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- ...that bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
- ... that silent E is a convention in English spelling added to the ends of words, that makes short vowels long?
- ... that until it was looted in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople?
- ... that in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel, the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third?
- ...that Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he combined high living with communist propaganda?