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 * ...that former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko?
 * ...that Juan N. Méndez (pictured) took up the post of interim President of Mexico for three months to allow then-President Porfirio Díaz to personally lead his forces against a partisan uprising?
 * ...that the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison?
 * ...that after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II, Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
 * ...that the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot?
 * ...that the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
 * ...that Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology?
 * ...that American World War II veteran Alejandro R. Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly assaulting and demolishing an enemy machine-gun pillbox?
 * ...that the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree that is over 250 years old?
 * ...that Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
 * ...that the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart?
 * ... that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
 * ...that the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
 * ...that U.S. soldier Rodolfo P. Hernandez (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?
 * ...that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently set the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
 * ...that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
 * ...that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
 * ...that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta (pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?
 * ...that George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia's gold rush?
 * ...that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
 * ...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
 * ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
 * ...that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
 * ...that the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart?
 * ... that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
 * ...that the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
 * ...that U.S. soldier Rodolfo P. Hernandez (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?
 * ...that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently set the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
 * ...that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
 * ...that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
 * ...that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta (pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?
 * ...that George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia's gold rush?
 * ...that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
 * ...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
 * ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
 * ...that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
 * ...that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
 * ...that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta (pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?
 * ...that George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia's gold rush?
 * ...that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
 * ...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
 * ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
 * ...that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
 * ...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
 * ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
 * ...that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
 * ...that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
 * ...that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?


 * ...that Natural Bridge State Park holds the largest natural arch in Wisconsin?
 * ...that after World War I, Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire?
 * ...that U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?
 * ...that Herbert Gutman co-founded the "new labor history" school of thought, which focuses on the effects that ordinary people have had on the history of labor?
 * ...that Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf, as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?
 * ...that spray towers remove pollutants from exhaust gases by channeling them through a series of chemical sprays?
 * ...that Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan was head of the Northern Alliance whilst serving as a Buddhist priest?
 * ...that there has been a long history of activism at Ohio Wesleyan University (protest pictured), endorsed by the inaugural address of its first president?
 * ...that Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area, as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration?
 * ...that calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder?
 * ...that Emily Dolvin was the first president of the Roswell Historical Society?
 * ...that the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian-speaking immigrants from the Iron Age?
 * ...that a commemorative album was released for the tenth death anniversary of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur?
 * ...that a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain?
 * ...that Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the second member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II?
 * ...that the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of a 1979 Academy Award-winning film?
 * ...that as they don't require fans, ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
 * ...that Remuh Synagogue (pictured) is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
 * ...that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?
 * ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
 * ...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
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 * ...that Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area, as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration?
 * ...that calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder?
 * ...that Emily Dolvin was the first president of the Roswell Historical Society?
 * ...that the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian-speaking immigrants from the Iron Age?
 * ...that a commemorative album was released for the tenth death anniversary of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur?
 * ...that a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain?
 * ...that Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the second member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II?
 * ...that the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of a 1979 Academy Award-winning film?
 * ...that as they don't require fans, ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
 * ...that Remuh Synagogue (pictured) is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
 * ...that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?
 * ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
 * ...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
 * }
 * ...that Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the second member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II?
 * ...that the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of a 1979 Academy Award-winning film?
 * ...that as they don't require fans, ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
 * ...that Remuh Synagogue (pictured) is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
 * ...that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?
 * ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
 * ...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
 * }
 * ...that Remuh Synagogue (pictured) is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
 * ...that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?
 * ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
 * ...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
 * }
 * ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
 * ...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
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 * ...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
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 * ...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
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 * ... that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
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 * On March 9, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
 * [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]
 * On March 10, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Baird Mountains, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution?
 * [[Image:Updated DYK query.svg|15px|Updated DYK query]]
 * On April 2, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography can be used to explore features of microcrystalline formation too fine to be seen through X-ray diffraction, neutron, or electron diffraction?
 * On April 3, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cyclida, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that cycloids' are believed to have been driven to extinction when crabs spread across their territory?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Zagreb School of Economics and Management, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that the Zagreb School of Economics and Management is the largest private institute for higher education in Croatia?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article HMS Peterel, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that Jane Austen's brother, Francis, captured two French merchant ships and fought off their escorts while captaining the sloop-of-war HMS Peterel?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Siege of Nöteborg (1702), which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that after receiving a letter during the 1702 Siege of Nöteborg, Peter the Great offered the defending officers' wives safe passage, if they took their husbands with them?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Portuguese legislative election, 2011, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that after a series of austerity measures were voted down in the Portuguese parliament in March 2011, Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for a '''legislative election?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Minnette Gersh Lenier, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that Minnette Gersh Lenier used stage magic to teach remedial reading?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John R. Isbell, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that John R. Isbell] was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?
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 * ... that after a series of austerity measures were voted down in the Portuguese parliament in March 2011, Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned and called for a '''legislative election?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Minnette Gersh Lenier, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
 * }
 * ... that Minnette Gersh Lenier used stage magic to teach remedial reading?
 * On April 4, 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John R. Isbell, which you nominated. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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 * ... that John R. Isbell] was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?
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 * ... that John R. Isbell] was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?
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