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... that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?

... that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?

... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?

... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning?

... that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church?

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... that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar Ekeland?

... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?

... that in the early 19th century, the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary?

... that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?

... that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II?

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... that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?

... that the 15th-century Treatise of Love is based on the 13th-century monastic manual Ancrene Wisse, but shows considerably less interest in carnal love?

... that Princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, created the world's first museum (ruins pictured)?

... that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer, author of The Art of Blacksmithing?

... that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

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... that the Museo Soumaya (pictured), a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France?

... that John T. Cunningham, who has chronicled much of New Jersey's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?

... that the influential 2000 oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features that all cancers have in common?

... that Albert Bandura's 1986 book Social Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviour psychologists were seeking for over a century?

... that Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy D. Snyder, discusses the estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?

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... that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?

... that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?

... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?

... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning?

... that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church?

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