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 * 17 June 2008
 * ... that the Chase Promenade (pictured) hosted a month long Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of abstract art on a 95 by wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
 * ... that Kirori Singh Bhainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
 * ... that actor George Takei's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library?
 * ... that the Union Pacific Railroad made the Herndon House its headquarters 12 years after celebrating the launch of construction on the First Transcontinental Railroad there?
 * ... that after three years of absence, the juniors' team of the Mapúa Institute of Technology, which is the winningest basketball team in the Philippine NCAA, will return in the 2008-09 season?
 * ... that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia?
 * ... that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six?
 * ... that Jeita Grotto (statue pictured) in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at 8.2 m (27 ft)?
 * ... that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation pioneer Major James Morris, who served in the Continental Army with George Washington?
 * ... that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish, each being found in a specific region?
 * ... that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism?
 * ... that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010?
 * ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
 * ... that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it?
 * ... that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany?
 * ... that Pakistani actress Veena Malik (pictured) has emerged as one of the leading women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry?
 * ... that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of the Seychelles International Airport in 1971?
 * ... that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons?
 * ... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
 * ... that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford, James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
 * ... that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army?
 * ... that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the world?
 * ... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?


 * 16 June 2008
 * ... that exhibits at the New York City Police Museum (pictured) include the machine gun used by Al Capone's gang in the 1928 murder of Frankie Yale?
 * ... that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
 * ... that Christopher Smart's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
 * ... that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
 * ... that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
 * ... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
 * ... that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua, the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as "deserters"?
 * ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
 * ... that before Jean Miélot (pictured) created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text?
 * ... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?
 * ... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
 * ... that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
 * ... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
 * ... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
 * ... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
 * ... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?
 * ... that the historic district in Warwick, New York (downtown pictured) reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
 * ... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
 * ... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War?
 * ... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?
 * ... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
 * ... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie?
 * ... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?


 * 15 June 2008
 * ... that the Mountain Gorillas (juvenile pictured) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda?
 * ... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
 * ... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax?
 * ... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
 * ... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais?
 * ... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
 * ... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
 * ... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
 * ... that Harry Peckham (pictured), along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, wrote the first draft of cricket's leg before wicket rule?
 * ... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
 * ... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
 * ... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
 * ... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder?
 * ... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
 * ... that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
 * ... that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 in 1941?
 * ... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?
 * ... that the Red Bridge (pictured), one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents?
 * ... that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
 * ... that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity?
 * ... that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors prison and that he died before he ever received notice that the work was a success?
 * ... that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
 * ... that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký?
 * ... that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London?
 * ... that Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk in 1926 produced a firewood powered snow melter?
 * ... that the Java (pictured), first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second oldest breed of chicken in the United States?
 * ... that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
 * ... that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of the Sharpstown banking scandal?
 * ... that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
 * ... that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
 * ... that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult entertainment site?


 * 14 June 2008
 * ... that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen when he was wounded during the 1967 USS Forrestal fire off the coast of Vietnam?
 * ... that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
 * ... that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America?
 * ... that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?
 * ... that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters?
 * ... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the country?
 * ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?
 * ... that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
 * ... that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
 * ... that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba?
 * ... that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
 * ... that Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
 * ... that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the country's main tourist attractions?
 * ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
 * ... that Andreas Frederik Krieger (pictured) was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen?
 * ... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues?
 * ... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
 * ... that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
 * ... that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory Rasputin was murdered?
 * ... that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
 * ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
 * ... that the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater (pictured) changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season?
 * ... that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance?
 * ... that the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
 * ... that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
 * ... that the Hungarian Communist Party, despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947, held absolute power by 1949?
 * ... that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
 * ... that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes?
 * ... that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?
 * ... that Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
 * ... that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
 * ... that Arthur Byron Coble ' s 1929 classic Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
 * ... that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
 * ... that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
 * ... that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
 * ... that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?
 * ... that the Church of St. Catherine (pictured) in St. Petersburg was taken over by the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
 * ... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
 * ... that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
 * ... that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"?
 * ... that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman Senate much like conscription is a military draft?
 * ... that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
 * ... that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff?
 * ... that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army (pictured) was the heavy cavalry, which consisted of 12,000–30,000 heavily armed riders?
 * ... that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
 * ... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
 * ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
 * ... that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
 * ... that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
 * ... that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins (example pictured), which were referred to as the pitis?
 * ... that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions?
 * ... that Marathi film Shwaas was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
 * ... that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?
 * ... that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?
 * ... that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?
 * ... that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East?
 * ... that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man?
 * ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
 * ... that the Delaware breed of chicken (chick pictured) was once the favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered?
 * ... that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
 * ... that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won?
 * ... that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
 * ... that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
 * ... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not been poisoned?
 * ... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?
 * ... that British folk rock singer Sandy Denny liked the string arrangements on her final album Rendezvous so much that she called them her "fur coat"?
 * ... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin (pictured) by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide?
 * ... that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
 * ... that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee ' s poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry?
 * ... that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins?
 * ... that Roy Agnew has been described as the most outstanding Australian composer of the early 20th century?
 * ... that the American Fork Railroad stopped 4 miles (6.4 km) short of the Forest City, Utah smelter it was built to serve?
 * ... that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?
 * ... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
 * ... that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House (pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
 * ... that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake?
 * ... that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud?
 * ... that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
 * ... that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
 * ... that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation?
 * ... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
 * ... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?
 * ... that the 5th-century Sassanian Emperor of Iran Yazdegerd I (pictured on coin) was given the epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")?
 * ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
 * ... that the 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first "tsunami earthquake" to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks?
 * ... that Matthew Bruccoli, a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald, owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
 * ... that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?
 * ... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?
 * ... that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne?
 * ... that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light?
 * ... that the original hot dog on a stick to be served at Cozy Dog Drive-in (pictured) was called a Crusty Cur?
 * ... that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India?
 * ... that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Suleyman?
 * ... that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four career shutouts in 1988, the season after his rookie year?
 * ... that prior to colonial times, written literature was virtually absent from Burkina Faso, with the country's first novel not published until 1962?
 * ... that although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
 * ... that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns' novel Cold Sassy Tree into an opera after his sister gave him a copy?
 * ... that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter (work pictured) were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between 700 and 650 BC?
 * ... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
 * ... that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse Guards Regiment?
 * ... that Manabendra Narayan Larma was a major political leader of the Chakma people and other tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and founder of the Shanti Bahini militia?
 * ... that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America?
 * ... that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic?
 * ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?
 * ... that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley (pictured)?
 * ... that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
 * ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
 * ... that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel of the same name?
 * ... that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda?
 * ... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration?
 * ... that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist"?
 * ... that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997, when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians (location pictured)?
 * ... that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States?
 * ... that Dulcie Holland ' s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
 * ... that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km?
 * ... that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?
 * ... that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
 * ... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
 * ... that the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS Kjell (pictured) was known as "Terror of the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition?
 * ... that in 1784, Abel Buell published the first map of the new United States created by an American?
 * ... that India's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban?
 * ... that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
 * ... that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States?
 * ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada?
 * ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon?
 * ... that the Harris Theater (pictured) is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?
 * ... that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine?
 * ... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
 * ... that Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's Saguling Dam project?
 * ... that amateur footballer Lee Todd is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the quickest sending off in a match, playing for just two seconds?
 * ... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?
 * ... that the Eberswalde Hoard (pictured), a collection of 81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kg, is an important find from the European Bronze Age?
 * ... that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?
 * ... that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association, the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen?
 * ... that in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology?
 * ... that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Constitution of the German Empire?
 * ... that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University?
 * ... that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
 * ... that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party?
 * ... that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was not the worst ever seen along the road?
 * ... that in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
 * ... that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas?
 * ... that compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight?
 * ... that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel This Side of Paradise in a successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him?
 * ... that Uri-On (pictured), created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color?
 * ... that the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000?
 * ... that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
 * ... that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
 * ... that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism?
 * ... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
 * ... that McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink (pictured) is both an ice skating rink and the largest alfresco dining venue in Chicago?
 * ... that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark?
 * ... that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games, which had been missing for more than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002?
 * ... that the Guglers, mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear?
 * ... that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the official position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament, even if it is unilateral?
 * ... that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984, had its world premiere in 2005?
 * ... that the Pale-yellow Robin (pictured) uses the prickly Lawyer Vine as a nesting site and for nesting material?
 * ... that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell, Scotland?
 * ... that Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
 * ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
 * ... that renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
 * ... that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port?'''
 * ... that the novel Final Blackout by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction?
 * ... that Walter Livsey kept wicket so well in his debut cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three runs from his mistakes?
 * ... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur ' s (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a pir?
 * ... that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant?
 * ... that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel?
 * ... that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II was filmed at an abandoned Civil War-era fort on an island in Boston Harbor?
 * ... that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC?
 * ... that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland?
 * ... in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for the England national football team?
 * ... that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?
 * ... that Italian Wall Lizards (pictured) on a Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid evolution"?
 * ... that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum?
 * ... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP?
 * ... that Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South?
 * ... that the 2008 Indian film Woodstock Villa marked the debut of veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's son, Sikandar Kher?
 * ... that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
 * ... that Karin Pouw 's statements about the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology online?
 * ... that Clinton Jencks (pictured), the petitioner in the case Jencks v. United States, starred in the 1954 film Salt of the Earth, which was loosely based on his story?
 * ... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest green roof?
 * ... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech, was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
 * ... that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind?
 * ... that charcuterie, derived from the French words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from pork?
 * ... that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond ' s screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
 * ... that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean?
 * ... that The Greencards (pictured) are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman?
 * ... that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état?
 * ... that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by the Incredible Hulk comic books?
 * ... that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
 * ... that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters?
 * ... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia?
 * ... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek?
 * ... that the flowers of the beach gardenia (pictured) are used to scent coconut oil in the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern Australia?
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
 * ... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
 * ...that the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
 * ... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy's first novels?
 * ... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
 * ... that Vratislav Brabenec (pictured), a member of the Plastic People of the Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months because of his music?
 * ... that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
 * ... that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
 * ... that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught?
 * ... that the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
 * ... that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
 * ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there?
 * ... that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War?
 * ... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?
 * ... that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins?
 * ... that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency?
 * ... that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan?
 * ... that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe?
 * ... that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
 * ... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of the R101 airship (pictured) before it crashed?
 * ... that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched in Nazi Germany?
 * ... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father was African American, was the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland?
 * ... that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477?
 * ... that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
 * ... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
 * ... that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus?
 * ... that Wrigley Square ' s Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois?
 * ... that Pinnacle@Duxton (model pictured), at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public housing in Singapore upon completion?
 * ... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
 * ... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
 * ... that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev?
 * ... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
 * ... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912?
 * ... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane?
 * ... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?
 * ... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
 * ... that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years?
 * ... that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia?
 * ... that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels?
 * ... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
 * ... that the prescription most often dispensed at the Vatican Pharmacy is Valium?
 * ... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?
 * ... that four generations of Vikings can be traced on the Gällsta Runestones (example pictured)?
 * ... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
 * ... that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcome of up to 80 percent of his matches was fixed?
 * ... that Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland?
 * ... that although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
 * ... that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River?
 * ... that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser, who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II, later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force?
 * ... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?
 * ... that a calf is said to haunt the Kramgasse (pictured), a main street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, where it had been flayed alive?
 * ... that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?
 * ... that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
 * ... that India's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China?
 * ... that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?
 * ... that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy, which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
 * ... that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
 * ... that, during the 1989 Revolution, Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime's traces?
 * ... that the war veterans' memorial (pictured) in Suffern, New York, is built on land where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
 * ... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?
 * ... that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
 * ... that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge?
 * ... that UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of IRC servers?
 * ... that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi, the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard?
 * ... that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents?
 * ... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
 * ... that Hugh de Largie (pictured), who was banned from working as a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of the Australian Senate?
 * ... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?
 * ... that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
 * ... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and the public sphere?
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
 * ... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?
 * ... that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
 * ... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?
 * ... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice (pictured) in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded?
 * ... that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap?
 * ... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 mi to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 mi apart in a straight line?
 * ... that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
 * ... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
 * ... that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton, was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company?
 * ... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim (pictured), a popular Korean dish?
 * ... that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
 * ... that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04?
 * ... that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?
 * ... that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years?
 * ... that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip?
 * ... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office (pictured), features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
 * ... that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania?
 * ... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel?
 * ... that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records?
 * ... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission?
 * ... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
 * ... that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania?
 * ... that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire?
 * ... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar (pictured) is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
 * ... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?
 * ... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford?
 * ... that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base?
 * ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
 * ... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?
 * ... that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher (pictured) the "Frogbird" on account of its guttural call?
 * ... that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya?
 * ... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall ' s racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
 * ... that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations?
 * ... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame?
 * ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
 * ... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured)?
 * ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
 * ... that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before he became chief justice of Queensland?
 * ... that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is the equal-longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
 * ... that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes?
 * ... that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise, or cinclosomatid families?
 * ... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master and Woman Grandmaster Viktorija Čmilytė (pictured) was her father?
 * ... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
 * ... that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
 * ... that The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed authorities engaged in tormenting two young delinquents?
 * ... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season?
 * ... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross, who never saw them?
 * ... that the relatively unknown Verdeja (pictured) was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace the T-26 and Panzer I?
 * ... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites including Google and Microsoft for its use?
 * ... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced by Greek mythology?
 * ... that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor&mdash;the U.S. military's highest decoration&mdash;in the European Theater of Operations during World War II?
 * ... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?
 * ... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
 * ... that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon?
 * ... that one theory why the virginal (pictured) was so called is that the keyboard instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
 * ... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
 * ... that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage?
 * ... that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
 * ... that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur?
 * ... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail trail was constructed?
 * ... that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller?
 * ... that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars?
 * ... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts (example pictured)?
 * ... that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"?
 * ... that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin&mdash;and thus spared execution&mdash;of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency?
 * ... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
 * ... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight?
 * ... that Howlin' Dave was credited with introducing Filipino rock music to Filipino radio listeners?
 * ... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
 * ... that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?
 * ... that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper (pictured) translates as "brown and white trunk traveller"?
 * ... that a movie set built for the 1962 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah?
 * ... that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor?
 * ... that the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
 * ... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon?
 * ... that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for throwing fish to customers?
 * ... that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
 * ... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
 * ... that the Portland Armory (pictured) in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
 * ... that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan?
 * ... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators?
 * ... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?
 * ... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
 * ... that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
 * ... that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
 * ... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski (pictured) was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
 * ... that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy?
 * ... that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside steps from the road up to its entrance?
 * ... that the Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
 * ... that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
 * ... that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor?
 * ... that Circle of Chalk, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
 * ... that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland?
 * ... that the conical step pyramids (reconstruction pictured) and circular public architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
 * ... that the Florida Comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected?
 * ... that the 1966–68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
 * ... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC?
 * ... that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?
 * ... that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona?
 * ... that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of an Englishman in India?
 * ... that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park?
 * ... that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs in English football?
 * ... that the architects of the Florida Tropical House (pictured), located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
 * ... that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her grieving father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?
 * ... that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo?
 * ... that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences?
 * ... that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of countering China's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power?
 * ... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch, could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
 * ... that the canine teeth of male baboons—which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism?
 * ... that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock?
 * ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)?
 * ... that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste violence in Rajasthan, India?
 * ... that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
 * ... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
 * ... that Vinh Trang Temple in southern Vietnam has been severely damaged by both French military action and extreme weather?
 * ... that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports' Wide World of Sports during his career?
 * ... that the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?
 * ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
 * ... that dried teasel pods (pictured) were used to raise the nap on woolen fabrics?
 * ... that the Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
 * ... that Weeb Ewbank coached the most games in New York Jets franchise history?
 * ... that the Norwegian lake Lutvann leaked 1,000 liters of water per minute into the railway tunnel Romeriksporten during its construction in 1997?
 * ... that Isfield railway station, now the terminus of a preserved railway line, was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
 * ... that the Martinican Communist Party became the largest political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Martinique in the 1960s?
 * ... that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter?
 * ... that Poole Stadium, a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway, was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final?
 * ... that Aythorpe Roding Windmill (pictured) is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
 * ... that, although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
 * ... that Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
 * ... that Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
 * ... that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
 * ... that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi?
 * ... that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film?
 * ... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939?
 * ... that the Flammulated Flycatcher (pictured), a tyrant flycatcher endemic to Mexico, was eventually placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus because of its broad bill?
 * ... that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
 * ... that General Ziauddin Butt, former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999?
 * ... that during the War of 1812, Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams?
 * ... that in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
 * ... that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle?
 * ... that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?
 * ... that inflatable and wooden dummy tanks (pictured) were used in Operation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence?
 * ... that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes?
 * ... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
 * ... that Mark Goffeney, nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands?
 * ... that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
 * ... that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of the city's African American community, has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
 * ... that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind?
 * ... that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House?
 * ... that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan is a cat named Tama ''(pictured)?
 * ... that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease?
 * ... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
 * ... that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade, which grew to US$2.6 billion by 2006?
 * ... that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?
 * ... that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California, Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach?
 * ... that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
 * ... that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?
 * ... that the Forest Kingfisher (pictured) of Australian forest and Melaleuca swampland, burrows its nest in termite mounds in trees up to 12 m above the ground?
 * ... that the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook?
 * ... that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant?
 * ... that Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?
 * ... that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
 * ... that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison?
 * ... that the Rio Napo Screech-Owl is part of a group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
 * ... that A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?
 * ... that U.S. Route 127 in Michigan (pictured) was tripled in length by extending the highway to replace its parent route, U.S. Route 27 in 2002?
 * ... that the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists protested against Victoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
 * ... that the yuja hwachae, Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja, is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum?
 * ... that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest, behind Johnny Carson?
 * ... that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
 * ... that Zaha Hadid's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum?
 * ... that father and son James E. Bolin and Bruce M. Bolin both served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as a state district court judge – thirty-eight years apart in each case?
 * ... that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate?
 * ... that although the Ishvara temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India, seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicated Hoysala monument?
 * ... that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose?
 * ... that Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
 * ... that German chemist Albert Niemann was the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859?
 * ... that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists?
 * ... that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland?
 * ... that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival, and located on its site?
 * ... that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia's oldest known European structures?
 * ... that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple (pictured) has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
 * ... that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
 * ... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
 * ... that the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
 * ... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
 * ... that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove, England, is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II's orders ?
 * ... that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments?
 * ... that Robert Parker Parrott's last home, Plumbush (pictured), outside Cold Spring, New York, is now a bed and breakfast?
 * ... that the Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia's surface area?
 * ... that the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
 * ... that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig, along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń, transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
 * ... that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic?
 * ... that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would accounting for almost half of world trade?
 * ... that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
 * ... that Hindus often worship the Krishna often as the small child Bala Krishna (pictured), crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands?
 * ... that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris, climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
 * ... that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule in circa 522 BCE?
 * ... that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon?
 * ... that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre, the Duke of York's, the Garrick and the Royal Court?
 * ... that John Aspinall was the first recipient of the James Watt International Medal?
 * ... that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan (pictured) at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition?
 * ... that QUIET, an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation?
 * ... that prehistoric people used the same 89 F warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
 * ... that Kaunas University Hospital, the largest medical institution in Lithuania, was named as a cultural monument in 2008?
 * ... that Nielluccio, Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine?
 * ... that the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of an authentication and authorization system in an ASP.NET website?
 * ... that in 1968, The Detroit Wheels recorded "Linda Sue Dixon", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD?
 * ... that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany?
 * ... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
 * ... that samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake (pictured)?
 * ... that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?
 * ... that a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant?
 * ... that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I?
 * ... that American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
 * ... that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar?
 * ... that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic, has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name, "valley head", derives?
 * ... that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$1,000 and 5,000 boxes of Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment?
 * ... that the 120-cell 4-dimensional puzzle (pictured) is one of several n-dimensional sequential move puzzles that have been implemented as virtual puzzles but have never been solved?
 * ... that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
 * ... that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?
 * ... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
 * ... that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec?
 * ... that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
 * ... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
 * ... that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
 * ... that the suit of armour on the effigy of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert (pictured) has been reproduced as a Second Life avatar?
 * ... that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
 * ... that the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater and cabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
 * ... that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78?
 * ... that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
 * ... that Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even through it never charged admission?
 * ... the Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
 * ... that the Crown Point Light, constructed as a conventional lighthouse, was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain's explorations?
 * ... that the 850-foot (260 m) Commerzbank Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in the European Union?
 * ... that the discovery of a stone celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by Indian epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu"?
 * ... that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement?
 * ... that Russian right-wing politician Nikolai Markov tried to convince Germany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate the House of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
 * ... that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the B&O Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series?
 * ... that the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km?
 * ... that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
 * ... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can manufacture magnetite within their bodies?
 * ... that although the Siddhesvara Temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India, is currently a temple of Shiva, historians are unsure of its original faith?
 * ... that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University?
 * ... that the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200, was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980?
 * ... that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters ' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas?
 * ... that Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki?
 * ... that the cap and sails of Shiremark Mill were blown off in 1886?
 * ... that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo?
 * ... that Bangladesh declined to renew its 1972 Friendship Treaty with India, criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessive Indian influence?
 * ... that when John Stanley recreated one of his covers for Little Lulu for the cover of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?
 * ... that the age of a Green Sea Urchin (pictured) is generally calculable based on its size since it grows 10 mm every year?
 * ... that during the Battle of Ridgefield in April 1777, Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
 * ... that the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
 * ... that Joshua Packwood is the first white man to graduate as valedictorian of the all-male HBCU, Morehouse College, an overwhelmingly African American university in Atlanta, Georgia?
 * ... that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
 * ... that Stave Puzzles makes a 44-piece jigsaw puzzle named Champ that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
 * ... that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam?
 * ... that the Confederate Monument in Danville, Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
 * ... that among gifts which Toirdelbach Ua Briain, later High King of Ireland, received from his patron Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó was the sword of Brian Boru (pictured)?
 * ... that Mukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regular military officers and personnel upon the formation of Bangladesh's armed forces?
 * ... that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable powered vehicles, solar powered cars, and organic farming exhibits?
 * ... that World War II fighter ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
 * ... that The Metros, a five-piece punk pop band from Peckham, London, were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
 * ... that a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?
 * ... that a 2007 treaty significantly modified Indo-Bhutanese relations by reducing India's guiding role over Bhutan's foreign policy?
 * ... that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
 * ... that with a height of 154 m, the wooden pagoda of Tianning Temple in Changzhou, China (pictured) is the tallest Buddhist pagoda in the world?
 * ... that Zygmunt Rumel, a Polish poet and soldier of the Bataliony Chlopskie, was tied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia?
 * ... that The Locusts, an early 19th-century house in New Paltz, New York, has no fireplaces?
 * ... that British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk?
 * ... that during Hossain Mohammad Ershad's rule, chiefs of Bangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
 * ... that a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his&mdash;one she had not seen?
 * ... that Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is a Korean action comic that combines the styles of Mad Max, Dune and The Lord of the Rings?
 * ... that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords, each by an expert in the field of information security?
 * ... that Lake Balaton (pictured), a popular tourist attraction in Hungary, is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe?
 * ... that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
 * ... that the 9th century Navalinga temple in Karnataka, India, is a cluster of nine Hindu temples, each containing a Shiva linga?
 * ... that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
 * ... the British MI6 tried to hire the Austrian-German physicist Josef Schintlmeister as a spy in the Soviet Union, where he had worked for ten years?
 * ... that a collection of 247 tiles illustrating children's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at the Alamogordo Public Library in New Mexico, U.S.?
 * ... that the first regular British light infantry regiment, the 52nd Regiment of Foot, awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived the Forlorn Hopes at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz?
 * ... that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?
 * ... that rabbi Dow Ber Meisels of Kraków and Warsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both the November (artist's impression pictured) and January Uprisings?
 * ... that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpot motifs?
 * ... that the 1945 loss of German U-boat U-864 during Operation Caesar, a secret mission to deliver technology to Japan, is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
 * ... that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball?
 * ... that the Jabalpur and the Mandla districts in Madhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake?
 * ... that the percussion instruments the txalaparta and kirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from a Sagardotegi?
 * ... that famous Hispanics in the United States Navy include the country's first full admiral, David Glasgow Farragut?
 * ... that the population dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used by fisheries scientists to determine sustainable yields?
 * ... that the Dutch Gift was a collection of 40 paintings and sculptures (example pictured), presented to King Charles II of England by the Dutch Republic in 1660?
 * ... that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company ' s fleet during World War II?
 * ... that the Nootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire?
 * ... that Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur, India, has been built on the garden of Bhonsle, Maratha rulers of the Nagpur kingdom?
 * ... that future Admiral John Moore joined the Royal Navy when he was just 11 years old?
 * ... that in the primaries for the 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election, candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?
 * ... that the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Berne (pictured) was called "the best-protected building in Europe" by participants in Cold War negotiations?
 * ... that Nona L. Brooks, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver?
 * ... that the celebrated Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC?
 * ... that on September 23, 1868, the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt in Lares, declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
 * ... that according to one account, after Thomas Attwood accused fellow composer Charles Edward Horn of plagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
 * ... that the church of St. Barlock at Norbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?
 * ... that only three people have been awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (medal pictured) for their humanitarian work?
 * ... that Aston Villa's Bob Chatt scored an FA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?
 * ... that the Catalan municipality of Alcanar is officially stated as being founded in 1252, despite having a charter signed in 1239?
 * ... that Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell built the opera house where James Earl Jones started his career?
 * ... that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824?
 * ... that former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset Shlomo Hillel was in charge of an underground ammunition factory disguised as a laundry facility during the British Mandate of Palestine?
 * ... that the baesuk (pictured) is a Korean traditional fruit punch made by simmering slices of Korean pear, black peppercorns, ginger, honey or sugar, and water?
 * ... that Alexander Wilkinson managed to play 74 more first-class cricket matches despite an injured hand that almost had to be amputated after World War I?
 * ... that caste-based communal reservations in Tamil Nadu were introduced by the government of the Raja of Panagal in August 1921?
 * ... that the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?
 * ... that Time magazine covers have featured self-portraits of film director and artist Matt Mahurin, who has portrayed himself as Sigmund Freud, a caveman and an Abu Ghraib prisoner?
 * ... that the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings was surprised to learn of the existence of Buckland Windmill, the only wind sawmill in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that some of the fingers of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (pictured), still with rings on them, were found in a building of the Kremlin?
 * ... that Clan Campbell of Cawdor is a Scottish clan which currently does not have a recognised clan chief?
 * ... that the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. is located inside a National Historic Landmark building that was patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter?
 * ... that the First Congress of Vienna was held three hundred years before the more famous 1815 Congress?
 * ... that Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?
 * ... that between 1920 and 1929 the Canadian Pacific Steamships vessel SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm bore six different names, but sailed under only four of them?
 * ... that computer security expert Dan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting up Rickrolls on Facebook and PayPal?
 * ... that the 1957 nonfiction novel Operación Masacre (pictured) by Rodolfo Walsh was published seven years before Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which is frequently cited as creating the genre?
 * ... that Hall of Fame basketball coach Clarence "Big House" Gaines originally planned to become a dentist before taking on a temporary coaching job that lasted 47 years?
 * ... that Narciso Bassols as Secretariat of Public Education founded Mexico's first systematic sex education program?
 * ... that Len Boyd, captain of Birmingham City F.C. in the 1950s, once played four games with a fractured leg?
 * ... that Action Hyacinth was an operation of the Polish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–1987, whose purpose was to create national database of Polish homosexuals?
 * ... that "Uncommon Sense" by Hal Clement received a Hugo Award for Best Short Story 51 years after it was first published?
 * ... that Samuel B. Huston (pictured) switched counties and political parties between two elections to the Oregon State Senate?
 * ... that the supreme god of the southern African Bushmen is Cagn, a trickster who shapeshifts into a praying mantis?
 * ... that an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association ' s website?
 * ... that 1944 film Haridas was the last completed work of Kollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
 * ... that Margie (ABC, 1961–1962) is one of the few network programs set during the Roaring Twenties, complete with jalopies, raccoon coats, period music, and references to flappers?
 * ... that the Master of Anthony of Burgundy was one of the Flemish miniature painters of the late 15th century, and may have made the first engravings for books?
 * ... that the contributions of Mary Shelley (pictured) to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men are considered early works of feminist historiography?
 * ... that the two-inch-tall people of The Teenie Weenies were a Chicago Tribune comic strip written by William Donahey for over 50 years?''
 * ... that the Northern Irish marilyn Slieve Gallion is a volcanic plug?
 * ... that Page Cortez, a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, gained vital name recognition in part from television ads promoting his furniture store?
 * ... that Ashby's windmill in Brixton worked by steam rather than wind power after 1902?
 * ... that Russian writer and activist Zoya Krakhmalnikova ' s baptism in 1971 resulted in her dismissal from her job and from the USSR Union of Writers, which effectively banned her from publishing?
 * ... that despite weighing little more than a pound (0.45 kg), the Dutch Bantam breed of chicken (rooster pictured) can lay more than 160 eggs in a year?
 * ... that Henriade, an epic poem by French Enlightenment writer Voltaire, was written in honour of the life of Henry IV?
 * ... that much of the interior of the 19th-century St Patrick's Church, Hove has been rebuilt as a night shelter which includes a variation on the 1970s "sleep capsule" concept?
 * ... that a Brazilian music expert noted Caetano Veloso's uncertain sexual orientation in his 2006 album cê?
 * ... that California v. Byers was the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that providing one's own information in a vehicle accident does not violate the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment?
 * ... that the Palestinian town of Tuqu' is the birthplace of the Hebrew prophet Amos?
 * ... that the federal administration of Switzerland (government buildings pictured) has been described as "seven co-existing governments" due to the absence of hierarchy in the government?
 * ... that Radha Ramana is the only image of Krishna that remained in Vrindavana during the 17th-century raids by Islamic king Aurangzeb?
 * ... that Camille Le Mercier d'Erm and his colleagues formed the Breton Nationalist Party in 1911 to advocate the independence of Brittany from France?
 * ... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?
 * ... that nine riparian countries along River Nile launched the Nile Basin Initiative in 1999 to better manage and utilize their common water resources?
 * ... that 19th-century English architect John Foulston was responsible for the construction of Union Street across marshland to unite the Three Towns which became Plymouth?
 * ... that the age of a Stair-step Moss (pictured) can be estimated by counting the number of "steps"?
 * ... that the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan joined the Tamil Tigers as a child soldier at the age of fifteen?
 * ... that Victoria Hotel in Darwin, Australia, has survived three major cyclones and Japanese air raids during World War II?
 * ... that Blonde lace was made out of two different thicknesses of thread to create greater contrast between the pattern and the ground?
 * ... that Captain Richard Whitaker Porritt was the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in World War II?
 * ... that First Lady Laura Bush serves as ambassador of The Heart Truth awareness campaign?
 * ... that the ancient Greek city of Psophis was said to have been ravaged by the Erymanthian Boar?
 * ... that Hazel Dolling, the châtelaine of Lissan House, always kept a chainsaw in her car while driving, in case trees had fallen on her mile-long avenue?
 * ... that the accolade (pictured) was a ceremony for knighthood in the Middle Ages?
 * ... that Yolngu aboriginal leader Raymattja Marika was Northern Territory's Australian of the Year in 2006?
 * ... that the Atlantic bumper is only found in the Atlantic Ocean because its ecological niche is filled by the only other member of its genus elsewhere?
 * ... that director Goran Dukić chose only songs by musicians who had committed suicide to accompany his 2007 film Wristcutters?
 * ... that after a chest injury, air can escape from the lungs and travel to the subcutaneous tissue of the skin, causing subcutaneous emphysema?
 * ... that Oladevi, a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal?
 * ... that Reigate Heath Windmill is the only windmill in England that has been consecrated as a church?
 * ... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps?
 * ... that a 12th-century epigraph styles the Mahadeva temple (pictured) in Karnataka, India, as "the emperor among temples"?
 * ... that the Seaway Trail Discovery Center is one of the few attractions in the North Country, New York, that is open year-round?
 * ... that German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions, Theorie des Potentials und der Kugelfunktionen, in 1909 and 1921?
 * ... that Malinda Cramer, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and an early influence in the New Thought movement, died in the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
 * ... that the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus was the first elected socialist municipal government in Mexico?
 * ... that British Conservative MP Alan Gomme-Duncan, despite being strongly unionist, did not want the Stone of Scone returned to Westminster Abbey after Scottish nationalists stole it in 1951?
 * ... that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as a Union army patrol searching for deserters?
 * ... that in addition to ballistics, the ballistic pendulum (pictured) was also used by physicists to evaluate the elasticity and flight of golf balls?
 * ... that Republican Monty Warner called on his Democratic rival Joe Manchin to endorse George Bush for re-election during the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election?
 * ... that the Polish-Lithuanian union of Lublin in 1569 marked the beginning of centuries of struggle between Poland and Russia over Central and Eastern Europe?
 * ... that the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig, Germany, the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I?
 * ... that a large part of the first vintage from the Spanish winery Dominio de Pingus was lost in 1997 when the transporting ship bound for the United States disappeared somewhere off the Azores?
 * ... that Nathan Daboll wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?
 * ... that cystatin C (structure pictured) is a human protein studied as a biomarker of decreased kidney function and prognosis in cardiovascular diseases?
 * ... that the forced removal of 700,000 people from slums in Zimbabwe in 2005 was called "a crime against humanity" by the UN?
 * ... that Juniper Valley Park in New York City used to be a swamp owned by Arnold Rothstein, who in the 1920s tried to sell it to the city for use as an airport?
 * ... that Indo-Iraqi relations improved considerably after Iraq supported India's 1998 nuclear tests and its stand on the Kashmir dispute?
 * ... that Sir William Edge, a Liberal MP, once raced against a flock of homing pigeons from London to Leicestershire by car and train, but lost the race by two minutes because the train was delayed?
 * ... that the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store?
 * ... that Kosa Pan (pictured) led one of the earliest Siamese embassies to France in the 1680s?
 * ... that Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government?
 * ... that the town of Melattur in Tamil Nadu, India is famous for its Bharatanatyam, a classic South Indian dance?
 * ... that the Wallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and the second deadliest ever to strike New England?
 * ... that Fidler Point on Lake Athabasca is named for Peter Fidler, a map-maker, fur trader and explorer who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company?
 * ... that New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Chile and China?
 * ... that Bolton Hall, the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles, was later used as a jail?
 * ... that during World War I, a torpedo struck the ocean liner SS Kroonland (pictured) without exploding?
 * ... that the 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film?
 * ... that Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity?
 * ... that the City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
 * ... that English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte?
 * ... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?
 * ... that the Pickle Barrel House (pictured), a cabin built of two large barrels, is based on comic strip characters that were two inches (5 cm) tall and lived in a pickle barrel?
 * ... that international airport project MIHAN in Nagpur is the biggest economical development project currently underway in India in terms of investment?
 * ... that ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter?
 * ... that the new Maoist-led government seeks to scrap Nepal's 1950 treaty with India, which sought to build strong Indo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats from China?
 * ... that water supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national "Poverty Eradication Action Plan"?
 * ... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?
 * ... that erotic sculptures (example pictured) found in the 11th century Tripurantaka Temple in Karnataka state, India, are miniatures?
 * ... that the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the principal newspaper of Central Louisiana, was established by Irish immigrants on St. Patrick's Day in 1883?
 * ... that the only items found in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Neferefre upon excavation were mummy fragments and broken canopic jars?
 * ... that eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
 * ... that the game between FC Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich on 23 April 1945 in the Gauliga Bayern, ending 3–2, was the last official football game played in Nazi Germany?
 * ... that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?
 * ... that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch (pictured), a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
 * ... that the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon is home to a small population of wolverines, which are rare within the United States?
 * ... that Outwood is the oldest working windmill in the United Kingdom, having been built the year before the Great Fire of London?
 * ... that US-CERT developed the Einstein program that monitors and protects the computer networks of U.S. departments and agencies?
 * ... that sociology was banned as a bourgeois science by the Polish government in the Stalinist period 1948–1956?
 * ... that Henry Failing won his second term as mayor of Portland, Oregon with only five dissenting votes?
 * ... that the last man to be gibbetted in Derbyshire was hung in chains near Wardlow and Wardlow Mires (pictured) because he had the tollkeeper's red shoes?
 * ... that the armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector was in the process of being decommissioned when she was sunk in the Easter Sunday Raid?
 * ... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
 * ... that the Saharan silver ant has several unique adaptations that led it to be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known"?
 * ... that Edmund Graves Brown, a member of the Louisiana Ewing newspaper family, was a U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944?
 * ... that Edward Lamson Henry paid such close attention to detail that his nostalgic paintings of agrarian America (example pictured) were considered authentic historical reconstructions?
 * ... that G1.9+0.3 is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way?
 * ... that the only peacetime George Cross won by a woman was awarded to Barbara Jane Harrison as a result of her actions during the fire on board BOAC Flight 712 in 1968?
 * ... that the WF01, the first racing car built by Embassy Racing, was named after team founder Jonathan France's recently born son?
 * ... that Haley Barbour became only the second Republican Governor of Mississippi since Reconstruction after winning the 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election?
 * ... that 22-year-old Ling Ling was the oldest panda in Japan at the time of his death in April 2008?
 * ... that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House features an indoor well pump, but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway?
 * ... that lithophane (example pictured) is an artwork in porcelain that can only be seen clearly when lit from behind?
 * ... that John Benjamin Murphy was an early advocate of appendectomies as an intervention for signs of appendicitis?
 * ... that the Gauliga was a German football league system introduced by the Nazis after they took over the country in 1933?
 * ... that the Oregon Korean War Memorial was not built until nearly 50 years after the Korean War began?
 * ... that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
 * ... that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
 * ... that by the end of the Second World War 60,968 ratings had passed through the Royal Navy stone frigate HMS Ganges?
 * ... that Run, Buddy, Run, a 1966 CBS sitcom, featured Jack Sheldon fleeing from the mob after he overhears a gangster during a steam bath plotting a murder?
 * ... that Jordanian politician Sa`id al-Mufti's wife continued living in the Al-Mufti House (pictured) after his death?
 * ... that for 25 years, Jack O'Brien conducted two parallel directing careers: Broadway musicals in New York City and Shakespeare in San Diego, California?
 * ... that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey?
 * ... that the ethnic population of Omaha, Nebraska, including new and first generation immigrants, comprised fifty percent of that city's population in the 1920s?
 * ... that in 1876, British barrister, publicist, and historian Edwin Pears, as correspondent of The Daily News, sent letters home describing Ottoman atrocities in Bulgaria during the April Uprising which aroused popular demonstrations in England led by William Gladstone?
 * ... that a 2003 medical study by Peter Pronovost, an intensive care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, on the use of simple checklists helped save 1500 lives and US$100 million?
 * ... that in the 1430s, the feudal lord Ashina Morihisa kept Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden (pictured) as a villa believing it to be a sacred place?
 * ... that the Irish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by the American Protective Association for exclusion from public office in the 1890s?
 * ... that music printer Robert Birchall published the first English edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
 * ... that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
 * ... that although an engineer's report proposing the draining and development of the Everglades in 1912 was riddled with errors, it was still promoted by real estate developers?
 * ... that Project Runway Australia will air on Arena, which was recently re-branded to the American Project Runway's first station, Bravo?
 * ... that Malcolm Baker won a national championship in rowing as a freshman at Brown University although he never rowed in high school?
 * ... that golfer Edith Cummings (pictured) was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the inspiration for a character in The Great Gatsby?
 * ... that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests, India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration, committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict?
 * ... that Aaron Lopez, who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish, later became Newport's wealthiest resident?
 * ... that before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that Orlando Magic general manager Otis Smith founded a children's charity in his native Jacksonville which ran for two decades?
 * ... that the tiny Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative?
 * ... that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle?
 * ... that the 12th century Doddabasappa Temple (pictured) in Karnataka state, India, has a 24-pointed star-shaped plan?
 * ... that William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster?
 * ... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
 * ... that British Major-General Eric Cole, who helped plan the invasion of Normandy, was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team?
 * ... that the New York Times wrote that W. S. Gilbert's play Creatures of Impulse was a "burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resembling Midas"?
 * ... that Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema?
 * ... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
 * ... that Thomas Scott (pictured), a member of the Canadian House of Commons, organized the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers in thirteen days to put down the North-West Rebellion of 1885?
 * ... that Whitney Ellsworth became associated with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's fledgling company National Allied Publications, later known as DC Comics?
 * ... that 6 of the Top 8 players at the 2002 Magic: The Gathering World Championship used Psychatog decks?
 * ... that by 1901, £4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
 * ... that during World War I, aerial warfare expert Philip Roosevelt, first cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt, helped the United States Army plan its first air-land battle?
 * ... that Brussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlike Mechlin lace or Valenciennes lace, and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
 * ... that the Soviet Union won a medal at every single Ice Hockey World Championships competition in which it participated?
 * ... that when the Weekly Arizonian withdrew its endorsement for Richard C. McCormick ' s (pictured) reelection, he repossessed the newspaper's printing press and began the Arizona Citizen?
 * ... that Are you a True Scotsman? is part of Scottish military ritual determining that a kilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
 * ... that Verna Arvey got her first break as an opera librettist after poet Langston Hughes left his libretto for the production Troubled Island unfinished?
 * ... that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus?
 * ... that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi-nude self-portraits?
 * ... that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operative retailers with a single logo in 1968, reinforcing The Co-operative brand?
 * ... that HMNZS Te Mana (F111) (pictured) was the first New Zealand warship to visit a Russian port?
 * ... that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father is Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor?
 * ... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
 * ... that the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4150 m high?
 * ... that the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe?
 * ... that the town of La Balize, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
 * ... that Erik Möller, Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons?
 * ... the Harihareshwara temple in Karnataka, India, was consecrated in 1224 CE, in dedication to Harihara (pictured), a fusion of the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu?
 * ... that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
 * ... that Pythagoras, a sculptor from Samos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculpting athletes with visible veins?
 * ... that serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in Robocop 2?
 * ... that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥157 billion Kagome tomato empire?
 * ... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
 * ... that the term choral symphony was coined by French composer Hector Berlioz (pictured) when describing his symphony, Roméo et Juliette?
 * ... that the Gottlieb Storz House in Omaha, Nebraska is home to the Astaire Ballroom, which is the only memorial to Adele and Fred Astaire in their home city?
 * ... that the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in India, in which 103 people died, was also felt in the Baitadi, Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts in Nepal?
 * ... that former Detroit Red Wings head coach Jacques Demers is the only coach in the National Hockey League to have won the Jack Adams Award twice with the same team?
 * ... that Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh's father?
 * ... that A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still was the first opera composed by an African American to be broadcast on television?
 * ... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
 * ... that Israeli actress Hanna Maron lost her leg after a grenade was thrown at her airplane, but resumed her acting career a year later?
 * ... that Jordan's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
 * ... that Harold Clapp ' s "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
 * ... that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game?
 * ... that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson, Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?
 * ... that the first generation jet fighters include designs from WWII-era ME-262 (pictured) to Korean War-era F-86?
 * ... that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
 * ... that Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, as actor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela, Mulheres Apaixonadas?
 * ... that scholars disagree on whether the name of the Viking chieftain Jakun means either "blind" or "the handsome one"?
 * ... that Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
 * ... that one of the major differences between Mechlin (pictured) and Valenciennes lace is the cordonnet, a loosely spun silk cord used to outline and define the pattern?
 * ... that although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
 * ... that while the New York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonial New Yorkers with a wax museum and outdoor theater, a copycat competitor attracted them with ice cream?
 * ... that khutba is the sermon delivered before the Muslim weekly congregational prayers on Friday, and after the annual congregational prayers on each of the two Muslim festivals?
 * ... that the second major land reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made by King Ferdinand to the troops during World War I?
 * ... that Major League Baseball pitcher Dom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventh inning, yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for the Chicago White Sox?
 * ... that the Uppland runestone U 328 is an example of the Ringerike style?
 * ... that the Tamil film Nam Iruvar featured songs written by Indian nationalist Subramania Bharati?
 * ... that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
 * ... that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
 * ... that railway transport in Nagpur started in 1867 when the Nagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pink sandstone?
 * ... that in her 1992 documentary film Nitrate Kisses Barbara Hammer filmed an elderly lesbian couple making love as part of an exploration of the repression and marginalization of LGBT history?
 * ... that the track "Hell's Angels" from Roy Harper's 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk features an acoustic guitar played through a wah-wah pedal?
 * ... that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall (pictured) was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
 * ... that the theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers?
 * ... that the assembly location Arkils tingstad may have been made to Christianize the Vikings who lived in its vicinity?
 * ... that the first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan?
 * ... that the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people?
 * ... that the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century?
 * ... that astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for the U.S. Army is a military secret?
 * ... that Bert Haney (pictured) lost an election to the U.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
 * ... that a timber in Nutley Windmill, an open trestle post mill in Sussex, England, has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
 * ... that former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs?
 * ... that The Janus Man, a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every single year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
 * ... that the 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television?
 * ... that Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic?
 * ... that the day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort (pictured), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
 * ... that the historic Golden Gate Theater was saved by a stop-work order after demolition crews had begun to dismantle the walls?
 * ... that Sam Cowan is the only footballer to have represented Manchester City in three FA Cup finals?
 * ... that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book?
 * ... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
 * ... that a report criticizing senior Pakistani leaders—including General Abdul Hamid Khan—over their conduct during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
 * ... that Harley Parker, in 1973, was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York?
 * ... that Amman's Mango House (pictured) was built in separate halves for the two brothers who lived there?
 * ... that the cargo ship MV Virginian, now under contract to Military Sealift Command, was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986?
 * ... that the Madhu school bus bombing was one of a number of attacks on civilian buses in Sri Lanka in early 2008?
 * ... that prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate, Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
 * ... that the idiopathic inflammatory lung disease diffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence among Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai cases, indicating a genetic predisposition among East Asians?
 * ... that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians?
 * ... that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single "Eagle Rock" remained at #1 on the Australian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?
 * ... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
 * ... that Italy's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna, used to be a showgirl and a glamour model?
 * ... that the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates, the worst Pirates team of the 20th century, were so bad that their catcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-team league, we should've finished ninth"?
 * ... that the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, where the climate is temperate oceanic, was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June, 1887?
 * ... that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles?
 * ... that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested the British salt tax in India at the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885?
 * ... that after months of work, future Canadian impresario Samuel Gesser made only $200 from his first production, a 1953 Pete Seeger concert?
 * ... that Hurricane Alma (pictured) was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span?
 * ... that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States?
 * ... that England's Auditor of the Imprests, an office responsible for auditing the accounts of public officials such as the Paymaster of the Forces, became a lucrative sinecure before being abolished in 1782?
 * ... that after being found not guilty of murdering her ex-husband, Mary Leonard became the first woman in Oregon allowed to practice law?
 * ... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?
 * ... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
 * ... that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
 * ... that The Reverend John H. Taylor served as post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?
 * ... that Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (pictured) with a single torpedo?
 * ... that association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football?
 * ... that in addition to providing cargo service to Ascension Island, the freighter MV Ascension also helped researchers study its green sea turtle population?
 * ... that in 1838, Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh?
 * ... that American manufacturing executive Chris J. Lee left the business of making air springs, elastomers, rate controls, rope isolators and solenoid valves to run for Congress?
 * ... that Lakshmisha's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata, focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahabharata?
 * ... that the ghost town of Buffalo City, North Carolina (pictured) was once the largest community in Dare County?
 * ... that the largest post mill in Sussex received the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an individual windmill in the United Kingdom?
 * ... that J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
 * ... that in a VFL game against North Melbourne, Fitzroy player, Frank Curcio, famously stated, hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers?
 * ... that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
 * ... that Omaha pioneer Andrew J. Hanscom started a large scale fight in the Nebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?
 * ... that New Mill, Cross in Hand (pictured), was the last windmill to operate commercially by wind in Sussex?
 * ... that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon?
 * ... that the effects of tides can affect ice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (150 miles) inland?
 * ... that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" has only recently been determined?
 * ... that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop?
 * ... that Heinrich Barbl, an SS-Rottenführer, helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp?
 * ... that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
 * ... that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising?
 * ... that a swift (pictured) is a tool with an adjustable diameter used to hold a skein of yarn while it is being wound off?
 * ... that the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
 * ... that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere?
 * ... that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record-setting 502 consecutive games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Blackhawk during the 1962–63 season?
 * ... that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos?
 * ... that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture?
 * ... that screenwriter Allan Loeb ' s agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
 * ...that the footprints of the Buddha (pictured) often bear distinguishing marks, such as a Dharmachakra or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of the Buddha?
 * ...that fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades?
 * ...that the barrack at Aghavannagh, which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion, became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
 * ...that sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls?
 * ...that to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig's economic and religious privileges after an uprising?
 * ...that the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts?
 * ...that Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
 * ...that Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
 * ...that the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
 * ... that at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
 * ... that as a college athlete, Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Joyce (pictured) played in an exhibition game against the Tigers three years before his Major League debut with them?
 * ... that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis, who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
 * ... that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland, gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia, meaning "lookout"?
 * ... that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan?
 * ... that Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by the same people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
 * ... that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?
 * ... that pulmonary laceration was thought to be uncommon before CT scanning (example pictured) became widely available, because the injury is difficult to detect with X-rays alone?
 * ... that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies?
 * ... that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
 * ... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
 * ... that because it reflects Hungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian-issued birth certificate?
 * ... that Devil's Den gully, located within the Heber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
 * ... that Chris Garneau's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?
 * ... that the Medusa Rondanini (pictured) in a prominent Roman collection was ignored until it was praised by Goethe in 1786?
 * ... that the Reverend Henry Tibbs was accused of calling Winston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
 * ... that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
 * ... that Odd With, member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With?
 * ... that the US Navy's Casco-class monitors, long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers, proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
 * ... that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
 * ... that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin ' s namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district?
 * ... that the Buis (pictured) was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands, after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea?
 * ... that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
 * ... that the last old-Kannada grammar, authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
 * ... that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
 * ... that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons?
 * ... that publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America?
 * ... that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?
 * ... that Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein (pictured) shot many miles of film in Mexico with the backing of American author Upton Sinclair to make ¡Qué viva México!?
 * ... that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
 * ... that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle?
 * ... that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an?
 * ... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
 * ... that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains, as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains?
 * ... that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control?
 * ... that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House (pictured) is now a convent for Catholic nuns?
 * ... that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
 * ... that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
 * ... that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period?
 * ... that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship, despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
 * ... that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor?
 * ... that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (pictured) was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall?
 * ... that the Central Eurasian Studies Society is the first society for Central Asian scholars based in North America?
 * ... that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland?
 * ... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as John Milton's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
 * ... that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico?
 * ... that Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
 * ... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument (pictured) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
 * ... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
 * ... that in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
 * ... that Indian film director Nitin Bose, who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
 * ... that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
 * ... that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores (JCPenney, Dillard's and Goldsmith's) all in the same year?
 * ... that Flaithbertach Ua Néill, king of Ailech in Ireland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
 * ... that William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph (pictured) showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln?
 * ... that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
 * ... that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout?
 * ... that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
 * ... that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
 * ... that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
 * ... that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its characteristic loopy appearance?
 * ... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (pictured), the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?
 * ... that tourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
 * ... that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
 * ... that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
 * ... that a story in Janna ' s 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul?
 * ... that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation?
 * ... that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
 * ... that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
 * ... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
 * ... that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
 * ... that Sark Windmill (pictured), built in 1571, is the second oldest surviving windmill in the British Isles?
 * ... that Joseph M. Street a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
 * ... that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter (1902) was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth and his family?
 * ... that troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war?
 * ... that, during a Fersommling, the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
 * ... that the French stormed the Bagration flèches eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812?
 * ... that Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
 * ... that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal, nearly causing a war, then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca, finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia?
 * ... that the obscure mealybug, a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California, is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America?
 * ... that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
 * ... that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
 * ... that Benjamin Motte published many famous works such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the first English edition of Isaac Newton's Principia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
 * ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
 * ... that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
 * ... that the forthcoming Tamil film, Guru En Aalu, starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas is a remake of the 1997 film, Yes Boss?
 * ... that McCarty Church (pictured) in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
 * ... that Bradford City footballers Geoff Smith and George Mulholland each played more than 200 consecutive appearances for the club during the 1950s?
 * ... that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 lb?
 * ... that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
 * ... that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
 * ... that in 1994 Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in the Republic of Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
 * ... that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty?
 * ... that in spite of its similar appearance to the European Robin, the colourful Rose Robin (pictured) of southeastern Australia is more closely related to the crow family?
 * ... that Andayya's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
 * ... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
 * ... that Lena Guerrero (1957-2008), a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non-Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission?
 * ... that Robert the Devil, an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable, ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's?
 * ... that VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
 * ... that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark?
 * ... that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman, his father George Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia?
 * ... that the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man (pictured) worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?
 * ... that Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja?
 * ... that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
 * ... that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
 * ... that screenwriter Daniel Knauf ' s polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
 * ... that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
 * ... that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu?
 * ... that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
 * ... that Aberdour Castle (pictured), with parts dating from around 1200, is one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland?
 * ... that Kim Swoo Geun, a leading South Korean architect was referred to as "Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul" by Time for his contributions to Korean culture?
 * ... that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County?
 * ... that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
 * ... that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
 * ... that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary and the United States, but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
 * ... that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K.?
 * ... that in April 2008, Forbes listed Omid Tahvili (pictured) as one of the world's ten most wanted fugitives?
 * ... that Dr. Seuss's book The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his only books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$300?
 * ... that L'Insoumis, a film noir alluding to the Algerian war, was Alain Delon's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
 * ... that the Pinchot Sycamore, a centuries-old American sycamore, is the largest tree in Connecticut?
 * ... that ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia?
 * ... that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex, have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
 * ... that the Congressional Bowl is one of two new college football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?
 * ... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
 * ... that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?
 * ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
 * ... that at only five-weeks-old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut"?
 * ... that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
 * ... that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
 * ... that the Mark Eden bust developer, a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts, actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?
 * ... that the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition (pictured) is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
 * ... that the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
 * ... that in Claude Ashton's only international appearance for the English national football team, he captained the squad?
 * ... that the 12th century Kannada poet Harihara was initially an accountant in the Hoysala court?
 * ... that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
 * ... that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849?
 * ... that in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross (pictured)?
 * ... that as General Secretary of the Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000 pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
 * ... that the 1852 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
 * ... that after Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order?
 * ... that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee, burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period?
 * ... that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India's first indigenously made color film?
 * ... that Omaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtime Omaha World-Herald publisher Henry Doorly in 1963?
 * ... that Oregon's Warrior Rock Light (pictured) operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
 * ... that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region?.
 * ... that Frank Ford, an organic foods farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
 * ... that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia, a region of Ukraine?
 * ... that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea, located on Sejongno, Jongno-gu, central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
 * ... that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American?
 * ... that the 122-year old Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") (pictured) was the last overnight steamship service in the U.S. when it ceased operation in 1962?
 * ... that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit?
 * ... that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to the Mammoth Caves?
 * ... that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
 * ... that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
 * ... that HNoMS Honningsvåg (pictured) was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
 * ... that Spanish American cardiologist Valentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations?
 * ... that the steam yacht Gondola on Coniston Water is thought to be the inspiration for Captain Flint's houseboat in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons?
 * ... that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Islamabad in Pakistan, and Dushanbe in Tajikistan?
 * ... that the late actress and theatrical producer, Madeline Lee Gilford, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City: The Movie?
 * ... that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance?
 * ... that the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
 * ... that Mathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the German Völkisch movement, claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
 * ... that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa's Torre della Lanterna?
 * ... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
 * ... that Turkey was so dissatisfied with its first set of stamps that it had France make the second set (example pictured)?
 * ... that Lopez and Pico Adobes, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley, California?
 * ... that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
 * ... that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
 * ... that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Switzerland, and slaves in the United States?
 * ... that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens, New York?
 * ... that the Denver Broncos, who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons?
 * ... that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 (pictured) are the oldest surviving photographs of a North American Indian?
 * ... that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture from Hurricane Madeline in 1998 contributed to severe flooding in central Texas which killed 32 people?
 * ... that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
 * ... that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
 * ... that NASCAR took away the first win for its all-time winningest driver at Lakewood Speedway after his father protested the scoring?
 * ... that the Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C.?
 * ... that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?
 * ... that the herb Forsskaolea tenacissima was so named by Carl Linnaeus because it was as stubborn and persistent as his student Peter Forsskål (pictured) had been?
 * ... that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
 * ... that "Guten Tag", the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
 * ... that Raghavanka, a 12th century writer of Kannada literature, penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
 * ... that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
 * ... that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan, the Emperor of Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince?
 * ... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
 * ... that the English names for the towns of Brecon (pictured) and Cardigan derive from the names of Welsh mediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
 * ... that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath, nephew of Periyar, co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
 * ... that the pumpman is the person aboard an oil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
 * ... that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
 * ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
 * ... that Russell B. Cummings, as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?
 * ... that Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake (pictured)?
 * ... that the Japanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social game Ai Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction with bishōjo game characters?
 * ... that Cormac mac Cuilennáin, bishop and king of Munster, later considered a saint, was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster?
 * ... that the Zimbabwe Open University is the largest university in Zimbabwe and the only distance education university in the country?
 * ... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
 * ... that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
 * ... that silva rerum (pictured) was a type of a multi-generational chronicle, kept by many Polish noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries?
 * ... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
 * ... that male prostitutes in Pakistan generally range from fifteen to twenty-five years of age?
 * ... that, in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union?
 * ... that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach?
 * ... that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
 * ... that Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in?
 * ... that the Berthouville Treasure (pictured) of first and second-century Roman silver was uncovered accidentally by a farmer's plough in 1830?
 * ... that English engineer Roy Lunn was responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang I and the first American 4WD cars?
 * ... that you can travel to some parts of Botswana for less than US$50 a night?
 * ... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
 * ... that some Bahá'í prayers have been translated into more than five hundred languages?
 * ... that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
 * ... that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?
 * ... that the art deco Burbank City Hall (pictured), with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
 * ... that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge, a yew which may be Europe's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain's tallest tree?
 * ... that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
 * ... that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico?
 * ... that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison?
 * ... that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada?
 * ... that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand?
 * ... that Pogórzanie are an ethnic group of Poles from the Subcarpathian Voivodeship?
 * ... that Clarence Hailey Long, a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign by Philip Morris?
 * ... that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform?
 * ... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
 * ... that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
 * ... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors?
 * ... that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas?
 * ... that on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole (pictured) and with the crowning of a May Queen?
 * ... that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local union during the first furriers' strike in the United States?
 * ... that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana, the first and only female Sultan of Delhi?
 * ... that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton?
 * ... that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh, a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain?
 * ... that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged with U.S. Steel in 1907?
 * ... that Steven Spielberg filmed much of Amistad in Newport's downtown historic district because it has enough colonial buildings (pictured) to resemble 1840s New Haven?
 * ... that the ground living warblers in the genus Tesia appear to almost lack a tail and have very long legs?
 * ... that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything?
 * ... that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ, Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
 * ... that Jane Addams, Mary Harris Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States?
 * ... that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack?
 * ... that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway's first holiday destination hotel?
 * ... that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless?"
 * ... that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
 * ... that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction?
 * ... that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
 * ... that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
 * ... that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached?
 * ... that Ratnakaravarni, the noted 16th century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?
 * ... that the Purna-Kalasha (pictured), worshipped by Hindus as the Divine Mother, symbolizes mother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation?
 * ... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be actually be the missing head of a fossil plesiosaur Colymbosaurus?
 * ... that Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken?
 * ... that in 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
 * ... that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
 * ... that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
 * ... that the German author Heinrich Böll's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk?
 * ... that Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
 * ... that Palestinian nationalist poet Ibrahim Touqan wrote the poem Mawtini, which has been the national anthem of Iraq since 2003?
 * ... that the Shell Quiz is the longest-running television programme in Thailand, being broadcast since 1965?
 * ... that a Balzac comedy was inspired by an academic squabble over the claim that Spaniard Blasco de Garay built the first steam powered ship in 1543?
 * ... that Kiev Governorate was one of the first eight governorates of the Russian Empire?
 * ... that a scandal arose when African-American actor Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "Black Valentino", playing a pimp in a play, kissed Mae West, playing a prostitute?
 * ... that Pierre the penguin is the first bird to don a custom-made wetsuit?
 * ... that a building fire destroyed the first designs for the South Australian National War Memorial?
 * ...that American theater critic and historian T. Allston Brown earned the title "Colonel" by riding on the back of a tightrope walker in a circus performance?
 * ...that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
 * ...that British author Bernard Newman, an authority on spies, gave more than 2,000 lectures throughout Europe during the Interbellum?
 * ... that the February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, in which nearly 4,000 people were killed and 15,000 homes destroyed, was also felt at Tashkent and Dushanbe?
 * ...that Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize?
 * ...that after his climbing partner was killed in a fall, Jean-Christophe Lafaille survived a descent of the South Face of Annapurna (pictured) alone and with a broken arm?
 * ...that the Thich Ca Phat Dai Buddhist temple in Vung Tau has a prominent lookout over the city?
 * ...that George W. Woodbey was the sole African American delegate to the Socialist Party of America conventions in 1904 and 1908?
 * ...that during hot greenhouse periods in Earth's history, the tropics appeared to be cooler than they are today?
 * ...that Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Johnston was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Swindon in 2004?
 * ...that the Capitol Center has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon, since its completion in 1926?
 * ...that instead of voting to determine the site of a proposed hydroelectricity dam, tens of thousands of Tasmanians protested by writing "No Dams" on their ballot papers in the 1981 power referendum?
 * ...that after unsuccessfully standing for the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1925 German presidential election, Erich Ludendorff left the party to found the Tannenbergbund?
 * ...that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome (pictured), is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?
 * ...that the government of Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC which involves the systematic granting of citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
 * ...that priest Benjamin Pâquet was such a controversial figure in 19th century Quebec that his possible nomination to bishopry was rejected for three different dioceses?
 * ...that Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny Bautista is the second cousin of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martínez?
 * ...that Norwegian politician Helge Seip was succeeded by Helge Rognlien both as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and later as leader of the Liberal Party?
 * ...that veterinarian Martha Kostuch (pictured) linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in Alberta?
 * ...that the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, for achievements in medical research and services to combat diseases in Africa, is named after a Japanese scientist whose portrait can be found on recent ¥1000 banknotes?
 * ...that Ronald J. Rábago became the first Hispanic American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard?
 * ...that St. James' Episcopal Church (pictured) held the first U2charist in Wisconsin?
 * ...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
 * ...that the seeds of Trillium grandiflorum are dispersed by ants, who interpret the seeds as corpses?
 * ...that Ringle Crouch Green, Sandhurst was the only five-sailed corn mill in Kent?
 * ...that the first wife of Arizona Territorial Governor A.P.K. Safford printed notices accusing him of having venereal disease?
 * ...that the Sembawang, discovered in 1909, is the only natural hot spring on the main island of Singapore?
 * ...that the Camp Dump Strike in Omaha was Nebraska's first organized labor strike and the first to receive national attention?
 * ...that the former Indian Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani famously promoted a Indo-Pakistani confederation, asserting that the partition was mutually harmful?
 * ...that Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century?
 * ...that children are more vulnerable to pulmonary contusion because their chest walls are more flexible?
 * ... that the Rhode Island state legislature met regularly at the Old Colony House (pictured) in Newport until 1900?
 * ... that the National Courtesy Campaign was the first government campaign in Singapore to adopt a mascot?
 * ... that after attempting to bribe a teammate to lose a game during the 1876 season, George Bechtel of the Louisville Grays became one of the first players banned for life from Major League Baseball?
 * ... that Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
 * ... that merkhets were Ancient Egyptian timekeeping devices that tracked the movement of certain stars over the meridian in order to ascertain the time during the night, when sundials could not function?
 * ... that after competing for many years on a world-class level in the 400 metres hurdles, German athlete Heike Meißner tried competing in the 800 metres?
 * ... that Hollywood's Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of Bing Crosby's wedding and funerals for John Ford and Mack Sennett?
 * ... that the Royal Air Force designed the rotabuggy as a combination autogyro/jeep?
 * ...that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
 * ...that a recent report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has shown an increase in felony waivers by U.S. military recruiters?
 * ...that young shoots of the ornamental Australian tree Alphitonia excelsa give off an odour of sarsaparilla when broken?
 * ...that Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
 * ...that construction of the stupa of Giac Lam Pagoda was halted for 18 years after the Fall of Saigon?
 * ...that Kikuchi lines, formed in diffraction patterns by diffusely scattered electrons, are useful tools in electron microscopy of crystalline and nanocrystalline materials?
 * ...that unlike other sampradayas in Hinduism, which insist that the clergy lead an ascetic's life, the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
 * ...that Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements?
 * ...that Florentine law required the commissioning of unflattering frescoes, pittura infamante, on the exterior of the Bargello of those found in contempt of court for financial offenses?
 * ...that anti-German and anti-Chinese sentiments have motivated two of the several riots in the history of Calgary?
 * ...that according to the World Bank, investment commitments in Chile's water and sanitation sector reached US$ 5.7 billion in 1993-2005?
 * ...that gallery owner Victoria Miro described Jake Chapman&mdash;now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins&mdash;as an "adorable" baby sitter?
 * ...that hexachlorobutadiene, a colorless solvent commonly used for chlorine-containing compounds, is also a potent herbicide, but this application has been discouraged because it is too toxic?
 * ...that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money, a political tactic common in Philadelphia, during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary?
 * ...that Tuoba Gui, the prince of Northern Wei, crushed Later Yan forces at the Battle of Canhe Slope, leading to Later Yan's decline and Northern Wei's rise?
 * ...that Julian Sturgis, the novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist was the first American to win an English FA Cup Final in 1873?
 * ...that environmental stress cracking accounts for around 15-30% of all plastic component failures in service?
 * ...that the Philadelphia Lazaretto is the oldest surviving quarantine hospital in the United States?
 * ...that Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka helped purchase fellow poet Taras Shevchenko's freedom from serfdom in 1838?
 * ...that John Caldwell was originally given the name at birth of George Washington Caldwell because he was born on the Fourth of July?
 * ...that the 1938 western Rawhide was baseball great Lou Gehrig's only feature film appearance?
 * ...that the European Union is an example of a security community, in which war has become unthinkable?
 * ...that the cost of building the base of the Great Mill, Sheerness was so great that the mill was left unfinished for over two years before being completed?
 * ...that Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight?
 * ...that Sid Gillman is the only head coach in the San Diego Chargers to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
 * ...that McDonald's signs (pictured) once had only one golden arch?
 * ...that the Greek musical group Real sang only in English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led to their focus on Greek language songs?
 * ...that Papa II, an Indian detention centre once infamous for reports of torture, is now the official residence of senior state politician Mehbooba Mufti?
 * ...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?
 * ...that Hong Kong director Ann Hui's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China?
 * ...that Swiss dissident Ami Perrin was the leader of the Libertine faction which rebelled against John Calvin's theocratic rule of Geneva in 1551?
 * ...that Mark Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian born concert pianist, Ossip Gabrilowitsch?
 * ...that it was at the urging of Pei Mian and Du Hongjian that Emperor Suzong of Tang claimed the throne, despite the fact that his father Emperor Xuanzong of Tang was still alive?
 * ...that the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (pictured) was renovated in different styles to depict the evolution of the oldest house in Newport, Rhode Island?
 * ...that Kettle Falls, known to native peoples as Shonitkwu ("roaring or noisy waters"), lies silenced beneath the waters of Lake Roosevelt trapped behind the Grand Coulee Dam?
 * ...that when the RAF's High Speed Flight won the Schneider seaplane in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
 * ...that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from Prague in 1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the Red Army, and then in 1968 he and Dubček became the most popular politicians of the Prague Spring?
 * ...that Igor Stravinsky agreed to compose the musical score for the ballet Circus Polka only under the condition that the elephants performing it be very young?
 * ...that Cardinal Mahony petitioned Rome to name Padre Serra Church after Junipero Serra despite controversy over his treatment of California Indians?
 * ...that William Glanville calculated the size of explosives required for Operation Chastise and was portrayed by Colin Tapley in the 1955 film The Dam Busters?
 * ...that the distinctive pagodas created for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee (pictured) are among the earliest examples of architecture used to forge a brand identity?
 * ...that Sheesh Mahal (Palace of Mirrors) in Lahore Fort was originally decorated with frescoes that were later replaced with pietra dura and convex glass and mirror mosaic?
 * ...that Martial van Schelle fought as an American soldier in World War I, but was executed as a Belgian citizen during World War II?
 * ...that Allumette Island (Quebec, Canada), the largest island in the Ottawa River, was once called One-Eyed Island because Algonquin chief Tessouat had only one eye?
 * ...that mutations in the CNDP1 gene may cause carnosinemia, a rare metabolic disorder with diverse neurological problems, such as hypotonia, tremors and seizures, neuronal degeneration and mental retardation?
 * ...that the John Coltrane Home is where the saxophonist composed many of his later works including the masterwork, A Love Supreme?
 * ...that the first printing press in Sierra Leone was destroyed by the French before it could be used?
 * ...that Theodor von Holst was the first illustrator of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (pictured)?
 * ...that photographer Burt Glinn was at a New Year's Party when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, and he arrived at the scene before dawn?
 * ...that mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton helped cricketers Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis overcome personal crises and helped Virender Sehwag stay focused as he scored 319 in the 2008 Chennai Test?
 * ...that the Healthcare system in France was ranked number one in the world by the World Health Organization in 1997 and 2000?
 * ...that the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
 * ...that David Goodstein's book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil rejected the notion that after peak oil alternative energy will be able to keep industry supplied?
 * ...that Lower Mill, Woodchurch, a smock mill in Kent, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
 * ...that Kaash, was the last Hindi film in which Kishore Kumar did playback singing?
 * ...that the travel time of the sternwheeler Lytton (pictured) on the stretch of the Columbia River known as Little Dalles was six hours upriver, but less than seven minutes downriver?
 * ...that Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
 * ...that Monk Estill, who was captured by the Wyandot prior to the Battle of Little Mountain and escaped during the battle, was the first slave to be freed in the Kentucky?
 * ...that, at one point during the chancellorship of Yang Guozhong, he served in over 40 posts simultaneously?
 * ...that guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder, African musician Hugh Masekela, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan?
 * ...that the 2008 film Forever the Moment is based on the real life story of South Korea's women's handball team which won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and is also the first film to revolve around the sport of handball?
 * ...that the Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral (pictured), consecrated in 1936, is the largest Catholic church building in Baguio City?
 * ...that after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship, amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf?
 * ...that San Sebastian Church, the only all-steel church in Asia, is threatened by rust caused by the salty sea breeze from nearby Manila Bay?
 * ...that Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906?
 * ...that the first U.S. patent, numbered X000001 (pictured), was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790 for "the making of pot ash and pearl ash"?
 * ...that the inscription eulogising Kappe Arabhatta, a 7th century Chalukya warrior, records the earliest example of Kannada poetry metre Tripadi?
 * ...that the court appointment of valet de chambre (pictured), nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including the first air crash fatality?
 * ...that Oregon's Boone Bridge is named for Daniel Boone's grandson, who operated the first river crossing at that location?
 * ...that Enfield Old Park contained 207 fallow deer in April 1620, of which 73 were antlered males?
 * ...that Major League Baseball catcher Ellie Rodríguez caught the fourth of Nolan Ryan's seven career no-hitters?
 * ...that William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct?
 * ...that Davison's Mill, Stelling Minnis, was the last windmill in Kent working commercially by wind when it closed in the autumn of 1970?
 * ...that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Chen Xilie first endeared Emperor Xuanzong by explaining the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching to Emperor Xuanzong?
 * ...that the Chigi vase is the earliest representation of the ancient Greek hoplite phalanx?
 * ...that "4 Mots sur un piano", which deals with the theme of a romantic relationship between two men and one woman, was the fifth best-selling single of 2007 in France?
 * ...that Kevin O'Brien (1955–2008), an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City?
 * ...that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany, has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses?
 * ...that sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres?
 * ...that the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon, was designed by Conde McCullough who was both a bridge engineer and an attorney?
 * ...that Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power?
 * ...that at 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929?
 * ...that Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
 * ...that Magat Dam was at one time Southeast Asia's largest multipurpose dam?
 * ...that in May 1899, less than 18 months after he led the Australian cricket team to an Ashes victory over England in 1897–98, Australian Test cricket captain Harry Trott was committed to a psychiatric hospital?
 * ...that Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
 * ...that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House (pictured), a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?
 * ...that certain flies such as the Cayman crab fly Drosophila endobranchia live solely in and on land crabs?
 * ...that in the 2000 offseason Matt Lytle, a former American football quarterback, played for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe who won World Bowl VIII?
 * ...that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same solar system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites?
 * ...that during the Shuliavka workers' uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the Shuliavka neighborhood in Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
 * ...that architect John Desmond was able to design the acclaimed Louisiana State University Student Union building in Baton Rouge without disturbing a canopy of stately oak trees?
 * ...that Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil?
 * ...that Halemaumau crater (pictured) in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park erupted explosively on March 19 2008 for the first time since 1924?
 * ...that Siegfried Kasche, the Third Reich's ambassador to Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
 * ...that the first organochromium compound was described by German scientist Franz Hein in 1919?
 * ...that American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
 * ...that Cryptosporidium hominis, an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal-contaminated drinking water, is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn?
 * ...that nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter Richard Rothwell is buried next to the Romantic poet John Keats in the Protestant cemetery in Rome?
 * ...that as Kid Galahad, The Furze recorded "Stealin’ Beats" which featured on the PlayStation 2 game Dancing Stage MegaMix?
 * ...that Annette E. Brown was the first female commander of Navy Region Southeast of the United States Navy?
 * ...that BY Draconis, a multi-star system in the constellation Draco, includes a binary star system with an orbital period of only 5.98 days?
 * ...that the cultures of the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition not only considered dogs to be soul guides for the dead, but a major source of protein as well?
 * ...that despite Al Gore's efforts to appease Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Jesse Jackson, at the 2000 Democratic National Convention they agreed that endorsing Gore was like taking castor oil?
 * ...that modern historians still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) of China had sovereignty over Tibet?
 * ...that the recent Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to affect China?
 * ...that Lesotho is the only country in the world that lies entirely over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above mean sea level?
 * ...that St. Brendan's Church has been a location for two apocalypse movies: the Martian attack in 1953's War of the Worlds and the wedding at the end of Armageddon?
 * ...that Percy Hoskins, was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected serial killer Dr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?