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Did you know...
- ...that retired General Counsel
- ...that "ultra" was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists?
- ...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
- ...that ?
- ...that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw?
- ...that Germany after World War II?
- ...that Malaysian judiciary?
- ...that the battles of World War II in which cavalryunits fought on both sides?
- ...that the
- ...that ?
- ...that the heavyweight champion boxer rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
- ...that the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?
- ...that Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
- ...that Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya?
- ...that the terms of the People's Republic of Chinatook over 6 years to implement?
- ...that the student organizations in the United States?
- ...that the
- ...that Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television?
- ...that Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau, was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color?
- ...that until the late tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?
- ...that a female Western harvest mouse can potentially give birth to as many as forty to sixty offspring in a single year?
- ...that the ?
- ...that monospaced fonts used by typewriters?
- ...that major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System?
- ...that the Verneuil process, used in ruby synthesis, is considered as the founding step for modern industrial crystal growth technology?
- ...that politically incorrect?
- ...that the visas?
- ...that the Teach for America, is now expanding to Manchester and Israel?
- ...that the Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City went from haven for prostitution to Presbyterian chapel in the span of one year?
- ...that the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
- ...that African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slavesand their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
- ...that between were legal?
- ...that the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
- ...that Aswan High Dam, also built the Führerbunker, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide?
- ...that Viking ruler of East Anglia?
- ...that Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?
- ...that the Russian officer Leonid Gobyato is credited with having invented man-portable mine mortars?
- ...that in ?
- ...that a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari, was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal?
- ...that the Bumiputra students in Malaysia?
- ...that a mountain ash growing in the small Australian town of Thorpdale, Victoria once held the record for the tallest tree in the world?
- ...that Maj. Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabrein captivity?
- ...that the Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assemblyplant?
- ...that the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action?
- ...that the
Preobrazhenka Cemetery - ...that Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia?
- ...that in bellsare never pealed, but only tolled?
- ...that 1945 UK general election?