User:Znette

Did you know...

Charles J. M. Gwinn

... that Charles J. M. Gwinn (pictured) was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
... that "Every Night", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
... that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
... that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
... that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy kept its shape in India's hot weather?
... that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games, but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
... that the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
... that Władysław Umiński's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade?
... that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri" when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK?

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