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...that the
Makuleke region of
Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
...that the April 1920
Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the
Kiev Offensive against
Bolshevik Russia ?
...that there is a
mass grave of over 5,500
mental patients in the English countryside near the site of the former
Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum (
pictured )?
...that a galloping
horse must
breathe with every stride , due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the
diaphragm ?
...that
Artabanes was a
6th century
Armenian noble who served both the
Sassanid Persians and the
Eastern Roman Empire , and became involved in a plot against Emperor
Justinian I ?
...that the famous black-and-white striped shirts of
Italian
football club
Juventus were based on the kit of English
Notts County , replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
...that the
Brand Junction shopping centre development in
Melbourne ,
Victoria , is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
...that
Thomas Creede printed ten editions of
William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written
bad quartos ?
...that even though the
1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the
U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the
union at the
strike's beginning?
...that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an
adult interdependent relationship in Alberta , just like spouses in a
common-law marriage ?
...that
Assyrian soldiers (
pictured ) were used in
Xerxes' expedition to Greece ?
...that
Polycarp was a fictional
Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in
south Louisiana and lived in the
swamp ?
...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of
Lal Dighi will be the biggest in
Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
...that the launch of the
protected cruiser
Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the
Imperial Japanese Navy built by the
United States , was filmed by
Thomas Edison ?
...that
Canada 's
syndicalist
One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal
lottery in its weekly bulletin?
...that the planned
Marina Coastal Expressway is
Singapore 's most expensive
expressway , and will cost
S$ 2.5 billion for the 5-
kilometre route?
...that United States
Indian Agent
Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the
St. Vrain massacre ?
...that the writer and actor,
Henryk Grynberg , is known as the "
chronicler of the fate of the
Polish Jews "?
...that
congressman
Cyclone Davis earned his
moniker after
demolishing an opponent in a
debate ?
...that
Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the
Hindu
priesthood in
Bali ?
...that the
Khmer Rouge of the 1970s influenced
Cambodian clothing by strictly prohibiting brightly colored clothing and forcing all
Khmer people to wear a checkered
krama (
pictured ) ?
...that the St. Eugene Mine in
Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of
ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important
silver –lead
mine in
Canada ?
...that Admiral
Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and
martinet whose
funeral instructions directed his former flag
secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the
Pentagon ?
...that the
period of
Colonial Assam began with the
Treaty of Yandaboo ?
...that the siege of
Anatoly Pepelyayev ' s forces in the Pacific port of
Ayan in June
1923 was the last military action of the
Yakut Revolt and the
Russian Civil War ?
...that singer
Larry Stewart originally moved to
Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band
Restless Heart ?
...that the coach in which
King Philip II of Portugal travelled from
Spain to
Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the
National Coach Museum in
Lisbon ?
...that the date of the
translation (
pictured ) of a
Christian
saint 's
relics was often observed as a separate
feast day ?
...that in 1926, author
Helen Dore Boylston and
Laura Ingalls Wilder 's daughter
Rose Wilder Lane drove from
Paris to
Albania in a
Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
...that some
catfishes of the
subfamily
Glanapteryginae live exclusively in
sand ?
...that just as there is a "
Fifth Beatle ",
Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving
The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
...that writer and publisher
Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent
creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying
evolution ?
...that
Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the
Norman conquerors of
Wales , who annexed the
Kingdom of Brycheiniog to
England ?
...that the great-granddaughter of
Mahatma Gandhi ,
Leela Gandhi , is a senior lecturer at
La Trobe University in the English program?
...that the two versions of
Manfred on the Jungfrau ,
a watercolour by John Martin (
pictured ) and
an oil by Ford Madox Brown , were painted just five years apart?
...that on
28 April
1285 at
Girona ,
Jean Cholet crowned
Charles of Valois with his
galero and pronounced him
King of Aragon , earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
...that
Ed Trice , creator of the
chess variant known as
Gothic Chess , helped
Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of
checkers , the most complex game ever solved?
...that the Australian
solicitor and
politician ,
Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a
Freemason , and the
Grand Master of the
United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT ?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual
Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
...that when
Nizah Morris , an
African American
transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a
homicide , but the
Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
...that
Jeffrey Pollack , Commissioner of the
World Series of Poker , won two
Emmy Awards for the work he did as
NASCAR 's marketing director?
...that several
British
Royal Air Force Stations were used by the
U.S.
Strategic Air Command (
emblem pictured ) for almost 20 years?
...that Thai actor
Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film,
Insee thong ?
...that
Houston Hall at the
University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
...that the last
archbishop of Bordeaux of the
Hundred Years' War ,
Pey Berland , built annexed to
the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland ?
...that
East Perth Cemeteries ' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the
63rd regiment who died on
6 January
1830 ?
...that the
praetorian prefecture of Africa , a
Byzantine province established after the
Vandalic War , saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
...that most
species of
catfishes of the
subfamily
Sarcoglanidinae are small and
transparent ?
...that
Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa
Bertramka on the outskirts of
Prague and that the house is now a
museum in his memory?
...that
Singapore 's
Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white
marble statue of the
Buddha (
pictured ) outside of
Myanmar ?
...that in 2006
Gibraltar was granted
a new constitution , giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the
United Kingdom ?
...that
Oscar the Cat was featured in the
New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the
terminally ill ?
...that when severely disturbed,
catfish of the
genus
Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white
mucus -like substance that can kill other fish?
...that
Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at
Kellogg's Grove following the second
Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the
Black Hawk War ?
...that the online business term
Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems
CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
...that children who turn 16 during the validity of a
Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
...that the
Jerusalem
city hall at
Safra Square (pictured) was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier
Edmond J. Safra ?
...that the
Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both
Chuck Yeager and
Ann Coulter ?
...that
Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the
Detroit Red Wings within two years?
...that the children's group
The Wiggles , Australia's most successful entertainers, have
franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
...that the winners at the inaugural
World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first
WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
...that
Auburn Tigers
offensive coordinator
Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback ?
...that members of the
genus
Breitensteinia have a longer body than other
stream catfishes due to an increase in number of
vertebrae ?
...that the influence of singer
Jeff Tweedy 's side group
Loose Fur on
Wilco 's 2002 album
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot led to the dismissal of two other Wilco members?
...that the homosexual relationship between
Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on
All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
...that the
Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local
Covenanters , a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by
Charles II 's government?
...that
Johnny Ramensky was a
Scottish criminal who used his
safe-cracking abilities to help the
British Army ?
...that in 1999,
John Pollack quit his job as a
Congressional
speechwriter to build a
boat made entirely out of
corks ?
...that
State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the
U.S. state of
Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to
sign theft caused by the
connotation of the number ?
...that
catfish of the
genus
Leporacanthicus are also known as
vampire
plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
...that Russian parliamentarian
Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder
Grigory Rasputin ?
...that
Christopher Wright , one of the conspirators in the
Gunpowder Plot , could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
...that the
Singapore Declaration , one of the two most important
constitutional documents of the
Commonwealth of Nations , is thought to have been unenforceable until the
Harare Declaration twenty years later?
...that besides writing 3000 songs during his life,
Clifford Grey also competed for the
United States in
bobsledding while still a
British citizen?
...that the
Esplanade in
Calcutta , which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during
rush hour ?
...that the windowless skyscraper at
33 Thomas Street (pictured) in
New York City was designed to resist
nuclear fallout and be self-sufficient for up to two weeks?
...that
William Gaskell , husband of the well-known Victorian novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell , was a pioneer in the education of the
working classes ?
...that
Tan Howe Liang is
Singapore 's only
Olympic Games medallist?
...that
Algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the
Driftless Area of
Minnesota ,
Wisconsin ,
Illinois , and
Iowa ?
...that the
Austrian government gave the American
soprano
Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
...that the
Javanese
Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen
Suhita of the
Majapahit Empire ?
...that the
Calendar of saints of the
Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including
Bernard Mizeki ,
Robert Gray ,
Manche Masemola , and
Charles Frederick Mackenzie ?