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 * ...that the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia (pictured) exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I?
 * ...that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
 * ...that the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
 * ...that mathematician Đuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university in Yugoslavia?
 * ...that the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
 * ...that approximately one-third of nearby galaxies contain low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions?
 * ...that the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966?
 * ...that among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon's robbery from Nagoya Castle?
 * ...that Major Megan McClung, the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq, organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
 * ...that John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister, sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II?
 * ...that the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?
 * ...that the Hearthstone House (pictured) became the first residence in the world to be lit by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system?
 * ...that for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock?
 * ...that the Union of Salvation, a Russian secret society of revolutionary Decembrists, was organized according to a complex Masonic style system of rituals and vows?
 * ...that Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow author Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II?
 * ...that Sandra Feldman, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, was mentored by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and arrested twice during the Freedom Rides?
 * ...that British MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide?
 * ...that Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian American state legislator in the USA?
 * ...that the Edmonson sisters (pictured) were African American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists?
 * ...that the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
 * ...that former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
 * ...that sixteen people were killed during a general strike in Nepal in 1992, an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war four years later?
 * ...that a pentimento is an alteration to a painting that can often only be seen in an X-ray or an infra-red photograph?
 * ...that Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
 * ...that those crossing the Fallasburg Bridge (pictured), a Brown truss covered bridge in Vergennes Township, Michigan at a speed faster than a walk may be subject to a $5 fine?
 * ...that Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
 * ...that the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
 * ...that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history?
 * ...that children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
 * ...that Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
 * ...that the 2006 Alamo Bowl (pictured: the Alamodome) set a record for the most people to view a sporting event live in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the most television viewers ever to watch a bowl game on ESPN?
 * ...that in Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor, the Malaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
 * ...that The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?
 * ...that Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport, New Zealand?
 * ...that Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
 * ...that Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?
 * ...that some four-leaf clovers are actually ferns in the family Marsileaceae (pictured)?
 * ...that an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide?
 * ...that the first radiosonde was made by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov?
 * ...that Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beardism in the Oxford English Dictionary?
 * ...that in 1936, 11-term U.S. Congressman Frederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer, Frank W. Towey, Jr.?
 * ...that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
 * ...that in 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
 * ...that Ichikawa Danjūrō I (pictured) was killed onstage by a fellow Kabuki actor?
 * ...that the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav?
 * ...that jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell, while in Germany for the U.S. Army, studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony?
 * ...that the Australian punk rock single "(I’m) Stranded" pre-dated the Sex Pistols' debut release?
 * ...that Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004?
 * ...that Plagiostomum vittatum, the "Candy Cane Worm", is a flatworm with red stripes?
 * ...that the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?
 * ...that Haghpat Monastery (pictured) in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
 * ...that Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media?
 * ...that the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
 * ...that Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky?
 * ...that the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?
 * ...that in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
 * ...that New York's Panther Mountain (pictured) was the site of a prehistoric meteor crash?
 * ...that British MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
 * ...that 2-methylhexane and heptane are liquids with the same molecular formula but they have different density, freezing points and boiling points?
 * ...that despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania's secret police?
 * ...that a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
 * ...that Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II?
 * ...that Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (pictured) introduced the famous abolitionist image of the kneeling female slave with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sister"?
 * ...that despite Irish neutrality, weather reports from Met Éireann were used to plan the D-Day landings?
 * ...that Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch, after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
 * ... that Ira Goldstein, an advertisement campaign character for the ASB Bank in New Zealand, supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979 Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
 * ...that former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976?
 * ... that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS?
 * ...that the history of the carom billiards disciplines, balkline and straight rail (balkline table pictured), features a veritable billiards evolutionary arms race, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?
 * ...that former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
 * ...that Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
 * ...that sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
 * ...that sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf?
 * ...that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay (pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
 * ... that Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution?
 * ...that the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?
 * ...that Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
 * ...that retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González?
 * ...that the site of SSAWS, once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan's first IKEA superstore?
 * ...that in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD (pictured) software?
 * ...that after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger, a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?
 * ...that John Nyathi Pokela, having served 13 years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage, assumed chairmanship of the Pan Africanist Congress after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?
 * ...that surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
 * ...that Virgin Unite, the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?
 * ...that the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?
 * ...that Thomas Cole painted The Oxbow (pictured) in 1836 after taking a break from working on his famous series of paintings The Course of Empire?
 * ...that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
 * ...that although Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico, it first appeared in California?
 * ...that Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani?
 * ...that the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages?
 * ...that 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
 * ...that despite running for only 3 years, Aušra (pictured), the first national Lithuanian newspaper, gave its name to the period between 1883 and 1904 in the history of Lithuania?
 * ...that Robert Bristow, the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
 * ...that in Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, the Russian parody of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a bottle of vodka resides on almost every table shown in the movie?
 * ...that Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?

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