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...that a
spite house is a house built to annoy and aggravate someone, usually a neighbor?
...that the discovery of
antennae swords at
Kallur in the
Indian state of
Karnataka , was the first instance of the
Copper Hoard culture being found in
South India ?
...that
systems art is an
art movement from the 1960s influenced by
systems theory , which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the
art world itself?
...that the oldest known
lemon squeezers were found in
Kütahya ,
Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century?
...that
Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the
caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above
Crater Lake in
Oregon ?
...that the
voter turnout of the
2006 DPP chairmanship election in
Taiwan was only 19.96%?
...that
Saint Foutin was a
syncretic amalgam of the first bishop of
Lyon ,
France and pre-
Christian
Gaulish
phallic worship ?
...that
Signor Brocolini (pictured) , the original Pirate King in
Gilbert and Sullivan 's
The Pirates of Penzance , took his stage name in honor of
Brooklyn , where he grew up?
...that the
Russian composers
Peter Tchaikovsky ,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , and
Serge Rachmaninoff used
Ukrainian folk melodies in their works?
...that
Ho people , in
Jharkhand ,
India , have a
literacy rate of 39.2%, lower than the state average which is amongst the lowest
literacy rates in India ?
...that the
San Francisco -based
electro-acoustic improvisation
music ensemble
Maybe Monday features a
traditional Japanese musical instrument , the
koto ?
...that
St.Thomas , the apostle of
Jesus Christ , established the
Church in India in 52 AD?
...that
Conall Guthbinn continued the feud begun when his father,
Suibne mac Colmáin , was killed by
Áed Sláine by killing two of Áed's sons,
Congal and
Ailill ; soon after he was killed by
Diarmait , a third son of Áed?
...that the
larvae of primary
screw-worm flies feed on living tissue, but secondary screw-worm flies feed only on
necrotic tissue ?
...that despite a
wartime career lasting less than a year,
HMS Codrington transported a number of dignitaries, including
King George VI ,
Neville Chamberlain and
Winston Churchill ?
...that
Polish–Ukrainian relations have been steadily improving since the
fall of communism , and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
...that a song about the
1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape topped the popular music charts in the
Republic of Ireland despite being banned by the government?
...that
soccer became the last
Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when
FIFA ratified it in 2006?
...that as National Secretary for
Students for a Democratic Society ,
Michael Klonsky advocated revolution in the
U.S. , but now focuses on
education reforms such as creating small schools?
...that following the collapse of
Renaissance Cruises in late 2001,
MS R Two and five of her
sister ships were laid up together, first at
Gibraltar and later at
Marseille ?
...that
soccer became the last
Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when
FIFA ratified it in 2006?
...that
Pollyanna , a 1920 melodrama/comedy starring
Mary Pickford , grossed $1.1 million, equivalent to about $10 million in 2008?
...that the
Dragon Bridge (pictured) is the first bridge in
Slovenia paved with
asphalt and the first
reinforced concrete bridge in
Ljubljana ?
...that the
blue bottle fly (Calliphora vicina) , the
green bottle fly (Lucilia illustris) , the
hairy maggot blowfly (Chrysomya rufifacies) , the
black blow fly (Phormia regina) and the
coffin fly (Megaselia scalaris) are useful tools to
forensic entomologists in determining the
time of death of a
corpse ?
...that the
cruise ship
MS Columbus C. sank in
Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's
breakwater in 1984?
...that
African American artist
James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the
WPA in his native
Mississippi , but was later associated with the
Northwest School ?
...that the
olive tree is the ultimate symbol of
sumud , a key ideological theme among
Palestinians since the
1967 war ?
...that since 2006
Beijing has a legal limit of
one dog per family ?
...that the career of
Tiia Piili , four-time
FISAF World Champion in
sport aerobics , was threatened when she got
food poisoning attending a competition in
Morocco ?
...that in his print
Columbus Breaking the Egg (pictured)
William Hogarth attempted to draw parallels between himself and
Christopher Columbus ?
...that the
Intelligencer Journal of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania , established in 1796, is one of the oldest
newspapers in the
United States ?
...that the
2003
documentary
Prisoner of Paradise is a chronicle of the life of
Kurt Gerron , a German Jewish actor who was forced to make a
Nazi propaganda film and later murdered in a Nazi
concentration camp ?
...that the
shot tower of the
Colonial Ammunition Company is the only surviving tower of its kind in
New Zealand ?
...that there are hints of political opposition to the land acquisition for the
Special Economic Zone and industrial hub at
Saltora in the "neglected"
Bankura district in
India ?
...that the
U.S. Department of Defense pays the owners of the
MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519)
US$ 12,550 per day to carry cargo from
Singapore to
Diego Garcia ?
...that
Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in
Ile-de-France , founded in 1118, had a
saintly abbot , was bought by
a Rothschild and is now a hotel?
...that in 1669, the
Jesuit
missionary and astronomer
Ferdinand Verbiest persuaded the
Kangxi Emperor to remove a month from the
Chinese calendar ?
...that
Fahmida Mirza is the first female
Speaker of the
National Assembly of
Pakistan ?
...that
Peter Carl Fabergé crafted the
Czarevich
Fabergé egg in 1912 as a tribute to Czarevich
Alexei after his survival from a
hemophilia -related illness?
...that
Roman Catholic
priests afflicted with
alcoholism or other ailments can use
unfermented
grape juice , known as
mustum , in place of
sacramental wine during the
Eucharist ?
...that the
American
southern gospel group
The Dixie Nightingales at one time included future
Temptations lead singer
David Ruffin among its ranks, and later evolved into the secular
Stax Records soul group "Ollie & the Nightingales"?
...that
Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be
canonized in
Western Europe by someone other than the
Pope ?
...that 15th-century heralds
attributed a coat of arms to
Jesus based on the
instruments of the Passion ?
...that chef and restaurateur
Suzanne Goin won the 2006
James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
...that
Bhutan has a low crime rate and is the first nation in the world to ban
tobacco sales?
...that
Helen Bee identified that people make both an inner and outer
journey through adulthood ?
...that according to the old
hexachordal principle, the sixth
aria of
Hexachordum Apollinis should have been in
B-flat major , but the
composer
Pachelbel wrote it in 1699 as an
F minor ?
...that
Clarence Lightner was the first
African-American
elected
mayor of any
metropolitan
Southern United States
city ?
...that
Hans Gude replaced
Johann Schirmer as the professor of
landscape painting at the
Düsseldorf school , even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
...that the late 18th-century
watercolor
The Old Plantation (pictured) contains the first known depiction of a
banjo precursor in
American art ?
...that the Rev.
James Hackman ,
Rector of
Wiveton in
Norfolk , was hanged for the murder of
Martha Ray , mistress of the
fourth Earl of Sandwich ?
...that the
Eva archaeological site in
Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
...that three-foot-tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the
boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee ?
...that
1050 AM
ESPN Radio in
New York City was launched by
American
politician
Rob Astorino ?
...that
Edgar Allan Poe wrote "
The Raven " while living at what is now called
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the
Fordham section of
The Bronx in
New York City ?
...that from 1908 the
Cone Mills Corporation (mill pictured) was the world's largest producer of
denim fabric , making its founder
Moses H. Cone the "Denim King?"
...that after the
Aztec
Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a
cult ?
...that the only black college to field a
NCAA lacrosse team was the
Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
...that after
Norwegian film maker
Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian
seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
...that the script for the
Lost episode "
Meet Kevin Johnson " was completed on the same day as the first day of the
2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike ?
...that one of
Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned?
...that the
Anekāntavāda
philosophy of
Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?
...that according to
Hindu mythology , the deity
Revanta (pictured) was born from the union of the sun-god
Surya and his wife
Saranya in the form of
horse and mare?
...that four of the fifteen
head coaches of the Green Bay Packers are in the
Pro Football Hall of Fame ?
...that the
Rose bedeguar gall was used as a cure for
baldness ,
colic and
toothaches ?
...that
Scripps
marine chemist
Edward D. Goldberg suggested using
mussels to measure the amount of
pollution in the oceans ?
...that when built in 1868,
Louisville 's
Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron
bridge in the United States?
...that
Polish novelist
Bolesław Prus , who had been a young soldier in the
Polish
1863–65 Uprising , wrote a short story, "
Fading Voices ", whose
protagonist had served in the
1830–31 Uprising ?
...that
English
sculptor
Henry Weekes '
monument to
Percy Bysshe Shelley , modelled on
Michelangelo 's
Pietà , included realistic touches such as
seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
...that
microorganisms in the
Archaea
domain produce
antimicrobial protein
toxins known as
archaeocins ?
...that
an honors student was suspended from a
New Haven school for buying
Skittles brand candy?
...that the
Da Ming Hun Yi Tu Chinese
world map (pictured) , painted on silk in 1389, includes the earliest surviving depiction of the
Drakensberg mountains in
southern Africa ?
...that General
Benjamin Tupper 's horse was killed under him at the
Battle of Monmouth during the
American Revolutionary War ?
...that the
Zamość Uprising was one of the major operations of the
Polish resistance movement in World War II , and succeeded in significantly delaying
German plans to evict the Polish inhabitants and colonize the region ?
...that several private homes in the
Los Cerritos neighborhood of
Long Beach, California have been used in movies, including depicting the Bueller family's
Chicago home in the
1986
comedy film
Ferris Bueller's Day Off ?
...that
Joseph Canyon was named after
Chief Joseph of the
Nez Perce tribe, who was born in a cave at the mouth of the canyon?
...that in 1962
doctors went on strike in
Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of
universal health insurance ?
...that
British
wine critic
Stuart Pigott (pictured) published five
commandments regarding
wine drinking and appreciation, including "for wine, there is no connection between
price and
quality "?
...that
homoclines are tilted rock structures that can form
ridges ?
...that
John Tavener 's "
Song for Athene ", sung at the funeral of
Princess Diana , combines texts from the
Orthodox funeral service and
Shakespeare 's
Hamlet ?
...that after discovering a suitcase with
US$ 800,000 in
Maletinazo (the suitcase scandal), policewoman
Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the
Argentine and
Venezuelan editions of
Playboy ?
...that in the 1944
Battle of Murowana Oszmianka , the
Polish resistance
Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian
Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force ?
...that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the
Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal , the
MySpace page of
Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
...that the
British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the
British Army units normally based in the
United Kingdom , leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence?
...that
traditional Easter games such as
egg rolling ,
egg tapping ,
egg tossing ,
egg hunting and
egg dancing date back hundreds of years to a time when the
egg was considered a symbol of rebirth?
...that despite its name, the
Togian White-eye , a species of
bird
endemic to the
Togian Islands of
Indonesia , lacks the
white eye rings typical of
its genus ?
...that after being
diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease , former President
Ronald Reagan established the
Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
...that the
Virginian Railway Passenger Station in
Roanoke was named to the
Virginia Landmarks Register and the
National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
...that actor
Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for
driving under the influence just days before shooting
Ji Yeon , an episode of
Lost ' s fourth season?
...that
Van Nuys Boulevard , running through the heart of
LA 's
San Fernando Valley , was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
...that
Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any
oil field in
California ?
...that the
Upper Brook Street Chapel in
Manchester , designed by
Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the
Palace of Westminster , is said to be the first
neogothic
Nonconformist
chapel ?
...that
Gustave Courbet 's erotic painting
Femme nue couchée (pictured) , recovered in 2005 after disappearing during
World War II , had been given to a
Slovak doctor in return for medical treatment?
...that
Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of
Connecticut —for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the
Everglades ?
...that the discovery of
horse bones at the
archaeological site of
Hallur in south
India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the
Indo-Aryan migration ?
...that
Sixty Rayburn , a 44-year member of the
Louisiana State Senate who died in
2008 , was the driving force behind the establishment of the
Louisiana State University School of
Veterinary Medicine ?
...that
Sami Hadawi , author of works on the land rights of
Palestinian refugees , was exiled by
Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains
returned to his native
Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
...that
Still Restless , a
2004 album by
country band
Restless Heart , was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years?
...that Czech
hockey player
Stanislav Konopásek lost five years of his playing career when he was im
prisoned for allegedly trying to
defect from
Czechoslovakia in 1950?
...that the creation of
Grosvenor Museum ,
Chester (pictured ) was inspired by a society formed by
Charles Kingsley , then a
canon of
Chester Cathedral ?
...that the
Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of
Ancient Greek sexual mores?
...that
Labour Party politician
Hugh Brown was a
British negotiator with
Iceland during the third
Cod War in the 1970s?
...that
Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for
journalists in the
1990s , with
dozens of journalists killed , including
Belarusian
documentary filmmaker
Arcady Ruderman and
Bukharan Jewish journalist
Meirkhaim Gavrielov ?
...that
Virgil Johnson , the lead
singer of the
doo wop group
The Velvets , retired from his career as a
school principal and is now a
deejay in
Lubbock, Texas ?
...that in 1964, units of
No. 81 Wing RAAF were deployed to
Darwin, Northern Territory as contingency in the event of an air attack on
Australia during the
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ?
...that the
inbred villagers of
Stoccareddo in
Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of
hypertension ,
strokes and
heart attacks despite a high-
cholesterol
diet ?
...that
Meeker's Hardware (pictured) , a
hardware store in
Danbury, Connecticut , listed on the
National Register of Historic Places , sold
Coca-Colas for five
cents until 2005?
...that
Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by
Muslims and
Christians in the
Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the
cemetery and distributing food to the poor?
...that the
Māori name for the
New Zealand Agency for International Development is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti , which means 'the
paddles that bring growth from afar'?
...that
Samuel Lines '
art lessons in
Birmingham started at 5 a.m.?
...that a skyscraper in
Croydon has been
nicknamed the
50p Building because it resembles a pile of
50p coins ?
...that, before signing to Career/
Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist
Tammy Graham was a regular performer at
Caesars Palace ?
...that
Robert H. Pruyn , the second
American
Minister to Japan , was instrumental in negotiating reparations over the 1863
Bombardment of Shimonoseki ?
...that a group of
Forest Grove, Oregon residents posed nude for a calendar to raise funds to buy the
Alvin T. Smith House (pictured) ?
...that chemist
Ernest Beaux created
Chanel No. 5 perfume?
...that
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in
Botswana ?
...that the military theories of the 18th-century
Welsh soldier
Henry Lloyd were studied by
George Washington and
George S. Patton ?
...that despite being involved in high school theatre,
Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
...that the
Central Library in
Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an
open plan design?
...that
Filipino jazz singer
Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed
Forbidden City nightclub in
San Francisco ?