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... 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 (510 ft), 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—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 an 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 (10 ft) 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?
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