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...that Mount Burbidge in
Namadgi National Park was named for Australian botanist Nancy Tyson Burbidge, who was instrumental in lobbying for the foundation of the park?
...that Baba Kanshi Ram wore only black clothes from
1931 to
1943 in support of
Indian independence, which earned him the sobriquet of Siahposh General or General in Black?
...that Hansken the elephant (pictured) toured many European countries in the 17th century, performing feats of "intelligence", and was sketched by
Rembrandt several times?
...that life chances is a
probabilistic concept introduced by
sociologistMax Weber to determine the likely outcomes of an individual's life, on the basis of certain underlying factors?
...that Ram Shastri, a celebrated 18th-century judge in the
Maratha Empire, created judicial history in
India by sentencing the incumbent
Peshwa (de facto ruler) to death on a charge of murder?
...that Boy Charlton(pictured) won gold in the 1500m freestyle at the
1924 Olympics despite his coach jumping overboard on the sea voyage to Europe?
...that due to legal restrictions, the first scheduled electric tram service in Saint Petersburg ran not on city streets, but rather on ice covering the
Neva River during winter season?
...that for nearly three centuries until 1956, the Burdwan Zamindari, one of the richest feudal estates in
Bengal, was held by the same
Punjabi family (family member pictured)?
...that The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show that ran on the
NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first
NTSC color
television broadcast?
...that underwater panthers were creatures appearing in the mythology of a number of
Native American traditions, which combined the features of
mountain lions or
lynx with those of
snakes, and were believed to inhabit the deepest parts of lakes and rivers?
...that Onesimos Nesib, who translated the
Bible into
Oromo, was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not
Amharic, the language of the local
Orthodox priests?
...that Roy Smeck's virtuoso
ukulele performance in the 1926
sound film "His Pastimes" sealed his reputation as "Wizard of the Strings"?
16 July 2006
16:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
...that the Fremantle Arts Centre(pictured) was originally known as the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum and was built between 1861 and 1868 by British convicts?
...that the 18th-century Cabañas Hospital (pictured) in
Guadalajara was built on one level, so as to facilitate the movement of the sick, the aged, and children?
...that Hispanics have participated in every conflict in which the United States has been involved, and over forty
Hispanics have been awarded the
Medal of Honor?
...that although the presence of Armenians in Bulgaria dates to the
Early Middle Ages, their large-scale emigration to the country only began in the 19th century?
...that in the Battle of Węgierska Górka, four unfinished and undermanned Polish
bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?
... that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern
professional wrestling?
...that after Harry Ashmore won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1958,
Arkansas Governor
Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
...that the fish Echiodon rendahli has a portion of its
intestine protruding from its belly, so that while living inside
sponges it can defecate outside its shelter without being exposed to outside dangers?
...that there have been at least fifteen deaths at the
WelshcavePorth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-
metre-deep Resurgance Pool?
...that cow fighting, unlike
bull fighting, is a
sport that does not have human participants but is fought between
cows, and that it often does not include any physical contact?
...that the satirical German radio programme The Gerd Show reached no. 1 in Germany's 2002 Christmas single charts with a parody of "
The Ketchup Song" which attacked
Gerhard Schröder's tax policies?
...that the River Banksia (Banksia seminuda) was originally considered a
subspecies of the Swamp Banksia (Banksia littoralis), as they share many similar characteristics?
...that in the 1869 Battle of Hakodate in
Japan, French soldiers fought side-by-side with rebel
samurai against the newly formed Imperial government, in an episode reminiscent of the movie The Last Samurai?
...that the starting point for the History of Australia is usually taken to be the first undisputed sighting of Australia by the
Dutch in 1606, although many researchers alleged that other sightings took place a hundred years earlier?
...that the Canadian judicial decision Re Burley (1865), was made in colonial times, and is still cited by the
Supreme Court of Canada in
extradition cases over a century later?
...that the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in
Himachal Pradesh,
India at least once every year?
...that the invention of the tone variator(pictured) in 1897 marked the advance beyond classical
psychophysics, as it allowed the study of the perception of continuous changes in
stimuli?
...that Saco Bay on the
Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer
Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a
sack?
...that in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest,
Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
...that Japanese designer Kenzo Takada developed his love for
fashion by reading his sisters' magazines as a child?
5 July 2006
19:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
...that the Persoonia longifolia(pictured), known as the Upright Snottygobble, is a
species of tall
shrub characterised by its distinctive flakey paper-like dark red bark?
...that several months after
Vasili III of
Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova, on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the
Cossack robber
Kudeyar?
...that there have been several proposals for space advertising projects, including a giant, 1km²
billboard visible from
Earth?
...that during the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, 51
U.S. soldiers held out against some 700
Arapaho Indians and their allies for 9 days, surviving on nothing but muddy water and meat from their own fallen horses?