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 * ...that funeral trains (pictured) were once a common method of transporting coffins to cemeteries, but are now used almost exclusively for state funerals?
 * ...that the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than 40 awards and starred in almost a hundred films?
 * ...that Ivan Argunov, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a serf?
 * ...that during the Second Red Scare, United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?
 * ...that the album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States?
 * ...that Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam?
 * ...that rally driver Lucien Bianchi, who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain on three continents in only 24 days without incident, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles of well-surfaced public roads left to the finish?
 * ...that the use of the word "yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male," enabled women to enlist in the United States Navy Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F) (pictured) during World War I?
 * ...that the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912, when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat, the founder of Great Bulgaria?
 * ...that Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?
 * ...that Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th-century Britain?
 * ...that the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore to be mined?
 * ...that rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan?
 * ...that megaherbs on the uninhabited New Zealand sub-antarctic islands almost became extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors?
 * ...that while working on the Somerset coalfield William Smith, (pictured) who became known as the "Father of English Geology," developed the principle of faunal succession by observing the strata?
 * ...that in addition to being a painter, Wolf Huber was active as an architect, but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
 * ...that a type of car modification named Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza?
 * ...that Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E.?
 * ...that Stanford professor Kate Lorig developed a peer-led chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service?
 * ...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City?
 * ...that the song "Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics&mdash;one in English and one in Macedonian?
 * ...that 19th-century entrepreneur Maunsel White (pictured) of New Orleans invented a wine sauce in honor of his friend Andrew Jackson that is still manufactured today?
 * ...that walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees?
 * ...that the USS Hunchback was a steam-powered ferry converted into a gunboat during the American Civil War?
 * ...that film composer Richard Harvey has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments?
 * ...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised great influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
 * ...that the Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species, whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays?
 * ...that Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
 * ...that 17th-century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
 * ...that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
 * ...that Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel?
 * ...that Penley, a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales, was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen?
 * ...that social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance, to increase their chance of dancing with new people?
 * ...that Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
 * ...that The Greek Slave (pictured), a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War?
 * ...that Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the United States military?
 * ...that according to Statistics Canada, 60 percent of Canadians are White?
 * ...that the Witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
 * ...that K-Klass are a house music group from North Wales that purchased an underground bunker for use as a recording studio?
 * ...that the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal, India?
 * ...that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
 * ...that Sir Edwin Landseer's iconic painting, Monarch of the Glen (pictured), was intended for the House of Lords, but the House of Commons refused to grant the £150 commission?
 * ...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the pogrom of the Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
 * ...that at nearly 70 percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries?
 * ...that the Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China?
 * ...that the oldest continuously-operated tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House, which opened in 1860?
 * ...that via Giulia, projected for Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since Antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome?
 * ...that the thriller De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) won 8 awards at the 2006 César Awards?
 * ...that Esplanade Park (pictured), built in 1943, is one of the oldest parks in Singapore, and has a number of historical landmarks which include the former Indian National Army Monument site and The Cenotaph?
 * ...that the 1928 Thames flood was the last time central London was flooded?
 * ...that John Pasche, an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones, has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Judas Priest and The Who?
 * ...that Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November, 2006?
 * ... that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
 * ...that the medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
 * ...that Sukhbir is often referred to as the Prince of Bhangra?
 * ...that Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, and spread flooding and tornaodes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States?
 * ...that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
 * ...that the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence?
 * ...that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is divergent and appears to equal 0, yet in some sense "sums" to 1⁄2 — a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
 * ...that Santa Rosa Creek (pictured) was the scene of an 1827 baptism of a Pomo maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California?
 * ...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
 * ...that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?

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