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...that Moscow City Hall, built in the
1890s to the tastes of the Russian
bourgeoisie, was converted by
Communists into the Central
Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over?
...that when Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented
blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn
blood which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?
...that although archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many
artifacts, they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?
...that on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid, the
Red Army's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the
Stalingrad relief airlift?
...that The Stewardesses, the most profitable
3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?
...that a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway, a major throughfare connecting the island city of
Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
...that the
SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist
Bruno Schulz, because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?
...that the Ford Mustang SSP, in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing
Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the
Lockheed U2 spy plane?
...that in the Night Attack skirmish,
Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
...that the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest
battles in world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a
front 1,400 kilometers wide?
06:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
...that microdistrict was a primary structural element of the residential area construction used in the
Soviet Union?
...that the
calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager, a noisy
passerine bird native to the
Caribbean, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick?
... that
Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his Arithmetica Universalis, he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them?
...that the world's earliest-known
reservoirs were constructed by the people of the ancient city of Dholavira, which is located on an island in
Kutch?
...that, in the history of wound care, the
Ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic
wounds, calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively?
...that the
sepoys lost the Central India Campaign (1858) because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?
...that Stamp mills, first used during the
Renaissance in such diverse industries as
paper making,
oil-seed processing, and
ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?
...that the General Union of Syrian Women released a ground-breaking report on domestic violence against women in April 2006?
...that Bud Neill was a
Scottish newspaper
cartoonist whose best loved
strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional
Arizona outpost of the
wild west populated with
Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
... that the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from
Sydney to the south coast of
New South Wales,
Australia, between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger?
...that Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, a
GermanJewishpainter, is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?
...that the EMAS has been so effective in monitoring traffic conditions on
Singapore's
expressways that the
LTA removed most
SOStelephones from the expressways as a result?
...that the m/42 Swedish military bicycle became so popular when it was sold as surplus that a company was created to produce copies of it almost 50 years after production ended?
...that Marguerite Porete, author of the mystical text The Mirror of Simple Souls, was burnt at the stake for heresy in
1310?
...that despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of
Australia?
...that the flèche is an aggressive
fencing attack generally used with the
foil and
épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the
sabre under
USFA rules?
...that the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral(pictured), by the time of its construction in
1912 was the tallest building in
Warsaw,
Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-
1920s?
...that the irony mark is an atypical
punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some
French artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?
...that at the end of
World War II, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and
wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an
atomic bomb?
04:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
...that the city of
Tashkent was formerly surrounded by a 25-kilometer-long wall featuring twelve city gates?
...that while noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the
hybrid vehicle in moderate speed operation?
...that while the monthly average rainfall for
Oahu in
August is 0.8
inches,
1959's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?
...that although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael, a
Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
...that consumers of casu marzu, a
Sardinian cheese, are advised to wear eye protection while enjoying it, since the live
maggots inhabiting the cheese can jump 15 cm?
...that the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in
1980, leaving several incomplete
junctions, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?