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... that ghosts at Preston Manor, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an
excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor?
... that the bone skipper came back from the
dead after 160 years to feed on rotting
bones?
... that critics praised a scene in the horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp where a student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades?
... that the "Devils Brigade" was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to hell?
12:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
... that the Paracas textiles found wrapped around 2,200 year old
mummies(distorted skull shown) show a winged
shaman carrying a severed head by its hair?
... that the Beginning of the End could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been sexed?
... that an 18th-century soldier,
court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that he heard the clock of
St Paul's Cathedralstrike 13 times – and other witnesses corroborated it, saving his life?
... that
Democratic Party leaders convinced Frank Herbert to run as a write-in against
white supremacist John Kucek, saying "the first thing we had to do was convince people not to vote for the
Nazi"?
... that cheeses made from thermized milk are not considered
raw-milk cheeses in Europe, but are still subject to
FDA restrictions on raw-milk cheeses in the U.S.?
... that Louis F. Bantle saw
U.S. Tobacco's income rise tenfold to
US$1 billion led by sales of
smokeless tobacco, telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people"?
... that i, a
British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several "matrixes" – small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles inside the paper?
... that in 1955, a
United AirlinesDouglas DC-6(similar example pictured)crashed only days after a device that could have prevented it was installed on a sister aircraft?
... that Barnum's Kaleidoscape was the first Ringling show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century?
... that in "one of the most spectacular homicide trials ever", a jury acquitted Melvin Lane Powers and his aunt – and lover –
Candy Mossler for the murder of her husband?
... that Kutmichevitsa, a region of the
First Bulgarian Empire now mostly in
Albania, was home to one of the two most important cultural centres of 9th-century Bulgaria?
... that the only known location of Isoetes eludens, a recently discovered
aquatic plant, is a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) deep seasonal
rock pool?
... that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from a
bear sighting in 1852?
06:00, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
... that in 1967 the BSA A65 Star(pictured) helped
BSA win a
Queens Award to Industry and by 1969 BSA were responsible for 80% of the British motorcycles exported?
... that the term "
hatchet man" originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on
Chinatown'sDoyers Street, known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?
... that the interior of the 10th-century Round Church(pictured) in the medieval
Bulgarian capital of
Preslav features medieval inscriptions in three alphabets and two languages?
... that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death of poet
John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single anchovy and a piece of bread a day?
... that the idea that Lancaut, on the border between
England and
Wales, may be the site of a medieval
leper colony is supported by the unusual number of
medicinal herbs found in the churchyard (pictured)?
... that
Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film Thunder Rock as "a glowing fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"?
... that the
Innu and
Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern
Quebec,
Canada, initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
... that one academic commentator described Dr. Bonham's Case simply as an "abortion"?
06:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
... that a fall in bus passenger numbers in
Hampshire between 1999 and 2001 was partly attributed to the collapse of the Tillingbourne Bus Company(bus pictured)?
... that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought between two European powers?
... that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the
wet-foldingorigami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel, but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
... that in Constantinople,
Mehmed II ordered a group of
Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
... that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a
fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
... that the Três Marias Dam's power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero, South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
... that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven
Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
06:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
... that Khandita(illustrated) is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover cheats on her and spends the night with another woman?
... that "Make It Easy", a
Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125?
... that according to a popular myth, the
Chinese philosopherConfucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
... that after battling over who could use the name "
Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about
homelessness?
... that
jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?
... that live coverage of Jökulsárlón(pictured) in
Iceland on the
American TV program Good Morning America in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4 million people?
... that
historianChester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty?
... that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the
Great Depression?
... that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of
martial law in Poland?
... that
Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
... that the Étang Saumâtre in
Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from
calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?
... that Pedro Borrell, the
Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the
Caribbean Sea?
... that Perlman syndrome is a very rare
overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
... that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?
... that the German
battleshipSMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
... that Alexis Rockman's mural Manifest Destiny, commissioned by the
Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts
Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
... that the Araçuaí River valley in
Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the
gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of
Minas Novas?
... that
Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?
... that the name of the Pyana River(pictured) reflects the drunkenness of the Russian Army during the
associated battle in 1377?
... that
Texas Techprofessor emeritusAlwyn Barr, who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas?
... that the
Greek television series To Nisi, based on the best-selling novel The Island by
Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
... that English former professional
footballerJimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of
racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won
£200,000 on a single race?
... that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
... that Robert Tishman co-founded
Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law
Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
... that upon the release of the 1934
Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
21 October 2010
18:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
... that Ramón de Bonifaz(illustrated) broke the river defenses of
Seville, leading to the city's capture from the
Moors?
... that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy" to serve 1.9 millionMid-Atlantic households with power from
wind farms to be built 20 miles (32 km) offshore?
... that in addition to being made an officer of the
Order of Canada, Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
... that the Blue Monkeymicrobrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla
Porter, and 99 Red Baboons?
... that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern
Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
... that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a
tenement he owned to make way for
1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
... that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little
killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
... that Joan Henry'sLook on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of
homosexuality to be approved for performance by the
Lord Chamberlain?
... that the successful
1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in
Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
... that the parallel structures of
Croatia's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
... that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the
Mozambique–
Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of
Lake Malawi, and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
... that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow?
... that
rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
... that the Swedish
monitorFolke was designed opposite of her
sister ships, with a
gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
... that
Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only
shooter in the world to win the
double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
... that in May 1958, eight months after
John Cockroft had announced with great fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device (pictured) had achieved
nuclear fusion, he was forced to retract this claim?
... that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in
Moscopole,
Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
... that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"?
... that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932
Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
... that William W. Norton wrote
scripts for films starring
John Wayne and
Burt Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your
IQ is low enough"?
... that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2)
wave pool at
Hyderabad's Jalavihar, which is the largest in
India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
... that Javorova Kosa Tunnel(pictured) caved in during construction, requiring removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cubic feet) of rock and soil before the work could resume?
... that when a
diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a
JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's
CEO, personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
... that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to
tablet devices?
... that
Super HeavyweightSean McCorkle has been
nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?
... that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of
Jarrow?
... that though his work usually appeared to have been
painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake
Zen painter"?
... that the only exit from a Tett turret(pictured) could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
... that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
... that
trumpeterGracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
... that when Helmut de Boor taught at the
University of Bern, his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
... that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by
ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
... that letters from the 17th-century
Catholicmonk Ansaldo Cebà to a married
Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in
Belize has revealed evidence of a
Mayan city?
... that
Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
... that Redline,
Madhouse's latest
anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
... that
sopranoDolores Wilson lamented that "the
Italian I'd learned by studying
operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?
... that
Holly Madison's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
... that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
... that a
human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?
... that the land around the St. Johns River Light(pictured) in
Jacksonville, Florida, has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground?
... that Sava River Bridge carrying the
A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
... that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
... that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in
Warminster,
Pennsylvania, as the hardest job he ever did?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Neptune was deemed "a
white elephant, being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
... that the Benson raft(pictured) was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the
archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
... that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern
Fox Terrier?
... that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of
Venosa, owner of
Italian wine estate Fiorano, considered the white
mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
06:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
... that the summer truffle (pictured) and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one species of
truffle, Tuber aestivum, which is found across Europe?
... that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first
motorcycles, the steam-powered,
penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
... that
California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of
expulsion?
... that the town of
Lice, Turkey, was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975, with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
... that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his
floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008
European Championships?
... that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on
public roads?
... that Bill Henry was listed as
Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game?
... that Don Doll, the only player in
NFL history to register 10 or more
interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the
Marines?
... that even though
Wesleyanmissionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
... that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in
Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
... that the recently described extinct
penguinInkayacu from the
Eocene of
Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?
06:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
... that gastric antral vascular ectasia(pictured) is also called "watermelon stomach" because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble the markings on
watermelon?
... that the Place d'Armes in
Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
... that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in
Manila Cathedral?
... that
Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
... that 19th-century
Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge
sunflower and a winged lion?
... that Gus Bevona resigned from local
SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of
US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Enterprise had a wooden
hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the
Royal Navy?
... that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish
dinner for four on
The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
... that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known
antique vases?
... that HMS Minotaur and her
sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
... that
Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic
Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
... that the two claiming
Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places?
... that
Dutchdressage rider Edward Gal and his
horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
... that after BingoLotto in
Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
... that the Wandsworth Shield(pictured) has a
repoussé design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British
Celtic art?
... that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in
Quebec,
Canada, are considered the most traditional and conservative
Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
... that in 1538,
Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20
marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
... that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
... that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of
Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a
totem pole in a
Manhattan shop?
... that "You Are the Girl" was
The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
... that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught
Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
... that The Cosmic Landscape by
Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
... that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in
Singapore(pictured) must use one of Singapore's four official languages – English,
Malay,
Mandarin or
Tamil – or a related dialect?
... that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the
Croatian A9 motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the bridge?
... that the archaic
Greek letterSampi(pictured) has also been called san, enacosin, angma, sincope, charaktir, or even parakyisma, which literally means "spurious pregnancy"?
... that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in
Hove, England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
... that The Battle of Waterloo, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of
£1,800 by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British
epic film"?
... that
U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner of
Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
... that a fortune made as a merchant in
Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back
Cambo House, a property forfeited because of his family's
Jacobite sympathies?
... that in the documentary television series about
South Americanserial killers, Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
... that the
NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by
its successor six years later?
... that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that
war might reach
Norway in a sudden manner, but when the
invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
... that the
nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton,
Greater Manchester, (pictured) was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly?
... that one of the best-preserved
Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was founded at the same time as
Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010?
... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa,
Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
... that the word "
constable" derives from the
Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the
army and the imperial court?
... that
Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for
income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?
... that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009
Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
... that
virologistJohn R. Paul blamed better hygiene for
polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to
poliovirus would have given immunity?
... that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
... that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading, in which he explained concepts in
Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
... that while Red-and-yellow Barbets(male pictured) are tame in areas where they are not persecuted, they are hunted by the
Maasai for their feathers?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a
gale off
Pantelleria in March 1872?
... that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence,
Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
... that Gene Swick was the first college
quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the
Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional
football?
... that in 2010, the
Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in
Romania?
... that
radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
... that in
Thomas Eakins' Self-portrait, the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
... that a practice in
Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh?
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... that ghosts at Preston Manor, reputedly one of Britain's most haunted houses, have included a grey lady, an
excommunicated nun, a floating hand and one driving a toy tractor?
... that the bone skipper came back from the
dead after 160 years to feed on rotting
bones?
... that critics praised a scene in the horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp where a student is attacked by a motorbike outfitted with revolving blades?
... that the "Devils Brigade" was conceived to tell of 19 men who went halfway to hell?
12:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
... that the Paracas textiles found wrapped around 2,200 year old
mummies(distorted skull shown) show a winged
shaman carrying a severed head by its hair?
... that the Beginning of the End could not begin until 200 grasshoppers had been sexed?
... that an 18th-century soldier,
court-martialed for sleeping at his post, swore that he heard the clock of
St Paul's Cathedralstrike 13 times – and other witnesses corroborated it, saving his life?
... that
Democratic Party leaders convinced Frank Herbert to run as a write-in against
white supremacist John Kucek, saying "the first thing we had to do was convince people not to vote for the
Nazi"?
... that cheeses made from thermized milk are not considered
raw-milk cheeses in Europe, but are still subject to
FDA restrictions on raw-milk cheeses in the U.S.?
... that Louis F. Bantle saw
U.S. Tobacco's income rise tenfold to
US$1 billion led by sales of
smokeless tobacco, telling managers, "We must sell the use of tobacco in the mouth and appeal to young people"?
... that i, a
British newspaper launched on 26 October 2010, contains several "matrixes" – small paragraphs of news which are expanded upon in full articles inside the paper?
... that in 1955, a
United AirlinesDouglas DC-6(similar example pictured)crashed only days after a device that could have prevented it was installed on a sister aircraft?
... that Barnum's Kaleidoscape was the first Ringling show to be held under a tent since 1956 and also its first one-ring presentation in more than a century?
... that in "one of the most spectacular homicide trials ever", a jury acquitted Melvin Lane Powers and his aunt – and lover –
Candy Mossler for the murder of her husband?
... that Kutmichevitsa, a region of the
First Bulgarian Empire now mostly in
Albania, was home to one of the two most important cultural centres of 9th-century Bulgaria?
... that the only known location of Isoetes eludens, a recently discovered
aquatic plant, is a single 2 m (6.6 ft) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) deep seasonal
rock pool?
... that the name of Bjørnsletta Station of the Oslo Metro is ultimately derived from a
bear sighting in 1852?
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... that in 1967 the BSA A65 Star(pictured) helped
BSA win a
Queens Award to Industry and by 1969 BSA were responsible for 80% of the British motorcycles exported?
... that the term "
hatchet man" originated from the weapon of choice used in killings on
Chinatown'sDoyers Street, known as the "Bloody Angle" for its frequent gang murders in the early 20th century?
... that the interior of the 10th-century Round Church(pictured) in the medieval
Bulgarian capital of
Preslav features medieval inscriptions in three alphabets and two languages?
... that physician Sir James Clark is said to have contributed to the agonising death of poet
John Keats by putting him on a starvation diet consisting of a single anchovy and a piece of bread a day?
... that the idea that Lancaut, on the border between
England and
Wales, may be the site of a medieval
leper colony is supported by the unusual number of
medicinal herbs found in the churchyard (pictured)?
... that
Walter Winchell described the 1942 British film Thunder Rock as "a glowing fantasy that lights up the dark corners of many current issues"?
... that the
Innu and
Naskapi of the Lac-John Reserve in northern
Quebec,
Canada, initially lived in poverty without sanitation, electricity, schools, or a medical facility?
... that one academic commentator described Dr. Bonham's Case simply as an "abortion"?
06:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
... that a fall in bus passenger numbers in
Hampshire between 1999 and 2001 was partly attributed to the collapse of the Tillingbourne Bus Company(bus pictured)?
... that the Battle of Macau of 1622 was the only battle on Chinese soil to be fought between two European powers?
... that The New York Times provided plans for constructing the
wet-foldingorigami sculpture of a rat created by Eric Joisel, but warned readers that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog"?
... that in Constantinople,
Mehmed II ordered a group of
Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
... that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a
fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
... that the Três Marias Dam's power plant is named after Bernard Mascarenhas, who built Marmelos Zero, South America's first major hydroelectric power plant?
... that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven
Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
06:00, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
... that Khandita(illustrated) is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover cheats on her and spends the night with another woman?
... that "Make It Easy", a
Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125?
... that according to a popular myth, the
Chinese philosopherConfucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
... that after battling over who could use the name "
Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about
homelessness?
... that
jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?
... that live coverage of Jökulsárlón(pictured) in
Iceland on the
American TV program Good Morning America in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4 million people?
... that
historianChester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty?
... that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the
Great Depression?
... that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of
martial law in Poland?
... that
Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
... that the Étang Saumâtre in
Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from
calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?
... that Pedro Borrell, the
Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the
Caribbean Sea?
... that Perlman syndrome is a very rare
overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
... that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?
... that the German
battleshipSMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
... that Alexis Rockman's mural Manifest Destiny, commissioned by the
Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts
Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
... that the Araçuaí River valley in
Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the
gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of
Minas Novas?
... that
Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?
... that the name of the Pyana River(pictured) reflects the drunkenness of the Russian Army during the
associated battle in 1377?
... that
Texas Techprofessor emeritusAlwyn Barr, who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas?
... that the
Greek television series To Nisi, based on the best-selling novel The Island by
Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
... that English former professional
footballerJimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of
racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won
£200,000 on a single race?
... that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
... that Robert Tishman co-founded
Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law
Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
... that upon the release of the 1934
Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
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... that Ramón de Bonifaz(illustrated) broke the river defenses of
Seville, leading to the city's capture from the
Moors?
... that the Atlantic Wind Connection is a planned "superhighway for clean energy" to serve 1.9 millionMid-Atlantic households with power from
wind farms to be built 20 miles (32 km) offshore?
... that in addition to being made an officer of the
Order of Canada, Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
... that the Blue Monkeymicrobrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla
Porter, and 99 Red Baboons?
... that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern
Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
... that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a
tenement he owned to make way for
1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
... that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little
killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
... that Joan Henry'sLook on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of
homosexuality to be approved for performance by the
Lord Chamberlain?
... that the successful
1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in
Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
... that the parallel structures of
Croatia's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
... that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the
Mozambique–
Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of
Lake Malawi, and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
... that King's Carpenter John Abel also designed a wooden tank called the Sow?
... that
rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
... that the Swedish
monitorFolke was designed opposite of her
sister ships, with a
gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
... that
Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only
shooter in the world to win the
double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
... that in May 1958, eight months after
John Cockroft had announced with great fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device (pictured) had achieved
nuclear fusion, he was forced to retract this claim?
... that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in
Moscopole,
Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
... that Maurice Neligan was described as "the first superstar of Irish medicine"?
... that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932
Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
... that William W. Norton wrote
scripts for films starring
John Wayne and
Burt Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your
IQ is low enough"?
... that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2)
wave pool at
Hyderabad's Jalavihar, which is the largest in
India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
... that Javorova Kosa Tunnel(pictured) caved in during construction, requiring removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cubic feet) of rock and soil before the work could resume?
... that when a
diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a
JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's
CEO, personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
... that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to
tablet devices?
... that
Super HeavyweightSean McCorkle has been
nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?
... that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of
Jarrow?
... that though his work usually appeared to have been
painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake
Zen painter"?
... that the only exit from a Tett turret(pictured) could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
... that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
... that
trumpeterGracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
... that when Helmut de Boor taught at the
University of Bern, his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
... that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by
ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
... that letters from the 17th-century
Catholicmonk Ansaldo Cebà to a married
Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in
Belize has revealed evidence of a
Mayan city?
... that
Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
... that Redline,
Madhouse's latest
anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
... that
sopranoDolores Wilson lamented that "the
Italian I'd learned by studying
operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?
... that
Holly Madison's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
... that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
... that a
human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?
... that the land around the St. Johns River Light(pictured) in
Jacksonville, Florida, has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground?
... that Sava River Bridge carrying the
A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
... that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
... that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in
Warminster,
Pennsylvania, as the hardest job he ever did?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Neptune was deemed "a
white elephant, being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
... that the Benson raft(pictured) was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the
archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
... that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern
Fox Terrier?
... that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of
Venosa, owner of
Italian wine estate Fiorano, considered the white
mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
06:00, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
... that the summer truffle (pictured) and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one species of
truffle, Tuber aestivum, which is found across Europe?
... that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first
motorcycles, the steam-powered,
penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
... that
California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of
expulsion?
... that the town of
Lice, Turkey, was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975, with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
... that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his
floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008
European Championships?
... that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on
public roads?
... that Bill Henry was listed as
Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game?
... that Don Doll, the only player in
NFL history to register 10 or more
interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the
Marines?
... that even though
Wesleyanmissionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
... that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in
Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
... that the recently described extinct
penguinInkayacu from the
Eocene of
Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?
06:00, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
... that gastric antral vascular ectasia(pictured) is also called "watermelon stomach" because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble the markings on
watermelon?
... that the Place d'Armes in
Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
... that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in
Manila Cathedral?
... that
Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
... that 19th-century
Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge
sunflower and a winged lion?
... that Gus Bevona resigned from local
SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of
US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Enterprise had a wooden
hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the
Royal Navy?
... that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish
dinner for four on
The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
... that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known
antique vases?
... that HMS Minotaur and her
sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
... that
Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic
Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
... that the two claiming
Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places?
... that
Dutchdressage rider Edward Gal and his
horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
... that after BingoLotto in
Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
... that the Wandsworth Shield(pictured) has a
repoussé design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British
Celtic art?
... that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in
Quebec,
Canada, are considered the most traditional and conservative
Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
... that in 1538,
Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20
marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
... that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
... that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of
Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a
totem pole in a
Manhattan shop?
... that "You Are the Girl" was
The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
... that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught
Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
... that The Cosmic Landscape by
Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
... that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in
Singapore(pictured) must use one of Singapore's four official languages – English,
Malay,
Mandarin or
Tamil – or a related dialect?
... that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the
Croatian A9 motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the bridge?
... that the archaic
Greek letterSampi(pictured) has also been called san, enacosin, angma, sincope, charaktir, or even parakyisma, which literally means "spurious pregnancy"?
... that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in
Hove, England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
... that The Battle of Waterloo, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of
£1,800 by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British
epic film"?
... that
U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner of
Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
... that a fortune made as a merchant in
Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back
Cambo House, a property forfeited because of his family's
Jacobite sympathies?
... that in the documentary television series about
South Americanserial killers, Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
... that the
NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by
its successor six years later?
... that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that
war might reach
Norway in a sudden manner, but when the
invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
... that the
nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton,
Greater Manchester, (pictured) was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly?
... that one of the best-preserved
Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was founded at the same time as
Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010?
... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa,
Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree?
... that the word "
constable" derives from the
Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the
army and the imperial court?
... that
Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for
income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?
... that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009
Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
... that
virologistJohn R. Paul blamed better hygiene for
polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to
poliovirus would have given immunity?
... that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
... that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading, in which he explained concepts in
Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
... that while Red-and-yellow Barbets(male pictured) are tame in areas where they are not persecuted, they are hunted by the
Maasai for their feathers?
... that the British
ironcladHMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a
gale off
Pantelleria in March 1872?
... that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence,
Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
... that Gene Swick was the first college
quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the
Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional
football?
... that in 2010, the
Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in
Romania?
... that
radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
... that in
Thomas Eakins' Self-portrait, the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
... that a practice in
Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh?