earl Long and O.K. Allen, were born there
6c ... that Med Hondo is an award-winning Mauritanian film director who dubbed the
voice of Donkey in the French language version of !$
6c ... that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to
become Mayor of Gibraltar
6c ... that after cancelling the political cabaret series ?-
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- in 1979,
the ZDF did not broadcast a similar show for 28 years
6c ... that the cargo of the Dalarö wreck ^ , sunk in the Baltic Sea, included
coal and several Bartmann jugs
6c ... that three-time All-American Eddie Mahan was named by Jim Thorpe as the
greatest football player of all time
6c ... that William Blake's unfinished manuscript &
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contains early
versions of three of his famous !
6c ... that the waviness of bearing balls and bearing races surfaces is one of the
reasons for bearing noise and vibrations
6c ... that the 1986 Vrancea earthquake in Romania, which damaged roughly 55,000
homes, was felt as far north as Poland and as far southwest as Italy
6c ... that Francesco Torniello was the first to define the point as a unit of
measurement in typography
6c ... that the position of Clerk of the Parliaments has existed in England since at least
1315
6c ... that the rule of the Salt Hotel is "don't lick the walls"
6c ... that the 19th-century artillery of Japan ^( utilized widely
disparate technologies, from primitive wooden cannon to state-of-the-art breech
loaders
6c ... that Norwegian professor of bacteriology Sverre Dick Henriksen was an honorary
member of the Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, despite having never
worked in Poland
6c ... that Severe Tropical Cyclone Keli was the first recorded tropical cyclone to form
within the South Pacific Ocean in June
6c ... that Henry Dorling, step-father of cookery writer Mrs Beeton, was the first Clerk
of the Course of Epsom Racecourse
6c ... that the farmland at Ramstad, Norway, was affected by the 19th-century
construction of both the Drammen Line and the European route E18
6c ... that in 1974, Louis Gaston Mayila became Deputy Personal Adviser to the
then President of Gabon, Omar Bongo
6c ... that the treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External
Resistance Treadmill) aboard the International Space Station was named after
political satirist Stephen Colbert
6c ... that â
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^ , also called the Waling-waling, was proposed
in the House of Representatives of the Philippines to replace the Sampaguitaas the
country's national flower
6c ... that Robin Hoare received the Albert Medal for removing depth charges from a
ship while it was on fire
6c ... that critics praised "$ ! ! 4
episode "Natural Selection" for its
action and fight sequences
6c ... that the term surface integrity is defined as the nature of the surface condition of
a workpiece after being affected by manufacturing processes
6c ... that one of the largest fish culture stations in Quebec, Canada, is in Lac-des-
Écorces
6c ... that "
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the Legion of Honor
6c ... that Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada
and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite
not having a college degree himself
6c ... that the Mansfield State Historic Site in western Louisiana commemorates an
1864 Confederate victory by General Richard Taylor, which prevented a pending
Union invasion of Texas
6c ... that & #
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was written by Robert Burns at Ellisland
Farm near Dumfries, Scotland
6c ... that supporters invaded the pitch on three occasions during a football
match between West Ham United and Millwall in 2009
6c ... that the Intimidator roller coaster on the South Carolina side of
the Carowinds amusement park takes its name from the nickname of
former NASCAR driverDale Earnhardt
6c ... that according to government records in 2006, more than a third of the total
number of Chinese residents in Botswana worked in the construction business
6c ... that the Germantown Colony and Museum near Minden, Louisiana, preserves
the remnants of a Utopian religious commune active between 1835 and 1871
6c ... that Giveamanakick's live performances involved gas masks and streamers and
one of their albums was said to be "something akin to being battered round the
head with a plank of wood for half an hour"
6c ... that Mount Hope Estate ^ is home to the Pennsylvania Renaissance
Faire, a winery, a brewpub, and a rare pre-1840 American formal garden
6c ... that all proceeds from the 2009 Radiohead song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)"
were donated to The Royal British Legion
6c ... that Giuseppe Ricciotti's book "Life of Jesus Christ" was edited in 1941 and
reedited and reprinted several times
6c ... that as a result of the Okęcie Airport Incident in 1980, four top players of
the Polish national football team were disqualified, and one of them
never capped for Poland again
6c ... that Alexander Gordon Lyle is one of only two dental officers ever to receive
the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor
6c ... that, predicted to appear in at least 1 in 20,000 humans, the microduplication of
a band on chromosome 17 leads to the rare disease Potocki-Lupski syndrome
6c ... that King Louis IX of France said that he would rather break clods behind a
plough than accept the 1264 Peace of Canterbury
6c ... that % $
^ of southeastern Australia gains its name
from the similarity of the odour of its leaves to that of the Sassafras of eastern
North America
6c ... that the Castilian nobleman Fernando Núñez de Lara became a Knight
Hospitaller on his deathbed in exile in Marrakesh
6c ... that Joginder Singh and Nick Nowicki were twice members of a group nicknamed
the Unsinkable Seven after managing to be among the seven survivors of the East
African Safari Rally in 1963 and 1968
6c ... that users in the upcoming MMORPG %Ô!" GK will be able to interact with
users from another game, ââ :
, through mercenary assistance
6c ... that the Polish Committee for Settling of Place Names determined
32,138 toponyms of Poland inbetween 1946 and 1950
6c ... that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of
the termite, ?
6c ... that William Hutton, François Pierre La Varenne and Benjamin Disraeli wrote
about game pie, and Josiah Wedgwood made cooking dishes for it
6c ... that French author Honoré de Balzac ^ found inspiration for his
1840 novelette 7 from a sign outside a tailor's shop in Paris
6c ... that groups considered UFO religions by scholars include Aetherius
Society, Heaven's Gate, Order of the Solar Temple, Raëlism, and Scientology
6c ... that the 1966 film &
* reimagined the Lewis
Carroll heroine as an American girl who is obsessed with visiting the French
capital
6c ... that Chisho Itoh, the winner of the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival Best New
Director Award, went on to a career as the hardcore Japanese adult
video director Tohjiro
6c ... that about a third of the population of Sheridan, Oregon, are criminals
6c ... that Fuzhou Tanka people in Fujian lived on boats most of their lives
6c ... that the Indonesian political party * was also a mystical religious
movement
6c ... that journeyman Paul Bako ^ has played for 11 Major League
Baseball teams in his 12-year career, and was formerly Greg Maddux's
personal catcher
6c ... that in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate
a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account
6c ... that after "$ ! â
* announced its closure in 1969, embittered
editor-in-chief William Emerson wished "that all the [magazine's] one-eyed critics
will lose their other eye"
6c ... that Caney Lakes Recreation Area and nearby Lake Bistineau in
northwestern Louisiana have been plagued with the giant salvinia fern, which
impairs boating
6c ... that 80% of the taxis used for transport in Hamburg are driver-owned
6c ... that the 1930 musical "$ ? / received criticism for bad taste, and its
song "Love for Sale" was subsequently banned from the radio
6c ... that Mexico celebrates its Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the
Mexico Revolution in 2010
6c ... that the Mercury-Atlas 8 spaceflight ^ in October 1962 was piloted by
a Turtle
6c ... that the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of
digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former burial ground in the City of
London, elevated above street level
6c ... that Al Purvis played for the Edmonton Mercurys, an ice hockey team sponsored
by a local car dealership, that won the gold medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics
6c ... that the extensive ornamentation on the Haverstraw, New York, post office may
be due to the influence of Postmaster General James Farley, a native of the area
6c ... that the Somali Ostrich faces eradication in the Horn of Africa
6c ... that the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society's headquarters building was one of
only two U.S. skyscrapers featured at the 1932 International style exhibition at
the Museum of Modern Art
6c ... that architect Charles Durrett has designed more than
50 cohousing communities in North America
6c ... that "
's sister ship
^ was one of the hospital ships sunk
during the First World War
6c ... that the documentary 2 / F4F gets its name from an actual
headline in the 2 Ñ
6c ... that Japanese erotic film actress Motoko Sasaki made her screen debut at the
advanced age for the field, of 29, and won a Best Actress award at 36
6c ... that despite leading the New York Giants in tackles in 2004, Kevin Lewis was
released before 2005
6c ... that the Map of Rensselaerswyck shows that Kiliaen van Rensselaer originally
named areas around the upper Hudson River, near Fort Orange, after the women in
his life
6c ... that Venezuelan performer José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a Grammy
Award nomination for his number-one song "Baila Mi Rumba"
6c ... that a single bucket of water was used to extinguish a three-alarm fire at
the Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building ^ in Portland, Oregon,
USA
6c ... that five months after the 2nd Arizona Territorial Legislature created Pah-Ute
County most of the county's land was given to Nevada
6c ... that following the depopulation of the Palestinian village of Bayt Susin in 1948,
the moshav of Ta'oz was established just two years later
6c ... that Robert Sommers, who became British Columbia Minister of Forests in 1952,
was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to be imprisoned for
taking bribes
6c ... that the 1st Special Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy was tasked with
defending Australia and New Zealand during World War I
6c ... that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of
turning flax into linen
6c ... that Bathwick Hill, Bath is the site of a large Italianate villa, built by Henry
Goodridge as his own house
6c ...that St Martin Orgar, a church in the City of London most famous as being one of
the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme :
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, was all but
destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666
6c ...that Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma
Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill
workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike, but later became Gandhi's staunch
follower
6c ...that Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who
teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"
6c ...that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon $ &
#
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+ after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's
Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation
6c ...that Bangor Cathedral in North Wales was completed without a tower or spire
because of a cracking foundation
6c ...that the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in
the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably
pricedmedications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug
policies worldwide
6c ...that Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal
predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising
6c ...that Socks was one of Bill Clinton's two pets while President of the United States
6c ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is
named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and
most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery
rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"
6c ...that geographical renaming can take place to change the name of
a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal
6c ...that a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School
massacre
6c ...that fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found
in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly
6c ...that the Bowery Theatre in New York City was burnt down five times in 17 years
6c ...that the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta
6c ...that Jaja, one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria,
began his life as a slave in Bonny
6c ...that Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history
when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League
6c ...that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor ceremony involving the simultaneous
activation of electric Christmas lights and is derived from an English tradition of
placing lighted candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a
special event
6c ...that invasion literature, such as "$
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genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I
6c ...that Ñ : by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a
young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder
6c ...that the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won
their first ³ and thus last ³ domestic trophy in West Indian cricket
6c ...that the Baldock Beer Disaster occurred on March 14, 1904 when an unstable
storage room floor collapsed at the Simpson Brewery, in what is now the Twitchell,
in the North Hertfordshire town of Baldock
6c ...that Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a
ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986
6c ...that the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will
become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008
6c ...that Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, New York was
the historic 353-acre estate of Gilded Age millionaire William R. Coe
6c ...that the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was
influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology
6c ...that the genera and
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a German botanist best known for his contribution to
the nomenclature ofsucculent plants, particularly agaves and cacti
6c ...that a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, directly elected by citizens of
member countries, has been proposed by legislators in an effort to counter the
influence of the World Trade Organization and other unelected international
bodies
6c ...that Lake Nockamixon is the start of a whitewater kayaking course going through
northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania
6c ...that as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United
States using the electric chair
6c ...that Amos Urban Shirk was a prodigious reader of encyclopedias
6c ...that during the Indian Independence Movement, Tanguturi Prakasam bared his
chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was
respected with the epithet of &
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6c ...that A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles
chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person
6c ...that Typhoon Vamei formed only 92 nautical miles north of the equator, a record
at the time
6c ...that the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text,
focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as
recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development
of common law principles
6c ...that Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and co-author of the
definitive #
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, is also an accomplished vintner
6c ...that Beau Sia, a perennial Nuyorican Poets Cafe favorite, first discovered slam
poetry through MTV as a teenager
6c ...that the Schmidt-Pechan prism is a type of roof prism used for image erection
in binoculars
6c ...that Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most
educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-
centuryMuscovites as an alchemist and mage
6c ...that the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder
of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it
affects womenand Native Americans
6c ...that the first Intercolonial cricket match in Australia was played in Launceston,
Tasmania between players from Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land in
February 1851
6c ...that a condenser is used to condense steam from a steam turbine to obtain
maximum efficiency
6c ...that Samuel Andrews (1836²1904) was an English-
born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil
refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of
the Standard Oil companies
6c ...that Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered
by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an
expedition to discover the seven Cities ofCibola
6c ...that according to Breton folklore, not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in
one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length
every seven years from within their coffin
6c ...that polydactyl cats, with extra toes as a genetic trait, were long considered good
luck by many sailors, as the cats' extraordinary climbing and hunting skills were
helpful in controlling shipboard rodents
6c ...that the video for the Tori Amos single "Silent All These Years" is #98 on Y
!
's top 100 videos of all time
6c ...that fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58%
Don't WantPershing"
6c ...that the wedding of the parents of Anne of Cleves took place at Schloss Burg, now
the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia
6c ...that Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women
in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud
7 to
the Arctic 20 times in the name of science and research
6c ...that the Black Tree Fern is the largest of the tree fern species endemic to New
Zealand
6c ...that the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30
million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust
6c ...that there have been four attempts to make "$ &
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into
a TV series, starting in 1950 on the DuMont Network
6c ...that Christopher Strauli was the actor recruited to fill the gap left by the early
death of Richard Beckinsale when casting the movie version of Y
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6c ...that Bacon's Castle³a stronghold in Surry County during Bacon's Rebellion in
the Virginia Colony in 1676³was never occupied by leader Nathaniel Bacon
6c ...that the 1904 Scottish yacht and the battleship Ô!! "( are the only
surviving vessels that fought in both world wars
6c ...that Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who
was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned
in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act
6c ...that Cleese's Woolly Lemur is a newly discovered species of lemur that was
named after John Cleese, due to his fondness for the creatures
6c ...that the Japanese submarine I-8 was a World War II Imperial Japanese
Navy submarine, famous for completing a technology exchange mission between
occupation forces in France
6c ...that Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay
peninsula or Malaysia in general
6c ...that Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's
Georgia Minstrels, the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of
all African Americanperformers
6c ...that Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first
appeared at a Navy football game in 1893
6c ...that the Buner reliefs depict scenes of ancient Greeks in India during the 1st
century
6c ...that in the past 5 years, Colin Campbell, a former ice
hockey defenceman and coach, handed some of the longest suspensions
in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi
6c ...that Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem "Danny Deever" caused the academic David
Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that
it was later described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"
6c ...that the Witty worm self-replicating computer worm was the first worm to attack
the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms
6c ...that Edward George Honey is credited with first proposing the idea of a moment
of silence to commemorate the armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the
creation of Remembrance Day
6c ...that the 1959 Mexico Hurricane is the only known East Pacific hurricane to make
landfall as a Category 5
6c ...that ? / !
columnist and critic Ward Morehouse stayed in so
many hotels that he said his epitaph should read "room service, please"
6c ...that a few years after Richard Whitney had been heralded as Wall Street's "White
Knight" for his efforts during the Stock Market crash of 1929 and made president of
the New York Stock Exchange, he was sentenced to 5-10 years in Sing
Sing for embezzlement
6c ...that Dennis Berry was a musician, composer, arranger and producer who not
only produced the music to the first Monty Python film, but has also had his music
featured on the BBC's #
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and
the Nickelodeon cartoon !
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6c ...that American educator Septima Poinsette Clark, known as the "Grandmother of
the Civil Rights Movement," worked for educational and civil rights for African-
Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s
6c ...that the (), Thirteen Factories referred to the limited area in Canton City,
China where the Qing court first allowed Westerners to trade
6c ...that #( $ $ (English: Law of Muhammad the pseudo-
prophet) was the first Qur'an translation into a Western language and often
regarded as one of the sloppiest
6c ...that Alfred and Albert Stratton were the first men to be convicted of murder in
the United Kingdom through fingerprint evidence
6c ...that Dan Syvret, a rookie ice hockey defenceman with the Edmonton
Oilers, captained the record-breaking 2004-05 London Knights
6c ...that according to the traditions of the United States Senate, bean soup must
appear on the Senate dining room menu every day
6c ...that American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet
Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which
were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison
6c ...that the two dams and reservoir that form the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project will
be decommissioned in 2008 due to the rising costs of meeting environmental laws
6c ...that Walchand Hirachand established India·s first shipyard,
first aircraft factory and its first car factory
6c ...that the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information
network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of
international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other
laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru,
andRomania
6c ...that Samuel Spencer, first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train
wreck in Virginia in 1906
6c ...that Fort Dallas, a military post used during the Seminole Wars, became the site
of the new city of Miami, Florida in 1895
6c ...that the Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan stood in five elections to the Lok
Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, winning two of them
6c ...that Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in
his 2004 satirical novel & *
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6c ...that Salaga in northern Ghana was once one of the biggest slave markets in West
Africa
6c ...that Jurong Falls, located at Singapore's Jurong BirdPark and featuring the
world's most numerous bird collection, is the tallest man-made waterfall in the
world at 30 metres (98 feet) high
6c ...that advertisements featuring the character Michael
Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003
6c ...that the Maritime Museum of San Diego has in its collection one of the world's
oldest seaworthy ships, the !
, built in 1863
6c ...that the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929,
but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place
only
times since 1825
6c ...that the Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912 for 128 miles (206 kilometers)
beyond the end of the Florida peninsula to Key West, was heavily damaged in
theLabor Day Hurricane of 1935 and not rebuilt
6c ...that Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also
a spy for Henry VIII, until he was revealed as a double agent
6c ...that targeted therapy is a type of chemotherapy which blocks the growth
of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed
forcarcinogenesis and tumor growth
6c ...that American modern dancer and choreographer Bill Cratty quit his tap
dance lessons as a child because his two brothers teased him, and he didn't dance
again until high school
6c ...that Mina Wylie won silver at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden,
and was one of the first two women to represent Australia in Olympic swimming
6c ...that the Taurid meteor shower, which peaks every 3000 years, may have been
responsible for the Star of Bethlehem
6c ...that American Civil War-era novelist John William DeForest coined the phrase
the + &
? in an 1869 essay
6c ...that Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the (
Ñ, spoke
nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in
theApache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became
an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I
6c ...that Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have found Priam's Treasure in the ruin
of Troy and that the treasure disappeared from Germany after World War II and has
never been seen again
6c ...that Peter Parker, the first Protestant medical missionary to China, introduced
Western anesthesia in the form of sulphuric ether in 1835
6c ...that the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important
living public intellectuals in the world, as voted by readers of * -
6c ...that a soda gun is a device used by bars to serve various types of drinks
6c ...that the Reps Theatre fought a legal battle with the Rhodesian government over
its refusal to segregate members according to race, in what became known as "The
Battle of the Toilets"
6c ...that Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham,
Alabama has a doctorate in zoology
6c ...that former National Hockey League player Jason Bonsignore is considered one of
the worst draft choices in the history of the Edmonton Oilers
6c ...that a few years after Albert H. Wiggin, President of Chase National Bank, was
lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the Wall Street Crash of
1929, a Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock
market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by short
selling Chase Bank shares
6c ...that Ice is a highly addictive methamphetamine and that when it is smoked it
causes a massive release of dopamine in the brain
6c ...that Gary King became the first DJ to work for the UK's three national pop and
rock networks when he joined Virgin Radio, having already presented for Atlantic
252 and BBC Radio 1
6c ...that in the Hebrew Bible Moses' sister Miriam was turned snow-white by God for
criticizing Moses' marriage to a Cushite wife
6c ...that on December 26 and 27, 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special
forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a
mission calledOperation Rooster 53
6c ...that the French Navy ship Y, was built in 1876 and was the first warship
in the world to use steel as the principal building material
6c ...that the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in
a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II
6c ...that the all-time best-selling album of traditional Irish music in Ireland is Sharon
Shannon's self-titled debut
6c ...that activist Jerry White is a cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network and
that he has testified before the United States Senate
6c ...that flood walls are man-made vertical barriers that are designed to temporarily
contain the waters of a river or other waterway during seasonal or extreme weather
events
6c ...that Bernhard Cossmann was a renowned German cellist who taught at
the Moscow Conservatory and that many of his cello etudes are still used today
6c ...that the bootleg turn was invented by stock car racing legend Robert Glenn
"Junior" Johnson
6c ...that Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney, worked against racial
discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period
of massive resistance to integrationin Virginia's public schools
6c ... that the orbits of exoplanets Kepler-11b, Kepler-11c, Kepler-11d, Kepler-11e, and Kepler-
11f ^1
can fit within the orbit of Mercury
6c ... that despite the low ratings of CBS's "$
$ Y, the 1975 series propelled Leif
Garrett onto " +'s "25 Greatest Teen Idols" list
6c ... that the Soviet pre-dreadnought battleship &
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bombarded Fort Krasnaya
Gorka from 13 to 15 June 1919 after its garrison had mutinied against the Bolsheviks
6c ... that the 1953 Suva earthquake caused the collapse of an 800-metre (2,600 ft) long
section of barrier reef, triggering a tsunami and damaging submarine cables
6c ... that although Australian soccer player Kris Trajanovski only scored in three matches for
his country, he scored three hat-tricks
6c ... that the citizens of Verboort, Oregon, produce 15 tons of sausage and 2,000 pounds
of sauerkraut for the community's annual sausage and sauerkraut festival
6c ... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a US$15
synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000
6c ... that although Shishman, a medieval ruler of Vidin, Bulgaria ^ , was hailed by his
contemporaries as a prince, king and even emperor, his only official title was that of despot
6c ... that the second hydration shell of chromium(III) in aqueous solution contains around 13
water molecules
6c ... that an incident of Indian rolling led to the death of three Navajos in 1974
6c ... that Gerald Barry organised a seminar that became the last public speaking appearance
of Conor Cruise O'Brien
6c ... that each year, two athletes are named Academic All-America Team Members of the Year,
one in the college division and one in the university division
6c ... that many readers of "$ #
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of Shelley
6c ... that in 2002, a British man working in a bookstore conned 30 people into leaving their
homes and quitting their jobs
6c ... that the slow lorises that are illegally caught and traded as exotic pets have their front
teeth cut out ^ due to fear of their toxic bite
6c ... that Chief Stephen Talkhouse unsuccessfully filed three lawsuits between 1897 and 1918
against the Long Island Rail Road, and its predecessors in title, claiming Montauk Point
6c ... that the Krishnapuram Palace in Kerala has a copy of the Bible in Sanskrit that was
printed in Kolkata in 1886
6c ... that hurdle technology is a technique where pathogens in a food product are subjected to
"hurdles" designed to inhibit or kill them
6c ... that, in the mid-1980s, the Italian wine grape Verdicchio was the 15th most widely
planted grape variety in the world, with more plantings than even Chardonnay and Pinot
noir
6c ... that Ukraine has been one of the most successful nations at the Summer and Winter
Paralympic Games in recent years
6c ... that during an eleven-year professional baseball career, German-born Rudolph "Skel"
Roach played for teams known as the Prohibitionists, Omahogs, Orphans and Siwashes
6c ... that the Italian wine grape Fiano ^ was likely grown in Roman times and is still
being used for winemaking today
6c ... that the untitled masonry statues located in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts,
had bronze "masks" added to them because of vandalism
6c ... that although true bugs eat aphids, they help the aphids by eating another predator,
young lacewings
6c ... that in the rare 1984 video game +
, the player must either prevent the furry
Mogwai from eating the hamburgers at the bottom of the screen, or shoot them after they
transform into gremlins
6c ... that Émile Durkheim, one of the fathers of sociology, intended "$ Y
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6c ... that Labweh, a village in Lebanon, has springs and a river named after it that flow
northwards to form the Orontes River
6c ... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont ">
were
uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth
6c ... that miners in Sierra Leone ^ unearthed the third largest diamond in the world
6c ... that during Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's tenure from 1836 to 1864, the U.S. Supreme
Court heard four cases involving the Sac and Fox Half-Breed Tract
6c ... that the second pile lighthouse built at Moreton Bay Pile Light survived being hit by
a barge towed by a tug in 1945, but was destroyed by a tanker in 1949
6c ... that before becoming a state legislator and then railroad commissioner
in Nebraska, Henry Clarke pitched with Cy Young for the Cleveland Spiders and
coachedMichigan Wolverines baseball
6c ... that the Digital Education Revolution was a promise made by Kevin Rudd as part of
his 2007 Australian federal election campaign
6c ... that Welsh artist Alfred Janes was part of The Kardomah Gang, which included
poet Dylan Thomas
6c ... that the Permian therocephalian +
$, an early relative of mammals, may have
been warm-blooded
6c ... that the Brown Willy Cairns ^ are two man-made rock piles situated on the
highest ridge in Cornwall
6c ... that Small Heath F.C. was not promoted to the Football League First Division after
winning the inaugural Second Division title in 1892²93, while the second- and third-place
teams were
6c ... that $
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, is
being shot in 3-D rather than being converted to 3-D like its predecessor
6c ... that Napua Stevens's 1949 Hawaiian hit "Beyond the Reef" was later recorded by Bing
Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Ventures
6c ... that Thomas Fitch was the lead attorney in defending Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp,
along with Doc Holliday, when they were indicted for murder after the Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral
6c ... that a chest tomb in the churchyard of Old St Peter and St Paul's Church,
Albury in Surrey commemorates the artists Arthur Devis and Anthony Devis
6c ... that anarchist Becky Edelsohn was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the
United States
6c ... that Israel allowed a highly unusual interfaith, mixed-gender worship service at
the Western Wall's Wilson's Arch ^ as part of a special welcome for theU.S. Sixth
Fleet in 1983
6c ... that Louisiana historian Henry E. Chambers received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins
University, where one of his instructors was future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
6c ... that the Great Barn within the Manor Farm site in Ruislip was built around 1280, using
timber from the nearby Ruislip Woods
6c ... that Imperial German Secretary of Justice Rudolf Arnold Nieberding declared the
German #D >6 laws as "not entirely reconcilable with the general sense of justice"
6c ... that John Giordano, named 1981 collegiate Coach of the Year by "$ 2 ?, was
fired three years later when all 22 of his players signed a petition listing their grievances
against him
6c ... that during the Second World War, the airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France,
was used by the &6 1&, the Royal Air Force, and the Luftwaffe
6c ... that Mia Farrow found children at Donka Hospital dying of measles because they had not
received a $1 vaccination
6c ... that the Sign of the Kiwi ^ was built as a toll house for the Christchurch Summit
Road
6c ... that an aerial shot of the festival featured in the *
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episode "Harvest
Festival" was the most expensive shot of the entire series
6c ... that the Hotel de France in Conakry, Guinea, was the first project of the French
architectural firm Atelier LWD and architect Guy Lagneau from 1953 to 1954
6c ... that Claude Arnulphy of Aix-en-Provence painted portraits of Royal Navy officers while
their fleet was lying off Toulon
6c ... that California Appellate Court Justice William A. Reppy, an appointee
of Governor Ronald Reagan, was a member of the Stanford University track and field team
and editor of theUSC Law Review
6c ... that St Thomas' Church in East Shefford, Berkshire, contains the tomb of a member of
the Portuguese royal family
6c ... that in the book "$ :(
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, Morag Bellingham of 2
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6c ... that John Howell, who built St John's Church ^ in Hastings, England, to the
design of E.A. Wyon, arrived in town as a poor boy and became themayor
6c ... that a novel type of aerodynamic arrowhead, the &, *
, was found at
the prehistoric site of Abu Madi, Egypt
6c ... that following its construction in 1574, Coldham Hall remained the property of the
Rookwood family for almost three centuries
6c ... that the Cayuga Nature Center has a rope climbing / rope bridge course
6c ... that the music video for Rufus Wainwright's song "April Fools", which appeared on
his eponymous debut album, featured cameo appearances by Melissa Auf der Maur and No
Doubt's Gwen Stefani
6c ... that although he never competed in the final round of an America's Cup race,
yachtsman Gerry Driscoll permanently changed the way teams prepare for that event
6c ... that ex-boxer Boone Kirkman earned his nickname because of his habits
while hunting with his father
6c ... that U.S. President William Howard Taft ^ was a member of Cincinnati's First
Unitarian Church
6c ... that Alexander Briger conducted %
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his great-great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Nathan
6c ... that although it gave the game a "C" rating, "$ + Ñ praised &4Ñ!4
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for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your2600"
6c ... that migratory waterfowl can be seen in the winter in Mexico City at the Xochimilco
Ecological Park
6c ... that the Vaccines for Children Program provides free vaccines to uninsured or
underinsured children in the United States
6c ... that film director Uberto Pasolini created his 2008 film $
based upon an actual
2004 incident where a group of Sri Lankan men tricked their way into an
internationalhandball tournament
6c ... that the upcoming new Yes album )
2 features Benoît David, a former
Yes cover band vocalist
6c ... that All Saints Church, West Stourmouth ^ in Kent was damaged in an
earthquake in 1382
6c ... that Joseph Schleifstein arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp at age two, and
survived because his father hid him in a sack
6c ... that the 1432 land register of the Albanian Sanjak is one of the earliest
surviving Ottoman land registers
6c ... that Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi proposed the "Mogi doughnut hypothesis"
for predicting earthquakes
6c ... that # 2 (ü
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official occasions, was censored due to its association with the 2011 Chinese protests
6c ... that Stan Hansen, a longtime "Gaijin heel" in Japanese professional wrestling, officially
retired at the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular
6c ... that Boston Red Sox baseball player Ryan Kalish didn·t miss a single pitch he swung at
in his senior year of high school baseball
6c ... that James Moody ^ received his first Grammy Award for K after he died
6c ... that the Japanese have been regarded as demonstrating "gaman" in the wake of the 2011
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
6c ... that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building, built by Ellis
Wainwright in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1890²92, "the very first human expression of a tall
steel office-building as Architecture"
6c ... that James Dunne O'Connell served as the Chief Signal Officer of the United States
Army from 1955 to 1959
6c ... that Moroccan runner Abderrahim Goumri has been the runner-up at the New York City
Marathon, London Marathon (twice) and the Chicago Marathon
6c ... that â
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of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record
6c ... that bookmaker Ladbrokes paid out on bets that former UK Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke,
would fall asleep during the 2011 budget speech
6c ... that The Avenue ^ is still used for London Irish's pre season friendlies despite
being demoted to a training facility since their move to the Madjeski Stadium
6c ... that the 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest year in the Atlantic hurricane
database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones
6c ... that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to
produce barrel-aged Chardonnay
6c ... that the small extrasolar planet Kepler-9d orbits its host star every 1.59 days
6c ... that cricketer Bill Shipman played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire
6c ... that with "Nearer My God to Thee", Isabella Hofmann joined the cast of 20 #
$ ! to add more sex appeal to the cast
6c ... that children's author Phoebe Gilman's inspiration for "$
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ü came from her daughter selling mice bookmarks
6c ... that workers undertaking the 2010 Canterbury earthquake repair were outside for lunch
when the oldest part of Holy Trinity Avonside ^ collapsed in the2011 Christchurch
earthquake
6c ... that biopreservation is a benign ecological approach to food preservation which is gaining
increasing attention
6c ... that the German ironclad SMS
$ was the largest and most powerful warship
in the Imperial Navy in the late 19th century
6c ... that the Fujinuma Dam near Sukagawa City failed after the 2011 Tōhoku
earthquake causing homes downstream to wash away
6c ... that the Mercado Jamaica market in Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers
and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild
6c ... that Pete Conway won 30 games as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888,
"snapped a cord in his arm" in 1889, later worked as a mule skinner, and was dead by age
36
6c ... that, following a dispute at the Sheffield Attercliffe by-election result in 1909, Arnold
Muir Wilson sued a rival for damage to his bowler hat
6c ... that public transport in Valparaíso, Chile, includes trolleybuses ^ that were built
60 years ago, by Pullman, and were declared a national monument in 2003
6c ... that the medieval Church of St John the Baptist in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria,
features arrowslits for defence
6c ... that the disgruntled sailors of the Russian battleship * instigated the
1917 mutiny of the Baltic Fleet in Helsinki
6c ... that six years before being cast as Aunt Bee on "$ &
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$ !$, Frances
Bavier played a similar role in the NBC sitcom 1 + #
6c ... that the Supreme Constitutional Court, as defined by the Syrian constitution, may not
examine laws passed by a referendum
6c ... that the Jimmy Eat World single "Work" that stayed on the , Alternative
Songs chart for 21 weeks was described as "tailor-made for teenage runaway fantasies"
6c ... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting
lodge on McCloud River
6c ... that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final
design for the Pioneer Woman statue ^ in Ponca City, Oklahoma
6c ... that the Texas State Representative James C. Spencer was a prisoner of war in the
1942 Bataan Death March
6c ... that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament,
was written by the Emperor Theodosius ( 395)
6c ... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in
southwestern Bulgaria consisted of a row of baldachin-like arches
6c ... that when the German ocean liner SS Ñ, was intercepted by the
British destroyer HMS 2
off Cape Hatteras on 19 December 1939, she
was scuttledby her crew to avoid capture
6c ... that Wilf Martin played for the 1964 NCAA championship Michigan Wolverines ice
hockey team and later set the Denver Spurs' single-season and career records for goals,
assists, and points
6c ... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on
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former apprentice Trombone Shorty
6c ... that Wright of Derby's
^ was exhibited in 1785 at what may
have been the first one-person-show in England
6c ... that in Ô
! 7 # (1882), the Supreme Court held that a jury had properly
ordered that the U.S. government return Arlington National Cemetery to the heir
of Confederate General Robert E. Lee
6c ... that among winners of the Leonard Statuette, named after Einar Leonard Schanke,
are Kari Diesen, Rolf Just Nilsen, Arild Feldborg, and Alfred Næss
6c ... that Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War was the last of several wars between the Burmese-
speaking Upper Burma and the Mon-speaking Lower Burma, ending theMon people's
centuries-long dominance of Lower Burma
6c ... that the 20 #
$ ! episode "A Many Splendored Thing" included a
subplot based on a real-life murder committed over a pen
6c ... that when Nyasaland Governor Robert Perceval Armitage declared a state of
emergency, Rose Chibambo was allowed to give birth to her baby before going to jail
6c ... that 7 Ô
Steve Reeves played an office boy in a 1954 episode of
the ABC sitcom "$ Y !$
6c ... that the legs of the statue ^ of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott broke in
the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
6c ... that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find "Heavenly
Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"
6c ... that Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in a new film adaptation of the Forty-seven
Ronin produced by Universal Pictures
6c ... that the first international railway link built in Laos opened in 2009, bringing trains
across the Mekong from Nong Khai to Thanaleng Railway Station
6c ... that John Balmer achieved renown as a flying instructor in the RAAF by reputedly
parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed
6c ... that the 2010 BBC television pilot % +
was the first screen adaptation of Douglas
Adams's novel % +
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6c ... that actress Jennifer Aniston's "sex tape" includes puppies, a talking parrot, dirty-
dancing babies and a groin kick
6c ... that the Philippine town of Daet, Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal
Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument ^
6c ... that Michigan baseball player and coach Jerry Utley was the owner of a luxury hotel
in Baja California and the promoter of the 1933 Max Schmeling ² Max Baerheavyweight
championship fight
6c ... that the 2011 Crufts Best in Show winner, Vbos The Kentuckian, is a descendant of
the 1980 winner
6c ... that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song "Born This Way" for the + episode of the
same name before the single premiered
6c ... that &
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6c ... that the WiiWare video game 7" was designed to have a minimalistic style,
reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD
6c ... that while the wilga is a valued fodder tree of rural Australia, it is not known
why sheep like some trees and not others
6c ... that the Marathon Dam ^ in Greece is coated with the
same Pentelikon marble used to construct the Parthenon and is symbolic of the Battle of
Marathon
6c ... that Rebecca Black intends to donate profits from viral hit "Friday" to school arts
programs and disaster relief efforts in Japan
6c ... that Professor Andor Harvey Gomme's first name was a family joke
6c ... that the Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance was signed in 1914 in the Banovina building
in Niš; which is now the seat of the University of Niš
6c ... that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester in works
of Thomas Larcher with soloists Till Fellner and Kim Kashkashian
6c ... that even though Norwegian architect Bernt Heiberg supported
the communist league Mot Dag in the 1930s, he opposed the May 1968 revolts
6c ... that the air-tractor sledge, the first aeroplane to be taken to Antarctica, went without
wings
6c ... that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats ^ have a large pair of false teats, whose
only function may be to give their young something to hold on to
6c ... that the Church of the Good Shepherd, damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake,
suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack
6c ... that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou headed several golf clubs in
Norway
6c ... that the Virginia Board of Health became involved in a controversy over abortion access
when it was required to regulate outpatient clinics that perform first trimester abortions
6c ... that in Ancient Israelite cuisine, bread was primarily made from barley flour, even
though wheat flour was regarded as superior
6c ... that ü (1956²66), the Canadian variety series which followed 2 ?$
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, attracted more than a million viewers per episode
6c ... that according to its original constitution, the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al
Karama, but no such city actually exists
6c ... that Captain Philemon Pownoll ^ , killed in battle in 1780, was a mentor for future
admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Sir Edward Pellew
6c ... that "$ %
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!$, a 1954 NBC musical sitcom, is based on the premise of
two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions
6c ... that 7" took inspiration from the early video game *
for its gameplay
6c ... that Barbara Staff, a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas,
became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor
6c ... that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham, Lincolnshire, with its ornate flying
buttresses, is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church inLouth
6c ... that Joseph Barss, the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice
hockey team, was born in Madras, India, in 1892
6c ... that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia, some Israeli
paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart
6c ... that, in 1923, the Gleno Dam ^ in Italy failed shortly after it was completed and
its flooding killed at least 356 people
6c ... that Lyndon Watts, principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the
first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition
6c ... that Michigan ice hockey coach Dan Farrell later became the chairman and CEO of a
uranium exploration company
6c ... that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a
dispute over the cost of electricity
6c ... that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the
Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, focused on the emotion and character of automotive
design
6c ... that Władysław Marian Jakowicki, a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory
University, was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 whodisappeared
without a trace
6c ... that three lunar alignments of the Balquhain stone circle near Inverurie in Scotland were
discovered in the 1980s
6c ... that the first public trains in Russia were horse-drawn on the railroad between Tsarskoye
Selo and Pavlovsk ^
in 1836
6c ... that, though there are now 101 Republicans in the Texas House of
Representatives, Midland oilman Frank Kell Cahoon was his party's sole member in the
1965 legislative session
6c ... that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works
for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence
Dale
6c ... that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were
driven exclusively by water power
6c ... that the architectural firm of F. S. Platou designed the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo
6c ... that Abe Cohn, son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census-
takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending
law school
6c ... that HMS
(L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by
the Royal Navy in World War II
6c ... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 ^ , had one of his
paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15
6c ... that Romania's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross
Country Championships, having competed on 13 occasions
6c ... that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn
massacre
6c ... that "Losing a Whole Year", one of Third Eye Blind's "catchiest" songs, stayed
on ,1s alternative chart for 14 weeks
6c ... that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge
Island in the Port of Saint John
6c ... that Albert Nutter took 600 wickets in first-class cricket
6c ... that "$ ü !
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6c ... that Michigan's Arthur Karpus ^ played for Big Ten championship teams
in football, basketball and baseball
6c ... that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval
blockade by France and the United Kingdom
6c ... that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie, but he
originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today
6c ... that while the Xinfengjiang Dam's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were
several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1-magnitude
6c ... that the Root Covered Bridge is one of just eight Long truss bridges remaining
in Ohio today
6c ... that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration
for Shakespeare's Malvolio
6c ... that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before
the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business
6c ... that Sonora Market in Mexico City is known for its vendors selling items related to Santa
Muerte, Santería, and other forms of the occult and magical practices^
6c ... that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS )$ Ñ during a rebellion in
Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany
6c ... that former Michigan coach William Perigo played professional basketball with John
Wooden as a member of the Indianapolis Kautskys in the 1930s
6c ... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly *
is known only
from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola
6c ... that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a
variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries
6c ... that the town of Juneau, Alaska, was established after the 1880 discovery
of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau
6c ... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card
burning
6c ... that the British destroyer HMS 2 ^ captured the German blockade
runner SS in the North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South
Atlantic to the UK to refit
6c ... that George Durkin Corneal became the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's
basketball team in 1909
6c ... that flooding associated with the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami in 869 extended for at
least four kilometres inland on the Sendai plain
6c ... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album " $ :
was inspired by John
Coltrane's album & # !
6c ... that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid, Skanderbeg distributed a large
amount of ransom money to his men and dined off
with them
6c ... that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene
6c ... that "Huda the executioner" was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi, Libya
6c ... that St Andrew's Church, Gunton ^ is the only building designed by Robert
Adam in Norfolk, and his only complete church in England
6c ... that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton, Dartmouth, Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top
15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959
6c ... that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager
by Stephen F. Austin
6c ... that in ! 7 â (1992), the Vermont Supreme Court held that all aboriginal title in
Vermont was extinguished "by the increasing weight of history"
6c ... that the works of Eugen Relgis, a Romanian-born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist, were
targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors
6c ... that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the
largest karst cave in East China
6c ... that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork ,
using images
of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi-shaped forms
6c ... that Steens Mountain ^ in southeastern Oregon is named in honor of United
States Army Major Enoch Steen, who crossed the mountain pursuing aband of Indians in
1860
6c ... that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM's new song "Krank" was simultaneously
shot in Hamburg, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon
6c ... that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the
same train as Anne Frank
6c ... that Sologubovka Cemetery, near St Petersburg, Russia, is the largest German war
cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead
from World War II
6c ... that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of
royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia
6c ... that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned "the perennial end-of-season
slump of the Chicago Cubs" in his 7 Ñ$$ concurrence despite the case having
nothing to do with baseball
6c ... that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the
1923 Treaty of Niš
6c ... that Grave Circle A ^ in Mycenae, Greece, was the burial place of the 16th
century BC Mycenaean ruling families
6c ... that the anonymous
Ñ$,, or "Life of Saint Cuthbert", is the earliest piece
of English Latin hagiography
6c ... that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component
of NATO's Implementation Force in 1995
6c ... that the 2009 Norwegian anthology #,0 *
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was criticized by reviewers for selecting a sample of liberal thinkers who did not belong
together
6c ... that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series *
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after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast
member
6c ... that St George's Church in Goltho, Lincolnshire, is all that remains of a deserted
medieval village
6c ... that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie's painting Ñ
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depicts Minnesota
governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his
ankles
6c ... that Reza Abbasi ^ abandoned his career as a Persian court painter to consort
with wrestlers in a midlife crisis lasting some seven years until about 1610
6c ... that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever
recorded
6c ... that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn, whose output ranged from Beaux
Arts to Modernism, had a career lasting 65 years
6c ... that icodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used to keep tissues from gluing together after
surgery
6c ... that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera
-- of Richard Strauss, with Christiane
Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"
6c ... that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to
take place in fresh water
6c ... that knife-maker Gil Hibben has designed so many knives for the ! " franchise
that Paramount Pictures dubbed him the "Official Klingon Armorer"
6c ... that Wright of Derby's painting of Y
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depicts
Juliet ^ saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" inShakespeare's
play
6c ... that Steve Reich's composition, "Ñ FU, premieres today with a performance by
the Kronos Quartet at Duke University
6c ... that John Bell received the SIAM/ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science
and engineering in 2003
6c ... that +'s newest album includes two original songs that appear in the + episode
"Original Song"
6c ... that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of
Johor
6c ... that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico,
serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day
6c ... that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae
6c ... that 1952 Winter Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen once ran a ski shop in the La Fave
Block ^ , the second oldest brick commercial building inAspen, Colorado
6c ... that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official
reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris
6c ... that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and
the Evangelical Church of Romania, which were united under theCommunist regime, is the
form of baptism each practices
6c ... that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA-sponsored monopoly to exclusively
market a drug that had been already available for five decades, it raised its price from
aboutUS$15 to US$1,500
6c ... that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880²1976) and her lifelong companion,
regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase, have adjoining halls named for them at Smith
College inNorthampton, Massachusetts
6c ... that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer
wheat found at Tell Aswad, Syria
6c ... that the actor voicing the creature in the )
episode "Night of Desirable Objects"
placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"
6c ... that during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's forces took lead from the roof
of Oxhey Chapel ^ in Hertfordshire to make musket balls
6c ... that Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution stipulates that the Ba'ath Party is the "leading
party in the society and the state"
6c ... that Bart Thane, managing director of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company,
pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska
6c ... that "$ *
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describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the
proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value
6c ... that Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as
the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art
6c ... that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by
militant Wahhabism, that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998
6c ... that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways, Edvard Heiberg became famous for
the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"
6c ... that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa
Maria de Ovila ^ , but never used them in a building
6c ... that one of the grounds for the impeachment of Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas
Gutierrez was her low conviction rate
6c ... that the depiction of the European hallucinogenic mushroom *, $
in rock
art suggests it might have been used in prehistoric religious rituals 6,000 years ago
6c ... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in
the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals
6c ... that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner
Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed
6c ... that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with
a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material
resembling limestone when fired
6c ... that although the fungus &
was named for its resemblance to a flower, it
smells like cow dung
6c ... that there are only 70 individual plants of Molokai twinsorus fern ^$,
remaining in the wild and they are all on Maui
6c ... that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power
6c ... that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting
the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard
6c ... that the American Bladesmith Society has partnered with several colleges to offer courses
in bladesmithing and has launched its own museum
6c ... that the Syrian Constitution guarantees a 50% quota of the People's Assembly for
workers and peasants
6c ... that the rare European fungus â $
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produces minute cup-like fruit
bodies on the bark of ash trees
6c ... that the Michigan football coach complained his "defense was in the law library" after law
student Oscar Lambert was declared ineligible
6c ... that Bhumibol Dam and Sirikit Dam ^ , which control 22% of the Chao Phraya
River's annual runoff, are named after the reigning King and Queen of Thailand
6c ... that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey, team
that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic
computer in 1950
6c ... that a Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature
paintings and calligraphy from different sources, which gradually replaced the illustrated
book
6c ... that the division of the city of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, into San Pedro and San
Andrés has its origins in the pre-Hispanic era
6c ... that Low Isles Light, an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island,
a coral cay near Port Douglas, was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland
6c ... that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion + $
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was
originally identified as a species of dragonfly
6c ... that Jimmy Lile, a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas, made the knives for the
movies ) and Y,0 ) *
6c ... that Fred Rehor ^ , a 256-pound pharmacy student from the University of
Michigan, helped lead the 1917 Massillon Tigers to the "world's professional [American]
football championship" against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs
6c ... that attached to the tower of St Andrew's Church, Walpole in Norfolk is a chamber that
was probably an anchorite cell
6c ... that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine, near Juneau, Alaska, was the largest gold mine in the
world for a brief period prior to World War I
6c ... that the endangered tree &
is only known from suburban Nielsen
Park in Sydney
6c ... that "$ %
, Australia's first feminist magazine, was boycotted by unions because
the publisher employed women to handle the printing
6c ... that William F. Moran was the knife maker who revived the "lost art" of Damascus
steel in 1973
6c ... that there were attempts to ban yerba mate in early 17th-century South America
6c ... that Vijay Hazare holds the record for most international cricket centuries (four)
at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium ^
6c ... that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for
refusing to say how it distributed $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank
bailout money
6c ... that the British colonial authorities charged James Frederick Sangala with sedition for
supporting civil rights for Nyasaland people
6c ... that the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed after more than
800 Philadelphians were jailed in a debtors' prison over the course of one winter
6c ... that Hockey Hall of Famer Moose Johnson was one of the first professional players to
compete for the Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete
for it in 1916
6c ... that bone fragments of the Ñ , an extinct species of giant camel, were found
in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria
6c ... that in the U.S., vampire facelifts are not approved by the FDA
6c ... that the rare Floridian flowers Robin's mint and Garrett's mint used to be in the same
species as the scrub balm ^ until they were re-classified as separate species in 1981
and 1989, respectively
6c ... that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the
spring revival of Ronald Reagan's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign
6c ... that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand
6c ... that New York Rangers player Mike Allison scored on his first career NHL shot on goal in
1980
6c ... that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into
a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom, and the expansion of Croydon Airport
6c ... that adults with right hemisphere brain damage may have verbose, rambling
and tangential speech
6c ... that in the Y
2 episode "Blue Dots", one of the main characters is revealed to be
a registered sex offender
6c ... that *
, an edible mushroom, ^ has been found to
lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats
6c ... that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's
request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them
6c ... that the Frankfurt Airport shooting of 2 March 2011, in which two U.S. airmen were
killed, is suspected to be the first deadly act of Islamist terrorism in Germany
6c ... that Pandi Geço, author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography, was the
first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions
6c ... that Lyttelton Timeball Station, one of only five remaining time balls in working order
worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, is to be demolished
6c ... that Sir Harold Bowden, chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, was also chairman of
the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles
6c ... that "$ Y
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, a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake
Edwards and Richard Quine, features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a
serious actor
6c ... that, following a brawl-filled game, Pittsburgh Penguins team owner Mario
Lemieux ^ questioned whether he still wanted to be a part of the National Hockey
League
6c ... that Singapore's first Chief of Defence Force, Winston Choo, is now the country's
ambassador to Israel
6c ... that, on October 26, 2010, the judge in & Y ##Ñ 7 # + ##Ñ ordered a
permanent injunction shutting down LimeWire's P2P service
6c ... that the 1833 newspaper V', edited by Karl Marx, has been described as the "most
radical" European newspaper of its time
6c ... that Mary Hynes, who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority, has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings
6c ... that a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford Animal Cemetery
6c ... that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Ñ
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ü, involves exploding fish out of water
6c ... that the small-toothed sportive lemur ^ is the only sportive lemur to have evolved
after dispersing along river corridors between western and easternMadagascar
6c ... that four different English football clubs achieved promotion to the top division while Ray
Train was playing for them
6c ... that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County, Florida to be sentenced to death
since Aileen Wuornos in 1992
6c ... that, as of 2011, Olympic athletic venues have hosted several FIFA World Cup matches,
three Major League Baseball All-Star Games, two Super Bowls, and sixIAAF World
Championships in Athletics
6c ... that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show ) $
at
the Regina Theatre in Uppsala
6c ... that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of
Trustees of both her alma maters, Stanford University and Cornell University
6c ... that in September 2007, Monty the meerkat made headlines in "$ ", "$ %
" $, "$ !
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with a digital camera
6c ... that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-
old Nimrud Ivories ^( after their excavation
6c ... that the U.S. government report
& says that in 2009, at all levels of
education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts
6c ... that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop's pneumatic tyres
by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College, Belfast in 1889
6c ... that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola
language and the closely-related Choctaw language
6c ... that the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales sent a delegate to the first
legal meeting of the African National Congress in 1991
6c ... that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading
a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF
6c ... that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used
as a horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from
it
6c ... that the Federal Highway Administration director from 1981 to 1987, Ray
Barnhart ^ , streamlined procedures and upheld the soundness of the Highway
Trust Fund
6c ... that the Mymensingh Museum in Bangladesh contains Saraswati and Vishnu statues
from a Muktagacha zamindar palace, and a huge shade used during hunting from
a Gouripur zamindar palace
6c ... that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe
quintet of Arthur Bliss, dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens, his teacher
6c ... that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of
1763 punishable by "death without the benefit of clergy"
6c ... that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the
+- in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry
6c ... that the Grammy-nominated album ? $ " features the Blood, Sweat &
Tears horn section on two of its tracks
6c ... that parachuting military dog Rob's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax
6c ... that Matthieu Borsboom ^ , the current head of the Royal Netherlands Navy,
previously served with ISAF in Afghanistan until he was succeeded by German Major
General Richard Rossmanith
6c ... that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006,
security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding
an explosion
6c ... that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin, who painted by
the Brahmaputra River, are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art
gallery
6c ... that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years
at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York
6c ... that in 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club suffered two of their heaviest-ever defeats
under the captaincy of Edward Sainsbury
6c ... that when Faith Radio Network bought the radio station now known as WFRF-FM in
2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996 Chevy Astro van
6c ... that despite their names, white squirrel banana and yellow squirrel banana are
not bananas, but rare custard apples in Florida, and their fruits are berries
6c ... that the 2011 Christchurch earthquake broke the neck on the Rolleston
Statue ^
6c ... that during his stay in Ullinish, Samuel Johnson's views and denunciation of James
Macpherson's :
were confirmed
6c ... that a New Jersey court's ruling of immunity for online ticket sellers in 7
:,- was called a "rare defeat for a consumer protection agency" and the "biggest defense
win of the year"
6c ... that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to
play football for Swansea City
6c ... that collecting antique Bowie knives is one of the higher-end forms of knife collecting with
rare models selling for more than US$200,000
6c ... that the 2010²11 Ivy League season champion Harvard Crimson team was the first
men's basketball team in school history to win a league championship since the Ivy
Leaguewas formed in the 1956²57 season
6c ... that female Silver-tipped Myotis bats are able to store sperm in their bodies for up to
three months after mating
6c ... that entrances ^( to Knoxville's Medical Arts Building are decorated
with terra cotta buttresses, pointed arches, and transoms with Gothic traceryelements
6c ... that the iPad 2 is due to be released in 27 different countries
6c ... that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of
the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea
6c ... that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of Barnett Bank with 75 years of
service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening
6c ... that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund
the Crusades
6c ... that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the
9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major
expeditions to search for it
6c ... that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village, New York, helped
define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in
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6c ... that the Russian battleship * ^ was designed and sometimes commanded
by Peter the Great
6c ... that members of the indie rock band Frankie & The Heartstrings met at a calypso night
in a Sunderland pub
6c ... that General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling prayed to God to grant him "a nice little war
that he may better his condition"
6c ... that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel, !
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6c ... that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological
pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife
6c ... that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with
several gourds of
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, an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui
6c ... that Ch. Fiacre·s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known
low uric acid level to compete at Crufts
6c ... that the geebungs of the eastern states of Australia can be narrow-leaved, lance-
leaved, broad-leaved ^ , prickly, prostrate, or stiff
6c ... that American naval surgeon Charles Guillou had a papal patient Pius
6c ... that % /
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)E is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly
6c ... that the 5000-year old settlement of Jemdet Nasr is the type site for the Jemdet Nasr
period in ancient Mesopotamia
6c ... that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop's
servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking â ("It is") on inns where he found the best-
tasting wines
6c ... that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2
Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname "Scherger's Concentration Camp"
6c ... that Florida-based Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio
in Kenya and provided 2,500 solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and
prisoners
6c ... that since St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich ^ in Suffolk closed for worship, it
has been used as headquarters for the Boys' Brigade, and a venue for performing arts
6c ... that 2010 Consensus College All-American placekicker Josh Jasper kicked a 54-
yard field goal when he was in high school
6c ... that the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City hosts an annual Passion play that
attracts 2 million spectators
6c ... that Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics, resigned due to
allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime
6c ... that on her way back to Singapore, HMS * ran into a tornado, resulting in
thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch
6c ... that Bushy Park Forest Reserve, home to giraffe weevils, glowworms, and huhu beetles,
also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Y
6c ... that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby,
Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a
field
6c ... that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus ^ , which was considered extinct
until its rediscovery in the Andes mountains in 2001, is not a crocus
6c ... that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas
Moore, starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff
6c ... that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, contains carvings of "St
Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"
6c ... that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one
in May and another in August
6c ... that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool
of US$130,000 spread over !
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6c ... that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided
over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them
6c ... that MSN included )
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decade"
6c ... that Belinda Meuldijk, whose father Wim Meuldijk created the Dutch TV character Pipo
de Clown ^ , continued her father's legacy with the 2003 movie *
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6c ... that Ford's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar's sodium-
sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging
6c ... that All Saints Church, East Horndon, Essex, has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp,
and vandals
6c ... that Civil War historian Gilbert R. Tredway refuted the claim that Democrats in his
native Indiana were less supportive of the Union war effort than were
theirRepublican neighbors
6c ... that although the Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse musical # ü
was written for
the Princess Theatre, it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators
was already running there
6c ... that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, served as a center for
the ?.$,
Sufi order
6c ... that the White Star Line ocean liner SS
was disguised as a decoy version of the
British carrier HMS 2 during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106
6c ... that, in a British propaganda exercise during World War II, a Wellington
bomber ^ was built in under 24 hours, setting a new world record
6c ... that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary²Cook controversy over who had
reached the North Pole first
6c ... that, in 1869, Johannes Brahms conducted the chamber opera #
("$
# !), composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev
6c ... that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of
the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami, which left all the coastal cities
ofLebanon in ruins
6c ... that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the
motives or loyalty of the employee, according to #YÑ 2
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6c ... that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council
Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort's most impressive
achievement
6c ... that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop
a Wi-Fi-enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals
6c ... that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower ^ spent the first three years inside a
tower, where its chime could be heard but its face could not be seen
6c ... that the Minister of Justice claimed that the 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation bill
made farting in public illegal, but later retracted his statement
6c ... that John Powell's score for the animated film 2 "
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was nominated
for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award, and won an Annie Award and anIFMCA
award in 2011
6c ... that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the rare and endangered flowers Ñ
, and Ñ
are threatened by feral pigs and rats, while feral goatsare
threats to Ñ $
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6c ... that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock
offering
6c ... that the shrine of a famous medieval shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr
al-Shaykh became a place of pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century
6c ... that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 2 Flying
Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the
aptitude to become military pilots"
6c ... that deepwater rice ^ can grow 25 cm (9.8 in) in a day, but only
when underwater
6c ... that Diné artist Ryan Singer worked for the United States Forest Service before becoming
a full-time artist
6c ... that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol, in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims
of the 1940 Bristol Blitz
6c ... that Zynga, maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, faces the pending class
action lawsuit !
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, based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games
6c ... that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring
prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation
6c ... that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution
6c ... that the demo version of "Don't Hold Your Breath" was performed by Timbaland and Keri
Hilson, and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger
6c ... that netball in the Cook Islands features an Easter competition where boys dress in
women's netball uniforms
6c ... that the 1859 symphonic work 2$ composed by Robert Stoepel ^ is based
on Longfellow's epic poem "$ !
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6c ... that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint
6c ... that several buildings of Cass Gilbert's Waterbury Municipal Center
Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack
of connection to that Connecticut city
6c ... that William Isarn, a Spanish count, was assassinated while trying to regain what he
claimed was his family's land
6c ... that, according to critic Jennifer Kay, Mat Johnson's 2011 novel * "skewers Edgar
Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and
abominable snowmen"
6c ... that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers, who
subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch
6c ... that the Ñ â(
described the killing of Peter Cleary, the first person to be killed
by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland, as "an act of utter folly"
6c ... that a young #
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a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured
and mated ^
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6c ... that Léon Théry was a French racing driver who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904
and 1905
6c ... that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a
compositional tool in their work
6c ... that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink, an armory, and
a concert venue
6c ... that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint
6c ... that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia, helped
guide the creation of the &
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W6 system that became the basis
ofFrench wine laws
6c ... that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr., the son of National Basketball Association All-
Star Tim Hardaway, was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a
game in eight years
6c ... that the Sydenham Heritage Church ^ , twice threatened by demolition since
1997, was demolished without authorisation after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
6c ... that, in 1983, The Chieftains were the first ever Irish musical group to play a concert on
the Great Wall of China, resulting in an album: "$ Ñ$
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6c ... that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first
fourth-generation player after his father Dan, grandfather Bernie, and great-
grandfather Howie Morenz
6c ... that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air
Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15
6c ... that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not
walk because of cerebral palsy
6c ... that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet
ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev
6c ... that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common
Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission
6c ... that when Gare de Bellegarde ^
,
opened in 1858 as part of
the Lyon²Geneva railway, the station building was built in the style of a Swiss chalet
6c ... that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria
in Bach's cantata !$ $
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before Lent
6c ... that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-
language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California
6c ... that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan's US$1.1 billion Disi Water
Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive
6c ... that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League
Baseball Rookie of the Year Award
6c ... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal
buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s
6c ... that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel
pleasure from an orgasm
6c ... that the House of Assembly of Bermuda appointed members to complain to King
George III of the "tyranny and oppression" of Governor George James Bruere^
6c ... that the rare and endangered bellflower Ñ
is found only on
the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be
growing in the wild
6c ... that Mikhail Lermontov, author of the poem "Valerik", won the Order of St. Vladimir for
valor at the 1840 Battle of the Valerik River but was prevented from receiving his award by
Czar Nicholas I
6c ... that in 2006 Richard Santagati received the third highest salary of any president of
a private college in the United States
6c ... that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association's IBM Award have
played for the San Antonio Spurs
6c ... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative
against same-sex marriage
6c ... that Max Boyce's 1975 recording & 2 %1 * is the only comedy album to
reach number one in the UK Album Charts
6c ... that Anna Murray ^ helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape
slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings
6c ... that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first
international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement
6c ... that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's
followers
6c ... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today·s narratives of women·s suffering
are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer, in that they show women talking ² and
fighting ² back
6c ... that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St.
Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, and in 1991 published , a memoir of her
experiences
6c ... that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows,
including "$ 34) and +
6c ... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the
earliest written by an English woman
6c ... that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson
Pollock in three dimensions"
6c ... that Hikmat Abu Zayd ^ was the first female cabinet minister in Egypt
6c ... that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars,
although she's better known for textiles
6c ... that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of
making television
6c ... that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi
6c ... that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish
beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature
6c ... that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and
2002
6c ... that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as
a teenager, performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in &, 2
at the first Aldeburgh
Festival
6c ... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist
monthly magazine : -> in 1972, a magazine that's still in print
6c ... that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept
the Declaration of the Rights of Man
6c ... that award-winning poet and Cardiff resident Ivy Alvarez ^ was born in
the Philippines, grew up in Tasmania, has worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, and had
her first book published in the US
6c ... that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom
6c ... that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Paul E.
Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com, among others, to replace two closed
factories
6c ... that Chris Addison promoted his new satirical radio show J % !
as "four
relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"
6c ... that Bruce Bawer's $ â ! 0 2 Y %
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was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly
exaggerated statistics"
6c ... that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic
equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations
6c ... that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya, who at the
time had never run in a marathon before
6c ... that after the Godley Statue ^ toppled during the 2011 Christchurch
earthquake, time capsules were discovered in its plinth
6c ... that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica, due to his criticism of
the Polish communist government, had his books removed from distribution and prohibited
from printing
6c ... that, in &-
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invoke original jurisdiction, but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on
appeal
6c ... that transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a promising new technology
which allows sequencing of individual DNA molecules
6c ... that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh, Lincolnshire, are
carvings of a coat of arms, Adam and Eve and the serpent, a Paschal Lamb, and apelican
6c ... that Usher's 1997 song "You Make Me Wanna" is an acoustic guitar-
based R&B, soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"
6c ... that depending on the interpretation, sophismata like "All men are donkeys or men and
donkeys are donkeys" can either be true or false
6c ... that the high medieval Patriarchal Cathedral ^ atop the Tsarevets hill in Veliko
Tarnovo, Bulgaria, has had its interior repainted in a modernist style
6c ... that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih, the Egyptian cities of al-
Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city
6c ... that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive
Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef
6c ... that the conservatories of the Bason Botanic Gardens in Wanganui were constructed
using recycled bricks from two demolished picture theatres
6c ... that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in
2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine
6c ... that DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won Grammy
Awards for Best Rap Performance the same year they boycotted the ceremony
6c ... that although the 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash ended with the passengers
hanging upside down in their seats, they all survived
6c ... that the + ^ , a brigantine built by Matthew Turner in 1891, spent three
years on charter to the Carnegie Institute of Washington as a magnetic observatory
6c ... that Nikolla bey Ivanaj was one of the participants of the Albanian Congress of
Trieste held in 1913
6c ... that "To Be Alone with You" was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969
album ?$ !
6c ... that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican
Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of "$ !
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at Stanford University
6c ... that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009,
accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina
6c ... that after retiring from baseball, catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as
a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman
6c ... that the invasion of monsters from the Orange Planet in the Czech comic album
X9 was a satiric response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in
1968
6c ... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn
coral ^ was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail
6c ... that King Ndumbe Lobe Bell of the Duala assigned his sovereign rights to the German
trading firm of Jantzen & Thormählen in 1884
6c ... that All Saints Church in Thurgarton, Norfolk, is notable for its medieval bench ends
carved with poppyheads, an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting
dogs
6c ... that 12 years after his team was disqualified, Jack Kirrane returned to
the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal
6c ... that G. Topham Forrest used a plain neo-Georgian style for most 1920s and
1930s London County Council housing estates, but at Ossulston used a modernist style
influenced by Viennese workers· housing
6c ... that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported
killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point
6c ... that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger, despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail
and committed suicide there in 2003
6c ... that the Durham Street Methodist Church ^ , destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch
earthquake, was the first stone church in Canterbury, New Zealand
6c ... that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John
Hunt Morgan's 1863 raids though central Kentucky
6c ... that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that
spread across the Low Countries in August 1566
6c ... that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman
settler in Athens County
6c ... that Leif Rode, who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics, was chairman of
the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later
6c ... that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic
using Skype to produce their new album !$ $
6c ... that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae, 2,
is the only
one not in the genus
6c ... that the Libyan opposition has embraced "Zenga Zenga", an Israeli-created auto-
tuned song and viral YouTube video that parodies Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi^
6c ... that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was
accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for ;
6c ... that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best
Americana Album in 2010 for the album â %
6c ... that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies
to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi
occupied Europe
6c ... that Octavius Wigram was guarding a door of Westminster Abbey at
the coronation of George IV when the Queen was turned away
6c ... that the weevil 2,
has been introduced into the United States
and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife
6c ... that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law,
Shah Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his Persian miniatures by washing them in
water
6c ... that for 30 years the Reuben Wells steam engine ^ , now displayed at The
Children's Museum of Indianapolis, pushed train cars up the steepest railroad incline in the
United States
6c ... that the Monty Python sketch "The Mouse Problem", a mockumentary about men who
want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality
6c ... that Gary Aguirre, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, was fired by the SEC for trying
to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack, a major fundraiser toPresident Bush's 2004
campaign
6c ... that with an area of 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland
lake
6c ... that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter
treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease
6c ... that The Headshrinkers, who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in
1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001
6c ... that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out
a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan
6c ... that the ground beetle, #,
, can eat about 23 eggs ^ or three larvae of
the Colorado potato beetle every day
6c ... that William Douglass was an 18th century American physician whose pamphlets
on paper money led Adam Smith to call him "honest and downright"
6c ... that Queen Victoria saved her pet spaniel Dash from a carriage accident
6c ... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, ? Ñ
! +,0 "$
$ ü
, was nominated for a Grammy Award
6c ... that California's Shine the Light Law requires companies either to provide an opt-
out from personal information sharing or to disclose the data that they share
6c ... that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente Powers,
the newspaper ! employed conservatives, socialists and anarchists as contributors
6c ... that Maryland Route 24 parallels Deer Creek through Rocks State Park
6c ... that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila
University and the University of the Philippines
6c ... that Joanne Siegel ^ was the original model for Lois Lane and later
married Superman's co-creator
6c ... that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S.
Senator John J. Crittenden, whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War
6c ... that the song "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an
illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing
6c ... that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on
the IUCN Red List of endangered species
6c ... that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of
the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book
6c ... that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing
buyer, willing seller" land reform principle
6c ... that Mark Twain threatened to eat newspaper editor Henry Martyn Whitney
6c ... that Český Šternberk Castle ^ appears several times in the Albanian-Czech
film "$ !
7 !$
6c ... that shortly after it was introduced, the Crash Position Indicator was credited with saving
the life of a critically injured airman
6c ... that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its
double-action pedal harp, Maurice Ravel composed
&for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
6c ... that the coral reef crab
contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins
6c ... that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California
wines, describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine"
6c ... that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the
frontline in the War in Afghanistan
6c ... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him
look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I
should've gotten a haircut"
6c ... that the Wehrmacht used "stick grenades" ^
, for its PaK-36 anti-tank
guns
6c ... that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the
1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge, connecting Juneau, Alaska, with Douglas Island across
the Gastineau Channel
6c ... that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a bog covering 180 square
kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790
6c ... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire Reed
College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees
fraudulently
6c ... that in 2009 "$ * Y$ featured tickets to the B96 Pepsi SummerBash as a
showcase showdown prize
6c ... that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after
the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, who resided in the House temporarily
6c ... that dancer Jean Babilée's performance in the ballet # ü
2 included
being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute
6c ... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill ^ made from Ashford Black
Marble and other minerals
6c ... that much of the stained glass in the Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich was
damaged by a gas explosion in 1876
6c ... that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for
a sum equivalent to nearly £20,000 in modern currency
6c ... that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum-
rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas
6c ... that at one point in the Battle of Narvik, British destroyer HMS 2 found herself
engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers
6c ... that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil
Rhodes' Pioneer Column
6c ... that the parishioners of Highweek petitioned the pope for their own graveyard
6c ... that cactus enthusiasts and collectors are major threats to the rare cacti Ñ $
$
^ and â,
6c ... that Oliver H. Lowry's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of
all time
6c ... that the Anglo-Norman #
â , written 7 1327, is traditionally credited
to Edward II of England
6c ... that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m
hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London
6c ... that the account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is found at the end of
the Gospel of John in Minuscule 831, 1076, 1078 and 1356
6c ... that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler, who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble
Beach Golf Links, was also an MCC cricketer
6c ... that Marilyn Monroe, Dr. Seuss, Elvis Costello, and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic
surnames
6c ... that All Saints Church, Newton Green ^ in Suffolk has been divided at
the chancel arch, the chancel being used for worship, while the rest of the church
is redundant
6c ... that Ô
! 7 *
is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned
the exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a Bahamianbanker's briefcase
6c ... that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam, the hijackers killed
two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name
6c ... that as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the
basements of people's houses after heavy rains
6c ... that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard
Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in "$ !
6c ... that the second USRC
, assisted by Y$
and â, captured the armed
French schooner # and her cargo on 26 April 1799
6c ... that Al Mar Knives was the first knife factory to sell a production knife for more than
$US100
6c ... that 16th-century Mughal miniature painter and director of Akbar's imperial
workshop, Abd al-Samad, may have been the same person as Persian miniature artist Mirza
Ali ^(
6c ... that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because
of Oprahization
6c ... that though the rare Central Florida legume Ñ
was first collected in
1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species
6c ...that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit
that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregationillegal
6c ... that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers,
the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe
ceremony
6c ... that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of
Michigan
6c ... that Donald S. Sanford, who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic
film (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II
6c ... that German paratrooper Walter Koch ^ acted against the Commando Order and
saved John Dutton Frost's British paratroopers from execution
6c ... that in the north, the North American paper wasp *
has rust-red
markings on a predominantly black thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red
with black markings
6c ... that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have
been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death
6c ... that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable
distribution
6c ... that film pioneer William Haggar's 1903 short % *$
&
is believed to
have been a key influence on the "chase" sub-genre of early film
6c ... that Nelly and Eminem won Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in the two
years when the Best Rap Solo Performance Award was split into male and female
categories
6c ... that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 &$ ( specimens ever found, has
been lost since 1991
6c ... that Harry Marks ^ , whose )
? crusaded against fraudulent stock
market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions
6c ... that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas, was founded by Quakers as a farming
community
6c ... that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and
killings in Northern Ireland, but was never charged or convicted
6c ... that the Wouri estuary is a global marine biodiversity hotspot
6c ... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue *
was at one time planned for
permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay
6c ... that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot
the mental hospital scenes in the )
episode "Bad Dreams" in a church
6c ... that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events
caused by an anomaly in a brain scan
6c ... that the Lockington Locks ^ lay at the end of the highest point on the Miami and
Erie Canal
6c ... that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set
more than other plants in the same genus
6c ... that the hockey rivalry between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine is
sometimes referred to as the "Border War"
6c ... that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman
Polanski's Ñ$
(1974)
6c ... that Archelaus, the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana, claimed to be
the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married,
Queen Berenice IV of Egypt
6c ... that the largest oil field in Turkey lies near the city of Batman and the Batman River
6c ... that physician Golding Bird invented the electric moxa in order to save patients from
having to be burnt with glowing charcoal
6c ... that St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham, ^ in Norfolk had fallen into ruin by
the time its medieval wall paintings were rediscovered in 1967
6c ... that the petite endangered cactus â,
bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may
be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length
6c ... that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of India, offers cashless health
insurance of up to 30,000 to the poor for just 30
6c ... that American singer Missy Elliott received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo
Performance both years it was presented
6c ... that +1 " is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare, creator
of BBC satirical radio comedy
+1 ", while he was at university
6c ... that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball
finals, the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship
6c ... that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, the 600 guests ate
approximately 30,000 strips of bacon
6c ... that British angler and author Frederic M. Halford, pseudonym Detached
Badger ^ , is known as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"
6c ... that Ohinetahi, the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by
Sir Miles Warren, architect of the Christchurch Town Hall, was extensively damaged during
the 2010 Canterbury earthquake
6c ... that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted
paper sculptures of wedding gowns, shoes, needlework lace, and strings of pearls
6c ... that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east
of Damascus, Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to
domesticated barley
6c ... that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to
the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland, Maine, it was declared deficient under No Child
Left Behind
6c ... that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of
poisoned partridge
6c ... that the canals and chinampas of Xochimilco ^ , a World Heritage Site in Mexico
City, are in danger of disappearing within 50 years
6c ... that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and
coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York
6c ... that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda, Syria, came from as far
as Egypt, Afghanistan and India
6c ... that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai's tribal seal when he was 15
and it is still used today
6c ... that Creal Reef, Queensland, site of Creal Reef Light, was named after a No. 101 Flight
RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS , with her surveys
6c ... that Val McDermid's novel & % %
explores the social and emotional
implications of the UK miners strike of 1984²1985
6c ... that Edgar Gilbert investigated the mathematics of shuffling playing cards
6c ... that Charles Dvorak ^ missed the pole vault finals at the 1900 Olympics after
being told the event was postponed, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1904
Olympics
6c ... that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers, or 12²13% of its population, upon
its entry to World War I
6c ... that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health
insurance to over 50 million Indians
6c ... that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a
"monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae
6c ... that Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when
they enter service
6c ... that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to
around 750 BC
6c ... that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was
likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks, but could also be Middle Eastern in
origin
6c ... that slippery Jills wear a baggy veil
6c ... that education in Sierra Leone ^ had to recover from the destruction of
1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War
6c ... that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career
and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as # !, the Hermits
6c ... that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada
language
6c ... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title
and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden
6c ... that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson·s 17 losses with the Hickory
Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead
6c ... that the term !
$ as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined
in 1964
6c ... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two
daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer,
constructing more than 60 buildings
6c ... that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved
by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu
pandemic
6c ... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape
Maclear, Malawi after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear
6c ... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general
operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the
formation of the group
6c ... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some
of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America
6c ... that one critic describes Christopher Smart's "$ 2 as the "loudest
broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry
Fielding,John Hill, and many others
6c ... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont
House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the
planting of 10,000 Dutch elms
6c ... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de
Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback
6c ... that the Siamese method ^( is a simple method for
creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la
Loubère's embassy to Siam
6c ... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public
office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
6c ... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter
Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their
lands
6c ... that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du
Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed
during World War II
6c ... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings "$ , inspired by violence in Eastern
Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's
great+
"
6c ... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in
1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory
6c ... that the statue "$ ? "$, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made
of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity
6c ... that hwajeon ^ is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible
flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar
6c ... that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music
theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown
6c ... that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached
peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007
6c ... that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather
than direct intervention by the military
6c ... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied
France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Ñ$
1
as a code to informthe
resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place
6c ... that the 1914 film
$ #
$ 2 2
was the first feature-length
film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans
6c ... that in :
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Ñ
, Archimedes expressed the volume contained
in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder
6c ... that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in
1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III
6c ... that the tartan of Nova Scotia ^ was originally designed by Bessie Murray
for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially
adopted by the province
6c ... that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by
smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding
6c ... that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New
York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1
6c ... that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu
City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into
their Friendsterprofiles
6c ... that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for
28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune
in petroleum and natural gasleases
6c ... that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body
of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work
along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation
6c ... that the sailing-ship #M was the first ship under Polish banner to cross
the equator
6c ... that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have
included parodies of ! and "$ &
6c ... that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse
Manor train station ^ in Sleepy Hollow, New York
6c ... that Indian scholar Śāntarakøita is believed to have been instrumental in the
introduction of Buddhism to Tibet
6c ... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St.
David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds
of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania
6c ... that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-
Abdullah of Jordan
6c ... that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from
the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers
6c ... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside
of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's
premier football division
6c ... that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation
level of their habitat
6c ... that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his
stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material
6c ... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military
device by Perseus of Macedon ^
6c ... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced
30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991
6c ... that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health
Center, the very place where she volunteered her time for many years
6c ... that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to
invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development
6c ... that Percival Goodman, described as "the most
prolific architect in Jewish history" by "$ ), was also an urban
planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City
6c ... that / ? ü
, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative
contributions from Luxembourg in the film
6c ... that Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations,
was also an exceptional cricket umpire
6c ... that the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum ^ is located in the
world's first plant for mass production of heavy water
6c ... that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th
century
6c ... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship
of "$ !
ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to
children
6c ... that eight of the nine * of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of
Florence
6c ... that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken,
but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s
6c ... that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the :
& 2 in the 400-
seat theatre at Irvington, New York's village hall
6c ... that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type
of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are
examples of this
6c ... that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national
d'histoire naturelle in Paris
6c ... that most of the stamps of Mexico ^( from 1856 to 1883 have
district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device
6c ... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward
named Jim Limberc
6c ... that during the Agra famine of 1837²38 in the North-Western Provinces of India,
approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number
oflivestock perished
6c ... that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of
the most active volcanoes in the world
6c ... that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-
General of eleven US states
6c ... that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and
insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return
home
6c ... that !$ is a 1982 play by American writer Norman
Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-
life code name
6c ... that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfùc, founded in 1720, was the first
modern opera theatre in Greece
6c ... that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced
their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"
6c ... that Albert Pujols ^ received more votes than any other player in Major
League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot
6c ... that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative
Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts
6c ... that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine
Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"
6c ... that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician,
and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for
developing improved machine guntactics
6c ... that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall
of Russia's Kresty Prison
6c ... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is
currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering
6c ... that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude
ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property
in Wyoming
6c ... that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been
described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway
6c ... that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with
fruit-flavored syrup
6c ... that Monkey Bay ^ on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through
the road to Cape Maclear
6c ... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they
were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they suppliedcheese to
northern Mexico
6c ... that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic
controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide
today
6c ... that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union
of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising
6c ... that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson
Guitars
6c ... that the book +
$ $, a parody of +
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satirizing
the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S.
Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld
6c ... that cushion plants ^( , which grow extremely slowly, can live for
up to 350 years
6c ... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater
lake
6c ... that V.D. Savarkar wrote "$
, a nationalist history of
the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its
suppression
6c ... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"
6c ... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles
(2,900 km) of the Washington highway system
6c ... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered
fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic
6c ... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British
Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation
6c ... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to
the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services
6c ... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's
Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica
instead when permission was refused
6c ... that the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill ^ has a fruity smell
6c ... that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko
Roll
6c ... that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years
before Nigeria's independence from British rule
6c ... that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of
a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of
Midway
6c ... that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana,
single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of
the civil rights movement
6c ... that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building
in China, dating from 857 AD
6c ... that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia
6c ... that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul
McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for
Boys
6c ... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason
Building ^ , which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height
6c ... that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working
on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh
6c ... that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts
behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby
6c ... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth
in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 ,
in 2005-06
and targeting US$12 billion by 2010
6c ... that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard
School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard³Henry Maynard's son³
who attended Charles I's trial
6c ... that in his book
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the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that
all states are morallyillegitimate
6c ... that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the
ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before
the current pass was built
6c ... that the Budweiser Clydesdales ^ were first introduced to the public
on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition
6c ... that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early
encounters with European friars
6c ... that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known
work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's
parks
6c ... that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further
southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years
beforeJames Cook did
6c ... that
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is the first and only compilation album released
by industrial metal band Godflesh
6c ... that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés
National Park containing 400
6c ... that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of % (1643),
a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride,
the Roman Catholic Church
6c ... that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' "Seven
Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me"
6c ... that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi ^ by
biting the crocodile on the nose
6c ... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as
well as the anarchist movement
6c ... that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is
determined by nutritional gatekeepers
6c ... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was
executed for treason
6c ... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated
a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips
6c ... that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two
separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between
6c ... that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he
hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan
6c ... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Conan the
Barbarian in the 1982 film, proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of
violent video games such asÑ
6c ... that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA
Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield
6c ... that the scaly hedgehog ^ is actually a species of brown mushroom found
in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway
6c ... that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-
star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes
6c ... that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types
of psychosocial situations
6c ... that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport
links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir
6c ... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey
Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television
series 777$ Ñ$
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6c ... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in
1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers
6c ... that Gray Barker's 1956 book "$
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! introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore
6c ... that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely
function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin
6c ... that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's "$
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have a real
or metaphorical reference to burning
6c ... that Archie J. Old Jr. completed the first round-the-world nonstop flight ^
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by a jet-powered aircraft
6c ... that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet,
he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek
6c ... that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister
of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions
6c ... that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation
and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9²10 billion in 2006
to USD 50 billion by 2010
6c ... that April FitzLyon's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked
his unreliable memoirs
6c ... that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words
6c ... that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of
the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan
6c ... that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each
named after local bishops
6c ... that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan
Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46
6c ... that Pierre Lacau was the French Egyptologist and Director of Antiquities who
oversaw the discovery of Tutankhamun ^ in the Valley of the Kings
6c ... that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of
the largest forest elephant populations in Africa
6c ... that George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped
out of high school, founded the first Black-owned company ever traded on
theAmerican Stock Exchange
6c ... that most of the deaths that result from abdominal trauma are preventable
6c ... that Christopher Smart's "$ 2 4+
is a long 18th century georgic poem
that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol
6c ... that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs
6c ... that Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment with â7 has been
tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years
6c ... that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's "most
trustworthy friend"
6c ... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know"
attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a Recorder of London who became known as the
"Obliviscor" (forgetter)
6c ... that Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created
many images of Heaven and Hell ^
6c ... that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and
the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina
6c ... that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including
the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture
6c ... that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph
Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their
descendants white
6c ... that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government
minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake
6c ... that Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since
imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972
6c ... that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish
society
6c ... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final
flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra
6c ... that 100 North Tampa ^ , which rises 42 floors and 579 feet (176 m) in
height, is the tallest building in Tampa
6c ... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved
using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years
6c ... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware
possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania
6c ... that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake,
while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of
corruption involving contractorsand government officials
6c ... that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special
Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting
with the U.S.Deputy Secretary of State
6c ... that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still
use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after
a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles
6c ... that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13²2 win over Ireland in 1899³
the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history
6c ... that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published "The Village
Blacksmith", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the
poet
6c ... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet ^ for
the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14
Tomcats failed
6c ... that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on !
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and "$ +
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6c ... that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude
6c ... that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains
ecoregion, the coho and sockeye are extinct, the chinook are threatened, and the
summer steelheadare in decline
6c ... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand·s understudy in the
1962 Broadway musical Ñ
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6c ... that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than
170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed
6c ... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent
of
players were addicted
6c ... that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin'
High" by a film serial he saw as a child
6c ... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to
carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad
6c ... that when William Williams died collecting the fern Alpine Woodsia ^ in
1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in
the 17th century
6c ... that Nguyen Van Linh, General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the
"Vietnamese Gorbachev" for reforming Vietnam's communist economy, later
regretted many of the effects of his policies
6c ... that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern
Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and
nutrient-poorserpentine soils
6c ... that oudist Ali Sriti's first public performance was at age eleven, when he
sang / $
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6c ... that "$ ? / " said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film "$ ? "has
as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"
6c ... that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's first state visits was to Mongolia,
aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post-Cold War era
6c ... that John Boylan, who won an acting award in the play :
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6c ... that invasive cheatgrass ^ has replaced native bunch grasses across
much of the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion in the northwestern United
States
6c ... that the Japanese visual novel ! ! allows the player to navigate in a
profile side-view perspective similar to a two-dimensional platform game
6c ... that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically
transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho
6c ... that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian
Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis
6c ... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon
House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register
6c ... that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as
"one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"
6c ... that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt.
Mazama
6c ... that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect
the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir
6c ... that about ten percent of the value of gift cards is not redeemed
6c ... that the buff and yellow mushrooms (fruiting bodies) of the fungus
^ can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter
6c ... that C. W. Thornthwaite, an expert in the field of climatology, wrote his doctoral
thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography
6c ... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the
1951 Warner Bros cartoon % &
6c ... that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his
two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar
6c ... that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of
both Brevig and later Porsgrund
6c ... that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the
US to turn over its entire operation to a private company
6c ... that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first
ever match, they both scored ducks
6c ... that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations, bilateral trade has risen
to US$1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign
investor in Mongolia
6c ... that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912, where
he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage, he declared "Never
Resign!"
6c ... that the Dobbs Ferry post office ^ has an unusually high level
of ornament compared to most Colonial Revival-style post offices in New York
6c ... that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic
career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics
6c ... that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical
Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged
6c ... that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the
county's state highways
6c ... that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use
the frequency domain to represent their transfer function
6c ... that the Canadian television series "$ ü$
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different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues
6c ... that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral
relations and further expand trade, which is expected to reach US$2 billion in
2008
6c ... that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South
Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989
6c ... that Hamburg's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am
Rothenbaum tennis stadium
6c ... that the orienteering map ^( , along with the compass, is the
primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points
6c ... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu
Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major
contributions as crimes
6c ... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing
oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964
6c ... that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing
tobacco and mouth cancer
6c ... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date
6c ... that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving
as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
6c ... that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen
for a while by the consumer
6c ... that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th
century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes
6c ... that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract
6c ... that even though Benjamin Harrison held "front-porch" speeches at his
house ^ during his presidential campaign in 1888, his home would not
have a front porch until 1896
6c ... that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count, but in fact
originated in Persia
6c ... that during World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs,
work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free
to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto
6c ... that the Living Planet Index is one of the indices used in sustainability
accounting
6c ... that Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the
first Australian female pirate
6c ... that in Treasure Valley, on the borders of Oregon and Idaho, is the largest
community of Basques outside of Europe
6c ... that as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Puckering was heavily involved
in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots
6c ... that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland,
Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three
prototypes in the U.S.
6c ... that the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan
6c ... that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and
being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use
ofsuitports ^ , patented in 1996
6c ... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town
in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a
guest twice
6c ... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau
ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick
6c ... that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders
to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees
6c ... that Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the
fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana
6c ... that although building India's first overseas military
base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low
at USD 12.09 million in 2005
6c ... that 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado,
was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building
6c ... that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend
of Muppets creator Jim Henson
6c ... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden ^ to
design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826
6c ... that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle
between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas
6c ... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12
November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria
6c ... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty
members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her
graduation
6c ... that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman
Islands
6c ... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the
first Christian martyrs in Armenian history
6c ... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National
Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter
6c ... that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest "Brethren
of the Coast" pirate gatherings
6c ... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported
in 1927
6c ... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of
the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding
6c ... that Majorelle Garden ^ , a tourist attraction in Morocco, was purchased
by Pierre Bergé and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1980
6c ... that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with
the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926
6c ... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that
was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass
suicide in Jonestown
6c ... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that
a penknife cannot fit between them
6c ... that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican
Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from
a British invasion in 1797
6c ... that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight
Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and
France
6c ... that the president of Żegota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish
children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side
and walking out with them
6c ... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington
Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York
6c ... that when she was launched in 1956 MF ! ^ was the largest
lake ferry in Northern Europe
6c ... that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures
for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran,
and tariff exemptions for herbicides
6c ... that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the
youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London's Royal Academy of Music
6c ... that the affair known in Israel as "the dirty trick" included the only
successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date
6c ... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616
6c ... that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's
largest resource development
6c ... that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry
Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded a Bronze
Star and a Purple Heart
6c ... that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid
work in television
6c ... that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at
the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an
enduring publishing company
6c ... that ! directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre,
was intended to be one part of a seven-part series
6c ... that the Australian White Ibis ^ has invaded Sydney and other urban
centres of Australia's east coast since 1978, and is now commonly seen
in parks andgarbage dumps
6c ... that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California
earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger
6c ... that Anton Reinthaller, the first leader of the post-World War II Freedom Party of
Austria, had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany's Ministry
of Food and Agriculture
6c ... that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy
High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters
6c ... that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian
labour unrest of 1934²1939, but its findings were so damaging that they were
suppressed until 1945
6c ... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral
sermon in 1926
6c ... that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may
be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between
the planets Mars andJupiter
6c ... that despite being set in New York, & + "$
has been filmed mostly
in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"
6c ... that the Millersburg Ferry ^ in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on
the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle
boatoperating in the United States
6c ... that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was
built on during the Neolithic period
6c ... that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that
reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in
1952
6c ... that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-
century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers
6c ... that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off
at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on
board and making itAustralia's worst aviation disaster
6c ... that Muhammad al-Shaybani, a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought, was the
student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf
6c ... that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther
Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between
the two sides
6c ... that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted
from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint
6c ... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last
public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles ^
6c ... that Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as
a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his
enthronement
6c ... that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village
of *$ founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael
6c ... that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after
being named in the murder case of a police constable
6c ... that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air
disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington,
D.C.
6c ... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in
the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three
years later
6c ... that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati
Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997
6c ... that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, :4 0 & *
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inspired byWashington Irving
6c ... that the El Greco Apartments ^ , once home
to Ñ,
director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-
raising help from ! "'s Leonard Nimoy
6c ... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is
associated with a mortality rate of 25²45%
6c ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped
from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk
6c ... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha
Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display
6c ... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison
income by publishing dubious Ñ
of the condemned at Newgate Prison
6c ... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of
the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor
6c ... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being
insolent towards the $
of the Avars
6c ... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city
of Mazari Sharif its name
6c ... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard ^ became a founding member
and the first president of The Wilderness Society
6c ... that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares
6c ... that HMS :
, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom
of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British
warship ever found in the Great Lakes
6c ... that before the 17th century, penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil
into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels
6c ... that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed, in Kandahar, has been
described as the "heart of Afghanistan"
6c ... that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed
struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
6c ... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns
6c ... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere, the
hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake
6c ... that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard
whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of
targeted species
6c ... that Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal ^ in Tarrytown, New
York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style
6c ... that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal
mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy
6c ... that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science
courses
6c ... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway
Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska
6c ... that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after
spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps
6c ... that the 1960²1961 NBC Western series
featured James Coburn as con
man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway
6c ... that André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly
escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and
a grappling hook
6c ... that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central
Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro
6c ... that Jeita Grotto ^ in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at
8.2 m (27 ft)
6c ... that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation
pioneer Major James Morris, who served in the Continental Armywith George
Washington
6c ... that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish, each being found in
a specific region
6c ... that "$ )$ "
is a radio drama that
combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi
wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism
6c ... that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-
Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3
billion by 2010
6c ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except
where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried
6c ... that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it
6c ... that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-
month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany
6c ... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik ^ has emerged as one of the leading
women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry
6c ... that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of
the Seychelles International Airport in 1971
6c ... that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken
from helicopters and hot air balloons
6c ... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval
tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were
being remodeled
6c ... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of
Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in
1731
6c ... that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army
6c ... that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the
world
6c ... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before
the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political
veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count
6c ... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum ^ include the machine
gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale
6c ... that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before
the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992
6c ... that Christopher Smart's "$ *,
: #
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mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child
6c ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for
contributions to ethnography
6c ... that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed
by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the
nicotine content
6c ... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km ) Lake Delton emptied out in two
hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks
6c ... that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua,
the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as
"deserters"
6c ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for ! ü-- ²
a concept album companion to his science fiction novel
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6c ... that before Jean Miélot ^ created an illuminated manuscript for
Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with
pictures, decorations and text
6c ... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it
is generated from the fundamental vocabulary
6c ... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work "$ #
! $
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has been
described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic
6c ... that the Symmachi²Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman
paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years
6c ... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to
establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in
Canada
6c ... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-
used black church in Westchester County, New York
6c ... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed
to be the city's last surviving gothic building
6c ... that in his 1971 book *4! &
$, Murray Bookchin anticipated the
importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a
decade before the origin of cyberpunk
6c ... that the historic district in Warwick, New York ^
reflects the
village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century
summer resort town
6c ... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in
1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later
6c ... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring
in a production of the Broadway musical "$ Ñ
6c ... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200
million of funding from the United States federal government
6c ... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two
6c ... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote &
?$1 % to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie
6c ... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf
courses in the United Kingdom
6c ... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free
French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career
6c ... that the Mountain Gorillas ^>
of Bwindi Impenetrable National
Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda
6c ... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to
Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab
6c ... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of
the Ñ
, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax
6c ... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in
woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe
6c ... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to
the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of
Russian politician Anatoly Chubais
6c ... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky
6c ... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial
directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi
6c ... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton
Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"
6c ... that Harry Peckham ^ , along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of
Tankerville, wrote the first cricket rules to include a leg before wicket clause
6c ... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot
high replica of an Easter Island statue
6c ... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of
the +
, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting
6c ... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for
free eye treatment
6c ... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a
professional bodybuilder
6c ... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-
century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless
6c ... that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever
to head the American Angus Association
6c ... that the SS Ñ, survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's Ô4H in
1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's Ô4G5K in 1941
6c ... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic
cleric who opposed his daughter's career
6c ... that the Red Bridge ^ , one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was
nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents
6c ... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only
surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles
6c ... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam
Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds
incaptivity
6c ... that Christopher Smart's 2
$ &
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were finished by
the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the
work was a success
6c ... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement
Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners
6c ... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-
called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký
6c ... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the
title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London
6c ... that in 1926 Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk produced a firewood-powered snow
melter
6c ... that the Java ^ , first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second
oldest breed of chicken in the United States
6c ... that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that,
starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an
undefended village nearby called Tehran
6c ... that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of
the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of
theSharpstown banking scandal
6c ... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka
Takahashi was listed in "·s Coolest Inventions in 2004
6c ... that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament
between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South
Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million
6c ... that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government
register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult
entertainment site
6c ... that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen ^
when
he was wounded during the 1967 USS ) fire off the coast of Vietnam
6c ... that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic
churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest
in the world
6c ... that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management
Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds inNorth
America
6c ... that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal
Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War
Two
6c ... that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a
snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters
6c ... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein
Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the
country
6c ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National
Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat ^
6c ... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age
sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground
communist anti-colonial movement
6c ... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964²1965 ABC sitcom "$ "
as an
eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation
6c ... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground
in Havana, Cuba
6c ... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National
Hockey League three different times
6c ... that Christopher Smart's 2
! !
were composed in a mental
asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"
6c ... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the
country's main tourist attractions
6c ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed
to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers
6c ... that Andreas Frederik Krieger ^ was one of the most vocal critics of
the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise
Rasmussen
6c ... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was
used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of 2 !
6c ... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large
quantities of adulterated wine
6c ... that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River
City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and
shopping districts
6c ... that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure
that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory
Rasputinwas murdered
6c ... that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent
years
6c ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial
district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact
that one could legally purchase alcohol there
6c ... that the Church of St. Catherine ^ in St. Petersburg was taken over by
the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the
Catholic Church in 1992
6c ... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ô for containing "a great
deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages
6c ... that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-
Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world
6c ... that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has
been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"
6c ... that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman
Senate much like conscription is a military draft
6c ... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and
the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was
repeatedly torn down and rebuilt
6c ... that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in
the comic strip "
$ * by Milton Caniff
6c ... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army ^ was the heavy cavalry,
which consisted of 12,000²30,000 heavily armed riders
6c ... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate
for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent
crime
6c ... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives'
request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988
6c ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington
D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson
6c ... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in
her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the
country's first minister of labor
6c ... that critical reception to Hogarth's !
$ 2
+ was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from
exhibition
6c ... that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins ^( ,
which were referred to as the pitis
6c ... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their
house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions
6c ... that Marathi film !$ was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced
financial problems to showcase and promote the film
6c ... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to
the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a
fire
6c ... that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in
East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968
6c ... that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson
Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the
wartime Office of Price Administration
6c ... that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the
second-largest in the Middle East
6c ... that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man
6c ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public
drinking fountain
6c ... that the Delaware breed of chicken ^$ was once the
favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered
6c ... that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at
the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by
2015
6c ... that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist
every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won
6c ... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised
6c ... that ? â 0 Y
Ô7!7 *
, a 2001 report by Human Rights
Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly
widespread prison rape in the United States
6c ... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not
been poisoned
6c ... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass
transit station in the western U.S. when it opened
6c ... that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her
final album Y
- so much that she called them her "fur coat"
6c ... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori
Rasputin ^ by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide
6c ... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania,
only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850
6c ... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an
international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting
career in the Telugu film industry
6c ... that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone
basins
6c ... that Roy Agnew has been described as the most
outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century
6c ... that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest
City, Utah smelter it was built to serve
6c ... that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino
Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila
6c ... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock,
was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city
faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970
6c ... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House ^ is known as the
"Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark
6c ... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after
the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
6c ... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through
a thunderstorm cloud
6c ... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted
in the unification of the tribes
6c ... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as
Pumpkin in the film
+$
6c ... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left,
the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (T) but not in Hebrew punctuation
6c ... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in
the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building
6c ... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975
and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be
four inches (10 cm) too tall
6c ... that the original hot dog on a stick to be served at Cozy Dog Drive-
in ^ was called a Crusty Cur
6c ... that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya
Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India
6c ... that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign
of Mansa Suleyman
6c ... that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four
career shutouts in 1988, the season after his rookie year
6c ... that prior to colonial times, written literature was virtually absent from Burkina
Faso, with the country's first novel not published until 1962
6c ... that although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral
relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of
Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979
6c ... that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns' novel Ñ !
" into an opera after his sister gave him a copy
6c ... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter ^
were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between
700 and 650 BC
6c ... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute
to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch
6c ... that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household
Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse
Guards Regiment
6c ... that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma
people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti
Bahini militia
6c ... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book :
$
$ called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a
prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America
6c ... that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington,
D.C. building died during the sinking of the Y ! "
6c ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the
19th century
6c ... that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World
War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley ^
6c ... that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop
of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the
smallestcathedral in the world
6c ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially
described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"
6c ... that the jazz album " $ ! by Chick Corea was inspired
by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name
6c ... that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located
in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda
6c ... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public
holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration
6c ... that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been
described as "punk Buddhist"
6c ... that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997,
when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians ^
6c ... that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to
the United States
6c ... that Dulcie Holland's "
Ñ
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, described as "one of the
greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public
performance
6c ... that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel
from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)
6c ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel " $ ! was nominated
for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award
6c ... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help
Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests
6c ... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's
Eve for 64 straight years
6c ... that the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS > ^ was known as "Terror of
the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition
6c ... that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created
by an American
6c ... that India's USD 650²750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral
relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the
Taliban
6c ... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's
Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1
6c ... that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate
to study prison rape in the United States
6c ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album !D
was
certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum
in Canada
6c ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the
American Civil War was over a saloon
6c ... that the Harris Theater ^ is the first new performing arts venue built in
downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929
6c ... that %
&
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(1952) is the only film starring all four original
members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael
Bentine
6c ... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of
Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in
1981
6c ... that Otto Soemarwoto·s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been
cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's
Saguling Dam project
6c ... that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the +
Y for
the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds
6c ... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district
court
6c ... that the Eberswalde Hoard ^ , a collection of 81 gold objects weighing
2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the European Bronze Age
6c ... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke
Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong
6c ... that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association,
the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen
6c ... that in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Y
$
! which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space
operatheology
6c ... that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-
called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Ñ
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6c ... that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial
period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University
6c ... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill ^ in Florida, New
York
6c ... that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German
Nazi Party
6c ... that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was
not the worst ever seen along the road
6c ... that in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the
propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium
6c ... that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted
director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film %
6c ... that compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air
Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight
6c ... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel "$ !
* in a
successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him
6c ... that Uri-On ^ , created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the
first Israeli superhero to be published in color
6c ... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000
regular troops to over 250,000
6c ... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the
ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time
6c ... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density
of Ñ $ , a crustacean which is a food source of millions
of Semipalmated Sandpipers
6c ... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez
Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism
6c ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch
encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home
in Los Angeles
6c ... that McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink ^ is both an ice skating rink
and the largest alfresco dining venue in Chicago
6c ... that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before
the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in
theBattle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark
6c ... that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games, which had been missing for more
than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002
6c ... that the Guglers, mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so
named because of their headwear
6c ... that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the official
position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament, even if it is
unilateral
6c ... that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, FK, had its world
premiere in 2005
6c ... that the Pale-yellow Robin ^ uses the prickly Lawyer Vine as
a nesting site and for nesting material
6c ... that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in
1890 in Motherwell, Scotland
6c ... that Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of
the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison
6c ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning
6c ... that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the
first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves
6c ... that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to
provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port
6c ... that the novel )
by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as
an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction
6c ... that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that
the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes
6c ... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to
recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's ^ instant
recovery convinced many he was a pir
6c ... that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's
first iron ore pelletizing plant
6c ... that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population
support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel
6c ... that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Y$ was filmed at an
abandoned Civil War-era fort on an island in Boston Harbor
6c ... that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-
long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC
6c ... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951
when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland
6c ... that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for
the England national football team
6c ... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an
operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios
6c ... that Italian Wall Lizards ^ on a Croatian island developed significant
behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been
described as "rapid evolution"
6c ... that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications
for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum
6c ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album %
$ was
certified Platinum by the SNEP
6c ... that Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of
his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party
system began to sprout in the American South
6c ... that the 2008 Indian film marked the debut of
veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's son, Sikandar Kher
6c ... that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-
Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for
the re-introduction of Wood Bison
6c ... that Karin Pouw's statements about the book " Ñ0 &
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criticize the Church of Scientology online
6c ... that Clinton Jencks ^ , the petitioner in the case ü
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starred in the 1954 film !
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6c ... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's
largest green roof
6c ... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech, was wounded
by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic
buildings
6c ... that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri
Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by
the power of his mind
6c ... that charcuterie, derived from the French words for flesh ($) and cooked
(), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced
from pork
6c ... that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the
film %
's screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining
corporations
6c ... that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in
1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean
6c ... that The Greencards ^ are a Texas bluegrass band known for
their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman
6c ... that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to
officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965²1966 Central African
Republic coup d·état
6c ... that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by
the
, 2 comic books
6c ... that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an
ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation
work in 2005
6c ... that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto
Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter ² both used in composite image filters
6c ... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32
matches in 25 different stadia
6c ... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series !
Ñ
featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on !
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6c ... that the flowers of the beach gardenia ^ are used to scent coconut oil in
the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern
Australia
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due
to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor
Daizong
6c ... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed
by a Trappist monk
6c ...that the 2001 documentary film !,0 &
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" retold the story
of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits
of racism in U.S.history
6c ... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother
Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought
out Thomas Hardy's firstnovels
6c ... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led
to accusations that he was condoning drug use
6c ... that Vratislav Brabenec ^ , a member of the Plastic People of the
Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months
because of his music
6c ... that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on
five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007
6c ... that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first
Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain
6c ... that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at
the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught
6c ... that the 1944 German film +? )$ ?7 J was banned in Nazi Germany and
only permitted by the Allies in late 1945
6c ... that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost
his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks
6c ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State
Forest ^( and no one knows how they got there
6c ... that the 1990 Spanish film k& Ñ' takes its title from the favorite song of
the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil
War
6c ... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that
formed during the month of May since 1981
6c ... that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of
representing proteins
6c ... that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time
as currency
6c ... that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising
to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic
recognition to Taiwan
6c ... that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern
Europe
6c ... that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his
native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme
Bonaparte successfully
6c ... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was
unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of
the R101 airship ^ before it crashed
6c ... that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched
in Nazi Germany
6c ... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father
was African American, became the first African American named to the United
States District Court for the District of Maryland
6c ... that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477
6c ... that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed
virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries
6c ... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand
jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other
6c ... that ) , , 3 is a collection of nearly 1,000
ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus
6c ... that Wrigley Square's
is a near replica of a monument
destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois
6c ... that Pinnacle@Duxton ^ , at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public
housing in Singapore upon completion
6c ... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by
the Dutch in 1625
6c ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel "$ "$
&,
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begins with a quote from a Doris Day film
6c ... that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev
6c ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has
separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof
6c ... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry
in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in
1912
6c ... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is
the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane
6c ... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months
in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow
being shattered by shrapnel
6c ... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments ^ had been the home of Ronald
Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming
a senior citizens' housing project
6c ... that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in
the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later
champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years
6c ... that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia
6c ... that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the
rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels
6c ... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that
its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English
Civil War
6c ... that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy
6c ... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere "$ !
Y$, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera
6c ... that the war veterans' memorial ^ in Suffern, New York, is built on land
where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental
Armyduring the Revolutionary War
6c ... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand
Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland
6c ... that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval
battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century
6c ... that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to
reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge
6c ... that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers
6c ... that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi,
the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard
6c ... that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to
the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents
6c ... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while
filming
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at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man
6c ... that Hugh de Largie ^ , who was banned from working as
a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of
the Australian Senate
6c ... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also
in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino
6c ... that Mary Shelley's verse drama is a commentary on
both Ovid's $ and Chaucer's "$
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6c ... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of
sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and
the public sphere
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head
and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm
6c ... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an
estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and
other memorabiliavictimized by mail fraud
6c ... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus
Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis
Mundy
6c ... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean
the fibers
6c ... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of
Justice ^ in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded
6c ... that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an
international cap
6c ... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles
(124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two
cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line
6c ... that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in
western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be
Protestant
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's
illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him
6c ... that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton,
was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving
Park and theSouth Omaha Land Company
6c ... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used
for making agujjim ^ , a popular Korean dish
6c ... that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl
carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves
6c ... that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won
the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship
finals, losing 0²2 to FC Schalke 04
6c ... that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship #G on December 10 1905 was the
first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio
6c .. that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from
two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building
for 50 years
6c ... that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in "$ )
Ñ, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil
Keane, regained fullcopyrights to the comic strip
6c ... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office ^ , features
a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow
6c ... that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar
Lithuania
6c ... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian
railways is the Finse Tunnel
6c ... that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records
6c ... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha)
land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic
donation to theOregon Parks commission
6c ... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning
achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall
6c ... that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by
the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
6c ... that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in
September 1942 by friendly fire
6c ... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar ^ is alleged to have
been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler
6c ... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga
Award for his debut manga 2 ?
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6c ... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard
Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were
all educated at Jesus College, Oxford
6c ... that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of
the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base
6c ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's
former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British
6c ... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the
1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his
memoir on life as a bandit
6c ... that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher ^ the
"Frogbird" on account of its guttural call
6c ... that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its
leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya
6c ... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's
racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later
6c ... that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect
the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never
establisheddiplomatic relations
6c ... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was
amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of
Fame
6c ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the
evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either
die, go mad, or become a poet
6c ... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as
a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway ^
6c ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903
6c ... that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing
a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before
he became chief justice of Queensland
6c ... that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851
Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record
for the period prior to 1870
6c ... that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one
of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by
American Charles Yerkes
6c ... that the genus is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one
time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise,
or cinclosomatid families
6c ... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija
Čmilytė ^ was her father
6c ... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural
community fully protected by government ownership in the United States
6c ... that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive
aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human
rights violations
6c ... that "$ Y
, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was
banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in
tormenting young delinquents
6c ... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid
to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally
aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season
6c ... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic
islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine
islands by his uncle, John Ross
6c ... that the Verdeja ^ was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace
the T-26 and Panzer I
6c ... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a
visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use
6c ... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced
by Greek mythology
6c ... that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of
Honor³the U.S. military's highest decoration³in the European Theater of
Operations during World War II
6c ... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici
villas outside Florence
6c ... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East
England, inspired the novel on which the film + Ñ was based
6c ... that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what
is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon
6c ... that one theory why the virginal ^ was so called is that the keyboard
instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl
6c ... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be
financed entirely by sales of stock
6c ... that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such
as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage
6c ... that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the
"high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade
6c ... that #
was so named as it was originally thought to be the
last occurrence of a plesiosaur
6c ... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite &
Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail
trail was constructed
6c ... that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of
Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller
6c ... that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On
Horseback"³better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
6c ... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for
his woodcuts ^(
6c ... that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location
and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"
6c ... that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was
acquitted by a one-vote margin³and thus spared execution³of having
printedcounterfeit Confederate currency
6c ... that the 1974 film #
$ !, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was
actually shot in Oregon
6c ... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS ) awaiting
disposal in Operation Deadlight
6c ... that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino
radio listeners
6c ... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment
dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey
engines", and antique saw mill machinery
6c ... that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence
Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career
6c ... that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper ^ translates as
"brown and white trunk traveller"
6c ... that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film !
H is often mistaken
for the ghost town of Paria, Utah
6c ... that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute
to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor
6c ... that the
*42, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not
established until 1966 though an earlier
2 dates to 1849
6c ... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with
seasoned fillings are called !
6c ... that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for
throwing fish to customers
6c ... that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty
resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters
6c ... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New
Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600
6c ... that the Portland Armory ^ in Portland, Oregon was the first building on
the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design certification
6c ... that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a
monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball
League in Taiwan
6c ... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for
the Colchester Gladiators
6c ... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film " &' was the first non-
theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle
6c ... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928
with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly
across theAtlantic
6c ... that in its last completed season in 1943²44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga
Pommern, five belonged to the German #
6c ... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski ^ was awarded
the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for
the invention of a calculating machine
6c ... that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by
the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
6c ... that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside
steps from the road up to its entrance
6c ... that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp
Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking
6c ... that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family
members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to
advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans
6c ... that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor
6c ... that Ñ
Ñ$, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European
versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany
6c ... that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none
of his descendants would be High King of Ireland
6c ... that the conical step pyramids ^
and circular public
architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica
6c ... that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund
C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected
6c ... that the 1966²68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to
rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field
6c ... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in
a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC
6c ... that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting
Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals
6c ... that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River
Indian Community, Arizona
6c ... that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of
an Englishman in India
6c ... that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping
Bear Dunes Park
6c ... that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs
in English football
6c ... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House ^ , located in Beverly
Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind
6c ... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas
Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke
Boothby, Bt
6c ... that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally
agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in
thebasilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
6c ... that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that
blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern
European, African, zydeco, soul and countryinfluences
6c ... that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of
countering China's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power
6c ... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch, could not get
approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial
tests of the patch on themselves
6c ... that the canine teeth of male baboons³which can be up to four times as long as
those of females³are an example of a sexual dimorphism
6c ... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such
artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock
6c ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her
room at the Hollywood Studio Club ^
6c ... that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste
violence in Rajasthan, India
6c ... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel # * $
was the
last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide
6c ... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security
officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3
players,laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files
6c ... that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by
both French military action and extreme weather
6c ... that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC
Sports'
! during his career
6c ... that the 1994 French²Romanian film &
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, ! depicts the
persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of
the Yugoslav wars
6c ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier
National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier
state
6c ... that education in Sierra Leone ^ had to recover from the destruction of
1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War
6c ... that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career
and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as # !, the Hermits
6c ... that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada
language
6c ... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title
and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden
6c ... that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson·s 17 losses with the Hickory
Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead
6c ... that the term !
$ as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined
in 1964
6c ... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two
daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer,
constructing more than 60 buildings
6c ... that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved
by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu
pandemic
6c ... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape
Maclear, Malawi ^ after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear
6c ... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general
operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the
formation of the group
6c ... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some
of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America
6c ... that one critic describes Christopher Smart's "$ 2 as the "loudest
broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry
Fielding,John Hill, and many others
6c ... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont
House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the
planting of 10,000 Dutch elms
6c ... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de
Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback
6c ... that the Siamese method ^( is a simple method for
creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la
Loubère's embassy to Siam
6c ... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public
office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
6c ... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter
Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their
lands
6c ... that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du
Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed
during World War II
6c ... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings "$ , inspired by violence in Eastern
Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's
great+
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6c ... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in
1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory
6c ... that the statue "$ ? "$, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made
of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity
6c ... that hwajeon ^ is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible
flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar
6c ... that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music
theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown
6c ... that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached
peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007
6c ... that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather
than direct intervention by the military
6c ... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied
France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Ñ$
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as a code to informthe
resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place
6c ... that the 1914 film
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was the first feature-length
film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans
6c ... that in :
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, Archimedes expressed the volume contained
in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder
6c ... that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in
1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III
6c ... that the tartan of Nova Scotia ^ was originally designed by Bessie Murray
for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially
adopted by the province
6c ... that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by
smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding
6c ... that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New
York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1
6c ... that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu
City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into
their Friendsterprofiles
6c ... that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for
28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune
in petroleum and natural gasleases
6c ... that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body
of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work
along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation
6c ... that the sailing-ship #M was the first ship under Polish banner to cross
the equator
6c ... that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have
included parodies of ! and "$ &
6c ... that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse
Manor train station ^ in Sleepy Hollow, New York
6c ... that Indian scholar Śāntarakøita is believed to have been instrumental in the
introduction of Buddhism to Tibet
6c ... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St.
David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds
of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania
6c ... that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-
Abdullah of Jordan
6c ... that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from
the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers
6c ... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside
of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's
premier football division
6c ... that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation
level of their habitat
6c ... that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his
stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material
6c ... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military
device by Perseus of Macedon ^
6c ... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced
30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991
6c ... that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health
Center, the very place where she volunteered her time for many years
6c ... that China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to
invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development
6c ... that Percival Goodman, described as "the most
prolific architect in Jewish history" by "$ ), was also an urban
planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City
6c ... that / ? ü
, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative
contributions from Luxembourg in the film
6c ... that Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations,
was also an exceptional cricket umpire
6c ... that the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum ^ is located in the
world's first plant for mass production of heavy water
6c ... that the Dalecarlian runes was a runic script that was in use until the 20th
century
6c ... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship
of "$ !
ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to
children
6c ... that eight of the nine * of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of
Florence
6c ... that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken,
but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s
6c ... that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the :
& 2 in the 400-
seat theatre at Irvington, New York's village hall
6c ... that many localities on the coast of Great Britain developed their own type
of fishing boat adapted to local fishing and sea conditions, and the nobbies are
examples of this
6c ... that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national
d'histoire naturelle in Paris
6c ... that most of the stamps of Mexico ^( from 1856 to 1883 have
district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device
6c ... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward
named Jim Limberc
6c ... that during the Agra famine of 1837²38 in the North-Western Provinces of India,
approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number
oflivestock perished
6c ... that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of
the most active volcanoes in the world
6c ... that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-
General of eleven US states
6c ... that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and
insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return
home
6c ... that !$ is a 1982 play by American writer Norman
Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-
life code name
6c ... that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfùc, founded in 1720, was the first
modern opera theatre in Greece
6c ... that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced
their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"
6c ... that Albert Pujols ^ received more votes than any other player in Major
League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot
6c ... that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative
Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts
6c ... that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine
Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"
6c ... that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician,
and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for
developing improved machine guntactics
6c ... that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall
of Russia's Kresty Prison
6c ... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is
currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering
6c ... that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude
ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property
in Wyoming
6c ... that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been
described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway
6c ... that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with
fruit-flavored syrup
6c ... that Monkey Bay ^ on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through
the road to Cape Maclear
6c ... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they
were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they suppliedcheese to
northern Mexico
6c ... that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic
controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide
today
6c ... that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union
of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising
6c ... that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson
Guitars
6c ... that the book +
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satirizing
the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S.
Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld
6c ... that cushion plants ^( , which grow extremely slowly, can live for
up to 350 years
6c ... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater
lake
6c ... that V.D. Savarkar wrote "$
, a nationalist history of
the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its
suppression
6c ... that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"
6c ... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles
(2,900 km) of the Washington highway system
6c ... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered
fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic
6c ... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British
Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation
6c ... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to
the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services
6c ... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's
Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica
instead when permission was refused
6c ... that the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill ^ has a fruity smell
6c ... that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko
Roll
6c ... that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years
before Nigeria's independence from British rule
6c ... that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of
a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of
Midway
6c ... that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana,
single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of
the civil rights movement
6c ... that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building
in China, dating from 857 AD
6c ... that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia
6c ... that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul
McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for
Boys
6c ... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason
Building ^ , which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height
6c ... that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working
on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh
6c ... that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts
behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby
6c ... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth
in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 ,
in 2005-06
and targeting US$12 billion by 2010
6c ... that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard
School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard³Henry Maynard's son³
who attended Charles I's trial
6c ... that in his book
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the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that
all states are morallyillegitimate
6c ... that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the
ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before
the current pass was built
6c ... that the Budweiser Clydesdales ^ were first introduced to the public
on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition
6c ... that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early
encounters with European friars
6c ... that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known
work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's
parks
6c ... that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further
southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years
beforeJames Cook did
6c ... that
& #
is the first and only compilation album released
by industrial metal band Godflesh
6c ... that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés
National Park containing 400
6c ... that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of % (1643),
a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride,
the Roman Catholic Church
6c ... that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' "Seven
Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me"
6c ... that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi ^ by
biting the crocodile on the nose
6c ... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as
well as the anarchist movement
6c ... that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is
determined by nutritional gatekeepers
6c ... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was
executed for treason
6c ... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated
a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips
6c ... that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two
separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between
6c ... that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he
hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan
6c ... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Conan the
Barbarian in the 1982 film, proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of
violent video games such asÑ
6c ... that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA
Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield
6c ... that the scaly hedgehog ^ is actually a species of brown mushroom found
in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway
6c ... that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-
star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes
6c ... that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types
of psychosocial situations
6c ... that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport
links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir
6c ... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey
Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television
series 777$ Ñ$
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6c ... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in
1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers
6c ... that Gray Barker's 1956 book "$
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! introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore
6c ... that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely
function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin
6c ... that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's "$
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have a real
or metaphorical reference to burning
6c ... that Archie J. Old Jr. completed the first round-the-world nonstop flight ^
$
by a jet-powered aircraft
6c ... that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet,
he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek
6c ... that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister
of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions
6c ... that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation
and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9²10 billion in 2006
to USD 50 billion by 2010
6c ... that April FitzLyon's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked
his unreliable memoirs
6c ... that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words
6c ... that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of
the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan
6c ... that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each
named after local bishops
6c ... that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan
Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46
6c ... that Pierre Lacau was the French Egyptologist and Director of Antiquities who
oversaw the discovery of Tutankhamun ^ in the Valley of the Kings
6c ... that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of
the largest forest elephant populations in Africa
6c ... that George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped
out of high school, founded the first Black-owned company ever traded on
theAmerican Stock Exchange
6c ... that most of the deaths that result from abdominal trauma are preventable
6c ... that Christopher Smart's "$ 2 4+
is a long 18th century georgic poem
that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol
6c ... that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs
6c ... that Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment with â7 has been
tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years
6c ... that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's "most
trustworthy friend"
6c ... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know"
attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a Recorder of London who became known as the
"Obliviscor" (forgetter)
6c ... that Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created
many images of Heaven and Hell ^
6c ... that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and
the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina
6c ... that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including
the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture
6c ... that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph
Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their
descendants white
6c ... that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government
minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake
6c ... that Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since
imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972
6c ... that the medieval Battle of Sparrsätra is held to have deeply changed Swedish
society
6c ... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final
flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra
6c ... that 100 North Tampa ^ , which rises 42 floors and 579 feet (176 m) in
height, is the tallest building in Tampa
6c ... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved
using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years
6c ... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware
possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania
6c ... that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake,
while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of
corruption involving contractorsand government officials
6c ... that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special
Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting
with the U.S.Deputy Secretary of State
6c ... that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still
use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after
a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles
6c ... that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13²2 win over Ireland in 1899³
the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history
6c ... that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published "The Village
Blacksmith", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the
poet
6c ... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet ^ for
the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14
Tomcats failed
6c ... that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on !
, &
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and "$ +
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6c ... that shukr is the Islamic virtue of gratitude
6c ... that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains
ecoregion, the coho and sockeye are extinct, the chinook are threatened, and the
summer steelheadare in decline
6c ... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand·s understudy in the
1962 Broadway musical Ñ
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6c ... that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than
170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed
6c ... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent
of
players were addicted
6c ... that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin'
High" by a film serial he saw as a child
6c ... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to
carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad
6c ... that when William Williams died collecting the fern Alpine Woodsia ^ in
1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in
the 17th century
6c ... that Nguyen Van Linh, General Secretary of the Communist Party touted as the
"Vietnamese Gorbachev" for reforming Vietnam's communist economy, later
regretted many of the effects of his policies
6c ... that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern
Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and
nutrient-poorserpentine soils
6c ... that oudist Ali Sriti's first public performance was at age eleven, when he
sang / $
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6c ... that "$ ? / " said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film "$ ? "has
as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"
6c ... that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's first state visits was to Mongolia,
aimed at rebuilding their bilateral relations in the post-Cold War era
6c ... that John Boylan, who won an acting award in the play :
$ 2
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6c ... that invasive cheatgrass ^ has replaced native bunch grasses across
much of the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion in the northwestern United
States
6c ... that the Japanese visual novel ! ! allows the player to navigate in a
profile side-view perspective similar to a two-dimensional platform game
6c ... that irrigation canals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley have dramatically
transformed the Snake River Plain ecoregion in southern Idaho
6c ... that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian
Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis
6c ... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon
House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register
6c ... that Norwegian politician Jacob Aall described Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. as
"one of Norway's most active and skillful merchants"
6c ... that the Pumice Plateau in the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills
ecoregion of Southern Oregon is covered by a thick layer of volcanic ash from Mt.
Mazama
6c ... that the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus runs across the Line of Control to connect
the capitals of the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir
6c ... that about ten percent of the value of gift cards is not redeemed
6c ... that the buff and yellow mushrooms (fruiting bodies) of the fungus
^ can reach 30 centimetres (12 in) in diameter
6c ... that C. W. Thornthwaite, an expert in the field of climatology, wrote his doctoral
thesis in an unrelated topic in urban geography
6c ... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the
1951 Warner Bros cartoon % &
6c ... that Khalid bin Barghash fought a 38-minute war with the British during his
two-day rule as Sultan of Zanzibar
6c ... that Norwegian merchant and banker Simon Karenius Høegh was also mayor of
both Brevig and later Porsgrund
6c ... that the public library system in Riverside County, California was the first in the
US to turn over its entire operation to a private company
6c ... that when Test cricket twins Mark and Steve Waugh played together in their first
ever match, they both scored ducks
6c ... that since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations, bilateral trade has risen
to US$1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign
investor in Mongolia
6c ... that after George Lansbury lost the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1912, where
he stood for re-election on a platform of women's suffrage, he declared "Never
Resign!"
6c ... that the Dobbs Ferry post office ^ has an unusually high level
of ornament compared to most Colonial Revival-style post offices in New York
6c ... that Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic
career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics
6c ... that the Air Combat Group contingent of the RAAF was created when the Tactical
Fighter Group and Strike Reconnaissance Group were merged
6c ... that Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the
county's state highways
6c ... that Otto Zobel described a method of using prototype filters that does not use
the frequency domain to represent their transfer function
6c ... that the Canadian television series "$ ü$
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different traditions of folk music from Celtic to blues
6c ... that India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral
relations and further expand trade, which is expected to reach US$2 billion in
2008
6c ... that Hurricane Charley was the first storm that made landfall in South
Carolina at hurricane intensity since Hurricane Hugo in 1989
6c ... that Hamburg's Rotherbaum quarter is the site of the Am
Rothenbaum tennis stadium
6c ... that the orienteering map ^( , along with the compass, is the
primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points
6c ... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu
Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major
contributions as crimes
6c ... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing
oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964
6c ... that American doctor George E. Moore discovered the link between chewing
tobacco and mouth cancer
6c ... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date
6c ... that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving
as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
6c ... that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen
for a while by the consumer
6c ... that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th
century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes
6c ... that extinguishment is one way to get out of a legal contract
6c ... that even though Benjamin Harrison held "front-porch" speeches at his
house ^ during his presidential campaign in 1888, his home would not
have a front porch until 1896
6c ... that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count, but in fact
originated in Persia
6c ... that during World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs,
work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free
to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto
6c ... that the Living Planet Index is one of the indices used in sustainability
accounting
6c ... that Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the
first Australian female pirate
6c ... that in Treasure Valley, on the borders of Oregon and Idaho, is the largest
community of Basques outside of Europe
6c ... that as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Puckering was heavily involved
in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots
6c ... that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland,
Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three
prototypes in the U.S.
6c ... that the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan
6c ... that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and
being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use
ofsuitports ^ , patented in 1996
6c ... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town
in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a
guest twice
6c ... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau
ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick
6c ... that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders
to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees
6c ... that Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the
fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana
6c ... that although building India's first overseas military
base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low
at USD 12.09 million in 2005
6c ... that 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado,
was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building
6c ... that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend
of Muppets creator Jim Henson
6c ... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden ^ to
design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826
6c ... that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle
between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas
6c ... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12
November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria
6c ... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty
members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her
graduation
6c ... that the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman
Islands
6c ... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the
first Christian martyrs in Armenian history
6c ... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National
Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter
6c ... that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest "Brethren
of the Coast" pirate gatherings
6c ... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported
in 1927
6c ... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of
the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding
6c ... that Majorelle Garden ^ , a tourist attraction in Morocco, was purchased
by Pierre Bergé and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1980
6c ... that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with
the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926
6c ... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that
was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass
suicide in Jonestown
6c ... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that
a penknife cannot fit between them
6c ... that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican
Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from
a British invasion in 1797
6c ... that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight
Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and
France
6c ... that the president of Żegota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish
children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side
and walking out with them
6c ... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington
Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York
6c ... that when she was launched in 1956 MF ! ^ was the largest
lake ferry in Northern Europe
6c ... that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures
for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran,
and tariff exemptions for herbicides
6c ... that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the
youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London's Royal Academy of Music
6c ... that the affair known in Israel as "the dirty trick" included the only
successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date
6c ... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616
6c ... that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's
largest resource development
6c ... that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry
Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded a Bronze
Star and a Purple Heart
6c ... that the Canadian Ballet Festival is credited for Canadian dancers finding paid
work in television
6c ... that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at
the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an
enduring publishing company
6c ... that ! directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre,
was intended to be one part of a seven-part series
6c ... that the Australian White Ibis ^ has invaded Sydney and other urban
centres of Australia's east coast since 1978, and is now commonly seen
in parks andgarbage dumps
6c ... that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California
earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger
6c ... that Anton Reinthaller, the first leader of the post-World War II Freedom Party of
Austria, had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany's Ministry
of Food and Agriculture
6c ... that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy
High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters
6c ... that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian
labour unrest of 1934²1939, but its findings were so damaging that they were
suppressed until 1945
6c ... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral
sermon in 1926
6c ... that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may
be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between
the planets Mars andJupiter
6c ... that despite being set in New York, & + "$
has been filmed mostly
in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"
6c ... that the Millersburg Ferry ^ in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on
the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle
boatoperating in the United States
6c ... that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was
built on during the Neolithic period
6c ... that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that
reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in
1952
6c ... that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-
century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers
6c ... that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off
at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on
board and making itAustralia's worst aviation disaster
6c ... that Muhammad al-Shaybani, a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought, was the
student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf
6c ... that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther
Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between
the two sides
6c ... that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted
from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint
6c ... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last
public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles ^
6c ... that Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as
a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his
enthronement
6c ... that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village
of *$ founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael
6c ... that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after
being named in the murder case of a police constable
6c ... that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air
disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington,
D.C.
6c ... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in
the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three
years later
6c ... that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati
Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997
6c ... that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, :4 0 & *
$ !, was a book of prose sketches
inspired byWashington Irving
6c ... that the El Greco Apartments ^ , once home
to Ñ,
director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-
raising help from ! "'s Leonard Nimoy
6c ... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is
associated with a mortality rate of 25²45%
6c ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped
from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk
6c ... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha
Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display
6c ... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison
income by publishing dubious Ñ
of the condemned at Newgate Prison
6c ... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of
the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor
6c ... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being
insolent towards the $
of the Avars
6c ... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city
of Mazari Sharif its name
6c ... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard ^ became a founding member
and the first president of The Wilderness Society
6c ... that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares
6c ... that HMS :
, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom
of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British
warship ever found in the Great Lakes
6c ... that before the 17th century, penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil
into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels
6c ... that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed, in Kandahar, has been
described as the "heart of Afghanistan"
6c ... that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed
struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
6c ... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns
6c ... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere, the
hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake
6c ... that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard
whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of
targeted species
6c ... that Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal ^ in Tarrytown, New
York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style
6c ... that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal
mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy
6c ... that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science
courses
6c ... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway
Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska
6c ... that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after
spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps
6c ... that the 1960²1961 NBC Western series
featured James Coburn as con
man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway
6c ... that André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly
escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and
a grappling hook
6c ... that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central
Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro
6c ... that Jeita Grotto ^ in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at
8.2 m (27 ft)
6c ... that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation
pioneer Major James Morris, who served in the Continental Armywith George
Washington
6c ... that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish, each being found in
a specific region
6c ... that "$ )$ "
is a radio drama that
combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi
wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism
6c ... that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-
Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3
billion by 2010
6c ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except
where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried
6c ... that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it
6c ... that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-
month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany
6c ... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik ^ has emerged as one of the leading
women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry
6c ... that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of
the Seychelles International Airport in 1971
6c ... that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken
from helicopters and hot air balloons
6c ... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval
tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were
being remodeled
6c ... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of
Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in
1731
6c ... that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army
6c ... that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the
world
6c ... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before
the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political
veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count
6c ... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum ^ include the machine
gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale
6c ... that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before
the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992
6c ... that Christopher Smart's "$ *,
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mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child
6c ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for
contributions to ethnography
6c ... that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed
by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the
nicotine content
6c ... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km ) Lake Delton emptied out in two
hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks
6c ... that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua,
the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as
"deserters"
6c ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for ! ü-- ²
a concept album companion to his science fiction novel
â$
6c ... that before Jean Miélot ^ created an illuminated manuscript for
Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with
pictures, decorations and text
6c ... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it
is generated from the fundamental vocabulary
6c ... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work "$ #
! $
)7 &
has been
described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic
6c ... that the Symmachi²Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman
paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years
6c ... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to
establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in
Canada
6c ... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-
used black church in Westchester County, New York
6c ... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed
to be the city's last surviving gothic building
6c ... that in his 1971 book *4! &
$, Murray Bookchin anticipated the
importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a
decade before the origin of cyberpunk
6c ... that the historic district in Warwick, New York ^
reflects the
village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century
summer resort town
6c ... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in
1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later
6c ... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring
in a production of the Broadway musical "$ Ñ
6c ... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200
million of funding from the United States federal government
6c ... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two
6c ... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote &
?$1 % to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie
6c ... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf
courses in the United Kingdom
6c ... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free
French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career
6c ... that the Mountain Gorillas ^>
of Bwindi Impenetrable National
Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda
6c ... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to
Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab
6c ... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of
the Ñ
, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax
6c ... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in
woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe
6c ... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to
the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of
Russian politician Anatoly Chubais
6c ... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky
6c ... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial
directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi
6c ... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton
Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"
6c ... that Harry Peckham ^ , along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of
Tankerville, wrote the first cricket rules to include a leg before wicket clause
6c ... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot
high replica of an Easter Island statue
6c ... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of
the +
, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting
6c ... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for
free eye treatment
6c ... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a
professional bodybuilder
6c ... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-
century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless
6c ... that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever
to head the American Angus Association
6c ... that the SS Ñ, survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's Ô4H in
1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's Ô4G5K in 1941
6c ... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic
cleric who opposed his daughter's career
6c ... that the Red Bridge ^ , one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was
nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents
6c ... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only
surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles
6c ... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam
Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds
incaptivity
6c ... that Christopher Smart's 2
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were finished by
the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the
work was a success
6c ... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement
Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners
6c ... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-
called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký
6c ... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the
title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London
6c ... that in 1926 Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk produced a firewood-powered snow
melter
6c ... that the Java ^ , first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second
oldest breed of chicken in the United States
6c ... that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that,
starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an
undefended village nearby called Tehran
6c ... that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of
the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of
theSharpstown banking scandal
6c ... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka
Takahashi was listed in "·s Coolest Inventions in 2004
6c ... that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament
between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South
Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million
6c ... that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government
register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult
entertainment site
6c ... that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen ^
when
he was wounded during the 1967 USS ) fire off the coast of Vietnam
6c ... that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic
churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest
in the world
6c ... that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management
Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds inNorth
America
6c ... that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal
Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War
Two
6c ... that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a
snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters
6c ... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein
Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the
country
6c ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National
Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat ^
6c ... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age
sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground
communist anti-colonial movement
6c ... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964²1965 ABC sitcom "$ "
as an
eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation
6c ... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground
in Havana, Cuba
6c ... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National
Hockey League three different times
6c ... that Christopher Smart's 2
! !
were composed in a mental
asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"
6c ... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the
country's main tourist attractions
6c ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed
to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers
6c ... that Andreas Frederik Krieger ^ was one of the most vocal critics of
the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise
Rasmussen
6c ... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was
used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of 2 !
6c ... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large
quantities of adulterated wine
6c ... that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River
City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and
shopping districts
6c ... that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure
that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory
Rasputinwas murdered
6c ... that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent
years
6c ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial
district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact
that one could legally purchase alcohol there
6c ... that the Church of St. Catherine ^ in St. Petersburg was taken over by
the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the
Catholic Church in 1992
6c ... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ô for containing "a great
deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages
6c ... that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-
Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world
6c ... that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has
been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"
6c ... that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman
Senate much like conscription is a military draft
6c ... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and
the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was
repeatedly torn down and rebuilt
6c ... that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in
the comic strip "
$ * by Milton Caniff
6c ... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army ^ was the heavy cavalry,
which consisted of 12,000²30,000 heavily armed riders
6c ... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate
for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent
crime
6c ... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives'
request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988
6c ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington
D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson
6c ... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in
her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the
country's first minister of labor
6c ... that critical reception to Hogarth's !
$ 2
+ was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from
exhibition
6c ... that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins ^( ,
which were referred to as the pitis
6c ... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their
house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions
6c ... that Marathi film !$ was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced
financial problems to showcase and promote the film
6c ... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to
the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a
fire
6c ... that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in
East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968
6c ... that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson
Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the
wartime Office of Price Administration
6c ... that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the
second-largest in the Middle East
6c ... that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man
6c ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public
drinking fountain
6c ... that the Delaware breed of chicken ^$ was once the
favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered
6c ... that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at
the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by
2015
6c ... that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist
every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won
6c ... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised
6c ... that ? â 0 Y
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, a 2001 report by Human Rights
Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly
widespread prison rape in the United States
6c ... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not
been poisoned
6c ... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass
transit station in the western U.S. when it opened
6c ... that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her
final album Y
- so much that she called them her "fur coat"
6c ... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori
Rasputin ^ by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide
6c ... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania,
only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850
6c ... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an
international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting
career in the Telugu film industry
6c ... that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone
basins
6c ... that Roy Agnew has been described as the most
outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century
6c ... that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest
City, Utah smelter it was built to serve
6c ... that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino
Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila
6c ... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock,
was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city
faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970
6c ... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House ^ is known as the
"Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark
6c ... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after
the 2005 Kashmir earthquake
6c ... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through
a thunderstorm cloud
6c ... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted
in the unification of the tribes
6c ... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as
Pumpkin in the film
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6c ... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left,
the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (T) but not in Hebrew punctuation
6c ... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in
the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building
6c ... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975
and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be
four inches (10 cm) too tall
6c ... that the original hot dog on a stick to be served at Cozy Dog Drive-
in ^ was called a Crusty Cur
6c ... that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya
Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India
6c ... that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign
of Mansa Suleyman
6c ... that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four
career shutouts in 1988, the season after his rookie year
6c ... that prior to colonial times, written literature was virtually absent from Burkina
Faso, with the country's first novel not published until 1962
6c ... that although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral
relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of
Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979
6c ... that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns' novel Ñ !
" into an opera after his sister gave him a copy
6c ... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter ^
were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between
700 and 650 BC
6c ... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute
to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch
6c ... that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household
Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse
Guards Regiment
6c ... that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma
people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti
Bahini militia
6c ... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book :
$
$ called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a
prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America
6c ... that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington,
D.C. building died during the sinking of the Y ! "
6c ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the
19th century
6c ... that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World
War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley ^
6c ... that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop
of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the
smallestcathedral in the world
6c ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially
described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"
6c ... that the jazz album " $ ! by Chick Corea was inspired
by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name
6c ... that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located
in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda
6c ... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public
holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration
6c ... that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been
described as "punk Buddhist"
6c ... that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997,
when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians ^
6c ... that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to
the United States
6c ... that Dulcie Holland's "
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, described as "one of the
greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public
performance
6c ... that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel
from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)
6c ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel " $ ! was nominated
for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award
6c ... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help
Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests
6c ... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's
Eve for 64 straight years
6c ... that the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS > ^ was known as "Terror of
the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition
6c ... that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created
by an American
6c ... that India's USD 650²750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral
relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the
Taliban
6c ... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's
Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1
6c ... that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate
to study prison rape in the United States
6c ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album !D
was
certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum
in Canada
6c ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the
American Civil War was over a saloon
6c ... that the Harris Theater ^ is the first new performing arts venue built in
downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929
6c ... that %
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$
(1952) is the only film starring all four original
members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael
Bentine
6c ... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of
Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in
1981
6c ... that Otto Soemarwoto·s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been
cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's
Saguling Dam project
6c ... that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the +
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the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds
6c ... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district
court
6c ... that the Eberswalde Hoard ^ , a collection of 81 gold objects weighing
2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the European Bronze Age
6c ... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke
Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong
6c ... that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association,
the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen
6c ... that in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Y
$
! which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space
operatheology
6c ... that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-
called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Ñ
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6c ... that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial
period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University
6c ... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill ^ in Florida, New
York
6c ... that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German
Nazi Party
6c ... that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was
not the worst ever seen along the road
6c ... that in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the
propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium
6c ... that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted
director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film %
6c ... that compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air
Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight
6c ... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel "$ !
* in a
successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him
6c ... that Uri-On ^ , created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the
first Israeli superhero to be published in color
6c ... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000
regular troops to over 250,000
6c ... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the
ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time
6c ... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density
of Ñ $ , a crustacean which is a food source of millions
of Semipalmated Sandpipers
6c ... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez
Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism
6c ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch
encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home
in Los Angeles
6c ... that McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink ^ is both an ice skating rink
and the largest alfresco dining venue in Chicago
6c ... that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before
the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in
theBattle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark
6c ... that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games, which had been missing for more
than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002
6c ... that the Guglers, mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so
named because of their headwear
6c ... that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the official
position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament, even if it is
unilateral
6c ... that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, FK, had its world
premiere in 2005
6c ... that the Pale-yellow Robin ^ uses the prickly Lawyer Vine as
a nesting site and for nesting material
6c ... that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in
1890 in Motherwell, Scotland
6c ... that Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of
the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison
6c ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning
6c ... that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the
first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves
6c ... that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to
provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port
6c ... that the novel )
by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as
an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction
6c ... that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that
the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes
6c ... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to
recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's ^ instant
recovery convinced many he was a pir
6c ... that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's
first iron ore pelletizing plant
6c ... that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population
support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel
6c ... that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Y$ was filmed at an
abandoned Civil War-era fort on an island in Boston Harbor
6c ... that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-
long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC
6c ... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951
when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland
6c ... that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for
the England national football team
6c ... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an
operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios
6c ... that Italian Wall Lizards ^ on a Croatian island developed significant
behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been
described as "rapid evolution"
6c ... that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications
for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum
6c ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album %
$ was
certified Platinum by the SNEP
6c ... that Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of
his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party
system began to sprout in the American South
6c ... that the 2008 Indian film marked the debut of
veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's son, Sikandar Kher
6c ... that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-
Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for
the re-introduction of Wood Bison
6c ... that Karin Pouw's statements about the book " Ñ0 &
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$ prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly
criticize the Church of Scientology online
6c ... that Clinton Jencks ^ , the petitioner in the case ü
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starred in the 1954 film !
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6c ... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's
largest green roof
6c ... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech, was wounded
by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic
buildings
6c ... that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri
Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by
the power of his mind
6c ... that charcuterie, derived from the French words for flesh ($) and cooked
(), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced
from pork
6c ... that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the
film %
's screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining
corporations
6c ... that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in
1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean
6c ... that The Greencards ^ are a Texas bluegrass band known for
their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman
6c ... that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to
officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965²1966 Central African
Republic coup d·état
6c ... that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by
the
, 2 comic books
6c ... that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an
ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation
work in 2005
6c ... that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto
Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter ² both used in composite image filters
6c ... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32
matches in 25 different stadia
6c ... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series !
Ñ
featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on !
"
6c ... that the flowers of the beach gardenia ^ are used to scent coconut oil in
the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern
Australia
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due
to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor
Daizong
6c ... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed
by a Trappist monk
6c ...that the 2001 documentary film !,0 &
&
" retold the story
of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits
ofracism in U.S. history
6c ... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother
Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought
out Thomas Hardy's firstnovels
6c ... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led
to accusations that he was condoning drug use
6c ... that Vratislav Brabenec ^ , a member of the Plastic People of the
Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months
because of his music
6c ... that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on
five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007
6c ... that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first
Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain
6c ... that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at
the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught
6c ... that the 1944 German film +? )$ ?7 J was banned in Nazi Germany and
only permitted by the Allies in late 1945
6c ... that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost
his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks
6c ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State
Forest ^( and no one knows how they got there
6c ... that the 1990 Spanish film k& Ñ' takes its title from the favorite song of
the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil
War
6c ... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that
formed during the month of May since 1981
6c ... that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of
representing proteins
6c ... that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time
as currency
6c ... that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising
to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic
recognition to Taiwan
6c ... that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern
Europe
6c ... that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his
native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme
Bonaparte successfully
6c ... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was
unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of
the R101 airship ^ before it crashed
6c ... that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched
in Nazi Germany
6c ... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father
was African American, became the first African American named to the United
States District Court for the District of Maryland
6c ... that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477
6c ... that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed
virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries
6c ... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand
jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other
6c ... that ) , , 3 is a collection of nearly 1,000
ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus
6c ... that Wrigley Square's
is a near replica of a monument
destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois
6c ... that Pinnacle@Duxton ^ , at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public
housing in Singapore upon completion
6c ... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by
the Dutch in 1625
6c ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel "$ "$
&,
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begins with a quote from a Doris Day film
6c ... that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev
6c ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has
separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof
6c ... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry
in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in
1912
6c ... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is
the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane
6c ... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months
in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow
being shattered by shrapnel
6c ... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments ^ had been the home of Ronald
Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming
a senior citizens' housing project
6c ... that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in
the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later
champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years
6c ... that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia
6c ... that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the
rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels
6c ... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that
its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English
Civil War
6c ... that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy
6c ... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere "$ !
Y$, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera
6c ... that the war veterans' memorial ^ in Suffern, New York, is built on land
where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental
Armyduring the Revolutionary War
6c ... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand
Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland
6c ... that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval
battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century
6c ... that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to
reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge
6c ... that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers
6c ... that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi,
the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard
6c ... that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to
the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents
6c ... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while
filming
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at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man
6c ... that Hugh de Largie ^ , who was banned from working as
a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of
the Australian Senate
6c ... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also
in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino
6c ... that Mary Shelley's verse drama is a commentary on
both Ovid's $ and Chaucer's "$
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6c ... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of
sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and
the public sphere
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head
and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm
6c ... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an
estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and
other memorabiliavictimized by mail fraud
6c ... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus
Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis
Mundy
6c ... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean
the fibers
6c ... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of
Justice ^ in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded
6c ... that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an
international cap
6c ... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles
(124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two
cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line
6c ... that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in
western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be
Protestant
6c ... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's
illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him
6c ... that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton,
was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving
Park and theSouth Omaha Land Company
6c ... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used
for making agujjim ^ , a popular Korean dish
6c ... that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl
carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves
6c ... that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won
the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship
finals, losing 0²2 to FC Schalke 04
6c ... that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship #G on December 10 1905 was the
first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio
6c .. that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from
two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building
for 50 years
6c ... that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in "$ )
Ñ, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil
Keane, regained fullcopyrights to the comic strip
6c ... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office ^ , features
a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow
6c ... that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar
Lithuania
6c ... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian
railways is the Finse Tunnel
6c ... that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records
6c ... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha)
land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic
donation to theOregon Parks commission
6c ... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning
achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall
6c ... that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by
the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
6c ... that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in
September 1942 by friendly fire
6c ... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar ^ is alleged to have
been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler
6c ... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga
Award for his debut manga 2 ?
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6c ... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard
Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were
all educated at Jesus College, Oxford
6c ... that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of
the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base
6c ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's
former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British
6c ... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the
1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his
memoir on life as a bandit
6c ... that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher ^ the
"Frogbird" on account of its guttural call
6c ... that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its
leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya
6c ... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's
racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later
6c ... that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect
the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never
establisheddiplomatic relations
6c ... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was
amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of
Fame
6c ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the
evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either
die, go mad, or become a poet
6c ... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as
a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway ^
6c ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903
6c ... that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing
a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before
he became chief justice of Queensland
6c ... that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851
Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record
for the period prior to 1870
6c ... that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one
of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by
American Charles Yerkes
6c ... that the genus is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one
time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise,
or cinclosomatid families
6c ... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija
Čmilytė ^ was her father
6c ... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural
community fully protected by government ownership in the United States
6c ... that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive
aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human
rights violations
6c ... that "$ Y
, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was
banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in
tormenting young delinquents
6c ... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid
to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally
aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season
6c ... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic
islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine
islands by his uncle, John Ross
6c ... that the Verdeja ^ was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace
the T-26 and Panzer I
6c ... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a
visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use
6c ... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced
by Greek mythology
6c ... that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of
Honor³the U.S. military's highest decoration³in the European Theater of
Operations during World War II
6c ... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici
villas outside Florence
6c ... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East
England, inspired the novel on which the film + Ñ was based
6c ... that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what
is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon
6c ... that one theory why the virginal ^ was so called is that the keyboard
instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl
6c ... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be
financed entirely by sales of stock
6c ... that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such
as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage
6c ... that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the
"high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade
6c ... that #
was so named as it was originally thought to be the
last occurrence of a plesiosaur
6c ... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite &
Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail
trail was constructed
6c ... that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of
Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller
6c ... that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On
Horseback"³better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars
6c ... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for
his woodcuts ^(
6c ... that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location
and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"
6c ... that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was
acquitted by a one-vote margin³and thus spared execution³of having
printedcounterfeit Confederate currency
6c ... that the 1974 film #
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actually shot in Oregon
6c ... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS ) awaiting
disposal in Operation Deadlight
6c ... that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino
radio listeners
6c ... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment
dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey
engines", and antique saw mill machinery
6c ... that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence
Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career
6c ... that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper ^ translates as
"brown and white trunk traveller"
6c ... that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film !
H is often mistaken
for the ghost town of Paria, Utah
6c ... that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute
to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor
6c ... that the
*42, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not
established until 1966 though an earlier
2 dates to 1849
6c ... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with
seasoned fillings are called !
6c ... that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for
throwing fish to customers
6c ... that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty
resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters
6c ... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New
Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600
6c ... that the Portland Armory ^ in Portland, Oregon was the first building on
the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design certification
6c ... that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a
monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball
League in Taiwan
6c ... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for
the Colchester Gladiators
6c ... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film " &' was the first non-
theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle
6c ... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928
with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly
across theAtlantic
6c ... that in its last completed season in 1943²44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga
Pommern, five belonged to the German #
6c ... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski ^ was awarded
the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for
the invention of a calculating machine
6c ... that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by
the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
6c ... that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside
steps from the road up to its entrance
6c ... that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp
Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking
6c ... that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family
members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to
advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans
6c ... that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor
6c ... that Ñ
Ñ$, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European
versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany
6c ... that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none
of his descendants would be High King of Ireland
6c ... that the conical step pyramids ^
and circular public
architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica
6c ... that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund
C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected
6c ... that the 1966²68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to
rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field
6c ... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in
a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC
6c ... that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting
Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals
6c ... that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River
Indian Community, Arizona
6c ... that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of
an Englishman in India
6c ... that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping
Bear Dunes Park
6c ... that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs
in English football
6c ... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House ^ , located in Beverly
Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind
6c ... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas
Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke
Boothby, Bt
6c ... that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally
agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in
thebasilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
6c ... that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that
blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern
European, African, zydeco, soul and countryinfluences
6c ... that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of
countering China's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power
6c ... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch, could not get
approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial
tests of the patch on themselves
6c ... that the canine teeth of male baboons³which can be up to four times as long as
those of females³are an example of a sexual dimorphism
6c ... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such
artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock
6c ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her
room at the Hollywood Studio Club ^
6c ... that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste
violence in Rajasthan, India
6c ... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel # * $
was the
last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide
6c ... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security
officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3
players,laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files
6c ... that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by
both French military action and extreme weather
6c ... that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC
Sports'
! during his career
6c ... that the 1994 French²Romanian film &
Ô
, ! depicts the
persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of
the Yugoslav wars
6c ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier
National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier
state
6c ...that the Ñ
$ snipes ^
+ once ranged from New
Caledonia and Fiji to New Zealand but are now restricted to New Zealand'soutlying
islands
6c ...that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move
without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that
pushed them through the air
6c ...that by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often
do so anonymously
6c ...that Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years,
was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University
6c ...that the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an
internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war
6c ...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California,
Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National
Historic Landmark
6c ...that the status of the Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army unit stationed in
Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in
1956
6c ...that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn ^ , one of
the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California
6c ...that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in
establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and
making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia
6c ...that rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval
Arabic . to modern rap
6c ...that Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central
Lithuania
6c ...that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born
"Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender
6c ...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct
investments in township projects in India
6c ...that Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National
Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and
the United States Army Air Corps during World War II
6c ...that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 ( ) caused almost century-
long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions
6c ...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a
wealthy coal-merchant
6c ...that, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla
Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped
due to his criticism of the government
6c ...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49,
she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one
more
6c ...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for
two days before retreating in good order
6c ...that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great
Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value
6c ...that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of
another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War
6c ...that Eremitage Palace ^ originally had a hoisting apparatus able to lift the
dinner table from the basement to the dining room, allowing Christian VI of
Denmark to dine without any waiters present
6c ...that #1 * was the first feature-length film to be created entirely
with Macromedia Flash animation
6c ...that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of
the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat
6c ...that in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest
ever Mufti of Romania
6c ...that Mao Anqing, the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong, suffered from
a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while
living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s
6c ...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared
in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them
anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed
6c ...that the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva ( ) is located
in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India
6c ...that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's * was once thought to
have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic
music from the Catholic Church
6c ...that New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface's early
rap videos
6c ...that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton,
England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for
the church
6c ...that the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from
the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early
part of theAmerican Civil War
6c ...that after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty
of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was
outraged by the triviality of his fine
6c ...that the records of English herald Thomas Hawley ( ) contain the first
preserved account of a heraldic visitation
6c ...that, during the Great Depression, the Romanian politician Grigore
Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency
6c ...that the 3rd Earl of Radnor, wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his
own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement
6c ...that Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged
burial site of Saint Sava
6c ...that it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri
Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam
6c ...that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book "$
$
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that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes
6c ...that the â-class destroyer escort USS ) ^ was torpedoed and
sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting
6c ...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel
Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of
Göttingen
6c ...that the Hilary Duff song "Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay
Lohan
6c ...that the term Y$ , the native word in India to refer the nation's President,
was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah
6c ...that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S.
Camel Corps
6c ...that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in
one year in separate polls
6c ...that Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South
Carolina State House ^ on fire during the burning of Columbia in
1865
6c ...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all
the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and
published a catalog titled ! +$
6c ...that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought
to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split
from water molecules instead
6c ...that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the
practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in
1915
6c ...that Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son
because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him
6c ...that an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 ( ) was used
by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola
6c ...that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside
Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers
6c ...that Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14
countries and helped found the United States' Law Day
6c ...that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over
old salt evaporation ponds
6c ...that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris ^ took over
the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the
history of London theatre
6c ...that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make
sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead
of brickafter residents complained to him via telegram
6c ...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a
diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul
6c ...that "
was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta
Garbo
6c ...that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a
secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian
Autonomous Orthodox Church, canonically linked to theMoscow Patriarchate
6c ...that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep
"worry" lines that run across the forehead
6c ...that the Macal River ^ drains classic Mayan settlements and controls
the flood stage of Belize's largest river
6c ...that the newly-named :, a genus of
small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first
dinosaur described as makingburrows
6c ...that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United
States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam
worldwide
6c ...that the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's
first coloured city councillor in 1904
6c ...that the publishers of the American music magazine :
once launched a
spin-off fashion magazine, Ô2)
6c ...that the 1991 Spanish film &
shocked audiences due to the frankness of
its sex scenes
6c ...that Bennett Valley ^ is one of the newest additions to the list of American
Viticulture Areas
6c ...that professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College
London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 forComic
Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005
6c ...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has
on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine
with much more vitality
6c ...that Jiri Dudacek, the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the
first round of the National Hockey League draft, never left Czechoslovakia due to
the protests of the country's sports minister
6c ...that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in World War One and the first
Australian shots in World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff ^ ,Australia
6c ...that the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor
knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for
his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov
6c ...that # $ $ from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from
the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
6c ...that the !
)4 Ñ$ , the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra,
is similar in form to the &
of Confucius
6c ...that the â-class destroyer escort USS
^ was hit by
an acoustic torpedo in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained
afloat
6c ...that Varvara Yakovleva, a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, was canonized
as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Fyodorovna
6c ...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest
museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem
6c ...that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of
nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel
6c ...that Eilley Bowers ^ is one of the most researched, written and talked-
about women in Nevada history
6c ...that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing
pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the
locals' intelligencereports back to England
6c ...that England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West
Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976, but went on to lose 6 of the 8
matches
6c ...that Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set
up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical
archaeology inBrooklyn, New York
6c ...that following the 1886 Seattle anti-Chinese riot the United States Congress paid
the Chinese government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received
nothing
6c ...that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland ^ was built in order to
circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to
the Baltic Sea
6c ...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a
plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral
6c ...that Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale
the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25
6c ...that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived "$ * !> !$ in 1990
and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had
to be removed from the studio
6c ...that the prehistoric badger genus Ñ$( lived during the
Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America
6c ...that traveling evangelist Tom Short ^ once matched wits with the Cult
Awareness Network
6c ...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his
head and continued preaching after his beheading
6c ...that "$ %, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life
experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing
around the world alone
6c ...that when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already
written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several
languages
6c ...that Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup
d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months
later
6c ...that the &6 *6 ., which was founded in 1570 under the
auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the
musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France
6c ...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch ( ) was built in 1760, it
incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the
time
6c ...that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to
use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive
fans started bringing their own cowbells
6c ...that the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first
Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable
toWestern ones
6c ...that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress
Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"
6c ...that "$
$
$ "$ is the earliest book on
theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the
compositions necessary to create gunpowder
6c ...that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two
winners of the Templeton Prize
6c ...that medieval cannon ( ) were first used by the English during
the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy
6c ...that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed
books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime
6c ...that the plant â
,, is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one
of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each
year
6c ...that $
- " 2
, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the
first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad
6c ...that "$ $ )
debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine, including
one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine
6c ...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who
supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to
the Comintern
6c ...that 1971's :
$ %
was the first Thai science fiction film
6c ...that the American merchant William Conner ^ helped maintain the
Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body
of Tecumseh following theBattle of the Thames
6c ...that 1939's
, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was
the second ever Assamese language film
6c ...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have
restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-
20th-century level
6c ...that on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the
town of Dorohoi, killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165
people according to Jewish sources
6c ...that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on
account of her ugliness
6c ...that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child
abuse" on the talk show "$ :1Y )
6c ...that Wheeling Creek ( ) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short
distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank
6c ...that Yoshiaki Yamashita, a pioneer of judo in the United States, was the first
person to have been awarded 10-
grading in Kodokan judo
6c ...that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was
the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere
6c ...that , the second series of the BBC sitcom , contains
many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare
6c ...that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film +
was shot by the
director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle
6c ...that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San
Francisco turned upside down"
6c ...that the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire
style mansions in Moscow ^$$ 2
6c ...that the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in
the Tyndale Bible, believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to
promoteanticlericalism and heretical views
6c ...that the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also
a folk musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"
6c ...that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he
leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise
6c ...that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader
in the United States
6c ...that, thanks to a secret radio nicknamed the 'Old Lady' ^ , POWs at Batu
Lintang camp in Borneo knew about the Japanese surrender at the end ofWorld
War II before most of their guards
6c ...that Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was
forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result
ofradiodermatitis
6c ...that the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became
the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003after 34
years of military service
6c ...that the &(
! cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder
of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order
today
6c ...that a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from
the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"
6c ...that the Grotto at Goldney House ( ), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is
encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species
6c ...that the Balık sisters from Turkey claim to be the only identical twins who are
both professional opera singers
6c ...that the 1935 film ü, produced and directed by the
noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese
language film
6c ...that five states have declared independence during the territorial history of
Mexico, and all but Texas returned to Mexico
6c ...that in Ovid's $, the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a
jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus, killed Acis with a boulder
6c ...that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS
^ was severely damaged and
almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS
2 blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944
6c ...that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode
of "$ â !
!$ as Elvis Presley
6c ...that Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter
Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved
and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged
6c ...that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction
of India's elusive history
6c ...that USS #-
^ was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named
after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines
6c ...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise
of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's &
*, was largely
due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids
6c ...that, in mythology, iron is often associated with blood, or used as a protective or
lucky charm
6c ...that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were
investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for
contributions to theDemocratic National Committee
6c ...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980
film
across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome
after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese
Academy Awards
6c ...that United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade ^ was awarded
the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004
6c ...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations
of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to
September 2006
6c ...that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the
£1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down
in 1621
6c ...that Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that "$ "$ "$
infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not
spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959
6c ...that the musical )( was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its
producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in 1964
6c ...that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (*>
ü) in
the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street
6c ...that the pocket billiards game cribbage ^, , named after the card
game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking configurations
6c ...that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily
in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under arepatriation
campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments
6c ...that Chester Wilmot, the Australian War correspondent and military historian of
the Second World War, was killed in an air crash in 1954
6c ...that Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka's
edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location
6c ...that the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with
a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as a British communications aircraft in World
War II
6c ...that in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing
the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre^ ,
a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
6c ...that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children
6c ...that " â magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of
Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick
6c ...that, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the
blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant
days of slaughtering for veterinarians
6c ...that World Vision, an international charity organization, have developed
various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the HI 2 )
6c ...that Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park ^ ,
which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters
6c ...that Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a
freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight
champion inhistory
6c ...that the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was
never captured by an enemy force
6c ...that the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so
detailed that the authors of the French â
6 used an engraving of one as a
reference, and included it in a supplementary volume
6c ...that Vodka Belt, an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most
popular alcoholic beverage, wages a vodka war in support for vodka's traditional
ingredients
6c ...that Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths
6c ...that Russian philanthropist and financier Alexander von Stieglitz ( ) was
the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire
6c ...that the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal
Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing
864bridges
6c ...that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-
conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S.
National Archives
6c ...that bergamottin, a chemical found in grapefruit, is believed to be responsible
for drug interactions known as the "grapefruit juice effect"
6c ...that aussieBum, an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean
Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew
up with
6c ...that Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by
observing solar activity
6c ...that Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in
history
6c ...that the Laigh Milton viaduct ^ , built in 1812, is the oldest
surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world
6c ...that Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is
known as the ´loserµ in modern Zen circles
6c ...that the F-111 fighter, the B-1 bomber, the Space Shuttle, and the Boeing fleet of
commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel
6c ...that Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the
"Scandinavian Chagall"
6c ...that the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland
relatives
6c ...that when builders told Lou Henry Hoover, who designed her own house, that
some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time
someone did"
6c ...that the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg, a 17th century mystic, is
covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols
6c ...that the Fenari Isa Mosque ( ) in Istanbul represents one of the first
examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture
6c ...that silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when
she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater
6c ...that the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, Géraud Réveilhac ordered
artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack
6c ...that until 1947 in Spain, Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession
6c ...that Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his
invention under the name ) & until he was forced to sell his business
under Nazi rule
6c ...that the Karl Johanslussen ^ is one of the locks and sluices between Lake
Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of
central Stockholm
6c ...that Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport
center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet
beheaded during the French Revolution
6c ...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los
Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"
6c ...that Steve Crowley, a Marine Security Guard, was posthumously promoted to the
rank of Sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in
Islamabad, Pakistan
6c ...that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near
urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later
became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David
6c ...that Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German
Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974
6c ...that English cannon batteries ( ) required artillery crews of twelve per gun
6c ...that the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most
important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians
6c ...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from
involvement in religion and social reformation
6c ...that the 1983 rock and roll comedy film + Ñ- was a tribute to the
famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an
usher
6c ...that the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed
on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists
6c ...that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Saint Charalampus was 113 years old
6c ...that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa
Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society
Awards for her performance in Ñ
6c ...that parti-coloured clothes, divided into different colours on the left and right
when viewed from the front ( ), became popular in late 14th century fashion,
especially in England
6c ...that the Romanian *
"Y unsuccessfully called
for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials
6c ...that the award-winning Chinese film Ñ *$
, with its box office profit of
over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003
6c ...that WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection
in Africa via the use of weblogs
6c ...that the Halmidi inscription, an Indian inscription, found near the tiny village
of Halmidi, in Karnataka, India, is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada
language
6c ...that the icons and faces incised into Las Limas Monument 1 ^ were used
for a hypothetical reconstruction of the Olmec pantheon
6c ...that a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held
off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of
Thermopylae
6c ...that the case of Angela Carder, a cancer patient who was forced to undergo
a caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine
their own health care in the United States
6c ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for
organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816
6c ...the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -
70 °F (-57 °C) at Rogers Pass, Montana
6c ...that Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly
Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote % $
$
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, the seminal book on German exile literature
6c ...that Gavroche ^ , a character from the novel # 6, by Victor
Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris
6c ...that most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have
not been divided into cadastral units
6c ...that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York
City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950
6c ...that the Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was
built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum
6c ...that the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis
for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow
6c ...that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility
in Hong Kong built from a landfill
6c ...that the enzyme neprilysin ^ degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose
abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease
6c ...that British politician George Oliver once lost his seat at Ilkeston by two votes in
the closest result in any British Parliamentary election, but later won by 30,398 in
the fourth largest majority in 1951
6c ...that 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses
and to Emma Hamilton
6c ...that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of
the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in
1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor
6c ...that the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas
Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture
6c ...that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at
the Berlin State Opera in 1917
6c ...that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg
Conservatory ^ , where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev
6c ...that a series-parallel graph is a mathematical model of series and parallel electric
circuits with two different nodes called and
, indicating the direction of
the electrical current flow
6c ...that the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to
train Australia's first nurses
6c ...that some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of black
haw to prevent abortions
6c ...that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear
city urban concept
6c ...that at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, Yipsi Moreno became world
champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth
place finish in1999
6c ...that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg
Conservatory ^ , where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev
6c ...that Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City, the largest
community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains
6c ...that William Clowes Ltd.'s installation of noisy, steam-powered printing
presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its
ownerWilliam Clowes to court
6c ...that the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu
Koreeda film ?,
6c ...that the Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the American
Physical Society·s March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations
on superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM
6c ...that Hurricane Guillermo ^ in 1997 was the second strongest storm on
record in the Eastern Pacific basin, with a minimal pressure of 919 millibars
6c ..that Giovanni Dominici was initially refused admittance to the Dominican
Order because of a speech impediment that was later reportedly cured
afterintercession by Catherine of Siena
6c ..that one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called
the Emperor of China
6c ...that bottle pool, a hybrid game combining elements of pocket and carom billiards,
was played by world-renowned quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling
6c ...that Wa-Wan Press was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish
works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions
6c ...that after a 1731 fire, the Bastard brothers were responsible for the
reconstruction of Blandford Forum ^,
$ in a
vernacular Baroque style
6c ...that Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France, to help better
organize the French Revolutionary Army
6c ...that one of the earliest known references to Karnataka, the name of
an Indian state, is found in the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata
6c ...that Whuppity Scoorie is a traditional celebration in Lanark, Scotland during
which children run around a church three times swinging paper balls over their
heads
6c ...that William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now
the U.S. state of Washington
6c ...that chocolate box art ^( started in the late 19th century as box
decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe
sentimental pictures
6c ...that the Romanian writer Paul Goma, whose citizenship was revoked
by Ceauşescu·s regime in 1978, now resides in France as a stateless person
6c ...that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences
ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture
6c ...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar
in England in 1862
6c ...that Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall)
became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was
crownedMiss America
6c ...that the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street
protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in
the Parliament of India
6c ...that the Portland Brownstone Quarries, which once provided brownstone to many
landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National
Historic Landmarkand a regional scuba diving destination
6c ...that the California Maritime Academy has named three of its four training
ships +
^$ $ since 1946
6c ...that two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle
County, Illinois on June 27, 1841
6c ...that Patrick Heenan, a Captain in the British Indian Army, was convicted
of treason after spying for the Empire of Japan during the Malayan
campaign of World War II
6c ...that a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial
state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
6c ...that the McLaren F1 GTR, based on the production McLaren F1 supercar, won
the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year against purpose-built Le Mans
Prototypes
6c ...that the Siribhoovalaya, a unique work of multi-lingual literature composed
by Jain monk Kumudendu Muni, is written entirely using Kannada numerals,
without the use of anyalphabets
6c ...that at the Battle of Baia ^ , Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus was
struck by three arrows and almost died
6c ...that after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt, the Athenian assembly considered
executing the entire male population of Mytilene
6c ...that during the blood-vomiting game, a famous + game between Honinbo
Jowa and Intetsu Akaboshi that lasted four days, Jowa made three unorthodox
moves that were reputed to have been suggested to him by ghosts
6c ...that a Spokane, Washington, television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its
Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests of Gonzaga
University basketball playerJosh Heytvelt and his teammate
6c ...that the locality of Boinka, Victoria, ^ which has an area population of 28
people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496
kilometres from Melbourne
6c ...that Mayurasharma was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi, the
earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today Karnataka state, India
6c ...that the balloon framing method of wall framing became obsolete in the 1940s
when it was replaced by the platform framing method
6c ...that the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in
three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount
6c ...that American music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine is the son
of English documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine, the maker of the
1984 BBC documentary "$0 & 2 42 2
6c ...that the Russian defense correspondent Ivan Safronov, who was writing about the
third consecutive launch failure of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, died
in a mysterious fall from his fifth floor apartment
6c ...that former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint
Petersburg March of the Discontented ^ on 3 March 2007
6c ...that Danny Kaye, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Abbott and
Costello and Sammy Davis, Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage
of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.
6c ...that Timothy Campbell was assigned the role of promoting an anti-wrinkle device
from Amstrad's Health & Beauty division after winning the first series of
thetelevision show "$ &
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6c ...that the Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the
only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos
6c ...that Steve Stanton, Largo, Florida's city manager since 1993, was fired for
pursuing sex reassignment
6c ...that the Ottoman Bank, established as a private bank in 1856, became a central
bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until
1931
6c ... that "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" ^
,
was called the
"Marseillaise" of the 1840 United States presidential election
6c ...that Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic
preservation in the United States
6c ...that Lance Armstrong's autobiography, 1 ? &, $ 0 ü
#
, headed the New York Times Best Seller list, and was the William Hill Sports
Book of the Year in 2000
6c ...that the Area Boys are a gang of Nigerian street children and teenagers who roam
the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by
6c ...that Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the 1973 novel % , refused to
give his Expressionist paintings to a museum unless it would also display his
collection of curiosities
6c ...that the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program was
credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert
County, Ohio in 2002
6c ...that the Simpsons short + ?$ aired April 19 1987 on "$ " Ô
!$ and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family on television
6c ...that Ladurée, which sells 15,000 macarons ^ per day, opened a tea
house in its Parisian pastry shop in the 1930s, to cater for society ladies, who at
that time were not admitted to cafés
6c ...that Kasongo Ilunga, incumbent Minister of Foreign Trade for the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, is widely believed to be a non-existent person
6c ...that the best-selling British author Edwy Searles Brooks is estimated to have
published 800 adventure novels, including the ?
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Ñ serialized novels, under several pseudonyms
6c ...that Ahmad Hasan Dani, an expert of South Asian archaeology and Ancient
history, was the first Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University
6c ...that Francisco Serrão, one of the Portuguese vessel commanders sent by Afonso
de Albuquerque to the 'Spice Islands', took a Javanese woman as his wife when his
ship berthed at Gresik
6c ...that William Larrabee ^ , the 13th Governor of Iowa, almost always posed
in profile with the left side of his face showing, because the right side was
disfigured in a childhood gun accident
6c ...that many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab
cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily
6c ...that Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French
writer Colette to English readers
6c ...that pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940
and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements that tied down several
German divisions
6c ...that Sol Spiegelman, a prominent American molecular biologist, is credited with
creating the Spiegelman Monster
6c ...that the oldest known remains of anatomically modern humans in the world were
excavated in the Klasies River Caves
6c ...that Buster Martin, aged 100, is believed to be the United Kingdom's
oldest employee
6c ...that one of the victims of convicted Balcony Rapist Paul Callow was awarded
damages of $220,000 against the Toronto police force because it failed to warn
women in her neighbourhood after four earlier rapes
6c ...that kulintang music ^
, a form of Filipino gong music, is said to
have existed in North Maluku for centuries
6c ...that British banker, Conservative MP, and conservationist Sir John Lindsay Eric
Smith founded the Landmark Trust in 1965
6c ...that a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified
as a sewage channel
6c ...that Frank Brickowski played basketball in Italy, France and Israel for three
years in the early 1980s, until the New York Knicks thought he was ready for
the NBA
6c ...that the "Mohawk Valley formula," a strikebreaking plan devised during
the Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937, was declared by the National Labor
Relations Board to be "a battle plan for industrial war"
6c ...that the Monument to the Heroes of the Military Engineers' Army is dedicated to
the Romanian military engineers of World War I, of whom more than a thousand
were killed
6c ...that British Labour Party politician Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger was the oldest
female former member of the British House of Commons at the time of her death
6c ...that Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at
the Chicago Theatre ^
6c ...that the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the
probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage
6c ...that the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint
Columba", which reputedly never runs dry
6c ...that in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and
refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar
Hammerstein Ireceived over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera
6c ...that Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004
Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been
thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder
6c ...that Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of
foreign art in Ukraine
6c ...that private investigator Bradley Willman used a Trojan horse to gain open access
to 2,000 to 3,000 computers that had been used to visit websites of interest
to pedophiles
6c ...that in his recitals baritone David Bispham ^ often sang English versions
of songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and others
6c ...that despite finishing its first season with a profit of $53,000, the Damrosch
Opera Company was forced to close due to mounting deficits after only six years in
business
6c ...that six striking coal miners, nine of their family members, and one bystander
were killed during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911
6c ...that the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in
the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties
in Czechoslovakia,France, and Spain
6c ...that in the Old Javanese eulogy of Nagarakretagama, Kertanegara, the last king
of the Singhasari kingdom, was deified into three deity forms
6c ...that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly
Paradise without being allowed in, according to the #
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6c ...that the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca ^ , built to defend the Cuban city
of Santiago de Cuba from pirate attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by
pirates while it was being constructed
6c ...that Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy
France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon
6c ...that the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book !
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in Canadian libraries during 1974
6c ...that U-F2 was a French submarine that was taken as a prize by the Germans in
1940 from a dockyard, and was later converted for German usage
6c ...that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as
a farmer in Florida
6c ...that the Monastery of Jesus in Setúbal, Portugal, the first building associated
with the Manueline style, was built by Diogo Boitac
6c ...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's ^ collections were first
exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991
6c ...that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb
County, Illinois
6c ...that the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu, the sixth largest city in the
country
6c ...that for participating in the American premiere of Richard
Wagner's *
against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was
never again invited to perform at Bayreuth
6c ...that the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, England, was
described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a
"brick parallelogram" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in
1893
6c ...that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom
people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack
and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey
6c ...that !
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^ , by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was
painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition
6c ...that Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline-
style work at the Monastery of Batalha
6c ...that the Winter Garden Atrium was the first major structure in New York City to
be completely restored following the September 11, 2001 attacks
6c ...that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should
write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her
autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was
6c ...that the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine was used as a House of
Political Education and a Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution
6c ...that the last Hungarian inhabitants of Niedzica
Castle, Poland, ^ remained there until 1943 when the coming of
the Soviet front in World War II inspired the last countess to abandon it with her
children
6c ...that the mummified fossil of an â
was secured by
the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000
6c ...that the pool game of baseball pocket billiards borrows both language and
aspects of form from the game of baseball, featuring a pitcher, a home plate, runs
and is played to nine innings
6c ...that Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film + was one of the
first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim
6c ...that of the 95 & class minesweepers used in World War II only one was sunk
by an enemy submarine and only 11 were lost in total
6c ...that the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, which opened in 1973, was named in
honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, the first and only United States
Congressman to die in the line of duty
6c ...that in 1918 the issue of # & ^ containing the text of the Act of
Independence of Lithuania was confiscated by the German authorities
6c ...that "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet" received three perfect scores at the start of
voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth,
making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting
6c ...that a shop drawing is not created by the architect or the engineer, but by
the fabricator
6c ...that Dr. Colin Skinner, a British molecular biologist, is attempting to walk
around the world
6c ...that wandering spleen is a rare medical disease caused by the loss or weakening
of the ligaments that help to keep the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen
6c ...that the Stowe Recreation Path received the majority of its funding from selling of
pieces of it, as small as an inch
6c ...that the medieval bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city
walls ^ after sunset may be shot with a longbow, has never been officially
repealed
6c ...that the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie is the oldest continuously
operating theater in New York State
6c ...that the heart of Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross
Church in Warsaw
6c ...that the Inuktun language, spoken by 1000 Inughuit people around Qaanaaq in
northern Greenland, is related to Canadian Inuit languages
6c ...that retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players
in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks
6c ...that Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that
was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO
6c ...that modern billiard chalk ^ , which is not actually chalk but a compound
of silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks and a chemist
friend in 1897
6c ...that Edyta Górniak sang part of "To Nie Ja" in English at the dress rehearsal for
the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which almost caused the song to be
disqualified
6c ...that Mount Omine is a sacred mountain in Nara, Japan, famous for its
controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage
6c ...how patients with gender identity disorder are classified over the course of their
medical treatments
6c ...that Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake
by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields
6c ...that the illumination method used in modern light microscope design was
invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler in 1893
6c ...that the Spartan Cruiser ^ was originally designed as a mailplane and
even flew a test flight to Karachi as such, but was then transformed into
apassenger airplane in 1932
6c ...that Stefan Báthory assisted Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia in
1476
6c ...that when it was shown at the Metropolitan Opera, %
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by Ernst II
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed
a petitiondemanding that it be removed from the repertory
6c ...that Beata Brookes, Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been
nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"
6c ...that the actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United
Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship
6c ...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library
near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the , as
well as early versions of the +
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6c ...that the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw ^ is the floral emblem of the state
of Western Australia
6c ...that "$ Ñ$
by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to
sell over a million copies
6c ...that British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down
a knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from
politics
6c ...that the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by
the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not
believe he had truly defected
6c ...that Leon Wasilewski, first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was one of the chief
supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union
6c ...that Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden wrote three biographies about the Russian
imperial family and about her own escape from Russia in 1917
6c ...that in 1952 the Russian mathematician Veniamin Kagan ^ resigned from
his post at Moscow State University partly as a result of anti-Semitic practices
there
6c ...that, when first built, the Chicago Board of Trade Building became the second
structure located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard to bear, for a time, the title of
tallest building in Chicago
6c ...that just 51 days after Adam Air's loss of Flight 574, Adam Air Flight
172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties
6c ...that George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society to promote
gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks
6c ...that approximately 300 pieces of mail a day are still being sent to 10048, the ZIP
code assigned to the former World Trade Center complex
6c ...that the legend of the smuggler Cruel Coppinger was embellished by the
Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker when he published it in 1866
6c ... that a Halloween hermit crab ^ may trick a snail into becoming a treat
6c ... that Ben Cooper, Inc., the "Halston of Halloween", said it sold a scary 4
million Halloween costumes in the United States in 1990
6c ... that Margaret Jones was the first person in Boston to be executed
for witchcraft in a New England witch hunt that lasted between 1648 and 1663
6c ... that ghosts at Preston Manor, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses,
have included a grey lady, an excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one
driving a toy tractor
6c ... that a disc jockey at WTCM-FM created a song about the Michigan Dogman,
which has been sighted in northwestern Michigan, as an April Fools' Day joke
6c ... that the bone skipper came back from the dead after 160 years to feed on
rotting bones
6c ... that critics praised a scene in the horror film %$ 0 Ñ where a
student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades
6c ... that the "Devils Brigade" was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to
hell
6c ... that the Paracas textiles found wrapped around 2,200 year
old mummies ^ $
show a winged shaman carrying a severed
head by its hair
6c ... that the
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could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been
sexed
6c ... that bonfire toffee is brittle, dark toffee associated with Halloween and Bonfire
Night in the United Kingdom
6c ... that the Ipswich Witchcraft Trial has been called the "Second Salem Witch Trial",
and was the last witch trial held in the United States
6c ... that a slime mold eats the decaying remains of the Devil's tongue barrel
6c ... that, according to legend, a wooded area in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania, is
home to seven gates that lead directly to hell
6c ... that a person can create more of a Devil's Backbone ^ by cutting it off
above a joint and burying it
6c ... that *
4 can shrink your brain, make your skin fall off,
cause you to speak and move abnormally and kill you
6c ... that Johnny Cash cast Watergate scandal prosecutor James F. Neal to play a
lawyer in the 1983 made-for-television movie
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6c ... that in various regions in India, a haunting ,$ can be thwarted
using water, steel or iron objects, or the scent of burnt turmeric
6c ... that Irish psychic Sandra Ramdhanie, who specialises in exorcisms, was born
on Halloween night
6c ... that an 18th-century soldier, court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that
he heard the clock of St Paul's Cathedral strike 13 times ² and other witnesses
corroborated it, saving his life
6c ... that Ann Hibbins was convicted and hanged for being a witch in Boston,
Massachusetts in 1656, 36 years prior to the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials
6c ... that the plafond in the Bishops' Palace in Kielce ^ depicts its founder's
victory over the Polish Brethren Protestant church, which taught the equality and
brotherhood of all people
6c ... that in the requiem mass for John F. Kennedy, Mac Morgan performed
the bass solo of Mozart's Y.
6c ... that Fohoren was one of the traditional kingdoms of Timor which were ruled by
a Liurai
6c ... that Steven Girvin's group has successfully implemented quantum algorithms on
a two-qubit quantum processor
6c ... that St Peter's Church, Northampton is considered by the Churches
Conservation Trust to be "the most outstanding Norman church in the county"
of Northamptonshire
6c ... that Lord William VI of Montpellier (1121²49) looked out for the interests of
the merchants of his town, since his revenues depended on theirs
6c ... that two Critically Endangered palms in Madagascar, %
, and % $, have fewer than 60 known specimens in the wild
combined
6c ... that Harold Martin won election to the New Jersey General Assembly in the 39th
District running in support of the creation of a state income tax
6c ... that in a best-dressed list published in 1958 by the New York Dress
Institute, Consuelo Crespi was ranked third, behind the Duchess of Windsor but
ahead of Queen Elizabeth II
6c ... that soprano Marie Sasse ^ created the role of Elisabeth de Valois in the
world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's %
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6c ... that Grace Cossington Smith's "$
Ñ was rejected from the 1930
Society of Artists exhibition, but is now described as one of Australia's most
significant modernist paintings
6c ... that Indian badminton player P. V. Sindhu reported on time at the coaching
camps despite travelling 56 kilometres (35 mi) on a daily basis
6c ... that of seven entries in a 1935 Bureau of Air Commerce competition to build
a roadable aircraft from a Pitcairn autogiro, only the Autogiro Company of America
AC-35 met all requirements
6c ... that the 2010²11 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team lost their
"emotional leader" in Denis Clemente
6c ... that Harold Greenwood, acquitted in 1920 of the murder of his wife, is a rare
example of a lawyer charged with murder
6c ... that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Wormsley, Herefordshire, are the
chest tombs of writer Richard Payne Knight and his brother Thomas, an expert on
apple trees
6c ... that the United States federal case Y Ñ 7 7 +
7 held that
recommending trademarks for keyword advertising was commercial use
6c ... that Chinese warlord Li Jinglin (1885²1931), nicknamed "China's First Sword",
was a renowned swordsman and baguazhang martial artist
6c ... that ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, found in the venom of
the King Cobra ^ , the water moccasin, the Mamushi snake, the Erabu sea
snake and the Habu snake, respectively, are all cysteine-rich secretory
proteins that can reduce muscle contractions
6c ... that John E. Bush was sent on a mission to form a Polynesian empire with only
one ship manned by a boy's band
6c ... that five High Sheriffs of Kent lived at Oxon Hoath, a former manor
house at West Peckham
6c ... that when Einar Johannessen was suspended from NRK television because of
payments in his secondary job, the decision was overturned by the Ministry of
Culture
6c ... that the Federalists of New England did not support the War of 1812, so Captain
Oliver Filley of Connecticut, who built the Oliver Filley House, commanded
40 militiamen under state control
6c ... that Giovanni Francisco Vigani became the first professor of chemistry at
the University of Cambridge in 1703
6c ... that Viacom sued YouTube, seeking damages of US$1 billion
6c ... that eleven-year National Football League veteran defensive back Maurice
Douglass was once a professional stripper
6c ... that most actinides glow because of their radioactivity ^(
6c ... that Louis F. Bantle saw U.S. Tobacco's income rise tenfold to US$1 billion led
by sales of smokeless tobacco, telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in
the mouth and appeal to young people"
6c ... that , a British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several
"matrixes" ² small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles
inside the paper
6c ... that 1366 Technologies has created a technique to cast silicon wafers from the
melt rather than sawing them from an ingot
6c ... that Wesley Bennett scored 21 points to lead Westminster College to a 37²33
victory over St. John's University in the opening game of the first college
doubleheader played atMadison Square Garden
6c ... that Billy Squier's number-one mainstream rock hit "Everybody Wants You" has
been performed by Damone, The Unband, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and
players of + 2 G
6c ... that the prevalence of diabetes is the prime drive in the development
of biosensors such as fluorescent glucose biosensors
6c ... that the Tennis Palace venue which hosted some of the 1952 Summer
Olympics basketball games was later converted into an art museum
6c ... that Nigerian boxer Franklin Egobi fought for the Latvian heavyweight title
in October 2008
6c ... that the Jacob P. Perry House ^ in Pearl River, New York, is one of the
few post-Revolutionary Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County built in a
prewar style
6c ... that undefeated MMA fighter Dragan "Gagi" Tešanović makes his North American
debut tonight at the Bellator 34 event
6c ... that Ardelve has a notable population of Grebes
6c ... that Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" was said to help guide a cyberpunk revival
6c ... that the current Brutalist synagogue building of Temple Israel of the City of New
York was completed in 1967
6c ... that Count Rudolf of Geneva performed the act of homage to his
overlord, Peter II, Count of Savoy, in an orchard outside of a castle in 1263
6c ... that American electric bluesman Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis remained a regular
performer on Chicago's Maxwell Street for over 40 years
6c ... that the underground Elisenberg railway station at Elisenberg, Oslo, was only
partially finished and never taken into use
6c ... that boxer Jacob Hyer has been called "The Father of the American Ring"
although he broke his arm in his only match, in 1816
6c ... that the idea for making art like the "
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^ from AK-47s and other
old guns came from Bishop Dinis Sengulane of Mozambique
6c ... that Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are among the people who have
been suggested as the true author of the William Shakespeare plays
6c ... that Starr's corollary to the Shapley²Folkman lemma was proved by an
undergraduate student of Kenneth Arrow
6c ... that the traditional form of government in Tibet from 1642 to 1951 was the Ñ$4
4
6c ... that Parry O'Brien won the gold medal in the men's shot put at the 1952
Summer Olympics in Helsinki as part of a four-year long streak in which he won
116 consecutive meets and set 17 world records
6c ... that Calgary's new mayor Naheed Nenshi used social media extensively in his
surprise win in the 2010 municipal election, which made him the
first Muslim mayor of a majorCanadian city
6c ... that Sir Arthur Bignold, MP for Wick Burghs, was the proprietor of
the Achanalt Inn
6c ... that historian Brison D. Gooch, who researched the Crimean War, concludes
that Great Britain and France practically ignored their ally, the Ottoman Empire, in
the two-year fight against Russia
6c ... that World War II search and rescue dog Crumstone Irma barked differently
depending on whether those buried by rubble were dead or alive
6c ... that St Peter's Church in Deene, Northamptonshire ^ contains a
monument to the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade in
1854
6c ... that Scientology spokesperson Jessica Feshbach's father
incorporated Dianetics philosophy into his firm's stock market investing
6c ... that a hydro dam was built by a state agency within the borders of the Munzur
Valley National Park in Turkey, violating the existing laws for its protection
6c ... that Kim Williams was the longest-running guest commentator on National
Public Radio, appearing on the show & "$
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for over ten and a half
years
6c ... that the Malta Test Station was the site of the first large test stand for static
rocket engine tests in the United States
6c ... that Stanley Gordon Orr was the highest-scoring fighter ace of the Royal
Navy during the Second World War
6c ... that the medieval Ca na Catanach, a drovers' road in Sutherland, begins
at Dorrery Lodge and ends north of Achentoul
6c ... that under head coach Joe Lombardi, the IUP Crimson Hawks men's basketball
team advanced to the 2010 basketball championship just two years after being
placed on NCAA probation
6c ... that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from
a bear sighting in 1852
6c ... that in 1967 the BSA A65 Star ^ helped BSA win a Queens Award to
Industry and by 1969 BSA were responsible for 80% of the British motorcycles
exported
6c ... that the term "hatchet man" originated from the weapon of choice used in
killings on Chinatown's Doyers Street, known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent
gang murders in the early 20th century
6c ... that Paul Erdős challenged Jon Folkman to solve mathematical
problems immediately after Folkman's surgery for brain cancer
6c ... that Chinese military texts have influenced strategists ranging from members of
the Communist Party of China to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
6c ... that University of Kentucky running back Derrick Locke set the Oklahoma high-
school record in the long jump
6c ... that Canadian artist Henry Sandham won an award at the 1878 Exposition
Universelle for a composite photograph consisting of 300 separate pictures
6c ... that the Sikorsky S-97 scout helicopter is intended to be able to fly with one,
two, or no pilots
6c ... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Getu Feleke set a new course record when
he won the 2010 Amsterdam Marathon earlier this month
6c ... that the most northerly outpost of Harrods is located in a former tourist
information office in the Scottish Highlands between Achany Forest and Shin Falls
6c ... that the interior of the 10th-century Round Church ^ in the
medieval Bulgarian capital of Preslav features medieval inscriptions in three
alphabets and two languages
6c ... that the official proclamation of the abolition of slavery by the French
government in 1794 was delivered to the Caribbean colony of Saint-
Domingue (present-dayHaiti) by the corvette â
6c ... that the body of Cardinal Gonzalo García Gudiel, returning from Rome to his
native Toledo, was reportedly greeted in the streets by a delighted crowd
ofChristians, Jews and Muslims
6c ... that in !
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+ in 1860, the U.S. Supreme
Court defined what a river bed was
6c ... that all five venues of the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz were reused
as venues when the Winter Olympics returned to the city twenty years later
6c ... that a local resident donated land for and paid part of the construction cost of
the Le Roy, New York, post office
6c ... that during two years in the early 1950s American Jim Fuchs won 88
consecutive meets and set four world records in the shot put
6c ... that the extinct crab
from Washington state is related to
the graceful rock crab
6c ... that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death
of poet John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single
anchovy and a piece of bread a day
6c ... that the venom of the South African spitting scorpion ^ contains
the neurotoxins birtoxin and bestoxin
6c ... that the Awaaz Foundation has successfully petitioned both local and state
governments in India to impose stricter noise pollution laws
6c ... that American electric blues harmonicist Johnny Dyer, on his Y
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Y album, did reworkings of songs by another Rolling Fork native, Muddy
Waters
6c ... that Johan Falkberget's satirical story Z Z
was a feuilleton in the
newspaper ? before being released as a book
6c ... that the incumbent Mayor of Invercargill, Tim Shadbolt, is currently the longest
serving mayor in New Zealand
6c ... that cars were brought into the Empire Stadium venue to illuminate the last
two decathlon events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
6c ... that Mary Malcolm, one of the BBC·s first female announcers, was a
granddaughter of Victorian actress Lily Langtry, mistress of King Edward VII of
England
6c ... that sales at Sprinkles Cupcakes increased 50% after the store was featured
on "$ : $
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6c ... that New Hampshire-born Charles Coffin Harris, who served as cabinet minister
and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii, also had a business selling fern hair
6c ... that the idea that Lancaut, on the border between England and Wales, may be
the site of a medieval leper colony is supported by the unusual number
of medicinal herbs found in the churchyard ^
6c ... that Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film "$
Y as "a glowing
fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"
6c ... that the Innu and Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada,
initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility
6c ... that Amane Gobena is the first Ethiopian runner to win the Osaka Marathon
6c ... that the fairy shrimp
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is the largest freshwater invertebrate
in Antarctica
6c ... that many former Nazi rocket scientists were employed in Egypt's rocket program
in the 1960s, and were targeted by Israel in Operation Damocles, a campaign
of letter bombs,assassinations and abductions
6c ... that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names
in post-war Texas country blues"
6c ... that William Coleman, the first editor of the ? / *, killed an adversary in
a duel in 1804
6c ... that one academic commentator described %7
$1 Ñ simply as an
"abortion"
6c ... that a fall in bus passenger numbers in Hampshire between 1999 and 2001 was
partly attributed to the collapse of the Tillingbourne Bus Company ^,
6c ... that the Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada, is also known as the "Bridge of
Sighs", as legend has it that new divorcees would toss their wedding ringsfrom the
bridge into the Truckee River
6c ... that the , a new genus and species of jellyfish, was identified in
the summer of 2010
6c ... that the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Tarrant Crawford, Dorset, England, is
all that remains of the medieval Tarrant Abbey
6c ... that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought
between two European powers
6c ... that "$ ? / " provided plans for constructing the wet-
folding origami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel, but warned readers that
"no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"
6c ... that, together with the Moisie River, the Natashquan River is one of the most
renowned salmon rivers on the North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
6c ... that 100,000 victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried at the port town
of Lafiteau
6c ... that the Useless Parliament withdrew from London to Oxford because of bubonic
plague
6c ... that the Earth's shadow ^ can be observed during twilight hours
6c ... that the Regency of Algiers was founded around 1525
when Barbarossa recaptured the city
6c ... that English cricketer Herbie Hewett walked off the field before play began when
captaining an England XI, after receiving insults from the crowd
6c ... that the mycelium of the mushroom
glows
6c ... that when the West German Senate of Berlin and the East Berlin first
met as a joint body during German reunification in 1990, it was dubbed
the !
6c ... that the specific name of the chaenopsid blenny *, refers to
both its place of discovery and to the white bands on its body
6c ... that in 1960 Odd Grythe hosted the first show after the official opening
of Norwegian television, ! N
6c ... that prototypes of the CityCar, the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT
Media Lab, are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011
in Boston, Singapore, Taiwanand Florence
6c ... that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally
has both male and female reproductive systems
6c ... that Max Dupain's 1937 photograph !
, ^ was described as
"perhaps the most famous and admired photograph in Australia"
6c ... that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville
Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work $ *
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6c ... that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer
Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics
6c ... that in Constantinople, Mehmed II ordered a group of Albanian officers captured
in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs
6c ... that the Sisquoc Formation in Southern California supports the
largest diatomite mining operation in the world
6c ... that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-
century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English
6c ... that Lindy, Nebraska, was named for Lucky Lindy
6c ... that the charity Elizabeth Finn Care was established in 1897 as the Distressed
Gentlefolk's Aid Association
6c ... that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army ² its chariots ² proved to be its
weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor
6c ... that cricketer Bernard Bosanquet ^ invented the googly after playing a
table top game using a tennis ball
6c ... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in * 7 ) that
the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had properly entered into an agreement
establishing a mutual border between the two states
6c ... that Irene Kosgei, despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in
the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, edged compatriot Irene
Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title
6c ... that Turkey²Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the
expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa
6c ... that Kenneth R. Mladenka was among those political scientists in the 1980s who
pushed successfully for inclusion into the discipline of urban case studies and
quantitative analysis
6c ... that the Hamburg Historic District was settled by Germans, mostly
from Schleswig-Holstein
6c ... that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that
of a fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that
6c ... that the Três Marias Dam's power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas,
who built Marmelos Zero, South America's first major hydroelectric power plant
6c ... that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second
husband when they found out they were not married
6c ... that Khandita ^ is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover
cheats on her and spends the night with another woman
6c ... that Jocotenango, Guatemala, has a coffee museum, and coffee grown
in Alotenango, also located in Sacatepéquez Department, received an international
award
6c ... that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a,
Touch Me", for the Y 2 tribute episode of + and its accompanying
extended play
6c ... that in
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in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United
States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia's
pre-Civil War debt
6c ... that the 1945 Japan²Washington flight made by three American air generals in
three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the
United States
6c ... that extracts of the red volva Amanita can cause high blood sugar in mice
6c ... that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen
Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now
used as the college'sPresident·s House
6c ... that a railway station once served Aberchalder but the line closed in 1935
6c ... that relatives of Nava Applebaum, who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding,
attended her funeral instead
6c ... that the Etruscan shrew ^
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$, is the smallest
known mammal by weight
6c ... that although he began playing basketball only after high school, Notre
Dame forward John Moir broke every single school scoring record set by three-
time All American Moose Krause in the 1930s
6c ... that Kenneth Nichols initiated the Atomic Energy Commission hearing in 1954
that resulted in atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer being stripped of his
security clearance
6c ... that the extinct paddlefish * $ was first described from
the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation
6c ... that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way
for the building of Tonbridge railway station
6c ... that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified
and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course
6c ... that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to
bottle its own wine in Burgundy
6c ... that "Make It Easy", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years
but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their
1983 albumFIG
6c ... that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain, Spanish
forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude
6c ... that even though it was disbanded three times, the Australian 30th
Battalion ^ fought in the First and Second World Wars
6c ... that according to a popular myth, the Chinese philosopher Confucius once asked
the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy
6c ... that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton
University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic
Association I-AA records
6c ... that after battling over who could use the name "Yes", the musicians involved
reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song
about homelessness
6c ... that the mushroom Ñ ,, formally described as new to science
in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse
6c ... that Manila's Jai Alai Building, a building designed by Welton Becket, was
demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected
6c ... that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the
second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam"
6c ... that Indian badminton player Gurusai Datt took to the sport after watching 2001
All England Champion Pullela Gopichand play at a local stadium
6c ... that jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering
poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"
6c ... that the icebreaker #
became trapped in the ice of the Laptev Sea in 1937
and was rescued in 1938 by another icebreaker ^
6c ... that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Zinn, also
recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner
6c ... that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio, was attacked
by Morgan's Raiders
6c ... that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11
terrorist attacks
6c ... that Jean Charles Faget, a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign³an
important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever
6c ... that To¶rtko¶l, the former capital of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was destroyed
overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river
6c ... that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's
basketball rebounds title, achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960
6c ... that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only
church in England to have been built by prisoners of war
6c ... that the Poor Knights Lily resembles a giant toothbrush
6c ... that live coverage of Jökulsárlón ^ in Iceland on the American TV
program +
& in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4
million people
6c ... that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his
nearly 700-page volume, Y1 ) Ñ 0 "$ "
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6c ... that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap,
and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad's Gopichand Badminton Academy
6c ... that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once
described as "one of the Midwest's true blues treasures"
6c ... that the 1933 film !$ 2 ! / was one of a series of movies that drew
inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain
employment" during the Great Depression
6c ... that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa, and was three times ruler of
the Algiers Regency
6c ... that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home of the
city's political boss
6c ... that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered
a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at
the 2010 Commonwealth Games
6c ... that the modern given name Y
is ultimately derived from a
medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning "shield" (or
"rim") and "wolf"
6c ... that the extinct stingray 2, ^ has been found with up to three
stings on its tail
6c ... that :
, by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court,
"overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law"
6c ... that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for
scientists repressed during 1982²1983, the time of martial law in Poland
6c ... that Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends,
whose high school sweetheart married another person
6c ... that Riessersee was the host venue for the 1936 Winter Olympics for speed
skating and some ice hockey matches, while the bobsleigh was located just south of
the lake
6c ... that during World War II, the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged
in anti-partisan operations in Belarus
6c ... that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the
prospect of an Iraq War
6c ... that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo, were
uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain
6c ... that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess
the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini
6c ... that Samuel Hannaford designed the Winton Place Methodist Episcopal
Church ^ , where his funeral was eventually held
6c ... that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that
would become known as Burroughs Corporation, Alvan Macauley packed the entire
factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit
6c ... that around 2,000 members of the media from around the world traveled to the
site of the rescue of the Chilean miners
6c ... that University of Kentucky All-American Forest Sale served for five terms in
the Kentucky House of Representatives before bowing out of politics
6c ... that the Étang Saumâtre in Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating
from calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water
6c ... that Pedro Borrell, the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is
designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea
6c ... that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata $ ,
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6c ... that Perlman syndrome is a very rare overgrowth disorder with an estimated
incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world
literature
6c ... that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable
chain being lowered into a boat
6c ... that Grafton ^ and West Virginia National Cemeteries are the only
two national cemeteries in West Virginia, and both are located in the small city
ofGrafton
6c ... that British peer Ted Hill lived in a terraced house in Wivenhoe
6c ... that Alexis Rockman's mural
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, commissioned by the Brooklyn
Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea
level
6c ... that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in
northern Quebec, Canada, as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve
6c ... that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored "$ % Ñ,
$ ?)#, an inside study of the financing and organization of the
popular football team
6c ... that in 1833, the opium clipper ! $ set the unbroken record of sailing
from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours
6c ... that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established
during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas
6c ... that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be
the prototype of the cancelled interceptor
6c ... that Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a
hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded
& salacious slut pining for seduction"
6c ... that Edward Hasted dismissed the existence of Mary and Eliza
Chulkhurst ^ of Biddenden, Kent as "vulgar tradition"
6c ... that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, who led the second Arab
siege of Constantinople, was also ascribed the construction of the city's first
mosque in popular legend
6c ... that the Nairana class escort carriers of the Royal Navy were constructed in three
different countries
6c ... that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for
his work with Barbra Streisand
6c ... that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom, the election
of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of
bribery
6c ... that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County
Memorial Hospital
6c ... that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis' plans to construct a luxury hotel
in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers,
who believed it would ruin the rural landscape
6c ... that Antiguan professional basketball player Kurt Looby did not play high school
basketball
6c ... that the 2010 album +
? ü, by an African American string
band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops, reached the No. 1 position on the
Billboard Bluegrass chart
6c ... that the name of the Pyana River ^ reflects the drunkenness of the
Russian Army during the associated battle in 1377
6c ... that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr, who is white, wrote
"(
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6c ... that the Greek television series " ?, based on the best-selling novel "$
by Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions
ever made
6c ... that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a
lawsuit against the state of Maine, claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of
thePassamaquoddy and Penobscot
6c ... that in the 1970s, Sunn Classic Pictures specialized in four wall distribution, a
practice in which distributors show their films in rented theaters and keep all of
the box officerevenue
6c ... that Evangelical mysticism, a branch of Christianity, dates back to the 18th-
century works by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
6c ... that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558, over 3,000
inhabitants were taken as slaves
6c ... that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP, more than
any other songwriter
6c ... that, as part of the agreement to end the deadly Tarakan riot in 2010, the
communities involved agreed to jointly hold an Idul Fitri celebration
6c ... that the largest lake of Algeria ^ dries up in summer and is replenished
in winter by the Djedi River
6c ... that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer, Mose Vinson, recorded two
versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as
"My Love Has Gone"
6c ... that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened
during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising
6c ... that in the 1945 general election, Harold Roberts was one of only
three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham
6c ... that the 1932 Pre-Code film #$
2 drew praise for its open depiction of
the lynching of African Americans
6c ... that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles
on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones
6c ... that the blind and oval electric rays can barely swim, instead "walking" along
the sea floor
6c ... that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful
breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £200,000 on a
single race
6c ... that when sailors on board &
# mutinied, one of their demands was
for more sugar
6c ... that the pattern of cracks ^( in a painting can be used to
detect forged art
6c ... that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22, 2008 marked
completion of the Budapest²Zagreb²Rijeka motorway route
6c ... that puppeteer Van Snowden, who performed the puppetry for the H.R.
Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements
for Furbytoys
6c ... that running back Gerald White played football for Bo
Schembechler at Michigan, Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami
6c ... that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in
multiple mass graves near Titanyen
6c ... that, during the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government drew up
plans for mass arrests of communists and crypto-communists
6c ... that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power
plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to
provoke Egypt·s anger"
6c ... that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932
Summer Olympics
6c ... that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday
conference withoutviolating the Jewish Sabbath
6c ... that the gills of
, ^ change from whitish to clay brown
as the mushrooms mature
6c ... that Jameel Sayhood was shot down by Cesar Rodriguez mere minutes after
achieving one of the few Iraqi aerial victories of the Gulf War
6c ... that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the
educational process, has been in use since the 1950s
6c ... that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-
law Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office
buildings in the United States
6c ... that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost
and westernmost point of the London Underground
6c ... that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football, two
in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing
6c ... that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film "$ %
%
deals openly with sex and violence
6c ... that the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Cooper
Rawson was a chairman of Durex Ltd
6c ... that Codex Floriacensis, an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament, begins
from the Book of Revelation
6c ... that mezzo-soprano Débria Brown ^ created the role of Tituba in the
world premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer-winning opera, "$ Ñ,, at the New
York City Opera in 1961
6c ... that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as
well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut, was designated the Fall Caribou
Crossing National Historic Site
6c ... that despite suffering from asthma, Indian badminton player Parupalli
Kashyap continues to play the sport
6c ... that Silvio D'Amico, first editor of the â
*
&, gave his
name to the state-funded Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico
6c ... that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty
thousand Anglos in Israel
6c ... that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air
Force's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility
Command and United States Transportation Command
6c ... that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary
criticism, examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist
poetry, "$ &
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6c ... that The Waybacks, a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay, played covers
from The Beatles' album &,, Y at the 2010 MerleFest
6c ... that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film 21 Y
", )
% scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to
world peace
6c ... that Ramón de Bonifaz ^ broke the river defenses of Seville, leading to
the city's capture from the Moors
6c ... that Saint Mary's College Gaels men's basketball coach Randy Bennett turned
around a team that was 2²27 in 2001 to 28²6 in 2010
6c ... that Jovan Ćirilov has been the artistic director and selector of BITEF festival for
43 years, the longest term in the history of international theatre festivals
6c ... that the original publishers of "$ #
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also released the Slavic
mythology-based short story collection Ñ
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& by Ivana Brlić-
Mažuranić 30 years earlier
6c ... that Texas A&M women's studies professor and historian Sara Alpern wrote the
definitive biography of Freda Kirchwey, editor of "$ ?
from 1933 to 1955
6c ... that the 1974 :
decision, holding that U.S. federal courts have subject-
matter jurisdiction to hear aboriginal title disputes, "spawned a vast number
of Indian land claims"
6c ... that a horse was added to the buttock of the central figure of "$ ! â
$ 2 as a nod to the artist's earlier work
6c ... that Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo paid US$1 million to build and furnish the
four-story Rhinelander Mansion at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street in Manhattan,
but never lived in it
6c ... that Virginia Governor William E. Cameron was lampooned in a comic
opera after he personally led a failed expedition against illegal dredgers in
the Oyster Wars
6c ... that Archbishop of Adelaide John O'Reilly ^ removed an "l" from his last
name to save time and effort when signing documents
6c ... that the directors of ForceSelect, a charitable foundation aimed at supporting
military service leavers, include General Sir Mike Jackson and bestselling
author Andy McNab
6c ... that, in 2004, Shikha Tandon became the first female Indian swimmer to qualify
for two separate events at a single Olympics
6c ... that the San José Mine in Atacama Region, Chile, began to be exploited in 1889
6c ... that French priest Jean-Claude Faveyrial wrote the first recorded history of
Albania
6c ... that "$ 2
, the upcoming sequel to the 2009 comedy film, is set to take
place in Thailand
6c ... that the British Conservative Party politician Francis Lucas married the daughter
of a Viscount of Portugal
6c ... that nearly one-quarter of the Vrata Tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway is
actually a bridge built over an underground cavern
6c ... that Matthew Werkmeister almost missed out on his audition
for ?$, because his father refused to drive the five hours it took to get
there
6c ... that the tainted wine from an antimonial cup ^( was used to
make oneself vomit
6c ... that Wobogo's given name was Boukary Koutou, and that he lived in perpetual
fear of assassination, according to Dr. Crozat
6c ... that after her sister was sunk in late 1917 while anchored right next to
her, took on her role of being a floating barracks
6c ... that San Beda College had a 28-year men's basketball championship drought
until they won in the Philippine NCAA's 82nd season
6c ... that "Smoke and Mirrors", the season-two finale of the BAFTA Award-winning TV
series ! , was watched by over a third of the British television audience
6c ... that after Joe C. Carr enlisted during World War II, his wife took on his role
as Tennessee Secretary of State, becoming the first female constitutional officer in
the state
6c ... that the Croatian A6 motorway crosses the Bajer Bridge, which spans Lake
Bajer, and the Kamačnik Bridge, which spans a canyon that is protected
landscape
6c ... that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy"
to serve 1.9 million Mid-Atlantic households with power from wind farms to be built
20 miles (32 km) offshore
6c ... that Colonia San Rafael in Mexico City is known for old mansions, theaters,
and prostitution
6c ... that the Danish folk high school Rødkilde Højskole ^ owes its existence
to the dowry of a Norwegian bride who did not live to see it open
6c ... that â
magazine dubbed Michael Sedge "the wizard of marketing"
6c ... that, despite being ejected from the "boot camp" stage of the * talent
show, Warren Stacey was signed by an American record label and went on to
support Destiny's Child in concert
6c ... that Elina Ringa, who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten
occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office
6c ... that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches
for its overt Masonic symbolism
6c ... that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers
of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, :
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6c ... that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998), the state constitutional
amendment restricting same-sex marriages, passed through the Twentieth Alaska
Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays
6c ... that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army, Baroness Elisabeth of
Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany,
leaving most of their possessions behind
6c ... that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada, Myer
Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities
6c ... that the role of mosquitofish in the history of Sochi was acknowledged by a
monument ^
6c ... that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay's was
the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880
6c ... that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct, a part of the Croatian A6 motorway,
is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the
other
6c ... that during the Spanish²American War the Spanish gunboat â
captured the
American bark !
, which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle,
NSW, forAdmiral Dewey's fleet
6c ... that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut, contains a time
capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976
6c ... that Italian operatic tenor Lodovico Graziani was described as lacking "dramatic
gifts"
6c ... that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow to the 30
hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II
listed
6c ... that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest
business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American
6c ... that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS
( still
used the Fairey Swordfish biplane
6c ... that the Flag of Macha ^ is considered to be the first physical flag of
Argentina
6c ... that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie "$
to another
distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton, who died
ofacromegaly before the film's release
6c ... that Filipino basketball player Gabby Espinas lost the Most Valuable Player race
during the 2005 NCAA season to a former volleyball star
6c ... that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner
of Adnams Brewery
6c ... that after Long Island University chancellor R. Gordon
Hoxie forced provost William Birenbaum to resign, 1,500 students protested,
chanting "We want Bill" and demanding Birenbaum's reinstatement
6c ... that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including
Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter, and 99 Red Baboons
6c ... that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern Turkey killed 59
people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone
6c ... that Kenyan athlete Paul Malakwen Kosgei became the World Half Marathon
Champion in 2002 despite having never competed in a half marathon before
6c ... that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way
for 1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a
finger³which is probably what [he] had in mind"
6c ... that the Y Desk ^ is one of only five desks ever used in the Oval
Office
6c ... that Urraca the Asturian, born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King
Alfonso VII of León and Castile, became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144
6c ... that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will,
like little killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an
open window
6c ... that Joan Henry's #
" was the first play dealing explicitly with the
subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain
6c ... that the Lugenda River of Mozambique in the Yao language means simply "a
large river"
6c ... that the successful 1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred
Lafone in Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes
6c ... that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both
the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal
6c ... that the chief of the Chilean Army's meteorological office predicted the 1906
Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance
6c ... that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with
the British Lions in Australia, he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent,
complete with bowler hat and umbrella
6c ... that China labeled the decision to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to
imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo ^ as a "blasphemy"
6c ... that Rich Iott, a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives
elections in Ohio, came to media prominence due to his past participation in
a World War II reenactment group
6c ... that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo-based Abbasid caliph to hold both political
and spiritual power
6c ... that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot
rebellions, and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city
ofPrivas by the troops of Louis XIII
6c ... that Suiyo Seamount, a seamount near Japan, was thought to be extinct until
a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light
6c ... that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter
of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government
6c ... that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil
War, International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish
citizenship in 1996
6c ... that the Swedish river monitor HMS ! had a combined hand and steam
propulsion system designed by John Ericsson
6c ... that Seattle Community Access Network carried a TV show that ran
uncensored pornography
6c ... that the Mexican state of Puebla is home to chiles en nogada, mole poblano and
the China Poblana
6c ... that Marshall Flaum, who won two Emmys for "$ Ô
ü.
Ñ, earned an Academy Award nomination for best documentary
feature for# * +0 "$ !
in 1965
6c ... that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique²
Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi, and that
their ancestors moved to escape severe drought
6c ... that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow
6c ... that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy,
International Conventions on Human Rights, public opinion, and existing laws,
authorities, and precedents
6c ... that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of
State in Arizona
6c ... that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross
Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
6c ... that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip, the illicit son of a white planter and a slave,
wrote â
& , the first Trinidadian novel
6c ... that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School, a historic landmark in Los
Angeles, was filmed for the movie Y 1
1 Y 2$ !$
6c ... that according to a legend, the Heishi rock ^ represents the God of
the Sea of Japan
6c ... that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, St Mary's was
declared redundant in 1987
6c ... that, during Sulla's civil wars, Romans were killed if the consul Gaius Marius did
not nod to them in response to a conversation
6c ... that Lom prisoner of war camp, operated by the 2nd Division during the
1940 Norwegian Campaign, held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected
ofcollaborationism
6c ... that soul singer and songwriter Brenda Lee Eager has written and performed in
a musical theatre show based on her own life story
6c ... that rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube
required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times
6c ... that the Italian tanker +
was captured by the British Armed Merchant
Cruiser HMS 2 in 1941
6c ... that Sakis Rouvas became the first Greek artist to have his own fashion label
with the launch of the Sakis Rouvas Collection in October 2010
6c ... that thawing ice forced four of the ice hockey matches at the 1932 Winter
Olympics to move from an outdoor venue to an indoor one
6c ... that Koserow church ^ is reportedly the oldest church
on Usedom's Baltic Sea coast
6c ... that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the
narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street
6c ... that the Swedish monitor ) was designed opposite of her sister ships, with
a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat
6c ... that thawing of the ice rink venue during the 1928 Winter Olympics led to the
cancellation of the 10,000 m speed skating event
6c ... that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine
military ranks, defected to the Abbasids, escaped back, and saved
emperor Theophilos from captivity
6c ... that Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a Grammy Award and a Platinum
certification for his album !
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in the United States
6c ... that Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win
the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two
consecutive years
6c ... that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St
James' Church, Stirchley, Shropshire, as "quite incongruously ornate"
6c ... that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley &
Palmer biscuit tin
6c ... that after the Paris Exposition of 1867, the London " referred to the works
of Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon ^
4 as "the finest photographic
portraits in the world"
6c ... that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York, during the
summer months
6c ... that Tenczyn Castle was captured and pillaged because of a rumor that
the Polish Crown Jewels were hidden in its walls
6c ... that St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham contains wall paintings dating from
the 13th to the 19th centuries, painted on top of each other up to seven layers
thick
6c ... that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the
operating surgeon
6c ... that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to
a net worth of over £100m
6c ... that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a
30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway
6c ... that Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine won
an Ig Nobel Prize for research on treating hiccups with digital rectal massage
6c ... that in May 1958, eight months after John Cockroft had announced with great
fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device ^ had achieved nuclear
fusion, he was forced to retract this claim
6c ... that Adam of Kilconquhar, first husband of Robert the Bruce's mother Marjory of
Carrick, died on crusade at Acre in 1271
6c ... that Philipsburg Manor, one of the four main manors of the Province of New
York, was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist
6c ... that the " * chart, which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one
singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart
6c ... that the 41& was the fortified frontier zone established by
the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine
Empire
6c ... that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, is
detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east
6c ... that the BSA B50 SS motorcycle proved its credentials by winning the 500 cc
class in the Thruxton 500 and the Barcelona 24-hour endurance race
6c ... that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of
Greek culture, in Moscopole, Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the
city"
6c ... that fetuses of the endangered Giant Panda have been artificially grown in the
womb of a cat
6c ... that the 2010 sockeye salmon run on the Adams River ^ in British
Columbia, Canada, is expected to be the largest since 1913, with an estimated9
million fish returning to the river to spawn
6c ... that plans to restore the derelict Leah's Yard in Sheffield, England, have been
put on hold because of government budget cuts
6c ... that â$$ was the only North American genus of primate during
the Late Oligocene
6c ... that Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey won the NCAA Division I Men's Ice
Hockey Tournament champions in both 1996 and 1998, but the 1996²97 teamhad
the best record
6c ... that ) was brought back in 2008 for the Australian and northern sawtail
catsharks
6c ... that the New Jersey Historical Commission established the Mildred Barry
Garvin Prize to recognize educators in the state for outstanding teaching of African-
American history
6c ... that, earlier this month, Leon Baptiste won England's first gold
medal for sprinting at the Commonwealth Games in over a decade
6c ... that the first battle of the Crimean War led to an increased usage of the
name Alma
6c ... that in addition to its rich wildlife, Lore Lindu National Park ^ on
the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contains megaliths dating from before 1300 AD
6c ... that Robert Lee Bobbitt, a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s,
was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket
6c ... that a series of novels based on the tale of !
was removed from
the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996
6c ... that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County, Oregon, was once
owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge
6c ... that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries, and
its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even
older coal workings
6c ... that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"
6c ... that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film +
2 because of its racy title
6c ... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1
September 1964, two days after they were captured
6c ... that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt
Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he
replied, "I don't think yourIQ is low enough"
6c ... that the Sack of Amorium ^ in 838 by the Abbasids discredited Byzantine
Iconoclasm and led to the restoration of the veneration of icons
6c ... that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first
South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960
6c ... that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts
of &$' $ $ - $ - 2$- $ 5
6c ... that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) wave pool at Hyderabad's Jalavihar,
which is the largest in India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time
6c ... that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Stephen Colbert visited Pride House
Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity
6c ... that English photographer Greg Williams used a high-resolution video camera to
create a photograph of Megan Fox for the cover of â. magazine
6c ... that Lake Sausacocha in Peru is one of the rare Andean lakes with acidic waters
6c ... that professional wrestler and Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was
once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the
congregation comprised only his dog"
6c ... that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston
Deanery, Northamptonshire, was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house
6c ... that Jauja, located near Laguna de Paca ^ , was the capital of Peru before
the founding of Lima
6c ... that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31
with a 40-second appearance in "$ "
,-
6c ... that the 2010²11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first
year with a postseason victory since the 1998²99 team won two games in the1999
National Invitation Tournament
6c ... that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he
founded, Alexandria, after himself
6c ... that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist
president of Czechoslovakia
6c ... that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze, corde
lisse, lyra, unicycling, tightwire, and Chinese acrobatics
6c ... that Prince Abbas Hilmi, a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and
the last Ottoman caliph, was the first foreign member of the London Stock
Exchange
6c ... that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown
County, Indiana, until it was burned last July
6c ... that physician Charles de Lorme (1584²1678) prescribed an eye cosmetic
concoction to French kings Henry IV and Louis XIII as a medicine
6c ... that Javorova Kosa Tunnel ^ caved in during construction, requiring
removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cu ft) of rock and soil before the work could
resume
6c ... that the anonymous 6th-century treatise &, $
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and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity
6c ... that James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky,
once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations
6c ... that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was
played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same
venue
6c ... that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei
Rachmaninoff's "$
$ at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1906
6c ... that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, has been the chancel of
a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-
standing structure
6c ... that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on
a JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's CEO, personally apologized to
every customer for the delay
6c ... that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold
medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American
Games
6c ... that the father Snares Snipe looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the
mother takes care of the second
6c ... that a bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven ^ was unveiled in 1845 to
coincide with his 75th birthday
6c ... that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge
of the European Athletic Association
6c ... that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at
multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop
computers to tablet devices
6c ... that, after Bobby Godsell had resigned as Chairman of South
African company Eskom in 2009, he was accused of racism but defended by both
the Mineworkers Unionand the ANC
6c ... that the 2009²10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first
postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National
Invitation Tournament
6c ... that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative !$ was one of the
first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its
back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming
6c ... that Tuhobić Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway route
6c ... that Super Heavyweight Sean McCorkle has been nicknamed "The Hater", "The
Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his
nickname "to keep it interesting"
6c ... that the wood frame and clapboard in the apexes of the gambrel roof on
the Michael Salyer Stone House ^ in Orangetown, New York, may
reflectHuguenot building traditions
6c ... that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children,
in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning
6c ... that the parasitic mushroom *$ . may smell like garlic, lemon,
radish, onion, or skunk
6c ... that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border
with Malawi, located in the Nyasa plateau
6c ... that Herb Wilkinson, a devout Mormon, quit his professional basketball job with
the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays
6c ... that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-
known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush
6c ... that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative !$ was one of the
first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its
back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming
6c ... that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron,
reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work
6c ... that the French ironclad Y$ ^ , cast loose by her tugboat during a
storm in the Bay of Biscay while being towed to the ship breakers in 1911, survived
the storm and was recovered near the Scilly Isles
6c ... that the animal characters in ABC's 1986 primetime special, "$
Ñ$0 # %1 &
, were based on biblical figures
6c ... that British Cheney Racing hand-built motorcycles can take over 400 hours to
complete
6c ... that the Emancipation Proclamation was ceremoniously read on the 140th
anniversary of its signing under the oak tree where Mary Smith Peake taught
children of former slaves in 1861
6c ... that Ch. Rocky Top's Sundance Kid is the most successful Colored Bull
Terrier show dog of all time
6c ... that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for
the National Foundation for Women Legislators
6c ... that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held
that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate
expectation of staying a day longer
6c ... that though his work usually appeared to have been painted very
quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You
might call me a fake Zenpainter"
6c ... that opera singers Marguerite Bériza ^ and Orville Harrold appeared in
1917 at the Ravinia Festival in both Mascagni's Ñ
and
Massenet's
6c ... that Ralph A. Loveys left an Assembly seat from the 26th Legislative District to
chair the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, but quit after Governor James
Floriowould not support his toll increase plan
6c ... that the mushrooms
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, newly described in 2007, are only known
from Kanagawa, Japan
6c ... that the Gwich'yaa, easternmost of the Gwich·in groups in Alaska, derive income
from trapping and from selling handicrafts
6c ... that Bailey's Hotel, founded by British politician James Bailey, attracted many
wealthy and foreign guests ² including Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor, who lived out
his last days in the hotel in 1895
6c ... that five players from the 1969²70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were
selected in the NBA Draft
6c ... that Bird class patrol vessels were so unsuccessful that they were never used in
their designed role
6c ... that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the "seven bastard kingdoms" whose
rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine
6c ... that the type species of the fungal genus is the pineapple
bolete ^
6c ... that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA, Henry
Bergh, petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891
6c ... that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth, has one of the only two hexagonal
towers in Gloucestershire
6c ... that folk singers Kathy & Carol released their second album 45 years after their
debut
6c ... that to honour Jaguar Cars' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed
the Jaguar C-X75, a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at
the 2010 Paris Motor Show
6c ... that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain,
leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years
6c ... that, in pre-independence Swaziland, French was taught in the colony's
three White-only high schools
6c ... that at the helm of United Artists, Andy Albeck oversaw production of Y
, a film considered one of the greatest ever, and 2
1 +, the biggest box
office bomb at the time
6c ... that the only exit from a Tett turret ^ could expose a soldier trying to
leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy
6c ... that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to
formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black
heritage centre in 2011
6c ... that trumpeter Gracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander
Owen memorial scholarship in 1942³and won by an unprecedented 21-point
margin
6c ... that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern, his neighbours
objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car
paid for by the German embassy
6c ... that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with
the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's
basketball team
6c ... that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the
hit German sitcom %
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, marking the first time a German TV series is
adapted for Americanaudiences
6c ... that the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center was created
in July 2008 to protect American consumers from potentially harmful trade goods
6c ... that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, is the Bridge of Love,
enclosed by love padlocks
6c ... that a tributary of the Chusovaya River ^ naturally dives underground
for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)
6c ... that John Douglas conducted more than 50 opera productions at Temple
University
6c ... that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island, New
Zealand, has moved at a rate of 6.0²7.6 mm (0.24²0.30 in) per year for the last
140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces
6c ... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin
L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them
6c ... that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II, Austin
Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma
mater, Brown University
6c ... that
!$ by Arthur Holch, aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never
before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing
the frustration that is his lot"
6c ... that the Hero's Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal are currently the
highest and second-highest military decoration in the People's Republic of China
6c ... that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a
married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo
and physical allusions
6c ... that Alan Pastrana ^ played as a linebacker in his first season
at Maryland, but was switched to quarterback and set the Atlantic Coast
Conference record forpassing touchdowns in 1966
6c ... that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery, founded by the Croziers, used to make
money by selling loam, dug from land owned by the
neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge, to the hamlet of Roswinkel
6c ... that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in
the Balkans
6c ... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of
a Mayan city
6c ... that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life
without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build
my career"
6c ... that Y
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hand-made drawings to be produced
6c ... that portable palisades carried by Texians at the Battle of Velasco were
completely ineffective against Mexican gunfire
6c ... that soprano Dolores Wilson lamented that "the Italian I'd learned by
studying operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and
tragic love affairs"
6c ... that the land around the St. Johns River Light ^ in Jacksonville, Florida,
has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible
only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground
6c ... that Bryant Fleming's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New
York, made it a more purely Federal-style building
6c ... that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by
the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta
6c ... that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen
Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States
6c ... that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park, the site of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
6c ... that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902²1903 Danish Literary
Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen, Harald Moltke, and Ludvig
Mylius-Erichsen
6c ... that John Thompson III led the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team to
postseason tournaments in his first two seasons as head coach in 2000²
01 and 2001²02
6c ... that &$, &
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, *,
and *
are the only five genera of agaric mushrooms known from the
fossil record
6c ... that Sean Morton claims that, while in India, Nepalese monks taught him the
secret of time travel
6c ... that in All Saints Church, Kedleston, Derbyshire, ^ are 35 monuments to
the Curzon family of Kedleston Hall
6c ... that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region
of Cincinnati, Ohio
6c ... that
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is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial
intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science
6c ... that coach Pete Carril led the 1995²96 Princeton Tigers to an upset in the 1996
NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and successor Bill Carmody led the 1996²
97and 1997²98 teams back to the Tournament
6c ... that the hamlet of Trefasser, Pembrokeshire, is said to be named either
after Asser, a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great, or Asser's nephew, Asser
Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk
6c ... that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, was one of
the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600²15,400 acres of rugged
wilderness
6c ... that Charles Joseph Faulkner and Peter Paul Marshall were founder-
shareholders in the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. along
with Pre-Raphaelite artistWilliam Morris
6c ... that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later
serve in the Venezuelan Navy
6c ... that the Kurobe Dam ^ is the tallest dam in Japan and its construction
claimed the lives of 171 people
6c ... that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum, established by
Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano,
and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains
6c ... that Hyderabad-based Snow World was India's first and the world's biggest snow
themed park at the time of its opening in 2004
6c ... that the 1987²88 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team holds the national
record for single-season three point field goal percentage and individuals on that
team hold the career and single-season Ivy League records
6c ... that Sava River Bridge carrying the A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated
girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981
6c ... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music
workshop at a local university
6c ... that the Russian battleship
- ! was the flagship of Admiral
Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima
6c ... that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language
Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a
kind of baked good
6c ... that Nansen was the ship's cat on board ^ during the Belgian
Antarctic Expedition of 1897²99
6c ... that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a
register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years
6c ... that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state
of Utah
6c ... that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu
Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi
templein Ayodhya
6c ... that the 1986²87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field
goal percentage
6c ... that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a
dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute
6c ... that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused
for the 2004 Summer Olympics
6c ... that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941, due to lack of milk, led to martial
law, court-martial, executions, and mass arrests
6c ... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass
panels ^ illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle
Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1&$
6c ... that the Tokuyama Dam is the largest dam by volume in Japan and also creates
the country's largest reservoir by volume
6c ... that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-
Boats during the Second World War
6c ... that the Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned four consecutive
invitations to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, where the 1988²
89,1989²90, 1990²91 and 1991²92 teams lost by a combined total of 15 points
6c ... that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had
lost the Cold War, but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing
"The Enemy"
6c ... that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518²1687), water
from Hyderabad's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda
Fort
6c ... that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church,
Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the
Midlands"
6c ... that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald was one of 19 children
6c ... that while Comstock Lode mining millionaire Sandy Bowers claimed he had
money to throw at birds, Samuel Clemens described Bowers as "miraculously
ignorant"
6c ... that a porcelain plate ^ by Mikhail Adamovich features a Russian worker
stamping on the forces of "Kapital"
6c ... that Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who
submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869
6c ... that, in Lesotho, English replaces Sotho as the medium of instruction after the
fourth year of primary school
6c ... that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his
year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster, Pennsylvania, as the
hardest job he ever did
6c ... that the Leningrad²Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad
6c ... that Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria Cross for
playing the bagpipes whilst wounded and under fire, in the British attack on
the Dargai Heights in 1897
6c ... that in 1958, Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Whittenburg proposed
the direct election of United States Supreme Court justices
6c ... that the 1980²81, 1982²83, and 1983²84 Princeton Tigers men's
basketball teams all went to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
6c ... that Encosta De Lago's service fee rose to AUD$302,500 in the 2008 season,
during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals
6c ... that the Benson raft ^ was a huge sea-going log raft designed to
transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean
6c ... that the apex organisation of Hindu saints, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad,
has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict, saying it will prevent further political
exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue
6c ... that in the 1970s Pete Carril led two Princeton Tigers men's basketball teams to
the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament ² the 1975²76 and 1976²77
teams
6c ... that Élie Barnavi, an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France,
has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah
incident
6c ... that Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the
largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100
bicycles and 110 stations
6c ... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of
the archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all
of its windows were destroyed by a bomb
6c ... that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of
the modern Fox Terrier
6c ... that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Morgan Trent was a sprinter for
the Michigan track team and set indoor state track records in the 60-yard dash and
200-meter run
6c ... that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa, owner of Italian
wine estate Fiorano, considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to
his wines
6c ... that the summer truffle ^ and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one
species of truffle, ", , which is found across Europe
6c ... that, due to a compromise between the National Basketball Association and
its player union, players banned "permanently" for substance abuse are allowed to
be reinstated after two years
6c ... that St Mary's Church in Wilton, Wiltshire, was restored by Robert Bingham,
the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, whose ancestor Robert de Binghamwas
consecrated there in 1229
6c ... that Prenkë Jakova wrote , the first Albanian opera, which premiered in
1958
6c ... that the extinct * is one of only two known alderflies from
the West Indies
6c ... that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th
century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan
6c ... that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles, the steam-
powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced
three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"
6c ... that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great's Royal
Stoa supports Josephus' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in
a great conflagration
6c ... that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a
website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of
academic material, are at risk of expulsion
6c ... that the Edward Salyer House ^ , one of the few remaining wood
frame Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County, New York, is believed to be the
oldest house in Pearl River
6c ... that in the comedic documentary "$ !
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Ñ some show cat owners treat their cats better than family
6c ... that the North Korean 766th Independent Infantry Regiment lost half its men
during the Battle of P'ohang-dong in 1950
6c ... that although the 1971²72 and 1974²75 Princeton Tigers men's basketball
teams did not win the Ivy League, they both played in the postseason in theNational
Invitation Tournament, and were champions in 1975
6c ... that the rock garden in Indira Park, Hyderabad, India, is an award-winning
design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty
6c ... that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care
unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super
Bowl III
6c ... that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden
6c ... that the Taft Homes of Peoria, Illinois, were originally built in 1952 as a
temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War
6c ... that Kermit the Frog asked ! ! adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get
back to Harvard, how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York
talking to a frog"
6c ... that Jean-Marc Boivin made the first paraglider descent of Mount
Everest ^
6c ... that in Bach's cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, $
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6c ... that HMS &
was the only aircraft carrier to take part in Convoy PQ 18, one
of the Arctic convoys of World War II
6c ... that Princeton Tigers men's basketball won or shared the Ivy League regular
season championship in both of Pete Carril's first two years as head
coach in 1968 and 1969
6c ... that Edward Thorndike and company counted 18,000,000 words by hand to
create the first English language words frequency list of its size
6c ... that the town of Lice, Turkey, was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original
location after the earthquake in 1975, with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a
mosque completed only 54 days later
6c ... that Mekia Cox can be seen dancing with Michael Jackson to the song "The Way
You Make Me Feel" in "$
6c ... that Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who renounced his claim to
the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1909, later claimed he had been forced to
by being locked up in an insane asylum
6c ... that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete
his floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008 European
Championships
6c ... that according to legend, a group of Circassians attempting to destroy the roof of
the medieval Church of St Nicholas ^ in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, fled in
horror when one of them fell to his death
6c ... that the bracketed sic, while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source,
may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English
spelling differences
6c ... that during his five seasons as head coach of Princeton Tigers men's
basketball, Butch van Breda Kolff, who retired with the highest all-time career Ivy
Leaguewinning percentage, led the team to four Ivy
League championships: 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1967
6c ... that the 18th-century "Frenchman's Garden" in Maisland, New Jersey, was
responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the
United States
6c ... that the British central battery ironclad HMS & grounded twice while
she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs
6c ... that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black
dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic
6c ... that Andre Weathers returned interceptions for game-
winning touchdowns against Ohio State in Michigan's 1997 national championship
season and in his first NFL game in 1999
6c ... that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under
the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force
6c ... that the *
fungus in blue cheese is parasexual
6c ... that the village of Codiponte in Tuscany, Italy, has a 17th-century campanile and
a pieve ^ dating to the 12th century or earlier
6c ... that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in
both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not
NamedDenard" on the 2010 Michigan football team
6c ... that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments
on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad
6c ... that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame, Stanford football player Owen
Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense³and did so within 13 game
seconds
6c ... that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduces, but does not eliminate,
the disparity in criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine in the United
States
6c ... that Sir Anand Satyanand, the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian
descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening
ceremony in Delhi, India
6c ... that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland, contains a memorial to Lady
Charlotte Finch, governess to the children of George III
6c ... that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide
rule and my diploma from the University of Havana" and became known as "Mr.
New York"
6c ... that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags, Gene Rock joined the Los
Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain
6c ... that between being replaced by a new church in 1877 and being restored over a
century later, Old St Bartholomew's Church, Lower
Sapey, Worcestershire^ was used as a farm building
6c ... that James St. Clair Morton was the only general during the American Civil
War to voluntarily reduce his rank
6c ... that the explosive charge in some Canadian pipe mines would soon deteriorate
into a porridge-like mush
6c ... that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium
in Gibeon, Namibia hadn't been repaired as of December 2007
6c ... that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office
in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the Great Depression
6c ... that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features
required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads
6c ... that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball
player in the 2009 book â!*? Ñ , â
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6c ... that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at
the 2004 European Open in Malta
6c ... that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped
from Nazi Germany
6c ... that molecular phylogenetics suggests that *$ ^ jumped
from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago and speciated into the
present day pubic louse
6c ... that Castle of Park, near Glenluce, Scotland, has "commodious closets"
6c ... that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York, post office was officially renamed in
memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year
6c ... that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also
genetically, monogamous
6c ... that the salt-shaker earthstar is distinguished from other earthstar fungi by the
presence of numerous holes on top of its spore sac
6c ... that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-
century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar
6c ... that KaBOOM! founder Darell Hammond was raised in a group home with his
seven siblings
6c ... that Spring Canyon, Utah, the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah,
was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle
6c ... that Don Doll, the only player in NFL history to register 10 or
more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being
discharged from the Marines
6c ... that the spire of St Nicholas' Church, Gloucester ^ suffered a direct hit
by cannon fire in the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, and had to be reduced in size in
1783
6c ... that Sverre Iversen, Norway's first director of the Director of Labour, took voice
classes in order to work himself up from being a mason
6c ... that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement
of øKhauxaønas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986
6c ... that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for
the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being
converted into an aircraft carrier
6c ... that Princeton coach Franklin Cappon led the 1958²59 and 1959²60 teams to
the Ivy League basketball championships, but a heart attack caused him to give up
control of the champion 1960²61 team
6c ... that Tore Holden was chosen as host of the Norwegian version of the Swedish
game show
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6c ... that the commune of Hiesville has three memorials related to the invasion of
Normandy during World War II in the area as it was where the gliders of the 101st
Airborne Divisionlanded
6c ... that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in
North American horticulture", while their gardens in Vermont were said to
represent "American gardening at its best"
6c ... that the recently described extinct penguin
from the Eocene of Peru is
postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and
white feathers of living penguins
6c ... that gastric antral vascular ectasia ^ is also called "watermelon stomach"
because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble
the markings on watermelon
6c ... that James Stovall created ?0 & #
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annual musical Nativity play intended to rival the Radio City Christmas
Spectacular
6c ... that the Place d'Armes in Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground
for the troops defending the city
6c ... that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting
Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action
that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral
6c ... that Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel &
has been
called a "classic of early feminist literature"
6c ... that Steve Munisteri, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, met his
former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican
National Convention
6c ... that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for
the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who attended a film premiere there in 1953
6c ... that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time
Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great
Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics
6c ... that during motor-paced racing, cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h
(62 mph)
6c ... that the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas ^ , the
first church to be established in Kansas Territory, lost members to the Lawrence
Massacre of 1863
6c ... that the anime film (((20 & ?$1 % was released
on DVD and Blu-Ray alongside the film ", "$ 0 "$ *
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6c ... that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to
the BBC Somali Service
6c ... that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing
6c ... that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic
District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York
6c ... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji
Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata
disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student
6c ... that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award
in memory of its former director
6c ... that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, is a memorial to
the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall
6c ... that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James
Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, and George Washington Harris
6c ... that Mässmogge ^ , Swiss candies sold in Basel at the autumn fair, are
filled with ground hazelnuts
6c ... that 19th-century Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a
cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge sunflower and a winged lion
6c ... that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a "whistleblower" for his
appearance on the BBC *
documentary, "$ !
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6c ... that Peter Endrulat never played in the Fußball-Bundesliga again after
conceding 12 goals for Borussia Mönchengladbach's record 12²0 league
victory overBorussia Dortmund
6c ... that "$ ?$
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Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity
6c ... that the poisonous mushroom
, smells faintly of honey
6c ... that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur
Fellow
6c ... that, rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut, the Jackson
Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama
6c ... that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made
from AK-47s
6c ... that the font ^ in St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter, was constructed from
the base of a former Roman column
6c ... that George Ballis, whose photographs documented the efforts of César
Chávez and the United Farm Workers, learned his craft from a class he took
with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange
6c ... that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter's Scrabble
People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special & *
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6c ... that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism
for annual pay of US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the
janitors and building workers he represented
6c ... that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun
crime in London's black community
6c ... that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would
succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, as his mother and cousin were
expected to give up their claims to the throne
6c ... that the British ironclad HMS â
had a wooden hull and iron upperworks
which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy
6c ... that residents of Colonia Peralvillo in Mexico City burned in effigy the three
presidential candidates of the Mexican general election, 2000 after staging a mock
trial
6c ... that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William
Harrison performed 20,000 abortions, eventually becoming the only physician
in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure
6c ... that Colonia Morelos in Mexico City is home to a 25-street tianguis market and
two public sites to worship Santa Muerte ^
6c ... that research by Dorothy M. Horstmann and Robert W. McCollum at Yale
University showed that the poliovirus reached the brain by way of the blood,
leading to the development of the polio vaccine in the early 1950s
6c ... that the Ryan Premises, a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador,
was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's
landing in Bonavista
6c ... that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-
Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German, including Paul
Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work "$ %
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6c ... that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna, Sweden, is the largest and most modern
underground iron ore mine in the world
6c ... that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010
Commonwealth Games, seven are colleges of Delhi University
6c ... that when cut or injured, the poisonous mushroom #
will ooze a white latex that rapidly turns sulfur-yellow
6c ... that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist before she became
a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow
6c ... that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS + had to steer the ship
as well as aim and fire her gun
6c ... that the medieval Church of Saints Peter and Paul ^ in Nikopol, north-
central Bulgaria, belonged to a now-ruined monastery complex
6c ... that Larry Bird's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers, did not draft him in
the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early
6c ... that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on "$
â !$ ! â
's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending
less than $10 per person
6c ... that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter
of known antique vases
6c ... that 19th-century Albanian rilindas Zef Jubani argued that the Albanian
language should have a unique alphabet since it was a unique language
6c ... that HMS
and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under
canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much
dress to so little purpose"
6c ... that Whitefriars, a Carmelite foundation in Bristol, England, was described by
16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"
6c ... that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through
fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive
for extended periods in sewage
6c ... that French artist Eugène Delacroix is said to have used his own pet cat as a
model to paint the tigers of & /
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6c ... that individual cigarettes in Red Cross parcels ^ in the Stalag
Luft I prisoner-of-war camp were valued at precisely 27 cents each
6c ... that the 2009 French comedy ? D ' revisits themes of social
inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy #
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6c ... that the Russian battleship ! was the only battleship not salvaged by
the Japanese at Port Arthur, following destruction of the Russian Fleet
6c ... that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed
in magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as
"one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003
6c ... that at the time of his death in 1995, former +
director Robert
Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on #
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6c ... that before joining the Ivy League, Princeton Tigers men's basketball won
six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League college basketball conference
championships: 1922, 1925,1932, 1950, 1952, 1955
6c ... that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas,
were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places
6c ... that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the
20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand
6c ... that Bubble Wrap, which was originally designed to be wallpaper, was invented
when two men sealed shower curtains together
6c ... that a flame fougasse ^ can shoot a jet of flame 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and
30 yards (27 m) long
6c ... that the Yamaha XV1900 is the largest Yamaha V-twin motorcycle in
production
6c ... that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and
one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh
6c ... that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to
the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from Constantinople
6c ... that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars
in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition
6c ... that Deam Lake State Recreation Area is named for Charles C. Deam, who was
the first state forester of Indiana and discovered 25 new plant species
6c ... that after
# in Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an
attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after
being a part of the election campaign in 1997
6c ... that Grainsby Halt railway station served a Victorian hall in Lincolnshire which
was later said to be haunted
6c ... that Jimi Heselden, owner of the company that makes the Segway personal
transport system, died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff
6c ... that the Wandsworth Shield ^ has a repoussé design of two large birds
with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a
masterpiece of British Celtic art
6c ... that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey", died and was
buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875
6c ... that while mainly charged with maintaining law and order, Bangladesh
Ansars are also assigned to help in schemes promoting local development
6c ... that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams,
flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon, California, Nevada,
andArizona
6c ... that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec, Canada, are considered
the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and
language
6c ... that Montana Territorial Governor Benjamin F. White founded the city of Dillon
6c ... that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill³originally one of Brighton's poorest slums³
became one of 34 conservation areas in the city
6c ... that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode "Who shot J.R." of the CBS soap
opera %
6c ... that the Chesterfield Island, butterfly, and New Caledonian stingarees are all
found off the Chesterfield Islands, the first two nowhere else
6c ... that the apricot jelly fungus ^ can be used raw in
salads, pickled, candied, or fermented to produce wine
6c ... that in 1538, Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars,
Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20 marks in
debt, and not able to pay it"
6c ... that Bob Mann, the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay, claimed he was
"railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading
the NFLin receiving yards
6c ... that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's
26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel
projects ever undertaken", collapsed
6c ... that Italian Iron Chef Mario Batali claimed that American chef Jody Williams was
one of his favorite cooks in the world
6c ... that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager, and Brian
Moran, who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team
6c ... that Babatunde Jose has been described as the "grandfather
of Nigerian journalism"
6c ... that one critic called Scribe's second album Y$ an "attempt to be
considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West"
6c ... that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie
Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto-Pythonesque"
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6c ... that William Blake's 1795 painting * ^ reflects a time
when Shakespeare's ,$ had a revival, being performed nine times
in English theatres
6c ... that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of
Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas
6c ... that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park, the largest
publicly protected area in the contiguous United States
6c ... that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match,
played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks
6c ... that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's &
$ +
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6c ... that the TLC reality television series ! follows a polygamist family of
four wives and 16 children living in Lehi, Utah
6c ... that Samuel Bowman was selected to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church three
times, but did not take office until his third selection in 1858
6c ... that the Aurora mine, located in Beaufort County, North Carolina, is the largest
integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world
6c ... that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back
up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada
6c ...that bonnets maybe orange clustered, scarlet, frosty, mealy, ivory, nitrous, groove
d, snapping, milking, bleeding, or bulbous
6c ... that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which is the Ivy League's
predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan
6c ... that the expiration date of a drug required for lethal injection was a factor in
delaying the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until 2011
6c ... that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York, post office, called
$
, shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person
6c ... that marathon events have been held at the Paralympic Games since 1984
6c ... that during World War II, Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for
the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942
6c ... that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a
brain aneurysm, Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice,
playing for theMississauga St. Michael's Majors
6c ... that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of
appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after
seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop
6c ... that the British ironclad HMS
had to wait nearly five years after she
was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns
6c ... that Okmulgee State Park ^ in Oklahoma is one of only a few places in
the world where the fossil coral +
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6c ... that an amicus brief to the courts in !$-
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argues that ! 7 is a violent video game
6c ... that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington,
Indiana
6c ... that Turkish Army's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport
of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955
6c ... that Beatrix Potter registered "$ +
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the game board or the rules had been perfected
6c ... that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless,
who founded the first missionary medical school in India
6c ... that Scotsman Walter Forrester, future bishop of Brechin, was rector of the
University of Paris between October and December 1395
6c ... that "You Are the Girl" was The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a
three-year hiatus in 1987
6c ... that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young
men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her
appearance
6c ... that the Ottoman²Mamluk War of 1516²1517 ^ gave the Ottoman
Empire control of Syria, Egypt and most of the Arabian Peninsula
6c ... that George E. Hearn was the first licensed industrial psychologist in his
native Louisiana
6c ... that "$ Ñ #
by Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific
explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its
philosophical implications"
6c ... that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general
and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs
to say a good word for slavery"
6c ... that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral,
in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated
6c ... that the German SMS
- was the only
class battleship to escape
damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May ² 1 June 1916
6c ... that England was invaded by the French in 1216
6c ... that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly
less white matter in their brains than do control subjects
6c ... that though the Spanish naval gunboat # fired 10 shots and the American
naval gunboat ) fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898, ) was heavily
damaged but #was hit only once
6c ... that the Alexander Classical School ^ building in Alexander, New York, is
the only cobblestone building in North America used as a town hall
6c ... that Iranian caricaturist and satirist Javad has created a scientific/philosophical
cartoon on the theory of relativity entitled K% 2
6c ... that Jo Andrews, former political correspondent for ITN, was the first woman to
join press conferences held by the Labour Party during the run-up to the United
Kingdom general election of 2001
6c ... that the married couple who founded the Windsor Mountain
School in Massachusetts had previously established a school in Germany
6c ... that all three singles from Scribe's debut album, "$ Ñ, including
"Dreaming"/"So Nice", were double A-sides
6c ... that according to Elizabeth Gaskell, Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the
character of Helen Burns in ü
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6c ... that the National D-Day Museum honored Beth Courtney, president of Louisiana
Public Broadcasting, for co-hosting a three-hour, live tribute to World War II
veterans fromLouisiana
6c ... that tenor Werner Güra recorded with Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg
Chor at the Musikverein, Bach's cantata
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6c ... that the chicken wire statue who once rode behind the Cardiff Kook was retired
to a ranch with poinsettias
6c ... that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in Singapore ^ must
use one of Singapore's four official languages ² English, Malay, Mandarin orTamil ²
or a related dialect
6c ... that the Bulqizë, Kalimashi 1, Kalimashi 3, Krasta, Përroi Batrës, Qaf-
Buall, Vlahna and Zogaj mines are the only mines in Albania to have reserves of
over 1 million tonnes of chromium ore
6c ... that a granddaughter of German businessman Paul Isenberg was the first
manager of the Kauaøi Museum
6c ... that in the season premiere episode of the fifth season of the television comedy
series HI Y, the Jack Donaghy character makes reference to the Fabian
strategy
6c ... that during his time on Purdue University's baseball team, pitcher Matt
Bischoff broke the school's single-season and career strikeout records
6c ... that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the Croatian A9
motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the
bridge
6c ... that Bernard Carvalho, the current Mayor of Kauai, was drafted by the Miami
Dolphins in 1984 after attending the University of Hawaii on a
full football scholarship
6c ... that Hawaiian sugar plantation owner Albert Spencer Wilcox was the son
of Abner Wilcox, a New England missionary teacher to Hawaii
6c ... that during the Crimean War, Captains Arthur Cumming and Astley Cooper
Key took control of the town of Libau with just 110 men, without firing a shot
6c ... that Catholic judge John Callan ^ considered resigning after Pope
Pius XII talked about judges' duties with respect to divorce cases
6c ... that when first described, the extinct bird Ñ$ was thought to be a "dry-
land" penguin
6c ... that Michigan's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the
second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers
6c ... that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars' 1978 debut album, no usable demo of their
single "Good Times Roll" could be found
6c ... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving
slabs, sandbags and rammed earth
6c ... that Dubois' seasnake is one of at least seventeen sea snake species living in
the Coral Sea, and has the world's most toxic sea snake venom
6c ... that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were
descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians
6c ... that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an
amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old
Trafford
6c ... that the wax flowers of eastern Australia are members of the citrus family, while
those from the west are of the myrtle family
6c ... that the archaic Greek letter ! ^ has also been
called
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,
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, $, or even , which literally
means "spurious pregnancy"
6c ... that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove, England, was
built of specially commissioned handmade bricks³the leftovers of which were
reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove
6c ... that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana's opera â in
1870, "$ ! Y pronounced it "irredeemably bad"
6c ... that Larry Taylor returned a punt for a touchdown in each of the Connecticut
Huskies football team's first two bowl games: the 2004 Motor City Bowl and
the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl
6c ... that Maui's present mayor, Charmaine Tavares, is the daughter of the island's
longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares
6c ... that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish²Lithuanian
Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus
6c ... that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "$ "
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6c ... that Vinnie Doyle, one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business
in Ireland, was editor of the $
for 24 years
6c ... that excavations at Alba Cathedral uncovered an ancient baptistery redesigned
as a burial place
6c ... that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan
Drum ^ that was used to "dance the slaves"
6c ... that the Pied Crested Cuckoo, which is considered as a harbinger of
the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted
at Hyderabad'sSanjeevaiah Park
6c ... that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini, a Venezuelan Servant of God, was reportedly
witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation
6c ... that after Julius Caesar's civil war military campaign, he planned to distribute
land to about 15,000 of his veterans
6c ... that professional baseball player Erasmo Ramírez was named the pitcher of the
year for the Seattle Mariners minor league organization in 2009
6c ... that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec, Canada,
are Métis ² descendants of Inuit and Europeans
6c ... that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church,
Waterloo, Merseyside, was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and
Paley were commissioned to build it
6c ... that Bhutan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the
independence of Bangladesh in 1971
6c ... that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "the most
sumptuous of all English church brasses"
6c ... that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending 2
% at the Pendleton Round-Up
6c ... that the most valuable biosphere reserve in Poland's Puszcza Piska Forest is
home to the Mute Swan ^ , which arrives in numbers reaching up to 2,000
birds in time of moult
6c ... that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of
President Barack Obama, was CatholicVote.org's first advertisement and recorded
over 700,000 hits
6c ... that Noosa National Park in Australia receives more than 1 million visitors a
year
6c ... that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s
6c ... that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham³another way
of spelling roddon, an East Anglia term for an old watercourse
6c ... that coffee production in Papua New Guinea slumped by 23 percent in 2000
6c ... that the spider "
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can walk on water, where it can move faster
than it can on land
6c ... that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for
Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were
allowed in the same changing room
6c ... that NGC 3109 ^ might be the smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group
6c ... that the ) Y
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was once used by Zaifeng, the
father of Puyi, the last emperor of China
6c ... that in the 1966 movie 2 :
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name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits
6c ... that writer and broadcaster Clive James made a guest appearance in the
Australian soap opera ?$, as a postman
6c ... that girl group Sophia Fresh's debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so
much that she said she wished the song was hers
6c ... that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood's
grave
6c ... that bass-baritone Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi
Choir, including $
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6c ... that "$
, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £1,800
by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British epic film"
6c ... that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner
of Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in
that eye
6c ... that Gros-Mécatina ^ on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada,
has excellent crab, lobster, and scallop fishing grounds
6c ... that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the
opening chorus of his cantata 2 Ñ$
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6c ... that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary
for Melbourne Football Club, a post he held for 25 years
6c ... that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater
(southeastern) region of Virginia
6c ... that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas
Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House, a property forfeited
because of his family's Jacobite sympathies
6c ... that U2 wrote the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" about the Madres de Plaza
de Mayo, whose children disappeared during the Dirty War
6c ... that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in
the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest
6c ... that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East
Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral, but were rejected because
the dean said they were papist
6c ... that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed,
chased them, captured them, and had them crucified
6c ... that the World Golf Village ^ is a golf resort near St. Augustine, Florida,
created to showcase the World Golf Hall of Fame
6c ... that in the documentary television series about South American serial
killers,
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one hundred victims, mostly women and children
6c ... that eight gymnasts from the Norwegian club Bergens TF won medals at
the 1912 Summer Olympics as part of the rare Men's team, free system event
6c ... that the NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit ² a fate
repeated by its successor six years later
6c ... that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that war might
reach Norway in a sudden manner, but when the invasion actually came, he was
removed from his command for being too passive
6c ... that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still
a colony of Imperial Germany
6c ... that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins' *
Ñ has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing
6c ... that during the Newfoundland expedition of 1796, French and Spanish forces
destroyed over 100 merchant vessels
6c ... that Grove Church Cemetery has been called "a cemetery for the living"
6c ... that the nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton, Greater
Manchester, ^ was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent
view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly
6c ... that the "Parasol Protectorate" steampunk books !, Ñ$
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and by Gail Carriger will be adapted as graphic novels by Yen Press
6c ... that Clarence River Light, a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales, Australia,
was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880
6c ... that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to
be drafted into the National Football League
6c ... that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite
Bande in Bach cantatas such as
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6c ... that historian David Bushnell introduced the study of the history of Colombia in
American academic circles
6c ... that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian
army during the Vietnam War
6c ... that George Munroe is a retired American professional
basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar, lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps
Dodge Corporation
6c ... that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll's design for the dining room for
the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS "
6c ... that the American Honda Motor Company ^$. was Honda's
first U.S. subsidiary and the first Japanese automaker to build cars in the U.S.
6c ... that Richard Cantillon's treatise, â, was considered by economist William
Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy"
6c ... that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was
founded at the same time as Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified
in September 2010
6c ... that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he
brought Georgetown University's mascot, Jack the Bulldog, with him
6c ... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St
Demetrius in Patalenitsa, Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt
striking a cherry tree
6c ... that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of
the same name
6c ... that the word "constable" derives from the Byzantine office of
, or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals
intended for use by the army and the imperial court
6c ... that professional baseball player Ji-Man Choi won the Arizona League Most
Valuable Player Award after the 2010 season
6c ... that Oprah Winfrey completed the America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1993,
running under a pseudonym and accompanied by a bodyguard, a trainer, and a
video crew
6c ... that the Inca sites of Machu Picchu ^ and Cusco became the first World
Heritage Sites of Peru in 1983
6c ... that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club's inaugural captain in
the Victorian Football League in 1897
6c ... that Brooke Fraser described her third album, ), as "a graduation"
6c ... that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl
(inauguration of the Leipzig town council) +
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6c ... that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by
both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah²Hamas
conflict
6c ... that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is
named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire
6c ... that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill"
that would help end persistent male²female income disparity in which American
women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn
6c ... that Nagesh Kukunoor's H %
was filmed at the then defunct and now
demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India
6c ... that Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four
times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for income tax evasion and
blamed Beber for having raised her profile
6c ... that consumption of the poisonous mushroom
, ^ could
lead to death by respiratory failure
6c ... that the only Christian bookstore in Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and
murdered by armed extremists
6c ... that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved
the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike
6c ... that "$ $ $ Ñ$
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was the first Chinese film to
premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival
6c ... that Australian Murray Sayle, known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war
correspondent in Vietnam, tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle,
climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic
6c ... that HIP Petrohemija is the largest petrochemical company in Serbia
6c ... that the British ironclad HMS 2 was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard
ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence
at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight
6c ... that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young
people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award
6c ... that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th
century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity
6c ... that Hornby Lighthouse ^ , on South Head, New South Wales, Australia,
was known as the "Lower Light", to distinguish it from Macquarie Lighthouse, the
"Upper Light"
6c ... that Clarence Seamans was the president of the largest typewriter manufacturer
in the world
6c ... that Kenneth Strong was Britain's first Director General of Intelligence
6c ... that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting
depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre
Dame de Paris
6c ... that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked
with Yes, Marc Jordan, King Crimson and Mr. Mister, whose number-one hits
"Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" he co-produced
6c ... that in the mid-1970s, the ! " Ñ
and "$
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show
6c ... that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Ñ
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which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages
long
6c ... that the SweeTango is a new variety of apple, not a romantic dance
6c ... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game
, the player controls a boy
whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode
6c ... that in 1850 the area outside London's Westminster Abbey was a notorious slum
called Devil's Acre ^
6c ... that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the
scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine
6c ... that there are several alternative explanations of Frédéric Chopin's illness
6c ... that the six movements of a
$, a short mass consisting
of Kyrie and Gloria, are parodies of his cantata music
6c ... that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina
McBride and Lee Ann Womack
6c ... that the Miss Albany Diner, an Albany, New York, architectural landmark, was
used as a set for the 1987 film
6c ... that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part
of the Beaufort Sea
6c ... that the parish churches of Ormskirk, Purton and Wanborough are the only
churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire
6c ... that Padilla, Bolivia, is named in honor of Manuel Ascencio Padilla who was
referred to as "a hero with the soul of a child and the heart of a lion"
6c ... that while Red-and-yellow Barbets ^ are tame in areas where they
are not persecuted, they are hunted by the Maasai for their feathers
6c ... that as CEO of Stanley Works, Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it
yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan
"Stanley helps you do things right"
6c ... that the Anina mine supplied Crivina Power Station with oil shale
6c ... that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers
University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
6c ... that the British ironclad HMS %
damaged her propeller and rudder when
she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872
6c ... that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a
residence, Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to
take care of the problem himself
6c ... that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest
onshore wind farm in Europe
6c ... that the band OK Go's music video for "White Knuckles" is a one-shot take of the
band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat
6c ... that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset
Space Walk
6c ... that 70 years ago on October 1, 1940, little "Whitey" Bernard was photographed
running after his father ^ who was marching to war
6c ... that during the Ottoman²Mamluk War of 1485²1491, the Ottomans prevailed at
sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land
6c ... that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than
8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never
played professional football
6c ... that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity
trader in Romania
6c ... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at
the University of Arizona in the early 1970s
6c ... that &$1 ;0
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was nominated for GameSpot's Worst
PC Game of 2002 award
6c ... that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is
recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats
6c ... that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial
workers in his hometown of Terni, Italy, with those of coal miners in Harlan
County, Kentucky
6c ... that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons
whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States
6c ... that Portland, Maine's Eastern Promenade ^ is home to a narrow gauge
railroad museum, the mast of the WWII-era USS Portland heavy cruiser, and a
mass grave of US prisoners of war from the War of 1812
6c ... that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles
and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr.'s +$,, Michael Jackson's ,
and the theme from
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6c ... that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk, a bluff overlooking the Platte
River in Nebraska
6c ... that former Texas State Senator David Sibley lost the 2000 Senate vote
for lieutenant governor by a single ballot
6c ... that Cape Parry's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest
Territories, Canada, is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world
6c ... that the true source of New York's official nickname, The Empire State, is not
known
6c ... that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for
longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter
6c ... that #
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has eight lance-shaped gonads
6c ... that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst, Jefferson
Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and once called Ronald Reagan "a
menopausal Cary Grant"
6c ... that severe floods ^ , among the worst in the country's history,
affected Slovenia two weeks ago
6c ... that the Adelaide leak could have landed the Australian economy in hot water
6c ... that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the
globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days
6c ... that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania's Shirgj
Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church
6c ... that despite being eliminated from "$ Ô )$ just weeks prior, Pablo
Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51
6c ... that in Thomas Eakins' !
4 , the contrast between his formal attire and
his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores
6c ... that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment
of guacamole, extending its shelf life tenfold
6c ... that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes "
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the possibility of nuclear war
6c ... that after the Nazi invasion of Norway, former naval officer Olaf
Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism