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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[African pompano]]''' ''([[:Image:Alcil u0.gif|pictured]])'', a [[tropical]] [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[game fish]], is not a [[pompano]], but belongs to the [[genus]] '''''[[Alectis]]'''''? |
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{{*mp}}...that only three of the '''[[List of islands of the United States by area|largest islands of the United States]]'''{{—}}the [[Hawaii (island)|Big Island]] of [[Hawaii]], [[Kodiak Island]], and [[Geography of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]]{{—}}are greater than 3,000 [[square mile]]s (8,000 [[Square kilometre|km²]]) in size? |
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{{*mp}}...that descendants of [[Betsy Mix Cowles]]'s brother Edwin founded '''[[Cowles Publishing Company]]''', the [[Cowles Foundation|Cowles Commission for Research in Economics]], and the '''[[Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that at '''[[King of the Ring (1998)|King of the Ring 1998]]''', [[Mick Foley]] was thrown head first off a [[Hell in a Cell|sixteen foot high cell]] onto a table by [[The Undertaker]] and it has since become one of the most famous moments in [[professional wrestling]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Spiral Q Puppet Theater]]''' in [[Philadelphia]] uses [[puppetry]], [[street theatre]] and [[medieval pageant|pageantry]] to promote [[social change|social]] and [[politics|political]] change? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Varbola Stronghold]]''' was the largest circular rampart [[fortress]] and a trading center built in [[Ancient Estonia]] that only lost its importance in the [[14th Century]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[José María Campo Serrano]]''' became [[President of Colombia]] after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar]]''' ''([[:Image:Basilica del Pilar ZaragozaAragon(Spain).jpg|pictured]])'' in [[Spain]] is reputed to be the first [[Marian shrine|church dedicated to Mary]] through history? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[Hydrozoa|hydroid]] ''Hydractinia bayeri'' was named by [[Hirohito|Emperor Hirohito]] of [[Japan]] in honor of a fellow [[Marine biology|marine biologist]], '''[[Frederick Bayer]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that visual evidence of the [[Operation Anadyr|installation]] of [[R-12|Soviet missiles]] in [[Cuba]] which triggered the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] in 1962 was found in [[reconnaissance]] photographs by [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] [[National Photographic Interpretation Center|analysts]] led by '''[[Arthur C. Lundahl]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[rent control in New York|rent control program in New York State]]''' is [[United States|America's]] longest-running? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Michael G. Strain]]''' is [[Louisiana]]'s first elected [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Utah Scenic Byways]]''' program includes the highest paved road in the state with a [[route summit|summit]] at 10,715 ft (3266 m)? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Charles Morris Woodford]]''' wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first [[List of colonial heads of the Solomon Islands|Deputy Commissioner]] of the [[Solomon Islands|Solomon Islands Protectorate]], and then convinced the [[High Commissioner (Commonwealth)|High Commissioner]] to sign it? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[music video]] for "<b>[[Passenger (Powderfinger song)|Passenger]]</b>" featured the members of [[Powderfinger]] being eaten by a [[whale]]-like creature, whilst packed in [[suitcase|suitcases]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Culbone]]''' Church (''[[:Image:Culbonechurch.jpg|pictured]]'') is the smallest [[England|English]] [[Church of England parish church|parish church]] still holding services? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Raspberry Island (Alaska)|Raspberry Island]]''' in the [[Gulf of Alaska]] boasts some of the largest [[Roosevelt elk]] ever recorded? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Heller House]]''' marked a turning point in [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]'s shift to [[Prairie School]] architecture? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Sumitro]]''' was a prominent [[Indonesia]]n General in the early years of General [[Suharto]]'s [[New Order (Indonesia)|New Order]], but retired after student riots in [[Jakarta]] in 1974? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[1999 Sydney hailstorm]]''' is the costliest [[natural disaster]] in [[Australia]]n history, causing over [[Australian dollar|A$]]1.7 billion in insured damages? |
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{{*mp}}...that the unusual Mexican ball game of '''[[pelota mixteca]]''' is thought to be a development of [[real tennis]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Rose Quarter]]''' sports and entertainment complex in [[Portland, Oregon]] was constructed in the [[parking lot]] of the [[Memorial Coliseum (Portland)|Memorial Coliseum]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Winchester Model 1895]]''' is one of the few [[lever-action]] rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by [[stripper clip|charger clips]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that in 2002, [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]] set up '''[[rail ale trail|a scheme]]''' where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting [[public house|pubs]] along the route? |
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{{*mp}}...that a 120-year old [[Bodhi tree]] (''[[:Image:JLS Bodhi Tree-2.JPG|pictured]]'') in '''[[Jin Long Si Temple]]''', standing over 30 [[metres|m]] tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in [[Singapore]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the chief suspect in the 1919 '''[[Green Bicycle Case]]''' tried to destroy the victim's [[bicycle]] that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless [[acquittal|acquitted]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[scientific jury selection]]''' is used by some U.S. [[attorney at law|attorney]]s in high-stakes cases? |
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{{*mp}}...that the book '''''[[This Is Not The Life I Ordered]]''''', co-authored by former [[California State Senate|California State Senator]] [[Jackie Speier]], has twice reached the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' [[best seller]] list? |
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{{*mp}}...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the '''[[Ouimetoscope]]''', was created in [[1906]] with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Chris Cosentino]]''', a contestant on ''[[The Next Iron Chef]]'' famous for cooking [[offal]], hated his grandmother's tripe as a child? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[poet]] '''[[Violet Kazue de Cristoforo]]''' wrote [[haiku]]s while she and her family were detained in [[Japanese American internment]] camps during [[World War II]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that near the [[End of World War II in Europe|end of World War II]], [[2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States)|American soldiers]] conducted a raid behind [[Red Army|Soviet]] lines to rescue the [[bay (horse)|bay]] [[stallion (horse)|stallion]] '''[[Witez II]]''' from a [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakian]] [[stud farm]] at the behest of captured [[Wehrmacht|German]] officers? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Piffles Taylor]]''' (''[[:Image:Piffles Taylor.jpg|pictured]]'') [[quarterback]]ed the [[Regina Roughriders]] to the [[Hugo Ross Trophy|Western Canada rugby championship]] in 1919 after losing an eye in [[World War I]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Massacres of Poles in Volhynia|ethnic cleansing of Poles]] in 1943 [[Volhynia]] was resisted by the '''[[Przebraże Defence|Defence of Przebraże]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Joseph Throckmorton]]''' was called a "second [[Nero]] or [[Calligula]] (sic)" for his actions on his [[steamboat]] '''''[[Warrior (1832)|Warrior]]''''' at the 1832 '''[[Battle of Bad Axe]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that in 2004, the '''[[Children's Court of Victoria]]''' in [[Australia]] granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Goose Creek State Park]]''', a [[List of North Carolina state parks|North Carolina state park]] off [[Pamlico Sound]], is in an inlet that once provided cover for [[Blackbeard]], [[Stede Bonnet]] and other [[pirate]]s? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Lothar Neethling]]''' of the [[South African Police]] confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the [[flight data recorder|aircraft flight]] [[cockpit voice recorder|recorders]] from the [[wreckage]] of the [[Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 air disaster|air disaster]] which killed President [[Samora Machel]] of [[Mozambique]] in 1986? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Ugarit]]ic [[culture hero]] '''[[Danel]]''' may have been a model for the Biblical [[Daniel]] of [[Ezekiel]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[NASCAR]] founder [[Bill France, Sr.]] examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial '''[[1959 Daytona 500]]''' race winner '''[[Johnny Beauchamp]]''' had actually finished second behind [[Lee Petty]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the volcano [[Mount St. Helens]] is named after '''[[Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens|Alleyne FitzHerbert]]''' of [[Derby]] ''([[:Image:Alleyne FitzHerbert04738, squarecrop.jpg|pictured]])''? |
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{{*mp}}...that from 1955 to 1973, the [[United States]] conducted a '''[[United States gravity control propulsion initiative|scientific initiative]]''' aimed at producing [[gravity]]-manipulation technology? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[intoxication]] is never recognized as an [[excuse]] for [[crime]], but '''[[settled insanity]]''' due to [[substance abuse]] is? |
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{{*mp}}...that former [[Finance Minister of Israel]] '''[[Pinchas Sapir]]''' was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[G. Venkatasubbaiah]]''' is regarded as the father of the modern [[Kannada]] [[dictionary]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that artist '''[[R. B. Kitaj]]''' blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[wide receiver]] '''[[Mercury Hayes]]''' caught the game-winning [[touchdown]] in [[Lloyd Carr]]'s [[University of Michigan|Michigan]] [[coach|coaching]] debut? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Fermin Rocker]]''', son of [[anarchist]] writer [[Rudolf Rocker]], once sold a painting to rock star [[Mick Jagger]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] to assassinate [[Elizabeth I]], '''[[Charles Paget (conspirator)|Charles Paget]]''' was given the manor of [[Weston-on-Trent]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of [[communism]] in [[Czechoslovakia]] in the [[1960s]] was '''''[[The Sun in a Net]]'''''? |
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*...that the now-[[Poland|Polish]] '''[[Gliwice Canal]]''' was known as the "[[Adolf Hitler]] Canal" during [[World War II|WWII]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that American [[sports car racing]] driver '''[[Dick Thompson]]''' ''([[:Image:DrDickThompsonTheFlyingDentistVIR2007.jpg|pictured]])'' was known as the "Flying Dentist"? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[NATO]] commander in [[Afghanistan]] labelled the '''[[Siege of Sangin]]''' against [[Taliban insurgency|Taliban insurgents]] the most intensive engagement involving [[British Armed Forces|British soldiers]] since the [[Korean War]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that sculptor [[Tom Otterness]] delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "'''[[Life Underground]]'''" subway installation? |
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{{*mp}}...that Professor '''[[Padraig O'Malley]]''' of the [[University of Massachusetts Boston]] helped bring 16 [[Iraq]]is to a conference in [[Finland]], where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in [[South Africa]] and [[Northern Ireland]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Singapore]]’s '''[[Fort Tanjong Katong]]''', one of the oldest military forts built by the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Straits Settlements|colonial government]], never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"? |
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{{*mp}}...that in his 1968 '''[[Declaration of Perth]]''', [[Conservative Party (UK)|British Conservative]] leader [[Edward Heath]] pledged his party's support for [[Scottish devolution]], a policy later reversed by [[Margaret Thatcher]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Louisiana Tigers]]''' [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]] [[brigade]] were a key part of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting [[shock troops]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the training exercises in '''''[[Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day|Flash Focus]]''''' were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology? |
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{{*mp}}...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on '''[[Dealul Mitropoliei]]''' in [[Bucharest]] in support of [[Alexander John Cuza]] ''([[:Image:CuzaAugustStrixner.PNG|pictured]])'' in his election to become the first [[Domnitor]] of the [[Danubian Principalities|United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[US Navy]] [[Bayfield class attack transport|''Bayfield'' class]] [[attack transport]]s '''[[USS Alpine (APA-92)|USS ''Alpine'']]''', '''[[USS Barnstable (APA-93)|USS ''Barnstable'']]''', '''[[USS Callaway (APA-35)|USS ''Callaway'']]''', '''[[USS Cecil (APA-96)|USS ''Cecil'']]''' and '''[[USS Goshen (APA-108)|USS ''Goshen'']]''' all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at [[Kaohsiung]] in Taiwan in the 1970s? |
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{{*mp}}..that '''[[Heuneburg]]''', an early [[Celts|Celtic]] settlement by the upper [[Danube]], was already [[fort]]ified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle [[Bronze Age]] (15th to 12th century BC)? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Derbyshire]] [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|M.P.]] '''[[George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon|George John Venables-Vernon]]''' who enthused about [[Italian literature]] was the namesake of [[Vernon County, New South Wales|Vernon County]] in [[Australia]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Harold E. Martin]]''', a [[newspaper]] [[publisher]] and [[editor]], won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for [[investigative reporting]] in [[1970]] and served for twenty years on the board of the [[Billy Graham Evangelistic Association]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that when Sir '''[[Francis Rodes]]''' bequeathed a yearly [[pound sterling|£20]], it was enough to run a [[secondary school]] in the 16th century? |
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{{*mp}}...that a dispute over the [[Sudan]]ese area of '''[[Abyei]]''' may determine the fate of the 2005 [[Comprehensive Peace Agreement]] that ended the [[Second Sudanese Civil War|22-year civil war]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the conditions at the [[chapel]] of '''[[St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn]]''' ''([[:Image:St Nicholas Tallinn.jpg|pictured]])'' in [[1703]] protected the unburied Duke [[Charles Eugène de Croÿ|Eugène de Croÿ]] from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until [[1897]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[United States Supreme Court]] held in '''''[[Moyer v. Peabody]]''''' (1909) that the US government may imprison citizens without [[probable cause]] during an [[insurgency|insurrection]] so long as it acts in [[good faith]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Mafia]] turncoat '''[[Baldassare Di Maggio]]''' claimed that Cosa Nostra boss [[Totò Riina]] respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister [[Giulio Andreotti]] at a meeting? |
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{{*mp}}...that it was '''[[John Hollingshead]]''' who brought together [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] in 1871? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Jüri Vilms]]''', a member of the [[Estonia]]n [[Salvation Committee]], issued the [[Estonian Declaration of Independence]] in February 1918, and was executed by [[German Empire|German]] troops less than two months later? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Harris Wash]]''' is a 40-mile long [[tributary]] of the [[Escalante River]] within the [[Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument]] in southern [[Utah]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Mourning of Muharram]]''', observed by [[Shi'a]] [[Islam|Muslims]], commemorates the anniversary of the death of [[Imam]] [[Husayn ibn Ali]] at the [[Battle of Karbala]] in [[680]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[London]] will soon have a '''[[Walk of Fame (Dogs)|Walk of Fame for dogs]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Anna Laetitia Barbauld]]'s (''[[:Image:BarbauldCameo.gif|pictured]]'') '''''[[Lessons for Children]]''''' (1778–79) revolutionized [[children's literature]], introducing what novelist [[Frances Burney]] called a "new walk"? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]'s musical '''''[[Primrose (musical)|Primrose]]''''' had its [[Broadway]] [[première]] more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut? |
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{{*mp}}...that during a copper miners' strike in [[Michigan]] in 1913, [[trade union|labor]] leader '''[[Charles Moyer]]''' was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by [[Calumet, Michigan|Calumet]] city police while still bleeding? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Praetorian Building]]''', a [[high-rise]] in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], is regarded to be the first [[skyscraper]] constructed in the [[Southwestern United States]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Douglas Bruce]]''' is so associated with [[Colorado]]'s [[Taxpayer Bill of Rights]] that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"? |
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{{*mp}}...that a prosecution was started against '''[[Benjamin Robinson (minister)|Benjamin Robinson]]''' for starting a school in [[Findern]] in 1693? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Zhenzhu Khan]]''' of [[Xueyantuo]] once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to [[Emperor Taizong of Tang|Emperor Taizong]] of [[Tang Dynasty|Tang China]] to serve as [[bride price]] for a [[princess]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Unnale Unnale]]''' was the director [[Jeeva (director)|Jeeva]]'s final film before his death? |
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{{*mp}}...that nine workers died at [[India]]'s '''[[Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited]]''' due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten [[steel]]? |
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