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 * ...that Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
 * ...that model Anna Loginova founded a women bodyguard firm in Russia because male bodyguards are sometimes made to wait outside restaurants while the client is inside?
 * ...that the Gough Map, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366?
 * ...that Vermont coppers (pictured) were the currency used in Vermont before it became a U.S. state in 1791?
 * ...that although clansmen or clanswomen of a Scottish clan may wear a Scottish crest badge, the actual crest and motto within the badge are the sole property of their chief?
 * ...that the Black jack, Caranx lugubris, was first described in 1860 by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
 * ...that Panagbenga Festival was not only created to celebrate Baguio's flowers and culture but also to prove that the city has recovered from the 1990 Luzon earthquake?
 * ...that the Soviet Leningrad Front was subject to a 28 month long blockade in World War II?
 * ...that the 1973 Rose Bowl holds the bowl game attendance record in American college football at 106,869?
 * ...that Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism?
 * ...that Xa Loi Pagoda (pictured), which boasts Vietnam's tallest bell tower, was raided and vandalised by the special forces of President Ngo Dinh Diem?
 * ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
 * ...that Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park?
 * ...that the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was concluded between private citizens and the Comanche, then recognized by the United States, and opened 3,000,000 acres (12,140 km²) to settlers?
 * ...that in the Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union?
 * ...that the first chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory Richard Arthur Blackburn heard the first significant Aboriginal Land Rights case in Australia?
 * ...that David Doremus's character G.W. Haines, the teenaged boyfriend of Mary Ellen Walton on The Waltons, was killed off in 1977, after five years on the CBS series, in a supposed World War II training accident?
 * ...that Kohndo (also known as Doc Odnok, full name Kohndo Assogba), a French rapper and producer born in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris, was part of the group La Cliqua?
 * ...that the redside dace (pictured) is the only species of minnow routinely to feed on flying insects by leaping from water?
 * ...that Dick Kimball, University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and trampoliner?
 * ...that Votan, a legendary figure from Mesoamerica, has been erroneously identified with the Norse god Odin and the Mayan ruler Pacal the Great, among others, despite a lack of evidence?
 * ...that British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
 * ...that 3–5.5 million OST-Arbeiters, slave laborers from Eastern Europe, worked in Nazi Germany during WWII?
 * ...that Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
 * ...that Multinational Division Central-South, part of the Multinational Force Iraq, has been under the Polish command since its creation in 2003?
 * ...that the wetlands of the Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects"?
 * ...that Joseph Farington (pictured) kept a diary almost daily from 13 July 1793 until 30 December 1821 that has provided historians with insight into the London art world as well as first-hand accounts of important political events of the day?
 * ...that Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent, is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin?
 * ...that when Jean-Paul Sartre's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus, still a journalist in Algeria working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger?
 * ...that the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
 * ...that tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India?
 * ...that Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry?
 * ...that due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating?
 * ...that in the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman (pictured) transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
 * ...that despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
 * ...that the Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew to be described in over a century?
 * ...that a discontinued 1980s hockey helmet by sporting goods manufacturer Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet?
 * ...that University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
 * ...that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia?
 * ...that Samuel Johnson wrote a satirical verse on the 21st birthday of his protégé Sir John Lade (pictured) that, aside from correctly predicting his future career, partly inspired A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad?
 * ...that epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life may have a lower risk of breast cancer?
 * ...that the name of Whangaroa Harbour, an inlet on the northern coast of the Northland Region of North Island, New Zealand, comes from the Māori lament "Whaingaroa" or "What a long wait" of a woman whose warrior husband had left for a foray to the south?
 * ...that American luger Tony Benshoof set the fastest recorded luge speed at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track used for the 2002 Winter Olympics when he reached 86.6 mph (139.5 km/h) in October 2001?
 * ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
 * ...that Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo?
 * ...that local boyars protested against the Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian territory that was not theirs in the first place?
 * ...that sixteen ships of the US Navy's Gilliam class - including Banner, Carteret, Dawson (pictured), Gasconade and Geneva - were expended as atomic bomb targets after barely two years of service?
 * ...that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
 * ...that the Matsés language of Peru has undergone some mixing with other indigenous languages because the Matsés people previously had the custom of capturing women from neighboring tribes?
 * ...that George Schlatter was the manager of the comedy club where Dan Rowan and Dick Martin performed before going on to produce their Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In?
 * ...that Abraham Gancwajch was one of the most prominent Jewish Nazi collaborators and criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto?
 * ...that publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer?
 * ...that Ralph Barton created a number of group caricatures (image map pictured) including one of 139 faces? (Note: the image map link is to the talk page, the image is here)
 * ...that the USS Garrard (APA-84), like other ships in her class, had an active service life of less than two years?
 * ...that George Nicol (pictured) organized the 42-day book auction which inspired the influential Roxburghe Club?
 * ...that Polish duke Władysław the White gained a nickname of King Lancelot due to his adventurous life?
 * ...that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson?
 * ...that Marian Gołębiewski, a clerk and elementary school teacher, would become one of the elite Polish commandos during WWII and later, a member of the anti-communist resistance in Poland?
 * ...that the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail, parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail?
 * ...that the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver, (pictured) the second named for an African American, was sponsored by singer Lena Horne and constructed in 42 days from start to delivery?
 * ...that Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of Raphael in Urbino, and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?
 * ...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
 * ...that the Petit Pont in Paris, France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
 * ...that Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks?
 * ...that the German four-mast sailing ship Herzogin Cecilie, under Finnish flag after 1920, won the "grain race" from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe four times from 1926 to 1936?
 * ...that Scottish music publisher Robert Bremner disagreed with Francesco Geminiani's opinion on vibrato, and removed a passage advocating its use from a reissue of one of Geminiani's publications?
 * ...that after spending fifteen years building the largest telescope in the world, scientists in the Soviet Union were dismayed to find that BTA-6 performed much worse than the Hale telescope it was designed to beat?
 * ...that La Mojarra Stela 1 (pictured), a 4-ton artifact of the Epi-Olmec culture, features a Mesoamerican ruler and appears to record his ritual bloodletting and a "dripping sacrifice"?
 * ...that John B. Harman, father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams?
 * ...that the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road owned two non-contiguous railway lines, each in a different U.S. state, and each leased by a different company?
 * ...that over Edouard Deville’s lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom?
 * ...that the Pensacola Convoy, which in 1941 carried the first United States soldiers to be based in Australia, was planned initially to reinforce Allied forces defending the Philippines?
 * ...that Marlon Brando's disinherited Tahitian grandson Tuki Brando became famous as a model for Italian men's Vogue at 16 and the face of Versace in 2007?
 * ...that the USS Cortland (APA-75) was the object of a failed Nazi sabotage attempt in World War II?
 * ...that herring scad (Alepes vari) from the Red Sea has high levels of luminescent bacteria living symbiotically with the fish as part of the fish's gut flora?
 * ...that the bronze L'Âme de la France (pictured) lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
 * ...that screening and treatment with antibiotics are recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy?