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...that during the
Battle of Hel , one of the longest battles in the 1939
Polish September Campaign ,
Polish forces temporarily separated the
peninsula from the mainland, forming an island?
...that
Greyfriars Kirkyard , famed for its association with
Greyfriars Bobby , is haunted by the spirit of "
Bluidy Mackenzie " and featured in the early photography of
David Octavius Hill and
Robert Adamson ?
...that when
Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented
blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn
blood which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?
...that the
Capitoline Wolf , the
icon of the
founding of Rome , is actually an
Etruscan bronze
statue depicting a she-wolf suckling the infant twins
Romulus and Remus ?
The Capitoline Wolf
...that
Mozambican journalist
Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the
privatization of the country's largest
bank ?
...that although
archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many
artifacts , they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?
...that the
Battle of Zhuolu , fought in the
26th century BC and the second recorded battle in
Chinese history , is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the
Han Chinese civilization?
...that
Nikolay Glazkov , a
Soviet
poet , is credited with having coined the term
samizdat , which has come to be internationally known?
...that
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein , a
castle in the
Rhine that
Victor Hugo described as a "ship of stone," also used its
well as a
dungeon ?
Burg Pfalzgrafenstein
...that on
Christmas Eve 1942, in the
Tatsinskaya Raid , the
Red Army's
24th Tank Corps captured the
German airfield that was conducting the
Stalingrad relief airlift?
...that the
Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , a bird
endemic to the
archipelago of
Puerto Rico , engages in
anting , a behavior in which birds rub
ants on their feathers?
...that the
mummified remains of outlaw
Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the
Bessemer Hall of History in
Bessemer, Alabama ?
...that
The Stewardesses , the most profitable
3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?
...that French singer
Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song,
Non, je ne regrette rien , to the
French Foreign Legion ?
...that, during half a millennium, the
Croÿ family produced two
cardinals , seven
bishops , nine
field marshals , twenty
generals , and thirty two knights of the
Order of the Golden Fleece ?
Arms of Philippe I de Croÿ
...that the
5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the
Second Battle of Bull Run , the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire
American Civil War ?
...that the
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum , a
medieval
didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the
19th century ?
...that in
Miller v. Jackson the
Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a
cricket club was liable in
negligence and
nuisance when
sixes were hit over the
boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of
Lord Denning ,
MR ?
...that the
English Sundew , a
carnivorous plant with wide distribution in the
northern hemisphere , originated from a hybrid involving a plant with localized distribution in the
Great Lakes area?
Drosera anglica with prey
...that
pitcher -
outfielder
Clint Hartung was hyped as
Cooperstown -bound but played so poorly for the
New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
...that
Protmušis is a
quizbowl competition that has been taking place in
Vilnius ,
Lithuania since
1997
...that a private citizen,
Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy , entirely funded the construction of the
Mahim Causeway , a major thoroughfare connecting the island city of
Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
...that the
Kryvbas economic region in
Ukraine is one of the largest
iron ore and
steel industry centers in
Europe ?
...that the
Willow Tearooms , designed by
Charles Rennie Mackintosh , is the most famous of many new
Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the
Temperance movement ?
The Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms
...that in the
Battle of Gdynia during the
Polish September Campaign , the German armed forces captured
Gdynia , an important port and industrial center of the
Second Polish Republic ?
...that the
SS leader
Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist
Bruno Schulz , because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of
murals for his young son's bedroom?
...that the
Ford Mustang SSP , in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing
Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the
Lockheed U-2
spy plane ?
...that in
the Night Attack skirmish,
Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
...that a
bull terrier named
Stubby attained the rank of
sergeant during
World War I ?
Sergeant Stubby
...that
Kongara Jaggayya was the first
Indian film actor to be elected directly to the
Parliament ?
...that
Camille Gravel , a
Louisiana
Democrat and
civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
...that the
Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the
British Invasion , with rock bands from
Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in
Argentina ?
...that the
Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest
battles in world history, involving almost 4 million men on both sides and stretching on a
front 1,400 km wide?
...that the
Senyavin Islands of
Micronesia were
named after
Dmitry Senyavin , who destroyed the
Ottoman fleet in the
Battle of Athos in
1807 ?
...that
The Tanganyika Rifles
mutinied in
1964 , seizing control of
Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the
Royal Marines ?
...that the
calls of the
Red-throated Ant-tanager , a noisy
passerine bird native to the
Caribbean , include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik , and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick ?
...that
Jefferson Pier in
Washington, D.C. was a
survey monument for the first
meridian of the
United States , replacing one set by
Thomas Jefferson in
1793 , and that it was later used as a
mooring bollard on the
Potomac River ?
...that, during the
Battle of Königsberg ,
German troops were subjected to
Soviet
propaganda , telling them that they were trapped in a
pocket and that their resistance was pointless?
...that
Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his
Arithmetica Universalis , he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them?
Arithmetica
...that a pioneer
automobile manufacturer,
August Duesenberg , went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first
mass produced vehicle, although his
race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920
Indianapolis 500 -mile race?
...that the
Battle of Domstadtl during the
Seven Years' War was the first big military success of
Ernst Gideon von Laudon , which made
Prussian King
Frederick the Great finish the siege of
Olomouc and leave
Moravia ?
...that
Robin Philipson , former President of the
Royal Scottish Academy , was particularly renowned for his
cockfight paintings?
...that in
1132
George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum , which translates as
Admiral of Admirals in
modern English , but meant
Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
Dholavira
Ippolit Bogdanovich