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... that the oldest known text of the Martyrology of Tallaght is in a 12th-century manuscript now at University College, Dublin?
... that the rebuilding of the Kumusi Bridge in Papua New Guinea, destroyed by the flooding of the Kumusi River during Cyclone Guba, will cost upwards of K70 million?
... that General Charles G. Boyd, United States Air Force, is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war to later reach the 4-star rank?
... that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel, sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
... that Vatalanib, an anti-cancer drug currently in clinical trials, inhibits the growth of new blood vessels by selectively blocking receptors of vascular endothelial growth factors?
... that before becoming a general in the American Civil War, Robert Francis Catterson practiced medicine in Rockville, Indiana?
... that Hilary Teague served as Liberia's first Secretary of State and wrote that country's Declaration of Independence?
... that perfluorononanoic acid, an environmental contaminant, has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?
... that Snarøya, a peninsula in Bærum, Norway, was an island until the 19th century?
... that before Korean American Tessa Ludwick became a child actress, she worked as a model, starting when she was only two and a half years old?
... that mokomokai, the preserved heads of Māori people with facial tattoos, were traded for firearms during the early 19th century in New Zealand?
... that Morten Wetland was the campaign manager for Gro Harlem Brundtland when she applied for the World Health Organization directorship in 1998?
... that Irwin Gunsalus discovered lipoic acid, an enzyme cofactor which has been proposed as a dietary supplement to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases?
... that Jacques Rabemananjara, former Vice President of Madagascar, was also an important negritude poet and playwright?
... that Bobby Leonard, Jack McKinney, Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle have each coached the Indiana Pacers for 328 regular season games in the NBA?
... that William Herschel's 40-foot telescope was the largest telescope in the world for 50 years?
... that the Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981?
... that Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport?
... that suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin?
... that Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron?
... that the 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975?
... that publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives?
... that ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles?
... that the chaplain of the Regiment de la Rey of the South African Army once convinced two German soldiers that World War II had ended and then captured them with his officer's cane as his only weapon?
... that the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa?
... that the cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons?
... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
... that Jeffrey Blitz wrote Rocket Science based on his own adolescence despite claiming to be "allergic" to autobiographical films?
... that Soviet submarines patrolling in the North Atlantic in the 1970s reported mysterious frog-like sounds, dubbed "quackers", which have been classified as Unidentified Submerged Objects?
... that in The Abbey in the Oakwood German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich symbolically depicted "the burial of Germany's hopes for resurrection"?
... that the fungus Podaxis is often used as face paint by the Australian Aborigines?
... that Irish journalist Willie Wilde was described by Max Beerbohm as a "dark, oily suspect" sharing the "coy, carnal smile & fatuous giggle" of his younger brother, Oscar Wilde?
... that Lucky Dragons have not only released 19 albums, but also run an art society called Sumi Ink Club and an internet community called Glaciers of Nice?
... that the cave paintings at La Marche in France, which include detailed depictions of humans rather than stick figures, were met with skepticism when discovered in 1937?
... that former Princeton Tigers Will Venable and Chris Young were the first players named first-team All-Ivy League in both basketball and baseball?
... that the nematode Elaeophora elaphi is a parasite that infests the hepatic blood vessels of Red Deer in Spain?
... that Jane Brody was at first reluctant to write the Personal Health column in The New York Times, which has since been syndicated to more than 100 newspapers in the U.S.?
... that according to Hindu legend, the yogi Visoba Khechara taught his disciple Namdev the omnipresence of God by magically filling a whole temple with lingas—the symbols of god Shiva ?
... that the 350-acre (140 ha) Mar Y Cel estate, built in the early 1900s in the foothills of California's Santa Ynez Mountains, included an aqueduct, water works, arches, and statues?
... that Donald Finkel, a poet who had aspired to be a sculptor as a youth, created sculptures out of found items that he called "dreckolage"?
... that Plymouth Cathedral experienced subsidence after a Royal Navy officer fired new Turkish man-of-war guns in Plymouth Sound?
... that before becoming a famous opera singer, Ines Maria Ferraris had a career as a concert pianist beginning at the age of 12?
... that the only known picture of the Etruscan mythological daemon Tuchulcha is on the wall in the Tomb of Orcus, a 4th-century BC hypogeum in Tarquinia, Italy?
... that Abell 2142, a galaxy cluster, is one of the most massive objects in the universe?
... that the majority of the more than 90 stage works composed by Thomas Arne are now lost, probably destroyed in the disastrous fire at Covent Garden in 1808?
... that historic Bordeaux wine estate Château d'Angludet was derelict after World War II, but its fortunes were reversed when wine producer Peter Sichel noticed it during an afternoon stroll?
... that Marc Feldmann and Ravinder N. Maini were awarded the 2000 Crafoord Prize for identification of TNF blockade as an effective therapeutic principle in rheumatoid arthritis?
... that according to the U.S. copyright law, musicians who accuse others of plagiarising their work must prove "access" and "similarity", in the absence of a confession?
... that Nabi Shu'ayb, Arabic for "the Prophet Jethro", is used in English to refer to the site where Druze tradition holds he was buried?
... that the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 reorganised the reserves of the British Army, creating the Territorial Force?
... that openly gay actor Robert La Tourneaux considered his role as the gay hustler in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band to be the "kiss of death" for his career?
... that Karl Marx called the Daily Express of Dublin "the Government organ" and accused it of "false rumours of murders committed, armed men marauding, and midnight meetings"?
... that the cat gap is a period in the fossil record of approximately 25 to 17 million years ago in which there were few cats or cat-like species?
... that Jerry Ziesmer, who delivered the line "Terminate with extreme prejudice" in Apocalypse Now, was also the film's assistant director?
... that, apart from inventing the saxophone, Belgian musician Adolphe Sax also devised the brass instrument saxotromba?
... that the character Seo Hell from the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus tells Satan to leave her dwelling, and has been compared to the female being Hel of Norse mythology?
... that former Detroit Tigers pitcher Pat Underwood's first game in the major leagues was a 1-0 victory against his brother Tom?
... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100,000-kilometre (62,000 mi) network of high-voltage power lines?
... that enraged plebs burned down the home of Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus because of a rumor that he would rather slake lime with wine, than sell wine at the price they wanted?
... that the tower located at 100 McAllister St in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings?
... that many of the members of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team which toured England in 1868 were Jardwadjali men?
... that before serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, James M. Goggin worked as a cotton broker?
... that until the former Arab village of Nabi Rubin was captured by Israel in 1948, it was the site of a large annual religious festival with tens of thousands of Muslims participating?
... that a 12-mile (19 km)-long railway ride was planned to be built on Dunderberg Mountain in the 19th century, but was never completed?
... that mushrooms of the genus Calostoma are sometimes called "prettymouth" because of peristome tissue that appears on them when they expand?
... that 1996 U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee Jack Kemp won two American Football League Championships as the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills in 1964 and 1965?
... that the bankruptcy of property fund owner William Stern with debts of £118 million led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act in 1975?
... that the 1943 sinking by Allied aircraft of the Hurtigruten passenger ship SS Sanct Svithun led to protests by the Norwegian resistance movement?
... that Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork?
... that Swedish scientist Per-Ingvar Brånemark’s discovery of osseointegration led to the development of titanium dental implants?
... that in the 1850s, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company was the largest marine and general insurance firm in North America?
... that in 1903, a toll of 10 pennies (equivalent to £11.00 today) was levied to take a flock of twenty sheep across Maidenhead Bridge?
... that Rosetta Reitz, whose Rosetta Records focused on the women of jazz, was behind the 1980 Newport Jazz Festival tribute called "Blues is a Woman", featuring Adelaide Hall and Big Mama Thornton?
... that Order of the Builders of People's Poland was the highest civilian decoration in the People's Republic of Poland?
... that Chuck Churn won only three games in his Major League Baseball career, one of them handing Elroy Face his only loss in 1959 when he finished with an 18–1 record?
... that Caspar David Friedrich's 1824 painting The Sea of Ice was seen as too radical in composition, and went unsold until after his death in 1840?
... that during the Great Bombay Textile Strike of 1982, nearly 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai, India?
... that Mieczysław Jagielski negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity as the first independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc?
... that Emperor Dezong of Tang ordered the former chancellor Dou Can to commit suicide as Dou was heading to his exile in Vietnam?
... that when it was completed in 1976, the 32-storey Allendale Square in Perth, Western Australia, was one of the largest fully aluminium-clad skyscrapers in the world?
... that the 1996 Orange Bowl had the lowest attendance of any Orange Bowl since 1947?
... that when Wales national rugby union team beat Scotland in the 1952 Five Nations Championship, Rex Willis played a large proportion of the match with a broken jaw bone?
... that at least one song written by Sonny Throckmorton was on the country music charts for almost every week between 1976 and 1980?
... that in the Sino-French War, Presbyterian missionary George Mackay refused to leave during the French bombardment of Tamsui because he could not take his Formosan converts with him?
... that the Lava River Cave in Newberry National Volcanic Monument is the longest known uncollapsed lava tube in Oregon, U.S.?
... that Charles Dinsmoor invented the endless chain tractor in 1886, forerunner of the continuous track vehicle?
... that Uncial 0212 is the first manuscript of Greek Diatessaron, a Gospel harmony, to be discovered in modern time?
... that in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York?
... that there are four types of spinning, a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers—wet, dry, melt, and gel?
... that during the War of 1812, Grenadier Island, Canada, housed a small military installation?
... that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?
... that a proposal by James Armsey of the Ford Foundation led many major universities in the United States to integrate in the 1960s?
... that Captain William Hoste captured the French-held fortifications of Kotor in 1814 by hoisting cannons from the HMS Bacchante onto the higher ground of the surrounding mountains?
... that the white horse in mythology is associated with the sun chariot, warrior-heroes, fertility or an end-time saviour?
... that American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale?
... that validation of ocean surface wave models through hindcasts and forecasts is important to the shipping industry, which relies on them for tactical seakeeping?
... that Dalberg Global Development Advisors developed a ranking system to assess the quality of 20,000 NGOs and UN agencies?
... that the bell tower of the Bărboi Church in Iaşi, Romania, is over a century older than the present church, and once contained a private library?
... that Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair, telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school, to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?
... that footballer Tommy Magee is the only West Bromwich Albion player to have won both a League Championship medal and an FA Cup winners' medal with the club?
... that Hittin was a Palestinian village located near the site of the Battle of Hattin, where Saladin defeated the Crusaders in 1187?
... that traditionalist American art critic Royal Cortissoz denigrated the work of modern masters such as Vincent van Gogh as being the product of "egotists"?
... that singer Robb Johnson based the album Gentle Men on the experiences of his two grandfathers during the First World War?
... that in a kiss scene with Kirk Cameron in Fireproof, Erin Bethea was replaced by Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble, and the scene was shot in shadows?
... that the nematode Elaeophora poeli is a parasite that is found in the heart or aorta of various species of cattle?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's first coffin match took place at Survivor Series 1992 between The Undertaker and Kamala?
... that the German merchant ship SS Uhenfels was captured at sea during the Second World War, and subsequently became a British merchant?
... that when ABC's Birmingham, Alabama, affiliate WBMA-LP refused to air the Ellen coming out episode "The Puppy Episode", a local LGBT group sold out a 5,000-seat theatre so people could watch it via satellite?
... that Áed Ua Crimthainn, abbot of Terryglass, Ireland, was the compiler and principal scribe of the Book of Leinster, a Middle Irish illuminated manuscript ?
... that even though they were five points ahead of 1. FC Saarbrücken, SV Alsenborn were not promoted to the higher level 2nd Bundesliga Süd, due to their financial position?
... that American abolitionist Parke Godwin criticized then-president Franklin Pierce in an essay entitled "American Despotisms"?
... that the initial ransom demand by Somali pirates to release the MT Stolt Valor, hijacked September 15, 2008, was US$6 million?
... that The Atlantic Monthly ran an article titled "Mother Doesn't Do Much" by Catherine Galbraith about her role as an ambassador's wife in India after her son wrote a school essay using those words?
... that the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium?
... that Henry Greathead invented the lifeboat in 1790, but never sought to patent it?
... that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"?
... that Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai wrote the Malayalam biography of Karl Marx, which is the first Marx biography in any Indian language?
... that Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington?
... that in 1905, Fred Odwell led the National League in home runs with nine, but hit only one home run in the other three seasons he played in Major League Baseball?
... that local legend in Lajjun, a district center in Palestine under the Abbasids, held that the spring that served as its primary water source sprang from a stone after Abraham struck it with his staff?
... that when American sculptor Chester Beach was selected to the National Academy of Design, he was its youngest member?
... that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom?
... that by the time he graduated from medical school, Patrick David Wall had already published three papers in prominent scientific journals?
... that the Navy Midshipmen discontinued the football series with the Maryland Terrapins for forty years after a Terrapins' linebacker twice "flipped the bird" to the Brigade of Midshipmen during the 1964 game?
... that in The Stages of Life , German painter Caspar David Friedrich depicted his son holding a Swedish flag because Friedrich considered himself half-Swedish?
... that after serving in U.S. embassies in Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Sheehan wrote his debut novel Kingdom of Illusion about the playboy king of a fictional Middle Eastern country?
... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
... that the Sclerodermataceae, a family of fungi, contains species with common names such as "hard-skinned puffballs", "earthstars" and "prettymouths"?
... that Constantine Richard Moorsom was listed as having been in the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 13, even though he was actually in school at the time?
... that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois, the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
... that Council House in Perth, Western Australia, was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?
... that American showman P. T. Barnum proposed to buy Shakespeare's Birthplace and ship it brick-by-brick from England to the U.S.?
... that Agnieszka Pilchowa, a noted clairvoyant in the Second Polish Republic, was also a herbalist who treated Prime Minister Józef Piłsudski and President Ignacy Mościcki?
... that Brown Mountain forest in East Gippsland, Victoria, is home to mainland Australia's largest marsupial carnivore, the Spotted Quoll?
... that the presence of indoleic acid in one's urine may indicate a pathological accumulation of the amino acid tryptophan in the blood?
... that Franklin M. Fisher served as the chief economic witness for IBM in the antitrust case U.S. v. IBM, and for the United States Department of Justice in United States v. Microsoft?
... that K-B-D, a triliteral root meaning "heavy" that is common to all Semitic languages, appears in the Old Testament 376 times?
... that the food shortages during the winter of 1946–1947 saw British farmers using pneumatic drills to harvest parsnips?
... that soprano Cesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut?
... that the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California, is the last water-powered foundry in the United States?
... that INS Tabar, a Talwar class frigate, has escorted about 35 ships through the pirate-infested waters near the Horn of Africa?
... that the first registered clinical use of an NK1 receptor blocker was the treatment of nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy?
... that after serving as a volunteer during the Mexican-American War, James W. McMillan returned to private life but still became a General during the American Civil War?
... that Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
... that research by physician I. Bernard Weinstein investigated the cancer-causing potential of such foods as barbecued and cured meat?
... that four Portland Trail Blazers head coaches have spent their entire National Basketball Association coaching careers with the Trail Blazers?
... that Walter Scott Lenox produced the first set of American-made china dishware for the White House?
... that the recorded history of the Briolette of India dates back to the 12th century, making it possibly the world's oldest diamond on record?
... that opera superstar Giuseppe Cremonini's career was tragically cut short upon his sudden death at the age of 36?
... that even though the Flettner rotor bomblet was never mass-produced, William C. Patrick III called it "one of the better devices for disseminating microorganisms"?
... that Chief Justice of Queensland John Murtagh Macrossan also had two uncles who were chief justices as well?
... that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy?
... that Major League Baseball manager John McGraw had 2,583 wins as the New York Giants' manager?
... that Dr. Jay Katz, who escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s, opposed use of data from Nazi human experimentation, because "we cannot separate the data from the way they were obtained"?
... that Parkmill in Gower, South Wales, is now the home of La Charrette, the smallest cinema in Wales ?
... that Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission?
... that the antihypertensive drug Losartan becomes a more potent blocker of angiotensin receptors after it is metabolised in the body?
... that artist Adam Neate left 1,000 prints, valued at £1 million, on London streets for anyone to pick up and keep?
... that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
... that research done by C. Harmon Brown showed that female athletes were more loose-jointed and more prone to dislocated shoulders than male athletes?
... that Mount Wycheproof, standing just 43 metres (141 ft) high, is the smallest registered mountain in the world?
... that the single "Don't Tear It Down" from Spy vs Spy's album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. was inspired by a government agency's attempts to demolish a building the band were squatting in?
... that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr, ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"?