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- ... that the Chase Promenade (pictured) hosted a month long Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of abstract art on a 95 by 12 feet (29.0 by 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
- ... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors prison and that he died before he ever received notice that the work was a success?
- ... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
- ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House (pictured), was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
- ... that Berne?
- ... that Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
- ... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter (work pictured) were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between 700 and 650 BC?
- ... that Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
- ... that atomic power reactor?
- ... that the Chicago, Illinoissince 1929?
- ... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America?
- ... that the ?
- ... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
- ... that ?
- ... that studios?
- ... that Chicago, Illinois?
- ... that Platinum by the SNEP?
- ... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
- ... that the senior citizens' housing project?
- ... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghettoin the sky"?
- ... that the 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?
- ... that one novelty of Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfoldedor blind?
- ... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?
- ... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
- ... that although the Korean dish?
- ... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
- ... that Tropicana Casino?
- ... that the post office (pictured), features a reliefdepicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
- ... that Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
- ... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
- ... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar (pictured) is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
- ... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flaxto comb out and clean the fibers?
- ... that between 1970 and 1984 the mail fraud?
- ... that one theory that explains why virginal (pictured) was so called is that the keyboard instrumentwas thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
- ... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
- ... that mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?
- ... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts (example pictured)?
- ... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced by Greek mythology?
- ... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?
- ... that calculating machine?
- ... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
- ... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
- ... that the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Designcertification?
- ... 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?
- ... that British TV presenter Colchester Gladiators?
- ... that the conical Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
- ... that in fillings are called Seon?
- ... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?
- ... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House (pictured), located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
- ... that Lady Atlantic?
- ... that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
- ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)?
- ... that Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
- ... 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 grieving father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?
- ... that dried napon woolen fabrics?
- ... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock?
- ... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
- ... that Aythorpe Roding Windmill (pictured) is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
- ... that Wide World of Sportsduring his career?
- ... that the Yugoslav wars?
- ... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (pictured) was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
- ... that Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists' depictions of Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing ordinary objects?
- ... that Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
Nominations
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