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...that
Stanislavski and
Craig's
symbolist production of Hamlet in 1911 (
pictured ) put the
Moscow Arts Theatre on the cultural map of Europe?
...that the annual
Global Peace and Unity conference held at the
ExCeL Exhibition Centre in
London is the largest
Muslim event in
Europe ?
...that
Teimuraz I , a
Georgian monarch of the
Bagrationi Dynasty , was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original
Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from
Persian literature ?
...that only after five years since its founding in 1991,
Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest
LGBT
film festival in the
United States ?
...that
Alex Niño quit
medical school at the
University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a
comic book artist?
...that
A. Roswell Thompson , a
taxi operator and a figure in the
Ku Klux Klan , ran for
governor of
Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before
David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
...that
Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada
were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during
World War II under the
War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
...that
Buryat
Mongolian
Buddhist
Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama ?
...that
Admiral
Robert Holmes (
statue pictured ) of the
Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of
Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action
Holmes's Bonfire ?
...that
Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a
moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later
analysed his thoughts and corresponded with
Carl Jung ?
...that in 1921, future
four-star admiral
Louis M. Nulton tried to save the
battlecruiser
USS Constitution from being
scrapped by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?
...that the 1994
Guinness
television advertisement
Anticipation used
jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible
dance ?
...that the
Comoedienhaus theater , built in
1782 , the first theater of performing arts in
Frankfurt, Germany , played host to concerts by
Mozart ,
Schiller and
Goethe , among others?
...that in
numerical analysis , the
error of an approximation of a
function
u
{\displaystyle \textstyle u}
by a
polynomial of order at most
m
−
1
{\displaystyle \textstyle m-1}
in terms of
derivatives of
u
{\displaystyle \textstyle u}
of order
m
{\displaystyle \textstyle m}
is bound by the
Bramble-Hilbert lemma ?
...that the
United Church of Christ in
Blooming Grove, New York was a
Presbyterian
congregation until its
pastor was tried for
heresy ?
...that popularity of
German Minority , a party of the
German minority in Poland , has been steadily declining since its establishment?
...that
Clímaco Calderón was
President of
Colombia for only one day?
...that the
Lockheed NF-104A (
pictured ) , equipped with a
reaction control system as well as a
rocket engine to supplement a
jet engine , was a low-cost training vehicle for American
astronauts in the 1960s?
...that
Bhadda Kundalakesa attained
arahantship faster than any other
Buddhist nun ?
...that
bugged conversations with
surgeon -
crime boss
Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the
Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of
Sicilian
President
Salvatore Cuffaro ?
...that the opening session of the
Estonian Constituent Assembly on
April 23
1919 is considered the birth of the
Estonian Parliament ?
...that according to a
Dakota Indian legend, the
Great Spirit divided
Barn Bluff between two rival villages of
Minnesota , with the remaining portion moving to
Winona and became
Sugar Loaf ?
...that
Credonia Mwerinde founded the
doomsday
cult , the
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God , with
Joseph Kibweteere ?
...that in the
United Kingdom ,
speed limits imposed by
variable-message signs are
advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?
...that
razor manufacturer
Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a
resonant
tone when plucked?
...that
Russian
cellist
Anatoliy Brandukov (
pictured ) entered the
Moscow Conservatory aged eight?
...that
Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of
Léon Abel Provancher ?
...that the
Iroise Sea on the
Atlantic Ocean is
France 's first
marine park ?
...that
Richard Rougier , son of novelist
Georgette Heyer , became a
British
High Court judge ?
...that
HMAS Stalwart was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?
...that the case of
Rice v. Collins concerned a
juror who may have "
rolled her eyes " under questioning?
...that
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget was also an
MP for
Carnarvon despite his active navy career?
...that, in 1987,
Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of
nuclear weapons by
Nigeria ?
...that
John L. Fugh was the first
Chinese American to be
Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army ?
...that
Gavin Kaysen was undone at the
Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?
...that
Joe Robertson , Dean of
Oregon Health and Science University , lives on a
houseboat ?
...that
The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by
Charlie Parker 's mentor
Buster Smith ?
...that the first temple to be built in
soapstone was constructed in
Western Chalukya architecture (
pictured ) , in the
Karnataka ,
India ?
...that it was
Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with
Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer
Richard Savage ?
...that
royal fish , such as
whales and
sturgeons , are property of the
Queen when found on the shores of the
United Kingdom ?
...that the "
negro of Banyoles " was a human piece of
taxidermy which prompted debate by the
United Nations ?
...that most trains stop before reaching the platform at
Coombe railway station in
Cornwall ,
UK , and then reverse away?
...that the
Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect
ethnic minorities , were not implemented on the victorious
allies of World War I ?
...that the construction of
Tellico Dam on
Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several
18th century
Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
...that
Ian Smith ' s 24 international
tries , scored for
Scotland in
rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
...that the
Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the
Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the
communist on
Symon Petlura , despite his efforts to save
Jews ?
...that the standard version of
Sojourner Truth 's famous speech "
Ain't I a Woman? " was recorded by
Frances Dana Barker Gage (
pictured ) ?
...that
criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
...that the
Hearst Medical Papyrus , considered to be an authentic
ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
...that two male lovers of German film director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?
...that
Jehovah's Witnesses have had an
impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the
U.S. Supreme Court ?
...that
Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the
history of Vietnam ?
...that
Nanda , the half-sister of
Gautama Buddha , went on to be the foremost
nun in the practice of
jhana ?
...that
Belinda Dann , a member of Australia's
Stolen Generation , died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
...that 27 years passed between the discovery of
Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
...that
Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest
French-language
academic journal in North America?
...that one of the
television advertisements from the
Good things come to those who wait
Guinness
advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the
British public?
...that in "
Thou Art the Man ", one of
Edgar Allan Poe's (
pictured ) lesser-known
detective stories ,
ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?
...that the award for
European Parliament 's newly established cinema prize,
Lux , consists of subtitling the winning film in the
23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
...that due to
backlash from the
John Hinckley trial, under US law an
expert witness can no longer
testify on
legal issues such as the
insanity defense ?
...that
Captain
Clack Stone led the intense defense of
Apple River Fort against 150-200
Sauk and
Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
...that the
Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted
oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major
AIDS clinics in the US?
...that
PlumpJack Winery was the first
winery in the
Napa Valley to use
screwcaps as a
wine closures on
Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over
USD $100 per
bottle ?
...that after being suspended for life from the
Ontario Hockey League ,
Marc Laforge still played professionally for two
National Hockey League teams?
...that when
Richard Fort won a seat in the
1950 general election , he became the third person with the same name to represent
Clitheroe in the
British House of Commons ?
...that the
Crown Colony-class
cruiser
HMS Jamaica (
pictured ) was
nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the
North Koreans claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?
...that in
Tennard v. Dretke , the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a
cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the
defendant 's
mental retardation in
sentencing the
death penalty ?
...that
archaeological evidence has shown that the
Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a
resource for humans , with
prehistoric and more modern sites in the
United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
...that
Bob Odom ,
Louisiana 's Commissoner of
Agriculture and
Forestry , is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
...that
U.S. Senator
Henry F. Ashurst had a
cameo as a U.S. Senator in
Otto Preminger's film
Advice and Consent ?
...that the
Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in
Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
...that
Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian State of
New South Wales ?
...that the
medical papyri (
pictured ) show that
ancient Egyptian physicians of the
19th century BC knew about
migraines ?
...that
Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at
CBS to eventually become an
AIDS educator for the
Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV
news program
Gay USA ?
...that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of
Sebaldus , the
patron saint of
Nuremberg , his
veneration continued even after the
Protestant Revolution ?
...that before U.S.
short track speed skater
Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the
1992 Winter Olympics , she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
...that the
Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several
Minority Treaties , and
Poland 's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the
League of Nations '
ethnic minority -protection regime?
...that before competing in
luge ,
Bonny Warner competed for
Stanford University on a
field hockey scholarship?
...that the founding of the
Church in Malta is described in the
Acts of the Apostles in the
Bible ?