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...that the
Washington Irving
sidewheeler , the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built, sank after colliding with an oil barge in 1926?
...that
legal experts consider the
YouTube
divorce
video posted by
British
playwright
Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
...that
Eliza Tibbets planted the first two
navel orange trees in California?
...that
Filipe Nhussi , the current
defence minister of
Mozambique , was president of the
top-division
football club
Clube Ferroviário de Nampula ?
...that
American
diplomat
Elbridge Durbrow was one of the 730
delegates who attended the
Bretton Woods conference in July 1944?
...that the
Palace of Culture and Science defining
socialist realism in Poland , was designed in the
Soviet Union and erected by 3500 Soviet workers brought into
Warsaw in 1952–1955?
...that the inscription on
King Ahiram 's
sarcophagus housed in the
National Museum of Beirut is the earliest known example of
alphabetical writing?
...that
Carlyle Clare Agar developed new techniques for flying
helicopters by flying high in the
Canadian Rockies ?
...that the
Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometres (123,180 mi) of roads and highways?
...that American photojournalist
Daniel Smith was once kidnapped by members of the
Mehdi Army and taken to meet
Muqtada al-Sadr ?
...that
Po-on and the rest of the Rosales Saga novel series by
F. Sionil José resemble the story-telling tradition found in the
U.S.A. trilogy by
John Dos Passos ?
...that
Lincoln's Lost Speech may have been so provocative that it was intentionally suppressed?
...that
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich , cousin of
Nicholas II of Russia , was called "the terror of jealous husbands as well as of watchful mothers"?
...that the
Winchester Bible , the largest surviving 12th century
English
Bible , incorporated the skins of 250 calves?
...that the four main influential figures to
Filipino women writers are
Gabriela Silang ,
Leonor Rivera ,
Imelda Marcos and
Corazon Aquino ?
...that
water privatization in Brazil began under
Brazil's
post-colonial Empire
Pedro II of Brazil ?
...that, although he wrote most of his work in
Romanian ,
Romanian poet
Panait Cerna is thought to have had a better grasp of his native
Bulgarian ?
...that founder
Maria Weston Chapman was able to persuade
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to submit anti-slavery poetry twice to the
abolitionist fundraising
gift book
The Liberty Bell ?
...that two US Presidents,
Thomas Jefferson and
William Henry Harrison , are responsible for the layout of the
Old Jeffersonville Historic District ?
...that when the
YMCA of Berwick was incorporated in
Pennsylvania in 1883, the majority of the organization's trustees were current executives of
Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company ?
...that Sir
John Betjeman wrote of
Joan Jackson (née Hunter Dunn) being "Furnish'd and burnish'd by
Aldershot sun"?
...that
Commodore Cruise Line was the first
Florida -based company to operate week-long cruises around the year?
...that the village of
Denshaw in
Greater Manchester achieved international notoriety when
spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?
...that in his first
major league appearance,
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher
Jim Nelson struck out
Willie Mays and got
Willie McCovey to hit into a double play?
...that although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the
Kulung
language has eight
dialects and covers the "
Mahakulung "
ethno -
linguistic area?
...that
Juan Garcia Abrego , in 1995, was the first
drug trafficker to be listed on the
FBI 's
Top Ten Most Wanted List ?
...that in 2006 Austrian
alpine style mountain climber
Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of
Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
...that
L. B. Henry of
Pineville , overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a
plumber -
businessman and then a statewide figure in
Louisiana parish
government ?
...that
Wilf Hurd , a former member of the
British Columbia Legislative Assembly ,
resigned less than a year after being re-elected?
...that
Jamshedji Framji Madan was a pioneer of
Indian cinema , whose film production company
Madan Theatres Limited once controlled half of
British India 's box office?
...that
cyber law author and professor
Jonathan Zittrain co-founded
StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about
malware to Internet users at large?
...that the
Main Building of
Peace College was first used as a
Confederate military hospital and regional headquarters for the
Freedmen's Bureau ?
...that
John Madden has most wins of any
Oakland Raiders head coach ?
...that despite winning the
1989 World Indoor Championships ,
West German
400 metres
sprinter
Helga Arendt failed to reach the final round at the
European Championships one year later?
...that
Stewart White has presented the regional
BBC News programme
Look East for 24 years?
...that
Tori Amos got the
melody for her song "
1000 Oceans " from a "dark angel" singing to her in a dream?
...that at the height of its popularity,
New York 's
Easter Parade drew crowds of over a million?
...that
John Dick , the high scorer in the
first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship , would later command the
U.S. Navy
supercarrier
USS Saratoga ?
...that
Academy Award winner
Going My Way was filmed at
St. Monica 's , and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
...that
Lionel Monckton , the most popular
musical theatre composer of the
Edwardian period , after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
...that over 25% of
Brazil's electricity is generated by a
hydroelectric plant at
Itaipu on the
Paraná River ?
...that
state senator
Larry George sued Senate President
Peter Courtney in an attempt to prevent an experimental session of the
Oregon Legislature ?
...that a
Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the
Virgin Mary at
St. Augustine 's and carted a statue of
Father Serra to a nearby
mosque in October 2001?
...that
Vasyl Krychevsky , a
Ukrainian artist , designed the state emblem of the
National Republic at the request of
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ?
...that
Sheenboro, Quebec , started as a
trading post on the
Ottawa River and has retained its character as a "Little Corner of
Ireland "?
...that
John Percy Farrar recommended
George Mallory for inclusion on the
1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to
Mount Everest ?
...that the
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family?
...that
Stonewall Jackson , camped with his men at
Carter Hall , allowed his physician to perform a
cataract operation on the owner, on the
portico of the mansion?
...that the
Tang Dynasty
chancellor
Li Linfu , because of his treachery, was described in
Chinese idiom as having honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly?
...that
archdeacon
Kay Goldsworthy was recently appointed the first woman
bishop of any Australian church and will be consecrated as an
Anglican bishop on
22 May
2008 ?
...that, during 13th and 14th century
Europe , a town
clockkeeper would often be employed and paid high sums of money to monitor and regulate the town clock?
...that
Charles Inglis , past-president of the
Institution of Civil Engineers was expected to die during birth and was hurriedly baptised in his father's drawing room?
...that several songs from
Michelle Williams 's debut album,
Heart to Yours , are tribute to the
September 11, 2001 attacks in the
United States ?
...that villagers in the drought-prone
Ranibandh area in
West Bengal ’s
Bankura district migrate to neighbouring districts in the harvesting season?
...that many of the lines for the
Three Witches in
Shakespeare's
Macbeth are copied word for word from the 1577 work
Holinshed's Chronicles ?
...that the rare mushroom
Hygrocybe aurantipes (pictured) was first collected in suburban
Sydney 's
Lane Cove National Park and may be threatened by
water pollution and
weeds ?
...that
Omaha, Nebraska has a history of
riots and civil unrest which starts just twenty years after the city was founded?
...that
Johan Teterisa was recently sentenced to life in
prison for waving the banned
secessionist flag of the so-called
Republic of the South Moluccas in front of
Indonesian President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a
nonviolent protest?
...that a proposed
strategic road link through
Bangladesh and its capital
Dhaka will reduce the travel distance between the
Indian cities of
Agartala and
Kolkata from 1,700
km to 400 km?
...that
Fritz Schilgen was the final torchbearer for the first
Olympic torch relay at the
1936 Summer Games ?
...that the
Japanese
manga series
Soul Eater by
Atsushi Okubo has been developed into an
animated
television series that plans to adopt the source material over fifty-one
episodes ?
...that the
Iraq Veterans for Congress group includes the former
American
Presidential
candidate ,
Congressman
Duncan Hunter ?
...that
Mulaut Abattoir provides
Islamic-sanctioned slaughtering facilities to local
Bruneian farmers and butchers?
...that Oregon’s first
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries ,
O. P. Hoff , was in charge of the first
minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
...that the
Condemnations of 1277 at the
University of Paris (
pictured ) are cited by historians as the
birth of science , as they forced
scholars to question
Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways?
...that
Pullmantur Cruises is the largest
Spain -based
cruise line ?
...that a diary attributed to
Jose Enrique de la Peña claims that
Davy Crockett surrendered at the
Battle of the Alamo and was executed on the orders of General
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ?
...that
Hurricane Cosme in
2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in
Hawaii ?
...that
Cognos Reportnet is compatible with multiple databases including
Oracle ,
SAP ,
Teradata ,
Microsoft SQL server ,
DB2 and
Sybase ?
...that
Secretary of War
Robert Todd Lincoln sent the
Secret Service and
Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt.
Henry W. Howgate ?
...that
Moti Masjid (Lahore) , built by
Mughal emperor
Shah Jahan , was turned into a
gemstone repository by
Ranjit Singh during the
Sikh rule of
Punjab ?
...that archbishop
Joseph Signay cited the man's poor eyesight to delay
Michel-Édouard Méthot ' s
tonsuring ?
...that while
James Howard was
Mayor of
Bedford in 1864, he entertained
Giuseppe Garibaldi , who planted a
Giant Sequoia that was later struck by
lightning ?
...that the
Rab battalion was a
Yugoslav partisans unit of Jewish survivors of
Rab concentration camp ?
...that
George Steiner 's 1975 book on
language and
translation ,
After Babel , was the first comprehensive study of the subject?
...that
Emmy Noether (
pictured ) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by
Albert Einstein ?
...that the
Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the
Hudson Valley 's first modern
skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
...that the
Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to
Waltham, Quebec was completed in 1888, but not opened until 1894, stopped in 1959, and finally was removed in 1984?
...that broken remains of three early medieval
high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of
Barnes Hospital in
Cheadle, Greater Manchester , but the location of only one is known today?
...that the
Delhi-Lahore Bus , a symbol of
Indo -
Pakistani friendship, continued running during the 1999
Kargil War ?
...that
Chillenden Windmill (pictured) was the last
post mill built in
Kent , replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
...that actor
Jason Beghe became best friends with
John F. Kennedy, Jr. and
David Duchovny when they attended
Collegiate School in
New York City ?
...that
Children At Risk , a
Houston -based non-profit, publishes a biannual report, Growing Up In Houston , which tracks 130 Quality of Life Indicators?
...that despite being one of the strongest
tropical cyclones to make
landfall on
Western Australia ,
Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
...that the
mine countermeasures ship
USS Scout used her
sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the
Louisiana coast after
Hurricane Katrina ?
...that the gates (
pictured ) of
Warrington Town Hall ,
Cheshire , erected in 1895, had been shown at the
1862 International Exhibition in London?
...that
Reuben Gaylord , the recognized leader of
missionary pioneers in
Omaha City ,
Nebraska Territory , has been called the "father of
Congregationalism in
Nebraska ?
...that many
gift books , decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as
Dickens ,
Wordsworth ,
Hawthorne and
Poe ?
...that
Poughkeepsie 's
Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
...that the southern terminus of the
first suburb to suburb commuter rail in the United States is
Wilsonville Station in
Oregon ?
...that
Richard Devlin , the majority leader of the
Oregon State Senate , has faced
Republican
Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?
...that despite being dominated by the military elite, the
Guatemalan
Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?
...that
film director
Brett Simon taught
film history ,
film theory and
video production at the
University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
...that the
Nez Perce thought they themselves gave nice gifts, but that the
Lewis and Clark Expedition gave "cheap" gifts, upon meeting in the
Weippe Prairie in 1805?
...that
St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church (pictured) was the site of the baptism of
Clark Gable 's son, the wedding of
Annette Funicello , and the funeral of
Mercury Seven astronaut
"Gordo" Cooper ?
...that
John Lavarack was the first person born in
Australia to be an
Australian State Governor ?
...that the exposed
bedrock of the
Duluth Complex was formed from
magma emitted when the
North American plate began to split apart in the
Midcontinent Rift ?
...that even though his predecessor,
Verne Duncan , was a
Republican ,
Democrat
Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the
Oregon State Senate ?
...that police patrolled
Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by
Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?
...that
Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the
United States to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
...that
Joe Shell , the
conservative
Republican who challenged
Richard Nixon for the 1962
California
governorship was a champion
football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
...that
Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the
United Kingdom during
World War I ?
...that
Oldbury-on-the-Hill , part of
Didmarton , has a 30-metre (98 ft)
Bronze Age
round barrow called Nan Tow's Tump (pictured) ?
...that the
Battle of Mataquito , part of the
Arauco War , was lost by the
Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the
Spanish ?
...that the
Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a
locomotive supposedly renumbered after a
psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
...that the
Tang Chinese government of
Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by
Chancellor
Pei Yaoqing ?
...that
Old Catholic Cemetery was created for
Roman Catholics after a
yellow fever epidemic struck
Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
...that before working as
biomechanist to the
Indian cricket team ,
Ian Frazer helped
Australian
cricketer
Greg Chappell develop a patented
cricket training program?
...that
tourism in Zanzibar is the top income generator for the islands, out-earning the lucrative
spice industry?
...that
Rev. D'Ewes Coke , colliery owner and philanthropist, (find in imagemap) was descended from
Dr. George Coke ,
Bishop of Hereford who was charged with
high treason ?
...that
Helen Yglesias , best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir , died one day before her 93rd birthday?
...that
New Zealand
cricketer and
Test match captain
Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern"?
...that the
Fifteen Guinea Special , one of the last
British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
...that
East German
sprinter
Sabine Günther won three gold medals in
4 x 100 metres relay at three different
European Championships ?
...that
rugby union footballer
Farah Palmer captained the
Black Ferns to three consecutive
Women's Rugby World Cup titles?
...that
Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former
mayor of
Poughkeepsie ?
...that
Maseru , the capital of
Lesotho , was founded in 1869 as a police camp?
...that
anti-conscription activist
Ivan Toms served as the only medical
physician for approximately 60,000 people in a
Cape Flats
shanty town during
South Africa 's
Apartheid era?
...that the
Battle of Palikao was a victory for the
British and
French forces during the
Second Opium War which enabled them to take
Beijing and defeat the
Qing Empire ?
...that the
Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the
thirteenth century ?
...that current
International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation president
Robert H. Storey survived a 1966 four-man
bobsleigh
crash that took the life of one
teammate and severely injured
another ?
...that
St. Finbar Church in
Burbank , faced with a dwindling flock and changing
demographics , was one of the first U.S.
parishes to offer
Spanish language
Mass ?
...that
British international
rally driver
Tony Ambrose was given an
MG sports car by his father for winning a
scholarship to
Jesus College, Oxford ?
...that the
Maitreyi Express was launched on
Pohela Baisakh in 2008 to revive the railway link between
India and
Bangladesh that had been closed for 43 years?
...that like building a better
mouse trap , there is still a challenge for
inventors to produce a kinder and more gentle
scallop dredge ?
...that
Sans Pareil (pictured) , one of five
locomotives to compete in the 1829
Rainhill Trials , was later used on the
Bolton and Leigh Railway ?
...that
A. V. Meiyappan produced
India 's first
dubbed film, Harischandra , in
1944 ?
...that
Cyclone Gamede in
February 2007 was among the
wettest tropical cyclones on record , dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on
Réunion island?
...that
John Heisman , namesake of the
Heisman Trophy , played for the
Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the
University of Pennsylvania ?
...that the
original specimen of the
mauve splitting waxcap , a
fungus from eastern
Australia , found its way from
Melbourne to
Budapest but disappeared during the
First World War ?
...that there was an element of
eroticism concerning
death in Viking culture , and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
...that the world's largest
factory trawler , the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn , is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?
...that when
St. Andrew's Church in
Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a
Byzantine queen"?
...that the former
Lady Washington Hose Company
firehouse in
Poughkeepsie incorporates both
Japanese and
Gothic Revival elements in its design?
...that reputed 25-year-old
gangster
Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious
mob hit by a gunman wearing a
Batman mask on
Halloween in 1989?
...that
Kevin Reiman , a
MLS
footballer for
Real Salt Lake , helped
Maryland U. win an
NCAA title, then transferred after their addition of
Robbie Rogers ?
...that the
papal election, 1292-1294 was the last election of a
pope which did not take the form of a
conclave ?
...that the
Tang Dynasty
chancellor
Zhang Jiuling offered a five-volume historical work that he authored as a birthday gift to
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang , instead of mirrors, which the other officials were giving?
...that having moved to
South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22,
Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in
Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of
France ?
...that in 1998, an
oil fire at the
Lost Hills Oil Field in
Kern County, California burned for 14 days and was visible more than 40 miles (64 km) away?
...that Italian
Jesuit priest
Sabatino de Ursis moved to
China in 1607 to assist
Matteo Ricci in his
astronomical research, and attempted to reform the
Chinese calendar ?
...that the
Hasbrouck House is an unusually large
Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of
Poughkeepsie ?
...that future
ice hockey stars
Brett Hull and
Dominik Hašek participated in the
Calgary Cup , a preview event for the
1988 Winter Olympics ?
...that
screenwriter
Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the
television series
South Park , despite never being part of the writing staff?
...that
East German athlete
Henry Lauterbach competed on an international level in both
high jump and
long jump ?
...that
Egypt had an active
national cricket team before
World War II , but only one player was a
native Egyptian ?
...that
migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the
United Arab Emirates ?
...that
St Mark's Church in the small village of
Vrba was mentioned in a
sonnet by the
Slovene
national poet ?
...that
English
cricketer
Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a
ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
...that
Jean Follain was a
corporate lawyer ,
magistrate and award-winning
author and
poet who wrote the poem "Death of the
Ferret "?
...that "
The Fires of Pompeii " is the first
Doctor Who episode since the
television show 's revival where the cast filmed abroad?
...that
AT&T engineer
Otto Zobel helped to establish that
electronic noise cannot be completely eliminated from radio and cable transmissions?
...that
Louis XIV of France employed a
native Chinese
librarian ,
Arcadio Huang , to organize the
royal library 's collection of
Chinese books?
...that
coal
mining in
Nigeria , for which the
Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the
Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
...that
Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the
Burlington Headquarters Building in
Omaha to make it resemble the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in
Chicago ?
...that a
pit crater , unlike an
impact crater , is formed by the ground sinking over a void such an emptied
magma chamber or
caldera ?
...that when
Gui de Cavalhon besieged
Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow
troubadour ,
Bertran Folcon d'Avignon , in a poem?
...that
river miles measure distances along a
river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?
...that the Rev.
Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in
The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev.
W. V. Awdry ?
...that
Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest
naval
shipbuilding firm of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire ?
...that although
Norman Rockwell felt
Freedom of Speech and
Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his
Four Freedoms
painting series,
Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
...that
Muhamed , a German
horse , seemed to extract
cube roots and tap out the answer with his
hooves ?
...that in
1933 ,
Ed Walsh (Jr.) , son of
Hall of Famer
Ed Walsh , stopped
Joe DiMaggio 's
minor league record 61 game hitting streak?
...that the
O. H. Booth Hose Company (
pictured ) in
Poughkeepsie was named after the
fire chief who formed it after a previous company of
volunteer firefighters quit because they were jealous of other companies' facilities?
...that
mutations in the
FLNB
gene cause
boomerang dysplasia , a lethal
congenital disorder in which the limbs'
long bones malform into the shape of a
boomerang ?
...that
incendiary ammunition may be used
against tanks , as it can penetrate armor and spread
phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their
oxygen ?
...that filming on
The Office episode "
Dinner Party " was interrupted for over four months due to the
2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ?
...that the 1943
Greater East Asia Conference praised
Pan-Asianism and condemned Western colonialism but did not produce plans for the
region's development?
...that
George Francis Train promoted
Columbus, Nebraska as "the new center of the Union and quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A." in order to sell
Credit Foncier land there?
...that in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the
Long Island Rail Road , land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between
Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
...that a
painting by
Antoine-Jean Gros (pictured) shows
Napoleon Bonaparte touching the
armpit of a
plague victim in
Jaffa ?
...that the 2008
Hillsong United album
The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a
USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?
...that, besides
smuggling and distributing
Colombian
cocaine and
Mexican and
Southeast Asian
heroin ,
Sinaloa Cartel produces its own
opium and
marijuana ?