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Did you know...

... that Sark Windmill, 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 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 pounds (91 kg)?
... 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, Mother 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