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...that law professor Ralph Aigler, once known as the "dominant figure in Michigan's athletics," negotiated the
Big Ten's exclusive contracts with the
Rose Bowl in 1946 and 1953?
...that Independent Learning Centre started the Railway School Car Program in 1926, in which a teacher lived in a train car that traveled to students in isolated
Northern Ontario communities?
...that the
Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the
Japanese force defending the island?
...that Dr. Frederick Madison Allen prescribed a "starvation diet" for patients at his Physiatric Institute, the leading way of prolonging lives of
diabetics in the days before the isolation of
insulin?
...that so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in
Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works, and 250,000 more will be affected in the future?
...that Barry Coe, the winner of the
Golden Globe award for "most promising"
actor, missed out on becoming the fourth Cartwright brother on the
television seriesBonanza because of reported friction on the set?
...that the
JapanesedestroyerMatsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
...that the boundary between
Sudan and
Ethiopia was defined for the region near the Pibor River in
1899 by Major H.H. Austin and Major Charles W. Gwynn of the British Royal Engineers?
...that Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic
gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely
deaf?
...that according to an
Iroquois legend, a woman eating roasted
acorns intimidated an evil spirit of the tribe known as The Flying Head so much he never returned?
...that the city of
San Francisco contributed a large proportion of the funds for constructing the extension of Junipero Serra Boulevard beyond the city limits?
...that at Winter X Games XII, skier
Tanner Hall set a record with his seventh career gold medal, only to be tied by snowboarder
Shaun White on the last day of competition?
...that during
World War II, the Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze survived
fourmajorfleetactions against the American, British, Australian and Dutch fleets, but was sunk after colliding with a Japanese
cruiser?
...that Abbas Tyabji (pictured with Mahatma Gandhi), respectfully called the "Grand Old Man of Gujarat", was chosen at age seventy-six by
Mahatma Gandhi to take over leadership of the
Salt Satyagraha upon Gandhi's arrest in May, 1930?
...that the crowd at the 1984 funeral of assassinated
Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco was estimated at between fifteen thousand and two hundred thousand people?
...that race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the
faculty parking lot?
...that the only
Edward Medal awarded in the Kent coalfield was won at Tilmanstone Colliery, one of only four successful
pits in
Kent out of twelve planned or built?
...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 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
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 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 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 the
Latinfamilia must be translated as "household" rather than as "family", since neither
classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
...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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 because of the laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships, that it is possible for a person born in a British ship, anchored at a United States port, with a Chinese father and a Turkish mother, to have
quadruple nationality?
...that the Koitsenko were the honorary elite of the
Kiowadog soldiers, who tribal lore says called themselves that because they had dreams or visions of dogs?
...that less than two months after showing what would become the
dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the
fashion industry?
...that when
San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
...that the
type specimen of Dromicosuchus had damage to its jaw and neck that may have been inflicted by the teeth of the large
carnivore it was found underneath?
...that Tommy Johnson holds the record for the most goals scored by a
Manchester City player in a single season?
...that Indian company Reliance Power attracted US$27.5 billion of bids on the first day of its
initial public offering (IPO), equivalent to 10.5 times the
stock on offer, thereby creating
India's IPO record?
...that during the reign of Beorhtwulf of Mercia,
London, the chief trading centre of
Mercia, was attacked twice, in 842 and again in 851, by
Viking armies?
...that the 1956 My Fair Lady by
Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single
Broadway musical?
...that after
ComancheprophetIsa-tai promised a coalition of Native American warriors they would be invulnerable in battle and they lost, he blamed a
Cheyenne killing a
skunk for negating his magic?
...that the origins of Castle Lake(pictured) in
California date to the
Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a
glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?
...that
Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in
Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping
seals?
...that Ong Kim Seng is the only
Asian artist outside the
USA to be admitted into the American Watercolor Society, having won six awards from the society?
...that an Enoteca, from the
Italian for wine library, is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee?
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...that there is a belief that a dip in the waters of Papanasam Beach (pictured), one of the beaches in Kerala, washes away sins?
...that the
Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off
Kushimoto, led to strengthening foreign relations between
Turkey and
Japan?
...that Tommy Fleming was inducted into the
American Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005, one of five soccer players unanimously selected to represent overlooked players from before the 1950s?
...that graphic artist Rea Irvin's portrait of
Eustace Tilly, a
dandy peering at a butterfly through a
monocle, appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
...that the
supermassive black hole at the center of the
quasarOJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the
Sun, six times heavier than the previous record holder?
...that Chardonnay grapes are very neutral in flavor with many of the characteristics commonly associated with Chardonnay
wine being derived from influences like terroir and the use of
oak during
winemaking?
...that under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand,
Paris's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
...that one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words "
centrifugal" and "
centripetal")?
...that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "
fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
...that the largest private home in the U.S. in 1790, Hampton Mansion(pictured), was occupied by the same family until 1948 and is the first national historic site selected by the U.S. National Park Service for architectural significance?
...that Jeffrey Miles, a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
...that the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first
Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
...that The Expert at the Card Table, one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by
S. W. Erdnase, an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
...that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in
Istanbul features a
cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
...that William Melmoth's
1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
...that
Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
...that
William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet(pictured) depicts a very poor family living in a squalid
garret while the man of the family, who pursues a literary career in disregard of his family's poverty, attempts to write a poem entitled "Upon Riches"?
...that as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the
Truman-era
White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of
maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
...that
Doris Day rejected an offer to star in the 1957 biopic The Helen Morgan Story with
Paul Newman, refusing to portray the sordid story of a character that conflicted with Day's on-screen persona?
...that, before building the landmark
Gandy Bridge, George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"?
...that Ric Williamson, the departed chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission advocated
toll roads, including the controversial
Trans-Texas Corridor, to increase his state's highway capacity?
...that a shell stitch is a crochet motif often used for decorative borders?
...that before he died, Dr William Oliver gave his coachman £100, 10 sacks of flour and a recipe for a type of biscuit named after its inventor that is still eaten today?
...that despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550concept cars unveiled at the
1989Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
...after years of studying airflow at supersonic speeds, Adolf Busemann suggested that aerodynamicists, who had forgotten his
swept wing work until they got together again during
Operation Paperclip, need to become '
pipe fitters'?
...that Leo Laliman, while accredited for the solution to the
Great French Wine Blight, was thought by many people to have introduced the pest which caused the
blight?
...that 19th century
magician and
vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
...that in 1957, Art Houtteman was called "a pitcher of considerable promise" by
Hal Lebovitz despite playing in his 12th and final
Major League season that year?
...that the 1980s oil glut caused the world price of oil, which had peaked during the
1979 energy crisis at over US$35 per barrel, to dip below US$15 in the early 1980s?
...that the
tropicalmarinefishrazorbelly scad(Alepes kleinii, pictured) has a complicated
taxonomic history in which the species has been described and named no less than seven times since 1793, including twice re-classified in 1833?
...that Reeve Aleutian Airways was started with a down payment of $3,000 on one
DC-3aircraft, and that
Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder, earned enough money in 53 days to purchase the aircraft outright and buy another three aircraft?
...that San Martín Pajapan Monument 1 (pictured), a large
Olmec statue of a young lord raising the axis mundi under supernatural protection, was found near the peak on an extinct volcano?
...that
Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan,
Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of
Kolkata?
...that painter Herman Rose was noted for his
Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of
cityscapes?
...that the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder, founded in 1926, was the first coed Scout association in Germany, and that they had strong ties to Scouts in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia?
...that upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the
12th Cavalry at
Meerut, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
...that Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the
Mercians when her mother
Æthelflæd died in
918, but was deposed by King
Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
...that in addition to the 22 suspects listed by the
Los AngelesDistrict Attorney in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947, about 60 people confessed to the crime?
...that Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three
Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried
Montreal Canadiens games?
...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring
Led Zeppelin, crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
...that the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magicaanime were shown in a
nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
...that although Horse-eye jack (Caranx latus) generally fear
scuba divers,
schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the
Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the
Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into
New York City from the south or west?
...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in
Freetown,
Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
...that Yve Lavigueur, who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest
lotteryjackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
...that Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of
Yukos oil company?
...that a legend says that when
Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan, he was struck blind the next morning and his
hunting dogs went mad?
...that in attempting to stop
U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head, two
Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
...that Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the New York
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange to jump 4.7%, because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
...that Elise Primavera, author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus, says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
...that the Taiwan Cypress(Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the
Hinoki cypress(C. obtusa) in the Occident?
...that LPI Media is the largest publisher of
gay and
lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
...that, after eluding capture for three months when his
B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in
World War II, Bob Chappuis was the
MVP of the
Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
...that scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of
neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive
intonation?
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...that the conclusions of the fact-finding McNamara Taylor mission (Maxwell Taylor pictured) to
South Vietnam were drafted before the trip had started?
...that the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former U.S. Ambassador to
Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?
...that the
Polish painter Alexander Kucharsky is best known for his portraits of the French royal family, including the doomed
Louis XVII(portrait pictured)?
...that the final text of the Durban Declaration produced by the governments meeting at the World Conference against Racism 2001 does not contain the language that caused the
Israeli and
United States delegations to withdraw halfway through?
...that the Crested Shelduck(pictured) is a
critically endangeredduck that has not been definitively seen since 1964, despite a handful of possible sightings and numerous surveys of its presumed habitat?
...that Danish-American artist Antonio Jacobsen was called the "
Audubon of Steam Vessels" for the scope, breadth and intricate details in the 6,000 works of sail and steam ships he painted?
...that the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with
Swedish law?