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...that the Kirchberg convent (pictured), built in 1237, is one of the oldest female church houses in all of central Europe?
...that Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
...that all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
...that between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics?
...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
...that the Foedus Cassianum, named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius, was the first of many foedera signed by Rome?
...that Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares, established in 1791?
...that Gregory S. Martin (pictured) was the first non-Navy officer nominated to head the U.S. Pacific Command, but withdrew after Senator John McCain questioned whether he had "the quality to command"?
...that the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
...that the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office?
...that after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
...that Norm O'Neill's maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
...that a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
...that the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle?
...that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
...that Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala, India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
...that Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí, is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood?
...that Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
...that in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?
...that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
...that the Walter Gale House is the earliest independent design by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
...that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
...that L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
...that Tunnel Mountain (pictured) has never had a tunnel run through it, and the name is due to an error by Major A.B. Rogers while surveying for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
...that the Aranthalawa Massacre, by the Tamil Tigers, resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks, their mentor, and four other civilians?
...that the test for enrollment at Germany's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
...that before police duty belts, British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs?
...that sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird, with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
...that the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy?
...that the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars?
...that the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino?
...that Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
...that Gerlachovský štít, Slovakia's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes?
...that the construction of the Asama class cruisers (pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy began as a private venture by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, for projected export business?
...that the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics, holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal?
...that the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
...that Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
...that Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
...that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
...that thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea, in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano?
...that during World War II, Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord?
...that the Xhosa Wars veteran Stephen Bartlett Lakeman (pictured) became an Ottoman pasha and, late in his life, helped create the Romanian National Liberal Party?
...that the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph to be ever awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War?
...that John Campanius, an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware, transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
...that investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League?
...that the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933?
...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
...that Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in the hospital?
...that Saint Gangulphus, who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760, is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
...that the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
...that the Hill of Ash (pictured) near Kerch was the first Scythian royal mound excavated in modern times?
...that motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
...that Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah?
...that when British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to the Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo?
...that Paul Henkel, operating out of his son's printing house, became one of the first and only Lutheran publishers in the United States for years?
...that ribbon diagrams, which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins, are produced by a computerized spline function?
...that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
...that Itzik Zohar scored Israel's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA?
...that U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
...that the Splendid Fairy-wren (pictured) of Western Australia is more closely related to the Crow than the original European Wren?
...that the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
...that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
...that in his varied career in French politics, Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community?
...that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
...that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
...that investgative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"?
...that in 1877 naturalist John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon (pictured) as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
...that Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
...that Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka, India?
...that the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from the Singapore's Battle of Bukit Timah?
...that although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK?
...that St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189?
...that the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School?
...that General Sir Edward Jones was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords?
...that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park (pictured) were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of Singapore?
...that Dateline: Toronto, a collection of Ernest Hemingway's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises?
...that Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball?
...that Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
...that some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script?
...that Tong Yabghu, khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains?
...that 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks?
...that the Community Court of Australia's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?
...that Franklin Steele built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls and the first bridge (bridge pictured) to cross the Mississippi River?
...that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
...that the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion, created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of Kosovo Forces ?
...that battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops?
...that John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
...that Peter Herdic, a 19th century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab?
...that during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Palestine Police Force (fort pictured) was augmented by the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and the Special Night Squads?
...that Allen Steere, a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University, is credited with discovering Lyme disease?
...that Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
...that debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit?
...that the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California?
...that the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
...that the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe?
...that the lyre arm design (pictured) has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period?
...that the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
...that wind gradient causes sounds to appear to carry farther downwind, not the wind itself?
...that the Pleasant Home, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois?
...that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
...that the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port?

1 June 2007
...that the Eastern Whipbird (pictured) of the Australian wet forests is so named for its loud call which resembles the cracking of a whip?
...that Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks?
...that the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida?
...that the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
...that Dov Yosef, Israel's second Minister of Justice, immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion?
...that biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution?
...that the SS Dunedin (pictured), the first commercially successful refrigerated ship, ushered in a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America with its first shipment in 1882?
...that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords?
...that the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails?
...that Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
...that Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
...that the sick and the wounded left behind by the Volunteer Army during the Ice March (recruitment poster pictured) of 1919 shot themselves rather than be captured by the Bolsheviks?
...that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania?
...that baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
...that St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter, so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles?
...that Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
...that footballer David Weir scored Manchester City's first ever FA Cup goal?

31 May 2007
...that Charles B. DeBellevue (pictured), who had the most MiG kills during the Vietnam War, was the last American ace on active duty?
...that the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie?
...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
...that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics?
...that Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
...that the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?
...that the Villa Medicea di Pratolino (pictured), visited by Michel de Montaigne in 1581, was later owned by the Demidov princely family of Russia and by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia?
...that Lucy Brewer claimed to have served in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812, but was probably an invention of an American writer?
...that Suyab, the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries, and Turkic bal-bals?
...that little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen, a colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright, because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
...that Supraśl Lavra is one of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries for men in Poland?
...that Alse Young from Windsor, Connecticut, was hanged in 1647, and is believed to have been the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies?
...that the Arthur Heurtley House (pictured) in Oak Park, Illinois is considered the first fully mature example of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style?
...that British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Elliott Carter, Rachmaninoff, Steve Reich and Stravinsky?
...that Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, resigned after confessing to torture and forgery?
...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
...that British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament, representing two parties and then as a life peer, and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
...that Australian cricketer Bill Johnston, the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets, took career-best figures shortly after a near-fatal car crash?