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Did you know that the last old-Kannada grammar , authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
Did you know that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English , a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston , and a grandfather who was German Jewish ?
Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington , is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons ?
Did you know that publisher Gopal Raju , considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States , founded India Abroad , which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America ?
Did you know that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda , Lithuania , constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?
Did you know that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish people , Sudanese , and Greek soldiers?
Did you know that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle ?
Did you know that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an ?
Did you know that Theodore O'Hara 's Bivouac of the Dead , popularized in American Civil War memorials , was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
Did you know that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control ?
Did you know that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains , as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains ?
Did you know that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation , after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
Did you know that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$ 400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year ?
Did you know that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period ?
Did you know that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship , despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
Did you know that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor ?
Did you know that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland ?
Did you know that the Central Eurasian Studies Society is the first society for Central Asian scholars based in North America?
Did you know that De Doctrina Christiana , identified as John Milton 's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology , was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
Did you know that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico ?
Did you know that Louisville, Kentucky 's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland , may have been burned down by an angry resident?
Did you know that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung , a Jesuit convert from Nanking , arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain ?
Did you know that in the Jilava Massacre , perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
Did you know that Indian film director Nitin Bose , who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
Did you know that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia 's first President remains?
Did you know that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores ( JCPenney , Dillard's and Goldsmith's ) all in the same year?
Did you know that Flaithbertach Ua Néill , king of Ailech in Ireland , was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
Did you know that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
Did you know that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout ?
Did you know that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam , which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
Did you know that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord , originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
Did you know that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
Did you know that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?
Did you know that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
Did you know that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode " The Poison Sky "?
Did you know that a story in Janna 's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul ?
Did you know that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation ?
Did you know that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland ?
Did you know that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a " Gucci Mayberry "?
Did you know that legendary princess Yennenga , the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
Did you know that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
Did you know that Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco , later two of Dadaism 's founders, while they were still in high school?
Did you know that the Chicago Blackhawks , with the longest active Stanley Cup drought in the National Hockey League , last won the Cup in the 1960–61 season ?
Did you know that as a result of dog shows, dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the various types of dogs in use?
Did you know that although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles ?
Did you know that Ronald Joy was an English cricketer , who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season ?
Did you know that the Indian Coast Guard estimates more than 100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across the territorial waters of India and Pakistan ?
Did you know that the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America , with the largest cat complex in North America ?
Did you know that Joseph M. Street , a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War ?
Did you know that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth and his family?
Did you know that troops of Tadayoshi Sano , a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army , were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war ?
Did you know that, during a Fersommling , the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
Did you know that the French stormed the Bagration flèches eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812?
Did you know that Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
Did you know that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal , nearly causing a war , then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca , finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia ?
Did you know that the obscure mealybug , a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California , is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America ?
Did you know that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport , a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
Did you know that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle ?
Did you know that Daniel Carter Beard 's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark ?
Did you know that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis 's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek ?
Did you know that the forthcoming Tamil film Guru En Aalu , starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas , is a remake of the 1997 film Yes Boss ?
Did you know that Bradford City footballers Geoff Smith and George Mulholland each played more than 200 consecutive appearances for the club during the 1950s?
Did you know that Salt Lake City -based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
Did you know that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop , not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
Did you know that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara 's Le Cœur à gaz , a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
Did you know that in 1994 Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in the Republic of Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
Did you know that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty?
Did you know that the Silky Sifaka is a white, diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeastern Madagascar ?
Did you know that Andayya 's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
Did you know that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island ?
Did you know that Lena Guerrero , who became a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non- Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission ?
Did you know that Robert the Devil , an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable , ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's ?
Did you know that VFL footballer Charlie Moore , the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War , played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid , who died in the same war six weeks later?
Did you know that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark ?
Did you know that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman , his father George Bowman , and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia ?
Did you know that Shabdamanidarpana , a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language , was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja ?
Did you know that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird ( L'Oiseau Blanc ), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York , is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation ?
Did you know that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
Did you know that screenwriter Daniel Knauf 's polio -afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle ?
Did you know that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
Did you know that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River , transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu ?
Did you know that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy "?
Did you know that Kim Swoo Geun , a leading South Korean architect, was referred to as " Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul " by Time for his contributions to Korean culture ?
Did you know that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County ?
Did you know that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift 's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
Did you know that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea , 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
Did you know that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain , Nicaragua , Hungary and the United States , but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
Did you know that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K. ?
Did you know that Dr. Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$ 300?
Did you know that L'Insoumis , a film noir alluding to the Algerian war , was Alain Delon 's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
Did you know that the Pinchot Sycamore , a centuries-old American sycamore , is the largest tree in Connecticut ?
Did you know that ablative brain surgery , which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia ?
Did you know that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Singleton , Sussex , have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
Did you know that the Congressional Bowl is one of two new college football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?
Did you know that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer ?
Did you know that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church ?
Did you know that at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut "?
Did you know that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
Did you know that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey , near London , by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
Did you know that the Mark Eden bust developer , a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts , actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?
Did you know that the Galena Historic District in Illinois , USA , includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena ?
Did you know that in Claude Ashton 's only international appearance for the English national football team , he captained the squad?
Did you know that the 12th century Kannada poet Harihara was initially an accountant in the Hoysala court?
Did you know that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
Did you know that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849 ?
Did you know that as General Secretary of the Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000 pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
Did you know that the 1842 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that after Roche MacGeoghegan , Bishop of Kildare , died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order ?
Did you know that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee , burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period ?
Did you know that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India 's first indigenously made color film ?
Did you know that Omaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtime Omaha World-Herald publisher Henry Doorly in 1963?
Did you know that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region ?
Did you know that Frank Ford , an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas , was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
Did you know that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia , a region of Ukraine ?
Did you know that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea , located on Sejongno , Jongno-gu , central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
Did you know that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American ?
Did you know that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit ?
Did you know that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave ?
Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players ?
Did you know that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island 's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks , in addition to the district itself?
Did you know that HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II ?
Did you know that Spanish American cardiologist Valentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations?
Did you know that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan , Islamabad in Pakistan , and Dushanbe in Tajikistan ?
Did you know that the late actress and theatrical producer , Madeline Lee Gilford , who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era , is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City ?
Did you know that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance ?
Did you know that the Roanoke Apartments , which opened as Roanoke 's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
Did you know that Mathilde Ludendorff , a leader in the German Völkisch movement , claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
Did you know that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa 's Torre della Lanterna ?
Did you know that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe , according to TV show Most Haunted ?
Did you know that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Austria , often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
Did you know that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree , considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens , New York ?
Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia 's 100 Greatest Players ?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
Did you know that Lopez and Pico Adobes , built near the San Fernando Mission , are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley , California ?
Did you know that the Denver Broncos , who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005 , did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons ?
Did you know that the Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791 , St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation ?
Did you know that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
Did you know that NASCAR took away the first win for its all-time winningest driver at Lakewood Speedway after his father protested the scoring?
Did you know that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture from Hurricane Madeline in 1998 contributed to severe flooding in central Texas which killed 32 people?
Did you know that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non- Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?
Did you know that Breed Street Shul , now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles , was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
Did you know that " Guten Tag " , the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
Did you know that Raghavanka , a 12th century writer of Kannada literature , penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
Did you know that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha 's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
Did you know that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan , the Emperor of Yan , because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince ?
Did you know that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
Did you know that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath , nephew of Periyar , co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
Did you know that the pumpman is the person aboard an oil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
Did you know that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$ 5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood , California ?
Did you know that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus ?
Did you know that Russell B. Cummings , as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?
Did you know that the Japanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social game Ai Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction with bishōjo game characters?