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...that William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting
rabbits when they stumbled upon a
quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of
gold?
...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the
railway built in the
United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
...that Herkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the
13th century by the
Germans as a boy?
...that when the
Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
...that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouartcastle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
...that the Gouin Reservoir in
Quebec,
Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
...that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one
endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of
Wild Cats (pictured) remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?
...that in the depositioninitiation ritual(pictured) of Medieval and Early Modern
universities, new students were dressed up with horns which were then removed with grindstones, axes, and pliers?
...that in his satirical 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum, French physicist Jean-Baptiste Pérès argued that
Napoleon never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?
...that model Rebecca Twigley became a household name in
Australia after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?
...that in 362 AD, the
rhetoricianProhaeresius, a friend of the
pagan Emperor, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
...that Trachodon, despite being a well-known and often-used
duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include both
duckbill and
horned dinosaur specimens?
...that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern
Cameroon?
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23:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
...that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the
Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?
...that the Dash-and-dot goatfish(pictured) bears a stripe and spot that is usually black, but which is red when the same species lives in deeper waters?
...that Tombo Ati, a traditional
Javanese song based on a popular
hadith of the prophet
Muhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?
...that William E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career as
president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest
football coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
...that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts
state championships?
...that during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63
Assyrian villages were destroyed?
...that award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a
Zainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced by
Zeami's traditional Japanese
Noh dramas?
...that most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
...that Major Alan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of the
USS Arizona during the
attack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
...that
kabuki actor Matsunosuke Onoe became the first superstar of
Japanese cinema, appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?
...that 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the
Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
...that the twelfth
sultan of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of
Pahang, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
...that the
Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
...that the
mentally illEgyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven
Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
...that
Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a
communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by
King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
...that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in
Central Europe in recorded history?
...that
Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
...that in his
1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient
tribe of
Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
...that the Brown truss(pictured: truss detail) was
patented in 1857, enjoyed a brief spurt in popularity, was used in
severalcovered bridges in
Michigan in the mid 19th century, and was apparently never used again?
...that the history of the carom billiards disciplines, balkline and straight rail(balkline table pictured), features a veritable billiards
evolutionary arms race, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?
...that Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the
United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?