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...that the
Mid-Delaware Bridge (
pictured ) over the
Delaware River between
Pennsylvania and
New York is the uppermost four-lane bridge on the river's main stem?
...that
Tsar Alexis of
Russia wrote a detailed
instruction to his falconers ?
...that after criticising the
Australian Cricket Board , its
captain
Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
...that
Prussian uprisings refer to several
uprisings of
Prussians , one of the
Baltic tribes , against the
Teutonic Knights , in the 13th century during the
Northern Crusades ?
...that
Church of Scientology
private investigator
Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a
police officer , in
Hillsborough County, Florida ?
...that
Gia Long , the first
Emperor of
Vietnam 's
Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with
French military assistance from his friend and
Catholic priest
Pigneau de Behaine ?
...that
composer
Takanori Arisawa won three
JASRAC International Awards for most international
royalties , due to the worldwide popularity of the
Sailor Moon
anime soundtrack?
...that when the first
Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of
Victoria ?
...that the 1892
Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect
Louis Sullivan ?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright was eventually dismissed from the architecture firm
Adler and
Sullivan for designing side projects such as the
Robert P. Parker House (
pictured )?
...that
Bona of Pisa , after seeing a
vision of
James, son of Zebedee , became a leader of
pilgrimages to his
shrine at
Santiago de Compostella ?
...that
Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in
British Columbia , including a
city , a
lake , and a
hill ?
...that
Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a
Pennsylvania
shopping mall , even though she had a history of
paranoid schizophrenia ?
...that
Richard Petty won the
1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders
Donnie Allison and
Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
...that
Maria Bertilla Boscardin , who was rejected by one
religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually
canonized a
saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
...that
Chicago
theater -owner
Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
...that the painter
Andrés de Santa Maria (
pictured ) was the pioneer of
impressionism and modern art in
Colombia ?
...that one of the largest
slave escape attempts in American history
occurred in Kentucky in August
1848 ?
...that
Pinirampus pirinampu , a
species of
migratory
catfish , is one of the most important
fishery resources in certain
reservoirs in its
native range ?
...that
Bona of Pisa , after seeing a
vision of
James, son of Zebedee , became a leader of
pilgrimages to his
shrine at
Santiago de Compostella ?
...that since his capture,
Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple
mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from
Osama bin Laden to
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to
al-Zarqawi ?
...that some areas of the
Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
...that
Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in
British Columbia , including a
city , a
lake , and a
hill ?
...that
Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included
Georg Philipp Telemann ,
George Frideric Handel , and
Johann Sebastian Bach ?
...that American
Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a
Pennsylvania
shopping mall , even though she had a history of
paranoid schizophrenia ?
...that the city of
Quneitra in
Syria was captured on the last day of the
Six-Day War , was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the
Arab-Israeli wars ?
...that
zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from
schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?
...that the
sex scenes in the
Thai film
Ploy that were shown at the
2007 Cannes Film Festival had to be
re-edited by director
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (
pictured ) so the film could be shown in
cinemas in Thailand ?
...that
Melbourne
rock band
The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
...that the first private
radio station in
India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in
Mysore ,
Karnataka ?
...that
Virginia Lamp Thomas , wife of
United States Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas , collected
résumés for appointments in the
George W. Bush Administration while working at the
Heritage Foundation ?
...that, in connection with the 7th-century
Turkic conquest of Aghvania , the invaders were reported "to suck the children's blood like milk"?
...that during the
G8 Summit in
Germany on June 7-8, Russian president
Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in
Qabala Radiolocation Station in
Azerbaijan instead of
Poland and the
Czech Republic ?
...that
Matt Wieters , the fifth pick in the
2007 Major League Baseball Draft , was the third player in
Georgia Tech history to earn first-team
All-America honors twice?
...that
Polish Baroque historian and poet
Wespazjan Kochowski (
pictured ) was considered to be one of the most typical representatives of the
szlachta philosophy of
Sarmatism ?
...that the
Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959 and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
...that
western-style Japanese painter
Kawabata Ryushi , was so impressed with the
Japanese art collection of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style
Nihonga genre?
...that
Australian soldier
Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of
crucifixion by
Japanese soldiers during
World War II ?
...that the
Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of
Genesis were written hundreds or thousands of years before
Moses , and that Genesis names the authors?
...that
Erica Larson , a chemist at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory , won the
Pikes Peak
mountain
marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
...that the
Brandenburg Navy (
pictured ) fought in many battles in the
Baltic Sea before merging with the
Prussian Navy in
1701 ?
...that
worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
...that Europe's largest
sewage treatment plant is in
Psyttaleia ,
Greece ?
...that the performance of
La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in
Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest
performance of an
Italian
opera outside of
Italy ?
...that
Rwandan President
Juvénal Habyarimana , and
Cyprien Ntaryamira , the
Hutu president of
Burundi were
assassinated by two
surface-to-air missiles ?
...that poor performance in the twilight of the career of
Graham McKenzie ,
Australia 's leading
pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted
hepatitis ?
...that
Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of
A. E. Housman 's
poetry than any other
composer ?
...that the 1909-built
Wright-Bock Fountain , (
pictured ) attributed to both
Frank Lloyd Wright and
Richard Bock , was completely replaced with a
replica in 1969?
...that
religion in the
Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from
Jainism and the
Hindu
sects
Shaivism ,
Vedic
Brahminism and
Vaishnavism ?
...that
Scottish clergyman
Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of
Presbyterianism , and later became an
architect ?
...that males of the
endangered
South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
...that the
Andrew O. Anderson House in
DeKalb, Illinois , a design by architect
John S. Van Bergen , has long been mistaken for a
Frank Lloyd Wright building?
...that
Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an
Australian airline after winning a landmark
sex discrimination case against
Ansett Airlines ?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright 's 1915
Emil Bach House (
pictured ) in
Chicago was originally a "country home" that now stands on a
busy city street in the
Rogers Park neighborhood ?
...that
Ernest Austin set the whole of
John Bunyan 's
The Pilgrim's Progress for solo
organ , at a length of nearly three hours?
...that in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the
Australian town of
Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one
dollar each?
...that
World War II historian
Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled
Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret
resistance routes?
...that
Dutch amateur
football club
IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the
KNVB Cup ?
...that
2006 Winter Olympics
speedskating champion,
Shani Davis ', welcome-home celebration was held at the
Harold Washington Cultural Center ?
...that the
Russo-Japanese War vintage
Japanese cruiser Yakumo (
pictured ) was the only warship in the
Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from
prizes-of-war ) to have been built in
Germany ?
...that the
Orange Mill Historic District between
Newburgh and
Gardnertown ,
New York , features the only remaining
19th-century
gunpowder
mill complex in the state?
...that
Oleh Lysheha , educated at
Lviv University , was the first
Ukrainian poet to receive the
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ?
...that
Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed
British Columbia 's first
Attorney General by Governor (and ex-
HBC Chief Factor) Sir
James Douglas ?
...the crash of
Aero Flight 311 , which claimed the lives of all 25 people on board, was the worst
aviation accident ever to occur in
Finland ?
...that, in 1999, General
Abdulsalami Abubakar was responsible for converting
Nigeria 's government system from military rule to democracy?
...that
Leyla Mammadbeyova (
pictured ) was the first
Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former
Soviet Union ?
...that
Shakespeare's religion is speculated by many scholars to have been
Catholic ?
...that
B. V. Karanth trained alongside
Dr. Rajkumar under
Gubbi Veeranna , one of the pioneers of
Kannada theater?
...that
Slabsides ,
John Burroughs '
historic
log cabin in
West Park ,
New York , is only open to the public two days every year?
...that
Neil Harvey once helped the
Australian cricket team win a
Test by deliberately throwing away his
wicket when
Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
...that a massive
mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the
Valley of Geysers last week?
...that
Ronald Reagan is the only
American President to have
his diaries published into a
best selling book ?
...that
Gasparo Berti 's experiment (pictured ) in
atmospheric
pressure and
vacuums led to the invention of the
barometer ?
...that the original painting of
Hogarth's
Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn (
pictured ) was destroyed in a fire in 1874?
...that
William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed
heavyweight champion boxers?
...that the
Australian
Harvey family includes the leading
Australian batman of the 1950s
Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew
Robert Harvey , who won consecutive
Brownlow Medals as the best player in
Australian Football ?
...that the
Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland
Rome that the
Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
...that the
Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during
World War I , because they could not get
barley ?
...that
Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of
cycloramas , cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to
IMAX movies?
...that
Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a
dubbed Japanese
anime ?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the
George W. Smith House (
pictured ) in 1895 as one of a series of low-cost homes but it was not constructed until 1898?
...that nearly one in every twelve
suicides by
firearm is a
multiple gunshot suicide ?
...that the first Western
abbot of
Singapore 's
Buddhist
Poh Ern Shih Temple was an
American ?
...that in a few of the
international cricket matches played by
India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the
Indian team belonged to the state of
Karnataka ?
...that
Lake Taupo 's
Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's
North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
...that the Soviet
MT-55
bridge layer tanks were modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
...that German
composer
Christian Geist died of the
bubonic plague in
1711 , along with his wife and children?
...that the 1863
Battle of Shimonoseki (
pictured ) was the first naval confrontation between the
U.S. Navy and a
Japanese fleet?
...that the
New York Giants , an
NFL
American football team, were founded in 1925 by a
bookmaker with an investment of
US$ 500, and
their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
...that the father of
cricketer
Peter Burge had to resign from
Queensland 's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
...that French
Minister of Marine
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the
Nazis ?
...that
Robert Kotei , then
Ghana 's
high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military
coup against the
NRC government , only to be
executed years later after a successful coup against his own
SMC government ?
...that famed Swiss
cartographer
Eduard Imhof lived in a
Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the
Himalayas ,
Minya Konka ?
...that the
Wallachian poet
Ion Heliade Rădulescu (
pictured ) advocated a radical transformation of the
Romanian language on the basis of
Italian
neologisms ?
...that the
catfishes of the
genus
Batasio are found in fast-flowing hillstreams throughout
South and mainland
Southeast Asia ?
...that for
Lee Ritenour 's first album,
First Course , he drafted his friends, including
Dave Grusin ,
Frank Rosolino and
Tom Scott , from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in
Studio City ?
...that the recently released
diary of teenaged
Polish
Holocaust victim
Rutka Laskier has been compared to the
diary of
Anne Frank ?
...that
giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with
seeds being traded over the
Internet ?
...that
Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six miles radius) by
Clovis I in exchange for his
prayers ?
...that
footballer
George Wynn was
Manchester City 's leading goalscorer in three consecutive seasons?
...that the
Frank Lloyd Wright -designed
Edward R. Hills House (
pictured ) was almost completely destroyed by
fire in 1976?
...that the repertoire of the
Australian
passerine , the
Red-capped Robin includes "tinkle" and "blurt" calls?
...that
Mahalo.com is a human-powered
search engine whose lead investor
Sequoia Capital helped start both
Yahoo! and
Google ?
...that, after playing the solo for the disastrous premiere of
Elgar's Cello Concerto , the English
cellist
Felix Salmond never taught the piece to his students, even though he taught cello in America for 18 years?
...that, dating back to
1682 ,
Connecticut has suffered
more than 100 tornadoes , including the sixth most damaging in
United States history and one which killed up to 34 people?
...that the
bombing of Zurich in World War II led to
court martial proceedings with
Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?
...that
Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been
breast-fed by his father?
...that
Manson Family member
Paul Watkins gave testimony to the
Los Angeles
District Attorney which helped explain
Helter Skelter ?
...that the nest of the
Scarlet Honeyeater (
pictured ) is a tiny cup of shredded bark bound with spiders' webs?
...that the house of
University President
Marion L. Brittain was listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places ?
...that
Donald Johanos , music director and
conductor of the
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra , was given an award by the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for "adventuresome programming of contemporary music"?
...that
pachamanca is a
Peruvian dish which has its origins in
Inca cuisine ?
...that some species of
fish undergo a genetically programmed
sex change during their
development ?
...that the
disinvestment from South Africa campaign in the late 1980s was a key factor pressuring the
South African Government to embark on the
negotiations which ultimately led to the dismantling of
apartheid ?
...that
Bidhannagar College had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?