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...that the
African pompano (
pictured ) , a
tropical
marine
game fish , is not a
pompano , but belongs to the
genus
Alectis ?
...that only three of the
largest islands of the United States – the
Big Island of
Hawaii ,
Kodiak Island , and
Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000
square miles (8,000
km² ) in size?
...that descendants of
Betsy Mix Cowles 's brother Edwin founded
Cowles Publishing Company , the
Cowles Commission for Research in Economics , and the
Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company ?
...that at
King of the Ring 1998 ,
Mick Foley was thrown head first off a
sixteen foot high cell onto a table by
The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in
professional wrestling ?
...that the
Spiral Q Puppet Theater in
Philadelphia uses
puppetry ,
street theatre and
pageantry to promote
social and
political change?
...that
Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart
fortress and a trading center built in
Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the
14th Century ?
...that
José María Campo Serrano became
President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?
...that the
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (
pictured ) in
Spain is reputed to be the first
church dedicated to Mary through history?
...that the
hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by
Emperor Hirohito of
Japan in honor of a fellow
marine biologist ,
Frederick Bayer ?
...that visual evidence of the
installation of
Soviet missiles in
Cuba which triggered the
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in
reconnaissance photographs by
CIA
analysts led by
Arthur C. Lundahl ?
...that the
rent control program in New York State is
America's longest-running?
...that
Michael G. Strain is
Louisiana 's first elected
Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
...that the
Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a
summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
...that
Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first
Deputy Commissioner of the
Solomon Islands Protectorate , and then convinced the
High Commissioner to sign it?
...that the
music video for "
Passenger " featured the members of
Powderfinger being eaten by a
whale -like creature, whilst packed in
suitcases ?
...that
Culbone Church (
pictured ) is the smallest
English
parish church still holding services?
...that
Raspberry Island in the
Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest
Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
...that the
Heller House marked a turning point in
Frank Lloyd Wright 's shift to
Prairie School architecture?
...that
Sumitro was a prominent
Indonesian General in the early years of General
Suharto 's
New Order , but retired after student riots in
Jakarta in 1974?
...that the
1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest
natural disaster in
Australian history, causing over
A$ 1.7 billion in insured damages?
...that the unusual Mexican ball game of
pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of
real tennis ?
...that the
Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in
Portland, Oregon was constructed in the
parking lot of the
Memorial Coliseum ?
...that the
Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few
lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by
charger clips ?
...that in 2002,
Devon and
Cornwall set up
a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting
pubs along the route?
...that a 120-year old
Bodhi tree (
pictured ) in
Jin Long Si Temple , standing over 30
m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in
Singapore ?
...that the chief suspect in the 1919
Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the victim's
bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless
acquitted ?
...that
scientific jury selection is used by some U.S.
attorneys in high-stakes cases?
...that the book
This Is Not The Life I Ordered , co-authored by former
California State Senator
Jackie Speier , has twice reached the
San Francisco Chronicle
best seller list?
...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the
Ouimetoscope , was created in
1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
...that
Chris Cosentino , a contestant on
The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking
offal , hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
...that
poet
Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote
haikus while she and her family were detained in
Japanese American internment camps during
World War II ?
...that near the
end of World War II ,
American soldiers conducted a raid behind
Soviet lines to rescue the
bay
stallion
Witez II from a
Czechoslovakian
stud farm at the behest of captured
German officers?
...that
Piffles Taylor (
pictured )
quarterbacked the
Regina Roughriders to the
Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in
World War I ?
...that
ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943
Volhynia was resisted by the
Defence of Przebraże ?
...that
Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second
Nero or
Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his
steamboat
Warrior at the 1832
Battle of Bad Axe ?
...that in 2004, the
Children's Court of Victoria in
Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
...that
Goose Creek State Park , a
North Carolina state park off
Pamlico Sound , is in an inlet that once provided cover for
Blackbeard ,
Stede Bonnet and other
pirates ?
...that
Lothar Neethling of the
South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the
aircraft flight
recorders from the
wreckage of the
air disaster which killed President
Samora Machel of
Mozambique in 1986?
...that
Ugaritic
culture hero
Danel may have been a model for the Biblical
Daniel of
Ezekiel ?
...that
NASCAR founder
Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial
1959 Daytona 500 race winner
Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind
Lee Petty ?
...that the volcano
Mount St. Helens is named after
Alleyne FitzHerbert of
Derby (
pictured ) ?
...that from 1955 to 1973, the
United States conducted a
scientific initiative aimed at producing
gravity -manipulation technology?
...that
intoxication is never recognized as an
excuse for
crime , but
settled insanity due to
substance abuse is?
...that former
Finance Minister of Israel
Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
...that
G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern
Kannada
dictionary ?
...that artist
R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
...that
wide receiver
Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning
touchdown in
Lloyd Carr 's
Michigan
coaching debut?
...that
Fermin Rocker , son of
anarchist writer
Rudolf Rocker , once sold a painting to rock star
Mick Jagger ?
...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with
Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate
Elizabeth I ,
Charles Paget was given the manor of
Weston-on-Trent ?
...that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of
communism in
Czechoslovakia in the
1960s was
The Sun in a Net ?
...that the now-
Polish
Gliwice Canal was known as the "
Adolf Hitler Canal" during
WWII ?
...that American
sports car racing driver
Dick Thompson (
pictured ) was known as the "Flying Dentist"?
...that the
NATO commander in
Afghanistan labelled the
Siege of Sangin against
Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving
British soldiers since the
Korean War ?
...that sculptor
Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "
Life Underground " subway installation?
...that Professor
Padraig O'Malley of the
University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16
Iraqis to a conference in
Finland , where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in
South Africa and
Northern Ireland ?
...that
Singapore ’s
Fort Tanjong Katong , one of the oldest military forts built by the
British
colonial government , never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
...that in his 1968
Declaration of Perth ,
British Conservative leader
Edward Heath pledged his party's support for
Scottish devolution , a policy later reversed by
Margaret Thatcher ?
...that the
Louisiana Tigers
Confederate Army
brigade were a key part of the
Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting
shock troops ?
...that the training exercises in
Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?
...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on
Dealul Mitropoliei in
Bucharest in support of
Alexander John Cuza (
pictured ) in his election to become the first
Domnitor of the
United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia ?
...that the
US Navy
Bayfield class
attack transports
USS Alpine ,
USS Barnstable ,
USS Callaway ,
USS Cecil and
USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at
Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s?
...that
Heuneburg , an early
Celtic settlement by the upper
Danube , was already
fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle
Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
...that
Derbyshire
M.P.
George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about
Italian literature was the namesake of
Vernon County in
Australia ?
...that
Harold E. Martin , a
newspaper
publisher and
editor , won a
Pulitzer Prize for
investigative reporting in
1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ?
...that when Sir
Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly
£20 , it was enough to run a
secondary school in the 16th century?
...that a dispute over the
Sudanese area of
Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005
Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the
22-year civil war ?
...that the conditions at the
chapel of
St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (
pictured ) in
1703 protected the unburied Duke
Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until
1897 ?
...that the
United States Supreme Court held in
Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the US government may imprison citizens without
probable cause during an
insurrection so long as it acts in
good faith ?
...that
Mafia turncoat
Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss
Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister
Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
...that it was
John Hollingshead who brought together
Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?
...that
Jüri Vilms , a member of the
Estonian
Salvation Committee , issued the
Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by
German troops less than two months later?
...that
Harris Wash is a 40-mile long
tributary of the
Escalante River within the
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern
Utah ?
...that the
Mourning of Muharram , observed by
Shi'a
Muslims , commemorates the anniversary of the death of
Imam
Husayn ibn Ali at the
Battle of Karbala in
680 ?
...that
London will soon have a
Walk of Fame for dogs ?
...that
Anna Laetitia Barbauld 's (
pictured )
Lessons for Children (1778–79) revolutionized
children's literature , introducing what novelist
Frances Burney called a "new walk"?
...that
Gershwin 's musical
Primrose had its
Broadway
première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
...that during a copper miners' strike in
Michigan in 1913,
labor leader
Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by
Calumet city police while still bleeding?
...that the
Praetorian Building , a
high-rise in
Dallas , is regarded to be the first
skyscraper constructed in the
Southwestern United States ?
...that
Douglas Bruce is so associated with
Colorado 's
Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
...that a prosecution was started against
Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in
Findern in 1693?
...that
Zhenzhu Khan of
Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to
Emperor Taizong of
Tang China to serve as
bride price for a
princess ?
...that
Unnale Unnale was the director
Jeeva 's final film before his death?
...that nine workers died at
India 's
Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten
steel ?