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...that
endangered arthropods (
example pictured ) are becoming
extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued?
...that free-diver
Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
...that the
Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the
Americas ?
...that the
fictional planet
Zenn-La , homeworld of the
Silver Surfer , has been destroyed at least three times?
...that the
Kaleva , a
Finnish passenger plane carrying
diplomatic post, was shot down by
Soviet
bombers in an act of aggression?
...that even though the
Mooney aircraft company bears
Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
...that in 2003-2004,
ANA had to pay almost
¥ 100 m for flying too many passengers to
Noto Airport ?
...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of
Gobindram Mitter , a
British deputy in
Calcutta , earned him a place in a
Bengali rhyme?
...that the
Duchy of Veragua , granted to the grandson of
Christopher Columbus , is a perfect square of land 25
leagues to a side?
...that the
Berlin Stadtbahn (
pictured ) is built mostly as an elevated railway line with
viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?
...that the
Polish cochineal gave its name to the color
red and the month of
June in many
Slavic languages ?
...that
John Perlman , one of
South Africa 's most popular radio presenters, resigned after
blowing the whistle on political
censorship at the
South African Broadcasting Corporation ?
...that the 1916
Lorado Taft work,
The Soldiers' Monument , constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
...that
Disco D specialized in
hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing
original ring tone works for cell phones?
...that
Lauren Nelson , newly crowned
Miss America 2007 , is the second consecutive winner from
Oklahoma ?
...that
Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a
pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now
Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in
Pennsylvania ?
...that the
Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
...that
tourism in Cameroon (
bush taxi pictured ) centers around wildlife such as
elephants ,
giraffes , and
gorillas ?
...that
Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to
New York when the
French government under
François Mitterrand nationalized
his bank ?
...that
Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on
Canadian currency ?
...that
Antoni Bohdziewicz , a
Polish
film director , was a member of the
Armia Krajowa
Polish resistance and worked on a
documentary film made and shown entirely in
besieged Warsaw ?
...that one of
Atomic Games ' most successful titles,
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far , topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
...that the earliest scientifically dated
cemetery in the
United Kingdom was found at
Aveline's Hole , one of the
Caves of the Mendip Hills in
Somerset ,
England ?
...that
French historian
Augustin Cochin was the son of
Denys Cochin , a prominent right wing Deputy in the
National Assembly of France ?
...that as a
teenager ,
Russian
novelist
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (
pictured ) was convicted of stealing
mail and sentenced to three months in a
monastery ?
...that the
Swedish
spelman
Anders Ljungqvist , according to rumors, had a contract with the
Nix , signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
...that
ball culture , as seen in
Paris is Burning , has
drag houses which compete for 12' tall
trophies and
prizes of $1000 or more?
...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a
tiger 's cage in
Alipore Zoological Gardens ,
Calcutta , and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
...in
1293 , the
Bartian tribe of
Prussia asked
Lithuanian
Grand Duke
Vytenis for protection against the
Teutonic Knights ?
...that according to
Germanic legends , the cruel king
Níðuðr captured the divine smith
Weyland and had him
hamstrung to prevent escape?
...that
Egyptian
actor
Omar Sharif 's first film role was in the
1954 film
Sira` Fi al-Wadi ?
...that
Old St Paul's Cathedral (
pictured ) in the
City of London , destroyed in the 1666
Great Fire of London , had one of the
tallest spires in the world ?
...that
French
soprano
Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after
World War II for her alleged support of
Nazi Germany ?
...that Emperor
Frederick II ran
an experiment which involved raising
infants in isolation to discover what language
God spoke?
...that the life of
Polish ship captain
Mamert Stankiewicz was immortalized in a popular
book series ?
...that
William Frederick Yeames '
painting , And When Did You Last See Your Father? , has been reproduced as a
waxwork at
Madame Tussauds ,
London ?
...that the discovery of
Archaeamphora longicervia , the first known
carnivorous plant , suggests that
flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
...that
John Murray of Broughton was a
Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to
Lord Lovat's execution for
high treason ?
...that students who finish a
doctorate at the
Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the
Gänseliesel , a
statue in the center of
Göttingen ?
...that the
Golden Conure (
pictured ) is also known as the Queen of Bavaria conure?
...that
Jonas Vileišis was a member of the
Council which proclaimed
Lithuania 's independence in 1918?
...that the charity
Facing the World offers
cosmetic surgery to children with facial
disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
...that
Julius Caesar appears in
Norse mythology as the legendary king
Kjárr ?
...that
Bulgarian
Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first
textile factory in the
Ottoman Empire ?
...that
Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open-hearth
furnace in the
United States ?
...that
Charles Leach is the only
British
Member of Parliament to be disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886?
...that
Japanese author
Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated
Leo Tolstoy in establishing a
commune based on
humanism and
utopian socialism ?
...that
Komati Gorge (
pictured ) has colourful
bluffs which harbor the
threatened
Southern Bald Ibis ?
...that
Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be
executed for his part in
Bonnie Prince Charlie 's
Jacobite rebellion ?
...that the
Piraeus Lion is an
ancient Greek statue "embellished" with
runic
graffiti by
Vikings ?
...that
Lithuanian
collective
farm workers were 50% more productive than the
Soviet average?
...that the
Strangeways Prison inmate
Gordon Park was convicted of
murdering his first wife 38 years after the fact?
...that
Humshaugh in
Northumberland ,
England , is acknowledged as the site of the first official
Scout camp?
...that
economist
J. C. Kumarappa coined the term
Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on
Gandhism ?
...that the
Loch Arkaig treasure , a large amount of
specie provided by
Spain to finance the
Jacobite rising in
Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at
Loch Arkaig (pictured) in the
Scottish Highlands ?
...that
New Zealand
rugby player
Andy Dalton suffered an injury which kept him from captaining the
All Blacks side which went on to win the inaugural
1987
Rugby World Cup ?
...that about 1,400 people of
Fryštát died in 1623 because of
bubonic plague ?
...that the
standing army created during the
Thirty Years' War by
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , developed into the
Prussian Army ?
...that the
Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a
concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon ?
...that construction of
Żarnowiec ,
Poland 's only
nuclear power plant , was cancelled as the project neared completion?
...that a
banjee (
pictured ) is a young
Latino or
Black
man who has sex with men and dresses in
thuggish
urban fashion ?
...that since the first
Urdu language
typewriter was created in 1911, the
Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the
digital age ?
...that historian
Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the
British contingent to the
Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
...that the
PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by
King George III in
Prince Edward Island ?
...that
Jeannette Piccard piloted a
hydrogen
balloon to the
stratosphere for
Jean Piccard , likely namesake of
Captain Picard of
Star Trek ?
...that
St. George's Cathedral (
pictured ) in
Lviv ,
Ukraine served as the mother church of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the
19th and
20th century ?
...that a
Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920
kilograms ?
...that
Gandhian economics , centering around the values of
trusteeship , human dignity and
equality , has been viewed as an alternative to
left-wing and
right-wing economic models?
...that the
Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to
Pennsylvania State University ?
...that
John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington ?
...that
Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD
Welsh
king ?
...that New Zealand
rugby union player
Mark Hammett won four
Super 12 titles with the
Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
...that
Ralphie (
pictured ), the live
mascot of the
Colorado Buffaloes , is actually a female
American bison ?
...that the
Abukuma , a veteran of the
Pearl Harbor raid , was sunk in 1944 when her own
Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
...that the
Paço Imperial , a
Baroque palace in
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
...that the
German actor
Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when starring as a high school student in the 1944 film
Die Feuerzangenbowle ?
...that lyrics from
the B-52's song
Love Shack were quoted in a 2005 majority
opinion by
Eleventh Circuit Court judge
William H. Pryor, Jr. ?
...that most of the trees in the
Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in
Belize
burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
...that the Polish writer
Gustaw Morcinek survived three
Nazi concentration camps during the
Second World War ?
...that the
Palala River bluffs in
Limpopo province,
South Africa have 10,000 year old
rock art (
pictured ) from the
Stone Age ?
...that
Bhai Taru Singh was a
Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
...that
feminist
author
Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying
Japan 's draconian
Peace Preservation Laws ?
...that the
gene which creates the crest of the
Bali Duck also causes
physical defects which can kill it before it
hatches ?
...that
JMWAVE was a secret
CIA base on
University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
...that
African American
economist
Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the
Guggenheim Fellowship in
economics ?
...that the
Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in
New York City negotiated the first
pension plan in the
construction industry?
...that the
George's Block in
Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of
Horace Greeley ,
Bayard Taylor and
Charles Sumner ?
...that an example of a proposed
United States aluminum cent (
pictured ) dropped by a
US Congressman was found by a
US Capitol Police officer ?
...that
Indian cricketer
Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the
Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the
2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
...that
1979's
Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a
hurricane in the
Atlantic basin?
...that
Donald Cameron of Lochiel , a major figure in the
Jacobite Rising of
1745 , was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
...that the ultra-modern disposable
female urination device , which lets women
urinate upright, was actually invented in
1922 ?
...that
Oil Creek State Park in
Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial
oil well ?
...that
Bolli Bollasson , a character in the
Medieval Icelandic
Laxdœla saga , is credited as the first West
Norse member of the
Varangian Guard (
pictured )?
...that as an art student,
Soviet
painter
Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an
Arctic expedition aboard the doomed
Chelyuskin steamship ?
...that in
1955 ,
What's the Story , an
American
game show , was the last
television series
broadcast on the
DuMont Television Network ?
...that the
Siege of Lathom House during the
First English Civil War ended in victory for the
Cavaliers because the lady of the house,
Charlotte de la Tremoüille , defended it defiantly?
...that the
1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and
prison
sentences for the owners?
...that
Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the
Committee on Standards in Public Life ?
...that
Leonard Crofoot , a dancer in
The Singing Detective , has had three
Star Trek roles?
...that
George Pocock invented a
kite-drawn carriage (
pictured ) which could outstrip the horse-drawn
mail coach ?
...that the medieval
Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the
sandbox of the
Holy Roman Empire "?
...that the
Mayan
ruins in
Belize called
Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat"
headdress on an 8th century
stela ?
...that the
yaw string , a simple
tuft of
yarn used as a
flight instrument by the
Wright brothers , is still in use today?
...that
Larantuka is an
Indonesian district known for
Roman Catholic
Holy Week
processions ?
...that in
1973 , an
experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin
webs in space ?
...that
William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting
rabbits when they stumbled upon a
quartz outcropping which eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of
gold ?
...that human
amyloid precursor protein (
pictured ), when
cleaved by specific types of
proteases , generates the
amyloid beta peptide which may be a cause of
Alzheimer's disease ?
...that
Manseibashi Station in
Tokyo was rebuilt after a
1923 earthquake and later became
a museum ?
...that although the official cause of the
2007 Balad aircraft crash is
fog , the
insurgent group
Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
...that former
NCAA
American football
quarterback
Wyatt Sexton's career for the
Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did
pushups in the street and proclaimed he was
God ?
...that the
Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic
lime kilns in the
U.S. state of
Illinois ?
...that
Queen band members teased
Freddie Mercury for looking like a
prawn in the
video for
It's a Hard Life ?
...that according to
Themba Mabaso (
pictured ) , the State
Herald of
South Africa , the
flag of the republic is like a written document?
...that the
Nusa Kambangan , "the
Alcatraz of
Indonesia ", has held a son of former
President
Suharto and terrorists of the
2002 Bali bombing ?
...that when the
Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
...that the
Union forces in the
American Civil War won the
Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
...that the
Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
...that the
Securities and Exchange Commission of the
Philippines was temporarily abolished during the
Japanese occupation ?
...that
labor leader
Victor Kamber created
playing cards with public figures in
1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie"
music video depicting a
rapping
Ronald Reagan in
1984 ?
...that
Alan Jay Lerner , lyricist of
My Fair Lady , also co-wrote a disastrous
musical version of
Nabokov 's
Lolita ?
...that Soviet actor
Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian
Ostern movie
White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
...that
NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by
Germany in
1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
...that
snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as
Homestead ?
...that
Surgeon General
William Alexander Hammond (
pictured ) both founded the
National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about
neurology ?
...that actor
Edward Chapman , known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many
Norman Wisdom films, tried to have
Sir John Gielgud thrown out of
Equity ?
...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
Rachel Paulose is the first woman in
Minnesota to become a
District Attorney ?
...that
Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home
pattern sewing since 1927?
...that
Poecilostomatoida (
pictured ) are
parasitic
crustaceans ?
...that
the word jazz was originally a
California
baseball
slang term and was first applied to a
style of music in
Chicago ?
...that
Stephan Körner's major
philosophical work was in the
philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact"
concepts ?
...that
La Casa Pacifica ,
President
Richard Nixon 's private retreat in
San Clemente, California , became known as the "Western White House"?
...that criminal and
boxer ,
James Field , was so feared by the
police force of
London in the
18th century , that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
...that 60 percent of
Carnatic musicians in
Karnataka come from
Rudrapatna ?
...that poet and
epistolary novelist
Ann Eliza Bleecker (
pictured ) lost three generations of her family fleeing to
Albany during
Burgoyne's
Saratoga campaign ?
...that
Serenade No. 10 for winds by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve
wind instruments and
double bass and consists of seven
movements ?
...that former
British
Member of Parliament
Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler"
Archibald Hall ?
...that
Munir Bashir , known for his mastery of the
maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the
Middle East during the
20th century ?
...that the
Heinkel He 50 , designed for the
Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by
Germany almost until the end of
World War II ?
...that
Duff Goldman of
Ace of Cakes hired some
painters and
sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as
pastry chefs ?