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11:47, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
... that there are fourteen subspecies of the Pacific Robin (pictured) scattered from Samoa to Norfolk Island?
... that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
... that Cockle Creek in Tasmania is the furthest point one can drive south in Australia?
... that Red Corridor is a term used to describe an impoverished region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite communist militant activity?
... that of the twenty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, seventeen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
... that Barenaked Ladies has received six Juno Awards from nine nominations, including Group of the Year in 1992?
... that Lyceum-The Circle Historic District is where James Meredith's enrolment on October 1, 1962 integrated Ole Miss and led to riots?
... that legend describes Fleance, a minor character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as an ancestor of King James II of England connecting him to King Arthur?
... that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada?
... that Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Steve Woodard received a no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Day tie game since 1965?

04:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Joe Wilson (pictured) scored West Bromwich Albion's first goal in The Football League?
... that Alexander M. Thompson, a socialist journalist beginning in the 1880s, became the author of lighthearted Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century?
... that Horatio Nelson's legacy has been celebrated in books, paintings and monuments?
... that the Bulgarian village and architectural reserve Brashlyan was referenced in the "Strandzha Marseillaise", the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising?
... that Phoebe Ann Patten, wife of early LDS church leader David W. Patten, served a mission to Tennessee with her husband, an assignment almost unheard of at the time?
... that the 1997 Qayen earthquake leveled 700 homes in the village of Abiz alone?
... that Tang Dynasty general Tian Xu designated his youngest son Tian Ji'an as his heir because his sonless wife adopted Tian Ji'an, born of a concubine, as her own?

22:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Zion Memorial Chapel (pictured) in New Hamburg, New York, represents a late stage of Gothic Revival architecture in American churches?
... that the re-education through labor penal system in the People's Republic of China was overhauled in 2007?
... that by the time of the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, none of the soldiers of the American 1st Gas Regiment had fired chemical weapons in combat?
... that Alfonsina Strada, nicknamed the devil in a dress, was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia?
... that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University, seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
... that Hesaraghatta Lake is a freshwater lake created from the Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore?
... that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?

16:05, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the freshwater snail Viviparus georgianus (pictured), the "banded mystery snail", is native to the southeastern U.S. but is an introduced species in the northern U.S. and Canada?
... that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia's first government astronomer?
... that George M. Keller added US$1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil, providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?
... that 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In was marked for an English language remake to be directed by Matt Reeves before it was even released in U.S. cinemas?
... that the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale?
... that the name of Operation Defensive Shield, launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer?

10:18, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Golden Monarch (male pictured) is found in New Guinea and New Ireland but not in the large island New Britain which lies between them?
... that The Californians, an NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming as an ambitious lawyer?
... that some species of starfish that live in tide pools have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow entire new arms in time?
... that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida"?
... that rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
... that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge?
... that in the only inning he pitched in Major League Baseball, Cal Cooper gave up five hits, a walk and five runs for a lifetime ERA of 45.0?

00:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Marie Curie (pictured) is the only female Nobel laureate to have won multiple Nobel Prizes?
... that the Ohio Solicitor General is appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to handle the office's U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio Supreme Court and 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals appellate work?
...that many battles were fought between the Croatian medieval cities of Kaptol and Gradec over ownership of Medveščak creek?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
... that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr, which stood in King Völsung's hall?
... that Chuck Riley's original opponent for the November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District?
... that Jens Boyesen, who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement, later went on to become a top diplomat?
... that motivational speaker and self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India?

17:08, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the statues of the Two Working Men (pictured) in Cork, Ireland were originally set to be unveiled outside the Liberty Hall in Dublin, but were deemed a traffic hazard?
... that the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh's Osho movement?
... that modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays?
... that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature, music and film?
... that screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
... that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?
... that Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg, father of Johan Castberg, served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament and was the first editor-in-chief of Varden?
... that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You?

12:03, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Kate Nash (pictured) won the award for British Female Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards in 2008?
... that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors?
... that the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay wrote a Lament of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople for a political show banquet to propagate a crusade against the Ottoman Turks?
... that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s?
... that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway, only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?
... that the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?
... that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay?
... that the first keeper of the South Bass Island Light was picked up and committed as insane on the same day that his assistant's suicide was reported in the newspaper?

02:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia (pictured) were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order?
... that all of the known hurricanes in the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall?
... that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society?
... that the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line?
... that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds?
... that R. J. Reynolds marketing executive Ralph Seagraves facilitated using red and white paint on American short track's walls to give the illusion of greater speed?
... that 3-MCPD, a food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce, has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant?
... that Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, who was killed in action in World War I, lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War, while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II?

19:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Yuan Dynasty dietician Hu Sihui's culinary encyclopaedia was the first book to contain a recipe for Peking Duck (pictured)?
... that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
... that Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?
... that Window on the Plains Museum in Dumas, Texas, which preserves Panhandle history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?
... that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University's selection committee to become its seventh president?
... that the cable channel Z Music Television was a Christian version of MTV until it closed in 2000?
... that Avraham Herzfeld, one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut, was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?

14:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Capitol Loop, a state highway in Lansing, Michigan serving the State Capitol (pictured), was designated in a plan to revitalize downtown?
... that Wilfrid Laurier University's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
... that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French?
... that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg?
... that Todd Friel performed over 1,500 times on stage as a stand-up comedian, mostly in venues in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area in Minnesota?
... that Tropical Storm Rosa was the first eastern North Pacific tropical storm to develop during the month of November since 2000?
... that, when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Xiaozhong turned against the warlord Li Weiyue whom he had served and joined the imperial cause, Li killed Zhang's brothers and sons?
... that all Nobel laureates in Economics are men?

12:02, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the American Civil War saw buglers (infantry band pictured) required to learn forty-nine separate calls for infantry alone?
... that while attempting to produce malleable platinum, Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?
... that towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?
... that although the Round scad is considered a good food fish, it is mostly caught for use as bait?
... that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway, proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?
... that Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8?
... that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, John Angus Weir, helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
... that Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs, only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen?

23:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
... that James L. Holloway, Jr. and James L. Holloway III (pictured) are the only father and son to both serve as four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy while on active duty?
... that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala, India?
... that the Laughing Baby, a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon, has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II?
... that a siruv is a contempt of court order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court that can exclude people who do not observe the court's orders from participation in religious services?
... that The Golden Fleece, written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol, was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?
... that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina?
... that the arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati by 80%?

17:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the flora of Western Australia (floral emblem pictured) comprises 9437 native vascular plant species of 1543 genera within 226 families?
... that the houses built by Abraham and Adolph Brower in New Hamburg, New York have matching porch columns and front doorways?
... that Richard Marson, former chief editor of the BBC's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney, Planet 24 and LWT?
... that the 1937 Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan?
... that one of sculptor Paul Manship's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan?
... that Saint Vigilius of Trent, stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn, was the first martyr canonized by a pope?
... that Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and carried the Olympic Torch in 1996?
... that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$125 million to Harvard University, the school's largest gift?

09:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the dome-shaped nest of the Yellow-rumped Thornbill (pictured) has a cup-shaped depression fake nest to distract attention from the real nest inside?
... that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"?
... that the Local Void is an empty region of space, devoid of matter, lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy?
... that during a storm in the Dolomites, Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez, who later wrote his biography?
... that the worst ever tram accident in the United Kingdom occurred on the Dover Corporation Tramways system in 1917?
... that Willard L. Boyd, President Emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum, was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal?
... that Łaski's Statute of 1505 was the first codification of Polish law?
... that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?

03:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
... that New York's Sony Building (pictured), with its distinctive Chippendale roof, was originally built by AT&T as its headquarters, but they no longer needed the space after the Bell System divestiture?
... that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware, Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean?
... that the congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism, shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw, an enlarged head, and even death during infancy?
... that Yamamoto Tatsuo, former head of the Bank of Japan, was the first businessman to become a cabinet minister in Japan?
... that Jingning County, in Gansu, People's Republic of China, is one of the seats of Chinese civilization, with a history dating back to the Neolithic era?
... that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007?
... that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers?

20:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate (pictured) picturesque?
... that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War?
... that Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan?
... that Jean-Claude Latombe's motion planning algorithm Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations?
... that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama?
... that Nini Stoltenberg, the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
... that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?
... that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?

13:52, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the volcanic ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park (pictured), an important orienteering venue in New Hampshire, resembles a meteor impact crater?
... that Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement, joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War?
... that in Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
... that the 73 class were the first New South Wales Government Railways locomotives built in Queensland?
... that American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?
... that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck?
... that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana?
... that Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general?

07:36, 20 October 2008 (UTC)'
... that Sweden's tallest building is Turning Torso (pictured), which rises 190 metres (620 ft)?
... that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper's most famous work, Salem, gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers' Sunlight soap?
... that the Waterford Covered Bridge, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"
... that after his ship was captured by the French, Captain Thomas Thompson complained that his captors stole his surgeon's instruments whilst he was trying to operate on the wounded?
... that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review, even though they were only able to publish a single issue?
... that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology, composed of parts of nine different animals?
... that Clemson University coach William "Dabo" Swinney got his nickname as an infant, when his 15-month older brother tried to enunciate "that boy"?
... that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?

01:27, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the Merck headquarters campus (pictured) is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River?
... that Joseph Baptista coined the phrase "Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement?
... that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?
... that when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?
... that the historic Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?
... that the 1993 appointment of Bjørn Skogstad Aamo as director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway drew criticism from the opposition parties?
... that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?
... that Alastair Borthwick's adventures ranged from hitchhiking to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II?

16:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Ivor McIntyre (pictured) was lead pilot in two pioneering aviation feats, the first circumnavigation of Australia by air, and the first international flight by an RAAF plane and crew?
... that in the Canary Islands, palm syrup is made from sap collected laboriously from the crown of a date palm?
... that Tang Dynasty general Hun Zhen was pleased that his requests to Emperor Dezong were sometimes rejected, believing that it showed the emperor trusted him?
... that the song "Gubben Noak" (Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
... that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War?
... that Ronnie Boon scored all the match points for Wales when their rugby team finally broke the "Twickenham bogey", beating England at Twickenham after 21 years and ten failed attempts?
... that Clarin Mustad, a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son, was also involved in the early automotive industry?

13:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Venezuelan painter Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of purgatory (pictured) shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from tubercolosis?
... that the San Diego Padres' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969?
... that in 1969, Major League Baseball player Kevin Collins was traded by the New York Mets with three other players for Donn Clendenon, who would be the World Series MVP that season?
... that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
... that Odd Karsten Tveit, foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2005?
... that although having no formal medical training Anne Margrethe Strømsheim served as a nurse during the 25-day Battle of Hegra Fortress in 1940, gaining national fame in Norway?

04:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
... that Kodaikanal Lake (pictured) was developed in 1863, amid the town of the same name, by the British and early missionaries from the USA?
... that Nirvana's 1994 song "Heart-Shaped Box" was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards, winning two of them?
... that the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?
... that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards, including Best Toilets?
... that despite failing health, American racer Joe Shear won four of his last five races?
... that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama?
... that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor?
... that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord, after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?
... that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind?

18:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the orchid Masdevallia veitchiana (pictured), which can be found around Machu Picchu, was named after the founder of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sir Harry Veitch?
... that the popular statement that USS Arizona (BB-39)'s 14"/45 caliber guns were never fired in anger is a myth?
... that the English of Selim Aga, a former slave from Sudan, was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton?
... that more than a million NSU Quickly mopeds were sold between 1953 and 1963?
... that Admiral Naokuni Nomura, WW2 Japanese naval attache to Berlin, returned home on U-511, a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler to Japan in 1943?
... that Courtland Center in Burton, Michigan had three separate JCPenney stores until a new one opened in March 2008?
... that between 1874 and 1884, Hans Mustad co-owned the industrial company O. Mustad & Son with his father Ole Hovelsen Mustad?
... that Empire, a 1962–1963 NBC Western dramatic series set on a New Mexico ranch, provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal?
... that Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?

12:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1937 film Chintamani (promotional snapshot pictured) was the first Tamil film to run for a year in a single theatre?
... that Edward Jardine, after commanding 200 Union troops in an attempt to quell the New York Draft Riots, only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes?
... that Betsy, a border collie, has intelligence greater than that of the great ape which is regarded as humans' closest relative?
... that George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £7,000, but later changed his mind?
... that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel?
... that Ruatara, chief of the Ngā Puhi, hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
... that the Overman Committee, led by Senator Lee Slater Overman, investigated allegations that groups such as the United States Brewers Association were promoting "un-American activities"?
... that Eli Hurvitz, Chairman of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, joined the company in the early 1950s as a dish washer?