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...that Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when
Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever
fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918
Ahmedabadstrike, but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
...that Rabbi
Judah ben Ilai was a second century
Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
...that Bangor Cathedral in
North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation?
...that the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the
1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced
medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
...that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor
ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of electric
Christmas lights and is derived from an
English tradition of placing lighted
candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a special event?
...that Come Out by composer
Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a
race riot who was wrongly arrested for
murder?
...that the characters in the name of Mamoru Takuma, who stabbed eight first and second-grade students to death in the
Osaka school massacre, mean "protect the home"?
...that Typhoon Vamei formed only 92 nautical miles north of the
equator, a record at the time?
...that the Sanhedrin, which is part of the
Mishnah, a major
Jewish religious text, focuses on
criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by
rabbis, as recorded in the
Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of
common law principles?
...that Jean Laplanche, French
psychoanalyst and co-author of the definitive Language of Psycho-Analysis, is also an accomplished
vintner?
...that according to
Bretonfolklore, not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length every seven years from within their
coffin?
...that polydactyl cats, with extra toes as a
genetic trait, were long considered
good luck by many
sailors, as the cats' extraordinary climbing and hunting skills were helpful in controlling shipboard
rodents?
...that in September
1842, performer George Washington Dixon walked a 15-foot (4.5-meter) platform for 76 hours without sleep, part of the long tradition of
pole-sitting?
...that Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (English: Law of Muhammad the pseudo-prophet) was the first
Qur'an translation into a Western language and often regarded as one of the sloppiest?
...that the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in
1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including
Brazil,
Costa Rica,
Kuwait,
Peru, and
Romania?
...that after Brad Vice's award-winning
short stories were destroyed by his publisher because of a disputed
plagiarism charge, remaining copies sold for hundreds of dollars?
8 November 2005
22:58, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
...that Jurong Falls, located at
Singapore's
Jurong BirdPark and featuring the world's most numerous bird collection, is the tallest man-made
waterfall in the world at 30 metres (98 feet) high?
...that a soda gun is a device used by
bars to serve various types of
drinks?
4 November 2005
00:09, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
...that the Reps Theatre fought a legal battle with the
Rhodesian government over its refusal to segregate members according to race, in what became known as "The Battle of the Toilets"?
...that a few years after Albert H. Wiggin, President of
Chase National Bank, was lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the
Wall Street Crash of 1929, a
Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by
short selling Chase Bank shares?
3 November 2005
11:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
...that Ice is a highly addictive
methamphetamine and that when it is smoked it causes a massive release of
dopamine in the
brain?
...that flood walls are man-made vertical barriers that are designed to temporarily contain the waters of a
river or other waterway during seasonal or extreme weather events?