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 * ...that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
 * ...that Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal?
 * ...that the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
 * ...that the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
 * ...that Judy Morris, co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?
 * ...that, according to a ruling issued by U.S. federal judge Robert W. Sweet (pictured), McDonald's is not to blame for its customers' obesity?
 * ...that some species of Iridomyrmex ants (meat ant pictured) have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
 * ...that Bhadda Kapilani, the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations, was the former wife of Mahakasyapa, who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana?
 * ...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?
 * ...that Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
 * ...that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
 * ...that, following his death, Constabilis is said to have appeared to the abbots of La Trinità della Cava, which he founded, the first four of whom have also been declared saints?
 * ...that the first official Japanese Embassy to the United States (pictured) occurred in 1860?
 * ...that Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore?
 * ...that aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
 * ...that Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
 * ...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
 * ...that, until Johannes Rebmann saw snow on Kilimanjaro in 1848, most Europeans thought it could not exist in Africa?
 * ...that Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war?
 * ...that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House?
 * ...that the Master of the Playing Cards (3 of Birds pictured) was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking?
 * ...that National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry, succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars?
 * ...that Lake Kutubu, the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea, has 12 endemic species of fish?
 * ...that Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis, where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
 * ...that Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy, and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture?
 * ...that Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators?
 * ...that Nguyen Van Nhung, who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam's 1963 coup, was himself executed in a few months later after another coup?
 * ...that Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko (pictured) defended against superior British-French forces in the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, and even captured the British banner?
 * ...that Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
 * ...that the Dehousing Paper, presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
 * ...that American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic?
 * ...that the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War?
 * ...that Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach?
 * ...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
 * ...that Lieutenant-Colonel Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2, was a graduate of the University of Washington?
 * ... that despite his commitment to historical accuracy, Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece The Battle of Alexander at Issus (pictured) is depicted as occurring in the Alps, in 16th century costume?
 * ...that Yasa, the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha, was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
 * ...that Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister?
 * ...that Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?
 * ...that Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day?
 * ...that the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan?
 * ...that fashion designer Gareth Pugh has earned critical acclaim for his clothing made of inflated PVC (example pictured) but has never sold a single dress?
 * ...that Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
 * ...that Alan Davidson, regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket, only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
 * ...that the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting, forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere?
 * ...that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
 * ...that Lloyd Groff Copeman, the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray, the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather?
 * ...that atop Berne's medieval clock tower Zytglogge (pictured) a gilded figure of Chronos strikes the bell every hour?
 * ...that Katherine Ann Power, a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was treated for depression while on the run in Oregon by Courtney Love's mother?
 * ...that the lionfish genus Parapterois includes P. heterura, an attractive species uncommon in the aquarium trade, and the poorly known P. macrura?
 * ...that long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
 * ...that after being captured by pirates, Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the captain so much he set them all free?
 * ...that in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists?
 * ...that vented cell (or flooded cell) nickel-cadmium batteries are used when large capacities and discharge rates are required?
 * ...that the bust of Ankhhaf (pictured), in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is a realistic portrayal of the features of an actual person, which is rare in Ancient Egyptian art?
 * ...that the Swiss castle Ruine Wulp was at one point torn apart and replaced with a single tower and building?
 * ...that Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War?
 * ...that generic antecedents are essential parts of communication; and there are many strategies to refer to them clearly and appropriately?
 * ...that the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
 * ...that during the Mexican-American War, Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it?
 * ...that it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson's Latin motets so it could be published and recorded?
 * ...that the prototypes for the WW II German U-boat fleet (Type II pictured) were designed by a Dutch company and built in Finland at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard?
 * ...that the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination?
 * ...that due to Claude de Bernales' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
 * ...that the Missa de Beata Virgine was the most popular of Josquin des Prez's masses in the 16th century?
 * ...that British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate?
 * ...that the Cave of Swallows is so large and wide that it is possible to navigate a hot air balloon through the cave with ease?
 * ...that Phreatobius cisternarum, a species of catfish, is one of the few fish species that lives underground?
 * ...that British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsythe Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall (pictured) in Cheshire?
 * ...that Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper?
 * ...that legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
 * ...that US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh?
 * ...that Elvira Popescu, an actress, theatre director, and recipient of the Légion d'honneur, was one of four women who inspired Henri Matisse's painting La Blouse Roumaine?
 * ...that in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. the U.S. Supreme Court held that preliminary work activities should be included as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
 * ...that the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas?
 * ...that the Swedish-Norwegian Union Jack of 1844 (pictured) became so unpopular that it was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillesalaten, after a colorful dish of pickled herring, red beets and apples?
 * ...that the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
 * ...that botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea?
 * ...that educator Eliot Wigginton, editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation?
 * ...that citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?
 * ...that Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong, recently sold for US$9.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction?
 * ...that the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad was completed by 1917, but a year later the Finnish Civil War caused traffic to stop, with a mile of track removed?
 * ...that All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels (pictured) depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland?
 * ...that the crown in the coat of arms of Amsterdam is the Imperial Crown of Austria?
 * ...that yaylag, the Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE?
 * ...that Grey Herons began nesting in the Kaggaladu heronry in only a single tree?
 * ...that the ancient goddess Venus derived her epithet Venus Erycina from her celebrated temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily?
 * ...that the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?
 * ... that Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas?
 * ...that the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40, thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?
 * ...that the soldiers of the Black Brunswickers (pictured) dressed entirely in black and wore hats with Death's Heads on them to reflect their commander's hatred for Napoleon?
 * ...that Sorubim is a genus of catfish with shovel-shaped long noses?
 * ...that despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of Venezuelan citizens have access to potable water and 71% have access to sanitation?
 * ...that during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France?
 * ...that chal is a traditional Turkic drink made from fermented camel's milk, which is popular in Central Asia, as well as in the Near East?
 * ...that an appellate court panel immediately freed Wisconsin civil servant Georgia Thompson on conclusion of oral arguments, an almost-unheard of occurrence?
 * ...that the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi?
 * ...that Charles Frederick Field (pictured) was the basis for Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House?
 * ...that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali?
 * ...that Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is an ancient Sumerian tablet describing how Enmerkar of Uruk forced the people of Aratta to contribute materials for the ziggurats he was building?
 * ...that the modern meaning of "ballad", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers?
 * ...that NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?
 * ...that Belgium's Carnival of Binche (pictured), which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days?
 * ...that the earliest known examples of polyphonic music, dating from the 9th century, are written in Daseian notation?
 * ...that it is unclear whether Church of St Abamūn in 13th century Busiris was dedicated to Abamun of Tarnut or Abāmūn of Tukh?
 * ...that pharmacist Sir Hugh Linstead introduced the British Act of Parliament which criminalised cannabis cultivation?
 * ...that Hypancistrus is a genus of catfish with suckermouths, including popular aquarium fish such as the zebra pleco?
 * ...that Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong?
 * ...that the 1957 Polish legislative elections, only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
 * ...that the typical Amsterdammertjes (pictured) that line the streets of Amsterdam will be gradually removed?
 * ...that in 1906 The New York Times praised The Langham apartment building, noting among its modern amenities "real ice"?
 * ...that the "secret university" largely organised by Frank Bell in a World War II POW camp taught subjects as diverse as Urdu, pig-farming, civics and chess?
 * ...that Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket/rugby union international since the 1960s?
 * ...that Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I, and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army?
 * ...that Jewish-Polish historian Lucjan Dobroszycki who survived the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (pictured) in World War II became known as the New York City YIVO's "research consultant to the stars"?
 * ...that the "Girl Grimmett", Peggy Antonio was the first Australian to take a wicket in women's Test cricket?
 * ...that Finland was close to becoming an independent kingdom in 1742?
 * ...that professional ice hockey player Bob Bailey was traded three separate times for Bill Dineen over a nine year period?
 * ...that the process of adding sugar to wine prompted 900,000 people to protest in the French Languedoc, culminating in riots that killed five people?
 * ...that the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh, and owned major landmarks like the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban?
 * ...that, as part of a 2006 advertising campaign, award-winning Romanian writer Ioan T. Morar impersonated Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu?

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