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... that Time of Rebirth, the first album from Singaporean space rock band The Observatory, was released packaged as a diary, complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos? ++Lar: t/c 04:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC) (self nom)

March 2

... that in 1879, Cleveland's Public Square became the first street in the world to have electric streetlights?
... that the 1963 S500 was the first production car from Honda? --SFoskett 19:43, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
... that Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall? --article by User:Cactus.man, nom by Ghirla 15:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
....that S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka - the mythical city of Krishna presently submerged in the Arabian Sea? --article and nomination by Rama's Arrow 15:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
...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. smurrayinchester 18:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC). Self-nom.
... that Hit 40 UK host Simon Hirst had worked for radio stations in North, South, East and West Yorkshire before joining Galaxy 105, which covered all four sections of the county? Bentley Banana 20:02, 2 March 2006 (UTC) Self-nom.
The Iberian Ribbed Newt in an aquarium (on Earth)
... that the Iberian Ribbed Newt's ability to keep live sperm in her cloaca for up to 5 months was a reason they were chosen to be flown into space? —Pengo 01:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Self-nom

March 1

...that in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station that is located near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887? --Gurubrahma 17:50, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
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...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. (self-nom) Anlace 05:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
... that the fleets of Gisulf II of Salerno sometimes turned to piracy against Amalfi and Pisa? --article by User:Srnec, nom by Ghirla 15:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

February 28

...that Jarilo was a major Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and spring, also associated with war and harvest? --article by User:Hier0phant, nom by Ghirla 00:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The stub was massively expanded by Hier0phant, so it is technically a new article. --Ghirla 00:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
...that the Reesor Siding 1963 Strike which left 3 people dead, was the deadlist confrontation in Canadian labour history? self-nom, pretty full article, created just today Sherurcij 01:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

...that Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"? Staxringold 18:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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...that the Scintillant Hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and a rufous and black-striped tail?
...that the postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco, once sliced a Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like automobile?
...that the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall,Derbyshire?
...that the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia, Nikolay Mordvinov, started his career serving on English ships in America?
...that the Argo Merchant, a derelict oil tanker, ran aground only 25 miles off Nantucket Island in 1976, causing one of the largest oil spills in history? (right|Argo Merchant)
...that through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup, Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the internet, and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work?
...that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma?
...that the National Resources Commission controlled 70% of Chinese industry in Republican China?

...that the Russian administrator Pavel Kiselyov was responsible for the creation of an important transport artery in Bucharest - a boulevard which now bears his name? (right|Pavel Kiselyov)
...that the Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama?
...that the Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture?
...that on January 21, 2006 Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism?
...that each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil?

...that Vasyl Avramenko is often referred as "The father of the Ukrainian dance"? (Image:UkrainianDance.jpg)
...that the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that recruited women, in order to alleviate manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles during World War II?
...that Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?
...that the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War?
...that dimethyl dicarbonate or DMDC is a colourless liquid with a sharp odour, which is used as a beverage preservative or sterilant? (right|DMDC)
...that Russia won the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, because of its superior technology, despite Persia upscaling its efforts at the end of the war, and declaring it a Holy War?
...that the call of Mangrove Black Hawk is a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink...?
...that national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2, 2006, following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?
...that Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War?

...that three Byzantine emperors ended their lives as monks of the Studion, the largest monastery of Constantinople? (right|Studion)
...that the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur?
...that on January 8 1956, five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca"?
...that the Cormorant is a project for a submarine launched aircraft currently under development at Lockheed Martin's Skunk works research facility?
...that a count room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency?
...that the Church of St. Elisabeth in Marburg was one of the earliest purely Gothic structures in Central Europe and served as the model for the Cologne Cathedral? (Image:Elisabethkirche2.jpg)
...that the shooting of the government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24, 1980 was one of the causes of the El Salvador Civil War, in which 75,000 people died?
...that the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was first recorded by Perry Como in 1941?
...that Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials?
...that hyperboloid structures in architecture are doubly-curved surfaces that may be formed entirely from a lattice of straight angle-iron and flat iron bars? (right|The Sydney Opera House roofs - example of hyperboloid structures)
...that Islam in Poland traces its history to the 13th century, with the advent of Tartar settlers?
...that the development of molecular biology was made possible due to the convergence between biochemistry and genetics?
...that as a result of t'aarof, it is not uncommon for Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
...that The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush? (right|The University of Texas Longhorn Band)
...that John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527?
...that Castorocauda lutrasimilis, a recently described mammal relative that looked like an otter with a beaver's tail, evolved a semi-aquatic lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
...that James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936?

...that Roger II's Palatine Chapel in Palermo combines the Byzantine dome and mosaics with Arabic arches and inscriptions? (right|Image:Chapelle Palatine.jpg)
...that the Hood Event was an incident following the US invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish special forces operating in northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the US military, later becoming the basis for the 2006 film Valley of the Wolves Iraq?
...that some Australian Aboriginal languages use the aversive case to indicate that an object is feared?
...that Vanessa Mendoza, Miss Colombia 2001, was the first Black woman to win that title?

...that retired General Counsel Alberto J. Mora of the U.S. Navy championed an effort within the Defense Department to end coercive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay? (Image:Alberto_Mora.jpg)
...that "ultra" was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists?
...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
...that Television House on Kingsway in London served as the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion, Independent Television News, the TV Times magazine, Associated TeleVision and Thames Television between 1955 and the early 1970s?

...that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw? (Image:Xyinstrument.jpg)
...that Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was established as the public broadcaster for the British Zone of Germany after World War II?
...that Salleh Abas was sacked as the Lord President of Malaysia for clashing with the government on the independence of the Malaysian judiciary?
...that the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalry units fought on both sides?
...that the Provençal women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries were known as trobairitz? (Image:Beatriz de Dia - BN MS12473.jpg)
...that Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI, was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany?
...that the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
...that the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?

...that Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years? (Image:Gremmeniella abietina.jpg)
...that Syed Hussein Alatas is a Malaysian academic who formed two political parties before going on to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya?
...that the terms of the 1991 Sino-Russian border agreement between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China took over 6 years to implement?
...that the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the the largest student organizations in the United States?

...that the Elfin-woods Warbler, an endemic bird of Puerto Rico first observed in 1968, is the last New World warbler to be discovered? (Image:Elfin-woods Warbler.JPG)
...that Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television?
...that The Silent World, an Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau, was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color?
...that until the late 1980s, the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?

...that a female Western harvest mouse can potentially give birth to as many as forty to sixty offspring in a single year? (Image:Westernharverazorback.jpg)
...that the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004?
...that French spacing, the typographical practice of adding two (rather than one) spaces after a full stop, is a result of the monospaced fonts used by typewriters?
...that major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System?

...that the Verneuil process, used in ruby synthesis, is considered as the founding step for modern industrial crystal growth technology? (Image:Verneuil torch sketch.png)
...that Round the Bend was a children's television programme that was televised for three years on Children's ITV, but was supposedly cancelled as a result of Mary Whitehouse calling it politically incorrect?
...that the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority not only promotes Malaysia to foreign investors, but also handles tasks such as the extension of business visit visas?
...that the Teach First organisation which helps top graduate students teach in some of the most deprived areas in London and was inspired by Teach for America, is now expanding to Manchester and Israel?
...that the Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City went from haven for prostitution to Presbyterian chapel in the span of one year? (Image:Chatham_Garden_Theatre_exterior.png)
...that the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
...that Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
...that between 1922 and 1926, Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal?

...that the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay? (Image:Itigelov.jpg)
...that Hochtief AG, the company that moved the Abu Simbel temple complex to save it from the Aswan High Dam, also built the Führerbunker, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide?
...that Alfred the Great's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum, the Viking ruler of East Anglia?
...that Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?

...that the Russian officer Leonid Gobyato is credited with having invented man-portable mine mortars? (Image:Gobyato.jpg)
...that in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., the judge ruled that the video game Donkey Kong could be considered a parody of King Kong?
...that a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari, was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal?
...that the Majlis Amanah Rakyat operates several educational institutes and offers several scholarships for the benefit of Bumiputra students in Malaysia?

...that a mountain ash growing in the small Australian town of Thorpdale, Victoria once held the record for the tallest tree in the world? (Image:Thorpdale - town sign.JPG)
...that Maj. Henryk Sucharski, one of the commanders of the defence of Westerplatte during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabre in captivity?
...that the Detroit neighborhood of Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant?
...that the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action?

...that the Preobrazhenka Cemetery in Moscow originated in 1771 as an Old Believer monastery under the guise of a plague quarantine? (right|Preobrazhenka Cemetery)
...that Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia?
...that in Russian Orthodox bell ringing, the bells are never pealed, but only tolled?
...that Ernest Rogers Millington, former "Baby" of the British House of Commons, is one of only two living former MPs to have been elected before the 1945 UK general election?

...that 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield? (Image:16th Street Baptist Church.JPG)
...that the failure of the First Malaysia Plan may have indirectly led to the May 13 Incident of racial rioting?
...that Pigeon Post, winner of the first ever Carnegie Medal for children's literature, is the only Swallows and Amazons book that does not feature some sort of sailing adventure?
...that the word "Indonesia" was first used in print by Sam Ratulangi, a high school science teacher who briefly held the post of Governor of Sulawesi and was posthumously awarded the title of National Independence Hero?

...that in 1860 Thomas Sayers became the first English boxer to fight an international match? (Image:Sayers.jpg)
...that the longest of the Kiev bridges, the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River, constructed in 1953 was the first fully welded steel construction of such length at that time?
...that in the Vatha pagan rising of 1046, Saint Gellert became a martyr after being pushed off a hill in a cart?
...that romanization of Belarusian, the transliteration of Belarusian-language text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet, is distinct from writing in Łacinka, the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus?
...that Lewis Adams, a former African American slave in Macon County, Alabama is known for helping found the normal school which later became Tuskegee University?

...that the Puerto Rican Spindalis is the national bird of Puerto Rico and often participates in mobbing, a behavior in which it attacks predators to defend hatchlings? {Image:PuertoRicanSpindalis.jpg)
...that Arbit Choudhury is the first ever business school student comic strip and web comic?
...that the text on Nestor's Cup, one of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (c.740 BCE), is believed to be the result of a humorous drinking-party game?
...that John Honeyman was a spy who worked for George Washington and who provided intelligence crucial to the success of Washington's foray against the Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on December 26, 1776?
...that the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat has the power to amend written copies of speeches made by members of the house before they are given verbally?

...that the Iberian Gate and Chapel in Moscow were destroyed on behest of Stalin in order to make room for heavy armored vehicles driving through Red Square during military parades? (Image:Manezhnaya.jpg)
...that Antonio Bosio, the first systematic explorer of the Catacombs of Rome was known as the "Columbus of subterranean Rome" ?
...that the German KarstadtQuelle AG is the largest department store corporation in Europe with over 100,000 employees?
...that before R. L. Stevenson became a successful novelist with Treasure Island in 1883, he was a struggling author of travel narratives who published An Inland Voyage, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and Silverado Squatters?
...that Dmitry Milyutin, the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia, was responsible for introducing the general levy system into Eastern Europe? (Image:Milyutin.jpg)
...that the 1st and Ten System creates the yellow line seen on American football telecasts which shows where a team will earn a first down?
...that Charles Nqakula, the Minister of Safety and Security of South Africa and chairperson of the SACP underwent military training in Angola, East Germany, and the Soviet Union in order to fight in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC?
...that the Gourd Dance is performed to "cleanse" the dance arena prior to a Native American pow-wow?

...that the American Thanksgiving holiday was moved a week earlier from 1939—1941 because of The Great Depression and was referred to as Franksgiving after President Franklin D. Roosevelt? (Image:FDR in 1933.jpg)
...that Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first novel in Tamil?
...that Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
...that basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?

...that Vera Kholodnaya, the first Russian silent film star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the French Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks? (Image:VeraKholodna.jpg)
...that there are as many as two million illegal immigrants in Malaysia, half of whom may be receiving Bumiputra privileges?
...that the dress Marilyn Monroe wore on the night she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President was so tight she had to be sewn into it?
...that the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilson came to power?

...that the Summer Garden in St Petersburg contains a hundred Venetian marble statues that are 300 years old? (Image:Summer Garden.jpg)
...that the Park Ujazdowski, founded in 1893 by Sokrates Starynkiewicz, features the second bridge in the world built of reinforced concrete?
...that Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev and nine other POWs took over a German He 111 H22 bomber and escaped from the concentration camp on Usedom island?
...that the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901?
...that the Old Ford Motor Factory, Ford's first assembly plant in Southeast Asia and built in 1941, was the site of the historic surrender of the British to the Japanese in World War II, later described by Winston Churchill as the "largest capitulation in British history"?

...that Government House in Perth, Western Australia is the official residence of the Governor of Western Australia and was built between 1859 and 1864 largely with convict labour? (Image:WAGovernmentHouse1crop gobeirne.JPG)
...that the model for the doctor in William Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin?
...that two out of three most notable monuments by Edward Wittig were destroyed during the World War II, while the third one was not erected until 2001, 60 years after Wittig's death?
...that the first fluorescent blacklight paint was invented by Bob Switzer and named Day-Glo?
...that the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?

...that Weingarten Abbey, a Benedictine monastery near Ravensburg, Germany, which was founded in 1056, was once one of the richest monasteries in Southern Germany? (Image:Weingarten Kloster 1500.jpg)
...that the Dewan Rakyat is prohibited from discussing the repeal of certain articles of the Constitution of Malaysia?
...that scientific transliteration, a method used in linguistics to transliterate Slavic languages from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, was first standardized over a century ago based on the Croatian alphabet?
...that the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan?
...that the Ampulex wasp can disable a cockroach's escape reflex, and use the roach to feed its larva?

...that Program 437 was a United States military antisatellite program using nuclear weapons delivered by Thor ballistic missiles as the primary mechanism of defeating enemy satellites? (Image:Thor-sm.gif)
...that the traditional Russian carnival of Maslenitsa lasts for a week and culminates in the burning of a straw effigy representing winter and all the left-over blintzes?
...that pendatang asing is a pejorative phrase used in Malaysia to imply non-Malays are not welcome?
...that Lillian Too, renowned feng shui expert, was once chief executive officer of a bank, and has written over 80 books since her retirement?

...that Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker? (Image:Asuka dera daibutsu.jpg)
...that Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola?
...that New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl?
...that the fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship?
...that Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, Miss Colombia's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena's first female farm owner?

...that William Shakespeare was an avid gardener and that modern Shakespeare gardens cultivate dozens of plant species mentioned in his plays?(Image:Shakespeare garden.jpg)
...that the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
...that when the Etruscan bronze Chimera of Arezzo, carefully buried near the city walls of Arezzo some time in Antiquity, was rediscovered in 1553, it was quickly claimed for the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici?
...that among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev, there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart" due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?

...that the St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach, Florida is a medieval Spanish monastery that was purchased by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, disassembled, and then kept in 11,000 crates in a warehouse in Brooklyn for 26 years? (Image:St_bernard_de_clairvaux_church_cloisters_2006.jpg)
...that Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations?
...that the name teonanácatl, referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs, translates to "the flesh of God"?
...that the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war?

...that SS Kościuszko, a former Russian passenger ship, mobilized by the Polish navy, was visited by Winston Churchill and King George VI during World War II? (SS Kosciuszko)
...that according to UFO religions, aliens exist, and would reveal themselves in the future to enable humans overcome their ecological, spiritual and social problems?
...that during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century?
...that Cambridge House on Piccadilly used to be home to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

...that three former Presidents of the United States currently appear on American currency two times each (one coin and one bill)? (Abraham Lincoln as depicted on the US Penny)
...that the theory of the permanent arms economy is a Marxist theory to explain the long economic boom after World War II?
...that Sonjo, a Bantu language of northern Tanzania, has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
...that les Brasseries du Cameroun controls 75 percent of the market for beer and soft drinks in Cameroon?
...that Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes?

...that the expression Children of Lieutenant Schmidt has become a Russian cliché for con men who use false pretenses in order to extract money from the victims? (Children of Lieutenant Schmidt - An illustration)
...that in 1876, Edward Bouchet became the first black American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university?
...that Xianxingzhe, China's first bipedal humanoid robot was satirized in Japan for having a joint that resembles a "crotch cannon"?
...that Howard Thomas created three of the most popular wartime radio programmes for the BBC and discovered Vera Lynn, but was forced to resign from the company?

...that two glazed shopping arcades of the 1840s — the Passage in St Petersburg and the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels — accommodated luxury shops, coffee houses, museums and even theatres? (The Passage in St. Petersburg)
...that a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Mozambiquean language Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili?
...that Thomas Brownrigg went from being a Midshipman to being Naval Aide de Camp to Queen Elizabeth II to creating Europe's first commercial television company, Associated-Rediffusion?
...that the July 2005 NKF scandal led to a backlash from the donors to the charity, resulting in the resignation of the board of directors?

...that the Roman de Fergus is the earliest piece of non-Celtic vernacular literature to have survived from Scotland? (Dunnottar Castle is in Roman de Fergus)
...that the Philharmonia Hungarica, an orchestra founded by Hungarian exiles and funded by the West German government during the Cold War, made the first complete recording of Haydn's symphonies?
...that the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovsky, and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses?
...that "La Vie en Rose" is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf?

...that an aerosan is a type of air-powered, armoured snowmobile, which was used for transport, reconnaissance, and raiding by the Red Army in the Winter War and the Second World War? (NKL-26 armoured aerosan)
...that a Push-Pull Converter is a type of DC to DC converter that uses a transformer to step the voltage of a DC power supply?
...that the Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez became famous with the painting "Virgen de Guadalupe", which represents Lopez's personal investigation into Virgen de Guadalupe's status in Mexican society?
...that the actions of Australian soldiers at the Battle of Epehy during World War I led to German officers in the area saying that they would not fight Australian troops?

...that Giles Mompesson was officially branded a "notorious criminal" by the House of Lords in 1623 after a career of graft and extortion as licensor of inns? (An etching of Giles Mompesson)
...that the L'Arlésienne Suites were composed by Georges Bizet in 1872 to accompany the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet?
...that Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth"?
...that Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988?
...that only three Super 14 rugby union teams ever won the Super 12?

...that from 1858 Sydneysiders could set their clocks by the ball dropped at 1 pm each day at the Sydney Observatory and that the observatory replaced Fort Philip which was never needed to be used for defending Sydney? Image:SydneyObservatory1 gobeirne.jpg
...that the Brothertown Indians were the first tribe of Native Americans in the United States to become United States citizens, which caused the tribe to relinquish their tribal sovereignty?
...that Jan Nagórski, Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic, was presumed dead for 38 years?
...that, for the Dutch Old Masters, still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects?

...that Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Nikolay Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars? (Image:Nikolay Raevsky.jpg)
...that the 1939 cantata "Ballad For Americans" by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party?
...that the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley, who also created the Bentley automobile?
...that Owasippe Scout Reservation, established in 1911, is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in the United States?

...that the neo-classical Verkhovna Rada building in Kiev features a hundred-tonne glass dome over the chamber where the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine convenes to enact legislation?
...that parts of California were declared a disaster area when Hurricane Kathleen killed several people and caused millions of dollars in damage due to widespread flooding?
...that Operation Safed Sagar which was launched by the Indian Air Force to aid the Indian Army during the 2 month long Kargil War, was the first time air power was used on such a large scale in Kashmir since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
...that Arthur Ransome used his own memories of a frozen Windermere during the Great Freeze of 1895 when he wrote Winter Holiday, his fourth Swallows and Amazons book?

...that Robin Miller was a female Australian pilot and nurse who borrowed money to buy a Cessna 182 and then began flying to remote outback areas in Western Australia to vaccinate Indigenous Australian children against polio and thus became known as the "Sugarbird Lady"? (Image:Jandokot Memorial to The Sugar Bird Lady.jpg)
...that Jan Stanisław Jankowski, the World War II political leader of the Polish Secret State, was kidnapped by the NKVD and killed in a Soviet prison?
... that commotio cordis is a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest observed mostly in young people during participation in sports, and that is the most frequent cause of accidental deaths in Little League baseball games?
...that Romanian violinist Ion Petre Stoican got his recording contract in Communist-era Romania because he caught an American spy?

...that Vladimir Shukhov, often compared to Edison and Eiffel for his innovative work on metallic structures, decided to abandon engineering at the age of 24 and enrolled at a medical school instead? (Image:Shukhorodchenko.jpg)
...that Gongche notation was once popular in transcribing the music of China before the modern jianpu and standard notation?
...that during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 more Russian soldiers died in hospitals from contagious diseases than fighting on the battlefield?
...that the title of the movie I Married a Communist was so unappealing to audiences that their response led the film to be rereleased under the title The Woman on Pier 13?

...that the physician Marie Equi became an anarchist after being attacked by police, while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World? (Image:Marie Equi.jpg)
...that Mazhar Hussain has scored more runs in one-day international cricket then any other United Arab Emirates batsman?
...that the Podhale rifles are the only soldiers within the Polish Army to wear uniforms based on folk attire?
...that in the United Kingdom and Australia a tuck shop is a small food retailer found in schools?

...that the Polish Navy cruiser ORP Conrad was to be named ORP Wilno, but the name was changed for political reasons? (Image:ORP Conrad.jpg)
...that the Russian victory at Molodi in 1572 put a stop to the northward expansion of the Ottoman Empire into present-day Russia?
...that more than 100 gamelan ensembles (a musical performance group of Indonesian origin) have been formed in the U.S. since the first was established at UCLA in 1958?
...that secret passages have helped people to hide in or flee from a building, or even to enter it without being spotted?

...that the Column of Phocas, erected in 608 to flatter the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocas, was the very last addition made to the Roman Forum? (Image:RomaForoRomanoColonnaFoca2.JPG)
...that Chuvash dragons of Turkic myth are said to assume human form and to visit men and women at night in order to have sexual intercourse with them?
...that Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man"?
...that the Hoba meteorite is the largest known meteorite ever found on earth?

...that in the Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere Bramante created the first monumental formal garden design of the Renaissance? (Image:Cortile.del.belvedere.1.jpg)
...that Leif J. Sverdrup was a immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?
...that Mikhail Gerasimov used exhumed skulls to reconstruct faces of more than 200 people, including Friedrich Schiller, Ivan the Terrible, and Tamerlane?
...that the rise of ticket prices in the new Covent Garden Theatre led to the so-called Old Price Riots, which lasted for more than two months in 1809?

...that Lanzón, the main religious figure of the Chavín culture of the ancient Andes, was kept in a dark chamber underneath the main temple of Chavín de Huantar? (Image:Lanzon.JPG)
...that Thomas Metcalfe served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly, in both houses of the U.S. Congress, and as Governor of Kentucky?
...that Jacobus de Teramo wrote a dialogue, in which Lucifer takes Jesus Christ to court, for trespassing in the Harrowing of Hell, with Belial as his lawyer?
...that amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class?

...that the Alexander Aircraft Company, which produced Eaglerock biplanes in Colorado, was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world for a brief period between 1928 and 1929? (Image:5014-eaglerock-side.jpg)
...that the Tagish Lake meteorite originally came from a part of the asteroid belt which existed when our solar system was being formed?
...that the Russian Field Marshal Ivan Gudovich lost his left eye fighting the Turks in Armenia in 1807?
...that the Coraopolis Bridge, designed by Theodore Cooper, started life as the third Pittsburgh Sixth Street Bridge and the 400 foot truss sections were floated 12 miles downstream to be reused rather than scrapped?

...that Alexander Buturlin, who was in charge of the Russian army when it took Berlin in 1760, was better known for his tall stature and good looks than for military talents? (Image:Buturlin.gif)
...that a bristlecone pine tree named Prometheus, the oldest tree and oldest non-clonal organism ever known to exist, was cut down in 1964 by Forest Service personnel for research purposes?
...that Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari?
...that CHIJMES, a historic building complex in Singapore, began life as a Catholic convent in the 1850s and has been gazetted as a national monument?

...that the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace accommodates 332 portraits of Russian generals who took part in the Napoleonic Wars? (Image:Galereja 1812.jpg)
...that placenta accreta can see the placenta attach itself not only to the muscle of the uterus but also to the bladder or other organs?
...that Alfred Hayes, author of the poem "Joe Hill", was also a novelist and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter whose credits ranged from Italian neorealism to the American TV series Mannix?
...that the former Automobilwerk Eisenach in Thuringia, once part of BMW, was taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945, and resumed production under the BMW logo until 1951 when BMW regained control over its trademark and logo?

...that the Bateleur is a medium-sized eagle in the bird family Accipitridae found in Africa? (Image:Bateleur Eagle.jpg)
...that Fort Pocahontas in Virginia was constructed by African-American soldiers of the United States Colored Troops in 1864 and was used for on-location filming of the 2005 motion picture The New World?
...that the Zograf Monastery on the Holy Mountain was burnt down by a Catalan pirate raid in 1275?
...that the Visiting Forces Agreement allows U.S. soldiers accused in Filipino crimes to stay under U.S. custody until the trial is over?

...that the Svinesund Bridge crosses the border between Sweden and Norway? (Image:Svinesund bridge01.jpg)
...that the name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as ]?
...that the United States Department of Justice attorney James A. Baker, who has defended Bush administration intelligence policy in Congressional testimony and court cases, is not related to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III?
...that Bridei III's victory in the Battle of Dunnichen led to the expulsion of Northumbrians from southern Pictland?

...that Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris accomplished the world's first powered flight in 1856, with a glider that was pulled behind a running horse? (Image:LeBris1868.jpg)
...that the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an "idyllic refuge of inspiration" for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s?
...that the Battles of Corbridge were important in deciding the fate of the Viking kingdom of York and the Anglo-Saxon earldom of Northumbria?
...that metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?

...that Frenchman Jean-Marie Le Bris accomplished the world's first powered flight in 1856, with a glider that was pulled behind a running horse? (Image:LeBris1868.jpg)

...that the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an "idyllic refuge of inspiration" for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s?

...that the Battles of Corbridge were important in deciding the fate of the Viking kingdom of York and the Anglo-Saxon earldom of Northumbria?

...that metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension?

...that the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi was the most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Saint Petersburg? (Image:Quarenghi smolny.jpg)
...that the Caucasian Shepherd Dog is generally a low activity dog, seemingly lethargic when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened?
...that the Viking Great Army pillaged and conquered much of England in the late ninth century?
...that, according to tradition, the twisting Solomonic columns of baroque architecture are based on the design of columns taken from Solomon's Temple and brought to Rome by Constantine?

...that Nepenthes rajah, the most famous of all pitcher plants, produces traps up to 40 cm in height and has been known to catch prey as large as rats, frogs and lizards? (Image:Nepenthes_rajah.jpg)
...that the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
...that benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?
...that the fourteen nations designated Major non-NATO ally are the only countries outside of NATO to whom the United States government will consider selling depleted uranium anti-tank rounds?

...that the British Parliament first guaranteed diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors in 1709, after Count Andrey Matveyev, a Russian resident in London, had been subjected by British bailiffs to verbal and physical abuse? (Andrey Matveyev)
...that the Marienberg Abbey in Italy is the highest abbey in Europe at 1,340 meters (4,400 feet), and allegedly suffered from vampire attacks during the Black Death?
...that Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, enacted into law by all fifty states, governs secured transactions in the United States?
...that the Hutsonville Bridge was a self-anchored suspension bridge that was controversially torn down in 1988, at the insistence of the Indiana Department of Transportation, despite the demolition company offering to donate 100,000 USD to preserve it instead?

...that the Ichkeul Lake in Tunisia is placed on UNESCO's List of World Heritage Sites in danger, as the dam construction on the lake’s feeder rivers has produced major changes to the ecological balance of the lake and wetlands? (Image:ichkeul lake.jpg)
...that Jeff Hawke, a science fiction comic strip, almost perfectly predicted the date of the first human moon landing more than ten years before?
...that El Gobernador, Central Pacific Railroad's 4-10-0 steam locomotive, had to be shipped from the shops in Sacramento, California in five large subassemblies due to its enormous size?
...that the People's Republic of China attempted to promulgate a second round of orthographical reform in 1977, only to retract it 9 years later amidst mounting opposition and confusion?

...that there were only 3 steel dams built in the United States, although at one time steel dams were thought to offer many competitive advantages over other types of dam? (Redridge Steel Dam)
...that the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang was built in 1982 to commemorate the "victory" of Korea over Japan in the WWII?
...that the German films based on the works of Edgar Wallace are generally considered a distinct subgenre of crime film?
...that Durga Khote was famous for her character roles and was the heroine of the first Marathi talkie?

...that the tower of the Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin is lit in the school colors, orange and white, to signify the academic and athletic triumphs of the University? Image:UT-Tower-in-Orange.jpg
...that the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid-11th century?
...that the 17 muscles of the hip work together in complex ways to produce a wide range of movement?
...that Ibrahim Hussein Berro was recently identified as the suicide bomber in the 1994 AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires?

...that Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg, opened in 1785, was the largest shopping mall of the 18th-century Russia and remains one of the oldest continuously existing department stores in the world? (Gostiny Dvor)
...that Shane Warne Cricket '99, a Playstation cricket game is endorsed by the Australian bowler, Shane Warne?
...that the phrase "Up to eleven", inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap, was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume"?
...that Nicolas des Escuteaux's novels are regarded as more adventurous than sentimental, and show the influence of the Renaissance Hispano-Portuguese adventure novel?

...that Peter the Great's eldest daughter, Anna Petrovna, died in childbirth aged 20, but all the living Romanovs descend from her? (Anna Petrovna)
...that the phrase The King is dead. Long live the King! was first used following the accession of Charles VII of France in 1422?
...that the Select Vestries Bill is read in the House of Lords at the start of each session of Parliament before a debate on the Queen's Speech, to demonstrate that the House chooses and sets its own business independently of the Crown?
...that Malcolm Perry was the first doctor to attend to President Kennedy and performed a tracheotomy which inadvertently destroyed ballistics evidence key to determining who assassinated the president?

...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times? (EU Map)
...that Chuck Muncie was a star running back for The University of California during the 1970s, where he broke six school rushing records that stand to this day?
...that it is alleged that during the Battle of Ramree Island, crocodiles contributed to the near wiping out of a World War II Japanese garrison?
...that in 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred became the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and his descendants are still involved in Scouting?

...that prehistoric inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area fished the bat ray in large numbers, while more recently it is mostly taken by oyster growers who mistakenly believe it feeds on their oysters? (Image:Bat-ray-NOAA-Tony-Chess.jpg)
...that psychological offender profiling was used by British police for the first time in capturing John Duffy, the so-called Railway Killer?
...that while they were part of the hit television war sitcom Dad's Army, Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender were also acting in the radio series Parsley Sidings?
...that Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński was a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army, a veteran of World War I, Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War, and was executed by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939?

...that in his design for Karlskirche in Vienna the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach aspired to synthesize the main ideas found in the most important sacred structures of past and present? (Design by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach)
...that the Virgo Stellar Stream is the proposed name for a stream of stars in the constellation of Virgo which are thought to be the remains of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is in the process of merging with the Milky Way?
...that Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
...that the founders of the Communist League in Denmark, had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party?

...that Francis Birtles was an Australian adventurer who set many long distance cycling and driving records including becoming the first man to drive a car from England to Australia in 1927? (Francis in his car)
...that the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists?
...that Akira Machida is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan, and that there have been 15 Chief Justices of Japan since 1947?
...that Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is the Venezuelan soccer club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores?

...that the French Navy's Le Napoléon (1850) was the first steam battleship in history? (Image:Napoleon(1850).jpg)
...that Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia?
...that the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
...that quarterback Bill Kenney is the only player named Mr. Irrelevant (an "award" traditionally given to the last selection of the NFL Draft) to appear in the Pro Bowl?

...that sculptor Pavel Sokolov designed sphinxes for Egyptian Bridge, griffins for Bank Bridge, and lions for Bridge of Four Lions in Saint Petersburg? (Image:Sankt Petersburg Banken Brücke 2005 b.jpg)
...that the history of Judaism in Japan started in 1861 when approximately fifty Jewish families settled in Yokohama?
...that Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
...that John Crocker, a British corps commander in World War II, served as a both a private and a general in the British Army?

...that the North American Phalanx was a mid-19th century Utopian community in Monmouth County, New Jersey based on the idea of French socialist Charles Fourier?(North American Phalanx)
...that prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM?
...that Walther Flemming, a German histologist, discovered mitosis (cell division), chromatin and chromosomes, and that this is considered one of the 100 most important scientific discoveries in history?
...that The Chesterfield Kings, a veteran garage rock band from Rochester, New York, are currently suing their longtime record label over nonpayment of royalties, and are being represented by a lawyer who played keyboards on several of their albums?

...that Anatoly Durov was one of the founding fathers of the Soviet circus? (Anatoly Durov)
...that the history of writing began in the 4th millennium BC out of neolithic proto-writing?
...that Chemmeen, a popular Malayalam novel, was made into a colour Cinemascope film, one of the first in Malayalam film industry?
...that the official title of the "Stars on 45 Medley", which names a total of 11 different songs, makes it the longest-titled song ever to make the Billboard charts in the United States?

...that the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne was once described as "the best cinema that was ever built or is ever likely to be built"? (Capitol Theatre)
...that in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
...that the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is a US$1 billion biotechnology initiative that gets its funding from Michigan's settlement with the tobacco industry?
...that many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?

...that Indonesia is the world's fourth largest producer of coffee? (Roasting of Coffee)
...that although Thomas S. Hamblin preferred ballet and opera, he staged low-brow melodrama, farce, and variety acts at the Bowery Theatre?
...that the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, though not written by Saint Jerome himself, was the most widely-used martyrology during the Middle Ages?
...that Gilles Joye, a Renaissance composer, was known for brawling and frequenting brothels—but later became a priest?
...that Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?

...that at Cirque d'hiver (the "Winter Circus") in Paris, the idea of stylish evening circus performances for fashionable audiences was invented by Louis Dejean? (Metropolitan Board of Works)
...that "truthiness," a word made up by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society?
...that Yaroslav of Halych's repudiation of his wife led to a popular uprising, in the course of which his favorite concubine was burnt alive?
...that alligation is a practical method for solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures?

...that Frederick Marrable resigned his post as Chief Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works in London when they offered him a derisory salary raise? (Metropolitan Board of Works)
...that hypostatic abstraction is the name given to the process describing how the proposition "X is Y" is transformed to "X has Y-ness"?
...that the city of Barreiras in Bahia, Brazil remained isolated for nearly a decade in the 1960s when the power plant closed?
...that Zhang Mao became the ruler of Former Liang when a magician had his brother (the then-governor) assassinated?

...that Tegernsee Abbey in Bavaria was founded by the nobleman Otkar, supposedly after his son had been killed during a game of chess by the son of King Pippin III with the chessboard? (Tegernsee Abbey)
...that in the iconic 1955 Richard Avedon photograph, supermodel Dovima posed wearing a Dior evening dress standing with circus elephants?
...that four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU-Russia summit in May 2005?
...that Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg? (Marble Palace)
...that Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
...that Kanyasulkam, written by Gurajada Apparao in 1892, is the first Telugu play dealing with social issues?
...that the Seleucid era was a system of numbering years from the return of Seleucus I Nicator to Babylon in 312 BC?

...that the French submarine Plongeur, built in 1863, was the first submarine in the world not to use human power for propulsion? (Plongeur submarine)
...that L. V. Prasad had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies in three different Indian languages: Hindi, Telugu and Tamil?
...that the Mount Victoria Tunnel is 623 metres long and was the first New Zealand tunnel to have air conditioning?
...that the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall?

...that Brutus de Villeroi was a French engineer who created the USS Alligator, the U.S. Navy's first submarine, in 1862? (USS Alligator)
...that the Zagreb mid-air collision over Croatia in 1976 was one of the deadliest mid-air collisions?
...that apart from cellmate George McKnight, U.S. Navy officer George Thomas Coker was the only POW to escape from the "Hanoi Hilton"?
...that New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?

...that the Khreschatyk is the main street of Ukrainian capital Kiev on which Orange Revolution and other historical events mainly took place? (Khreschatyk)
...that the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area, and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?
...that the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality?
...that the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?

...that there are many multi-headed animals in mythology and fiction, but there have also been numerous real animals that had two heads?
...that the fighter pilot Aleksandr Kazakov destroyed 32 German and Austro-Hungarian planes during WWI, while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian-held territory were officially counted?
...that the asteroid 7796 Járacimrman, discovered in 1996 on Kleť Observatory and named after the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman, proved to be the lost asteroid that had already been observed in 1973 on Brera-Merate Observatory in northern Italy?
...that the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets?

...that Albert Einstein's brain was preserved after his death, and has been used in debates about the correlation between neuroanatomy and genius? (Albert Einstein)
...that botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends?
...that Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in the England, built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533?
...that after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?

...that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"? (Lew Snowden from the Snowden Family Band)
...that Paul Posluszny, a linebacker for Penn State's football team, was recently named college football's best defensive player of the year?
...that Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
...that Drayton Hall, built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina, is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America?

...that Central Fire Station, the oldest existing fire station in Singapore, had only four portable water pumps when it was completed in 1908? (Image:Central Fire Station, Dec 05.JPG)
...that Henry Paget, known as "the dancing Marquess", inherited his peerage at the age of 23 and spent so much on clothes, jewelry and parties that he went bankrupt with debts of £544,000 at the age of 28?
...that the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?
...that Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur, and was huge for its time?

...that the Pentastomida are parasitic invertebrates commonly known as tongue worms because of their resemblance to vertebrate tongues? (Linguatula taenioides a tongue worm)
...that Rattlesnake James, the last man to be hanged in California, was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom?
...that Robin Williams' A Night at the Met won a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
...that Richard Butler and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia, respectively?

...that a palinode is a type of retraction poem championed by Chaucer? (Image:Geoffrey_Chaucer.jpeg)
...that although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket, only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
...that the same visual hallucinations of geometric patterns, known as form constants, are seen in near-death experiences, synesthesia, and drug-enduced hallucinatory visions?
...that Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?

...that the Marian column on which Our Lady stands on Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome originally supported the vault of the Basilica of Constantine at the Roman Forum and was the only one such column to survive the Basilica's destruction in an earthquake? (Marian column in Rome)
...that as part of Fukubukuro, a New Year's custom in Japan, merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
...that the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899?
...that Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?

...that using an orthotropic deck instead of a concrete deck reduced the mass of the Golden Gate Bridge by 11,160 metric tons? (The Golden Gate Bridge now has an orthotropic deck)
...that Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch?
...that Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs?
...that James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?

...that the Chickens War of 1537 was a protest in Kingdom of Poland, and it was named so by the victorious opposition, who claimed that the instigators only succeeded in nearly total consumption of chickens in Lesser Poland? (Image:Roast chicken.jpg)
...that the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
...that the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States?
...that James Sadleir was expelled from the British House of Commons in 1857 after helping his brother take £288,000 from the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, fled from justice, and ended up murdered in Geneva?

...that the campus of Michigan State University has 676 buildings, with a total of 2.073 million m² of floor space? (Image:MSU South Campus skyline.jpg)
...that Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
...that The Squirrels, Seattle-based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a "Stars on 45"-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz, which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
...that a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks?

...that the Sky Ride at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress carried 4.5 million fairgoers in "rocket cars" 60 m above ground, before being demolished in 1934? (Image:6a28300u Sky RideTower.png)
...that Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III?
...that Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
...that some scientists, in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges?

...that the Family Viewing Hour was mandated by the FCC to keep the earliest one hour in U.S. prime-time television "safe" for the entire family? (Image:Family Watching TV in the 1950s.jpg)
...that by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins?
...that Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001, even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
...that a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?

...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there? (Image:CGTunnel.jpg)
...that Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street, and is designed to increase family interactivity?
...that The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago will close on 28 February 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
...that the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia attempted unsuccessfully to build a railroad from Djibouti to Addis Ababa in the 1890s?

...that Wilson Peak in Colorado has been used in dozens of national and local advertising campaigns because of its charismatic and characteristically rugged mountain appearance? (Image:wilson peak cropped.jpg)
...that, in 1974, intruder Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House, prompting a review in security measures by the U.S. Secret Service?
...that Jöran Persson, King Eric XIV of Sweden's most trusted counselor, was executed by King John III of Sweden for his role in suppressing the nobility?
...the Stadion Graz-Liebenau in Austria was renamed after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California?

...that the Moika River in St Petersburg was originally spanned by four bridges only: the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, and the Red? (Image:Moika.jpg)
...that Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
...that PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia, Spain in 1997, as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
...that Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746?

...that the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots? (Image:Lennoxlove House.jpg)
...that ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany?
...that Garo Yepremian was voted as Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980?
...that the 13th-century Tale of the Greenlanders is one of the main sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas?

...that it was at Petersberg where the Bonn Agreement concerning Afghanistan was actually negotiated and signed? (Image:Petersberg.jpg)
...that Frank Ticheli is an American composer whose works have become particularly notable as standards in concert band repertoire?
...that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
...that Mifune Chizuko, a Japanese clairvoyant, was reported to have read messages written inside hidden envelopes?

...that the American Bridge Company, builders of four of the world's tallest buildings, was founded on land in Ambridge, Pennsylvania that was bought from the Harmony Society whose celibacy practice led to their decline? (Image:Sears tower orthogonal.jpg)
...that Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language?
...that several cases of interactions between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian authors?
...that veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century?

...that the Dunmore Pineapple was a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America? (Image:Dunmore pineapple north elevation.jpg)
...that Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?
...that the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire?
...that the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple?

...that Cassiobury Park is the principal amenity area of Watford, Hertfordshire, in England? (Image:Cassiobury park 1888.jpg)
...that Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
...that Rickard D. Gwydir, an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation?
...that the English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?

...that Italian Renaissance architect and stage designer Nicola Sabbatini discovered that the l'œil du prince ("the prince's eye") has the best perspective of the stage of any seat in a theater's audience? (Image:Oeil-du-prince.jpg)
...that the first Superman character in Superman's publication history, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, was not a hero, but a villain?
...that the Dunmore Pineapple was a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America? (Image:Dunmore pineapple north elevation.jpg)

...that Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?

...that the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire?

...that the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple? ...that Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris takes its name from an abbey where the Merovingian kings of France used to be interred?

...that the 1966 New York City transit strike at the start of the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay was led by the defiant Irish-born TWU founder Mike Quill, who was briefly jailed for leading the illegal strike, and died before the month was out?

...that sand festivals are held all over the world and not only on sandy beaches? (Image:Nn-003-kipling.jpg)
...that John Kemble, hanged in 1679 for his part in the Titus Oates plot, was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church?
...that a nineteenth century utopian socialist community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree now called the General Sherman tree, and named it after Karl Marx?
...that the song "Wildwood Flower" evolved from a 19th century parlor song called "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" and that the song was most famously performed by the Carter Family?

...that Khabarovsk Railway Bridge, the longest in Eurasia, was originally named Alekseyevsky after Tsesarevich Alexis? (Image:Amurbridge.jpg)
...that Dan Brown's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
...that a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
...that electrogas welding is an arc welding process commonly used in the shipbuilding industry?

...that Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac sponsored the construction of Pažaislis monastery, one of the finest examples of baroque architecture in Lithuania? (Image:Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac.jpg)
...that a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei?
...that while the Berber scholar Arsène Roux of France collected and studied an enormous amount of Sous Berber texts and manuscripts, almost nothing from his scholarly work actually saw publication during his lifetime?
...that the defeat of the Welsh army in the Battle of Orewin Bridge effectively ended the independence of medieval Wales?

...that Cavenagh Bridge, the only suspension bridge in Singapore, was originally designed as a drawbridge but on its completion in 1869 was found to be suitable only as a fixed structure, and is now a pedestrian bridge? (Image:Cavenagh Bridge 6, Dec 05.JPG)
...that forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II?
...that in 1994, Greg Landry was a key reason why Illinois had the second-best passing offense in the Big Ten, which eventually carried the team to a 30-0 win in the Liberty Bowl over East Carolina, the school’s first bowl appearance in 16 seasons?
...that dead yellow patches in suburban Australian lawns are often the work of Christmas beetle larvae?

...that the Nativity Church at Putinki was the last pyramidal church constructed in Muscovite Russia? Image:Putinki.jpg
...that the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws?
...that the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence?
...that the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa?

...that Francis Wayland Parker, creator of the Quincy Plan and founder of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, was called the "father of progressive education" by American educational reformer John Dewey? (Image:Francis W Parker.jpg)
...that the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
...that the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division?
...that David Tweed is an Australian share market trader who has attempted to purchase shares from small investors for less than the market price?

...that the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the World Heritage List as "one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of Central European Baroque artistic expression"? (Image:Holy Trinity Column.jpg)
...that Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
...that the Kanembu, an ethnic group of Chad, are generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire?
...the chess Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann is one of the world's leading experts on the French Defence?

...that the doshpuluur is a two-stringed lute of Tuva commonly used to accompany throat singing? (Image:Doshpuluur.png)
...that the National Museum of Mali is housed in a traditional mud brick structure?
...that Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934, and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture?
...that California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities?

...that Palace Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is lifted every night, making communication between the downtown and Vasilievsky Island virtually impossible?(Image:Sankt Petersburg Dworzowy-Bridge 2005 b.jpg)
...that the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu—literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet—for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear?
...that a violent incident at Pont-de-Montvert in the Cévennes, July 24, 1702, sparked the rebellion of the French Protestant Camisards?
...that the Adrar des Ifoghas, a sandstone massif in Mali's Kidal Region, is half the size of France?

...that the American photographer Arthur Rothstein is famous mostly for his photographs of Gee's Bend in Alabama, a poor African American tenant community? (Image:Pettway home.jpg)
...that French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard?
...that string instruments are bowed, plucked, or have their strings struck, with three exceptions : the Aeolian harp uses air movement, the Hurdy gurdy a rotating wheel and for Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument it will take rosined hands?
...that it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge, which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow?

...that prior to the construction of the Colonial Building the first legislative assembly for the Newfoundland government was held at a tavern and lodging house owned and operated by a Mrs. Travers? (Image:Colonial riot 500.jpg)
...that John Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles?
...that Steadicam camera magazines are specially designed with a pair of moving spindles that gradually change position as the film rolls through the camera in order to maintain a steady center of gravity?
...that Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli, pasha of Tripoli, declared war on the United States in 1801 by ordering the flagpole of Tripoli's United States consulate cut down?

...that the Château de Lusignan, now in ruins, was so impressive that a 14th-century legend credited its construction to a water faery, Melusine—as a love-gift? (Image:Les_Très_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_mars.jpg
...that broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
...that Seattle-based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States, after Williams-Sonoma?
...that John Surma is the president and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation?

...that Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was only twenty-eight years old when he helped found Pan American World Airways?
...that the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and design represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millenium? Image:Pan Am 747 LAX.jpg
...that the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica?
...that Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain?

...that Huangshan Pines are venerated in China for their unique rugged shapes, and are frequently portrayed in traditional Chinese paintings?(Image:Huang shan resa huangshan6.JPG)
...that Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson, won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella?
...that there are more than 100 nature reserves in Russia, which cover an area of about 33 million hectares?
...that Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?

...that Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco? Image:Aït Benhaddou, a Kasbah.JPG
...that Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
...that the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed?
...that the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital, from taxes?

...that the Cave Bath of Miskolc, Hungary is an unusual thermal bath with low salt content, in a natural cave, that allows people to take a bath for a longer time? (Image:Mtapolca_cave_bath_entrance.jpg)
...that the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé, Togo, for the first 50 years after its inception?
...that the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?
...that the Russian Byzantine historian Alexander Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to defect in 1925?

...that the La Tour d'Auvergne family held three ducal titles in the Peerage of France - those of Duc de Bouillon, Duc d'Albret, and Duc de Chateau-Thierry? (Image:Bouillonarms.jpg)
...that Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
...that the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant, compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta?
...that as a child, B.A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer?

...that you can find the acceleration and the displacement of a moving object by analyzing its velocity vs. time graph? (Image:Velocity vs time graph.PNG)
...that the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?
...that the John Lennon song "Beautiful Boy" features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué?
...that the earliest known patrilineal ancestors of the Romanov Dynasty of Russian tsars were a certain boyar Andrei, nicknamed "The Mare," and his son Fyodor, nicknamed "The Cat"?

...that the Don Cossack rebel Stenka Razin was quartered alive at the Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow on June 6, 1671? (Image:Lobnoye.jpg)
...that the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was launched to secure oil for Britain and provide a route for Lend-Lease supplies desperately needed by the Soviet Union during World War II?
...that soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
...that the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions, described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions?

...that Christopher Columbus's journal is housed in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, in a building by Juan de Herrera that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site? (Image:Cathedral and Archivo de Indias - Seville.jpg)
...that Frisian literature refers to written works produced in West Frisian, a language spoken primarily in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands?
...that the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolo Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?
...that in an effort to generate listenership for his Top-40 radio station WHB, owner Todd Storz coordinated a treasure hunt that caused traffic tie-ups across the Kansas City metropolitan area?

...that according to Noongar culture, the Wagyl is a snake-like Dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning Rivers and other waterways around present-day Perth and the southwest of Western Australia? (Image:Swan River Map.png)
...that Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis?
...that the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
...that the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson, who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind?

...that the Soviet singer Lidiya Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942? (Image:Ruslanova.jpg)
...that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there?
...that Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829?
...that Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena?

... that according to legend, the Teufelstritt (Devil's Footstep), in the Munich Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany, marks the spot where the devil stood when he thought that the builder had constructed a cathedral with no windows? (Image:Frauenkirche München.jpg)
...that the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland?
...that in the mid-fourth millennium BC, at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria, hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
...that in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?

...that the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was the first entirely air-conditioned modern office building on record? (Image:LarkinAdministrationBuilding1906.jpg)
...that the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942?
...that the United States Air Force does not own the copyright to its official service song, "The U.S. Air Force"?
...that Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally?

...that the Russian puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov owned one of the largest collections of puppets in the world? (Image:Obraztsov.jpg)
...that after the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California, the archbishop resigned?
...that the Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk?
...that Thomas Vorster, an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa, was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto?

...that Junípero Serra and Juan María de Salvatierra have both been called "the apostle of California," for their work establishing Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California, respectively? (Image:Juan María de Salvatierra.JPG)
...that the Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman?
...that of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles?
...that in 1977, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns?

...that Momotus is a genus of green and blue birds with raquet-shaped tails? (Image:Blue-crowned Motmot back 2.jpg)
...that the submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige?
...that Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season?
...that the Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England?
...that Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?
...that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?

...that there have been many castaways both in fiction and on real desert islands? (Image:Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday Offterdinger.jpg)
...that Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent?
...that leaders of Workers Resistance, a Trotskyist group in Ukraine, set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?
...that The Clash's song "English Civil War," warning against the rise of far right groups in Britain, was adapted from a popular American Civil War song?

...that Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to a government in Australia? (Image:Edith Cowan.jpg)
...that the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon?
...that flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
...that on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
...that Baltimore, Maryland has a permanent Rumor Control Center?

...that Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen would wiggle the wings of his plane to identify himself to children below? (Image:Gail-halvorsen-wiggly-wings.jpg)
...that selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps, defined by UNECE Regulations, and that it was designed to improve vision and reduce glare by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light?
...that Senegalese marabout Mahmadu Lamine was executed by French soldiers for leading an 1886 rebellion against the French colonial government?
...that 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?

...that the little borgo of Settignano, near Florence, Italy, was the birthplace of four sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance— Desiderio da Settignano, Bernardo Rossellino, Antonio Rossellino and Bartolomeo Ammanati? (Image:Telemaco Signorini 001.jpg)
...that the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. was an African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years before being rededicated last year?
...that the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales of the Mexican-American War occured after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was already signed?
...that the New Testament's "camel passing through the eye of a needle" is an example of adynaton, an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?

...that Robert E. Brown was the ethnomusicologist credited with coining the term "world music"? (Image:RobertEBrown.jpg)
...that the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965?
...that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
...that the song "The Show Must Go On" by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May, and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?

...that Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, founder of the United States Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team, chose the name based on a nightclub advertisement in The New Yorker magazine? (Image:Butch Voris 1941 Flight Training Oakland CA.jpg
...that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
...that Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U.S. hurricane strike since 1825?
...that the Gleason score is a measure of how different prostate cancer cells are from normal cells?

...that the island of Pseira, off the coast of Crete, has an archaeological history from the end of the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with Minoan ruins being the most studied? (Image:Minoan Crete.png)
...that César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team?
...that Felipe Pinglo Alva is known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla, and is best known for his often covered song "El Plebeyo"?
...that Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A.D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy?
...that Steve Steen was given a role in the movie version of Porridge, but his character did not say anything during the film?

...that the mattenklopper was used not only for cleaning rugs, but also for spanking naughty children on the buttocks, leaving behind a distinctive pattern? (Image:Mattenklopper.jpg)
...that Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
...that during World War II, the United States developed Who me?, a top secret stench weapon designed to humiliate German officers?
...that The Clash's single "Complete Control" was actually produced by famed dub and reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry?

...that the Battle of Gingindlovu showed for the first time that the British Army could defeat the Zulu tactics that had wiped them out at the famous Battle of Isandlwana? (Image:Ginginpainting.jpg)
...that sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers?
...that footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
...that the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet?
...that Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall?

...that the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat is a manuscript of medieval music made in a Catalan monastery for pilgrims to sing? (Image:Mariam matrem virginem.jpg
...that prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer?
...that Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record?
...that Jack Jouett, known as the "Paul Revere of the South", saved Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders in Virginia by warning them of a British cavalry raid meant to capture them?

...that St Martin Orgar, a church in the City of London most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, was all but destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666? (image:St_Martin_Orgar.jpg)
...that Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike, but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
...that Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
...that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation?

...that Bangor Cathedral in North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation? (Bangor Cathedral)
...that the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
...that Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising?
...that Socks was one of Bill Clinton's two pets while President of the United States?

...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"? (right|100px|St Leonard's, Shoreditch)
...that geographical renaming can take place to change the name of a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal?
...that a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School massacre?
...that fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?

...that the Bowery Theatre in New York City was burnt down five times in 17 years? (right|100px)
...that the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta?
...that Jaja, one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria, began his life as a slave in Bonny?
...that Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League?

...that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of electric Christmas lights and is derived from an English tradition of placing lighted candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a special event? ((right|100px))
...that invasion literature, such as The War of the Worlds, was a literary genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I?
...that Come Out by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder?
...that the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket?

...that over 50 parents contacted Gonzaga University's athletic department on the first day that a Sports Illustrated issue featuring a story on Gonzaga basketball player Adam Morrison and his life with Type 1 diabetes was available at retail outlets? (right|100px)
...that the Baldock Beer Disaster occurred on March 14, 1904 when an unstable storage room floor collapsed at the Simpson Brewery, in what is now the Twitchell, in the North Hertfordshire town of Baldock?
...that Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986?
...that the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008?

...that George W. Atherton served as president of the Pennsylvania State University for 24 years and is buried on the university's main campus? (right|100px)
...that Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957?
...that the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal's Expo 67 world's fair?
...that F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?

...that Nadezhda Durova was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars, started as a private in 1807 and retired with the rank of stabs-rotmistr in 1816? (right|100px)
...that silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of silica, the second most common mineral on earth's crust?
...that a sheriff officer is an officer of the Scottish Sheriff Court, responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders within the area of their commission?
...that Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878?

...that Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, New York was the historic 353-acre estate of Gilded Age millionaire William R. Coe?
...that the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology? ((100px|right|Planting Fields, estate of William R. Coe, Oyster Bay, New York))
...that the genera Bergerocactus and Bergeranthus are named after Alwin Berger, a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti?
...that a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, directly elected by citizens of member countries, has been proposed by legislators in an effort to counter the influence of the World Trade Organization and other unelected international bodies?

...that Lake Nockamixon is the start of a whitewater kayaking course going through northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania? (100px|right|Nockamixon dam)
...that as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United States using the electric chair?
...that Amos Urban Shirk was a prodigious reader of encyclopedias?
...that during the Indian Independence Movement, Tanguturi Prakasam bared his chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was respected with the epithet of Andhra Kesari (Lion of Andhra)?
...that A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person?

...that Typhoon Vamei formed only 92 nautical miles north of the equator, a record at the time? (100px|right|Typhoon Vamei)
...that the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principals?
...that Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and co-author of the definitive Language of Psycho-Analysis, is also an accomplished vintner?
...that Beau Sia, a perennial Nuyorican Poets Cafe favorite, first discovered slam poetry through MTV as a teenager?

...that the Schmidt-Pechan prism is a type of roof prism used for image erection in binoculars? (100px|right|Schmidt-Pechan prism)
...that Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage?
...that the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans?
...that Badruddin Amiruldin is a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia who has told those who oppose Malaysia's status as an Islamic theocracy to leave the country?

...that according to Breton folklore, not completing the 600km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemned their soul to repeating an equivalent length tour every seven years from within their coffin.
...that the first Intercolonial cricket match in Australia was played in Launceston, Tasmania between players from Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land in February 1851? (120px|right|Melbourne Cricket Ground, 1st January 1864)
...that a condenser is used to condense steam from a steam turbine to obtain maximum efficiency?
...that Samuel Andrews (1836-1904) was a English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capitol to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and formation of the Standard Oil companies?
...that Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola?

...that Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwest United States? (100px|right|Aztec calendar stone)
...that Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was the final show on which the comic partnership of Robert Newman and David Baddiel worked together before going their separate ways?
...that the parents of Rachel Whitear allowed a photograph of her dead body to be used in a campaign against heroin?
...that at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?

...that polydactyl cats, with extra toes as a genetic trait, were long considered good luck by many sailors, as the cats' extraordinary climbing and hunting skills were helpful in controlling shipboard rodents? (Image:Tootsie a polydactyl cat in Virginia.jpg)
...that the video for the Tori Amos single "Silent All These Years" is #98 on Rolling Stone 's top 100 videos of all time?
...that fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing"?
...that the wedding of the parents of Anne of Cleves took place at Schloss Burg, now the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia?
...that Tana Umaga is the only player to have played in the very first games of the Super 12 and the Super 14?