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...that the
England national football team has only had fifteen
managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946?
...that
Tony Spear , a leader of the
Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the
Google Lunar X Prize ?
...that the
white kunzea was among the first
Australian plants introduced to
cultivation in
England ?
...that
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels created illustrations of the life of the
nuns of the abbey of
Port-Royal-des-Champs (pictured) , shortly before it was closed on the orders of
Pope Clement XI ?
...that the
U.S. Supreme Court case
Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal
carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands?
...that
De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King ) by
Tonke Dragt was chosen in
2004 by the judges of the
Gouden Griffel as the best
Dutch
children's novel of the past fifty years?
...that
Brest Fortress in
Belarus was belatedly honoured by the
USSR as a
Hero Fortress in 1965 for its
resistance to the
Nazi invasion in 1941?
...that
Romany Marie 's
café was a
bohemian hangout in
Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists,
visionaries , and other
intellectuals from the
1910s through the
1950s ?
...that three
Queens of England and several
British nobles were
beheaded in
Tower Green , a space within the
Tower of London ?
...that 2008
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model
Quiana Grant served for four years as her mother's eyes while the latter underwent a series of corrective surgeries for
chorioretinitis ?
...that during the construction of
Centennial Tower (pictured) in
Singapore , the tower rose 20 storeys in just three months?
...that the second
movement of
Symphony No. 21 in A major by
Joseph Haydn has a mirror
recapitulation , which is unusual for both a work of Haydn's and a
symphony ?
...that the
sQuba , developed by
Swiss company
Rinspeed , is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
...that the
battle of the Dukla Pass resulted in one of the bloodiest battles in
Slovakia 's history and contributed to the failure of the
Slovak National Uprising ?
...that
Tibbia College , with 84
patents in
herbal medicine , is the only medical institution in
India to offer
education and training in two ancient systems of medicine,
Ayurveda and
Unaani ?
...that
William Waldo served as a county judge in
Oregon after his
younger brother served on the
Oregon Supreme Court ?
...that the plot of the
Lost episode "
The Economist " was compared to the
Book of Daniel , the TV series
Alias , and the film
Assassins ?
...that
Martin Corry , a
Fianna Fáil
TD for over 40 years, once suggested in the
Dáil the use of
poison gas to end the
Partition of Ireland ?
...that due to
its numerous attractions such as
Lal Bagh (
pictured ) ,
Bangalore , the capital of the
Indian state of
Karnataka , is known as the "Garden City of
India "?
...that
white nose syndrome has caused a
mortality rate of over 90% of
bats in some
caves ?
...that
Singaporean
artist
Chua Ek Kay ’s
ink paintings blended traditional
Chinese painting forms and
Western art theories and techniques?
...that four of the five ships operated by the
Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named
Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
...that
Archduke Felix of Austria was once barred from entering
Austria , and he held a
news conference to announce his illegal arrival the day after sneaking in from
Germany in 1996?
...that the
Vermejo Park Ranch in
New Mexico is the largest
privately owned , contiguous tract of land in the
United States , making its owner
Ted Turner the biggest private land owner in the country?
...that the
Simris Runestones include one of the earliest
Scandinavian sources that mention
Sweden ?
...that
cleaning up
Quassaick Creek convinced
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make
environmental law his lifelong work?
...that as a protest against what they call "
Imperial Manila ", the local government of
Cebu Province forced all of its schools to sing the
Philippine National Anthem in
Cebuano instead of
Tagalog ?
...that two
79th Academy Award
Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician
Ronald Fedkiw 's model for their
special effects ?
...that, at a
debate on evolution in 1860 ,
Bishop Wilberforce allegedly asked
Thomas Huxley if it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a
monkey ?
...that the
U.S. Navy 's
Harris -class
attack transports
Leonard Wood ,
Joseph T. Dickman and
J. Franklin Bell were all named after
U.S. Army
generals ?
...that
Most Rev. S. Arulappa , Archbishop of
Hyderabad , was the youngest to be
consecrated as a
Roman Catholic
Archbishop in
India ?
...that
South Korean
screenwriter and
director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the
scenario for his
2006 directorial debut film,
Solace ?
...that before becoming
mayor of
Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862,
Prescott Metcalf started two
railroads , numerous manufacturing
firms , and was the director of
a canal ?
...that
Lingyan Temple in
Shandong ,
China features a nine-
storey
Song Dynasty
pagoda , named the
Pizhi Pagoda (pictured) from the
Sanskrit word
pratyeka ?
...that according to
Lapsiporno.info , a
blacklist of websites compiled by the
Finnish National Bureau of Investigation included those containing legal
pornography ?
...that
Penny Neer , 1982
AIAW
discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also
blocked 64 shots for the
University of Michigan
women's basketball team?
...that the
Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an
Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the
Vergulde Draeck , a
Dutch
galleon
wrecked on the coast of
Australia in 1656?
...that forthcoming
Tamil film
Aegan , starring
Ajith Kumar , marks the directorial debut of
choreographer
Raju Sundaram ?
...that the
bobsleigh and luge track used for the
1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of
ammonia
refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of
electrical conduit running though its 6500 m³ of
concrete ?
...that
Dương Quỳnh Hoa , who socialized with
Saigon elites during the
Vietnam War , was a
communist spy?
...that
Shirazi wine from the
Persian city of
Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the
Shiraz grape used to make
wine today?
...that a
heather fire in 1996 revealed many more
quern-stones than had been previously known on the ancient quarry site of
Wharncliffe Crags (
pictured )?
...that
Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at
Waterloo " for closing the North Gate at
Hougoumont , an act which
Wellington claimed saved the battle?
...that
Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in
Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
...that Red Plague , a poem of
Józef Szczepański , commander of
Batalion Parasol during the
Warsaw Uprising of 1944, was banned in the
People's Republic of Poland due to its
anti-Soviet sentiments?
...that the
artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival
Trinh Lords of
Vietnam ?
...that
Francis Bok , who was held as a
slave in northern
Sudan for ten years, now works as an
abolitionist for the
American Anti-Slavery Group ?
...that
Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an
alternative fuels
bill in
Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
...that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer
Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
...that the origins of
Pak Khlong Talat , the primary
flower
market in
Bangkok ,
Thailand , date to the 1700s?
...that
Fir Island (
pictured ) is the main northwest
Washington wintering area of 30,000 to 70,000
snow geese that migrate from
Wrangel Island in
Russia ?
...that
Otte Wallish
calligraphed
Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its
first coins , but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first
postage stamps for a country called
Yehudah ?
...that of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the
Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad , less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
...that
Vietnamese politician and
dissident
Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the
Communist Party ?
...that the rooflines of the
newest school in the
Cornwall Central School District mimic the
surrounding hills in
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York ?
...that the film crew of the forthcoming
Tamil film ,
Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near
Madurai to give film profits to?
...that
Australian
General
George Vasey regretted to have sent a small
unit too far without adequate support for the
Battle of Kaiapit during
World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
...that in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from
Hong Leong Building in
Singapore after
tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?
...that twelve floors in
Springleaf Tower (pictured) , a skyscraper in
Singapore , were sold at
S$ 225 million in October 2007, while nine months earlier, they were sold at S$134 million?
...that the
Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the
Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the
Rhine ?
...that
official mail
stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the
USPOD , due to an 1872
Republican
election plan , to abolish
free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of
US$ 5 million?
...that the "
sweaty saddle " aroma associated with
Shiraz from the
New South Wales wine region of the
Hunter Valley is actually a
wine fault ?
...that
University of Michigan
Hall of Honor inductee
Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a
NCAA championship college
hockey team and later coach a national champion?
...that "
Palestinian
archaeology " can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as
Syro-Palestinian archaeology , and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by
Palestinians themselves?
...that in 1940, the
USS American Legion transported a
Norwegian Princess to the safety of
America , along with a vital
Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a
mass production
prototype ?
...that
Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in
Kerala ,
India , receives
migratory birds from far away
Siberia ?
...that in the
Japanese theatrical art known as
Taishū engeki (pictured) , it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of
yen on gifts for the performers?
...that many
cellular phone
ringtones use
Music Macro Language , developed in the 1980s as a means of
programming music on
personal computers and
video game consoles ?
...that
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates has expanded the
Human Terrain Team program to match
anthropologists with every
brigade in
Iraq and
Afghanistan ?
...that "
quickfire ", a form of
arson employed in
Scandinavian blood
feuds , was
punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
...that the fifth growth
Bordeaux wine estate of
Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the
Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ?
...that the
USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the
American
garrison on the bitterly contested island of
Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
...that
Holocaust survivor
Miles Lerman immigrated to the
United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. ?
...that
Masaccio 's
fresco
The Tribute Money (
pictured ) is linked to
Pope Martin V 's 1423 agreement that the Florentine church be subjected to
state tax ?
...that
Hans Thomsen , the
German
Chargé d'Affaires in
Washington, D.C. immediately prior to
World War II , directed an effort to influence the foreign policy
platform of the
1940 Republican National Convention ?
...that
Bill Orwig hired
Bob Knight as
basketball coach at
Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities -- Indiana,
Michigan and
Toledo ?
...that
Burrabazar , in
Kolkata , expanded from a
yarn and
textile market into a large
wholesale market?
...that, in December 2007, the
Canadian
bobsleigh duo of
Pierre Lueders and
Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the
bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the
2010 Winter Olympics ?
...that trains to
London ran eastwards from
Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
...that about three-quarters of the
Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in
California 's
Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes
70 and
99 ?
...that the
Fuji Xerox Towers (
pictured ) , a skyscraper in
Singapore , was given the 2005 Energy Smart Label Award by the Energy Sustainability Unit and the
National Environment Agency ?
...that when
Shiv Chowrasia , a former
caddie , won the 2008
Indian Masters
golf tournament , he became the third
Indian to win a
European Tour event?
...that
Marie Hartwig , faculty member at the
University of Michigan from 1930-1976, was a lifelong advocate for
women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's
Hall of Honor ?
...that the
Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval
Constantinople and
Ottoman
Istanbul ?
...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the
Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
...that the first
Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to
crash was
West Coast Airlines
Flight 956 in 1966?
...that
'HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth
battlecruiser , proposed by British Admiral
Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?
...that water from
Tin Brook (pictured) was diverted to create the first
canal in
New York history ?
...that
Odd Nansen , son of the famed scientist and explorer
Fridtjof Nansen , founded
Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the
German invasion of
Czechoslovakia to
Norway , then survived
Sachsenhausen himself?
...that
Crookham Village , a village in
England dates as far back as the
Domesday Book , although the village did not become separate entities until the founding of the Christ Church in 1840?
...that after Secretary of the Air Force
Sheila Widnall resigned,
F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
...that according to
John of Ephesus , in 583,
Empress Constantina , consort of
Maurice , gave birth to the first
heir born to a reigning
Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
...that the
art critic
Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to
King Louis XV 's
Menus-Plaisirs du Roi ?
...that
Academy Award -
winning film
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the
pilot of "
The Ruptured Duck ," one of 16
USAAF
bombers in the
Doolittle Raid on
Japan during
World War II ?
...that the
scientific name of the
vase -shaped forest
fungus
Gomphus floccosus (pictured) means 'woolly plug'?
...that the
World War II -era
Crescent City class
attack transports
USS Crescent City and
USS Calvert each received ten
battle stars and a
Navy Unit Commendation ?
...that
Qabala treasures , monetary
treasure troves discovered in
Azerbaijan , contain
drachmas of
Alexander the Great and
denarii of four
Roman Emperors ?
...that historian
J. Bowyer Bell was
tear gassed in
Belfast , held hostage in
Jordan , shot at in
Lebanon , kidnapped in
Yemen and deported from
Kenya ?
...that the oldest black church in
Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in
Midway, Kentucky's historic district ?
...that early plans for
Washington, D.C. had the
White House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the present-day
North Lawn , with gardens descending to
Tiber Creek in the present-day
South Lawn ?
...that
Satoru Kobayashi , one of
Japan 's most prolific
directors , wrote and directed the first
pink film in
1962 ?
...that
Lambda Sigma , a college
sophomore
honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to
Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?
...that the
facade of
Hitachi Tower (pictured) in
Singapore has three sections which break the
verticality of the tower?
...that the
murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including
Edgar Allan Poe 's
Scenes From 'Politian' ?
...that most of
Petroleum Road , a privately owned
asphalt road in the
Golan Heights , is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
...that
film editor
Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by
Mike Nichols , earning
Academy Award editing nominations for
Silkwood and
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ?
...that "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are
Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by
Qamanirjuaq Lake ?
...that the
U.S. Supreme Court held in
NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to
strike , they can be "permanently replaced" by
strikebreakers ?
...that the
Pine Creek Rail Trail , a 65 mile (105 km)
rail trail along
Pine Creek in
Pennsylvania , was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by
USA Today ?
...that
Princess Louisa Maria Teresa (pictured) was called by a
Royal Stuart Society paper the "Princess over the Water", an allusion to the title
King over the Water ?
...that the official cause of the
Great Fire of 1811 , which lasted for three days and burned down the whole
Podil neighborhood of
Kiev , was children playing with fire?
...that
traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved
reliefs of the
Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on
ostriches ?
...that
halfback
Chuck Ortmann
punted 24 times in the famed 1950
Snow Bowl , deciding the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
...that the
Ormsby -class
attack transports
USS Ormsby and
USS Sheridan earned six
battle stars for
WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
...that
architect
Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle
Max Born 's popular
physics book?
...that
textile arts are those
arts and
crafts that use
plant ,
animal , or
synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as
clothing ,
carpets , and
curtains ?
...that the
fictional character "
Thirteen " in the
FOX
medical drama
House is referred to as such on the show's
daily call sheets to further propagate an
inside joke within the show's
narrative ?