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• ...that the gates (pictured) of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?

• ...that Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska?

• ...that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens, Wordsworth, Hawthorne and Poe?

• ...that Poughkeepsie's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?

• ...that the southern terminus of the first suburb to suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon?

• ...that Richard Devlin, the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?

• ...that despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?

• ...that film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?

• ...that the Nez Perce thought they themselves gave nice gifts, but that the Lewis and Clark Expedition gave "cheap" gifts, upon meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?

• ...that St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church (pictured) was the site of the baptism of Clark Gable's son, the wedding of Annette Funicello, and the funeral of Mercury Seven astronaut "Gordo" Cooper?

• ...that John Lavarack was the first person born in Australia to be an Australian State Governor?

• ...that the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift?

• ...that even though his predecessor, Verne Duncan, was a Republican, Democrat Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the Oregon State Senate?

• ...that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?

• ...that Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the United States to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?

• ...that Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?

• ...that Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the United Kingdom during World War I?

• ...that Oldbury-on-the-Hill, part of Didmarton, has a 30-metre (98 ft) Bronze Age round barrow called Nan Tow's Tump (pictured)?

• ...that the Battle of Mataquito, part of the Arauco War, was lost by the Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the Spanish?

• ...that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?

• ...that the Tang Chinese government of Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by Chancellor Pei Yaoqing?

• ...that Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?

• ...that before working as biomechanist to the Indian cricket team, Ian Frazer helped Australian cricketer Greg Chappell develop a patented cricket training program?

• ...that tourism in Zanzibar is the top income generator for the islands, out-earning the lucrative spice industry?

• ...that Rev. D'Ewes Coke, colliery owner and philanthropist, (find in imagemap) was descended from Dr. George Coke, Bishop of Hereford who was charged with high treason?

• ...that Helen Yglesias, best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir, died one day before her 93rd birthday?

• ...that New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern"?

• ...that the Fifteen Guinea Special, one of the last British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?

• ...that East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships?

• ...that rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?

• ...that Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie?

• ...that Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, was founded in 1869 as a police camp?

• ...that anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only medical physician for approximately 60,000 people in a Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa's Apartheid era?

• ...that the Battle of Palikao was a victory for the British and French forces during the Second Opium War which enabled them to take Beijing and defeat the Qing Empire?

• ...that the Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century?

• ...that current International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation president Robert H. Storey survived a 1966 four-man bobsleigh crash that took the life of one teammate and severely injured another?

• ...that St. Finbar Church in Burbank, faced with a dwindling flock and changing demographics, was one of the first U.S. parishes to offer Spanish language Mass?

• ...that British international rally driver Tony Ambrose was given an MG sports car by his father for winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford?

• ...that the Maitreyi Express was launched on Pohela Baisakh in 2008 to revive the railway link between India and Bangladesh that had been closed for 43 years?

• ...that like building a better mouse trap, there is still a challenge for inventors to produce a kinder and more gentle scallop dredge?

• ...that Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway?

• ...that A. V. Meiyappan produced India's first dubbed film, Harischandra, in 1944?

• ...that Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record, dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on Réunion island?

• ...that John Heisman, namesake of the Heisman Trophy, played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania?

• ...that the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War?

• ...that there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture, and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?

• ...that the world's largest factory trawler, the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn, is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?

• ...that when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?

• ...that the former Lady Washington Hose Company firehouse in Poughkeepsie incorporates both Japanese and Gothic Revival elements in its design?

• ...that reputed 25-year-old gangster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious mob hit by a gunman wearing a Batman mask on Halloween in 1989?

• ...that Kevin Reiman, a MLS footballer for Real Salt Lake, helped Maryland U. win an NCAA title, then transferred after their addition of Robbie Rogers?

• ...that the papal election, 1292-1294 was the last election of a pope which did not take the form of a conclave?

• ...that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Jiuling offered a five-volume historical work that he authored as a birthday gift to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, instead of mirrors, which the other officials were giving?

• ...that having moved to South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of France?

• ...that in 1998, an oil fire at the Lost Hills Oil Field in Kern County, California burned for 14 days and was visible more than 40 miles (64 km) away?

• ...that Italian Jesuit priest Sabatino de Ursis moved to China in 1607 to assist Matteo Ricci in his astronomical research, and attempted to reform the Chinese calendar?

• ...that the Hasbrouck House is an unusually large Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of Poughkeepsie?

• ...that future ice hockey stars Brett Hull and Dominik Hašek participated in the Calgary Cup, a preview event for the 1988 Winter Olympics?

• ...that screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park, despite never being part of the writing staff?

• ...that East German athlete Henry Lauterbach competed on an international level in both high jump and long jump?

• ...that Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II, but only one player was a native Egyptian?

• ...that migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the United Arab Emirates?

• ...that St Mark's Church in the small village of Vrba was mentioned in a sonnet by the Slovene national poet?

• ...that English cricketer Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?

• ...that Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer, magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret"?

• ...that "The Fires of Pompeii" is the first Doctor Who episode since the television show's revival where the cast filmed abroad?

• ...that AT&T engineer Otto Zobel helped to establish that electronic noise cannot be completely eliminated from radio and cable transmissions?

• ...that Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian, Arcadio Huang, to organize the royal library's collection of Chinese books?

• ...that coal mining in Nigeria, for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?

• ...that Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the Burlington Headquarters Building in Omaha to make it resemble the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in Chicago?

• ...that a pit crater, unlike an impact crater, is formed by the ground sinking over a void such an emptied magma chamber or caldera?

• ...that when Gui de Cavalhon besieged Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow troubadour, Bertran Folcon d'Avignon, in a poem?

• ...that river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?

• ...that the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry?

• ...that Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

• ...that although Norman Rockwell felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?

• ...that Muhamed, a German horse, seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves?

• ...that in 1933, Ed Walsh (Jr.), son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh, stopped Joe DiMaggio's minor league record 61 game hitting streak?

• ...that the O. H. Booth Hose Company (pictured) in Poughkeepsie was named after the fire chief who formed it after a previous company of volunteer firefighters quit because they were jealous of other companies' facilities?

• ...that mutations in the FLNB gene cause boomerang dysplasia, a lethal congenital disorder in which the limbs' long bones malform into the shape of a boomerang?

• ...that incendiary ammunition may be used against tanks, as it can penetrate armor and spread phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their oxygen?

• ...that filming on The Office episode "Dinner Party" was interrupted for over four months due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike?

• ...that the 1943 Greater East Asia Conference praised Pan-Asianism and condemned Western colonialism but did not produce plans for the region's development?

• ...that George Francis Train promoted Columbus, Nebraska as "the new center of the Union and quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A." in order to sell Credit Foncier land there?

• ...that in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the Long Island Rail Road, land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?

• ...that a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros (pictured) shows Napoleon Bonaparte touching the armpit of a plague victim in Jaffa?

• ...that the 2008 Hillsong United album The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?

• ...that, besides smuggling and distributing Colombian cocaine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin, Sinaloa Cartel produces its own opium and marijuana?

• ...that Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?, a comedic novella by Georges Perec, has an index of rhetorical devices used, including anadiplosis and metalepsis?

• ...that Spanish artifacts excavated at Citico, Tennessee suggest that the historic Native American site submerged by Tellico Lake may have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567?

• ...that the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?

• ...that lumpenbourgeoisie, a neologism of lumpenproletariat and bourgeoisie popularized by sociologist Andre Gunder Frank, is used to describe colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America?

• ...that Hawaii's Chain of Craters Road has been blocked repeatedly by lava flows from Kīlauea volcano (pictured) since it was built in 1928?

• ...that Hemerdon Mine in Devon, England is one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin, but has not been mined since World War II?

• ...that Camling is an ancient Kiranti language, with only 10,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, Bhutan and India?

• ...that the polska—the Swedish word for Polish—is the signature music and dance form in Swedish folk music?

• ...that Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?

• ...that My Brother, My Executioner, a 1970s novel by F. Sionil José, is about two half-brothers with opposing Filipino ideologies?

• ...that Frank Morse once outsourced the research for a speech on globalization to a company in India?

• ...that the British colonials employed Indian agents called gomasthas to obtain goods from local weavers and fix their prices?

• ...that American actor Vincent Piazza was coached for a Puerto Rican accent by a woman who usually did the opposite?

• ...that in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?

• ...that on a 1922 expedition to Everest, Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare?

• ...that objects found in 1939 in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo (helmet pictured) were not a treasure trove as their owners intended to bury them permanently?

• ...that Quirinus Kuhlmann, a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689?

• ...that the Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ was founded to defend the lands of Amaury de Montfort, leader of the Albigensian Crusade?

• ...that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuwen Rong was known in traditional history to have served for 100 days—even though he only served 99 days?

• ...that before the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League adopted its current name, they had already won two Stanley Cups by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires in 1918 and in 1922?

• ...that the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?

• ...that Palwankar Shivram, brother of the Dalit cricketers Baloo and Vithal, was a spin bowling all-rounder who represented the All-India cricket team that toured England in 1911?

• ...that the pastor of Burbank's St. Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall?

• ...that mineralogist George Switzer persuaded Harry Winston to donate the Hope Diamond (pictured) to the Smithsonian Institution, establishing the National Museum of Natural History's gem and mineral collection?

• ...that Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn, dragging Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths?

• ...that some species of Vireo, a genus of passerines, bind their nests with spider silk and ornament them with spider eggs?

• ...that Hugh Daily, a pitcher with only one arm, once struck out 19 batters in a Major League Baseball game?

• ...that Bob Kames was given his stage name when an announcer on Armed Forces Radio could not pronounce his real name?

• ...that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus, which prohibits homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe?

• ...that the Order of the Faith and Peace, founded by the Archbishop of Auch c. 1230 for the defence of the peace in Gascony, was patronised by Gaston VII of Béarn?

• ...that the portrait by Pontormo of Maria Salviati with the young Giulia de' Medici (pictured) is one of the first portraits in Europe of a child with presumed African and European ancestry?

• ...that the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard may not be the world's worst sound?

• ...that the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows?

• ...that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?

• ...that the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?

• ...that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?

• ...that Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?

• ...that the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was among the earliest and the last major electric streetcar systems in the United States?

• ...that the entrance to Neptune's Grotto (pictured) in Sardinia lies only around a meter (3 feet) above the sea, and therefore the cave can only be visited when the waters are calm?

• ...that Fred Walker helped to boost sales of his new spread Vegemite, now an Australian cultural icon, by giving free jars to customers?

• ...that only about 10% of Brazil's water resources is located in the Southeast Region, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population resides?

• ...that revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Revolution, included a three-year-long school strike which resulted in lessening of russification of the Polish educational system?

• ...that Nepali nationalists seek a Greater Nepal that extends the present boundaries of Nepal into the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim?

• ...that British politician Jock Stallard was expelled from the Labour Party in the 1950s for flying the red flag from St Pancras town hall, but later served as a Labour MP and life peer?

• ...that Ermita are all namesakes for a character, a place, and a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José?
• ...that the asymmetrical monoplane BV 141 is one of many military aircraft designed by Richard Vogt?

• ...that Rondel Racing was the first racing team founded by current McLaren chairman and CEO Ron Dennis?

• ...that while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England , is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?

• ...that Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?

• ...that Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, founder of the Mazdaznan religion, claimed to have been a child to a secret society of Zarathustrians?

• ...that Royal Brunei Catering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines, was named as Best Regional Caterer 1995/1996 by Singapore Airlines?

• ...that Pei Guangting, a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty?

• ...that Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council, Nazi Germany's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?

• ...that although Tropical Storm Arthur (1996) made landfall in North Carolina, total damage amounted to only $1 million dollars (1996 USD)?

• ...that former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008?

• ...that Agnolo Bronzino's 1542 painting of Bia de' Medici was painted from the girl's death mask?

• ..that Alojzy Ehrlich ate rolls and a Polish sausage while playing a table tennis match in which neither he nor his opponent scored for over an hour?

• ...that rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem, New York?

• ...that despite the recorded influence of American Sign Language, Filipino Sign Language has a history that can be traced from the works of European missionaries in the Philippines as early as the 1600s?

• ...that William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida?

• ...that besides being the first president of the International Luge Federation, Bert Isatitsch was also a special education teacher?

• ...that Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society's struggle against caste discrimination?

• ...that at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (pictured) was the youngest Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for party leaders?

• ...that Lualhati Bautista’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos, an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines?

• ...that Gilbert Patten, the author of the Frank Merriwell dime novels, managed a semi-professional baseball team in Camden, Maine during the 1890-1891 season?

• ...that although it is used in aquaculture, there are only two known cases of Palometa being traded as aquarium fish over a five-year period?

• ...that George Rea was the first paid president of the "New York Curb Exchange," now known as the American Stock Exchange?

• ...that Ingmar Bergman's film The Virgin Spring is based on the medieval Swedish ballad "Töres dotter i Wänge"?

• ...that pioneer Omaha physician George L. Miller served as president of the Nebraska State Historical Society after being labeled a "raving maniac" by the press?

• ...that the former Farmer's and Manufacturer's Bank (pictured) is the only commercial Greek Revival building in Poughkeepsie?

• ...that Su Huan-chih is the second member of the Democratic Progressive Party to ever hold the position as Tainan County magistrate?

• ...that although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas?

• ...that a subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines operates restaurants in Brunei including two halal Chinese restaurants?

• ...that in order to cut costs, Olau Line re-flagged their cruiseferry Olau Hollandia to Luxembourg in January 1993, but were forced to revert the ship to German flag only a month later?

• ...that Ronnie Thompson, the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century (1967-1975), also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music?

• ...that Brad Avakian, Oregon's recently appointed Labor Commissioner, previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly?

• ...that exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on Maui include a 33-foot fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes (pictured)?

• ...that although the Czech Republic village of Blevice has a Jewish cemetery it has no matching community?

• ...that František Kriegel was the only political exponent of Czechoslovakia deported to Moscow in 1968 who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol dictated by Brezhnev?

• ...that Fabian de la Rosa was not only mentor to the Filipino painters Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo, but a leading painter in his own right?

• ...that the chief purpose of the military order the Militia of Jesus Christ was to combat heresy?

• ...that the Norwegian black / death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?

• ...that the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats, but still managed to reach port because her cargo of timber kept her afloat?

• ...that the Decker building (pictured), an 1892 Moorish-influenced design, is where Andy Warhol had his Factory from 1967 to 1973, and was shot in 1968?

• ...that Opération 14 juillet, a French mission to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, was launched without the knowledge of the French president?

• ...that Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?

• ...that Levi Todd, the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln, wrote the first and last contemporary accounts of the Battle of Blue Licks, one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War?

• ...that only two days before Payment on Demand was scheduled to open at Radio City Music Hall, RKO executive Howard Hughes called the director and the two leads into the studio to film a new ending?

• ...that the Draco Dwarf spheroidal galaxy is one of the faintest companions of the Milky Way and the most dark matter dominated object known?

• ...that local legends say that a white witch lives in Mother Ludlam's Cave (pictured) near Waverley Abbey in Surrey, South East England?

• ...that after Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms were published in the Saturday Evening Post, 25 million people bought posters of them?

• ...that Haraprasad Shastri discovered the Charyapada, poems written in the earliest-known precursor to the Indo-Aryan languages?

• ...that Polish war correspondent Melchior Wańkowicz was charged with "slandering the People's Republic of Poland", for criticizing the state in a private letter?

• ...that Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski as President of the United States?

• ...that two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during the 2008 Egyptian general strike?

• ...that the brother of Australian rugby player Dean Mumm was assistant coach to the Fijian rugby team, whilst their grandfather played for the All Blacks?

• ...that Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including The Devil's Advocate?

• ...that a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer?

• ...that Thaba Bosigo, a Basotho stronghold in Lesotho, was the only fortress to remain impregnable during the Free State-Basotho Wars?

• ...that political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?

• ...that the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War?

• ...that despite being called the "Aladdin's Castle of George Francis Train," the Cozzens House Hotel in Omaha operated for only four years before sitting empty for several more?

• ...that 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?

• ...that the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quail (pictured) was mined in November 1943, but did not sink until May 1944?

• ...that the Adipose in the Doctor Who episode "Partners in Crime" were based on a stuffed toy that writer Russell T Davies owned?

• ...that the Ligonier Valley Railroad's reliance on verbal orders resulted in a head-on collision between a freight train and a train carrying partygoers?

• ...that Jessie Vasey was helping Australian war widows before she became one herself when her husband, George, died in an air crash?

• ...that the Samnite gladiator type likely went out of fashion in Ancient Rome when the people of Samnium, whom it was intended to mock, became assimilated into the Roman Empire?

• ...that Irish computer programmer Gavin Walsh owns the world's largest collection of Sex Pistols records and memorabilia?

• ...that the use of multiple strains of rhizobacteria as composite microbial inoculants has been shown to benefit the cultivation of crops such as rice and barley?

• ...that the Birhor people are a tribal forest people, traditionally nomadic, living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand?

• ...that Monte Testaccio (pictured) in Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million ancient Roman amphorae?

• ...that the Blank family, the maternal ancestors of Vladimir Lenin, were relatives to Nazi field marshal Walter Model, archeologist Ernst Curtius, and President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker?

• ...that Charles Starr and Bruce Starr were the first father and son tandem to serve at the same time in the Oregon State Senate?

• ...that William Thomas Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?

• ...that, with an estimated 308,000 members as of 2005, the Bahá'í community in Kenya constitutes 1% of the country's population?

• ...that Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve takes its name from a Dene phrase meaning "stands like a porcupine"?

• ...that despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart, seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release?

• ...that yearly whale counts of the endangered Humpback Whale (pictured) in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary show their numbers are increasing by 7% per year?

• ...that the Spanish-introduced limestone house of the Ivatans was designed to withstand typhoons?

• ...that English printer Thomas Adams published John Dowland's The Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires out of his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard?

• ...that the Mill Mountain Zoo is host to three endangered species: the Red Panda, Snow Leopard and White-naped Crane?

• ...that Black Grace, an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds Maori and Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and hip hop?

• ...that "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization?

• ...that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?

• ...that Rear Admiral Ralph Christie of the U.S. Navy was so incensed by the decision not to award Samuel Dealey the Medal of Honor, he sent a blunt message to Thomas Kinkaid that some viewed as bordering on insubordination?

• ...that in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz?

• ...that Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?

• ...that film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout, location manager, assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy?

• ...that the second largest mobile operator in Slovenia, Si.mobil, was one of the first worldwide to offer EDGE?

• ...that Jeremy Dalton was suspended, and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature?

• ...that the funerary art of many cultures includes psychopomps, like the Zapotec bat god, who conduct souls to the afterlife?

• ...that the Emperor of Russia, Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky?

• ...that twenty out of the thirty five merchant ships of convoy SC-7 were sunk by German U-boats?

• ...that Canadian band Article One took their name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after hearing about it on U2's Vertigo Tour?

• ...that Josiah Failing became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon less than three years after moving there from New York City?

• ...that actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008?

• ...that, on D-Day, attorney and U.S. Army Ranger Leonard Lomell managed to destroy five concealed, long-range German guns pointed at the landing beaches even though he had been wounded by machine gun fire a few hours earlier?

• ...that Nathaniel Higginson, the first Mayor of Madras city and the second American-born President of Madras, was the son of a Puritan minister, a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials?

• ...that the Taipei Metro C301 cars were built in the former Otis plant in Yonkers, New York, which was the first elevator factory in the world?

• ...that the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world"?

• ...that after becoming Bishop of Brechin at the instigation of the Earl of Argyll, Alexander Campbell of Carco, still only a minor, handed most of his bishopric's lands over to the earl?

• ...that the 1937 Western fiction book Buckskin Brigades was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's first published novel?

• ...that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, impressed with Zhang Jiazhen but forgetting his name, almost made Zhang Qiqiu chancellor instead of Zhang Jiazhen?

• ...that the Shoshone was the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon, North America's deepest gorge, to the lower Snake River?

• ...that Red Dog was such a well-known and beloved dog in Western Australia's Pilbara region that a statue ([[Image:Dampier Red Dog, Western Australia (cropped).jpg|pictured) was built in his honour?

• ...that Princess Margaret of Prussia had her jewels stolen by American soldiers in the aftermath of World War II?

• ...that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France?

• ...that his son's infection with polio in 1930 led electrical engineer Reinhold Rudenberg to develop an electron microscope as a tool to study the poliovirus?

• ...that Jewish American surfer Doc Paskowitz helped bring surf boards to Gaza to help promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

• ...that Dutch topologist Johannes De Groot is the academic grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of his namesake via four different paths of academic supervision?

• ...that, between 1945 and 1947, correspondent John Roderick spent seven months living with Mao Zedong and other Chinese Communist leaders in the caves of Yan'an?

• • ...that Dory Dean of the 1876 Cincinnati Reds was the first pitcher to include turning his back to the hitter in his delivery before pitching the ball?

• ...that Comfort Stations No. 68 (pictured) and No. 72 in the Rim Village Historic District of Oregon, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1988, are public restrooms built in the 1930s?

• ...that Rev. Thomas Dyche is credited with writing the first book in English published in Asia?

• ...that the Battle of Sugar Point was the last major battle fought between Native Americans and the United States Army?

• ...that Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people in Madagascar and left at least 55,000 homeless?

• ...that the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team is the only Division I collegiate hockey team located south of the Mason-Dixon Line?

• ...that kimchi bokkeumbap is a Korean fried rice made with kimchi and any available ingredients?

• ...that Quilceda Creek Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon is the first American wine from outside California to earn perfect 100-point score reviews from wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. in The Wine Advocate?

• ...that a horreum was a type of public warehouse used in Ancient Rome to store foodstuffs such as grain and olive oil?

• ...that despite writing a full action-and-dialogue screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?

• ...that sailors use a tool called a needlegun (pictured) to remove old paint and corrosion aboard ships?

• ...that the Chronicle of Mann claimed William Russell to have been the first Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the pope, even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?

• ...that the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?

• ...that Banaag at Sikat, a novel by Lope K. Santos, was once considered the “Bible of Filipino laborers”?

• ...that the name of Lake Burrumbeet, a large but shallow eutrophic lake in Victoria, Australia, derives from the local aboriginal word burrumbidj, meaning 'muddy or dirty water'?

• ...that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre?

• ...that Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations?

• ...that Mid-State Regional Airport is a Keystone Opportunity Zone to promote economic growth, but, to protect the Pennsylvania state park and forest (pictured) it was formed from, cannot legally expand?

• ...that in 1998, the Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni, the first comprehensive Hopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?

• ...that real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives, by Berton Roueché, inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show House?

• ...that Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only Bahá'í in her country till 1947?

• ...that Moseley Wanderers represented Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?

• ...that the US National Park Service is helping to fund improvements to county road H-58 which serves as the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?

• ...that the Madras Bank, India's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of Madras at the time?

• ...that Myer Lyon, hazzan of the Great Synagogue of London, doubled as opera star Michael Leoni, whose contract excused him on the Jewish Sabbath?

• ...that despite its bitter taste, the heart of the palm tree Plectocomiopsis geminiflora is a delicacy in Borneo?

• ...that Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay person as lead clergy?

• ...that Titanium La Portada is expected to briefly become the tallest skyscraper in Chile, before being overtaken by Torre Gran Costanera of the Costanera Center complex?

• ...that Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland is trying to keep Golden Eagles away from their turbines by reintroducing Mountain Hares?

• ...that New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis?

• ...that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana?

• ...that despite its name, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes does not contain a volume about badminton?

• ...that the Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood (pictured) is the oldest authenticated and extant work of Paolo Uccello?

• ...that when Norman Rockwell's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, the Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character?

• ...that seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast?

• ...that Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government?

• ...that when the senior officials Yuan Qianyao, Song Jing, and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen?

• ...that Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum?

• ...that Alojz Rebula was a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain?

• ...that natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars?

• ...that Gordon Dam (pictured), a 140-metre (460 ft) tall arch dam on the Gordon River, is the tallest in Tasmania, Australia?

• ...that the USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?

• ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?

• ...that compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea, bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss?

• ...that turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?

• ...that as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?

• ...that the C-Leg microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?

• ...that the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?

• ...that among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?

• ...that Claire Clairmont (pictured) was the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley's posthumously published poem "To Constantia, Singing"?

• ...that the Gens de Terre River in Quebec, Canada, has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs?

• ...that in 1985, overflowing from the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam in Sonora, Mexico resulted in the evacuation of 20,000 people?

• ...that books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies?

• ...that the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm in length?

• ...that in 1128 Geoffrey, Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, became the first Abbot of Dunfermline?

• ...that nearly $1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes?

• ...that Thurston Rostron is the fourth-youngest player in the history of the England national football team?

• ...that the name of Mohrland, Utah was formed as an acronym from the surnames of the principal investors in its coal mining company?

• ...that Dovedale (pictured), a National Nature Reserve in the Peak District, England is so popular that it attracts a million visitors a year?

• ...that Audrey Stubbart worked until age 105, becoming the oldest verified full-time employee ever in the United States?

• ...that despite Herodotus's claim that the sundial was invented in Babylon, the oldest known example is from Egypt?

• ...that during a period of widespread family ownership in the industry, the Falstaff Brewing Corporation was one of the few publicly-traded breweries in the United States?

• ...that Elm Yellows is a disease of elm trees caused by mycoplasma-like organisms infecting the phloem and can be spread by leafhoppers or root grafts?

• ...that no governing party in British Columbia has won a provincial by-election since 1981?

• ...that Antley-Bixler syndrome is a rare but severe congenital malformation disorder with symptoms that include flat forehead, closure of cranial sutures and fused bones in the limbs?

• ...that New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?

• ...that the free-floating fruit of Posidonia oceanica (pictured), a Mediterranean seagrass, is known as the "olive of the sea"?

• ...that the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?

• ...that when Ahmad Said was appointed as Chief Minister of the Malaysian state Terengganu by King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin, it was against the wishes of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?

• ...that the economy of Omaha, Nebraska has expanded to embrace the burgeoning information technology sector since the city was labeled the "Motor Mouth City" by the New York Times?

• ...that the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?

• ...that the Taipei Metro Xinbeitou Branch Line, consisting of two stations, was severely restricted due to complaints of noise pollution?

• ...that 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English, and 16 of them are women?

• ...that the Creeping Groundsel (pictured), a climbing succulent perennial native of South Africa, is a problem weed in New Zealand, but cultivated in parks in Spain and Germany?

• ...that the acquisitions of Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, formed the basis of the drawings collection in the Royal Collection and the "King's Library" of George III at the British Library?

• ...that Charles J. O'Byrne, Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York, is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999?

• ...that City of Truro was the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h) while hauling a train near Wellington station on the Reading to Plymouth Line in England?

• ...that residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?

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