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 * ...that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
 * ...that the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War?
 * ...that after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
 * ...that English herald Thomas Hawley's (pictured) records contain the first preserved account of a heraldic visitation?
 * ...that, during the Great Depression, the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency?
 * ...that the 3rd Earl of Radnor, wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
 * ...that Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava?
 * ...that it was discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam?
 * ...that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
 * ...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Fiske (pictured) was torpedoed and sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting?
 * ...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?
 * ...that the Hilary Duff song "Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan?
 * ...that the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
 * ...that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
 * ...that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
 * ...that Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House (detail pictured) on fire during the burning of Columbia in 1865?
 * ...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
 * ...that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
 * ...that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
 * ...that Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?
 * ...that an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 (pictured) was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola?
 * ...that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
 * ...that on March 23 a Transaviaexport Cargo Airline Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft delivering humanitarian aid was shot down in Somalia?
 * ...that Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States' Law Day?
 * ...that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds?
 * ...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
 * ...that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?
 * ...that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
 * ...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
 * ...that the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
 * ...that Richmond Herald, Lawrence Dalton, embezzled tabards from the Royal Household in 1547?
 * ...that the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world?
 * ...that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (pictured) took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre?
 * ...that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram?
 * ...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?
 * ...that The Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo?
 * ...that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate?
 * ...that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?
 * ...that the Macal River (pictured) drains classic Mayan settlements and controls the flood stage of Belize's largest river?
 * ...that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
 * ...that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
 * ...that the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's first coloured city councillor in 1904?
 * ...that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
 * ...that Bennett Valley (pictured) is one of the newest additions to the list of American Viticulture Areas?
 * ...that professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
 * ...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?
 * ...that Jiri Dudacek, the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft, never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
 * ...that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in World War One and the first Australian shots in World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff (pictured), Australia?
 * ...that the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov?
 * ...that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
 * ...that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?
 * ...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Menges (pictured) was hit by an acoustic torpedo in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained afloat?
 * ...that Varvara Yakovleva, a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna?
 * ...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
 * ...that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
 * ...that Eilley Bowers (pictured) is one of the most researched, written and talked about women in Nevada history?
 * ...that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
 * ...that England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976, but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
 * ...that Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York?
 * ...that following the anti-Chinese Seattle riot of 1886 Congress paid $276,619.15 to the Chinese government in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
 * ...that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland (pictured) was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
 * ...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
 * ...that Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
 * ...that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
 * ...that the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America?
 * ...that traveling evangelist Tom Short (pictured) once matched wits with the Cult Awareness Network?
 * ...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
 * ...that The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
 * ...that when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
 * ...that Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
 * ...that the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?
 * ...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch (pictured) was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?
 * ...that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
 * ...that the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones?
 * ...that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"?
 * ...that The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder?
 * ...that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize?
 * ...that medieval cannon (pictured) were first used by the English during the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy?
 * ...that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
 * ...that the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
 * ...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
 * ...that The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine, including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
 * ...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern?
 * ...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
 * ...that the American merchant William Conner (pictured) helped maintain the Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body of Tecumseh following the Battle of the Thames?
 * ...that 1939's Indramalati, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the second ever Assamese language film?
 * ...that confusing orders prevented most Polish forces from taking part in the Battle of Wilno or Vilnius in 1939?
 * ...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
 * ...that on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi killing 53 according to official, between 165 and 200 according to Jewish sources?
 * ...that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
 * ...that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor?
 * ...that the Palanga Amber Museum (pictured) in Lithuania holds a collection of about 28,000 items of amber, including about 15,000 pieces that contain insects, spiders, and plants?
 * ...that over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II?
 * ...that Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957 when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom?
 * ...that the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
 * ...that in the 2001 Grand National, only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
 * ...that Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America?
 * ...the Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross, London in 1633?
 * ...that Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?

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