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 * ...that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
 * ...that the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?
 * ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University?
 * ...that global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes more successfully then what would otherwise be possible?
 * ...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
 * ...that Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?
 * ...that Bangalore Gayana Samaja, which celebrated its centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore?
 * ...that Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?
 * ...that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he did it again?
 * ...that the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian, which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia?
 * ...that Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?
 * ...that wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?
 * ...that the Raphael Cartoons (example pictured), tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years?
 * ...that Gun Hill Road in the Bronx was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?
 * ...that Ethel Jones Mowbray was a founder of the first African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha?
 * ...that Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India, Timor, Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire?
 * ...that "Professor Dull is anything but", referring to the historian on Han China Jack Dull, was a conventional joke on the campus of the University of Washington?
 * ...that although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War, the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's airport and its largest industrial park?
 * ...that the militants of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang, but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?
 * ...that the Pterodactyl Ascender (pictured) has been one of the most influential designs in ultralight aviation?
 * ...that East 233rd Street was part of the former New York State Route 164?
 * ...that the assassination of Bazin, a French labor recruiter in Vietnam, was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang?
 * ...that Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?
 * ...that in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?
 * ...that the famous Roman "first growth" wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico grape which is still being used to make wine today?
 * ...that King Richard I of England was killed while beseiging the small castle of Château de Chalus-Chabrol, which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges?
 * ...that British cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s?
 * ...that losing by thirty percentage points, Mark DeSantis's loss to Luke Ravenstahl in the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in over thirty years?
 * ...that Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal (1781 performance pictured) has been widely admired, but also criticized for hints of anti-Semitism, particularly regarding its references to Jewish moneylenders?
 * ...that actress Ethel Jackson remarried with the lawyer who had obtained her divorce the same month?
 * ...that Don Durdan was selected as the most valuable player of college football's Rose Bowl in 1942, and six years later, won a professional basketball championship with the Portland Indians?
 * ...that Flemish Baroque painting (1585–1700) saw many pieces created as collaborations between independent masters, such as Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders?
 * ...that science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry?
 * ...that there are over 90 mash-ups of the Kersal Massive's demo song?
 * ...that the expressions 'top dog' and 'underdog' may originate with the two sawyers in a saw pit?
 * ...that Manuela Beltrán (monument pictured) was a Colombian woman who organized a peasant revolt against excessive taxation in 1780?
 * ...that in 2003, thousands of dead cod mysteriously washed up on the shores of Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador with their internal organs frozen solid?
 * ...that the firm formed by John Brogden to build Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city?
 * ...that Les Parrott, a professor of clinical psychology, a motivational speaker, and a Nazarene minister, co-created, along with his wife, the eHarmony Marriage program?
 * ...that the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas, the southern-most tip of Africa, was named after Arniston, an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815?
 * ...that Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops in 1739?
 * ...that the obelisk in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio (pictured) was erected in 10 BC as a giant sundial gnomon, but stopped keeping accurate time within 30 years?
 * ...that the car combat video game Grudge Warriors was the first PlayStation title by Take-Two Interactive not requiring payment of a licensing fee to Sony?
 * ...that the All-American Wistert brothers Albert, Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame?
 * ...that the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England?
 * ...that U.S. soldiers considered the silver chevrons awarded for non-combat service in World War I a badge of shame?
 * ...that despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
 * ...that Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (pictured) was the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel?
 * ...that in 1982, Maurice Couve de Murville was plucked from obscurity as the Roman Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham?
 * ...that the PowerShot TX1 by Canon is their first attempt at a hybrid digital camera that offers both advanced ultra-zoom photography and advanced HDTV movie capture?
 * ...that in 2007, Arlene Holt Baker became the first African American AFL-CIO officer?
 * ...that Monosolenium tenerum is a species of weed that is threatened with habitat loss in Japan?
 * ...that Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his wives?
 * ...that Agatha Christie's longest book was her autobiography?
 * ...that Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?
 * ...that the orca Springer (pictured) is the only whale in history to have been successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention?
 * ...that the leader of the Tran Cao rebellion, a peasant revolt against the Le Dynasty in Vietnam in 1516, claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu deity Indra?
 * ...that the White House has an official position called Chief Floral Designer?
 * ...that despite being made from the same grape variety and less than 10 miles apart, the Barbaresco and the Barolo are two distinctly different Italian wines?
 * ...that cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society's Golden Jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine?
 * ...that on June 14, 1835, USRC Ingham became the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat?
 * ...that nobody knows the meaning of "Delmo," the subtitle given by Rachmaninoff to his 1899 composition Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor?
 * ...that millionaire's daughter Rose Dugdale joined an IRA active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the British Isles in 1974?
 * ...that the odds of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (pictured), an eminent judge, also having a eminent grandson were calculated in Galton's book Hereditary Genius as 30 to 1 against?
 * ...that the famous quote "No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad" generally attributed to Leo Rosten was actually first used in 1930 by future war correspondent Byron Darnton?
 * ...that the most famous archeological finding of Bronze and Iron Age Poland is the Biskupin fortified lake settlement?
 * ...that the Port of Geelong, located on the shores of Corio Bay in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, is the sixth largest in Australia by tonnage?
 * ...that Security Advisory Opinions, which can take more than 120 days to resolve, are the source of long delays in issuing United States visas?
 * ...that Singaporean Teresa Hsu, a 110-year old social worker who teaches yoga and selfless service to the needy, was named 'Hero for Today' by the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest?
 * ...that Jan Czerski (pictured), exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society?
 * ...that Tui bei tu, a banned 7th-century prophecy book about China which has been compared to the work of Nostradmus, became a bestseller in the 1990s?
 * ...that the Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis?
 * ...that the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley founded his £30,000 1856 church near the small village of Middleton on the Hill?
 * ...that during the 1991 NFL season, Cris Dishman had a seven game stretch where he forced at least one turnover in each game?
 * ...that the Stillwell Avenue/Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station?
 * ...that a lift attached to the side of the viaduct at Calstock railway station was used to lower railway trucks to the quays on the River Tamar 113 feet below?
 * ...that during the process of maceration (pictured) the clear-grayish color of grape juice gets its red wine coloring?