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... that the anti-religious campaign culminating in the
Stalinist show trial of the Kraków Curia
(pictured)
led to the imprisonment of 123
Polish Roman Catholic
priests in just one year?
... that
Confederate
brigadier general
Alfred E. Jackson
was pardoned by
President
Andrew Johnson
because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the
Civil War
?
... that after
HMS
Porcupine
was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS
Pork
and HMS
Pine
?
... that the
Experiment
was a boat powered by horses running on a
treadmill
and propelled by a then-novel type of
screw propeller
?
... that
one of the highest-ranking generals in China
was injured in battle nine times?
... that in
Mesopotamian mythology
, the
Apkallu
were sent by the god
Enki
, from
Dilmun
to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
... that
Karl Marx
's
theory of historical trajectory
attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of
capitalism
?
... that in November 1921, the
schooner
Cymric
collided with a
tram
in
Dublin
?
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