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... that the distinct structures of different cellular organelles may be the effects of the differing mechanics of the many proteins that create them during organelle biogenesis?
... that although Typhoon Sudal was the strongest storm to hit the island of Yap in 50 years, damaging or destroying 90% of property, there were no deaths?
... that the collapse of the Parrot Corporation, a manufacturer of floppy diskettes, caused a British political controversy?
... that the FC Barcelona Museum attracts 1.2 million yearly visitors, making it the second most visited museum in Barcelona, only surpassed by the Museu Picasso?
... that Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, commissioned his own friend Luigi Mayer to draw pictures of places in the Ottoman Empire for his collection?
... that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival?
... that Ludwig von Wurmb, a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars, was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings?
... that Zydeco musician Roy Carrier started out playing la la on a frottoir?
... that at the St Albans by-election in 1943, John Grimston was elected without a vote after his opponent William Douglas-Home missed the deadline for nominations?
... that while serving as the chief of staff of the Hawaiian Department of the US Army, Philip Hayes warned about the possibility of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan?
... that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?
... that Ivar Eskeland was accomplished as a philologist, publisher, translator, biographer, literary critic, newspaper editor, theatre worker, radio personality and organizational leader?
... that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, North Yorkshire, consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled that an Indian could not be tried for killing another Indian in Ex parte Crow Dog, resulting in the passage of the Major Crimes Act?
... that the Antoni Gaudí-inspired "Crazy House" in Da Lat, Vietnam, has been variously compared to the works of Salvador Dali and Walt Disney?
... that Sir Richard Glass, who was knighted for his part in creating the first transatlantic telegraph cable, lasted only a few months as an MP?
... that The Titan's Goblet, an 1833 landscape painting by Thomas Cole, "defies full explanation" according to the museum that owns it?
... that the first stone building in Latvia was a church and a fortress of Ikšķile built by missionary Saint Meinhard in 1185–1186?
... that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove, with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession"?
... that the New Ulyanovsk Bridge, one of Europe's longest bridges, took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that a New Jersey State Senator unsuccessfully attempted to block Marianne Espinosa's renomination to family court, citing complaints that she "giggles and throws pencils on the desk during testimony"?
... that the court decision in Palila v. Hawaii saved the Palila , a critically endangered honeycreeper, from possible extinction?
... that in 1972, the Uganda Development Corporation's portfolio was swelled with the addition of 90 nationalised British holdings?
... that professional baseball player Ollie Carnegie is the International League's career home run and RBI leader?
... that BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism?
... that while being stipendiary magistrate in Sarpsborg, Oluf Falck-Ytter edited the newspaper Glommen anonymously?
... that British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot?
... that because Prince George produced many of his plays under pseudonyms, most of his audiences were unaware a Prussian prince was behind them?
... that the Medina, New York, armory was the first one designed by new state architect George Heins?
... that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber?
... that Terry Byrne was the only person to accompany David Beckham to the changing room after his red card in the 1998 World Cup, and later became his personal manager?
... that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 was the first type of aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that could carry bombs?
... that religious master Longchen Rabjam had foreseen Tang Rimochen Lhakhang in Bhutan in a vision?
... that Berman's Bakery, Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
... that the eponymous first album by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft includes the song "The White Ship", directly inspired by a short story by the writer from whom the group took their name?
... that Ohio's Paulding County Courthouse was patterned after Michigan's Lenawee County Courthouse?
... that Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink?
... that before becoming a professional mixed martial artist, Eduard Folayang was a high school teacher?
... that American soul blues singer Kip Anderson used "A Knife and a Fork" as a warning concerning his girlfriend's food consumption?
... that British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Gordon Drummond Campbell had been an educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam?
... that Michael Taylor led Michigan to consecutive Big Ten football championships and became the school's all-time leader in passing efficiency?
... that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast?
... that Dr. Nicholas Lang of the University of Arkansas advised against ever consuming a hamdog at any point in one's lifetime?
... that the Van Wert Bandstand is the only extant historic bandstand in western Ohio?
... that to show his opposition to Wilhelm II, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz forbade any demonstrations of mourning for the deaths of emperors Wilhelm I and Frederick III?
... that Montreal Alouettes kick returner Tim Maypray returned a missed field goal for a touchdown twice in 2010—both against the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
... that the first New Zealanders were Eastern Polynesians, who are thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 750 years ago?
... that the port of Aransas City lost its customhouse after Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar relocated it to the self-named town of Lamar?
... that Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county, Norway?
... that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel?
... that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?
... that although the Montmartre funicular is considered part of the Paris Métro, it requires a separate ticket?
... that the lithium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion is a common electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries?
... that American stock car racer Nelson Stacy lost one of the closest season points battle in ARCA history before winning the next three championships?
... that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham, South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
... that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships, winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
... that bacteria expressing the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase are resistant to all standard intravenous antibiotics for treatment of severe infections?
... that the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases, up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
... that a 1999 internet hoax led people to believe that a wealthy family in the 16th century would share bacon with their guests so they could sit around and "chew the fat"?
... that during the Battle of Ratsua, Frank Partridge became the youngest Australian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross?
... that Tadahiro Matsushita is one of only four People's New Party members in the House of Representatives of Japan?
... that Somerset's Sophie Le Marchand has stumped three batsmen in an innings twice in Twenty20 cricket?
... that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE, but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
... that "Tuesday's Child", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City, was filmed entirely on location in Ghana?
... that although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona?
... that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol, who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League?
... that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Wien was the only ship from the Monarch-class to be sunk during World War I?
... that songwriter and producer Popcorn Wylie allowed his children to play frisbee with old singles he had worked on, before he became aware of their value to collectors of Northern soul records?
... that Dennis Brown broke the Big Ten single game total offense record in his first start and set the Michigan football record for career passing yards?
... that the Servoss House , on the Erie Canal outside Medina, New York, uses an unusual structural system consisting of stacked wooden planks?
... that the Mana by-election, 2010 was caused by the resignation of Winnie Laban, who has been appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington?
... that Gaza's "swish, stylish" Al Deira Hotel is built of mudbricks?
... that the top three finishers in 1962 MVP award voting – Maury Wills, Willie Mays, and Tommy Davis – all played in the 1962 National League tie-breaker series?
... that the Palacio de la Autonomía in Mexico City is where the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México gained autonomy from direct government control?
... that the Star Carr house in North Yorkshire, England, was built by Stone Age hunters 10,500 years ago and is the oldest dwelling ever found in Britain?
... that Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine, called Dr. Robert M. Chanock his "star scientific son"?
... that, decades before he became Mayor of Portland, Maine, William MacVane practiced military medicine and received a Bronze Star for performing surgery "under adverse conditions" during World War II?
... that as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate, but now claims it is his favorite ingredient?
... that the English lace manufacturer and Liberal Party politician Sir Arthur Black donated two homes in Nottingham to the National Children's Home?
... that during the 1980s more than half of the personnel of the Soviet embassy in Zambia were KGB and GRU agents?
... that the Admonitions Scroll , a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
... that after being fined due to an incident, professional baseball player Tal Abernathy promised his teammates that if he was ever fined again he would buy them all a steak?
... that the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane is a boutique hotel, housed in a renovated French Indonese colonial building?
... that British Labour Party Member of Parliament J. H. Hall worked in the trade union movement for over 40 years?
... that in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist?
... that pastry chef Candace Nelson opened the world's first cupcake-only bakery?
... that in 1915 the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.1 became the first type of aircraft to be produced by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's aircraft factory Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk?
... that Harry George Woolley, who holds a club record for the most penalty minutes spent off the field, also donated the Most Sportsmanlike trophy to his lacrosse league?
... that the River Tern passes to the north of the Buntingsdale Hall in Shropshire?
... that after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910, the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
... that New Zealand cricketer Ted Badcock is the only player to be out first ball in both innings on his Test debut?
... that the 59-year-old President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis was arrested with 21 other rabbis for taking part in a sit-in opposite the United Nations HQ in 2007?
... that Milan Paumer was a member of a Czechoslovak anticommunist resistance group that fought its way across East Germany to West Berlin in 1953, evading a manhunt involving 25,000 people?
... that Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a law professor for five years after becoming blind?
... that the walls of the oldest part of the Uinta County Courthouse were stained with a mixture said to contain slaughterhouse blood and stale beer?
... that Michigan fullback Mel Anthony set a Rose Bowl record with an 84-yard touchdown run in 1965?
... that Lena Horne and Shirley Chisolm attended the same racially integrated Girls High School?
... that a comic book about Eva Perón was aborted during production because of political censorship to other works by the authors, and published posthumously instead?
... that Bach scored a tenor aria for oboe da caccia, recorder and bassoon in his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a, for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity?
... that at the Palace of Westminster in May 1945, the 73-year-old British Conservative Member of Parliament Harry Selley built a 200-brick wall in 58 minutes whilst wearing a bowler hat?
... that Rabbi Bruce M. Cohen established Interns for Peace to foster personal connections between Arabs and Jews, saying "every time you create contact it's successful because it breaks stereotypes"?
... that Captain Anthony Molloy's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?
... that Cecilia Bartoli sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time in concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund ?
... that the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India?
... that Ida Siekmann, the first casualty at the Berlin wall, died after she jumped out of her third floor apartment at Bernauer Strasse?
... that the 1991 Racha earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus?
... that in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada?
... that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
... that the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army?
... that research by Dr. Harold Ginsberg on adenoviruses led to the development of gene therapy, in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease?
... that Ragnvald Gjerløw played a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger?
... that John Idzik, University of Detroit head coach until it discontinued its football program, was fired by the Baltimore Colts, along with the entire coaching staff, on two separate occasions?
... that in a letter of 22 April 772 to Probatus, who later served as his ambassador, Pope Adrian I claimed to rule a "republic of the Romans"?
... that Olav Hoprekstad had eight of his plays staged at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo from 1913 to 1940?
... that former Michigan running back Chuck Heater coached national championship football teams at Notre Dame and Florida?
... that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald, king of Northumbria, rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall, South Yorkshire, after his death in 642?
... that a chance encounter at Goodrich Castle in 1793 inspired William Wordsworth's famous poem We are Seven?
... that Nikephoros Palaiologos and his son George twice found themselves on opposite sides during rebellions aimed at the Byzantine throne?
... that the 2008 historical drama/black comedy film Time of the Comet set a new box office record in Albanian cinemas?
... that American football player DeWayne Patmon appeared in a few movies after his National Football League career ended?
... that the tower of St Andrew's Church, Bywell, Northumberland, was built in about 850 as a defensive structure?
... that as son of a Lebanese Arab father who was raised by Jewish stepfathers after his father's death, Bradley M. Campbell quipped that his "aspiration is to become ambassador-at-large in the Middle East"?
... that the design of the Medina, New York, post office, has only been reused in Salem, Indiana?
... that Nick Pace, a mixed martial artist, won the inaugural Ring of Combat Bantamweight title by defeating his opponent via d'arce choke in the first round?
... that the rock gong was a neolithic musical instrument made out of dolerite that would resonate with a metallic tone when struck with a small igneous stone?
... that the champion of the new Australian Baseball League will be awarded the Claxton Shield , given to the top Australian baseball team since the first national tournament held in 1934?
... that, while Archbishop of Adelaide, the Dominican Robert Spence wore the simple clothes of his order instead of the purple soutane of an archbishop?
... that Cheshunt Great House, once owned by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey from 1519 until 1529, was burned down in 1965?
... that Amelia Gade Corson's successful swim across the English Channel was paid for by L. Walter Lissberger, who covered the US$3,000 cost and then collected US$100,000 from Lloyd's of London at 20–1 odds?
... that Oregon-based Electro Scientific Industries worked with Nike, Inc. to get a law passed that effectively prevents the neighboring city of Beaverton from annexing either company's property?
... that Johann Ewald, a Hessian mercenary during the American Revolutionary War, was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his performance as a Danish Army general in the 1809 Battle of Stralsund?
... that players from the FK Sørøy Glimt football team were caught in a doping case, a rare occurrence in Northern Norwegian football?
... that Bryan Hall served as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Edmonton Eskimos for 44 years?
... that the 3D Express Coach allows cars under two meters high to drive under it since the passengers are in an upper level of the bus elevated four meters above the ground?
... that in the Cathedral of Mayagüez , Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Ramón Emeterio Betances bought, baptized and emancipated thousands of black slave children?
... that Charlie Abbey became the first person from Nebraska to play in Major League Baseball after making his debut in 1893?
... that Exercise Verity, a 1949 multilateral exercise involving over 60 warships, was described by a British newsreel as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland?"
... that Hugh Candidus (c.1095 – c.1160), a Benedictine monk, wrote a history of Peterborough Abbey from its foundation as Medeshamstede in the mid 7th century up to the 12th century?
... that the post office in Middleport, New York, is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival-modernist design?
... that the Fandango Pass in the Warner Mountains is located at the convergence of two trails, the Applegate and the Lassen, that were traveled by emigrant pioneers between 1846 and 1850?
... that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company?
... that Fritz Teufel was known as one of the "Spaßguerilla" (fun guerilla) who carried out the 1967 "Pudding Assassination" of U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey during a state visit to West Berlin?
... that while commanding the Crisbecq Battery during the Normandy invasion, Walter Ohmsen had another artillery battery fire on his position, which helped earn him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross?
... that the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk?
... that during English footballer Freddie Bunce's only season with Highlands Park FC, they won South Africa's 1964 National Football League?
... that the Jewish community of Danzig sold their historic synagogue to finance their emigration in 1939?
... that the leaders of the September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt vowed to base their rule on that of slain President Ngo Dinh Diem?
... that logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk?
... that a purchase of 80 paintings by Phoebe Hearst enabled artist Joseph Henry Sharp to devote himself to painting full-time in a log cabin at Little Big Horn?
... that the overhead awning for the Colosseum was saturated with scented water which dripped on spectators' heads to cool them?
... that the favourite dish of former World Lightweight Boxing Champion Freddie Welsh was Chicken Maryland, despite his professed vegetarianism?
... that 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?
... that Cornbread Harris, who performed on Minnesota's first rock and roll record, is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam?
... that local tradition in Lyndonville, New York, holds that Jackson Blood's family hauled all the cobblestones for their house down from Lake Ontario themselves?
... that in 1923, Henry Sullivan became the third person, and the first American, to swim across the English Channel, finishing the crossing from Dover to Calais in 27 hours and 25 minutes?
... that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs, which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act, was overridden by statute in 1989?
... that the Giro di Castelbuono is one of Europe's oldest road running competitions, having been first held in Castelbuono, Sicily, in 1912?
... that despite being offered a scholarship by college basketball powerhouse Indiana, Ryan Wittman chose to walk on to the Cornell basketball team?
... that Alan Blinder has described Fedspeak as a turgid dialect of English used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements?
... that, though easily overlooked as a little brown mushroom, Crinipellis zonata is covered in distinctive brown hairs?
... that Dr. Thomas C. Peebles, who went on to isolate the measles virus strain used in the measles vaccine, was initially rejected by Harvard Medical School because he had gotten a D in college biology?
... that the historic P Ranch in Oregon, owned by cattle baron Peter French, covered 140,000 acres (570 km2) and required 500 miles of barbed wire fence for protection?
... that former professional wrestler Steve Rickard was once stranded in Greece after airports in the country were closed due to trouble with Turkey?
... that the duties of the Egyptian Labour Corps during World War I included forming an anti-mosquito squad?
... that 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?