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Rosa Parks

... that Rosa Parks (pictured) refused to surrender her seat not because she was physically tired, but because she was "tired of giving in"?
... that most of the population of Niamey has consisted of first- and second-generation rural migrants since the city was established?
... that Harry Wunsch, despite appearing "short and fat", was a "savage tackler"?
... that Black dandyism flourished during and after the Harlem Renaissance as a means of self-expression in the African-American community?
... that 17th-century mathematician Carlo Rinaldini studied gall-inducing insects, air convection, and the design of thermometers?
... that the title of Elegies comes from a suite of poems that its director read during the film's pre-production?
... that Saba's airport, known for its short runway, was named after Juancho Yrausquin in honor of his efforts to secure funding?
... that Sculpture Space lets artists create large-scale works in a former metalworking shop?
... that Olympic historians were unconvinced by speculation that an unknown boy coxswain grew up to be a renowned Georgian mathematician?

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April 30

...that Cyclone Mala was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal to receive a name? (not self-nom) —Cuiviénen, Sunday, 30 April 2006 @ 00:55 UTC

... that Nerima Daikon Brothers is a rare musical comedy format anime series that pokes fun of Junichiro Koizumi, Michael Jackson, Bae Yong-Joon, and others contemporary topics in Japan.

Self-nom. Article de-stubbed on Sunday, 30 April 2006 @ 01:08 UTC Article was 13 days old (and proded).. went from ~2,000 characters to ~16,500 characters. --Kunzite 01:25, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

April 29

...that the houses at Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia were built in two levels, a ground level to catch winter sun and a subterranean one round an open atrium for coolness in summer? self-nom --Wetman 22:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Daniel Sickles was acquitted for the murder of Philip Barton Key (Francis Scott Key's son and lover of Daniel's wife Teresa Bagioli Sickles) via the first successful use of the Insanity defense in U.S. history? self nom ++Lar: t/c 16:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party, a Maoist group, took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh but continued armed activities after the independence of the country? self-nom --Soman 12:30, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that David Clyde was the first person selected in the 1973 MLB Draft and signed to a $125,000 bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time. Self-nom Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:17, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

===April 28===

...that the building of the Moscow City Hall, built in the 1890s in accordance with the tastes of the Russian bourgeoisie, was converted by Communists into the Central Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over? --self-nom by Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Kremlin stars, crowning five towers of the Moscow Kremlin since the 1930s, are made of ruby glass? --article by User:KNewman, nom by Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that when Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn blood - which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in Cohn's blood? -- article by User:WillowW, nom by DS 16:47, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the English composer Anthony Payne, as well as completing a version of Elgar's third symphony, has also composed a version of Elgar's incomplete Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6? (self nom) --RobertG ♬ talk 08:33, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

April 27

...that the Texas Tech Red Raiders of Texas Tech University have a mascot named The Masked Rider who wears a black and red outfit and sits astride a black horse? - self nom by Johntex
...that the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars raged for control of the Gulf of Finland for more than two centuries? --self-nom by Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:40, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Archerfield Estate and Links near Dirleton, Scotland, once hosted a wartime meeting between Herbert Asquith and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and now charges £20,000 to join its new golf courses? Deizio 01:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that in the aftermath of the 5-day long Battle of Bory Tucholskie in Polish September Campaign, 1939, Germans gained control of the Polish Corridor and Adolf Hitler congratulated Heinz Guderian on his speedy advance? -- self nom by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC) . Note that the article existed since Dec'04 - as a hoax, and that the concent was completly replaced.[reply]
...that Greyfriars Kirkyard, famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby, is haunted by the spirit of "Bluidy Mackenzie" and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson? -- self-nom by dave souza, talk 10:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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...that the chief executive officer of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo is the Snark of the Universe, and that the Hoo-Hoo logo incorporates a black cat with its tail curled into the shape of a figure 9? -- self-nom by Donald Albury^(Talk) 16:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Władysław Filipkowski, a Polish restistance figter and commander of the Lwów Uprising againt Nazi Germany occupiers in 1944, was soon afterwards arrested by Soviet NKVD and imprisoned for three years? --article by User:Halibutt, nom by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

April 26

...that John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist? - self-nom ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that during the Battle of Hel, one of the longest battles in the Polish September Campaign, 1939, Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula from the mainland, forming an island? -- self-nom by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 00:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

April 25

...that Lydia Sokolova, the principal character dancer of the Ballets Russes, was born in England as Hilda Munnings? Haukur 18:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

comment Not interesting phrasing. Can it be rephrased to include that she was the first English ballerina of Ballets Russes? --Dwaipayan (talk) 17:53, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Lydia Sokolova (born Hilda Munnings) was the principal character dancer of the Ballets Russes and the first English ballerina in the company?

April 24

...that Connie Isler is the USA's youngest head coach in any NCAA Division I sport?
- Comment -shorter than the Centrepoint Kids which Gurubrahma rejected for shortness.
...that Syed Jaafar Albar accused some Chinese Malaysians of being lodgers, abusing the hospitality of their Malay hosts in Malaysia?
- Alternatively...that Syed Jaafar Albar was known as the "Lion of UMNO" for his staunch defense of his political party? Johnleemk | Talk 15:36, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Internet police in Shenzen, China created two online cartoon characters , Jingjing and Chacha, to help remind Chinese Internet users to obey China's censorship laws? (self-nomination. I'm not entirely sure about the image. I just uploaded it as fair use because I couldn't think of any other category for it to go in, although I'm sure one more apt exists. Any help on this? I think the image would go well with it, if it can) --Clngre 00:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - shorter than the Centrepoint Kids which User:Gurubrahma labelled a stub.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
..that Brad Cooper is the only Australian to have won a gold medal at the Olympics after finishing second? ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:32, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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...that Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, a castle in the Rhine that Victor Hugo described as a “ship of stone”, also used it's well as a dungeon? (Burg Pfalzgrafenstein)
...that on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid, the Red Army's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift?
...that the Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico, engages in anting, a behavior in which birds rub ants on their feathers?
...that the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama?
...that The Stewardesses, the most profitable 3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its of showing in theaters?
...that French singer Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song, Non, je ne regrette rien, to the French Foreign Legion?
...that, during half a millennium, the Croÿ family produced two cardinals, seven bishops, nine field marshals, twenty generals, and thirty two knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece? (Arms of Philippe I de Croÿ)
...that the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire American Civil War?
...that the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century?
...that in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning, MR?
...that the English Sundew, a carnivorous plant with wide distribution in the northern hemisphere, originated from a hybrid involving a plant with localized distribution in the Great Lakes area? (Drosera anglica with prey)
...that pitcher-outfielder Clint Hartung was hyped as Cooperstown-bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
...that Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania since 1997
...that a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway, a major throughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
...that the Kryvbas economic region in Ukraine is one of the largest iron ore and steel industry centers in Europe?
...that the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement? 100px|The Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms
...that in the Battle of Gdynia during the Polish September Campaign, the German armed forces captured Gdynia, an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic?
...that the SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?
...that the Ford Mustang SSP, in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the Lockheed U2 spy plane?
...that in the Night Attack skirmish, Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
...that a bull terrier named Stubby attained the rank of sergeant during World War I? (Sergeant Stubby)
...that Kongara Jaggayya was the first Indian film actor to be elected directly to the Parliament?
...that Camille Gravel, a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
...that the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 kilometers wide?
...that the Senyavin Islands of Micronesia were named after Dmitry Senyavin, who destroyed the Ottoman Fleet in the Battle of Athos in 1807? Image:Athosbattle.jpg
...that The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964, seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines?
...that the calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager, a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick?
...that Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States, replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River?
...that, during the Battle of Königsberg, German troops were subjected to Soviet propaganda, telling them that they were trapped in a pocket and that their resistance was pointless?
...that Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his Arithmetica Universalis, he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them? (Arithmetica)
...that a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?
......that the Battle of Domašov during the Seven Years' War was the first big military success of Ernst Gideon von Laudon, which made Prussian King Frederick the Great finish the siege of Olomouc and leave Moravia?
...that Robin Philipson, former President of the Royal Scottish Academy, was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?
...that in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
...that the world's earliest-known reservoirs were constructed by the people of the ancient city of Dholavira, which is located on an island in Kutch? (Dholavira)
...that, in the history of wound care, the Ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds, calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively?
...that the sepoys lost the Central India Campaign (1858) because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?
...that the Birdsville Races in Queensland, Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn?
...that in his poem Dushenka, the 18th-century Ukrainian-born poet Ippolit Bogdanovich changed the setting of Apuleius's story about Cupid and Psyche to a contemporary Russian village? (Ippolit Bogdanovich)
... that the 1065-m long Črni Kal viaduct on the A1 highway is the longest viaduct in Slovenia?
... that a bouchon is a type of traditional restaurant in Lyon, serving such delicacies as pig's head cheese, tripe soup and andouillette?
... that Peter the Great was the principal editor of the Vedomosti, the first newspaper printed in Russia?
... that Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996?
... that the Neo-Renaissance architectural style encompasses such dissimilar structures as the Opera Garnier and Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the National Theatre in Prague, the Reichstag in Berlin, Mentmore Towers near London, Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg, and the Public Library in Boston? Image:4807-09 bates5a.jpg
... that the 111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force successfully foiled an attack by the German Luftwaffe about an hour before World War II broke out in Westerplatte ?
... that Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Singapore, and Chinese Emperor Guang Xu presented a plaque to the temple in 1907?
... that Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall?
... that Philip II of Macedon used the Social War (357-355 BC) as an opportunity to further the interests of his Macedonian Empire in the Aegean region?
... that the choir of Stavropoleos Church, an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania, sings (neo-)Byzantine music, now a rare occurrence for churches in Romania? Image:Stavropoleos detail 2.jpg
... that Arthropleuridea is an extinct class of myriapods which includes, at over 2 meters long, the largest terrestrial arthropods that ever lived?
... that King James IV of Scotland once used Mingarry Castle as a stronghold for fighting off clan Donald in the late 15th century?
... that some call the Atchison County Historical Museum the "world's smallest presidential library"?
... that during the American Civil War, an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee's withdrawal?
... that French-born artist Jan Piotr Norblin is famous in Poland for illustrating many important historical moments of the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and is considered one of the most important painters of the Polish Enlightenment? Image:Jan piotr norblin autoportret.jpg
... that the Canadian Parliament Buildings have housed several dozen stray cats since the 1970s?
... that the 2005-06 World Sevens Series in rugby sevens will be the first in seven seasons of the competition to be won by a team other than New Zealand?
... that Australia has a National Public Toilet Map, allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude?
...that Count Nikolay Kamensky, a Russian commander in the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812, died after catching a fever on the battlefield? (Image:Kamensky.jpg)
...that BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes, and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s?
...that the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, which is located in the Moti Shahi Mahal in Ahmedabad, was built by Emperor Shahjahan and was formerly the residence of the Governor of Gujarat?
...that in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar, around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops?
...that the Middle Awash is a site along the Awash River of Ethiopia in which some of the most famous extinct hominids have been discovered?
...that Peter of Eboli, a monk from Eboli, wrote the first book on the therapeutic properties of spa mineral waters around 1220? (Peter of Eboli)
...that a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl, Rosemarie Nitribitt, who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957?
...that Stamp mills, first used during the Renaissance in such diverse industries as paper making, oil-seed processing, and ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?
...that Ivan Shuvalov, who was a favourite of Empress Elizabeth, 27 years his senior, used his influence at court to establish the first permanent theatre, university, and academy of arts in Russia?
...that despite inherent design flaws, the Polish Navy ordered two Wicher-class destroyers from a French shipyard in order to help secure a line of credit for the Polish government?
...that a working steam clock is located in the Gastown district of Vancouver, British Columbia? (Image:GastownSteamClock.jpg)
...that the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, one of only 3 such steel dams built in the United States, and located in the Kaibab National Forest, is the only one still in service?
...that it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934?
...that the Splittail, a cyprinid fish native to the Central Valley in California, is the sole living member of its genus?
...that canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
...that the Bobby Goldsboro song "Honey" (1968), Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Chart, frequently appears on "worst songs of all time" lists?
...that the modern states of Armenia and Azerbaijan occupy those territories that were conquered by Ivan Paskevich from Persia during the Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828? (Ivan Paskevich)
...that the Trinity Church is a permanent building in Antarctica and the most southern church in the world?
...that the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule?
...that mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?
...that the Kirghiz novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years takes place over the course of one day and chronicles efforts of two cosmonauts, one American and one Soviet, to make contact with intelligent life from another planet?
...that the reforms of the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, based on the French revolution, were annulled by the military intervention of the Russian Empire?
...that a detailed Development Guide Plan exists for each of Singapore's 55 urban planning areas? (Urban planning areas in Singapore)
...that the Red Army conducted the successful Toropets-Kholm Operation in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre?
...that the culture of medieval Poland, the earliest stage of Polish culture, was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church?
...that Women Strike for Peace played a crucial role in bringing down the HUAC and were acknowledged by both U Thant and John F. Kennedy as a factor in the adoption of the Limited Test Ban Treaty?
...that the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, an Indian farm labourers movement, claims a membership of over 2.5 million?
...that the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27, 1942, in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship?
...that the General Union of Syrian Women released a ground-breaking report on domestic violence against women in April 2006? (General Union of Syrian Women)
...that Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
...that Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is the oldest mosque in Singapore and was established in 1820, just a year after the British set up a trading post in Singapore?
...that the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger?
...that the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther contains 66,000 exhibits, including Reaper, a 104-year old restored fifie herring drifter?(right|Scottish Fisheries Museum)
...that William Hamilton, a surgeon of British East India Company, cured the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar from recurrent illness, thereby hastening the process of achieving the grant that allowed the company to legally trade in India?
...that the Privat Group is one of the few Ukrainian companies that own industries in the United States?
...that the Peking Plan saved three destroyers of the Polish Navy from imminent destruction at the beginning of the Second World War?
...that The University of Texas School of Law has been involved in two separate court cases, one of which reached the Supreme Court, which significantly redefined university admissions criteria across the United States?
...that the Russo-Persian War of 1796 was cancelled by Tsar Paul I within one month after his ascension to the Russian throne?
...that Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yurii, who spent half his adult life as a monk, was repeatedly proclaimed Hetman of Ukraine by various foreign powers? (right|Yurii Khmelnytsky)
...that the Jugendweihe is a secular alternative to confirmation in Germany and became a Socialist pledge in the atheist GDR?
...that completion of the West Coast Highway viaduct — the longest in Singapore — was delayed for more than two years because of the contractor's financial problems?
...that Charles Schepens, an influential ophthalmologist and regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", was also a leader in the Nazi resistance movement?
...that Katie Melua agreed to re-record her song "Nine Million Bicycles" (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh, who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"?
...that Linimo in Aichi, Japan claims to be the world's first commercial automated "Urban Maglev" train, but it has to be shut down when it is too windy? (right|Linimo)
...that the wars in Lombardy, fought between Venice and Milan from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, mark the emergence of five great Italian territorial states and the European concept of "balance of power"?
...that Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, a German Jewish painter, is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?
...that many cases of nuclear espionage are thought to have occurred since the Manhattan Project?
...that Henrik Hybertsson was the shipbuilder responsible for building the Regalskeppet Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage and is now on display in Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden?

...that Stanisław Mokronowski was the fourth person to receive the Virtuti Militari, the highest Polish military decoration? (right|80px|Stanisław Mokronowski)
...that Robert Triffin predicted the reasons for the collapse of the Bretton Woods System over ten years before it happened?
...that Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" to two sketches on Saturday Night Live?
...that the Warsaw Arsenal was the scene of heavy fighting during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794?
...that Catherine II's Instruction to the Legislative Assembly was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century France as a "libertarian book"?
...that the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards recognise British achievement in the space industry, and that the awards have the same proportions as the monolith from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey? (right|Sir Arthur Clarke Award)
...that the Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army?
...that the EMAS has been so effective in monitoring traffic conditions on Singapore's expressways that the LTA removed most SOS telephones from the expressways as a result?
...that the Vanessa Carlton song "White Houses" (2004) provided the inspiration for a charity which aimed to raise money for Habitat for Humanity International?

...that Carrollton Viaduct in Baltimore, Maryland is the world's oldest railway bridge still in use, and that its cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1828? (right|90px|Carrollton Viaduct)
...that Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans, the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise, in Russian?
...that the village of Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland, is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom, and was once home to a 200-strong fishing fleet?
...that methoxychlor is used as an insecticide instead of the chemically related DDT because it apparently does not lead to bioaccumulation?
...that the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, apart from being the seat of the Spanish Inquisition was also the meeting place between Columbus and Isabella before he made his voyage to the New World in 1492?
...that 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004? (right|Super Typhoon Dot of 1985)
...that the explorer Peter Semenov of Tian Shan presided over the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years?
...that PZL-230 Skorpion attack aircraft, cancelled in 1992, was one of the most ambitious airplane projects of Poland?
...that Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton was a British explorer who crossed the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia in 1873 by camel?
...that German artist Johnny Friedlaender, after surviving internment in Nazi concentration camps, taught Carcan and Boulanger and continued his own career to gain international recognition? right|90px|A work by Friedlaender
...that a Katsa is a field intelligence officer of the Mossad who collects information and runs agents, similar to the case officer of the CIA?
...that more than 30 km² of the Losiny Ostrov National Park forest fall within the boundaries of Moscow?
...that retired U.S. Air Force general John Chain is the chairman of the board of Northrop Grumman, director of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and director of ConAgra Foods, Inc.?
...that the m/42 Swedish military bicycle became so popular when it was sold as surplus that a company was created to produce copies of it almost 50 years after production ended? right|90px|The "m/42"
...that Raul Macias, a Cuban-Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas?
...that Return from the Stars is regarded as the most optimistic of Stanisław Lem science fiction utopian novels?
...that Marguerite Porete, author of the mystical text The Mirror of Simple Souls, was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310?
...that despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of Australia?
...that the Chontal Maya of Tabasco, Mexico consider themselves the direct descendents of the Olmec civilization?
...that a cross was found amidst the debris of the September 11, 2001 attacks? right|90px|The 9/11 "Cross"
...that Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
...that the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?
...that in their final mission of World War II, No. 453 Squadron RAAF escorted the aircraft that returned Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands after she spent three years in exile in Britain?
...that John Weston became a published poet after retiring from his post as Ambassador to the United Nations?
...that during the Moscow Uprising of 1682, two maternal uncles of the 9-year-old tsar Peter I were lynched in his presence? (right|Moscow Uprising of 1682 - Painting)
...that the 1963 Federal Election in Australia was the first election where all Indigenous Australians could vote?
...that William G. McGowan underwent a heart transplant while serving as chairman of MCI Communications?
...that the Nigerian Baptist Convention is the third largest Baptist convention of the Baptist world?
...that Nig Cuppy, having scored five runs against the Chicago Colts on August 9 1895, holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball game?

...that the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s? (right|Alexander Nevsky Cathedral )
...that Philip J. Perry, the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is the son-in-law of Vice President Dick Cheney?
...that the irony mark is an atypical punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some French artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?
...that the Karoo National Park in South Africa is a leading force in the resettling of the Black Rhinoceros and Riverine Rabbit back into the wild?
...that the Millennium Monument in Novgorod, weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history?

...that American painter Julian Scott entered the Third Vermont Regiment during American Civil War at the age of 15 and four years later was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor? (right|Art by Scott)
...that videokeratography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea?
...that the Northland Center opened in 1954 and was the United States' first suburban shopping mall?
...that the Mutsun language became an extinct Native American language in 1930 mainly because of the Spanish missionaries who made the Mutsun learn the Spanish language?
...that the Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W, was built in part by a female welder?
...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?

...that the decoration of the 9th-century Asturian La Cava Bible is limited to four crosses, elaborate initials, and frames surrounding explicits and titles? (right|La Cava Bible)
...that the song Justified and Ancient, by The KLF (and their alias The JAMs), featured regularly in their work from 1987 to 1991, and was a statement of rebellion inspired by characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy novels?
...that the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites, were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts?
...that Sir Richard Wild, at the age of 54, was the youngest Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1875?
...that the Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated in 1656 as a domestic church of Patriarch Nikon?
...that the Autumn of Nations, which began in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War?
...that Kajetan Sołtyk, 18th century Bishop of Cracow, an important politician in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was eventually declared insane by his political opponents and removed from power? right|75px|Sołtyk
...that Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?
...that the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
...that the Foxglove was chosen as the county flower for four different U.K. counties in a competition run by the plant conservation charity Plantlife in 2002?
...that after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans?
...that at the end of World War II, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb?
...that the city of Tashkent was formerly surrounded by a 25-kilometer-long wall featuring twelve city gates? (right|Depiction of 12 city gates of Tashkent)
...that Dining in refers to a formal military dinner, a practice thought to have begun in 16th Century England in monasteries and universities, adopted by the British Army during the 18th Century and revived in the U.S. Military during World War II?
...that Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico?
...that while noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the hybrid vehicle in moderate speed operation?
...that while the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches, 1959's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?
...that the Russian imperial Field Marshal Peter Lacy started his military career at the age of 13, defending Limerick during the Williamite war in Ireland?

...that before restoring ferry service across the Hudson River between Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice? (right|Newburgh-Beacon ferry)
...that although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael, a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
...that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?
...that in 1827, the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny?
...that the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?
...that Saint Jack, a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location, was banned in the country until 2006?
...that the Ostrog Bible of 1580 was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in a Slavic language? right|90px|Title page of the Ostrog Bible
...that the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?
...that Werowocomoco was the chief village of the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia where Captain John Smith of Jamestown was rescued from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan?
...that the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
...that Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland, is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising?
...that the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902?
...that the first Slavonic translations of the Bible were prepared by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century? (right|Saints Cyril and Methodius)
...that the level of copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an "individual expression of thought"?
...that there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor in the Year of the Six Emperors (AD 192–193)?
...that the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980, leaving several incomplete junctions, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
...that J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg?

...that the term Cicisbei refers to legal and generally respected companions and often lovers of married women in eighteenth-century Italy? (right|Depiction of a Cicisbeo)
...that researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars?
...that the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry, infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft, and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals?
...that George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
...that Rusumo Falls was a significant site during the 1994 Rwandan genocide as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of refugees crossed over it, fleeing into Tanzania to escape the fighting? (right|Rusumo Falls)
...that Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque, considered his career as a courtier much more important than that of a poet?
...that, before he was President of the United States, Herbert Hoover was married at the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California?
...that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States?
...that Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia? right|100px|Amantani from a distance
...that Jean Armand de Lestocq, a French physician, wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth?
...that when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America, the largest building in Austin, Texas, and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin?
...that the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida, one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity?
...that we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii, and from the poems of Martial, Catullus, and Horace?
...that Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands? right|90px|Repnin
...that the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre?
...that the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne, Switzerland, an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
...that Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?
...that Cuicocha is a crater lake in the Ecuadorian Andes which was created by a massive Phreatic eruption in the 11th century BC? (right|Cuicocha)
...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
...that The Impressions' 1967 single "We're a Winner", written by Curtis Mayfield, was a socially conscious song which became an anthem for the American Civil Rights movement?
...that ADMA, a chemical found in human blood, produces adverse effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and erectile dysfunction?
...that Emperor Paul of Russia ordered the name of his mistress Anna Lopukhina to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his Leib Guard? (right|Anna Lopukhina)
...that the seal emblazoned on the flag of Nashville, Tennessee displays a Native American holding a skull that is believed to be Oconostota, former leading Chief of the Cherokee Nation?
...that the Westfield Brandon is one of five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group?
...that in an engagement on Lake Huron, a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814?
...that the arrano beltza, the black eagle flag of the Basque nationalist movement, derives from the seal used by Sancho III of Navarre a thousand years ago? (right|arrano beltza)
...that soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians, and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology, microbiology and soil chemistry research?
...that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
...that while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet, her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s?
...that Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?

...that Natalia Goncharova, the wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin, was rumoured to have had a liaison with Nicholas I of Russia after the death of her husband? right|90px|Natalia Goncharova
...that in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
...that Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?
...that the Washington Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia that has operated continuously since its formation on April 25, 1852, by twenty-one members?
...that the long-running German TV show Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is the only German television format to have entered the United States, where it is produced by Fox as America's Most Wanted?
...that Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries? right|100px|Józef Andrzej Załuski
...that the Korzhenevskaya Peak in Tajikistan is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" of the former Soviet Union?
...that an estimated 892 Edsel Bermuda station wagons were produced before the model was dropped after a single year of production?
...that famous Russian painter Ilya Repin contributed to the Russian connections in Australia by helping to create the Orthodox Church of Saint Vladimir on Robertson Road in Sydney?
...that Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea?
...that the Royal Navy operated a secret training and anti-submarine warfare base at Seacliff in Scotland during World War I? (right|Seacliff, Scotland)
...that Andrey the Elder, brother of Ivan III, sponsored the construction of the first stone edifices in his capital, Uglich?
...that Historic Jamestowne is a National Historic Site on Jamestown Island on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia operated by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service?
...that the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
...that no fewer than a dozen people from western countries have been killed by crocodiles since 1990?
...that the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge? right|100px|View from the Sun Temple at Pisac
...that Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
...that the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention, in exchange for a $4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war, but was never ratified by Congress?
...that automated CPR machines such as AutoPulse are used to treat cardiac arrest in both humans and animals?
...that in the course of the Crimean War, the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of Taganrog?
...that the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
...that the Chinese House in Potsdam was Frederick the Great's attempt to follow the contemporary Chinese fashion, which originated in France? right|100px|Chinese House in Potsdam
...that diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu?
...that the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television?
...that New Mexico's Carson National Forest, named after Kit Carson, contains Anasazi artifacts?
...that the global stratotype for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is a cliff at Fortune Head, southeastern Newfoundland?
...that Tom Stoppard's play Rough Crossing is a loose adaptation of Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle?
...that due to the legend which states that "as long as Davie Poplar doesn't fall, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will continue to prosper," the tree has been filled with cement? (right|Davie Poplar)
...that the scarf worn by members of the Young Pioneers, the national youth organization of the Communist Party of China, corresponds to a triangle that is missing from one of its flags?
...that the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of the Pennsylvania State University, founded in 1908, was the first industrial engineering department in the world?
...that the Boy Scouts of America 50-Miler Award, given to those who hike or paddle 50 or more miles, is designed to encourage personal fitness, self-reliance, and a practical understanding of conservation?
...that Marcel Boulestin, who appeared on the BBC's experimental television broadcasts in 1937 was the first television chef?
...that environmental noise health effects place millions of people at risk of hearing loss, cardiovascular disease or even abnormal fetal development? (right|Human ear)
...that the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate?
...that Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India?
...that Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district?
...that Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?

...that the White House Tee Ball Initiative was created by President George W. Bush to promote baseball and softball by allowing youth Tee Ball events on the grounds of the White House in 2001? right|100px|Tee Ball at White House
...that Prasoon Joshi, an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
...that the Vanessa Carlton song "A Thousand Miles" became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and was the most requested song on the radio station BFBS Middle East in April 2003?
...that only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States, and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years?
...that Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German artist who founded one of the first neopagan religious groups, the Germanic Faith-Community, in 1907?
...that Gideon Brecher (1797 - 1873) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision, Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc., in 1845?
...that Marie Palace (1839-44) was the last Neoclassical imperial palace to be constructed in Saint Petersburg, Russia? (right|Marie Palace)
...that some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, written 66 years later?
...that Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali?
...that a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?
...that Beekman Winthrop, the third American Governor of Puerto Rico, was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, the first Governor of Connecticut?
...that the French inventor Félix du Temple accomplished in 1874 a short flight with his steam-powered aircraft Monoplane, often considered the first manned powered flight in history? right|100px|Monoplane
...that Sillustani is a pre-Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas?
...that when the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803, a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir), but only caused a superficial crack on one side?
...that Parlophone's "₤" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company?
...that though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end, the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
...that Balchug island opposite Moscow Kremlin takes its name from the Tatar word for "marsh"? right|100px|Balchug
...that Sanford N. McDonnell, the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America?
...that most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
...that Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
...that Georgia’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122?
...that historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota?
...that Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador which is revered in local folklore as a protective parent? right|100px|Imbabura
...that the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
...that in 1978, the nitrate-base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited?
...that the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual?
...that the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
...that Alonso Manso was the first bishop to arrive in the New World and also the first Inquisitor General of the Indies?
...that a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland? right|100px
...that the history of Berne, the Swiss capital, begins not with her founding in 1191, but with the Helvetian oppidum Brenodor that Caesar conquered in the Gallic Wars?
...that Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
...that the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll?
...that in 1977, K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States? (right|Irvis)
...that The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York?
...that the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy, but also the author of A History of Vodka, and that his name was thought to be a pen name?
...that Doe Lang, who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
...that Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity? (Saint Stephen of Perm)
...that a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
...that the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus?
...that Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament?
...that while the gold ceiling mosaics that gave the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia its name are no longer present, it still contains tombs such as those of Saint Augustine mentioned by Dante in Il Paradiso? (right|Tomba di Severino Boezio)
...that the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
...that the Battle of Krasny Bor was a World War II battle in which neutral Spain assisted Germany with an all volunteer infantry division?
...that Apple Computer's PowerBook 5300 got the nickname "HindenBook" after the Lithium ion batteries used in the original design were shown to burst into flames under certain circumstances?
...that "The Grange" in Upper Manhattan was the only home ever owned by Alexander Hamilton, and that he died only two years after the Federal style house was completed in 1802? (right|Hamilton Grange National Memorial)
...that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
...that cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov, dismissed from the Soviet space program, were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
...that during the Gothic War in the 4th century, the Goths killed a Roman Emperor, destroyed a Roman army and laid waste large tracts of the Roman Balkans?
...that the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War? (right|Ribbon of Saint George)
...that the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
...that a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley, making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
...that the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
...that the ASTRA National Museum Complex includes 90 hectares of exhibits about Transylvania, but also includes objects such as an Ancient Egyptian mummy? (right|Astra Palace)
...that Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø?
...that several Turkic nomads of the Kipchak clan settled in Georgia in 1118 and served in the Georgian military ranks for nearly two centuries?
...that Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States?
...that the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas, was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School? (right|Ascension Convent)
...that folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's most famous book, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, is named after a ghost that Windham believed haunted her home?
...that William Burnet, Governor of New Jersey and New York, obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter?
...that over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald, who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company?
...that the spangenhelm was the most popular war helmet in Europe and the Middle East during the early Middle Ages? (right|Spangenhelm)
...that January 26th, which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India, was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930?
...that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
...that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II?
...that Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
...that rumour had it that Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneer of British orthopaedic surgery, would attack people and break their bones in order to reset them? (right|Hugh Owen Thomas)
...that the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?
...that the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia?
...that the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete?
...that the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
...that the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line? (right|Battle of the Hindenburg Line, 1918)
...that the compound 4-ethylphenol, produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, can make wine smell like band-aids?
...that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
...that the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
...that the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838?
...that the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas, the ugly son of Tantalus, with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey?
...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee? (The extent of Atlanta Fire, 1917)
...that Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
...that Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency?
...that the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
...that Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge?
...that although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats? (right|Park Theatre, Manhattan)
...that Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
...that the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo, depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
...that the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia?
...that Ramy Brooks, a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska, is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
...that a steam-powered locomotive built specifically by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893 for its Empire State Express passenger train was the first manmade object on wheels to exceed 100 miles-per-hour? (right|Empire State Express 1905)
...that at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main Kiev railway station for the winter?
...that an agent of the Malaysian Special Branch so successfully infiltrated the Malayan Communist Party that he was in turn ordered by them to infiltrate the Special Branch?
...that Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills, but never played a game with them?
...that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland, is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
...that in local gigantism, parts of a limb can take gigantic shapes, without affecting other parts of the body? (right|Local gigantism)
...that Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan?
...that the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant?
...that while the female and male sexual organs of Congdon silktassel are on separate plants, it is the pendant male catkins that are more showy?
...that an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha?
...that the Lübeck Cathedral collapsed during an Allied bomb raid in 1942 but was subsequently restored? (right|Lübeck Cathedral)
...that the German hip-hop crew Fünf Sterne Deluxe made their 1999 comeback with the single "Ja Ja..., deine Mudder", a German take on the dozens?
...that Stony Clove Notch, a pass in the Catskill Mountains, was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file?
...the Siege of Compiègne was Joan of Arc's final military action?
...that botanist Tomitaro Makino, despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
...that the Cossack Hetman and the later Muscovite voyevoda Petro Doroshenko signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV recognizing the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire? (right|Petro Doroshenko)
...that until 1988, a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
...that the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises, from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul?
...that a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin?
...that the Mexican actress Leticia Palma's dispute with Jorge Negrete led to the end of a career described as "one of the most interesting presences" of the cinema of Mexico?
...that Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practiced, ending in 1991? (right|Map of Klarälven delta)
...that Hieronymus Bosch paintings helped inspire the Surrealist movement?
...that Blanton C. Winship, a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?
...that Tran Duc Thao, a Vietnamese philosopher, attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology?
...that gastric lymphoma is the most common lymphoma affecting the gastrointestinal tract?
...that Peter Joseph Lenné's gardening academy in Potsdam was the first school to formally teach garden architecture? (right|Peter Joseph Lenné)
...that Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico?
...that the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was formed in December 20, 1895, when the Missionary District of Northern Texas was granted diocesan status and that it now includes more than seventy parishes and schools in the diocese?
...that in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery?
...that Anna of Kashin, a Russian medieval princess, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? (right|Anna of Kashin)
...that Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14, 1950 through October 17, 1953?
...that the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia?
...that The Exile, the first African American talking film, was a semi-autobiographical film about a Black rancher in South Dakota, with elements of interracial romance and some nightclub scenes set in Chicago?
...that Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg? (right|Hermitage Theatre)
...that Jatin Das, an Indian freedom fighter, died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929?
...that The Observatory, a Singaporean space rock band released their first album packaged as a diary, complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos?
...that NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas?
...that the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
...that the Iberian Ribbed Newt's ability to keep live sperm in its cloaca for up to 5 months was a reason it was chosen to be flown into space? (Image:Pleurodeles waltl BUD.jpg)
...that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879 ?
...that Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall?
...that the S500 was the first production car from Honda?
...that the endangered species California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old? (Image:Raildumbartrazorback.jpg)
...that the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833?
...that S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea?
...that Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings, SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis?
...that Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"? (right|Italo Santelli)
...that in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station currently located near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887?