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...that the historical medical campus
Maiden's Field (
clinic pictured ) in
Moscow started as a
court garden for
medicinal herbs ?
...that
Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of
munitions and as a
pub landlord whilst managing
Watford F.C. ?
...that the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at
conserving the habitat of the
mission blue butterfly ?
...that during his
Eastern journey
Tsarevich
Nicholas Alexandrovitch of
Russia visited
Egypt ,
India ,
China and
Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
...that
Scieno Sitter , a
content-control software package created by the
Church of Scientology , was referred to in the
2006 fictional film
The Bridge ?
...that
Larry Blakeney , the current
head coach of the
Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a
college football team from
Division II to
Division I -AA and then Division I-A?
...that
Britain's first girls'
reform school was set up in 1854 by
Mary Carpenter , with the financial help of the poet
Lord Byron 's widow, at
Bristol's
Red Lodge (
pictured )?
...that the main tennis court at the
Stade de Roland Garros , the home of the
French Open in
Paris , was renamed in honour of
Philippe Chatrier , a former
Davis Cup player and president of the
International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
...that Brigadier
Sir Otho Prior-Palmer , a
British
Conservative
Member of Parliament , accused a
Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop
Spitfire construction?
...that
Australian
cricketer
Karen Rolton has scored the most
runs for the
Australian women's cricket team in
women's Test cricket ?
...that the
Romanian
Communist ideologue
Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his
Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
...that
Italian-Australian
hermit
Valerio Ricetti (
pictured ) shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own
utopia at
Hermit's Cave near
Griffith, New South Wales ?
...that
Madame Montour , of
Native American and
French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as a translator for the colonial governments of
New York and
Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright 's
Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the
hexagonal structure of a
bee 's
honeycomb ?
...that
Arishima Ikuma ,
Japanese
novelist , published his new-style
poems and
short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the
French
impressionist painter
Paul Cézanne to the
Japanese public ?
...that eight of
Australia 's top
fighter pilots attempted to resign their
commissions in the final months of
World War II , in the so-called
Morotai Mutiny ?
...that
Gavroche (
pictured ) , a character from the novel
Les Misérables by
Victor Hugo , lives inside an unfinished statue of an
elephant in
Paris ?
...that most of
Western Australia ,
South Australia and the
Northern Territory have not been divided into
cadastral units ?
...that
Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in
New York City when he co-founded
Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
...that the
Erdene Zuu monastery , one of the oldest
monasteries in
Mongolia , was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of
Genghis Khan 's capital,
Karakorum ?
...that the 1966
Holman Moody
Ford Fairlane was the basis for
NASCAR
racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned
Car of Tomorrow ?
...that
Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in
Hong Kong built from a
landfill ?
...that the
Gate Church of the Trinity (
pictured ) , originally constructed as an ascetic
Kievan Rus'
style church , is now lavishly decorated with
Ukrainian Baroque style ornaments?
...that two
Beagle B.206
aircraft were built for evaluation by the
UK
Ministry of Aviation , resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the
Royal Air Force ?
...that in
surgery theory , the
Spivak normal bundle is named after
Michael Spivak , a
mathematician specializing in
differential geometry ?
...that
Satyendranath Tagore , the first
Indian to join the elite
Indian Civil Service , played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
...that the recent
flooding in
Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
...that Australian
soprano
Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy
The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
...that the
Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet
Vachel Lindsay in
1917 ?
...that the
enzyme
neprilysin (
pictured ) degrades
amyloid beta , a
peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of
Alzheimer's disease ?
...that
18th century
castrato
Giuseppe Millico taught singing to
Bourbon princesses and to
Emma Hamilton ?
...that the remains of the
Azerbaijani poet
Huseyn Javid , who became a victim of the
Stalin purges , were moved from
Magadan to his homeland of
Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a
mausoleum built in his honor?
...that the London
cabinet-makers
Ince and Mayhew were rivals of
Thomas Chippendale in introducing
Neoclassical furniture ?
...that
Richard Strauss helped the
German composer
Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the
Berlin State Opera in 1917?
...that a
series-parallel graph (
pictured ) is a
mathematical model of
series and parallel electric circuits with two different nodes called source and sink , indicating the direction of the
electrical current flow?
...that the
English
nurse
Lucy Osburn was chosen by
Florence Nightingale to train
Australia's first nurses?
...that some
American slaveholders forced their
slaves to drink an infusion of
Black haw to prevent
abortions ?
...that the
Russian architect
Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the
linear city urban concept?
...that at the
2001 World Championships in Athletics ,
Yipsi Moreno became
world champion in the
hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in
1999 ?
...that
Latvian composer
Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the
Saint Petersburg Conservatory (
pictured ) , where he taught
Nikolai Myaskovsky and
Sergei Prokofiev ?
...that
Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of
Denver City , the largest community in
Yoakum County on the
Texas
South Plains ?
...that
William Clowes Ltd. 's installation of noisy,
steam-powered
printing presses in 1823 irked the
Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner
William Clowes to court?
...that the Japanese
guitar duo
Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004
Hirokazu Koreeda film
Nobody Knows ?
...that the
Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the
American Physical Society ’s March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations on
superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM?
...that the interior and exterior of the
Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (
pictured ) in
Milpitas ,
California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
...that the
South African record set in 2001 by
All-African
shot put champion
Burger Lambrechts was subsequently annulled because of a positive
doping test ?
...that since 1978, countries including
Austria ,
Belgium ,
Canada ,
France ,
Germany , and the
United States have compiled
government reports on groups referred to as cults ?
...that the
Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?
...that early
Baroque
lutenist
Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer
Galileo Galilei ?
...that
Rabbi
Avrohom Blumenkrantz ' s The Laws of Pesach —considered an authoritative text on the observance of
Passover by many
North American
Jews —started as a privately distributed newsletter?