User:Wamiq/DYK/Nasreddin Murat-Khan

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• ... that the
  Mangrove Robin (pictured) consumes a significant amount of crab
  in its diet, in addition to its primary prey of insects?
• ... that John Mohardt played baseball for the Detroit Tigers with Ty Cobb and football for the Chicago Bears with Red Grange?
• ... that a Light Elf can carry 1,250 kilograms (2,800 lb)?
• ... that St John's Church, Egremont, has the largest unsupported ceiling in Merseyside?
• ... that the
  Minar-i Pakistan was designed by Russian-born Pakistani architect Nasreddin Murat-Khan
  ?
• ... that in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, Dr. Watson was first told about Holmes in the Criterion Bar?
• ... that the four lions surrounding the
  Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston
  have been described as either mourning or snoozing?

• Archaeologists discover the tombs of
  Seneb Kay
  .
• During heavy fighting over
  drowning more than 200 people
  .
• In association football, Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured) wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or and Nadine Angerer wins the Women's World Player of the Year award.
• permanent vegetative state
  for eight years.
• Amid
  President of the Central African Republic
  .
• Treasury Note
  for $3,290,000, setting a new world record price for a banknote.

January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)

• Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang
  .
• Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie (pictured) occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle
  .
• 1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Union forces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky.
• TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London
  , killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 400 others.
• tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons (3,130,000 l) of home heating oil
  .

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