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... that
Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
... that McCarty Church(pictured) in
Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... that a riot reportedly instigated by writer
André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of
Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an
Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
... that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish
Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
... that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of
gold were retrieved in 2006?
... that in April 2008,
Forbes listed Omid Tahvili(pictured) as one of the world's ten most wanted
fugitives?
... that
Dr. Seuss's book The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his only books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of
US$300?
... that visiting
Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near
London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
... that as
General Secretary of the
Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000
pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
... that An Qingxu killed his father
An Lushan, the Emperor of
Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother
crown prince?
... that the
English names for the towns of
Brecon(pictured) and
Cardigan derive from the names of
Welshmediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the
Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor
Matra for US$50 million?
... that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local
union during the first
furriers'strike in the United States?
... that by using the
Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the
antiproton?
...that American theater critic and historian T. Allston Brown earned the title "Colonel" by riding on the back of a
tightrope walker in a circus performance?
...that after his climbing partner was killed in a fall, Jean-Christophe Lafaille survived a descent of the South Face of
Annapurna(pictured) alone and with a broken arm?
...that the government of
Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC which involves the systematic granting of
citizenship to hundreds of thousands of
immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
...that priest Benjamin Pâquet was such a controversial figure in 19th century
Quebec that his possible nomination to
bishopry was rejected for three different
dioceses?
...that veterinarian Martha Kostuch(pictured) linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to
sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in
Alberta?
... that
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
... that merkhets were
Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the
meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when
sundials could not function?
...that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the
Port of Los Angeles harbor?
...that unlike other
sampradayas in
Hinduism, which insist that the clergy lead an
ascetic's life, the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
...that gallery owner Victoria Miro described
Jake Chapman—now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins—as an "adorable" baby sitter?
...that hexachlorobutadiene, a colorless
solvent commonly used for
chlorine-containing compounds, is also a potent
herbicide, but this application has been discouraged because it is too
toxic?
...that the cost of building the base of the Great Mill,
Sheerness was so great that the
mill was left unfinished for over two years before being completed?
...that Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight?
...that the
Greek musical group C:Real sang only in
English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led to their focus on
Greek language songs?
...that Kettle Falls, known to native peoples as Shonitkwu ("roaring or noisy waters"), lies silenced beneath the waters of
Lake Roosevelt trapped behind the
Grand Coulee Dam?
...that when the
RAF's High Speed Flight won the
Schneider seaplane in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
...that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from
Prague in
1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the
Red Army, and then in
1968 he and
Dubček became the most popular politicians of the
Prague Spring?
...that
Igor Stravinsky agreed to compose the musical score for the ballet Circus Polka only under the condition that the elephants performing it be very young?
...that the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in
California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
...that the travel time of the
sternwheelerLytton(pictured) on the stretch of the
Columbia River known as Little Dalles was six hours upriver, but less than seven minutes downriver?
...that
Boston Red SoxpitcherMike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in
1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
...that the
court appointment of valet de chambre(pictured), nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including
the first air crash fatality?
...that
William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct?
...that Annie Armstrong, for whom the
Southern BaptistEaster collection for domestic
missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
...that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same solar system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites?
...that during the Shuliavka workers' uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the
Shuliavka neighborhood in
Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that Siegfried Kasche, the
Third Reich's ambassador to
Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
...that Percy Hoskins, was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected
serial killerDr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
...that the Washington Irvingsidewheeler, the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built, sank after colliding with an oil barge in 1926?
...that the village of Denshaw in
Greater Manchester achieved international notoriety when
spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?
...that in 2006 Austrian
alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of
Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
...that
Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's , and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
...that Lionel Monckton, the most popular
musical theatre composer of the
Edwardian period, after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
...that, during 13th and 14th century
Europe, a town clockkeeper would often be employed and paid high sums of money to monitor and regulate the town clock?
...that Emmy Noether(
pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by
Albert Einstein?
...that Chillenden Windmill(pictured) was the last
post mill built in
Kent, replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
...that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as
Dickens,
Wordsworth,
Hawthorne and
Poe?
...that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by
Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?
...that Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the
United States to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
...that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a
locomotive supposedly renumbered after a
psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
...that the Fifteen Guinea Special, one of the last
British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
...that having moved to
South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in
Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of
France?
...that
EnglishcricketerRoger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a
ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
...that in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the
Long Island Rail Road, land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
...that objects found in 1939 in the
ship burial at
Sutton Hoo(helmet pictured) were not a treasure trove as their owners intended to bury them permanently?
...that the portrait by
Pontormo of Maria Salviati with the young Giulia de' Medici(pictured) is one of the first portraits in Europe of a child with presumed
African and
European ancestry?
...that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of
Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that
Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
...that the entrance to Neptune's Grotto(pictured) in
Sardinia lies only around a meter (3 feet) above the sea, and therefore the cave can only be visited when the waters are calm?
...that only about 10% of
Brazil's water resources is located in the
Southeast Region, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population resides?
...that at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen(pictured) was the youngest
Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for
party leaders?
...that exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on
Maui include a 33-foot fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a
Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes (pictured)?
...that the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three
torpedoes from two different
U-boats, but still managed to reach port because her cargo of
timber kept her afloat?
...that the Decker building(pictured), an 1892 Moorish-influenced design, is where
Andy Warhol had his Factory from 1967 to 1973, and was shot in 1968?
...that political opponents of
Kentucky governorThomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a
stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
...that Monte Testaccio(pictured) in
Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million
ancient Romanamphorae?
...that Black Grace, an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds
Maori and
Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and
hip hop?
...that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that
choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the
Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?
...that in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from
Russian speakers and
Gagauz?
...that Red Dog was such a well-known and beloved dog in
Western Australia's
Pilbara region that a statue ([[Image:Dampier Red Dog, Western Australia (cropped).jpg|pictured) was built in his honour?
...that despite writing a full action-and-dialogue
screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
...that the Chronicle of Mann claimed William Russell to have been the first
Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the
pope, even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
...that real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives, by Berton Roueché, inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show
House?
...that Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only
Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
...that the Madras Bank,
India's oldest Western-style
banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of
Madras at the time?
...that seven
whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the
Alaskan coast?
...that the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
...that residents of 22½ St. in
Minneapolis petitioned the
City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
... that
Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
... that McCarty Church(pictured) in
Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... that a riot reportedly instigated by writer
André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of
Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an
Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
... that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish
Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
... that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of
gold were retrieved in 2006?
... that in April 2008,
Forbes listed Omid Tahvili(pictured) as one of the world's ten most wanted
fugitives?
... that
Dr. Seuss's book The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his only books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of
US$300?
... that visiting
Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near
London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
... that as
General Secretary of the
Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000
pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
... that An Qingxu killed his father
An Lushan, the Emperor of
Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother
crown prince?
... that the
English names for the towns of
Brecon(pictured) and
Cardigan derive from the names of
Welshmediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the
Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor
Matra for US$50 million?
... that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local
union during the first
furriers'strike in the United States?
... that by using the
Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the
antiproton?
...that American theater critic and historian T. Allston Brown earned the title "Colonel" by riding on the back of a
tightrope walker in a circus performance?
...that after his climbing partner was killed in a fall, Jean-Christophe Lafaille survived a descent of the South Face of
Annapurna(pictured) alone and with a broken arm?
...that the government of
Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC which involves the systematic granting of
citizenship to hundreds of thousands of
immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
...that priest Benjamin Pâquet was such a controversial figure in 19th century
Quebec that his possible nomination to
bishopry was rejected for three different
dioceses?
...that veterinarian Martha Kostuch(pictured) linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to
sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in
Alberta?
... that
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
... that merkhets were
Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the
meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when
sundials could not function?
...that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the
Port of Los Angeles harbor?
...that unlike other
sampradayas in
Hinduism, which insist that the clergy lead an
ascetic's life, the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
...that gallery owner Victoria Miro described
Jake Chapman—now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins—as an "adorable" baby sitter?
...that hexachlorobutadiene, a colorless
solvent commonly used for
chlorine-containing compounds, is also a potent
herbicide, but this application has been discouraged because it is too
toxic?
...that the cost of building the base of the Great Mill,
Sheerness was so great that the
mill was left unfinished for over two years before being completed?
...that Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight?
...that the
Greek musical group C:Real sang only in
English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led to their focus on
Greek language songs?
...that Kettle Falls, known to native peoples as Shonitkwu ("roaring or noisy waters"), lies silenced beneath the waters of
Lake Roosevelt trapped behind the
Grand Coulee Dam?
...that when the
RAF's High Speed Flight won the
Schneider seaplane in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
...that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from
Prague in
1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the
Red Army, and then in
1968 he and
Dubček became the most popular politicians of the
Prague Spring?
...that
Igor Stravinsky agreed to compose the musical score for the ballet Circus Polka only under the condition that the elephants performing it be very young?
...that the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in
California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
...that the travel time of the
sternwheelerLytton(pictured) on the stretch of the
Columbia River known as Little Dalles was six hours upriver, but less than seven minutes downriver?
...that
Boston Red SoxpitcherMike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in
1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
...that the
court appointment of valet de chambre(pictured), nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including
the first air crash fatality?
...that
William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct?
...that Annie Armstrong, for whom the
Southern BaptistEaster collection for domestic
missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
...that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same solar system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites?
...that during the Shuliavka workers' uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the
Shuliavka neighborhood in
Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that Siegfried Kasche, the
Third Reich's ambassador to
Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
...that Percy Hoskins, was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected
serial killerDr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
...that the Washington Irvingsidewheeler, the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built, sank after colliding with an oil barge in 1926?
...that the village of Denshaw in
Greater Manchester achieved international notoriety when
spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?
...that in 2006 Austrian
alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of
Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
...that
Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's , and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
...that Lionel Monckton, the most popular
musical theatre composer of the
Edwardian period, after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
...that, during 13th and 14th century
Europe, a town clockkeeper would often be employed and paid high sums of money to monitor and regulate the town clock?
...that Emmy Noether(
pictured) was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by
Albert Einstein?
...that Chillenden Windmill(pictured) was the last
post mill built in
Kent, replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
...that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as
Dickens,
Wordsworth,
Hawthorne and
Poe?
...that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed with a tire iron by
Armenian-Americans after a retaliatory shooting at a donut shop?
...that Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the
United States to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
...that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a
locomotive supposedly renumbered after a
psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
...that the Fifteen Guinea Special, one of the last
British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
...that having moved to
South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in
Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of
France?
...that
EnglishcricketerRoger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a
ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
...that in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the
Long Island Rail Road, land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
...that objects found in 1939 in the
ship burial at
Sutton Hoo(helmet pictured) were not a treasure trove as their owners intended to bury them permanently?
...that the portrait by
Pontormo of Maria Salviati with the young Giulia de' Medici(pictured) is one of the first portraits in Europe of a child with presumed
African and
European ancestry?
...that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of
Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that
Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
...that the entrance to Neptune's Grotto(pictured) in
Sardinia lies only around a meter (3 feet) above the sea, and therefore the cave can only be visited when the waters are calm?
...that only about 10% of
Brazil's water resources is located in the
Southeast Region, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population resides?
...that at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen(pictured) was the youngest
Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for
party leaders?
...that exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on
Maui include a 33-foot fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a
Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes (pictured)?
...that the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three
torpedoes from two different
U-boats, but still managed to reach port because her cargo of
timber kept her afloat?
...that the Decker building(pictured), an 1892 Moorish-influenced design, is where
Andy Warhol had his Factory from 1967 to 1973, and was shot in 1968?
...that political opponents of
Kentucky governorThomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a
stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
...that Monte Testaccio(pictured) in
Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million
ancient Romanamphorae?
...that Black Grace, an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds
Maori and
Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and
hip hop?
...that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that
choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the
Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?
...that in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from
Russian speakers and
Gagauz?
...that Red Dog was such a well-known and beloved dog in
Western Australia's
Pilbara region that a statue ([[Image:Dampier Red Dog, Western Australia (cropped).jpg|pictured) was built in his honour?
...that despite writing a full action-and-dialogue
screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas, Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
...that the Chronicle of Mann claimed William Russell to have been the first
Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the
pope, even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
...that real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives, by Berton Roueché, inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show
House?
...that Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only
Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
...that the Madras Bank,
India's oldest Western-style
banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford, the Agent of
Madras at the time?
...that seven
whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the
Alaskan coast?
...that the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
...that residents of 22½ St. in
Minneapolis petitioned the
City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?