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 * ...that Hurricane Guillermo (pictured) in 1997 was the second strongest storm on record in the Eastern Pacific basin with a minimal pressure of 919 millibars?
 * ...that Giovanni Dominici was initially refused admittance to the Dominican Order because of a speech impediment that was later reportedly cured after intercession by Catherine of Siena?
 * ...that one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called the Emperor of China?
 * ...that bottle pool, a hybrid game combining elements of pocket and carom billiards, was played by world-renowned quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling?
 * ...that Wa-Wan Press was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions?
 * ...that after a 1731 fire, the Bastard brothers were responsible for the reconstruction of Blandford Forum (rebuilt town hall pictured) in a vernacular Baroque style?
 * ...that Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France, to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army?
 * ...that one of the earliest known references to Karnataka, the name of an Indian state, is found in the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata?
 * ...that Whuppity Scoorie is a traditional celebration in Lanark, Scotland during which children run around a church three times swinging paper balls over their heads?
 * ...that William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now the U.S. state of Washington?
 * ...that chocolate box art (example pictured) started in the late 19th century as box decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe sentimental pictures?
 * ...that the Romanian writer Paul Goma, whose citizenship was revoked by the Ceauşescu’s regime in 1978, now resides in France as a stateless person?
 * ...that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?
 * ...that the Portland Brownstone Quarries, which once provided brownstone to many landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National Historic Landmark and a regional scuba diving destination?
 * ...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?
 * ...that Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America?
 * ...that the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India?
 * ...that the California Maritime Academy has named three of its four training ships Golden Bear (third ship pictured) since 1946?
 * ...that two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27, 1841?
 * ...that Patrick Heenan, a Captain in the British Indian Army, was convicted of treason after spying for the Empire of Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II?
 * ...that a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?
 * ...that the McLaren F1 GTR, based on the production McLaren F1 supercar, won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year against purpose-built Le Mans Prototypes?
 * ...that the Siribhoovalaya, a unique work of multi-lingual literature composed by Jain monk Kumudendu Muni, is written entirely using Kannada numerals, without the use of any alphabets?
 * ...that Fountaingrove Lake (pictured) in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?
 * ...that Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?
 * ...that Graeme Park is the only surviving residence of a colonial era Governor of Pennsylvania?
 * ...that Luan Jujie is the only East Asian person to have won an Olympic gold medal in the sport of fencing?
 * ...that Joseph Ingraham, an American sailor who discovered several of the Marquesas Islands, was lost at sea in 1800?
 * ...that Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
 * ...that at the Battle of Baia (drawing pictured), Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus was struck by arrows three times and almost died?
 * ...that after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt, the Athenian assembly considered executing the entire male population of Mytilene?
 * ...that during the blood-vomiting game, a famous Go game between Honinbo Jowa and Intetsu Akaboshi that lasted four days, Jowa made three unorthodox moves that were reputed to have been suggested to him by ghosts?
 * ...that a Spokane, Washington, television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests of Gonzaga University basketball player Josh Heytvelt and his teammate?
 * ...that the locality of Boinka, Victoria, (pictured) which has area population of 28 people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne?
 * ...that Mayurasharma was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi, the earliest native Kingdom to rule over what is today modern Karnataka state, India?
 * ...that the balloon framing method of wall framing became obsolete in the 1940s when it was replaced by the platform framing method?
 * ...that the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount?
 * ...that American music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine is the son of English documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine, the maker of the 1984 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip-Hop History?
 * ...that the Russian defense correspondent Ivan Safronov, who was writing about the third consecutive launch failure of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, died in a mysterious fall from his fifth floor apartment?
 * ...that former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented (pictured) on 3 March 2007?
 * ...that Danny Kaye, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Abbott and Costello and Sammy Davis, Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.?
 * ...that Timothy Campbell was assigned the role of promoting an anti-wrinkle device from Amstrad's Health & Beauty division after winning the first series of The Apprentice UK?
 * ...that the Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the only national landmark in Canada, protecting pingos?
 * ...that Steve Stanton, Largo, Florida's city manager since 1993, was fired for pursuing sex reassignment?
 * ...that the Ottoman Bank, established as a private bank in 1856, became a central bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until 1931?
 * ...that Barnabé Brisson's 1559 De Verborum (frontispiece pictured) became the standard legal dictionary of the time and an authoritative source for lexicographers for centuries afterwards?
 * ...that after the publication of the non-fiction book Cults of Unreason, other writers used the title to refer to strange groups, including UFO cults?
 * ...that the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?
 * ...that the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was the first of six Frank Lloyd Wright designs to use spiraling ramps?
 * ... that American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters?
 * ...that Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America?
 * ...that the Sound Effects Choir can imitate the sounds of a car using only the mouth or other body parts?

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