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... that the ghost town of Buffalo City, North Carolina (pictured) was once the largest community in Dare County?
... that the largest post mill in Sussex received the largest Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an individual windmill in the United Kingdom?
... that J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
... that in a VFL game against North Melbourne, Fitzroy player, Frank Curcio, famously stated, hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers?
... that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
... that Omaha pioneer Andrew J. Hanscom started a large scale fight in the Nebraska Territory House of Representatives over the location of the territorial capital?
... that New Mill, Cross in Hand (pictured), was the last windmill to operate commercially by wind in Sussex?
... that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon?
... that the effects of tides can affect ice sheet dynamics up to 100 km (150 miles) inland?
... that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" has only recently been determined?
... that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop?
... that Heinrich Barbl, an SS-Rottenführer, helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp?
... that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
... that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising?
... that a swift (pictured) is a tool with an adjustable diameter used to hold a skein of yarn while it is being wound off?
... that the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
... that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere?
... that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record-setting 502 consecutive games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Blackhawk during the 1962–63 season?
... that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos?
... that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture?
... that screenwriter Allan Loeb's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
...that the footprints of the Buddha (pictured) often bear distinguishing marks, such as a Dharmachakra or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of the Buddha?
...that fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades?
...that the barrack at Aghavannagh, which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion, became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
...that sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls?
...that to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig's economic and religious privileges after an uprising?
...that the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts?
...that Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
...that Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
...that the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
... that at age 14 Amy Evans (pictured), a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
... that as a college athlete, Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Joyce (pictured) played in an exhibition game against the Tigers three years before his Major League debut with them?
... that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis, who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
... that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland, gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia, meaning "lookout"?
... that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan?
... that Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism was a concept adapted by the same people who earlier thought that this concept was suicidal?
... that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?
... that pulmonary laceration was thought to be uncommon before CT scanning (example pictured) became widely available, because the injury is difficult to detect with X-rays alone?
... that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies?
... that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
... that because it reflects Hungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian-issued birth certificate?
... that Devil's Den gully, located within the Heber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
... that Chris Garneau's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?
... that the Medusa Rondanini (pictured) in a prominent Roman collection was ignored until it was praised by Goethe in 1786?
... that the Reverend Henry Tibbs was accused of calling Winston Churchill a drug addict in 1940?
... that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
... that Odd With, member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With?
... that the US Navy's Casco-class monitors, long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers, proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
... that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
... that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district?
... that the Buis (pictured) was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands, after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea?
... that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
... that the last old-Kannada grammar, authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
... that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
... that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons?
... that publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America?
... that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?
.... that Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein (pictured) shot many miles of film in Mexico with the backing of American author Upton Sinclair to make ¡Qué viva México!?
... that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
... that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle?
... that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an?
... that males of the White-winged Fairy-wren carry petals of contrasting colours to attract females other than their spouses for extra-marital mating?
... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
... that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains, as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains?
... that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control and staunchly opposed Darwinism?
... that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House (pictured) is now a convent for Catholic nuns?
... that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
... that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
... that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period?
... that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship, despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
... that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor?
... that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (pictured) was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall?
... that the Central Eurasian Studies Society is the first society for Central Asian scholars based in North America?
... that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland?
... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as John Milton's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
... that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico?
... that Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument (pictured) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
... that in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
... that Indian film director Nitin Bose, who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
... that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
... that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores (JCPenney, Dillard's and Goldsmith's) all in the same year?
... that Flaithbertach Ua Néill, king of Ailech in Ireland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
... that William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph (pictured) showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln?
... that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
... that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout?
... that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
... that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
... that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
... that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?
... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (pictured), the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?
... that tourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
... that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
... that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
... that a story in Janna's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul?
... that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation?
... that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
... that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
... that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
... that Sark Windmill (pictured), built in 1571, is the second oldest surviving windmill in the British Isles?
... that Joseph M. Street a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
... that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter 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 "