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 * ...that William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (pictured)?
 * ...that the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
 * ...that Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?
 * ...that Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
 * ...that German Luftwaffe fighter ace Walther Dahl shot down 128 enemy aircraft in the Second World War, including a USAAF B-17 that he rammed in 1944?
 * ...that the Billboard Top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?
 * ...that the Karl Johanslussen (pictured) is one of the locks and sluices between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm?
 * ...that Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution?
 * ...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?
 * ...that Steve Crowley, a Marine Security Guard, was posthumously promoted to the rank of sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad, Pakistan?
 * ...that the 46 Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David?
 * ...that Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?
 * ...that English cannon batteries (pictured) required artillery crews of twelve per gun?
 * ...that the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?
 * ...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?
 * ...that the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?
 * ...that the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
 * ...that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Saint Charalampus was 113 years old?
 * ...that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms?
 * ...that Regal Mountain (pictured), an eroded stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains, is the third-highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska?
 * ...that the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany, near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein?
 * ...that more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity?
 * ...that taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on the taxicab in which was carrying a working miner?
 * ...that German toymaker Richard Steiff ' s invention of a toy bear received highest honors at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair?
 * ...that "urban Indian" activist Bernie Whitebear was the brother of groundbreaking health care administrator Luana Reyes and of sculptor, curator and memoirist Lawney Reyes?
 * ...that parti-coloured clothes, divided into different colours on the left and right when viewed from the front (pictured), became popular in late 14th century fashion, especially in England?
 * ...that the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
 * ...that the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003?
 * ...that WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
 * ...that the Halmidi inscription, an Indian inscription, found near the tiny village of Halmidi, in Karnataka, India, is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language?
 * ...that the icons and faces incised into Las Limas Monument 1 (pictured) were used for a hypothetical reconstruction of the Olmec pantheon?
 * ... that a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae?
 * ...that the case of Angela Carder, a cancer patient who was forced to undergo a Caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States?
 * ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?
 * ...the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-56.66 °C) at Rogers Pass, Montana?
 * ...that Walter Arthur Berendsohn who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?
 * ...that Chavundaraya, the builder of the Gomateshwara monolith (pictured) at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit literature?
 * ...that Nikita Balieff, a vaudeville performer, writer, impresario, and director, named his theater "Chauve-Souris" (bat) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?
 * ...that Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria?
 * ...that Matild Manukyan, a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner?
 * ...that a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman?
 * ...that the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
 * ...that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
 * ...that bioethical questions result the research of medical research scientists (pictured) working with animals and animal products, such as stem cells?
 * ...that Anthony Baldinucci, a Jesuit priest, often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions?
 * ...that when the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster, killing six people?
 * ...that "E depois do adeus" was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974?
 * ...that on January 30, 1996, in separate incidents, three commuters in a 90-minute period fell into the gap at the Syosset LIRR railway station due to icy platform conditions?

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