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...that Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity?
...that the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site?
...that although the earliest attempt at dividing Midnapore District, the most populous district in India, was scrapped in 1921, the Partition of Midnapore was achieved 81 years later?
...that Birdcage Walk, a street in the City of Westminster in London, is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II?
...that Jules Porgès (1839–1921) was a Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s?
...that the "Shakespeare Lady", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, has her own trading card?
...that the Viipuri Municipal Library, built to Aalto's groundbreaking design in 1935, was abandoned for a decade following the transfer of Viipuri to the Soviet Union?
...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
...that the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands?
...that Islay Herald Don Pottinger only became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney?
...that Sir John Gonson, a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress?
...that alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song "Crackity Jones" about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student?
... that Bandar Tun Razak was one of the newest constitutional for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that held the most higher secondary schools and institution in one small area?
...that local farmers would drive rock laden wagons onto the Ada Covered Bridge (pictured) in Ada, Michigan to prevent it from washing away during floods?
...that the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool's large Irish community in 1860?
...that Edwin B. Hart studied physiological chemistry under Nobel Laureate Albrecht Kossel before leading research that would lead to controlling anemia and goiter?
...that funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?
...that Shahzia Sikander, 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant", is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting?
...that the office of Garter Principal King of Arms was created for William Bruges (pictured kneeling) around 1415? (Image:William Bruges Garter King of Arms.jpg)
...that athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish, and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
...that the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834?
...that New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England?
...that the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof?
...that modernization of the Ostkreuz station (pictured) in Berlin, the busiest interchange station of the city's transportation system, has been proposed since 1937 and is due to start next year? (Image:Bahnsteig Bahnhof Ostkreuz, Berlin.jpg)
...that Hamel, a town located in the South West of Western Australia, owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
...that Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce, was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal?
... that the phrase to grab the brass ring comes from the brass ring dispenser, which presents rings to carousel riders to grab and possibly win prizes?
...that British Labour politician Reg Freeson spent 23 years as an MP, including 14 years on the front bench, but was deselected in 1985 due to his "sensible left" views and replaced by Ken Livingstone?
... that Ed Brown (pictured) was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer? (Image:EdwardDBrown.jpg)
...that the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
...that Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai?
...that the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States, and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida?
...that Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation, in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?
... that the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?
...that in order to demonstrate the versatility of the Holman Projector (pictured), a British anti-aircraft mortar, a trial was staged in front of Prime Minister Winston Churchill using a number of beer bottles as ammunition?
...that the Ythan Estuary in Scotland contains the most extensive dunes formation in Europe and is also the site of a Stone Age settlement?
...that the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England, but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting?
...that the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
...that "Ernold Same", a song from Blur's 1995 album The Great Escape, was narrated by the current Mayor of London Ken Livingstone?
...that the Golden Madonna of Essen (pictured) is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary? (Image:GoMa.jpg)
...that the name of the endangered language isolate Huave, spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave people who call themselves Ikoots refer to their language as ombeayiiüts, "our language"?
...that the Kennedia nigricans, or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m² (200 ft²)?
...that 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament?
...that the founders of the Indian spice manufacturing company MDH were popularly known as Deggi Mirch Wale, the "Pot Chilli People"?
...that "Octopus giganteus" (pictured) is the pseudoscientific name given to a large carcass, postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896? (Image:St augustine carcass.jpg)
...that Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna, Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War?
...that Sajal Barui, who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
...that Elm Farm Ollie in 1930 became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane?
...that the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor, in Central City, Colorado, was inspired by a poem, and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
...that Alby, Sweden (pictured) is a mesolithic settlement, the earliest known of any humans on the island of Öland? (Image:Olandalbymedbridge.jpg)
... that deaths caused by falling billboards in Metro Manila during Typhoon Xangsane (Milenyo) prompted a renewed push by Philippine legislators for a ban on billboard advertising?