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- ...that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?
- ...that King Narasaraja Wodeyar II, who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either muteor preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?
- ...that political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductiblein 2006?
- ...that Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court?
- ...that a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty, who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles?
- ...that Atlanta, Georgiahotel elevator?
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- ...that the First Texas Navy comprised four schooners: Brutus, Independence (pictured), Invincible and Liberty?
- ...that ?
- ...that architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank?
- ...that Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division, the highest level of English football, with Manchester City F.C.?
- ...that the Global Community Communication Alliance, an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?
- ...that ?
- ...that wood Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
- ...that Victoria Mansion (pictured) in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold running water, gas lighting and a servant’s call system?
- ...that in 1924, the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup?
- ...that U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?
- ...that chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation?
- ...that American Romulus"?
- ...that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?
- ...that the Black Kangaroo Paw (Macropidia fuliginosa; pictured), is a plant native to Western Australia and survives being burnedto the ground?
- ...that NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
- ...that ?
- ...that although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?
- ...that Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur $US 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an Africanleader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
- ...that Christmas disease?
- ...that Dombrau, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, was in 1901 bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria?
- ...that folktaleabout lone sleepers?
- ...that Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards, as a Christian Scientist campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves 'Nurses' despite not being registered?
- ...that the railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town?
- ...that the inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth?
- ...that Roman Catholicpriest?
- ...that female bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones?
- ...that 68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?
- ...that National Historic Landmarks?
- ...that in 2002 two firefighting airtankers crashedafter their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
- ...that the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
- ...that the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Towerin Chicago?
- ...that France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall, a house often attributed to Christopher Wren, for nearly 50 years?
- ...that diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?
- ...that an easy keeper (pictured) is a term used to decribe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food?
- ...that bribes, are lawful under U.S. law, but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics?
- ...that antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew?
- ...that Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury?
- ...that the first £1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?
- ...that industrialized area in continental Europe?
- ...that, prior to English physicist C.G. Darwin’s 1952 conception of man as a human molecule, in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a "point atom"?
- ...that the song "Swanee" was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?
- ...that the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance?
- ...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
- ...that Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 42–196 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in billiards history?
- ...that the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles (pictured) in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's day?
- ...that fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?
- ...that actor America?
- ...that the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?
- ...that the Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain?
- ...that the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and was completed within five days?
- ...that players had to submit their turns by play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre?
- ...that the Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy"?
- ...that the ?
- ...that blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand?
- ...that the French army?
- ...that Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?
- ...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans, but none since?
- ...that an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt, who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?
- ...that many of the most famous Royal Entry (example pictured)?
- ...that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?
- ...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?
- ...that three 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup?
- ...that before securing a safe seat?
- ...that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senateinvestigating committee?
- ...that Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site (pictured), and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire?
- ...that Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands?
- ...that the first printed edition of the Pentateuch in Hebrew appeared at Bologna on January 26 1482?
- ...that New World, the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore, was known for its striptease, cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
- ...that Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energyin 2006?
- ...that some of Union Stock Yardwhich closed in 1971?
- ...that in the late stenography?