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...that Belinda Dann, a member of Australia's
Stolen Generation, died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
...that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
...that the award for
European Parliament's newly established cinema prize, Lux, consists of subtitling the winning film in the
23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
...that Bob Odom,
Louisiana's Commissoner of
Agriculture and
Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
...that in 2002,
Devon and
Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting
pubs along the route?
01:21, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
...that a 120-year old
Bodhi tree (pictured) in Jin Long Si Temple, standing over 30
m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in
Singapore?
...that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the
bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless
acquitted?
...that Heuneburg, an early
Celtic settlement by the upper
Danube, was already
fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle
Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
...that during a copper miners' strike in
Michigan in 1913,
labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by
Calumet city police while still bleeding?
...that a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in
Findern in 1693?
...that former
Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that
Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
...that
Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
25 October 2007
15:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
...that Turkish
shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat(pictured) are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a
mosque?
...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
...that
Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
...that
Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of
vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
...that Andrew Winch, an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the
Boeing 787, a commercial airliner?
...that the Barnenez Mound(pictured) in
Brittany,
France, is a
cairn with 11 chambers built of 13,000 to 14,000 tons of stone dating to about 4500 BC, making it one of the earliest
megalithic monuments in Europe?
...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a
NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut
pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?
...that the
Zoroastrian(
Faravahar pictured) religious ceremony Visperad consists of the rituals of the
Yasna and is only performed between sunrise and noon on the six gahambar days?
...that though many
troubadours wrote about the
Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the
jongleurPeirol was one of the few to actually travel to the
Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem in 1221?
...that the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i(pictured) in the
Cusco Region of
Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of
Christ hanging from it?
...that the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in
the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?
...that
Albrecht Dürer's Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate (pictured) is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties?
...that
Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in what is now southeastern
Utah spent several months widening a "
Hole-in-the-Rock" for the passage of wagons?
...that everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting(Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in
Taipei in 1985?
...that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas, celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year
Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page
Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
...that the Southern black bream(pictured), a species endemic to
Australia valued for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to
salinity and is of possible use for inland
aquaculture in saline dams?
...that
Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
...that the Hogettes (pictured), a group of
Washington Redskins fans who dress in
drag and wear pig snout masks, have collected over
US$100 million for charity since 1983?
...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his
stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
...that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating advances and retreats of
fjord-carving
glaciers (pictured) terminating in tidewater?
...that the 1673 history of
Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester(pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote
Scottish island of
St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
...that
Dutchabstract artistJules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
...that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a
boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the
Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
...that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("
ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in
Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for
Jewish students?
...that Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in
Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three
Pre-Raphaelite artists?
...that the first ever
Ranji Trophycricket match, played in the year
1933 between Mysore and
Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
...that
Sting won a
Grammy Award for the 1980
The Police instrumental "Behind My Camel" (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the
tape of it in a garden?
...that John Harrison(pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of
Leeds, is reputed to have slipped
Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as
beer?
...that Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on
dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?
...that
Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in
West Bengal, that could rival
Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
...that English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-wheeled
automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from adequately testing it because it exceeded the
legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the time?
...that although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later
his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in
Chicago?
...that every autumn more than 23,000
Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in
Estonia, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
...that Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?
...that in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the
Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?
...that TikigaqInuit children attending public school in
Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
...that
Singapore's Gallery Hotel(pictured), with its twisted
cuboid form and seemingly random and multi-coloured windows, stands like a massive
pop art signpost?
...that singer Al Bernard, known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize
W.C. Handy's
blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with
Ernie Hare?
...that Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of
Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a
bellhop in an
Atlanta,
Georgia hotel elevator?
...that although
William McFetridge retired as president of
BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?
...that Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a
US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an
African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
...that Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his
ordination as a
Roman Catholic priest?
...that Halotus was an
Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of
Claudius in
54 AD, was granted royal
stewardship by
Galba in
68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?
...that in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
...that the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the
Indian part of the
Sundarbans thanked the French author
Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
...that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of
grapevines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout
vineyards in Europe?
...that Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open
14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 196–42 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in
billiards history?
...that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of
West Bengal were killed by
tigers in the forests of
Sundarbans, but none since?
...that many of the most famous
Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (example pictured)?
...that the 1476 edition of
Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with
engraved illustrations?