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...that a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the
Quit India Movement in
1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?
...that the Torre del Oro, a watchtower constructed in the 13th century by the
Almohad dynasty, protected the entrance to
Seville's port with a large chain that stretched underwater from the tower's base across the river to stop unwanted ships?
...that Carmen Boullosa is a leading
Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright whose award-winning play Teatro herético satirically addresses the issue of
gender roles?
...that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the
Rhône Valley in
France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality
chocolate?
...that the Shell Lake murders were committed by Victor E. Hoffman three weeks after his release from a
mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the
Devil just before committing the murders?
...that more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a
bamboocane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?
...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central
Virginia was formed in
1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
...that the Flying Dragon is a
lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7
metres?
...that "Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a
blackfaceminstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black
slave's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
13 September 2005
22:36, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
...that the Perth Mint is the oldest operating
mint in
Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined
gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced?
...that in
1982, 68 kg of
gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle, and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a
Perth television station?
...that Gingee Fort in
Tamil Nadu,
India was called the "
Troy of the East" by the
British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
...that recently-retired
indigenousAustralian rules footballerDarryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for
boxing?
...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a
lion tamer?
...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000
acres in
1976 to more than eight million acres in
1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
...that the
U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban
Tucson,
Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?