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...that
Gatke Hall (
pictured ) , a former
post office , was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at
Willamette University ?
...that the founding of
Phenomena Research Australia , in response to a surge of
unidentified flying object sightings in
1947 , was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
...that
Marilee Jones , the disgraced former dean of
admissions at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology , was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by
the New York Times ?
...that until the discovery of the
Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work
Against Heresies was the best surviving description of
Gnosticism ?
...that
poet
Anna Williams ' s works include the whimsically titled On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
...that the
avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been
introduced by humans?
...that the
Achelous -class repair ship
USS Atlas (
pictured ) was used to repair damaged
landing craft after
D-Day in 1944?
...that a special kind of
soil from
Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making
Bidriware , a
metal
handicraft of
Karnataka ,
India ?
...that
United States Senator
Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by
Representative
Preston Brooks in the
Old Senate Chamber of the
United States Capitol ?
...that
maize was the staple of
Aztec cuisine , and that
maguey worms ,
spirulina and
corn smut were popular
Aztec foods?
...that the
low alcohol beer
Buckler was taken out of the market in the
Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by
comedian
Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
...that
orographic rainfall, one of the three
types of rainfall , is caused when cool air is forced upward by
mountains to form
clouds which then produce rain?
...that
Company style paintings (
example pictured ) were made by
Indian artists for patrons from the
British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
...that
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 's oldest churches and a prime example of the '
Polish Cathedral ' style?
...that nomadic
eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
...that
Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern
architecture ?
...that ten
case forms can be traced in the
Lithuanian language , seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
...that
Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimwehr , a
fascist organization in
Switzerland , because he advocated an
annexation by
Italy ?
...that the
Brown Rock Chat sometimes
nests in the rafters of inhabited
houses ?
...that
Japanese painter
Takeuchi Seihō (
work pictured ) was one of the first to receive Japan's
Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
...that
Copadichromis borleyi is a type of
mouthbrooding fish endemic to
Lake Malawi in
East Africa ?
...that the first Director of
Singapore 's
Commercial Affairs Department ,
Glenn Knight , was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for
corruption ?
...that a
British submarine flotilla dominated the
Baltic Sea for a major part of
WWI , but the loss of the
Socialists in the
Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside
Helsinki ?
...that the term "
a feather in your cap " comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon
warriors or
hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
...that the
teponaztli (
pictured ) is an
Aztec wooden
slit drum ?
...that
Fort Antes in what is now
Nippenose Township ,
Pennsylvania , survived a
scorched earth attack during the
American Revolutionary War , despite having been
abandoned by its defenders?
...that
Chitrakala Parishat , an art institution and a cultural organization in
Bangalore , was the brainchild of famous
Russian painter
Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
...that
Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
...that
Copadichromis borleyi is a type of
mouthbrooding fish endemic to
Lake Malawi in
East Africa ?
...that no two of the more than 1000 windows in the
Waldspirale residential complex (
pictured ) in
Darmstadt ,
Germany are identical?
...that the people of the
Bronze Age
Elp culture (in the present-day
Netherlands ) lived in
longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
...that
MANual Enterprises v. Day
370 U.S. 478 (
1962 ) was the first case in which the
Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a
Post Office Department order holding
obscene materials "nonmailable"?
...that the
Arab Socialist Action Party , the main
secular opposition group in
Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
...that
William Firmatus , a
Norman
hermit , is said to have led a
wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to
fast for the night in a solitary cell?
...that
Mormon leader
Charles Shreeve Peterson (
pictured ) was the first settler of
Utah 's
Morgan Valley ?
...that the
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime
draft in the
United States ?
...that
Philip Whistler Street was a
Chief Justice on the
Supreme Court of
New South Wales ,
Australia -- as were his son
Kenneth and his grandson
Laurence ?
...that the
Common Skullcap , a
perennial plant found throughout
Eurasia , is traditionally used as a mild
sedative ?
...that the
Potawatomi , a tribe of
Native Americans , were evicted from land near
Indiana ’s
Yellow River less than six years after
tribal chiefs signed a
treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
...that the
Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate
Lutheran missionary agencies?
...that the
Ibirapuera Auditorium (
pictured ) in
São Paulo ,
Brazil , features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
...that 18% of all deaths occuring in
automobile accidents are the result of
traumatic aortic ruptures ?
...that
Gaetano Donizetti 's
opera
Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
...that Dr.
Andrew Rochford , a presenter on the popular
Australian television show
What's Good For You , got his break after he won the popular show
The Block ?
...that the ideology of the
Romanian
National Renaissance Front has been described as "
operetta
fascism "?
...that according to
Ronald Enroth 's book
Churches That Abuse , "
spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound,
Bible -preaching,
fundamentalist , conservative
Christianity "?
...that
Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look," a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of
gay pornography which dominated the genre through the
1980s ?
...that the
pedestal of the
The Bronze Horseman (
pictured ) is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
...that the port of
Kuala Belait , one of the two ports in
Brunei , is located in
Kampong Sungai Duhon ?
...that
Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator
John André while living on
Sugarloaf Hill , from which he then fled?
...that
Japanese painter
Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of
Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
...that participants in the
Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
...that
Jim Hutchinson , who died in 2000, was the longest-lived
first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
...that
Edward R. Bradley was the preeminent owner and
breeder of
Thoroughbred
racehorses in the
Southern United States during the early 20th century?
...that the
attack transport
USS Bayfield (
pictured ) served as headquarters for planning the
D-Day landings on "
Utah Beach " in 1944?
...that there are 618 species of
birds in Belize ?
...that the
Zambian district of
Chiengi has no
television or
telephone service?
...that American
comic book artist
Art Saaf also made
storyboards for
The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated
Highlights for Children ?
...that the
Institute of National Remembrance , a Polish
research institute on modern
Polish history , has been in a center of recent
Polish politics ?
...that the
Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest
suicide bombing in
Israeli history up until that time?
...that when
Reprise Records signed 17-year-old
Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
...that the
Oxtotitlán
grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of
Olmec culture paintings (
pictured ) ?
...that
ceramics expert
Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of
glazes ?
...that the enrollment rate of girls in
schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all
Middle Eastern countries?
...that
gay pornographic
film director
Scott Masters directed more than 100
loops before founding his own company,
Nova Studios ?
...that more than one million
Koreans
moved to Arab countries
and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
...that nearly 3 million
rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of
Kannada cinema actor
Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
...that the
Japanese diplomat
Tatsuo Kawai (
pictured ) was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
...that the 1914
comic strip
Abie the Agent , the first American comic with a
Jewish
protagonist , has been called the first
adult comic ?
...that
Kveldulf Bjalfasson , a ninth-century
Norwegian landowner and grandson of the
Viking
Egill Skallagrímsson , was reputed to be an
ulfhéðinn or
werewolf ?
...that
Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US
Shredded Wheat operations to
General Foods , and the international Shredded Wheat operations to
General Mills ?
...that between her marriage to
Marcus Garvey and her relationship with
President of Liberia
William Tubman ,
Pan-Africanist activist
Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on
London 's
Carnaby Street ?
...that a
cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals (
pictured ) ?
...that
reification is a
logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a
living being are attributed to an
abstract concept ?
...that
Whistling Kites in
Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in
New Guinea are principally
scavengers ?
...that the
Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by
boulders from
blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no
playground ?
...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile
Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with
Kasuti embroidery being one of them?