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Monument Valley
Isandlwana
Naval War College
California sea slug (Aplysia californica )
...that
Henri Poincaré first stated the
Poincaré duality in terms of
Betti numbers ?
...that a
vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in
common law countries for undertaking
frivolous litigation claims or
procedures ?
...that
American frontiersman
Hugh Glass traveled 200 miles through the wilderness alone and was gravely injured after a
grizzly bear attack?
...that the framework of the
cautionary tale became a cliché in 1980s
slasher films ?
...that
Abraham Baldwin , one of the
Founders of the United States , declined an offer from
Yale for a
divinity
professorship and later served in both the
Senate and
House of Representatives ?
...that the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on
Park Avenue in
Manhattan sits on the site of the former home of
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor ?
...that the
Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the
Wonder Twins ?
...that
Stephen King wrote and starred in the
1982 film
Creepshow ?
...that the
Spectral Bat (False Vampire Bat) will fall out of a tree to pounce upon unsuspecting prey?
...that
Eric Clapton's song "
Layla " was inspired by a
Persian love story?
...that the
U.S. Navy's
Naval War College in
Newport, Rhode Island grants
Master of Arts degrees?
...that the
Children of the Corn
horror
film series is based on a
Stephen King
short story ?
...that the
viscosity of a
ferrofluid can be controlled with
electromagnets ?
...that
Russian poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti-
Stalinist work?
...that the
California sea slug (Aplysia californica ) is useful as in
model organism in
neurobiology because of its small number of large
neurons ?
...that
Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York has four
statutory colleges ?
...that
Fritz the Cat was the first
X-rated
animated feature?
...that the largest
telescope in the
Southern Hemisphere is the
Southern African Large Telescope , which became operational in 2005?
...that the first standard for
donated organs was that they be from "
non-heart beating donors "?
...that
Le Corbusier 's most famous building is probably
Unité d'Habitation in
Marseille ?
...that the
Dharmacakra of
Buddhism represents the collective teachings known as the
dharma ?
...that scientists are testing
Einstein's theory of
general relativity with
Gravity Probe B , an
artificial satellite ?
...that
cell adhesion is a product of
protein bonding?
...that the
Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 killed at least 140 people?
...that
Colonia del Sacramento in
Uruguay is a
UNESCO
World Heritage Site ?
...that male
Western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis ) have blue bellies?
...that the
Battle of Isandlwana was a major British defeat in the
Anglo-Zulu War ?
...that
Jaan Einasto co-discovered
dark matter and the
cellular structure of the universe ?
...that
Michael Schumacher won the
Spanish Grand Prix in 1995-1996 and again from 2001-2004?
...that
France was the first country to adopt the
35-hour workweek ?
...that
Napoleon once commissioned
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes to write an éloge on
George Washington ?
...that
Michael Clarke Duncan worked as a bodyguard for
Will Smith before becoming an actor?
...that
Daniel Goldin spearheaded the controversial "faster, better, cheaper" approach at
NASA ?
...that the
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is
rusting ?
...that
Mark Catesby published the first account of the
flora and
fauna of
North America ?
...that
Severnaya Zemlya was the last
archipelago on
Earth to be discovered?
...that
Harrington Lake in
Quebec is the official country retreat of the
Canadian prime minister ?
...that the
Tibetan Plateau is known as the "roof of the world"?
...that
chocolate contains large quantities of
oxalic acid ?
...that the
Greenland Dock is both only remaining dock on the south side of
London's
River Thames and the city's oldest riverside dock?
...that
Caedwalla of Wessex conquered
southeast England during his brief 7th-century reign?
...that the
Transverse Ranges of
California run east-west because of a bend in the
San Andreas fault ?
...that the full force of
The Great Depression in Canada lasted until
World War II in parts of the country, particularly in
Western Canada ?
...that
Monument Valley was once the site of
uranium mines ?
...that during
World War I ,
thimbles were used as
currency ?
...that the
Magellanic subpolar forests of
South America are the world's southernmost
forest
terrestrial ecoregion ?
...that
SBD Dauntless
dive bombers sank four
Imperial Japanese Navy
aircraft carriers and a
cruiser during the
Battle of Midway ?
...that the first
British
merchant marine ship lost to enemy fire since
World War II was the
Atlantic Conveyor , sunk by an
Argentinian
anti-ship missile during the
Falklands War ?
...that there are at least 18 different distinct
video game genres ?