User:AllyUnion/Did you know archive

...that witch trial in England in 1712 and eventually exonerated? (Image:Hutchenson-witch.jpg
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...that
Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette
?

...that Governor of Newfoundland
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...that Infogrames in 1999
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...that Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland? Image:Rapidan Camp President s Cabin The Brown House 1931.jpg

...that Minuteman who had raped
her subsequent evolution of the article shows that this description is incorrect?

...that the first
James Bond gun barrel sequence, in the film Dr. No, was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun
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...that
Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot
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...that Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I? (Image:Sylvanus Morley copan.jpg)

...that the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment?

...that in
African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later
?

...that Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?

...that
anticuchos are one of the most popular dishes in South America, consists of skewered pieces of cow hearts? (Image:Peru Anticuchos.jpg
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...that race riot in 1946
?

...that E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro, earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?

...that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952?

...that
Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian
's novel The Mauritius Command?

...that the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona?

...that Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?

...that the center of gravity and dual rear wheels
?

...that a dream by Sergei Pankejeff, (pictured)whom Sigmund Freud dubbed the "Wolf Man", was considered to vindicate Freud's theory of the unconscious and psychosexual development?

...that Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India's richest woman?

...that James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?

...that pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981
?

...that after Joel Sweeney (pictured) popularized the banjo in the United States he did the same in Europe as a member of the Virginia Minstrels? (Image:Joel Sweeney.jpg)

...that with a
km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train
?

...that African Nations Cup
?
...that a
voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child
who assists with activities of daily living?

... that the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer?

...
coups, but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller
?

...that
Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead
?

...that
African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music
in general?"
...
anti-slavery activists for the Underground Railroad
?

...that the conviction of an innocent
man not once but twice?

...that the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?

...that the
K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India
?

...that the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, killing 40 people, injuring over 1,000, and causing hundred of millions in property damage in 6 states? (Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962
)

...that the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?

...that the Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft
?

...that David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway? (Image:Davidlaird.png)

...that
stone with his own hands, helped only by angels
?

...that a heterosexual couples for pegging
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...that the Second World War
?
...that continental United States in 1942?(Image:FujitaNobuo.jpg
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...that the Fulani Empire, Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan, and Germany
within a single hundred year span?

...that in
bond-based alternative to interdicts or court orders
?

...that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage
?

...that the Victorian era parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them? (Image:SnapDragon.jpg)

...that the
Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America
?

...that Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland, was one of the foundational texts of Wicca, but has been suspected of being a fraud?

...that more than 700 of the
Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee
in exchange for meals at the restaurant?

...that identical sister cities of Moss, Norway and Virginia Beach, Virginia facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean? (Image:Norwegian Lady figurehead postcard.jpg
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...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?

...that Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
?

...that Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum?

...that
Vermilion Lighthouse is a replica of the 1877 iron lighthouse that was forged from recycled smooth-bored cannons that had been obsoleted after the American Civil War? (Image:Vermilion Lighthouse in Vermilion, Ohio.jpg
)

...that Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film?

...that the Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America
?

... that Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora
?

... that Dolores Erickson, the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, was actually covered in shaving cream?

...that sponged rubber balls? (Image:CleaningBalls.jpg
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...that dinosaurs
due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
...that
Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana
?

...that Virginia Colony in 1612
?

...that the
Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered? (Image:Methandrostenalone.gif
)

...that
warfare and Einsteinian views of time
?

...that parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?

...that Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?

...that Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization? (Image:Hurricane-gordon.gif
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...that Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?

...that the Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley
?

...that to prepare for future examinations, Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born?

...that "
folk songs in Peru
?

...that Short Messaging Service
messages, just like normal 10-digit numbers?

...that according to an old Polish legend, the sorcerer Pan Twardowski was the first man on the Moon? (Image:Barbara Radziwill ZjawaBarbary 19th century.jpg)

...that a single
Nez Percé language, which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people, can contain as much information as a complete sentence in English
?

...that there are only 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra?

...that Norwegian-Americans
in the late 19th century?

...that the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr?

...that the bankrupt in four years and later became part of the Alphabet Route? (Image:414px-P&WV map.svg.png
)

...that
amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass, has no crystal
structure?

...that
motion pictures
?

...that the
Gangsta's Paradise", which was in turn adapted from Stevie Wonder's
"Pastime Paradise"?

...that the WWI? (Image:Carte France Département 02.png
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...that when the solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965, it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism
?

...that Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is India's only extraterritorial military base?

...that Bertrand Russell is the longest-lived of any Nobel Prize in Literature winner?

...that in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of
C.N.Annadurai, the first non Congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
?

...that Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation? (Image:Wfm wellington church.jpg)

...that the contradictory term foot cavalry was first used to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War?

...that Ph.D in mathematics
?

...that
Samori Ture by detonating himself and his family in the city's powder
magazine?

...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War? (Image:Gatling.gif)

...that former
socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class
?

...that the the King of Great Britain
?
...that French officer Charles Mangin was despised by his troops during World War I due to his aggressive tactics, which earned him the nickname "The Butcher"?

...that Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century? (Image:ClarkMarguerite1916.jpg)

...that the
Tu’i Tonga Empire was the most influential local empire in the history of Oceania
?

...that Fulani War
?
...that Ed Roberts became one of the founders of the disability rights movement when he lobbied for basic accommodations at the University of California, Berkeley?

...that False Cape, which was built by survivors of a shipwreck using cypress
wood that washed ashore?

...that the Sicilian cart is a colorful folk art form based on a cart design adopted from the ancient Greeks? (Image:Carretto.jpg)

...that not all Polish names
end in -ski?

...that in
Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands
to play in matches?

...that a sailor from the SS Thames owed his life to a cask of porter after the ship wrecked on the Isles of Scilly in 1841?

...that the town of dry-nuclear testing
?

...that banned in the United States, United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland? (Image:Shakespeare and Company store in Paris.jpg
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...that
games
?

...that the College of William and Mary
, where he served as President for 50 years?

...that the Indian independence
?
...that the 18th century Governor's Palace, originally completed in 1722 and last occupied by Thomas Jefferson in 1780, was carefully reconstructed, opening in 1934 as one of the two larger buildings at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia? (Image:Backpalace Williamsburg Virginia.jpg)

...that booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India, where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?

...that at the Second Battle of the Aisne in World War I, the French suffered over 187,000 casualties?

...that slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822
?

...that Virginia Colony, and for whom Berkeley Plantation is named? (Image:Green Spring - NPS.jpg
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...that a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?

...that the
Nivelle Offensive during World War I involved around 1.2 million French
troops and over 7,000 guns?

...that
comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression
?

...that Australian Aborigines? (Image:Ac.johnbatman.jpg
)

...that the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least 47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru?

...that death penalty in 1999
?

...that Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965?

...that
A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer
?
...the Almohad dynasty, protected the entrance to Seville's port with a large chain that stretched underwater from the tower's base across the river to stop unwanted ships? (Image:Sewilla-TorreDelOro.jpg
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...that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?

...that during the 1976 Pacific hurricane season three consecutive storms made landfall?
...that El Crimen del Padre Amaro
, one of Mexico's all-time highest grossing films?

...that the
Cetacean Intelligence Mission
?

...that the
extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese? (Image:GenyornisSmall.jpg
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...Sir West Indian cricketer who in 1965 set the record (550 runs) for the highest Test series aggregate score without scoring a century
?

...that when the eight-mile Class I railroad, in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad
?

...that gender roles
?
...that in 1915, Hollywood actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter"? (Image:AnitaKingNYC.gif)

...that Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate
?

...that the Nazi regime on April 7, 1933, prohibited Jews
and political opponents of the Nazis from working

...that it is estimated that more than 85 percent of all business information exists as e-mails, memos, reports, letters, presentations and Web pages
?

...that Elizabeth Taylor made her London stage debut in 1982 at the Victoria Palace Theatre in a revival of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes?

...that
self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II
?

...that John W. Peoples, Jr. tried to have his execution carried out by electric chair instead of lethal injection?

...that
Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio
?

... that diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch
complex?

...that the Casino Goa in Goa is the only legal casino in India?

...that Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York?

...that Nağaybäk Tatars of Russia constructed their own Paris, with Eiffel Tower?

...that the current
Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy
?

...that massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code
?

...that the 1994 Rwandan genocide led to a Great Lakes refugee crisis, which ended when nearly two million refugees returned to Rwanda at the start of the First Congo War? (Image:Rwandan refugee camp in east Zaire.jpg)

...that the mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the Devil
just before committing the murders?

...that the dog fighting occurred over East Pakistan
?

...that
Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegaly
from a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?

...that despite its federal mandate to provide only
Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991
?

...that the obscure T-54/55 series of the Cold War? (Image:T44 2.jpg
)

...that passengers aboard
JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing
?

...that more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a bamboo cane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?

...that
Farid Shawki
starred in 361 films?

...that Harry Thomas Thompson, a former yeoman of the United States Navy, was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I?

...that Anglo-Indian actress, was the first to play a double role in an Indian film? (Image:Patience Cooper.jpg
)

...the original railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982
?

...that, as a tribute to Arthur Stace, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word "Eternity" as the new millennium began?

...that the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1868, giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?

...that
United States Congress posthumously in 2000
?

...that the
demilitarization of the capital (Kampala) and the absorption of the rebel leadership into the government? (Image:Uganda flag large.png
)

...that the newly-discovered
solar system known as the scattered disc
?

...that in
list of countries by military expenditures
?

...that Ithaa iin Maldives is the world's first and only underwater restaurant?

...that Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet to Hindu pilgrims from India
?

...that actor Workman family? (Image:MonaDarkfeather.jpg
)

...that Palestinians in Jordan
?

...that Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?

...that in
U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina
relief?

...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central Virginia was formed in 1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track? (Image:Charlottesville-2-20-2005---1.jpg)

...that the
Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres
?

...that American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture?

...that
2005 European Volleyball Championship
?

...that the Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? (Image:Emanicipation oak hampton-cropped.jpg
)

...that the modern Llywelyn the Great
?
...that Dravidian party in India
?

...that conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?

...that Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting? (Image:Hendrick ter Brugghen Flute Player.jpg)

... that the
Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles
?

...that the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?

...that
swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918
?

...that the
American Burying Beetle is one of the only beetle species that exhibits parental care? (Image:American burying beetle.jpg
)

...that the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh?

...that at 23.8 hours, motion picture serial
ever made?

...that Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud?

...that Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792
?

...that the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross? (Image:Stavelot.Triptych.jpg)

...that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?

...that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?

...that Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?

...that legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant
?

...that
Raj Ghat and other memorials are sometimes considered India's modern day equivalent of Westminster Abbey? (Image:Gandhi's Tomb.jpg
)

...that the remains of
Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia
?

...that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775, provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop of War Providence in what became the United States Navy?

...that "
Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave
's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?

...that the mint in Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced? (Image:Perth Mint.jpg
)

...that in
motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland
?

...that there were three more
cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17
?

...that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?

...that during the
1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high? (Image:Memorial of the Flood 1878.jpg
)

...that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?

...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?

...that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?

...that in the next five years, 40,000
humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program? (Image:ACRI.jpg
)

..that in
Perth
television station?

...that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?

...that
Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus
?

...that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?(Image:Litfaß column Feb05.JPG)

...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?

...that
Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station
?

...that the name of the
Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu
?

...that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

...that the famous Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor? (Image:Fontaine paris.JPG

...that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?

...that the only remaining instance of active use of the
death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus
?

...that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?

...that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?(Image:Grandfather's House, Medford, Massachusetts.JPG)

...that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II?

...that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?

...that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?

...that the
New Orleans, Louisiana
?

...that hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England? (Image:Jimmy Matthews.jpg
)

...that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?

...that during the
primetime
and was syndicated in over 40 countries?

...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?

...that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success? (Image:Regulus missile.png)

...that all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book
?

...that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?

...that anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans
"?

...that recently-retired
indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero? (Image:Darryl white.jpg
)

...that in the Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada
?

...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?

...that "
Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer
?

...that the Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma
?

...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?

...that the
border preclearance
facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?

...that, before
record
for more than 123 years?

...that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents? (Image:Soybean cyst nematode and egg SEM.jpg)

...that far right Italian songwriter
?

...that cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck
during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?

...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?

... that the
Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome? (Image:Oxandrolone.gif
)

...that teams in the International Basketball League
scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?

...that a
Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom
?

...that the
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India
's highest sporting honour?

...that the
Bassein Fort was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century? (Image:Vasai-fort-ruins.jpg
)

...that Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?

...that the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young, a polygamist, and his wives?

...that Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?

...that the liberal arts colleges
?

...that Royal Academy in the 1860s? (Image:Simeon Solomon - Shadrach Meshach Abednego.JPG

...that the
circumnavigate North America
?

...that the last
James Winkfield in 1902
?

...that on
14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States
?

...that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps? (Image:Minchiate08.jpg)

...that bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?

...that
Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba
has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?

...that
congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion
at campaign events?

...that a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church?

...that the only active volcano in South Asia is on Barren Island, one of India's Andaman Islands? (Image:Barren Island.jpg)

...that the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415?

...that the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?

...that the
Battle of Baghdad
?

...that Nikolai Gumilyov, did not even exist? (Image:Gabriak.jpg
)

...that
Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States
?

...that
Roger Penzabene, co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit "I Wish It Would Rain", used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and then committed suicide when the song
was released?

...that the Presidio of Santa Barbara, built by the Spanish in 1782, is the second-oldest building in the U.S. state of California?

...that Liugong Island is considered the "birthplace of China's first navy" and is also the site of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War? (Image:Liugongisland warmemorialhall.jpg)

...that Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia?

...that in
Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty
?

...that Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America?

...that the
Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen
?

...that the American toad is a common species of toad found throughout the eastern United States and Canada? (Image:Bufo americanus1.jpg)

...that in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television?

...that
River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States
?

...that the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro
and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?

...that American art that depicts the Goddess of Liberty and is the first known painting to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the United States? (Image:Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences.jpg
)

...that although football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed
for preservation?

...that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?

... that Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003
?

...that the border between
Victoria Nile? (Image:Languages of Uganda.png
)

...that the defeat of
Hindu kingdoms in South India
?

...that the People's Republic of China
?
...that Catholic in German Cameroon
?

...that the honey fungus
which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?
...that a subtropical seawater? (Image:Iciligorgia schrammi.jpg
)

...that the
1928 St Moritz games
at the age of 35?

...that Swaziland
that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?
...that detonating
Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998
?

...that the South Africa
?
...that the Border Reivers?(Image:Wfm kr beeftub.jpg
)

...that
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games
?

...that Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s
?

...that the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent?

... that crocodiles
?

...that about half of Ireland's citizens live outside of the Republic of Ireland? (Image:Ireland flag large.png)

...that the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?

...that cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger
?

... that the Narita Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train
line ever officially cancelled?

...that
Todd Cameron Smith
?

... that urushiol-induced contact dermatitis accounts for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the United States Forest Service? (Image:Poisonoak.jpg)

...that day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left?

...that three of the Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1
crew?

... that rock formations
cooled from underground ice?
...that the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?

... that the
Khardungla Pass is the highest motorable road in the world? (Image:KhardungLa.jpg
)

...that cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings
?

...that Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible
and other written scriptures?

...that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?

... that the Puritanism in the early 17th century? (Image:CotswoldGames01.jpg
)

...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?

...that Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875?

...that the slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge
?

...that several countries, including Sweden and Germany have started a nuclear power phase-out, with the goal of gradually shutting down all nuclear power plants? (Image:Nuclear plant at Grafenrheinfeld.jpg)

...that sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus?

...that the
Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000
?

...that the imperial forces led by a European officer corps, was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion
?

...that adjustable
Renault Spider
?

...that the
leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century? (Image:Cricket ball G&M.jpg
)

...that the most popular
Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu
?

...that though only 14% of all U.S.
nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds
, they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?

...that the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?

...that the Perth, Western Australia containing the largest set of change ringing bells in the world, several of which are 280 years old? (Image:SwanBells5.jpg
)

...that
colonised
?

...that the intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes
?

...that
settle
?

...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying? (Image:Andrew Ellicott.jpg)

...that Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of Santiago Derqui?

...that Niger
?

...that the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment
?

...that Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968
?

...that Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?

...that the
Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds
, which nest in seashore colonies?

...that knighted by Pope Paul VI
?

...that the Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940? (Image:CampidoglioEng.jpg
)

...that
computer game for the Windows platform
?

...that
U.S. dollars gambling in casinos
?

...that the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock?

...that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (Image:Margaret-Roper.jpg)

...that
Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty
was signed?

...that oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery?

...that the
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System
?

...that the United States Army managed Yellowstone National Park for 32 years from Fort Yellowstone? (Image:Fortyellowstone.jpg)

...that the football league in Indonesia
?

...that 2005 British general election
?
...that the Thunderdome, the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is famous for a tortilla-throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN?

...that attempts have been made to produce
Common Milkweed latex? (Image:Asclepias syriaca.jpg
)

...that the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia's independence to the world?

...that ethnomusicologist
known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?

...that Inca empire
by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?

...that Saint Anthony's nut, popular with pigs as well as humans, is named for Anthony of Padua, patron saint of swineherds? (Image:Illustration Conopodium majus British Flora.jpg)

...that in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?

...that at the Spanish conquest of Peru
?

...that famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?

...that the height of clouds is measured using a ceiling balloon? (Image:Ceiling balloon.JPG)

...that
Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette
packaging?

... that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?

...that
People's Republic of China
?

...that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution? (Image:Comuneros.jpg)

...that comic-book writer Stan Lee, novelist/historian Winston Groom, and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting?

...that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?

...that Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?

...that
Wimbledon champion, Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II
?

...that Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?

...that Hertfordshire puddingstone is a comglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding?

...that cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer
?

...that
Vietnamese-American to serve in a state legislature in U.S. history? (Image:VanTran.jpg
)

...that Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan?

...that the U.S. House of Representatives
the next year?

...that the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?

...that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music? (Image:Henry Purcell.jpg)

...that alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness?

...that during the 1937 Louisville, Kentucky flood the town's Brown Hotel was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?

...that Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?

...that all of the publishing royalties the Bee Gees' song "Too Much Heaven" earned went to UNICEF? (Image:Toomuchheaven.jpg)

...that the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?

...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?

...that the
First World War
?

...that the OLED
technology to make each of its keys act as a small display?

...that John Dryden created the genre of heroic drama as a way of reconciling plays with epic poetry? (Image:J-Dryden.jpg)

...that
Augustiner Bräu is Munich's only German-owned brewery
?

...that Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?

...that Tamil
culture?

...that despite apparently predicting that future
poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892
?

...that the socialist future? (Image:Ampelmaenner.jpg
)

...that there are at least 60 different
human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe
?

...that Australian Rules Football
?
...that ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins
with different fathers?

...that Akyn
storytellers?
...that
City Council in 1994 after being involved in a building dispute? Image:AbelMaldonado.jpg
)

...that the
Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa's anti-colonial
struggle?

... that the tree shrews
?

...that there have only been two Australian cricket team
?

...that misdirected
Well-Made Play
?
... that the Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world? (Image:TataraOhashi.jpg)

...that
Attorney General in 2002
?

..that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?

...that the
Are You Being Served
?

...that
computer role-playing games
?

...that the surrounding region? (Image:Carte Orange front 1.jpg
)
...that Jason King, but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers? (Image:DepartmentS.jpg
)

...that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?

...that Lord's Cricket Ground
?

...that Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns
?

...that Country-comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee

...that children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play; it played the National Theater and NYC's Broadway?

...that the powerful
Joseph of Genesis
?

...that Internet entrepreneur
Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah
?

...that the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?

...that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?

...that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?

...that Bambara Empire
?

...that University of Nebraska's college football
"Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?

...that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?

...that the
theocratic Massina Empire
?

... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?

...that weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system
?

... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the trains bombed during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?

...that the poems of Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill
, or inspired them to write music?

...that shipping
, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
... that
Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe
"?

...that the Eisner Award
-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head? (Image:Yogi Rock2.jpg)

... that organic farmers
?

... that the
St'at'imcets language, and endangered language of British Columbia, is like Semitic languages in that it has also has pharyngeal consonants
?

... the
Perioikoi were free inhabitants but not citizens under Spartan
rule?

...that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress? (Image:The Unrivaled Express Rider, Ginery Twichell.jpg)

... that the creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence
?

... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?

.... that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?

...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations? (Image:Wien_KarlMarxHof.jpg)

...that cow's
feet as its main ingredient?

...that the first known classical
Chinese characters
?

...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?

...that liberals? (Image:Seal of the United States Supreme Court.gif
)

...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?

...that legendary
vocalist Helen Merrill's
self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?

...that the New Zealand? (Image:ICC-cricket-member-nations.png
)

...that King
Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud
?

...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?

...that
Argentinian painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890? (Image:BQM Dia de Sol (1958).jpg
- Dia de Sol by Quinquela Martín)

...that the
Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes
?

...that the
University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate
?

...that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago? (Image:Setaria italica0.jpg)

...that US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973
?

...that
Chingay Parade in Singapore
, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?

...that
tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol
, and is banned in many countries?

...that research on U.S.
E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy? (Image:Ezra Seymour Gosney.jpg
)

...that like many
kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food
?

...that Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man
, taught himself to read by the age of three?

...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?

...that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards? (Image:2-II-Papesse.jpg)

...that
fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini, a traditional Bamana
mudcloth, in international fashion?

...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?

...that
voyage of the Beagle? (Image:Charles_Darwin.jpg
)

...that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?

...that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the [[Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?

...that Gulf Coast states for the first time? (Image:Chipleyobeliskbase.jpg
)

...that London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
?

...that the
genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox
?

...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?

...that many of the scenes Louisa May Alcott depicts in her book Little Women took place when her family was living in The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts? (Image:The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts.JPG)

...that Watson's Hotel is India's oldest cast iron building and is among the "100 Most Endangered Sites"?

...that the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922?

...that measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?

... that according to atom bombs? (Image:Fangio moss monza.jpg
)

...that the
Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics
?

...that the Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons
?

...that Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240, securing the future of the Mali Empire?

...that the D-Day? (Image:Spitfire.planform.arp.jpg
)

...that
shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics
through their wastewater?

...that the fall of Rome and the 13th century, and is a national treasure of Switzerland
?

...that Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
?
...that the main work of the
Prince Eugén, the youngest son of king Oscar II? (Image:Josephson.jpg
)

...that
Perthes disease
as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?

...that Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I?

...that the
Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s
?

...that Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century? (Image:Ebbo.Gospels.St.Mark.jpg)

...that five teams in
one-day international
status for the next four years?

...that in the
El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali
?

...that
Metropolitan Police Force for six months before he was killed by an IRA
gunman?
...that the only effective way to manage the bacterial plant disease citrus canker is to destroy all infected citrus trees? (Image:Citrus canker on fruit.jpg)

...that panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?

...that
read music
?

...that after
New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called 'the blacklist
'."?

...that the Vikings and have been used for more than a thousand years by the fishermen of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal? (Image:Siglaspoveirasbase.png
)

...that
Massachusetts Avenue, home of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row
, is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?

...that the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, covering over 100,000 topics?

...that J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International?
...that
Malinké griots
?

...that pilot and equestrian? (Image:Sabine_ehrenfeld.jpg
)

... that two widely-used
Historical Atlas of China
?

...that in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?

...that the largest
meters above sea level? (Image:Loser (Berg).jpg
)

...That the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?

...that the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?

...that the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?

...that the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel in a politically and religiously conservative direction? (Image:Hegel.jpg)

...that the Buckingham Palace Gardens
?

...that, in addition to hearing the landmark
Japanese American Fred Korematsu
?

...that
Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe
?

...that the
One Night In Bangkok", from the musical Chess, gained new-found popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz
?

...that the Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, from 1930
?

...that mastoiditis is an infection that can result from untreated middle ear infections? (Image:Ear-anatomy-text-small.png)

...that the 1160 BC for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea, is the earliest known geologic map
?

...that
Ronin
?

...that The Heart of Midlothian, the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels, was the first in the series to have a female protagonist? (Image:Walter_scott.JPG)

...that in
cameraman
?

...that Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the U. S. Civil War?

... that in the
Article I or Article III tribunal
?

...that
Krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993? (Image:Krill swarm.jpg
)

...that
thoroughbred horse racing
immortality by a few inches?

...that
football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981
?

...that
Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism
to become their 13th summer camp?

...that "E.Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon
?

...that Saint Tropez? (Image:Faxicura.jpg
)

...that, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?

...that distinguished recipients of the John Adams
?

...that the
General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members? (Image:Andorra_flag_large.png
)

...that
Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851
?

...that both the
Queen's Birthday
holiday?

...that African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association
?

...that computer networks
?
...that a
Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand? (Image:Homestead Act Stamp.jpg
)

...that
prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector, a preparator of dissections
?

...that Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?

...that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?

...that the
Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf
?

...that the
Blue Ant is not an ant at all, but a large solitary wasp? (Image:100 6644.jpg
)

...that American patriot Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy? (Image:Milledge.jpg
)

...that the
Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? (Image:Oyoda alongside Zuikaku.jpg
)

...that Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004
?

...that
cyclist Hugo Koblet, a Tour de France winner and the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia, died at age thirty-nine under mysterious circumstances? (Image:HugoKoblet.jpg
)

...that circumnavigate the globe from west to east? (Image:Hodges, Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay.jpg
)

...that for
Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute? (Image:KaDee_Strickland_in_The_Grudge.jpg
)

...that the Blondie song "Call Me" was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States? (Image:Callmecover.jpg)

...that
classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European
languages?

...that oxidation
, complicating processing, storage, and transport?
...that Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot? (Image:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg)

...that unlike many of the
Miami, Florida, "Stayin' Alive" was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris? (Image:Bee Gees Stayin Alive.jpg
)

...that in the
disaster movie monster
and destroys cities?

...that the
Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats
?

...that Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been called the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70? (Image:DocCheathamGoodForWhatAils.jpg)

...that Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?

...that no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?

...that the
Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque of Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the sixteenth century and the marble dado was carried off to Istanbul by Ottoman
conquerors?

...that in
Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"? (Image:Nightfevercover.jpg
)

...that fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter
?

...that 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia
?

...that Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

...that the history of
nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992? (Image:Castle Bravo Blast.jpg
)

...that Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?

...that singer
Academy Award-winning song "The Morning After"? (Image:Maureen mcgovern-the morning after s.jpg
)

...that the
1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour to England by white Australians
?

... that Otokichi (1818–1867) was a Japanese castaway, who circled the globe as he tried unsuccessfully to return to Japan? (Image:Otokichi.jpg)

... that largest suspension bridge
in the world when completed?

...that after
serf recruits were, and their children born after the recruitment were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools? (Image:Peter_der-Grosse_1838.jpg
)

...that the US children's television series Romper Room aired for over forty years?

...that Dr.
Bombay Municipal Corporation? =Nichalp (Talk
)= 09:00, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

...that the
movie Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom? (self-nom) — Frecklefoot | Talk
18:27, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

... that the
race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992
? - 21:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

...that the song "Mike H
18:56, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
... that
Union Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland was once the longest suspension bridge in the world and is now the oldest surviving? (Image:055167 union bridge.jpg
)

...that
MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer, now that it is owned by CHUM Limited? (Image:Logo_razer.jpg
)

...that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?

...that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848? (Image:USS Preble.jpg)

...that the 1st millenium BCE? (Image:SteinMummy.jpg
)

...that Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world?

...that there are sixteen candidates running in the
Ohio Second Congressional District Election to replace representative Rob Portman
?

...that 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan
was unable to play through injury?

...that Irish chemist Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that hydrogen is electropositive? (Image:Robert Kane (chemist).jpg)

...that
pregnant
?

...that
American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain
?

...that Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years? (Image:Anshelm Berner Chronik.png
)

...that anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with wax? (Image:Caspar Wistar.jpg)

...that Saki's short story "Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in Raymond Postgate's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve?

...that Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?

...that there are parts of north pole? (Image:Canadian-Control-Areas.gif
)

...that the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks? (Image:Jacques Labillardière.jpg)

...that
Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade
?

...that the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?

...that the
Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle
of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?

...that University of Uppsala at the age of nine? (Image:Forslund, Linnaeus filius.jpg
)

...that the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity? (Image:Einstein theory triumphs.png)

...that
Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam? (Image:LeVoyageAuxIndes.jpg
)

...that saves
in his career?
...that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs? (Image:Grunion CF&G -2 100% -a .jpg)

...that Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years? (Image:Sundogbox.JPG
)

...that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release? (Image:Jack-jack-attack-1.jpg)

...that NEC
which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?

...that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honor of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway? (Image:William Barstow Strong.jpg)

...that in the
Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting? (Image:Crazy frog-axel f s.jpeg
)

...that former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer?

...that BASIC programming language
?

...that
suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson? (Image:Louisa Lawson.jpg
)

...that the Terik language of
assimilated to the Nandi
people in recent decades?

...that facial symmetry is correlated with health, physical attractiveness, and beauty, and is a factor in interpersonal attraction? (Image:Ziyi Zhang mirrored.jpg)

...that a group
of which he is not formally a member?

...that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die? (Image:Ars.moriendi.pride.a.jpg)

...that macrosomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities
?

...that the
Beverly Hills
?

...that the
U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass? (Image:Operation Nickel Grass.gif
)

...that the Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major earthquakes since its construction? (Image:Washington State Capitol Legislative Building.jpg)

...that Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42? (Image:Davidpenhaligon.jpg
)

...that
macrosomia is a complication in pregnancy and childbirth when the fetus
is dangerously big?

...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?

...that black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870? (Image:Ac.rainey.jpg
)

...that the largest suspension bridges in the world? (Image:Jiangyin bridge.jpeg
)

...that
Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa
?

...that the short-lived slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy? (Image:Maryland state seal.png
)

...that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?

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