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... that in the Fourth Test of the 1965–66 Ashes series the Australian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partner Bill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand against England in Australia?
... that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis, males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?
... that Henry Conybeare, a civil engineer who planned a water-supply scheme for Mumbai which is still in use today, also designed St Mary's Church in Itchen Stoke, Hampshire?
... that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite?
... that Felipe González González was Governor of Aguascalientes from 1998 to 2004?
... that artist Edward Hopper's wife served as the model for both women in his painting Hotel Lobby?
... that Steve and Christian Thomas are the first father-son combination to each score at least 50 goals in a single Ontario Hockey League season?
... that in the 2010 documentary film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins?
... that the snail Theodoxus fluviatilis can reach population density up to 6412 snails per m2?
... that M. A. Muqtedar Khan calls Jewish rabbi Mukhayriq "the first Jewish martyr of Islam" and "a true Islamic hero"?
... that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised as Mensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of a letter bomb campaign?
... that attack helicopters racked up an impressive five-to-one kill ratio over jet fighters during the J-CATCH exercises in the late 1970s?
... that boxer Adrian Dodson competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that the 5th Arizona Territorial Legislature had difficulty maintaining a quorum in its lower house due to the large number of members that did not attend the session?
... that a portion of Black Eagle Dam was dynamited on April 14, 1908, so that floodwaters from the collapsed Hauser Dam could pass through?
... that wrestler Charles B. Sprott sued the reigning World Heavyweight Champion in 1973 for calling him names in a parking lot?
... that Bright Angel, composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon, relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
... that Alimuddin Zumla was the first Zambian doctor to be shortlisted for the BMJ Group's Lifetime Achievement Award?
... that organocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to other organometallic reagents?
... that the first musical episode of Grey's Anatomy was conceived over seven years before it was produced, while the series was still untitled?
... that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the fate of English cricketer Walter Gilbert for 60 years after his death?
... that Tamil devotional poetry describes how clothes of married women slipped off at the sight of the Hindu god Shiva appearing in the form of a naked beggar ?
... that Barend Joseph Stokvis, a Dutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease acute porphyria in a 1889 study?
... that the first phase of Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign was announced via a video message?
... that Alaungpaya was a village headman who founded the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma, and unified the country for the third time in its history?
... that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure?
... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus was named after its resemblance to large grapes?
... that Supernatural, a 1998 album by British singer Des'ree, sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album I Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
... that artist Charles Alston's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House?
... that RCA used its Triniscope color television design during FCC meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
... that Edward J. Burke coached the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to their first NCAA Tournament?
... that according to Kawasaki's theorem, an origami crease pattern with one vertex may be folded flat if and only if the sum of every other angle between consecutive creases is 180º?
... that the 6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available to call for elections?
... that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
... that when the first cents coined by the U.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint worker Adam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put a trefoil under Liberty's head?
... that Gandrung traditional dance, popular in Java, Bali and Lombok, was originally dedicated to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri?
... that Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, who clerked for U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was the starting fullback in the 1986 Gator Bowl for the Stanford Cardinal football team?
... that in 1864 the Church of St John the Baptist, Upper Eldon, in Hampshire was being used as a cowshed, and in 1973 its only occupant was "a beautiful white owl"?
... that every Good Friday since 1922, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in Naarden?
... that most of the remaining redwoods in Oregon are in the Winchuck River watershed?
... that African-American writer Felicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television series Soul Food, Gossip Girl, and Fringe, and the comic series Teen Titans?
... that the Loire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustrated songbooks that are smaller than a modern paperback?
... that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?
... that Jesus at Herod's Court is mentioned in only one canonical gospel, the Gospel of Luke?
... that in the 1820s, chemist Antoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500 francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell from Paris's gut-processing factories?
... that after The Redmond Spokesman won University of Oregon's Hal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper in Oregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given to The Spokesman's publisher?
... that the record-setting Finnhorse trotter Reipas was originally a thin, weak foal of unknown parentage?
... that footballers Denis Law, Robert Smyth McColl and Hughie Gallacher have each scored three hat-tricks for Scotland?
... that during the trial that led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Mancusi v. DeForte, which established a reasonable expectation of privacy at work, the jury deliberated for 28 hours without sleep?
... that Courtney Vandersloot was the first NCAA Division I basketball player, male or female, with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career?
... that the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large, 17 metres (56 ft) long, fixed flamethrowers used in the Mametz sector of the Battle of the Somme, and that the remains of one have recently been rediscovered?
... that Felix Schlag won the prize for designing the Jefferson nickel, but was required to submit an entirely new "tails" or reverse side?
... that when the ABB Group and CMS Energy invested US$1.5 billion into projects at the Moroccan port of Jorf Lasfar, it was the largest foreign investment ever in that country?
... that at age 18, Australian country music singer Samantha McClymont was crowned Grafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist for Australian Idol?
... that 17 years after Bruiser Brody's 1988 murder, the stadium where he was killed was one of the venues of the Bruiser Brody Memorial Cup Tour, which featured his assailant, Invader I, on the card?
... that the first recorded ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze on 27 August 1820, was led by a Bavarian Army officer, Josef Naus?
... that Judge C. C. Bridgewater's tenure on the Washington Court of Appeals ended when he missed the deadline to file for re-election—because he was in a medically induced coma after a heart attack?
... that Mote Park stopped being used by Kent after a green wicket cost them eight County Championship points due to a low scoring cricket game that ended in under two days?
... that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
... that the Foresight Institute's Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology includes both annual prizes and a US$250,000 Grand Prize modeled after historical technological prizes such as the Longitude prize?
... that The King of Rome's skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died?
... that Republican Texas high court Judge Cathy Cochran took her husband's surname when they married in 1966, and he took her maiden name in 2001?
... that depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome?
... that Jurassic Park's discussion of chaos theory was inspired by Ivar Ekeland?
... that the historian Josephus wrote that the Jordan River had its source in Aaiha, because of an underground stream feeding the Hasbani River?
... that one-quarter of the plant diversity of Mexico occurs in Landa de Matamoros municipality in Querétaro?
... that Dwight B. Heard is credited with making Arizona's cotton industry more competitive after becoming president of the Arizona Cotton Association?
... that "You Debt Your Life" was the second American Dad! episode to feature the story of how Roger the Alien saved Stan Smith at Area 51, the first episode having been "Roger Codger"?
... that the ancient British custom of rushbearing was opposed by the Puritans, probably for encouraging intemperance, but deemed acceptable by King James I in his Declaration of Sports?
... that Blue Labour is a socially conservative trend in the British Labour Party that argues for Flag, Faith and Family?
... that Ox Baker, a former tag team partner of Walter "Killer" Kowalski, was among the wrestling legends who spoke at the Killer Kowalski Memorial Show in 2008?
... that Groupe Bogolan Kasobané of Mali is a pioneer in the bogolan fine arts movement?
... that Air India One is the call sign of any aircraft carrying either the Prime Minister of India or the President of India?
... that at its peak, the Gare de la Bastille in Paris handled over 1,000,000 roses a night?
... that the Hai Van Pass has been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious railway accidents?
... that several members of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ were accused of accepting bribes after the session created the territory's first "permanent" capital?
... that Ancient Greek girl Myrtis was made a friend of the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations Regional Information Centre?
... that Oregon Court of Appeals Judge David Schuman finished second in the North American speed skating finals in the 220-yard competition at the age of 17?
... that on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Leslie Whetter was accused of incompetence, "chiefly through lack of determination in character and failing to do his level best"?
... that Piper's Opera House was used by boxing champion Gentleman Jim Corbett as a training facility in preparation for his title bout with Bob Fitzsimmons?
... that Breton writer Jacques Cambry (1749–1807) published important works on Celtic history and monuments, and in 1805 founded the Celtic Academy?
... that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab, gastropod, cephalopod, and wood fossils?
... that the monument to Sir Henry Furnese in All Saints Church, Waldershare, Kent, fills a chapel, and has been described as "outstanding"?
... that after Rick Wakeman left Yes without a full-time keyboardist in 1997, the band borrowed Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro for their final rock radio hit "Open Your Eyes"?
... that the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sought the imprisonment of Admiral Reinhold Werner, who nearly precipitated a war between Spanish rebels and Germany in 1873?
... that the oldest known museum labels are from c. 1900 BCE, describing 2000 BCE objects?
... that in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stoner v. California, Potter Stewart wrote that the police could not depend on their bud, a hotel clerk, to help smoke out a suspected robber?
... that Landysh, a Russian vessel built with funding from Japan to decommission nuclear submarines, was requested by Japan to assist in the aftermath of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents?
... that American ceramics sculptor Richard Deutsch had a piece exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in 1981, just three years after his first solo show?
... that "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A)" by Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! is a reply to Avril Lavigne's song, "Girlfriend"?
... that, after chopping off her husband's penis, Lorena Bobbitt won her trial by employing the abuse defense?
... that the concept of self-propelled particles can explain why flocking birds suddenly change direction for no apparent reason, or abruptly switch from a flying state to a landing state?
... that the British minelayer HMS Plover laid over 15,000 mines during World War II, including two that sank the German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann off the Belgian coast in January 1942?
... that John VI Kantakouzenos concealed the purpose of the meeting that resulted in the 1327 Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of Chernomen by describing it as eight days of rejoicing and feasts?
... that the Rome bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics will use 70 percent of the city's existing venues?
... that among the many children of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald were inventors, clergymen, civil servants, Members of Parliament, army officers and admirals?
... that German art nouveau painter and architect Richard Riemerschmid began designing furniture after he could not find what he wanted for his flat following his marriage?
... that the John Hancock Tower , in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Twenty-five Year Award thirty-five years after it was completed?
... that Jean-François-Auguste Moulin was one of the last two holdouts in the French Directory to resist Napoleon Bonaparte's seizure of power?
... that in 1916, members who attempted to remove a "whites only" clause from the constitution of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America were accused of "fomenting socialism"?
... that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias, a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford, was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?
... that White Ware or Vaiselle Blanche was a limestone based prototype of clay pottery developed somewhere in the Levant in the ninth millennium BC?
... that after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?
... that before he entered politics, Joseph Stalin's poetry was widely read and much admired in Georgia?
... that artist Maya Lin worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to create her Bluespring Caverns-inspired sculpture Above and Below?
... that Lev Voronin, a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was acting Premier of the Soviet Union between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalisation and Valentin Pavlov's election as Premier?
... that the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, Cheshire, was opened in 1887, destroyed by fire in 1910, and rebuilt on the same site in 1911?
... that Ernst Cadman Colwell, together with his students, elaborated a new method of textual criticism known as the Claremont Profile Method?
... that the album Gloria by Mexican singer Gloria Trevi features a song dedicated to The Rolling Stones?
... that the 2011 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, held in France in April 2011, marks the first time that all of the Six Nations will participate in the competition?
... that Hollingworth Magniac had business relationships with William Jardine and James Matheson, whose Jardine Matheson and Company partnership became Asia's largest trading company?
... that in 2010, a white member of the Monticello Association was one of three Thomas Jefferson descendants given the "Search for Common Ground" award for working to heal the family's past and legacy of slavery?
... that the first Ottoman governor of Syria, Janbirdi al-Ghazali, revolted against Ottoman rule two years into his reign?
... that all that remains of the Old Church of St Mary the Virgin in Preston Candover, Hampshire, is the chancel?
... that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
... that a week after co-producing an Usher concert in the Philippines, Representative Ronald Singson was jailed in Hong Kong for alleged drug trafficking?
... that Elizabeth J. Feinler , better known as "Jake", ran the Network Information Center of the Internet until 1989?
... that five members of the popular Irish band The Miami Showband were shot in an ambush by the Ulster Volunteer Force at a bogus military checkpoint in Northern Ireland?
... that after the California Court of Appeal treated a teenager's letter as a formal appeal, Presiding Justice Daniel J. Kremer wrote a unanimous opinion overturning the boy's speeding ticket fine?
... that angry residents burned down a toll booth on the west end of Perkiomen Bridge in 1867, and another on the east end in 1872?
... that Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan in graffiti during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution?
... that new Police Commissioner of New Zealand Peter Marshall held off an invasion of his home by 13 people in the Solomon Islands with a ceremonial sword?
... that USAF General Vogt "shut down the war" and sent 119 aircraft to recover Major Roger Locher only 60 miles (97 km) from Hanoi—the deepest rescue inside North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
... that Peñamiller, Querétaro, Mexico, is promoted as the gateway to the Sierra Gorda?
... that racist music is considered an effective recruiting tool for the modern neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements, and a breeding ground for domestic terrorism in the United States?
... that pamphleteer George Thomson criticized his fellow physicians for fleeing London during the Great Plague, just when the city needed them most?
... that the total amount spent on lobbying in the United States in 2010 was $3.49 billion?
... that in 2007 Lucy Aharish became the first Arab to present the news on mainstream Israeli television?
... that, when trying to gain the rights to use a Björk song for an upcoming episode, the creators of Glee initially could not reach her as she apparently did not have a telephone number?
... that Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, was considered to be a conservative by radical reformers during the Gorbachev Era?
... that Jacques Cauvin said the Neolithic Revolution moved into Anatolia via "the acculturation of a local cultural background by a dominant, expansionist culture"?
... that at the time of the 3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ there were no stage coaches running in Arizona?
... that Shoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as a drama documentary because many of its subjects had either been shot by the RUC, given new identities, or forbidden to talk by the Official Secrets Act?
... that the first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy by Henry Thomson was of Daedalus fastening wings on his son Icarus?
... that Abraham Bolden was the first African American member of the US Secret Service Presidential Protective Division?
... that two people owed their survival of the Sture Murders to an ambiguous order issued by a mad king?
... that Bach composed Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, for Palm Sunday as his first cantata for the Schlosskirche of the court in Weimar?
... that the first car that had a body entirely of plastic was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in 1941?
... that the Codex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Vulgate?
... that the design of the West Washington Street Bridge in Muncie, Indiana was inspired by the work of an American Civil War engineer who built military bridges?
... that Tell Arslan in the Sands of Beirut was the oldest known neolithic village settlement in the Beirut area?
... that missionary E. E. Aiken was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale in 1881 and the next year wrote a book denouncing such secret societies?
... that in Jones v Kaney, the UK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back 400 years to allow an expert witness to be sued for professional negligence?
... that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established the Elite 88 Award in 2009 to recognize the student athlete with the highest grade point average at each NCAA championship?
... that 84% of Botswana is covered by the Kalahari Desert , a flat terrain known as a "thirstland", which harbours some of the wildlife of Botswana?
... that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching from Chicago to Mexico?
... that Monte do Gozo, a hill in Spain, is most known for its view of a sight below, a view that is now largely obscured?
... that preacher John "Zion" Ward was jailed for blasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition to Parliament by Henry Hunt, and a speech in the House of Commons by MP Joseph Hume?
... that the German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker had exhausted her ammunition after the Second Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to be scuttled by placing demolition charges after she had been beached?
... that Hospital Tobar García is the only facility in the federated capital of Buenos Aires that specializes in mental illness in children and adolescents?
... that nearly all orders for Nintendo's Laser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a result of the 1973 oil crisis, plunging the company ¥5 billion into debt?
... that the original walk-in safe from a bank that once occupied the first floor of the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, is still on display in the lobby?
... that Zenith Productions, which produced Inspector Morse, was later also responsible for Ant & Dec's SMTV Live?
... that editor John Jympson was fired during production of Star Wars because director George Lucas disliked his rough cut of the film?
... that, according to the excavator, the more than 3000-year-old "Green Palace" of Tell al-Fakhar in Iraq was pillaged and burned with the defenders still inside?
... that bizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary shapes to be introduced into silk design" before the development of Art Nouveau?
... that the Spirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully than any other utopian group in the United States?
... that three million trees, including pine, oak, sweet chestnut, and acacia , are being planted every year as part of reforestation efforts in Cape Verde?
... that Epitaphium, composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse, is performed today in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that the Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System in Utah was the world's largest solar cell power plant when it opened in 1980?
... that singer Jenny Silver debuted with the Swedish dance band Candela, when it was signed to Bert Karlsson's label Mariann Grammofon?
... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure?
... that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s new opera about student activism, Kommilitonen!, was intended to be performed by students?
... that the extinct Eocene parasitic wasp Brevivulva electroma was named from the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"?