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February 2010
- ... that the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
- ... that the Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, US, started mostly with discarded pets when it opened in 1926?
- ... that members of the baseball to Nicaragua, and popularizing it in the area?
- ... that television series Lassie?
- ... that television series, was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II?
- ... that University of Michigan freshman Devin Gardner compiled 3,287 yards of total offense as a high school junior and was ranked as the top quarterback prospect in the United States in 2009?
- ... that the American Piedmont blues guitarist Baby Tate worked with a Blind Boy and a Peg Leg during his five-decade-long career?
- ... that the Detroit blues musician Washboard Willie, derived his backing group's name, the Super Suds of Rhythm, from his job as a car washer?
- ... that Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and said of his service on the Board, "It was all very frustrating"?
- ... that Harrington implant, once tried out for the United States Olympic team?
- ... that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?
- ... that, despite being named for Bisonin the United States?
- ... that One City Center was the largest urban shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1986?
- ... that threats against the President of the United States?
- ... that the first-ever paid youth soccer coach in the United States was an Englishman named Derek Armstrong?
- ... that Paul M. Herzog's grandfather-in-law, Oscar Straus, and his step-son, Alexander Trowbridge, were both United States Secretary of Commerce?
- ... that despite writing multiple hits such as "Sticks and Stones," "Tell Me Why", and "Leave My Kitten Alone", the American R&B singer Titus Turneronly recorded one album?
- ... that during his 25 years on the U.S. National Labor Relations Board John H. Fanning took part in more than 25,000 decisions?
- ... that, according to the hotel's owner, before Marshall's Hotel opened in 1880 in Yellowstone Park, a visiting U.S. Interior Secretary had to sleep outdoors, and it rained that night?
- ... that the African Americanto graduate from the academy?
- ... that in 1939 it was ruled that a child born in the United States to alien parents retains U.S. citizenship, even if the parents take the child back to their home country?
- ... that the billed as 'Guitar Slim'?
- ... that the architecture of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Livingston Manor, New York, reflects both the Eastern European origins of its founders and the older Protestant churches in the area?
- ... that a US Federal Court against R2C2, a company that sells term papers online, alleging copyright infringementfor reselling papers written by other authors?
- ... that U.S. Senate that he knew of no more ways that the Defense Departmentcan assist in increasing registration compliance?
- ... that in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur?
- ... that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?
- ... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
- ... that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter, Shakey Jake Harris, acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler?
- ... that the American journalist George Wilkes (d. 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
- ... that War on Drugsin Colombia?
- ... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"?
- ... that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
- ... that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
- ... that singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant[disambiguation needed] nature?
- ... that Pádraig MacKernan, who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
- ... that 1974 Oregon United States Senate electionbut died prior to the general election?
- ... that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
- ... that the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?
- ... that former Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II?
- ... that mastitis is the most costly and most common disease in dairy cattle in the United States?
- ... that young-adult fiction?
- ... that the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones, who recorded 38 songs between 1923 and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?
- ... that an American judge was appointed to the Permanent Court of International Justice when it was formed, despite the United States not being a signatory to the Court protocol?
- ... that the U.S. military base Camp Kearny, predecessor of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, once housed a mooring mast for the Navy's helium dirigibles?
- ... that the American Security and Trust Company Building used to appear on the U.S. $10 bill?
- ... that the ISO 14001environmental standards?
- ... that neighbor?
- ... that despite threatening the western coast of 1950's Hurricane Loveweakened prior to landfall and moved ashore with little fanfare?