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- ...that Samuel Rivera, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?
- ...that the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct (pictured) nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
- ...that Filipino descent in the United States?
- ...that Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall?
- ...that the proposed cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics?
- ...that retired First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat?
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- ...that the Valois Tapestries (pictured), recording festivities at the court of Charles IX of France, include portraits of many members of the House of Valois–but none of the King?
- ...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
- ...that Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore?
- ...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
- ...that world records in athletics?
- ...that Australian World War I general Sir Charles Rosenthal (pictured) was the model for a character in one of D. H. Lawrence's novels?
- ...that judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appealsby a Democratic President?
- ...that the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
- ...that college degree?
- ...that during an emergency, C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting Systemand used to help fight forest fires?
- ...that during the ?
- ...that in the early 1940s, C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland?
- ...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
- ...that reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
- ...that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
- ...that the disastrous defeat of Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav?
- ...that foedus) between a believer and God?
- ...that timberon the estate?
- ...that the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program?
- ...that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle?
- ...that the Mont St. Quentinwas not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
- ...that the Childe Harold Wills?
- ...that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?
- ...that pirateraid in 1258?
- ...that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
- ...that unlike most rivers?
- ...that the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle (pictured) was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandriaharbour?
- ...that Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General, the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
- ...that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
- ...that while the Polish-Ukrainian War?
- ...that zaojing, an elaborately-ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
- ...that Meredith Eaton-Gilden (pictured) is also a practicing clinical psychologist?
- ...that there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which could be seen by ships 29 km away?
- ...that, at the age of 21, Henry III's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France, with the exception of the Capetians?
- ...that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
- ...that westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads?
- ...that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?
- ...that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?
- ...that the German Communist Party member Martin Hoop, who worked undercover for the Communists in early 1933 before he was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in May 1933, was a supporter of Weimar Republic presidential candidate Ernst Thälmann?
- ...that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand (pictured), as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
- ...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
- ...that the helium balloon?
- ...that stained glass in Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of Saint Bernard?
- ...that the cruise liner, killing two crewmembers?
- ...that the real objective of the 1732 elections to the Polish throne, was to create a rift between Franceand Prussia?
- ...that Kentucky governor Augustus E. Willson was once a junior partner in the law firm of Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan?
- ...that the Attacotti were first mentioned as marauders in Roman Britain, and after their defeat they joined the Roman legions as auxiliaries?
- ...that the Punggol New Town (pictured), after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
- ...that in Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range?
- ...that James Dahlman, Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
- ...that Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars?
- ...that Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way along from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
- ...that Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trekfranchise?
- ...that several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?
- ...that the first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole were made at the David Dunlap Observatory (pictured) outside Toronto?
- ...that the Polish historian and survivor of the Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba formed an underground universityin defiance of Nazi edicts?
- ...that in Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all-Japanesestranglehold?
- ...that Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada?
- ...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost one thousand years?
- ...that German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?
- ...that the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new manor house?
- ...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?
...that(was removed as article doesn't exist, and fact questioned)Pandinosauria clade because the former (early bird pictured) descended from the latter?- ...that the Permanent North American Gaeltacht is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?
- ...that basketballer Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?
- ...that Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance?
- ...that Estonian National Awakening?
- ...that as part of Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or pollutedwater potable?
- ...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England?