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 * ...that the German late Romantic composer Richard Wetz (pictured), in 1928, was appointed foreign member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky?
 * ...that an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
 * ...that it is a Georgia Tech tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower?
 * ...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?
 * ...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
 * ...that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
 * ...that the first U.S. National Christmas Tree (pictured) was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?
 * ...that the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water, and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
 * ...that Lavastorm, a web design company during the dot-com bubble, split into two companies focusing on revenue assurance and mobile games?
 * ...that the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
 * ...that Gesta Tancredi, one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade, was not translated into English until 2005?
 * ...that conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
 * ...that the Great Synagogue in Danzig (pictured), one of the most impressive synagogues of its time, was demolished by the city council of the Free City of Danzig even before the German invasion of Poland began?
 * ...that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
 * ...that honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks, combinations, caroms or kick shots?
 * ...that Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
 * ...that the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
 * ...that Donnie Young, the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor recipient?
 * ...that whipcracking (pictured), the art of using a whip to create a miniature sonic boom, is a competitive sport in Australia, where it was also elaborated into whipboxing?
 * ...that the Thornapple River has 5 dams, including one in Ada bought from Consumers Power for a dollar by a river property owners association?
 * ...that Irfan Pathan, the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?
 * ...that the 1931 murders of five Japanese people in Hong Kong during anti-Japanese riots were cited as a casus belli for the Shanghai War of 1932?
 * ...that the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata, Hodie, by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
 * ...that the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton, well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family?
 * ...that Isaias W. Hellman (pictured), a co-founder of the University of Southern California, ran Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled its headquarters?
 * ...that the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
 * ... that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
 * ...that New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver's major league debut?
 * ...that the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
 * ...that the original title of the Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
 * ...that Rastrelli's Monument to Peter the Great (pictured) in Saint Petersburg includes a message by emperor Paul I that is a subtle mockery of Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman?
 * ...that Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem, was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
 * ...that Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right or vice versa?
 * ...that American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?
 * ...that John G. Downey, Governor of California during the American Civil War, was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
 * ...that the original title of the Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
 * ...that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
 * ...that, unlike normal lithium ion batteries, the lithium iron phosphate battery does not explode under extreme conditions?
 * ...that Ron Powers, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize?
 * ...that the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
 * ...that a payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines?
 * ...that the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City, the two most prominent football teams of the city?
 * ...that the Blauhöhle is a huge cave system with more than 50m high caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf (pictured)?
 * ...that the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
 * ...that Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos, even though the term himbo technically would have been more correct?
 * ...that T.H. Clark retired from McGill University at the age of 100 after teaching for 69 years?
 * ...that Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one"?
 * ...that noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin, better known as "Miss Manners"?
 * ...that the Zamość Synagogue (pictured) was one of the first buildings added to the 'ideal' Renaissance city of kanclerz Jan Zamoyski?
 * ...that the First Engineer Bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia, named after the nearby Engineer Castle, is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges?

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