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...that
Archbishop
Gennady of
Novgorod commissioned the first
complete Slavic translation of the
Bible ?
...that
Joaquín Camacho (
pictured ) , one of the Precursors of the Independence of
Colombia , was
executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
...that over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened
10th and
11th Divisions of the
Imperial German Army were disbanded following
World War I ?
...that
Stanisław Patek , dropped from the
Russian Empire 's list of
attorneys for defending
political dissidents , was later involved in the creation of a new
Polish legal system ?
...that
RMS
Dunottar Castle transported
Winston Churchill ,
Frederick Russell Burnham ,
Robert Baden-Powell , and
Lord Roberts , among others, to and from
Cape Colony ,
South Africa ?
...that
Saint
Cerbonius was exiled to
Elba after the
bear brought in to execute him instead licked his feet?
...that humans have lived near
Nevada 's
Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
...that
Archbishop
Gennady of
Novgorod commissioned the first
complete Slavic translation of the
Bible ?
...that
Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of
George Gershwin in concert?
...that one of the survivors of the
Spafford Farm massacre (
memorial pictured ) hid in the forest for days after the attack because he erroneously thought that a local
fort was overtaken by the
Menominee ?
...that an image of
Tesslynn O'Cull , a
child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for
Oregon ?
...that
St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in
St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the
Pacific Northwest ?
...that while working for the
Department of Justice attorney
Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie
Mississippi Burning ?
...that there are 59 conjectured reconstructions of the
Olympia Master 's work on the East pediment of the
Temple of Zeus ?
...that some
species of the
catfish
genus
Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
...that
Hutti Gold Mines Limited , located in the state of
Karnataka , is the only company in
India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?
...that
Jordan Park (
pictured ) , set up in 1889 as
Kraków 's first public playground, gave free meals to children?
...that following the
Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois
militia returned to
Galena with the
scalps of two
Sauk warriors?
...that the
Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a
Sino -
British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
...that 17.5% of the murders in
Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of
gays ,
transvestites , and
prostitutes ?
...that the
New England Seamount chain was once at or above
sea level off the
Massachusetts coast?
...that
Robin Starveling , a character in
Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream , may be a satire of one of
Queen Elizabeth's suitors?
...that
Runme Shaw ,
philanthropist and
founder of the
Shaw Organisation , started his
Singapore
movie business in a makeshift
timber
cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
...that
Bob Meusel was best known as a member of the fabled "
Murderer's Row " of the
New York Yankees championship teams of the
1920s ?
...that
Henry Wallis '
The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?
...that the
French
lawyer and
historian ,
Nicolas Chorier , was also a writer of erotic fiction (
work pictured ) ?
...that
ACS Chemical Biology is the first
peer-reviewed
scientific journal to publish
3D interactive
chemical structures replicating printed figures?
...that the
Polish Army in France continued to fight in the
Battle of France despite
Pétain ’s call for
armistice and
demobilization ?
...that
Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar , king of
Mysore , set up a factory to manufacture
Mysore Sandal Soap because
World War I prevented any export of
sandalwood ?
...that
Town Creek Indian Mound near
Mount Gilead ,
North Carolina , preserves a ceremonial mound built by the
Pee Dee with 563 burials?
...that the four
catfish
species of the
genus
Pseudolithoxus are only found in the
Amazonas and
Bolívar states of
Venezuela ?
...that in
Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from
celebratory gunfire ?
...that even though Jefferson Smith had been
shot three times he managed to escape an attack by
Native Americans at
Blue Mounds Fort ?
...that
Weston-super-Mare 's
Birnbeck Pier has the longest
lifeboat slipway (
pictured ) in
England ?
...that in
2006 , the
Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of
Kim Jong-il for trading fake
aphrodisiacs ?
...that
Russian émigré
Jerzy Bulanow captained the
Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
...that
Colonel
Johnston de Peyster raised the first
U.S. flag over
Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
...that
Archbishop
Vasily Kalika of
Novgorod was not appointed to the post, but was elected by the
popular assembly ?
...that
Albertan politician
Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of
opposition leader
David Milwyn Duggan and
Senator
William Griesbach ?
...that two Italian towns competed over who would receive
pieces of
Saint
Paternian — one receiving a
finger , while the other took the rest?
...that when the roof of
Dublin 's
Hellfire Club (
pictured ) blew off, locals attributed it to
Satan 's punishment for using a
cairn as building material?
...that
Odile Crick sketched the
DNA
double helix for the 1953 paper in
Nature by her husband
Francis Crick and
James Watson announcing its discovery?
...that the 1758 British construction of
Fort William in the heart of populous
Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of
Calcutta ?
...that folktales claim that 19th century
Ethiopian poet
Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor
Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
...that
professional wrestler
Norvell Austin was part of the first
mixed race
bad guy
tag team in the
Southern United States ?
...that, when playing the lead in
Alexander Nevsky , actor
Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the
helmet lost by
Alexander's father in the
Battle of Lipitsa ?
...that in 1899,
Sir Samuel Gillott (pictured) lost the
mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
...that the term
Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes ?
...that
Black Entertainment Television comedy series
We Got to Do Better , had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative
stereotypes of
African Americans ?
...that the
buke shohatto , a Japanese code of conduct for
feudal lords , served as the foundation of the
baku
han system of government?
...that the
Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest
amphitheatre in
Roman Britain , seating over 8,000 people?
...that
Kathleen Parlow (
pictured ) was the first foreigner admitted to the
St. Petersburg Conservatory , where she studied under
Leopold Auer ?
...that during the
First Siege of Rome by the Goths , the defenders were forced to use the statues of the
Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
...that
Wally Tatomir , head
equipment manager of the
Carolina Hurricanes , holds four patents on
ice hockey -related equipment?
...that although
trade unions in Benin represent up to 75% of the formal workforce, the large informal economy still includes both
child labour and
forced labour ?
...that
Soferet is a
documentary about the first and only female to become a
sofer —a
Jewish
scribe that copies
Torah
scrolls in
Hebrew
calligraphy ?
...that despite being heavily outnumbered,
Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American
militia at the
Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many
civilians to escape?
...that the only person killed in the
Buffalo Grove massacre was buried by the group that would be killed during the following day's
St. Vrain massacre ?
...that
John Singleton Copley 's oil-on-canvas
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest
oil paintings ?
...that the
U.S. state of
Utah built the
Wendover Cut-off (pictured) across the
Great Salt Lake Desert in the early 1920s to force motorists to
Southern California to take the
Arrowhead Trail and remain in that state for about 200 miles (300 km) more?
...that
Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around
Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the
Tiflis -
Alexandropol railway line?
...that
The Princess Anne was
elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to
Nelson Mandela and
Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
...that 19th century cartoonist and artist
Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the
U.S. states of
California and
Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
...that the childhood home of
Emily Carr , one of Canada's most famous
painters , is open to the public today as a
museum known as
Emily Carr House — and still contains the family
Bible ?
...that
Polish-American journalist and politician
Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the
American Catholic Church , with reading his newspaper declared
sinful and many
lawsuits being filed by both parties?
...that
Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16
wickets on his
Test debut in 1972?
...that the
Bull Stone House property (pictured ) in
New York , is home to the only surviving
New World
Dutch barn ?
...that
Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering
phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his
ballooning feats?
...that the
Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired
Peter Benchley 's novel
Jaws (1974)?
...that the
pinhole camera model is an
ideal
camera without lensing aberrations?
...that the
West End Street Railway fired
Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
...that the
Russian
sailing ship
STS Sedov features a glass-domed
banquet hall with a
stage and a
movie theatre ?
...that
Psalm 83 is cited by the
Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of
Jehovah being God's personal name?
...that the
Boot Monument at
Saratoga National Historical Park donated by
John Watts de Peyster is the only
American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
...that the
10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense
urban battles of the
Polish First Army , destroying most of the city?
...that
St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton (
pictured ) in
Cheshire ,
England , is one of the oldest
timber-framed churches in Europe?
...that it has been suggested that using
Incan agriculture technologies (such as the
andenes ) again, would solve the
malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
...that
Old College , the first building on
Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
...that
fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after
conception ?
...that the character of
Philostrate , the
Master of Revels in
William Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream , may have been created as a way to poke fun at play
censorship ?
...that
Georgia Governor
Carl Sanders declared
May 16 ,
1964 to be
George C. Griffin day, because of his service to
Georgia Tech ?
...that the
Alfathi brand of
red meat from
Nortura combines the strict
Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with
Norwegian cuisine ?
...that
Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences around the world with his pioneering
phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his
ballooning feats?
...that the
Former Asia Insurance Building (
pictured ) in
Singapore was the tallest building in
Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1954?
...that the first word spoken from the moon to the earth would not have been "Houston", if Congressman
Albert Richard Thomas of
Houston, Texas had not brought the
Johnson Space Center to Houston in 1961?
...that
the recent treasure recovery by
Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and
controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
...that at the age of 10,
Megan Zheng became the first
Singaporean to win a
Golden Horse Award ?
...that during the
American Civil War
John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by
Abraham Lincoln ?
...that the
genus
Prietella includes two
threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented
catfish adapted to living underground?
...that the
Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire
15th century ?
...that the
Profane Oaths Act 1745 , which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the
United Kingdom , was not fully repealed until 1967?
...that
Canadian sculptor
John Hooper (
sculpture pictured ) previously lived in
England ,
China ,
India , and
South Africa , and was a captain in the
British Army ?
...that while
anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective
labor movements , the anarcho-syndicalist
General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-
World War I
Portugal ?
...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
Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book
News of a Kidnapping on the fight by
Colombian politician
Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
...that the
Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by
Singapore 's
National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two
Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962
referendum ?