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...that Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
...that despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire, Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty?
...that the Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression?
...that "De Vogels Van Holland" was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that the burrows of Meriones gerbils (pictured) can have a combined length of over 30 meters and over 18 entrances?
...that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
... that Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District off the southern coast of Texas contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm?
...that Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to this day to win the Kentucky Derby?
...that English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
...that after being captured by the Germans during World War II, Soviet soldier Baymirza Hayit joined the pro-Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani nationalist?
...that the southern side of Mount Elden (pictured) in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977?
...that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
...that due to a lack of bilingual inscriptions, most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method?
...that Alexander Kazhdan, the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula?
...that, in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch?
...that the first military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal?
...that Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery?
...that the Upper South of the United States comprises the states which didn't secede from the Union until after the Battle of Fort Sumter?
...that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
...the Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
...that in his only armed clash with the police, bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks?
...that the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?
...that Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom was performed at a 1945 Carnegie Hall concert given in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
...that Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem?
...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
...that the crash of Crossair Flight LX498 was initially attributed to cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes in several countries?
...that Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato grown by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia?
...that American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial?
...that Singapore's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments?
...that at 1,500,000 square feet, Willowbrook Mall is the second largest shopping mall in New Jersey?
...that the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California?
...that the three universal Hindu icons are the Aum, the swastika (pictured), and the Sri Chakra Yantra?
...that the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?
...that the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama?
...that "Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?
...that Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria?
...that Josquin des Prez's Miserere, a motet of Psalm 51, was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego?
...that Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
...that according to legend, the masons who built Corcomroe Abbey (pictured) in Ireland were killed to stop them from building another masterpiece elsewhere?
...that Empress Zhang Yao'er refused to hand over control of China's Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son would be freed to take the throne?
...that "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds, who later starred in the film?
...that many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower-mass particles?
...that Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?
...that Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?
...that furry convention attendees (pictured) often wear ears, tails, badges, or fursuits as identification?
...that "La Coco-Dance" was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006?
...that Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?
...that Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident?
...that the city of Thasos held out an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion?

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