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 * ...that the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions, described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions?
 * ...that in September 1842, performer George Washington Dixon walked a 15-foot (4.5-meter) platform for 76 hours without sleep, part of the long tradition of pole-sitting?
 * ...that in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
 * ...that Fort Pepperrell, built for the U.S. Army in Canada, was done in the shape of a cowboy hat and the streets named in honour of the Atlantic Charter?
 * ...that The Hero Initiative, formerly known as A Commitment To Our Roots (ACTOR), is the first charitable organization devoted to helping comic book industry veterans in need?
 * ...that Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud?
 * ...that the autopsy depicted in Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's oil painting Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was a real event which took place on January 16, 1632?
 * ...that Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled Bijapur in South India for two centuries?
 * ...that the term "social contract" in Malaysia refers to the agreement made by its founding fathers in the Constitution at independence?
 * ...that Captain Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times to conduct scientific research?
 * ...that the Black Tree Fern is the largest tree fern species endemic to New Zealand?
 * ...that the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust?
 * ...that there have been four attempts to make The Adventures of Ellery Queen into a TV series, starting in 1950 on the DuMont Network?
 * ...that Christopher Strauli was the actor recruited to fill the gap left by the early death of Richard Beckinsale when casting the movie version of Rising Damp?
 * ...that Bacon's Castle&mdash;a stronghold in Surry County during Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia Colony in 1676&mdash;was never occupied by rebellion leader Nathaniel Bacon?
 * ...that the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars?
 * ...that Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act?
 * ...that Bemaraha Woolly Lemur, a Madagascar lemur species discovered in 1990 and formally described in 2005, is also called Cleese's Woolly Lemur, after John Cleese, due to his fondness for the creatures?
 * ...that the Japanese submarine I-8 was a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy submarine, famous for completing a technology exchange mission between the Japanese Empire and German-occupied France?
 * ...that Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay Peninsula or Malaysia in general?
 * ...that Bill the Goat, the mascot of the United States Naval Academy, first appeared at a Navy Midshipmen football game in 1893?
 * ...that Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels, the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of all African American performers?
 * ...that the Buner reliefs depict scenes of ancient Greeks in India during the 1st century?
 * ...that in the past five years, Colin Campbell, a former ice hockey defenceman and coach, handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi?
 * ...that Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem "Danny Deever" caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"?
 * ...that Witty was a self-replicating computer worm that was the first worm to attack the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms?
 * ...that Sir Collingwood Schreiber played a key role in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and now has a township named after him?
 * ...that both Charles Dibdin and Ira Aldridge were famed for their portayals of the black servant Mungo in the comic opera The Padlock?
 * ...that Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia, which provides for Bumiputra policies (quotas and other affirmative action for ethnic Malays and other indigenous peoples of Malaysia), remains in force even though it was intended to be a temporary provision?
 * ...that New Orleans Creole chef Leah Chase's Dooky Chase Restaurant has had an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s and was a gathering place for leaders of the civil rights movement?
 * ...that Edward George Honey is credited with first proposing the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day?
 * ...that the 1959 Mexico hurricane is the only known Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5?
 * ...that the New York Sun columnist and critic Ward Morehouse stayed in so many hotels that he said his epitaph should read "room service, please"?
 * ...that although Richard Whitney had been heralded as Wall Street's "white knight" for his efforts during the crash of 1929 and was made president of the New York Stock Exchange, he was later sentenced to 5-10 years in Sing Sing for embezzlement?
 * ...that in 1712 Jane Wenham became the last subject of a witch trial in England, and that she was eventually exonerated?
 * ...that Victoire Thivisol was the youngest Venice Film Festival Best Actress award-winner, recieving the award for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
 * ...that Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland, Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland?
 * ...that the 1999 video game Redline was the last published by Accolade before that company was acquired by Infogrames in 1999?