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...that the heart of
Buddhist
monk
Thich Quang Duc (pictured ) remained intact after his
self-immolation in response to the religious policies of
South Vietnam 's
Ngo Dinh Diem , leading Buddhists to regard him as a
bodhisattva ?
...that
militia
company commander
John Giles Adams may have been
killed by his own men during the 1832
Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
...that
Singaporean anime distributor
Odex is
asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
...that the
Latécoère 611 , a
reconnaissance
flying boat for the
Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the
Free French after the
Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942
...that
Nireah Johnson , a
transgender woman, was murdered by Paul Moore after Moore discovered Johnson was a biological male?
...that
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the
Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both
licensed and unlicensed versions?
...that following the
militia victory at the 1832
Battle of Horseshoe Bend (
battlefield pictured ) men under Colonel
Henry Dodge
scalped the eleven dead
Kickapoo warriors?
...that
Major League Baseball for
Nintendo was the first ever
video game
licensed by the
MLB ?
...that the
42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912 and fought both on the
Eastern and
Western Fronts of
World War I , was the last regular division created in the
Imperial German Army ?
...that when
John Kuester became head men's
basketball coach at
Boston University , he was the youngest head coach in
NCAA
Division I ?
...that
Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private
collections of
meteorites to
Texas Christian University ?
...that the location of
William D. Brown 's
Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of
Omaha, Nebraska , was lost to historians until 2004?
...that
Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first
American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated
Cincinnati May Festival ?
...that in 1991
Heinz Barth , former
Obersturmführer in the
Waffen-SS , was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for
war crimes for involvement in the
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944 ?
...that the tower of
Paul Rudolph 's
The Concourse (
pictured ) is
octagonal in plan, as the number "8" is associated with
prosperity in
Chinese culture ?
...that the early settlers of
Savanna, Illinois fended off a
Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the
Plum River raid ?
...that
Bob McGrory managed the
English
football team
Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
...that
Erik Chisholm , former
dean and director of the
South African College of Music at the
University of Cape Town , was a
Scottish
musician often known as "
Scotland ’s forgotten composer"?
...
Cable 243 by the
Kennedy administration , which authorised preparations for a
coup against
South Vietnam 's
Ngo Dinh Diem , came after
Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?
...that the
Malinta Tunnel (
pictured ) , a bomb-proof
bunker on the island of
Corregidor in the
Philippines , was constructed by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and lined with
concrete bought from the
Japanese ?
...that the
Zip to Zap , originally intended as a 1969
spring break alternative in
Zap, North Dakota , was the only
riot quelled by the
National Guard in the history of
North Dakota ?
...that
Albert F. A. L. Jones , awarded the
Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to
astronomy , is an
amateur astronomer in
New Zealand ?
...that causing a
stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for
hackers to gain unauthorized access to a
computer ?
...that
William Joseph Snelling , one of the first
American
realists , wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of
Plains Indians ?
...that
Lutgardis (
pictured ) is reported as having
levitated and dripped
blood from her forehead when
entranced ?
...that
Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832
Isaiah Stillman -led debacle at the
Battle of Stillman's Run ?
...that
matron literature is also known as hen lit , a play on the notion that it is
chick lit for older women?
...that under
Archbishop
Alwyn Rice Jones , the
Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the
ordination of
women priests and to allow
divorcees to remarry in church?
...that, despite being relatively small compared to other members of its genus, the
Black Hawk-Eagle feeds on animals such as
monkeys and
toucans ?
...that
Byron's
poem
Darkness was written based on predictions that the
sun would burn out on
July 18
1816 ?
...that, in
1906 ,
Durham Stevens (
pictured ) predicted the approximate date of the
annexation of Korea by Japan ?
...that as a result of the 1832
Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of
Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to
Galena, Illinois ?
...that the
Bulldog Bash , one of the largest
motorcycle festivals in
Europe , was originally organized by the
Hells Angels motorcycle club for
bikers ?
...that
Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the
Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
...that
Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination
medical hospital and
psychiatric hospital in
North America ?
...that
Socrates , the last defender of
orality in
ancient Greece , denounced
writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the
mind , the
memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?
...that
Jewish
Croatian sculptor
Oscar Nemon settled in
England , and is best known for his many public statues of
Sir Winston Churchill (
example pictured )?
...that dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special
corpse roads ?
...that the
tiyanak is an infant-like creature from
Philippine mythology that is said to attack tourists with its fangs and claws?
...that the
Black Hawk Tree in
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was so
revered that it grew from the middle of a road without being cut down?
...that the lament of
Jheronimus Vinders on the death of
Josquin des Prez has been used for a computer game in modern times?
...that the
Spanish Paralympic
basketball team were stripped of their
gold medals from the
2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players
did not have a disability ?
...that
U.S. Senator
Carl Hayden (
pictured ) once used an
Apperson Jack Rabbit to pursue and capture two
train robbers ?
...that the first
Festival of the Flowers in
Medellín ,
Colombia took place on May 1, 1957 but was moved to August in 1958 to celebrate the independence of
Antioquia ?
...that the
Top 14 competition in
French
rugby union will test a change to the sport's
bonus point system in the upcoming
2007-08 season ?
...that the
Double Seven Day scuffle refers to a fight in
Saigon in 1963 between
South Vietnamese
secret police and journalists covering the
Buddhist crisis ?
...that 19th century
American poet
Thomas Holley Chivers accused his former friend
Edgar Allan Poe of
plagiarizing "
The Raven " and "
Ulalume " from his own work?
...that the landscape architecture design projects of
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (
pictured ) reads like a guide to the
National Park Service -managed sites of
Washington, D.C. :
National Mall ,
Jefferson Memorial ,
White House grounds, and
Rock Creek Park ?
...that, in 1964,
J. N. L. Baker ,
Bursar of
Jesus College, Oxford became the first member of the
University of Oxford to hold the post of
Lord Mayor of
Oxford ?
...that
plant morphology is the
science of the physical form and external structure of
plants ?
...that the
Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only successful
Italian campaign of
World War II without
German support?
...that 19th century
U.S. Congressman
Thomas D. English had an ongoing feud with
Edgar Allan Poe , which inspired "
The Cask of Amontillado "?
...that in
1924
Baptist minister
Herbert Dunnico became the first British
Labour Party
Member of Parliament (MP) to vote against a Labour government?
...a four-year old boy
lama visiting
Singapore 's
Amitabha Buddhist Centre caused a stir when over 10,000 people from all walks of life, including some
Christians and
Hindus , sought
blessings from him?
...one reason for the
African Wild Dog name controversy is that endangered African Wild Dogs are being confused with feral domestic dogs?
...that
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem “
Kubla Khan ” drew inspiration from
Mary Wollstonecraft 's (
pictured )
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark ?
...that with
Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the
Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians,
half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
... that the
Salvation Army officer ,
Sir Arthur McIlveen , was known for playing a
phonograph in the battlefields of
World War II , and was the unofficial
padre to many
brigades ?
...that the
Apple River Fort near
Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the
Black Hawk War of 1832 ?
...that
Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the
High Court of Australia ?
...that
Antonio Bagioli , musical director for one of the first Italian
opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to
Cuba ?
...that the
Amman Message was a statement issued by
King Abdullah II of
Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the
Muslim world ?
...that American
pool player
Jimmy Wetch (
pictured ) gave up life as a
road player and went pro after he was robbed of his winnings at gunpoint in 1993?
...that the six
permutations of the
vector (1,2,3) form a
hexagon in
3d space , the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a
truncated octahedron in
four dimensions , and both are examples of
permutohedra ?
...that
Rangayana is the only
repertory in India that is sponsored by the government?
...that the
Protector lock , a
lock design by
A. C. Hobbs , which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
...that
Vasanta Habba , an annual cultural event organised by
Nrityagram in
Bangalore , is considered to be the classical
Woodstock of
India ?
...that
chess
grandmaster
Yasser Seirawan invented a new
chess variant in
2007 ,
Seirawan chess , which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk ?
...that
Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called
Balfour Castle , then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
...that
Theudimer who signed the
Treaty of Orihuela with the
Moors conquering Spain was the same
Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the
Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?
...that
portal hypertensive gastropathy , (
example pictured ) a condition seen in patients with
liver cirrhosis , makes the surface of the
stomach look like the skin of a
snake ?
...that
Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate
Military Cross in
Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of
Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
...that
Epiphanius ,
Bishop of
Pavia from
466 to
496 , often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
...that advocates for
pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a
pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during
labor and delivery ?
...that
Czech
amateur astronomer
Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40
extragalactic
supernovae ?
...that the
Golden Mile Complex (
pictured ) , which was designed as an
avant-garde building with a stepped terrace structure, was once described as a "vertical
slum " by a
Singapore
Nominated Member of Parliament ?
...that
epistemology questions how we know, while
agnotology questions why we do not know?
...that the use of
Congreve rockets during the bombardment of
Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the
U.S.
National Anthem , the
Star-Spangled Banner ?
...that
Prabhat Kalavidaru , a
theatre group based in
Bangalore has performed the
fairytale ,
Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that few artists have acted in each of those performances?