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...that
Nazi Germany's animal protection laws were the first in the world to place the
wolf under protection?
...that after over 912 million
barrels of
oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the
Coalinga Oil Field , the eighth-largest
oil field in
California , is close to exhaustion?
...that
Norwegian Parliament member
Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of
Norwegian
Prime Minister
Kjell Magne Bondevik ?
...that
Mole rats
home through their large
burrows using the
Earth's magnetic field ?
...that
Messina ,
Italy , known as Messene during the
Sicilian Wars , was
sacked by the
Carthaginians in 397 BC in retaliation for the
attack on Motya by
Dionysius I of Syracuse ?
...that
Grey's Anatomy writer
Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the
1998 film
Free Enterprise ?
...that the
Tjängvide image stone (
pictured ) is held to show a man, or
Odin himself, arriving at
Valhalla on
Sleipnir where he is welcomed by a
valkyrie ?
...that the
palm
Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in
Southeast Asia and
Malesia , where local villagers attribute it
magical or
medicinal powers?
...that
Paul Simon 's
ballad "
Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War " portrays
Belgian
surrealist painter
René Magritte as a secret admirer of
doo-wop music ?
...that
Naulakha pavilion , situated in
Lahore Fort , was the inspiration behind
Rudyard Kipling 's novel
The Naulakha and his house
Naulakha ?
...that the
2003 Insight Bowl , won by
California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length
college football
bowl game in history?
...that
Polish novelist
Bolesław Prus 's tomb at
Warsaw 's
Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor
Stanisław Jackowski ?
...that the
RMS Sylvania was built for the
transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
...that the
Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent
Dulwich Wood in
South London form the largest remaining tract of
The King's Wood ?
...that the
Howmet TX (
pictured ) earned the first win for a
gas turbine
racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six
FIA
land speed records ?
...that
Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval
Muslim princes,
Nur ad-Din and
Saladin ?
...that the
Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote
phrenology in 1824, after the
Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
...that
Ólchobar mac Cináeda ,
king of Munster and
abbot of
Emly , may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to
Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the
Vikings in 848?
...that
garden plant
Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' , a
hybrid of
G. banksii from
humid subtropical
Queensland and
G. bipinnatifida from the
Mediterranean climate of
Western Australia , tolerates the
climates of both its parents?
...that the
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and
Robert E. Lee ?
...that Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the
South China Sea , was named for
Paul G. Gaffney II , President of
Monmouth University and a former
United States Navy
Vice Admiral ?
...that much of medieval
Chester Castle (
pictured ) was rebuilt in
neoclassical style by
architect
Thomas Harrison around 1800?
...that the original
arcade cabinet of the
shooter game
The Typing of the Dead used two
QWERTY keyboards?
...that the
Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King
Baldwin I of Jerusalem 's
Crusader army and a
Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of
Mosul , ended in a tactical draw?
...that the
edible mushroom
Boletus barrowsii is popular with
maggots , who often beat
mushroomers to their goal?
...that according to
Ukrainian
folklore , the girl who finds
Chervona Ruta , "
Red
Rue " in
Ukrainian , on
Ivan Kupala Day , will be happy in love?
...that
British Columbians will get a
second chance to vote on replacing the
winner-takes-all election system with a
single-transferable-vote system?
...that the
Telugu
film
Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the
science fiction story
Flowers for Algernon ?
...that
American football head coach
Skip Holtz is the son of the famed
college football coach
Lou Holtz ?
...that
Southampton Corporation Tramways tram No.45 (pictured) was purchased for preservation by the
Light Railway Transport League ?
...that novelist
Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and
mentor
Tadeusz Bobrowski , who is himself remembered in
Poland as a notable
memoirist ?
...that the
U.S. Supreme Court
case
Radovich v. National Football League , which held professional
football subject to
antitrust law, began with a
brief drafted on the
back of a napkin ?
...that
Funny Car
drag racing pioneer
Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188
mph , only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
...that
L. Ron Hubbard , the founder of
Scientology , wrote the story for the
1938
Columbia
movie serial
The Secret of Treasure Island ?
...that
Keewassee , a
Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a
dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a
hickory rod when caught?
...that
Marzieh Meshkini 's
2000 film
The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of
Iranian women, focusing on a nine year old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
...that
Portland Trail Blazers guard
Brandon Roy won the 2007
Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first
season in the
NBA due to injuries?
...that
Paul Cézanne 's
The Bathers (
pictured ) is one of the masterpieces of
modern art , and often considered Cézanne's greatest work?
...that rumored use of
lard or
tallow , offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate
paper cartridges was one of the causes of the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 ?
...that
John Knatchbull was the first person to
plead moral insanity in
Australia ?
...that over 120,000 cubic yards of
asbestos -containing sediment from an active, slow moving
landslide is deposited into
Swift Creek ,
Washington each year?
...that critics from the
Los Angeles Times and
Entertainment Weekly have described "
The Other Woman " as the worst
episode yet of the
fourth season of the television show
Lost ?
...that
Kashmir Singh , an
Indian
spy , was released last week after 35 years of captivity in
Pakistan ?
...that the
Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by
the atomic bomb ?
...that
film composer
Mateo Messina has written a benefit
symphony concert for the
Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
...that
Grover Cleveland ,
Mayor of Buffalo , laid the cornerstone of the central sculpture at
Lafayette Square (
pictured ) , and dedicated it as
New York Governor ?
...that
George Stanhope ,
Dean of Canterbury helped organise the building of
fifty new churches to replace those lost in the
Great Fire of London ?
...that the wood of
Myoporum sandwicense , a
shrub -like plant known as "bastard
sandalwood ", was used by the early
Hawaiians as log frames for
thatched houses and
torches for night fishing?
...that
gothic
Trinity College Kirk , a 1460 memorial to King
James II of Scotland , was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's
Waverley Station ?
...that
Epigraphia Carnatica , compiled by
Benjamin L. Rice , contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the
Old Mysore region of
India ?
...that the American
Loyalist surveyor
Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a
Mohawk wife and a
Mississauga mistress?
...that
double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in
ancient Greece and are found in many common
flower varieties including
impatiens (
example pictured ) ,
carnations ,
camellias and
roses ?
...that
Padfield in
Derbyshire belonged to
William the Conquerer , but was given away by his heirs, firstly
Henry I , then
Henry II and then
Henry VIII ?
...that
Russian musician
Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic
folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
...that the
Australian common
Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
...that
Arthur A. Denny , one of
Seattle 's founders and a lifelong
teetotaler , had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
...that
Soviet scholars coined the term ‘
democratic
satire ’ to describe the three-century old
Russian tale of
Frol Skobeev ?
...that
Union 's
Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church was the first church in
New Jersey to be listed on the
National Register of Historic Places ?
...that the
Indiana state constitution specifically states that
Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
...that
Nalknad Palace in the
Indian state of
Karnataka was the final
refuge of
Chikka Veerarajendra , the last king of
Kodagu ?
...that
David Beckham and
Victoria Adams were given a replica of
Cheshire 's
Rookery Hall as a
cake at their
engagement party?
...that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on
Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994
Northridge Earthquake ?
...that despite his complete lack of
mountaineering experience, the
English
adventurer
Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb
Mount Everest in 1934?
...that the
Channel-billed Cuckoo of
Australia ,
New Guinea and
Indonesia is the world's largest
brood parasite ?
...that American
late model
dirt track racer
Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
...that
Canterbury Music Hall , which opened on
17 May
1852 , was the first purpose-built tavern
music hall ?
...that
Vietnamese -born
artist and
photographer
Binh Danh has created leaf images called
chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
...that
Bishop
George Algernon West , the Lord Bishop of
Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of
Atlanta ,
Georgia while the
Japanese occupied
Burma ?
...that the
author of
The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK
Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the
socialist
George Orwell ?
...that
Western Brook Pond , a landlocked
fjord in
Gros Morne National Park on the island of
Newfoundland , was the site of a 30 m (98 ft)
tsunami in the early 20th century?
...that the water managed by the
Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of
London was once described by a
microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?
...that the subject in art of
Christ taking leave of his Mother (pictured) has no biblical basis but derives from
medieval devotional writing?
...that
Union Army Paymaster General
Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
...that the
Yokohama Museum of Art has
Pablo Picasso ,
Paul Cézanne ,
Salvador Dalí and
Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
...that
Endel Puusepp became a
Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the
front line from
Moscow to
Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the
Western Front ?
...that the
Willamette Collegian , the college newspaper of
Willamette University in
Oregon , was named an all-star publication by the
National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
...that
Eugenio Perez was the
Speaker of the
Philippine House of Representatives when the
Philippines became
independent from the
United States in
1946 ?
...that
Arthur Sullivan 's
Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected
British victory in the
Boer War , but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and
Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
...that the 1951 film
Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the
conservationist
Mervyn Cowie ?
...that
Victory Boulevard (
pictured ) , running the 25-mile length of the
San Fernando Valley , is mentioned in
Randy Newman 's
I Love LA : "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
...that before
Danish director
Bille August made his
Oscar -winning
Pelle the Conqueror , he had great domestic success with the
children's television series and movie
Busters verden ?
... Part 6 of the
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the
Russian government to allow
Matisse 's painting of
The Dance into the
UK ?
...that the book
Description of Africa by the
Muslim
slave
Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the
North African
Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance ?
...that in his easy re-election in the
2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election ,
John Hoeven was
endorsed by the state teachers'
union , which normally supports
Democrats ?
...that
Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
...that the
Kaipara Harbour of
Northland ,
New Zealand was named after a
hāngi on the
Pouto Peninsula , at which the
para fern (Marattia salicina ) was served?
...that it took 38 years to build the
Indiana World War Memorial (
pictured ) , which deteriorated during its building?
...that
Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
...that in 999,
Bishop Bernard of the
Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the
Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
...that
Alex , the
Stroh 's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
...that the
South Carolina
secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at
Columbia 's
First Baptist Church , due to a
smallpox outbreak?
...that the
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241
UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported—even if the victims take a year to die?
...that current
Venezuelan Deputy
Foreign Minister and ambassador to the
OAS
Jorge Valero , a vocal spokesman for the
Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
...that the
Calhoun Beach Club building in
Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a
TV studio , a
hotel ,
apartments , a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
...that
Mamadou Diabaté (
pictured ) , a
Malian
kora player, was nominated for a
Grammy Award in
2005 , but lost to his cousin
Toumani Diabaté ?
...that the
Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 will allow
social security information to be passed to the
BBC ?
...that the
insect
hormone
bursicon hastens the tanning of the
cuticle and hardens it?
...that
Operation Himmler was a
Nazi Germany
false flag operation, intended to create an appearance that the
German invasion of Poland was a defensive war provoked by a Polish attack on Germany?
...that
Maturinus was the
patron saint of
jesters , comic actors, and
clowns during the
Middle Ages ?
...that a
papillary fibroelastoma , typically involving one of the
valves of the
heart , is the third most common type of
primary tumors of the heart ?
...that the Eve of Destruction , named after a
protest song and on display at the
U.S. Army Transportation Museum , is the only surviving example of a
Vietnam era
gun truck ?
...that
Swami Rama Tirtha was one of the first
Hindu
swamis to teach
Vedanta in the West?
...that despite the lack of native vegetation, the
endangered
San Joaquin Kit Fox (pictured) continues to use areas of the
South Belridge Oil Field in
California as
habitat ?
...that whilst both
Richard Kirkby and
George Walton were present at the
Action of August 1702 , Walton went on to be an
Admiral , whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?
...that under the 2002
Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the
United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from
Bolivia ,
Colombia ,
Ecuador , and
Peru ?
...that the
Kannada writer
Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of
cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death?
...that the
Murat Centre is the only
Shrine temple with a
French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in
North America ?
...that
television writer
Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental
Christian beliefs?
...that the
Wärtsilä
Turku shipyard in
Finland built
five state-of-the-art cruiseferries for the Black Sea Shipping Company,
Soviet Union , in 1975-1976?
...that
Karol Szajnocha , one of
Poland 's leading 19th century historians, was
self-taught as he was expelled from university?
...that retreating
glaciers of the
Himalayas produce vast and long-lived
supraglacial lakes , many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?
...that the tragic ending of
Shakespeare's
King Lear was found to be so distasteful that it was replaced on stage for over 150 years by
Nahum Tate's adaptation (
pictured ) , with a happy ending and a love story?
...that the proposed
Doncaster railway line, Melbourne , first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the
A$ 41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
...that Scottish nurse and
serial killer
Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four
geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
...that most urban
water service providers in Peru can be considered
bankrupt as
water bills are often not paid?
...that
Mrs Sherwood 's
evangelical story
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in
1814 and was translated into eight languages?
...that
Dr. Demento (pictured) , a
DJ specializing in novelty songs and parodies, got his start at
KRRC , the student-run radio station of
Reed College ?
...that after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964,
Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a
Dame Commander of the
Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
...that
Banduan and
Manbazar in
West Bengal ,
India are located in an area of violent political activities by
Maoists ?