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 * ...that the historical medical campus Maiden's Field (clinic pictured) in Moscow started as a court garden for medicinal herbs?
 * ...that Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C.?
 * ...that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly?
 * ...that during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
 * ...that Scieno Sitter, a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge?
 * ...that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A?
 * ...that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge (pictured)?
 * ...that the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros, the home of the French Open in Paris, was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier, a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
 * ...that Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer, a British Conservative Member of Parliament, accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
 * ...that Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket?
 * ...that the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
 * ...that Italian-Australian hermit Valerio Ricetti (pictured) shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own utopia at Hermit's Cave near Griffith, New South Wales?
 * ...that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as a translator for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
 * ...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
 * ...that Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
 * ...that eight of Australia's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II, in the so-called Morotai Mutiny?
 * ...that Gavroche (pictured), a character from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris?
 * ...that most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units?
 * ...that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
 * ...that the Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum?
 * ...that the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow?
 * ...that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill?
 * ...that the Gate Church of the Trinity (pictured), originally constructed as an ascetic Kievan Rus' style church, is now lavishly decorated with Ukrainian Baroque style ornaments?
 * ...that two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?
 * ...that in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
 * ...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
 * ...that the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
 * ...that Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
 * ...that the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?
 * ...that the enzyme neprilysin (pictured) degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
 * ...that 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?
 * ...that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
 * ...that the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture?
 * ...that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
 * ...that a series-parallel graph (pictured) is a mathematical model of series and parallel electric circuits with two different nodes called  source and sink, indicating the direction of the electrical current flow?
 * ...that the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses?
 * ...that some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of Black haw to prevent abortions?
 * ...that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?
 * ...that at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, Yipsi Moreno became world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999?
 * ...that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (pictured), where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev?
 * ...that Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City, the largest community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains?
 * ...that William Clowes Ltd. ' s installation of noisy, steam-powered printing presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner William Clowes to court?
 * ...that the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows?
 * ...that the Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations on superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM?
 * ...that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (pictured) in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
 * ...that the South African record set in 2001 by All-African shot put champion Burger Lambrechts was subsequently annulled because of a positive doping test?
 * ...that since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults?
 * ...that the Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?
 * ...that early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?
 * ...that Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz's The Laws of Pesach&mdash;considered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jews&mdash;started as a privately distributed newsletter?

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