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Did you knowthat the Vladimirka , a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga , is mentioned in the works of Herzen , Nekrasov and Dostoevsky ?
Did you knowthat rainbow sharks are Cyprinids , making them relatives of goldfish , carp and minnows ?
Did you knowthat Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. 's jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park ?
Did you knowthat Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid- Song Dynasty ?
Did you knowthat despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria , John Partridge ' s career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings ?
Did you knowthat Jeffrey Goldberg , a writer for The New Yorker , was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children?
Did you knowthat although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing , the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
Did you knowthat U.S. Representative John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler ?
Did you knowthat Major League Baseball relief pitcher Ramón Peña , younger brother of All-Star catcher Tony Peña , allowed no home runs to any of the 88 batters he faced despite 6.00 career earned run average ?
Did you knowthat arms , munitions , and Vietcong documents were planted prior to raids on South Vietnam's Buddhist pagodas as a pretext to crush protests over religious discrimination?
Did you knowthat molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
Did you knowthat American musician Wade Mainer is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass ?
Did you knowthat the Young Christian Workers movement, founded by Joseph Cardijn , had 2 million members in 69 countries at the time of his death?
Did you knowthat during the Russo-Japanese War , the London Times refitted the Chinese ship Haimun , creating the world's first ship dedicated to war correspondence covering the on-going naval battles?
Did you knowthat the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków , Poland , erected by Cracovians in 1823 and modeled after prehistoric mounds , became a strategic lookout for the occupying Austrian army ?
Did you knowthat the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland helped lay the cornerstone for the post office in Rhinebeck , New York ?
Did you knowthat the song " I Am a Child of God " is related to a phrase used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a declaration of a basic belief of Mormonism ?
Did you knowthat the open habitat of grassy balds in the forested Appalachian Mountains may be relicts of grazing pressure from Pleistocene megaherbivores ?
Did you knowthat Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ?
Did you knowthat David Yudelman asserts that South African Apartheid predates the traditional demarcation of the National Party's 1948 rise to power?
Did you knowthat Al Hopkins and his group The Hill Billies originated the term " hillbilly music", and were the first to play country music for a United States president and the first to play country in a film ?
Did you knowthat as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal ?
Did you knowthat the Major League Baseball pitcher Carl Zamloch was also a professional magician ?
Did you knowthat a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar ' s five-point crossing?
Did you knowthat Swiss pharmacologist Hartmann F. Stähelin led the R&D of both the anti-cancer drug etoposide and cyclosporine A , an immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation ?
Did you knowthat Les Chouans , Honoré de Balzac 's novel about royalist forces in France , was the first book he published without using a nom de plume ?
Did you knowthat in the 1990s , business process outsourcing company PeopleSupport gave their employees job titles such as gladiator , crusader , and marketing mechanic ?
Did you knowthat the book Historia naturalis palmarum , by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , was described by E. J. H. Corner as "the most magnificent treatment of palms that has been produced"?
Did you knowthat 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore ’s Kent Ridge Park ?
Did you knowthat while the first union was founded in 1927, Tanzania did not have a significant labor movement until the 1940s?
Did you knowthat several universities now offer courses on the politics of Harry Potter ?
Did you knowthe first edition of Patience and Sarah , winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award , was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
Did you knowthat in group theory , a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses ?
Did you knowthat the Mosque of Amr in Fustat , originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt ?
Did you knowthat the construction of the John T. Loughran Bridge in Kingston , New York , led to the creation of the Rondout-West Strand Historic District ?
Did you knowthat Takakia is a genus of moss first discovered in the Himalayas in 1861 , but no fertile plants were known until collected in 1993 in the Aleutian Islands ?
Did you knowthat Roosevelt's World War I volunteers , a unit similar to Roosevelt's Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War , were authorized by the U.S. Congress to fight in France in 1917, but President Woodrow Wilson refused?
Did you knowthat DeWitty , the largest African American village ever founded in Nebraska , existed for only 29 years?
Did you knowthat Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide , the subject of his 1921 book In the Land of Blood and Tears ?
Did you knowthat the first customer of the Maine Diner , which has been featured on NBC's Today Show , crashed into a pole in the parking lot ?
Did you knowthat the SMS Hannover and her four sister ships represented the last Deutschland class pre- dreadnought battleships ?
Did you knowthat while Sanskrit is the liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma , uses it?
Did you knowthat 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the TV serial The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore , India ?
Did you knowthat A Tragedy by 19th century poet , singer and composer Theo Marzials is frequently referred to as the worst poem ever written in the English language ?
Did you knowthat six months after his nomination James W. Stephenson was forced to withdraw from the 1838 election for Governor of Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the Japanese science fiction film I.K.U. was the first pornographic film ever screened in the Sundance Film Festival ?
Did you knowthat Murray's Ranch , a former guest ranch in Apple Valley , California , was unique in that it was owned by African-Americans and catered primarily to an African-American clientele?
Did you knowthat St. Mary's Basilica is the oldest church in Bangalore and the only basilica in the Indian state of Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat James D. Henry died four days after the people of New Salem, Illinois supported him for the office of Governor of Illinois ?
Did you knowthat under English criminal law , intoxication is technically not a defence, but can negate the mens rea for specific intent offences?
Did you knowthat Harlem on the Prairie , a 1937 race movie , is billed as the first " all-colored " western musical ?
Did you knowthat Labour Party politician Ruth Dalton , who was the shortest-serving female MP in British history, represented Bishop Auckland for 92 days?
Did you knowthat Michiel Daniel Overbeek was the first amateur astronomer to detect supernova -related gamma ray burst effects?
Did you knowthat the Chicago -based Lincoln Towing Service uses satellite tracking to provide towing services for landlords with tenant parking problems?
Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler served in the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division during World War I ?
Did you knowthat a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that during an outbreak of an itch mite in August 2004 , 54 percent of Crawford County, Kansas suffered from bites?
Did you knowthat in 1945, Congregationalist minister Geoffrey Nuttall became only the second nonconformist theologian to become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford ?
Did you knowthat militia company commander John Giles Adams may have been killed by his own men during the 1832 Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
Did you knowthat Singaporean anime distributor Odex is asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
Did you knowthat the Latécoère 611 , a reconnaissance flying boat for the Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the Free French after the Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942?
Did you knowthat Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both licensed and unlicensed versions?
Did you knowthat Major League Baseball for Nintendo was the first ever video game licensed by the MLB ?
Did you knowthat the 42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912, fought both on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I , and was the last regular division created in the Imperial German Army ?
Did you knowthat when John Kuester became head men's basketball coach at Boston University , he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I ?
Did you knowthat Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private collections of meteorites to Texas Christian University ?
Did you knowthat the location of William D. Brown 's Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of Omaha, Nebraska , was lost to historians until 2004?
Did you knowthat Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival ?
Did you knowthat in 1991 Heinz Barth , former Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS , was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for war crimes for involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944 ?
Did you knowthat the early settlers of Savanna, Illinois fended off a Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the Plum River raid ?
Did you knowthat Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
Did you knowthat Erik Chisholm , former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town , was a Scottish musician often known as " Scotland ’s forgotten composer"?
Did you knowthat Cable 243 by the Kennedy administration , which authorised preparations for a coup against South Vietnam 's Ngo Dinh Diem , came after Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?
Did you knowthat the Zip to Zap , originally intended as a 1969 spring break alternative in Zap, North Dakota , was the only riot quelled by the National Guard in the history of North Dakota ?
Did you knowthat Albert F. A. L. Jones , awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to astronomy , is an amateur astronomer in New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat causing a stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for hackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer ?
Did you knowthat William Joseph Snelling , one of the first American realists , wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of Plains Indians ?
Did you knowthat Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832 Isaiah Stillman -led debacle at the Battle of Stillman's Run ?
Did you knowthat matron literature is also known as hen lit , a play on the notion that it is chick lit for older women?
Did you knowthat under Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones , the Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the ordination of women priests and to allow divorcees to remarry in church?
Did you knowthat, despite being relatively small compared to other members of its genus, the Black Hawk-Eagle feeds on animals such as monkeys and toucans ?
Did you knowthat Byron's poem Darkness was written based on predictions that the sun would burn out on July 18 1816 ?
Did you knowthat as a result of the 1832 Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to Galena, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the Bulldog Bash , one of the largest motorcycle festivals in Europe , was originally organized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club for bikers ?
Did you knowthat Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
Did you knowthat Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination medical hospital and psychiatric hospital in North America ?
Did you knowthat Socrates , the last defender of orality in ancient Greece , denounced writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the mind , the memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?
Did you knowthat dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special corpse roads ?
Did you knowthat the tiyanak is an infant -like creature from Philippine mythology that is said to attack tourists with its fangs and claws ?
Did you knowthat the Black Hawk Tree in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was so revered that it grew from the middle of a road without being cut down?
Did you knowthat the lament of Jheronimus Vinders on the death of Josquin des Prez has been used for a computer game in modern times?
Did you knowthat the Spanish Paralympic basketball team were stripped of their gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players did not have a disability ?
Did you knowthat the Double Seven Day scuffle was a fight in Saigon in 1963 between South Vietnamese secret police and journalists covering the Buddhist crisis ?
Did you knowthat the first Festival of the Flowers in Medellín , Colombia took place in May in 1957 but was moved to August the following year to celebrate the independence of Antioquia ?
Did you knowthat the Top 14 competition in French rugby union will test a change to the sport's bonus point system in the upcoming 2007-08 season ?
Did you knowthat 19th-century American poet Thomas Holley Chivers accused his former friend Edgar Allan Poe of plagiarizing " The Raven " and " Ulalume " from his own work?
Did you knowthat plant morphology is the science of the physical form and external structure of plants ?
Did you knowthat the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only successful Italian campaign of World War II without German support?
Did you knowthat 19th-century U.S. Congressman Thomas D. English had an ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe , which inspired " The Cask of Amontillado "?
Did you knowthat in 1924 Baptist minister Herbert Dunnico became the first British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) to vote against a Labour government?
Did you knowthat Hinduism describes the peacock as the vehicle of several gods, including Ganesh , Skanda and Sarasvati ?
Did you knowthat one reason for the African Wild Dog name controversy is that endangered African Wild Dogs are being confused with feral domestic dogs?
Did you knowthat, in 1964, J. N. L. Baker , Bursar of Jesus College, Oxford became the first member of the University of Oxford to hold the post of Lord Mayor of Oxford ?
Did you knowa four-year-old boy lama visiting Singapore 's Amitabha Buddhist Centre caused a stir when over 10,000 people from all walks of life, including some Christians and Hindus , sought blessings from him?
Did you knowthat with Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians, half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
Did you knowthat Salvation Army officer Sir Arthur McIlveen was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II , and was the unofficial padre to many brigades ?
Did you knowthat the Apple River Fort near Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the Black Hawk War of 1832 ?
Did you knowthat Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia ?
Did you knowthat Antonio Bagioli , musical director for one of the first Italian opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to Cuba ?
Did you knowthat the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world ?
Did you knowthat the six permutations of the vector (1,2,3) form a hexagon in 3d space , the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a truncated octahedron in four dimensions , and both are examples of permutohedra ?
Did you knowthat Rangayana is the only repertory in India that is sponsored by the government?
Did you knowthat the Protector lock , a lock design by A. C. Hobbs , which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
Did you knowthat Vasanta Habba , an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore , is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India ?
Did you knowthat chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan invented a new chess variant in 2007 , Seirawan chess , which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk ?
Did you knowthat Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle , then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
Did you knowthat Theudimer who signed the Treaty of Orihuela with the Moors conquering Spain was the same Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?
Did you knowthat Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
Did you knowthat Epiphanius , Bishop of Pavia from 466 to 496 , often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
Did you knowthat advocates for pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during labor and delivery ?
Did you knowthat Czech amateur astronomer Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40 extragalactic supernovae ?
Did you knowthat epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?
Did you knowthat the use of Congreve rockets during the bombardment of Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the " The Star-Spangled Banner ," the national anthem of the United States ?
Did you knowthat Prabhat Kalavidaru , a theatre group based in Bangalore , has performed the fairytale Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that a few artists have acted in each of those performances?
Did you knowthat according to Allied military intelligence , the 27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I ?
Did you knowthat amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus and amygdala ?
Did you knowthat Robert E. Murray , a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine , which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
Did you knowthat the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts , Literature , and History and Social Sciences —and was called "the Britanni queer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate ?
Did you knowthat in his Pulitzer Prize -winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive , the Fall of Saigon , The Troubles in Northern Ireland , and the fall of the Berlin Wall ?
Did you knowthat in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954 , CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread false rumors of a nuclear attack on the Communist north ?
Did you knowthat Walter Braithwaite , who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli , was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause , which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy ?
Did you knowthat Dele Olojede ' s 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize ?
Did you knowthat the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$ 6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets , in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
Did you knowthat the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un- Islamic " by upper caste Muslims ?
Did you knowthat the Baths of Zeuxippus , built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople , housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle , Homer , Plato and Julius Caesar ?
Did you knowthat the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
Did you knowthat British military engineer Major-General Sir John Capper helped develop both airships and tanks during his service with the Royal Engineers ?
Did you knowthat actor S.J. Warmington had several supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1930s and was killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed London in 1941?
Did you knowthat photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
Did you knowthat the Solar Sentinels , a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun , will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth 's distance?
Did you knowthat the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
Did you knowthat Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ?
Did you knowthat the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (70m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River ?
Did you knowthat astronomer Russell M. Genet founded the first totally automatic robotic observatory ?
Did you knowthat the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan ?
Did you knowthat Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$ 25,000 today?
Did you knowthat Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8?
Did you knowthat the first match between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890, starting the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
Did you knowthat Jatindramohan Tagore , a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthrophist, was the first Indian to be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898?
Did you knowthat the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House ?
Did you knowthat John W. Blassingame 's The Slave Community (1972) is one of the first histories of slavery in the United States written from the perspective of African American slaves?