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Hooks
Kamehameha III, c. 1849
- ... that Hawaiian king Kamehameha III (pictured) relied on American and British advisors to fill his cabinet?
- ... that after recapturing escaped Luftwaffe prisoners, the British officer Guy Dury is said to have remarked: "one really has to take off one's hat to them ... I really regret having to lock them up"?
- ... that a river will be diverted for the construction of Hohhot Shengle International Airport?
- ... that William Hoskins, the co-inventor of modern billiard chalk, also invented the electric heating coil, used to create the first electric toasters?
- ... that the cypress aphid is a vector for cypress canker?
- ... that soprano Ildikó Raimondi, who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in more than 40 roles including Pamina and Mimì, sang the role of Marzelline in the opening season of the Valencia Opera?
- ... that the first discovered fossil of the dinosaur Weewarrasaurus was noted for being preserved in green-blue opal?
- ... that Stephen Godin was a steward of penitent prostitutes?