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Did you know...
- ...that Marie Louise Élisabeth (pictured), later Duchess of Parma, was the eldest child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, had a younger twin sister of Henriette, was one of only two of Louis' children to be married, the other being her brother, Louis, dauphin de France?
- ...that the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States?
- ...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?
- ...that the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
- ...that the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church?
- ...that Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (pictured) kept her morganatic marriage secret from her father, Nicholas I of Russia, until his death in 1855?
- ...that the Greek colony of Phanagoria in present-day Russia was the seat of the last Bosporan kings, the capital of Great Bulgaria, and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II?
- ...that John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?
- ...that Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula?
- ...that before Newton's law of universal gravitation, the universe was thought to have an absolute centre called the Central Fire towards which that all objects must fall?
- ...that Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?
- ...that Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?
- ...that the Temple of Harmony, built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst, Somerset, England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome?
- ...that Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
- ...that Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season?
- ...that the National Liberal Party-Brătianu, created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania, became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
- ...that a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper?
- ...that the Dutch Reformed Church, (pictured) a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision?
- ...that Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reversed effect?
- ...that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
- ...that actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character in the 2004 film Shallow Ground that is naked for the duration of the film?
- ...that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?
- ...that the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France and England?
- ...that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
- ...that the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne (picture) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?
- ...that "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
- ...that Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
- ...that the expression "simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife?
- ...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
- ...that "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
- ..that The Drifters' hit "Under the Boardwalk" was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
- ...that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
- ...that the Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn, was inspired by the famous cave off of Scotland?
- ...that The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy?
- ...that Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
- ...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage (pictured Image:Barrel House.jpg) have the lowest ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
- ...that the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
- ...that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
- ...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
- ...that the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
- ...that Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
- ...that it is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
- ...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest erased in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
- ...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
- ...that the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
- ...that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California?
- ...that the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré (pictured) created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
- ...that the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?
- ...that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
- ...that when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan, the colour roan, or the town Rouen?
- ...that Blair Cherry was the first high-school coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
- ...that Carl Westman (pictured) was one of the first Swedish architects to design according to the Nordic National Romantic Style?
- ...that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the Indian city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave the country India on at least one occasion?
- ...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
- ...that the most important source for early Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
- ...that the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921?
- ...that the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning, but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?
- ...that during World War II, Château de Valençay (pictured) housed the statues Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo?
- ...that, according to Eastman Kodak, the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?
- ... that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?
- ...that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was Chinook jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
- ...that when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
- ...that at 49, Douglas A. Warner III was the youngest ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.?
- ...that the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a handsome fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General (pictured), was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution?
- ...that Channa, a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha, became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood, and was frequently chastised for his arrogance?
- ...that George II of Moscow was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River?
- ...that the cry For your freedom and ours, one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
- ...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s? Dincher 00:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Princess Marie Adélaïde (pictured), the fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, died in exile in 1800 having outlived all nine of her siblings?
- ...that Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
- ...that Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
- ...that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway, once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City, instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania?
- ...that the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars?
- ...that Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?
- ...that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen (pictured) died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
- ...that a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999?
- ...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans?
- ...that "Splice the mainbrace" is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum?
- ...that the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton?
- ...that the exploitation film Mom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
- ...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
- ...that if the 2005 Azores subtropical storm (pictured), identified by the NHC in post-season reanalysis, had been named then Hurricane Wilma would have been named "Hurricane Alpha"?
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- ...that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
- ...that through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmiited to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
- ...that August Zaleski, president of the Polish government in Exile, refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three?
- ...that William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
- ...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
- ...that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
- ...that Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war while he was a POW in those camps?
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