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 * 22:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Brewster, New York, had to be rebuilt months after it was finished due to a fire?
 * ... that John Dorewood was Speaker of the House of Commons for the first parliaments of both Henry IV and Henry V of England?
 * ... that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed, stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
 * ... that the historic Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina was periodically violated causing destruction to all of the headstones and some of the bodies?
 * ... that Johanna Brandt detailed spying for the Boers with her mother in her book Petticoat Commando?
 * ... that Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus, reinterpretations of an ancient Andean device?
 * ... that over 96% voted in a referendum in Latvia for a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to initiate a referendum to dissolve parliament?
 * ... that Larry Gowell′s baseball in the Baseball Hall of Fame was his first and only major league hit?


 * 15:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that WRNY began television broadcasting in August 1928 to thousands of New York City viewers with home made television sets (pictured)?
 * ... that the developers of the video game Chocolatier took the guided tour of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker's factory to see how chocolate is made?
 * ... that The Johnson Gang are believed to have committed the largest ever domestic burglary in the United Kingdom worth tens of millions of pounds?
 * ... that Little Miss Sunshine producer David T. Friendly is the son of former CBS president Fred W. Friendly?
 * ... that Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt?
 * ... that Clyde Barnhart was second on his team with 114 runs batted in for the 1925 World Series winner Pittsburgh Pirates?
 * ... that Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt?
 * ... that SS El Sol was the first of four sister ships launched by Newport News Shipbuilding for the steamship line of the Southern Pacific Company?
 * ... that Côte d'Ivoire once quasi-monopolised the world market on fresh pineapples?


 * 09:45, 2008 August 14 (UTC)
 * ... that Peter Edmund Jones (pictured) is believed to be the first Status Indian to receive a Medical Doctorate in Canada?
 * ... that the Minnesota Twins franchise has had four managers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
 * ... that Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19, 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
 * ... that the Berlin Circle in New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
 * ... that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon's campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair?
 * ... that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001?
 * ... that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana, a town was to be named after Varina Davis, the first lady of the Confederate States of America?
 * ... that Bad Blood (2003), a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, was offered free of charge to members of the U.S. military returning from the Iraq war?
 * ... that "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?


 * 03:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Turin-Milan Hours (pictured) is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections?
 * ... that Reed Memorial Library is the oldest library building in Putnam County, New York?
 * ... that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding?
 * ... that 36 tropical and subtropical cyclones have formed outside the normal boundaries of an Atlantic hurricane season?
 * ... that Archie McCardell, the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester, later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?
 * ... that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford, as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
 * ... that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO's Entourage?
 * ... that the Brühl, a single street in Leipzig, accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
 * ... that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?


 * 20:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Jean-Baptiste Belley (pictured), a former slave from Saint-Domingue, became a member of the National Convention of France, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to abolish slavery?
 * ... that the Endicott Pear Tree, located in Danvers, Massachusetts, is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America?
 * ... that the funerary art on the gravestones at Gilead Cemetery in Carmel, New York, illustrates changes in Protestant views of the role of death in the later 18th century?
 * ... that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?
 * ... that Max von Stephanitz, creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde?
 * ... that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole?
 * ... that in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?


 * 14:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that "Methuen Duck Cloth", manufactured by David C. Nevins, Jr. (pictured), was used to make sails and tents in the tropics?
 * ... that the SC Jülich 1910, record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship, was the feature of a German television documentary?
 * ... that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California?
 * ... that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar?
 * ... that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?
 * ... that the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m) taller than the width of the street they face?
 * ... that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul, Turkey?


 * 04:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that legend says a quart of Bourbon whiskey rests under each of the six columns on the front of Giddings Hall (pictured) at Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains?
 * ... that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln, New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour, as its governor?
 * ... that Huta Stepanska, one of the largest Polish defense centers during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?
 * ... that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army?
 * ... that in 1923, University of Nebraska running back Dave Noble scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium?
 * ... that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey, combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?
 * ... that the Roanoke City Market in Downtown Roanoke is the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
 * ... that Kenny Chesney's 2008 single "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" was initially recorded by George Strait, who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour?


 * 22:02, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Shirakumo class destroyers (example pictured) were amongst the last destroyers purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy from overseas shipyards?
 * ... that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
 * ... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état, Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
 * ... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?
 * ... that video sculpture is a medium that offers performing artists a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum?
 * ... that Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
 * ... that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?


 * 15:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 1869 anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev (pictured), portrays the revolutionary as an amoral avenger?
 * ... that Art Stewart, who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame, was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?
 * ... that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America?
 * ... that Michigan's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?
 * ... that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?
 * ... that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery?
 * ... that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?


 * 08:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that flushwork (example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in East Anglia?
 * ... that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit?
 * ... that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada's first interurban multi-use trail system?
 * ... that the Haas Lola Formula One team's cars were not built or designed by Lola Cars International, but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas was their official importer to the United States?
 * ... that the Unlearned Parliament was so called because lawyers were forbidden to attend as Henry IV felt they were "troublesome"?
 * ... that Pope Pius VI was not elected till the 265th ballot at the papal conclave of 1774–1775?
 * ... that two Romanian cathedrals inspired by foreign models include Sibiu's, based on Hagia Sophia, and Iaşi's, which resembles Trinità dei Monti?
 * ... that the Virginids meteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?


 * 02:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Mount Garmo in the Pamir Mountains (pictured) has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
 * ... that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
 * ... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
 * ... that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I, only to be sunk by one in World War II?
 * ... that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sirarpie Der-Nersessian, became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia?
 * ... that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?


 * 18:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Randy Orton (pictured) defeated Rob Van Dam at Armageddon (2003) pay-per-view to begin the longest WWE Intercontinental Championship reign in over seven years at the time?
 * ... that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary?
 * ... that since hard suction hose is designed for fire engines drafting water, it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure?
 * ... that in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit?
 * ... that Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry was founded as Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie by King Ludwig III of Bavaria in 1917?
 * ... that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries?


 * 12:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Poitou Ass (pictured) is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat?
 * ... that the CAFE Foundation holds races in which general aviation aircraft compete for performance efficiency?
 * ... that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses?
 * ... that Michigan's Mason County District Library is an umbrella entity that administers two libraries?
 * ... that Anna Borkowska, the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II, was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents?
 * ... that many types of car bomb use a tilt fuse, a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?
 * ... that "Brilliant Disguise" and "Tunnel of Love" gave Bruce Springsteen two consecutive #1 singles on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart from the Tunnel of Love album?


 * 06:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that for over a century the sheriff of Putnam County, New York lived in the county courthouse (pictured), where his wife cooked for inmates at the county jail?
 * ... that according to Le Monde, Central African Republic Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?
 * ... that the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars?
 * ... that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the Olympic truce, the Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
 * ... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. United States that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a misdemeanor crime can still be committed indefinitely to a mental institution?
 * ... that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label?


 * 00:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the novels of Jane Austen (pictured) became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869?
 * ... that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
 * ... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?
 * ... that U.S. Navy transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I, only to be sunk by the same method during World War II?
 * ... that a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house?
 * ... that upcoming film Calvin Marshall ' s producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?
 * ... that Open Access movement, a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access&mdash;information sharing for the common good&mdash;traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
 * ... that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, winning twice?


 * 18:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the orangespotted trevally (pictured) is believed to be able to switch between silvery grey and orange-yellow colorations?
 * ... that the Carey Mission was a headquarters for settlers and a point from which the American frontier was extended?
 * ... that confraternities, a type of Nigerian university student organization started by Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, are now linked with organized crime?
 * ... that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
 * ... that the Phylax Society, the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
 * ... that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District?
 * ... that Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii?
 * ... that plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident?
 * ... that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena, its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament?


 * 12:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Bateleur (pictured) is the official symbol of Kiang West National Park in The Gambia?
 * ... that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala?
 * ... that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
 * ... that the Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster?
 * ... that although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture?
 * ... that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial?
 * ... that L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
 * ... that after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?


 * 05:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that due to an error, the Pagsanjan Falls stamp (pictured), one of a series supposedly showcasing places of interest in the Philippines, actually shows a waterfall in California?
 * ... that the Polish Club Class glider SZD-59 "Acro" is competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying?
 * ... that Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra?
 * ... that iOffer, an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?
 * ... that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah, with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi long?
 * ... that Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland, Australia?
 * ... that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham-Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?
 * ... that, in Norse mythology, Urðarbrunnr is an important well located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil?


 * 00:12, 10 August 2008
 * ... that the recently discovered smallest snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae (pictured), is thought to be near the evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?
 * ... that entrepreneur Joe Dudley ' s multi-million dollar hair and skin care business began with a mere US$10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?
 * ... that the 125th Napier's Rifles of the Indian Army were named after General Napier, who had commanded them at the Battle of Miani in 1843?
 * ... that the Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles city hall?
 * ... that Cortinarius semisanguineus, whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes?
 * ... that the citizens of Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?


 * 16:56, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in 1814, Mary Shelley (pictured) eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe?
 * ... that Paul Thomson, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association, grew the first successful mammee apple crop in the state's history?
 * ... that the Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist?
 * ... that scapular fracture can be caused by forceful muscle contractions due to a seizure or electrical shock?
 * ... that The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
 * ... that So Amazin', the third studio album by singer Christina Milian, was produced mainly by hip hop producers Cool & Dre?


 * 10:55, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (tank pictured) was the first American unit to enter Czechoslovakia in 1945?
 * ... that the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus?
 * ... that six of the seven candidates in the 1999 Algerian presidential election withdrew less than 24 hours before the election?
 * ... that the town of Kent, New York, dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
 * ... that Swedish musician Hans Wärmling, co-writer of "Strange Little Girl", left The Stranglers while en route to a gig in North London?
 * ... that despite the company's claims, SummerSlam 1992 has the largest verified attendance of any World Wrestling Entertainment event?
 * ... that although male Kashmir Gray Langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide?


 * 04:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that in addition to insects, the diet of the Common Brown Lemur (pictured) includes soil and red clay?
 * ... that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
 * ... that in 1938, the Raja of Aundh voluntarily handed over rule of his Indian state to the people in what became known as the Aundh Experiment?
 * ... that American Olympian John Lysak was banned from the gymnasium of the ship that took him to the 1936 Summer Olympics after he destroyed much of its equipment?
 * ... that the Australian vine Hoya australis, a popular garden plant, attracts butterfly species such as the Common Crow?
 * ... that Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school?


 * 21:01, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the Dutch palace Huis ter Nieuwburg (pictured) in Rijswijk was demolished in 1790 after years of neglect?
 * ... that in 1979, the Tobacco Institute disputed claims by the Surgeon General of the United States about the dangers of smoking?
 * ... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee?
 * ... that the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945?
 * ... that Q-Flex is the world's largest LNG carrier type currently in service?
 * ... that the Plaza Historic District was the historic center of Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
 * ... that satirist Stephen Colbert has a species of spider called Aptostichus stephencolberti named after him?


 * 14:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right)?
 * ... that Skaga stave church was built in the 1130s to Christianise the area, but was demolished in 1826 as a stronghold of remaining Norse paganism?
 * ... that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball?
 * ... that Fulton County Route 112, the continuation of New York State Route 309, was once the site of an old Indian trail in the Adirondacks?
 * ... that the world's largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Sheikha of Qatar?
 * ... that alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery, Caduceus Cellars, in rural Arizona?


 * 08:22, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that the pored mushroom Gyrodon lividus (pictured) has been found associated with alder trees in such diverse places as California, Latvia, and Japan?
 * ... that William C. Grimes, who served as Acting Governor of Oklahoma Territory for ten days, helped to establish Kingfisher College?
 * ... that the Shiseibyō Confucian temple in Naha, Okinawa contains the first educational institution in Okinawa, which later became the first public school in the prefecture?
 * ... that John Koethe was the first poet laureate for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
 * ... that the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967?
 * ... that John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Gordon Weld helped form the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
 * ... that the "most generous man in Liverpool" was John Cropper?


 * 02:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * ... that Ralphs Grocery Store (location pictured), part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by Ansel Adams?
 * ... that the Long-legged Bunting, an extinct species of Bunting, was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order?
 * ... that during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun?
 * ... that after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery, Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society?
 * ... that LA's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
 * ... that Horand von Grafrath is credited with being the first German Shepherd Dog?
 * ... that according to his memoir My Grandfather's Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had his credit card cut up by a car rental clerk?