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...that
footballerGraham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for
Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
...that, inspired by
Sylvester Stallone's experience selling the script for Rocky, actor/screenwriter
J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?
...that the
steamboatFlyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed
hull, causing it to
list to
port throughout its working life?
...that
wine writer André Simon had only two
magnums of
claret in his
cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
...that Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Baháʼís of South Africa", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the
Baháʼí Faith in his country?
...that it took Midvinterblot, a controversial painting from
Sweden, 82 years and a detour to a Japanese collector before it could finally be installed where it was intended to be?
...that
ITV Network Centre did not want to broadcast the first series of Cold Feet at 9 p.m. because that was a timeslot traditionally reserved for programmes that viewers could do their
ironing to?
...that East Smithfield was given to the Knighten Guild by
King Edgar, after they each performed three combats—one above the ground, one below, and one on water?
...that John Blackner, who wrote a history of
Nottingham in 1815, explained why the anti-industrial group was called
Luddites; a group he may have been a member of?
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on
aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the
magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing
formulae for
π?
...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in
self-defense, one of the largest lakes in
Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
...that the
Palestinian town of Jifna, believed to be the biblical
Gophna, was a
Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in
Iudaea after
Jerusalem?
...that the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by
foot and mouth disease?
...that chef and restaurateur Suzanne Goin won the 2006
James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
...that from 1908 the Cone Mills Corporation(mill pictured) was the world's largest producer of
denim fabric, making its founder
Moses H. Cone the "Denim King?"
...that after the
AztecCoatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a
cult?
...that after
Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian
seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
...that the Anekāntavādaphilosophy of
Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?
22 March 2008
17:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
...that according to
Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta(pictured) was born from the union of the sun-god
Surya and his wife
Saranya in the form of
horse and mare?
...that Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of
Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the
Everglades?
...that, before signing to Career/
Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at
Caesars Palace?
...that the
palmDictyosperma album(pictured) in the
Mascarene Islands is commonly called "hurricane palm" because of its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves?
...that the 2002
surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
...that the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 entitles all persons in
England who are over the age of 60 or disabled to free
bus travel throughout the country during off-peak hours?
...that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the
Portland,
Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
...that the original Victoria Dam constructed in 1891 was the first
dam in
Western Australia, and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
...that military engineer Thomas Phillips(pictured), is depicted in a 17th-century painting with
Brave Benbow, but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the
Earl of Orford?
...that Mike Menosky, a probation officer who was a former
baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
...that Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a
nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing
nuclear power plants?
...that after Crewe Hall(pictured) in
Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866,
E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the
Jacobean original?
...that Stonehenge in its landscape, described by one reviewer as "one of the more important British archaeological publications this century", had a print run of just 800 copies?
...that former
Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004
APEC annual meeting held in
Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II?
...that the ethics guidelines for
Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
...that "Spieprzaj dziadu!" (
Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President
Lech Kaczynski, has become one of the most famous phrases in modern
Poland?
...that Knut Rød, a
Norwegian police inspector who arranged the
deportation of over 500
Jews to
Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
...that
Funny Cardrag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188
mph, only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
...that Keewassee, a
Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a
dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a
hickory rod when caught?
...that the
Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
...that Arthur A. Denny, one of
Seattle's founders and a lifelong
teetotaler, had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
...that
Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
...that
Arthur Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected
British victory in the
Boer War, but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and
Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
...that Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
...that current
Venezuelan Deputy
Foreign Minister and ambassador to the
OASJorge Valero, a vocal spokesman for the
Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
...that retreating
glaciers of the
Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes, many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?
07:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
...that the tragic ending of
Shakespeare's King Lear was found to be so distasteful that it was replaced on stage for over 150 years by Nahum Tate's adaptation(pictured), with a happy ending and a love story?
...that the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the
A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
...that
Dr. Demento(pictured), a
DJ specializing in novelty songs and parodies, got his start at KRRC (FM), the student-run radio station of
Reed College?
...that
Tibetan Buddhist monks attending a shedra university(example pictured) may be asked to completely memorize their school texts before they begin to study them?
...that legend at Banagher says its church (pictured) was founded by a
saint, led there by a
stag acting as a
lectern and carrying a book on its
antlers?
...that singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional
Isleñodécimas of
Louisiana, since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
...that if all the
video gamestraded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than
Taipei 101?
...that the briefly popular "I'm Backing Britain" campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in
Portugal?
...that although Peckforton Castle in
Cheshire(pictured) was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a
Norman castle in design and position?
...that the
Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama, provides evidence for the survival of
pre-Islamic traditions within the
Seljuq empire?
...that Israeli agricultural output is now 16 times what it was at
independence in 1948, which means that it has risen three times more than the population growth rate?
...that many of the
viaducts(pictured) on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord were two-tiered structures, and that the Viaduc de Souzain had a railway junction on the viaduct itself?
...that a
Venetian foundation seeking to rebuild the Bucentaur (model pictured) has written to
Nicolas Sarkozy for a financial contribution as compensation for
Napoleon's 1798 destruction of the original ship?
...that the Rolls-Royce Conway, a
turbofan engine, was the first commercial aero engine to be awarded clearance to operate for periods up to 10,000 hours between major overhauls?