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...that in
Greek mythology
Gorgythion was one of the
fifty sons of
King Priam of
Troy ?
...that the
Comanche War Chief
Santa Anna was the first Comanche or
Kiowa Chief to visit
Washington D.C. in 1847, and was so overwhelmed with what he saw, he immediately advised his people to seek peace?
...that three of the 18 holes at the
Powelton Club's
golf course (
pictured ) had to be
redesigned a year after they were built when the land they were on was
condemned to build
U.S. Route 9W ?
...that
Józef Haller de Hallenburg was one of the key shapers of
scouting in Poland ?
...that in order to combat the erosion of
fan loyalty towards professional teams, the
Nashville Predators employ
customer relationship management techniques to collect information about the
demographics and
psychographics of their fans?
...that
Almaco jack have been known to remove
parasites on their
skin by rubbing up against
scuba divers ?
...that
footballer
John Hewitt scored the fastest recorded goal in
Scottish Cup history, timed at 9.6 seconds?
...that for establishing the first successful
sugar beet processing plant in the United States,
E. H. Dyer became known as the father of the American beet sugar industry?
...that the
1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in
Africa under
universal suffrage ?
...that
Australian
Ingo Renner has won the
World Gliding Championships four times and set two world
gliding records?
...that so many
squatters were living on the property of
José Joaquin Estudillo (
pictured ) that it became known as "Squatterville"?
...that
root nodules on the plant
Myrica cerifera
fix nitrogen faster than some
legumes ?
...that
HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey
South America , but was in such poor condition that the
Beagle was selected instead for
the 1831 voyage that established
Charles Darwin as a
naturalist ?
...that
Nazi Germany
planned to starve tens of millions of Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens in order to simultaneously
eliminate "surplus population" and feed German citizens and their army?
...that
Opera Jawa is a 2006
Indonesian -
Austrian
musical film that features traditional
Javanese
classical music and
dance in a setting of
opera , inspired by the
Ramayana ?
...that
offensive tackle
Rich Strenger told reporters that
Michigan Wolverines
football coach
Bo Schembechler ran a more strenuous training camp at the college level than he experienced in the
NFL with the
Detroit Lions ?
...that
E.Wedel (pictured) , a famous
confectionery company of
Poland , retained its
logo even under the
Polish communist government ?
...that
Leonard Bernstein created controversy with his remarks about
Glenn Gould during a
New York Philharmonic
concert on April 6, 1962 ?
...that
Ripley's Believe It or Not! "Wild Goose Chase" feature on
J. Dewey Soper ' s six year, 30,000 mile search for the
Blue Goose nesting grounds earned him the nickname "Blue Goose Soper"?
...that
Comanche War Chief
Carne Muerte ' s name means "Dead Meat" in
Spanish ?
...that
William B. Hornblower was nominated for a seat on the
United States Supreme Court in 1893, but his nomination failed, largely due to a feud with Senator
David B. Hill ?
...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the
Confederate Monument in
Bowling Green, Kentucky ?
...
Hungarian company
Zsolnay (its fountain pictured) , known for its manufacture of decorative
tiles , became the largest company in
Austro-Hungary prior to
WWI ?
...that the poisonous mushroom
Russula emetica , commonly known as "the sickener", is hoarded and eaten by the
Red Squirrel ?
...that
preselection is the process by which a
candidate is selected, usually by a
political party , to contest an
election for political office, an example being the
United States presidential primary ?
...that the
Belgian cartoonist
Karl Meersman was at first disqualified from a drawing contest at age thirteen, because the jury did not believe his drawing had been created by a child?
...that
The Drug Years , a
documentary chronicling illicit drug use in
the United States , features never-before-seen film of
Ken Kesey and the
Merry Pranksters '
acid -fueled bus trip across America in 1964?
...that
Ian Browne and
Tony Marchant won the tandem
track cycling at the
1956 Olympics after being eliminated?
...that the
Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument (
pictured ) in
Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with
geodes , and for honoring a
Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
...that Mayor
Frank E. Rodgers served 48 years as mayor of
Harrison, New Jersey , recognized by the
Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving mayor in
United States history?
...that
James A. Forbes planned to build the first
flour mill in
California , but delays in construction allowed competitors to flourish, driving down prices and forcing him into
bankruptcy ?
...that for a pure
wave motion in
fluid dynamics , the
Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow.
...that
Jack Brod was the last remaining original
tenant of the
Empire State Building ,
New York City , at the time of his death in 2008?
...that
Earnshaw Cook performed his early baseball statistics calculations with a mechanical calculator and
slide rule , the latter of which resides in the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ?
...that an abundance of
olivine in a nearby collapsed
cinder cone gives the sand of
Mahana Beach (pictured) a distinctive green coloration?
...that
Helmut Dähne holds the official motorcycle lap record on the 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long
Nordschleife track in
Germany since 1988?
...that the
ten Revenue Marine
cutters authorized by the
U.S. Congress in 1790 – including the
Vigilant ,
Active ,
General Green ,
Massachusetts ,
Scammel ,
South Carolina and
Eagle – comprised the
U.S. Federal government's first "armed force afloat"?
...that the
Latin familia must be translated as "
household " rather than as "family", since neither
classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
...that the 2003 book
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by
ethnohistorian
Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish
conquistadors conquered the
Aztecs ?
...that when politics threatened funding for the
Fuji class battleships of the
Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893,
Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the
Imperial Household himself?
...that
the first radio network in North America was created by the
Canadian National Railway in 1923?
...that the
1937 film
Natalka Poltavka (poster pictured) , directed by
Vasyl Avramenko , was the first
Ukrainian language film produced in the
United States ?
...that
Entoloma sinuatum was implicated in 10% of
mushroom poisonings in Europe in the mid-20th century?
...that
Walter Bowart was a proponent of the
counterculture movement of the 1960s , the writer of a seminal book on
mind control , as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
...that in the process of
carbonic maceration , which is used to produce
Beaujolais
wine ,
fermentation takes place inside the individual
grape berry?
...that
William Larkin was identified as the
Jacobean era
portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by
art historian
Roy Strong ?
...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide
transportation in Saskatchewan ?
...that
straight pool champion
"Cowboy" Jimmy Moore earned his nickname by appearing at a professional tournament wearing the required
tuxedo , but nevertheless sporting cowboy boots and his signature white
Stetson hat ?
...that during the
Revolt of the Admirals , future
four-star admiral
Charles D. Griffin (
pictured ) wrote the congressional testimony whose delivery caused
Chief of Naval Operations
Louis E. Denfeld to be fired?
...that construction of
Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area was the last project completed by the US
Civilian Conservation Corps in the state of Georgia?
...that
Ruth Maier , an
Austrian
Jew who found refuge in
Norway until her deportation and death at
Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's
Anne Frank "?
...that
Alice Stebbins Wells was the first female police officer in the
Los Angeles Police Department ?
...that the film
State of Play , which began
principal photography on January 11, 2008 with
Russell Crowe and
Ben Affleck in the lead roles, was originally set to star
Brad Pitt and
Edward Norton ?
...that Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who won a
Grammy for writing the crossover song "
I Swear ", recorded an album in 1995 as the duo
Baker & Myers ?
...that
Clem Hill (
pictured ) , batting with
Roger Hartigan against the 1907–08
England touring team at the
Adelaide Oval , set an
Australian
Test record
partnership for the
eighth wicket which stands to this day?
...that the
Italian wine
Orvieto was historically made with
noble rot but unlike other
botrytized wines, such as
Sauternes , the fungus was introduced after
harvest in humid storage caves?
...that
Iranian
dutar player and vocalist
Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient
Azeri stringed instrument the
gopuz ?
...that the
Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by
World War I hero
Alvin York ?
...that
Scott Shafer , hired in January 2008 as the
Michigan Wolverines
defensive coordinator , started in
football as a high school and college
quarterback in
Ohio ?
...that
London 's
Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress
Moll Davis , a mistress of
King Charles II ?
...that the Right
Revd
Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in
World War II and was expelled from
South Africa for
anti-apartheid activism?
...that
The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul (pictured) was a
manuscript translated, scribed, and
embroidered for queen
Katherine Parr by future queen
Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old?
...that
Robert McGill Loughridge co-authored the English and Muskogee Dictionary in 1890, the first English dictionary of the
Creek language ?
...that
Cyclone Elita in January 2004 crossed
Madagascar three times, an unusual event but not unprecedented?
...that
German
record producer and
journalist
Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German
rock music in the early 1970s?
...that the
SS Tararua sank off
the Catlins in 1881, in
New Zealand 's worst civilian shipping disaster?
...that
Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighborhood where
Mother Teresa started her active life in
Kolkata ,
India ?
...that
Philadelphia publisher
F. A. Davis brought electricity to
St. Petersburg, Florida , and founded nearby
Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on
Florida 's medical benefits?
...that the northern half of
Oklahoma State Highway 95 was once part of
U.S. Route 56 ?
...that
St. Elizabeth's Church (
pictured ) , constructed in memory of a Russian princess, is the only
Russian Orthodox church in
Wiesbaden ,
Germany ?
...that the director of the 1981 Spanish film
Deprisa, Deprisa (
English : Hurry, Hurry! ) was accused of paying his cast in hard drugs?
...that
Academy Street was part of
Poughkeepsie 's first
planned neighborhood?
...that Prince
Esper Ukhtomsky ' s account of
Nicholas II's
Eastern tour , Travels in the East of Nicholas II , was written in close consultation with the
Tsar himself?
...that after his father told him to "Get out and make a living and don't ask me for a dollar!",
James Rand, Jr. founded
American Kardex , which purchased his father's company five years later?
...that the German
Renaissance castle
Schloss Brenz now regularly hosts concerts?
...that intelligence analyst
Richard Barlow was fired for claiming that
the Pentagon had falsified information about
weapons of mass destruction in 1989?
...that the British
First World War general
Sir William Peyton served as
Delhi
Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the
Delhi Durbar of 1911?
...that
Domhnall mac Raghnaill (
pictured ) was the founder of the
MacDonald clan ?
...that according to market researcher
Mintel on
green marketing patterns, only 12% of the U.S. population can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy so-called green products?
...that
architect , former
partner at
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , and founder of
Lucien Lagrange Architects ,
Lucien Lagrange was a
high school
dropout ?
...that
DBS Building Tower One , the tallest building in
Singapore when completed in 1975, is an example of
brutalist architecture ?
...that a
tornado outbreak in 1974 caused
Owsley Brown Frazier to start a
firearm collection large enough for a museum ?
...that
rugby union footballer
George MacPherson was the captain of the first
Scotland team to ever win a
Five Nations
Grand Slam ?
...that in 1792, Deputy Sheriff Isaac Smith of the
New York City Sheriff's Office became the first law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty in the
United States ?
...that
opera singer
Jessie Bartlett Davis (pictured) volunteered to pay for the publishing of the
parlor song
I Love You Truly , the first song written by a woman to sell one million copies?
...that the
Felixstowe Fury was a five-engined
triplane
flying boat that crashed in 1919, the day before a planned 8,000 mile (12,900 km) flight from
England to
South Africa ?
...that the
South Korean film
The Host was recognized as Best Picture at the
1st Asian Film Awards , held in 2007?
...that
Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the
dinosaur
Coelurus from the same
quarry , not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
...that the
Weekly Arizonian , first published in 1859, was
Arizona 's first newspaper?
...that annual construction of the
St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in
Switzerland takes three weeks, fifteen ice workers, 5,000 m³ of snow, and 4,000 m³ of water?
...that members of the
Appalachian Volunteers were charged with
sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of
Pike County , after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a
Kentucky coal mine?
...that
American swimmer
Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting
polio , and set three national swimming records at age 13?
...that the
Felbrigge Psalter (
pictured ) is the oldest
embroidered
bookbinding in
England ?
...that
Frank Loughran played for
the Socceroos at the
1956 Summer Olympics in
Melbourne , scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of
Australia ever played in Olympic
soccer ?
...that in the
Polish-Austrian War of 1809, part of the
War of the Fifth Coalition , Polish forces under
Józef Antoni Poniatowski neutralized an Austrian force twice their size and liberated most of the
Austrian-held Polish territory ?
...that
New York City -born
mathematician
Judith Roitman serves as the guiding
teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
...that
pitcher
Bill Zuber was the winning pitcher for a game played on September 21, which gave the
Boston Red Sox 100 victories for
the 1946 season ?
...that
Edward Kennon replaced John S. Hunt, III, on the
Louisiana Public Service Commission in 1972, and that both politicians were nephews of former Louisiana governors?
...that there is a plan to shift
Kolkata 's traditional wholesale market in
Posta (
pictured ) , to the newly developed
New Town ?
...that the
Zarah Leander film
La Habanera takes place in 1937
Puerto Rico but was filmed in the
Canaries during the
Spanish Civil War ?
...that the
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is
Canada 's largest
wildlife refuge , covering 26,000 square miles (67,000 km²)?
...that in the churchyard of
Morwenstow Church is the preserved
figurehead of the Scottish
brig
The Caledonia , which was shipwrecked nearby in 1843?
...that the effects of
head trauma on memory can be seen by the post-operative results of
HM , a patient who has been unable to form any new
long-term memories since a surgical procedure performed in the 1950s?
...that the
Rufous-crowned Sparrow , a medium-sized
sparrow of the southwestern
United States and
Mexico , has a
subspecies
endemic to the
Todos Santos Islands that has not been seen since the 1970s?
...that the story of
Stephen Foster visiting what is now
My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
...that in the 1936 expansion of the
Ronaldsway Airport , workers discovered a
mass grave believed to hold the remains of soldiers who died during the 1275
Battle of Ronaldsway ?
...that the
bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track (
pictured ) in
Lake Placid, New York was the first track to host the
bobsleigh and
luge world championships outside of
Europe , doing so in
1949 and
1983 , respectively?
...that in 1924,
English
light heavyweight boxer
Jack Bloomfield fought
American
Tommy Gibbons in the first ever boxing match to be held at
London 's famed
Wembley Stadium ?
...that although the opposition gained 40% of the vote in the
1990 Mongolian legislative election , it only received 14% of the parliamentary seats?
...that
Queen Elizabeth II was given a
Louisville Stoneware
musical box at the
2007 Kentucky Derby ?
...that
Victoriatown , a Canadian village bulldozed by the
Montreal government in preparation for
Expo 67 , was used as a setting for
Ha Jin 's award-winning novel,
Waiting: a Novel ?
...that
Joan Ingpen and her pet
dachshund Williams were the founding partners of the
Ingpen & Williams classical music talent agency?
...that the last ever train on the
Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on
29 December
1962 due to heavy snow?
...that
British
Conservative
MP
Sir Adam Butler called in the
receivers at the
DeLorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in
Northern Ireland in 1982?
...that
Przemysław I Noszak ,
Duke of Cieszyn unsuccessfully tried to negotiate peace between
England and
France fighting the
Hundred Years' War ?
...that
City Academy High School in
Saint Paul, Minnesota , became the first
charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on
September 7 ,
1992 ?
...that
neurologist
Michael Ashby , an
expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected
serial killer
John Bodkin Adams , was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
...that the
Texas Tower lighthouses were based on the design of off-shore
oil platforms ?
...that, after helping enact
abstinence-only sex education as a
school board member,
Colorado
state senator
Scott Renfroe attempted to amend statewide
comprehensive sex ed standards to exempt schools in his native
Weld County ?
...that the
Elizabethan
Sir John Thynne (pictured) was twice imprisoned in the
Tower of London ?
...that the
Japanese
make-up artist
Shu Uemura gained critical acclaim for transforming actress
Shirley MacLaine into a Japanese woman?
...that
Soviet literature declared
Russian the "
world language of
internationalism ", denouncing
French as the "language of fancy courtiers" and
English as the "jargon of traders"?
...that the
ancient Olympic athlete
Milo of Croton reportedly drank 10
liters of the
Calabrian wine Cirò every day, and that the same wine is still being produced today?
...that in
O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner , the
United States Tax Court is presented for the first time with the issue of whether
sex reassignment surgery is tax deductible?
...that fake names and scenes were given to actors auditioning for roles in the upcoming
episode titled "
Confirmed Dead " of the
fourth season of
ABC 's
television series
Lost to limit the leak of
spoilers ?
...that the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at
Cossipore , a neighbourhood in north
Kolkata , is the oldest surviving factory in the
Indian subcontinent ?
...that
Charles Le Gendre (pictured) , was born in
France , married in
Belgium , but died an American general in 1899, working for
King Gojong , Emperor of
Korea ?
...that during the
1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire , its manager
Vsevolod Luknitski died after flooding explosives with water, in order to save
the whole city from a major explosion?
...that a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic
Cape Perpetua during
World War II ?
...that of the members of
Australia 's
Quietly Confident Quartet that won the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the
1980 Olympics ,
Mark Tonelli ,
Mark Kerry and
Neil Brooks were either suspended or expelled by the
Australian Swimming Union while
Peter Evans refused coaching orders to train harder?
...that the
St. James-Belgravia Historic District of
Louisville, Kentucky , the site of the 1883-87
Southern Exposition , has buildings modeled after
London 's
Belgravia ?
...that
space artist
Jon Lomberg (
artwork pictured ) was
Carl Sagan 's principal artistic collaborator on many projects such as
Cosmos and the
Voyager Golden Record ?
...that
Lyrcus is the name shared by two ancient Greek figures?
...that
Omar Osama bin Laden , son of
Osama bin Laden , has proposed a 3000-mile
horse race to replace the
Dakar rally , canceled the week before due to
al-Qaeda threats?
...that the
Tingari cycle in
Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of
Aboriginal
Dreaming
songlines that traverse the
Western Desert region of Australia, and is frequently the subject of
Aboriginal Art ?
...that
Republican Governor
Bobby Jindal supported
Joel Chaisson , a
Democrat , to become the new president of the
Louisiana State Senate ?
...that a successful
experimental system must be stable and
reproducible enough for scientists to make sense of the system's behavior, but unpredictable enough that it can produce useful results?
...that
St George's Church, Brighton (
pictured ) became so popular after
Queen Adelaide started attending that in order to increase its seating capacity, master builder
Thomas Cubitt built an extra gallery in one week?
...that the
trophy awarded to the first
winners of
Norwegian film award
Amanda , at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
...that future Soviet psychiatrist
Yuri Nuller was sent into the
Gulag for supposedly being recruited by the French secret service at the age of three?
...that the
Peter C. DuBois House in
Beacon, New York was
reused as a
sanatorium for much of the 20th century?
...that the unsuccessful, day-long
Rebellion of Cao Qin within
Beijing ,
China in 1461 forced the
Tianshun Emperor to blockade the gates of the
Forbidden City with debris stripped from the Imperial Waterway?