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... that the depictions of fish on the medieval statue of St Christopher in Norton Priory, Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified?
... that in 1984 Chet Upham, former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, introduced the first artificial snow in Colorado at his Loveland Ski Area near the Continental Divide?
... that Lowell State College was the last state normal school established by the Massachusetts State Board of Education?
... that when R. Shamasastry discovered the Arthashastra, it altered the perception of ancient India and the view that Indians learned administration from the Greeks?
... that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
... that Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and makeshift armour?
... that in "The Baby Sitter" of ABC's The Rifleman, Phyllis Avery plays a dance hall girl who asks Lucas McCain to hide her daughter from a bigoted grandfather?
... that the decline of the gopher tortoise poses a threat to the Florida mouse, which forms the only mammal genus that occurs only in Florida?
... that the revelations of 14th-century Christian mystic Agnes Blannbekin, which included visions of the foreskin of Jesus, were considered too obscene for print until the 20th century?
... that French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
... that Kim Spalding played Doc Holliday in an enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a 1954 episode of the syndicated TV series Stories of the Century?
... that the carnivorous plant Drosera meristocaulis is endemic to Pico da Neblina in South America, 17,000 km (11,000 mi) to the west of its most closely related species?
... that Danny Goodwin, a first-round draft pick of the California Angels, is the only player to be selected first in the draft on two separate occasions?
... that Anglo-Turkish piracy in the 17th century led to the enslavement of Catholic captives in North Africa, who could sometimes be liberated through a ransom?
... that blues scholars seem undecided if the American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter Ramblin' Thomas's nickname referred to his style of playing, or itinerant nature?
... that male Arabian carpetsharks competing for a mate have been known to bite the claspers of their rivals?
... that when the giant flightless birds called moa were overexploited to the point of extinction, the giant Haast's Eagle that preyed on them also became extinct?
... that Australian rules footballer Joe Misiti was inducted into the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007?
... that Bijjala II of the Kalachuri, a feudatory, eliminated Tailapa III and his family of the Chalukya Kingdom and ruled from Kalyana, now the Basavakalyana Fort, for five years?
... that Tony Blair said that it was a mistake to say on Fern Britton Meets... that he would have still wanted to join the 2003 Iraq invasion if there were no weapons of mass destruction?
... that archivist and cricketer Tommy Finlayson, one of the Gibraltarian civilian evacuees during World War II, later wrote a book about this period of the history of Gibraltar?
... that the War of Internet Addiction is a video made by World of Warcraft players to protest internet censorship in the People's Republic of China?
... that Pádraig MacKernan, who served as Ireland's Ambassador to both France and the United States, had a public falling out with Minister for Foreign Affairs David Andrews in 1998?
... that the sports hall of Europe's largest prison complex in Istanbul was converted into a courtroom because the existing one was not big enough to accommodate the hearings of the Ergenekon trial?
... that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
... that Lowes Cato Dickinson, portrait painter and Christian socialist, painted Gladstone's cabinet at 10 Downing Street in 1868?
... that along with Ithonidae, Polystoechotidae are regarded as the most primitive living members of the insect order Neuroptera?
... that a Seattle Times journalist described Michael Jackson's "Tabloid Junkie" as "a disingenuous attack on sensational news stories about him", most of which the singer "planted"?
... that the 1707 Hōei earthquake was the largest in Japanese history, triggering a devastating tsunami and causing at least 5,000 casualties in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū?
... that in 1865, William Carpenter Bompas protected his party of ox-carts from attacks by purportedly hostile Sioux by flying the Flag of England?
... that the Shady Lady Ranch, a licensed brothel in Nevada, just hired the state's first legal male prostitute?
... that the South Georgia Pintail , a small duck, scavenges at seal carcasses?
... that upon his accession as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, John Tuigg found that the Panic of 1873 had left the diocese's property and finances in disarray?
... that Old French literary genre of the chanson de toile consisted of songs supposedly sung by women weaving, songs about women in love who often sew as they relate their stories?
... that Otilio Montaño, a Zapatista General, formally introduced Emiliano Zapata to Pancho Villa, but later was accused of rebelling against Zapata and executed while maintaining his innocence?
... that architect Frode Rinnan designed sports venues such as the Holmenkollen ski jump and Bislett Stadion, both of which were torn down in the 2000s?
... that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined?
... that R&B singer Margie Day, who had a hit record with "Little Red Rooster" in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia?
... that Thai government and army officials have insisted on the effectiveness of the GT200 "remote substance detector", despite the BBC having found it to consist of an empty plastic case?
... that theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
... that the Lowell Technological Institute in Massachusetts almost went bankrupt during both World Wars due to the increased demand for soldiers and textiles?
... that the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha, which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua?
... that Sweden established official diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau before Guinea-Bissau formally gained independence from Portugal in 1974?
... that a major flood in the Tigris in 1936 caused the building site of the Kut Barrage in Iraq to be flooded entirely so that construction had to be temporarily halted?
... that Wayne Morse won the Democratic primary in an attempt to reclaim his Senate seat in the 1974 Oregon United States Senate election but died prior to the general election?
... that British billionaire Lawrence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond for approximately US$24.3 million and then recut it removing 4 carats?
... that the 1900 Mutoscope film Sherlock Holmes Baffled was the first film appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes?
... that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti, escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
... that the discovery of the Telfer Mine in Western Australia, officially attributed to Newmont Mining, has been claimed by French prospector Jean-Paul Turcaud?
... that the shrew Crocidura phanluongi, formally described on January 27, is the seventh new species of Crocidura to be described from Vietnam in as many years?
... that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg?
... that the Cape Verdean poet Onésimo Silveira was the representative of African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in Sweden in the early 1970s?
... that in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto, Japan, Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
... that World Chocolate Wonderland, the first chocolate theme park in China, showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China?
... that the president of Coca-Cola Co. believed that a new-age label would doom Tab Clear, the company's clear cola answer to Crystal Pepsi?
... that under interrogation, Ahmad al-Naggar stated that Egyptian Islamic Jihad had raised funds by "renovating old houses in London"?
... that it is believed that the ghost town of Conquerville, Alberta, began its decline when the local high school closed?
... that the Arab-born eunuch slave Samonas rose to become the parakoimomenos of Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise, and was even made godfather to his son, Constantine VII?
... that the Rubin test was once considered by many specialists "the twentieth century's most important contribution to the clinical study of female infertility"?
... that even though the Bradford Durfee Textile School was chartered in 1895 and incorporated in 1899, it opened in 1904?
... that Gregory Slay, founding member and drummer for Remy Zero, also co-wrote the Emmy-nominated theme song for the television drama Nip/Tuck?
... that the Ham font was believed to cure sick infants and young children who were close to death?
... that the 600-year-old Westgate in Canterbury, Kent, is the largest surviving city gate in England, with double-decker buses still squeezing through it ?
... that a son of the first settlers of Mountaindale, Oregon, later was mayor of East Portland?
... that according to A Bright Red Scream, millions of Americans regularly use razors, knives or broken glass to intentionally injure themselves?
... that Mick Higgins from New York played in the Cavan Gaelic football team which won the final of the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship at the Polo Grounds in New York?
... that during World War II the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company made the "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it used for gunnery practice?
... that the Brazilian rodent Calomys cerqueirai was named only in 2010?
... that the New Bedford Institute of Technology's original mission was to refine the skills of the textile mill workers in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
... that the World War II bombing of Canterbury on 1 June 1942 revealed a mosaic pavement which is now a scheduled monument, sheltered by the Roman Museum?
... that The Land of Green Plums by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
... that during the German invasion of Norway, Minister of Justice Terje Wold told Police Chief of Oslo Kristian Welhaven to arrest fascist leader Vidkun Quisling if he got the opportunity?
... that Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin?
... that the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?
... that tympanosclerosis is a disease caused by the calcification of tissues in the middle ear, sometimes resulting in hearing loss?
... that the town of Lille, Alberta, was named as such because its coal mine's financial backers resided in Lille, France?
... that Warrington Colescott created the etching Christmas with Ziggy (1964), a social satire of businessmen entertaining their mistresses at a posh London restaurant?
... that GameDaily named Uncharted character Elena Fisher the 49th hottest video game babe of all time?
... that Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
... that about one out of five babies born from an abdominal pregnancy has a birth defect?
... that the actor Read Morgan of NBC's western television series The Deputy played basketball from 1950 to 1952 for the Kentucky Wildcats?
... that Project Stormfury attempted to artificially weaken 1969's Hurricane Debbie?
... that the role-playing video game series Xenosaga, the spiritual successor to the Xenogears video game, initially used the same composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, to write the music of the series?
... that Arthur Sweatman was elected bishop of the Diocese of Toronto in 1879 as a compromise candidate after five days of balloting?
... that the Gbedu drum is traditionally used on state occasions or during ceremones of Ogboni, the ancient Yoruba secret society?
... that upon hearing Robert Ambrose's work One Sweetly Solemn Thought, a gambler reportedly laid down his cards and immediately became a reformed Christian?
... that after the Soviet battleship Marat was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery?
... that Paul Chaffey voted Labour in 1997, the same year that he served as a Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party?
... that the Leo IV dwarf galaxy is one of the smallest satellites of the Milky Way?
... that The Art of Negative Thinking is an award-winning Norwegian film about a paraplegic who rebels against the interventions of his support group and its lead social worker?
... that Scotland international football defender Alex McLintock played as a goalkeeper during his time at Burnley?
... that the wounding in the Siege of Sarajevo of five-year-old Irma Hadzimuratovic, whose suffering garnered worldwide attention, prompted the Operation Irma medical evacuation?
... that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
... that the genus Platythelphusa represents the only evolutionary radiation of crabs to have occurred in a freshwater lake?
... that the magnitude 6.8 1981 Dawu earthquake in China killed or injured more than 450 people?
... that the American blues pianist Buster Pickens was shot dead following an argument in a bar?
... that the Italian attack against Greece was stopped in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas, a few kilometers inside the Greek border, during the first days of the Greco-Italian War?
... that former baseball pitcher Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II?
... that the High Court of the Free City of Danzig examined 988 witnesses to evince 40 cases of electoral fraud in the 1935 Volkstag elections?
... that the May 2004 collapse of Royal Tongan Airlines left the islands of Tonga without air service?
... that according to legend, the MacLeods were on the verge of being defeated at the Battle of Glendale by the MacDonalds, but their magical Fairy Flag was then unfurled, inspiring them to a hard-fought victory?
... that a collector said that the mushroom Suillus tomentosus tastes and smells like Tootsie Rolls when dried?
... that the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh was built, according to local tradition, by the translator Rinchen Zangpo (c. 1000 AD), although inscriptions ascribe it to an 11th-century Tibetan noble?
... that the word pyxidata in the mushroom name Clavaria pyxidata comes from the Greek word pyxis meaning "small box"?
... that the late 6th century AD gold Liudhard medalet is the oldest surviving example of Anglo-Saxon coinage?
... that the clause of the Magna Carta prohibiting sentences of exile, except as the result of a lawful trial, refers particularly to the case of Robert Fitzwalter?
... that Broadfield House in Crawley, West Sussex, has at various times housed a country club, a radio station and Crawley's New Town Development Corporation?
... that Patrick Collison went on to become a millionaire after winning the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen?
... that Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper because it provided better views?
... that 1989's Typhoon Angela was the longest-tracked storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 1989 Pacific typhoon season?
... that in 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company enlisted the aid of a Chipewyan woman, Thanadelthur, to broker a peace deal between the Chipewyan and the Cree?
... that over the past four years, the Winnipesaukee Playhouse has won more New Hampshire Theater Awards than any other theater?
... that the second Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, William Bennett Bond, was one of the shortest-serving Primates in the church's history?
... that with the introduction of the ROH World Television Championship in the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion, the television type championship returned to national exposure?
... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?
... that when the barque Pisagua collided with the steamship Oceana, it was the steamship that sank?
... that the turrets from the lead ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships were salvaged after she sank and used for defending Sevastopol during World War II?
... that Fitznells Manor, the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice?
... that the Hungarian diplomatic passport is the only travel document in the world granting visa-free access to all member states of the G8+5?
... that subsidiaries of the aviation security firm ICTS International oversaw security for United Airlines at Logan International Airport on 9/11 and for Northwest Airlines Flight 253?
... that Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers won an American League pennant in 1982 before moving to the National League in 1998?
... that the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Clarendon Lamb Worrell, turned down an earlier offer to become Bishop of Bermuda?
... that the mushroom Amanita strobiliformis has been said to smell like bleaching powder?
... that indigenous rights activist Stephen Corry thought that British civilization and development was the best, until he made a trip to Nepal at age 18 and met the local people?
... that the kumbum of Palcho Monastery in Gyantse is the largest such structure in Tibet?
... that air ace John S. Loisel spent more time in combat than any other American pilot in World War II and also served in the Korean War?
... that the last German Type UE II submarine, SM U-126 was commissioned on October 3, 1918, just a little over a month before the armistice at Compiègne?
... that the winner of the National League pennant in Major League Baseball has gone on to win the World Series 43 times?
... that Canadian astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi was one of the first to observe the cosmic recycling of pulsars?
... that interstitial pregnancies cause a seven times higher mortality than ectopic pregnancies in general?
... that The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was the only literary fiction novel on the 2009 British bestseller list without a Richard & Judy Book Club recommendation, a literary award or a film adaptation?
... that a 1950s Annalee Doll was sold at auction for a record $6,000 in 1992?
... that Seward's Success, Alaska, was a proposed city enclosed by a dome, which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 °F (20 °C)?
... that the Hindu goddess Varahi is worshipped only in the night according to secretive Vamamarga Tantric practices?
... that crime statistics in the United Kingdom show that 114 people in Scotland were victims of homicide from 2007 to 2008?
... that the journalist and theatre historian abbé Antoine de Léris collaborated with abbé Laugier in the first French review of music, Sentiment d'un harmonophile, 1756?
... that Misshitsu no Sacrifice lets players investigate scenes and use items, unlike other visual novels that are primarily driven by text and graphics?
... that the plant Campanula isophylla is able to tolerate frost on the mountains of northern Italy, but not when grown in a pot?
... that Aksel Zachariassen, a Norwegian revolutionary and later editor of Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad (1932–1941), was deported from the United Kingdom after a visit there in 1919?
... that the parish church of Up Hatherley, England, was built because an elderly widow found it difficult to travel to a neighbouring village to worship?
... that Graham Court , called a signal achievement in NY apartment design and Harlem's equivalent to the Dakota, was the setting for a crack factory in the movie New Jack City?
... that the Mexican land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?
... that despite only playing college football for two and a half seasons with the Northwestern Wildcats, Zak Kustok holds numerous rushing and passing records?
... that "Leslie's House", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, features references to Wikipedia, Nirvana, Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair?
... that Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well is a book by economists Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal that advocates free market environmentalism?
... that Alexander Aitchison was Hamilton, Ontario's first full-time fire chief, appointed in 1879?
... that Swizz Beatz and Bono began writing "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", a charity single for Haiti earthquake relief, over the telephone?
... that in 2001, the South Carolina Governor's Mansion stopped employing inmates as butlers and maids after guards allegedly allowed the inmates to have sex in the mansion?
... that in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
... that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
... that St Michael and All Angels Church in Blantyre, Malawi, was constructed of brick in the late 1800s by local builders, led by a cleric who had no formal architectural training?
... that early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series?
... that the Coniston Railway, which closed in 1962 owned two steam yachts on Coniston Water in Cumbria, England, one of which, SY Gondola, continues to run on the lake today?
... that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
... that the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising?
... that Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer stole books to expand the Royal Danish Library, where he was chief librarian?
... that the Battle of Cuautla between the Zapatistas and troops of Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
... that artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills?
... that according to The Sportsman's Repository, the English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl?
... that Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations?
... that the Sex Machines Museum, opened in 2002 in Prague, has a collection of approximately 200 sex devices?
... that animals at Qalqilya Zoo in the West Bank, including a giraffe and three zebras, were casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?