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...that the historical medical campus Maiden's Field (clinic pictured) in Moscow started as a court garden for medicinal herbs?
...that Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C.?
...that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly?
...that during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
...that Scieno Sitter, a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge?
...that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A?
...that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge (pictured)?
...that the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros, the home of the French Open in Paris, was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier, a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
...that Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer, a British Conservative Member of Parliament, accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
...that Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket?
...that the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chi_inevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
...that Italian-Australian hermit Valerio Ricetti (pictured) shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own utopia at Hermit's Cave near Griffith, New South Wales?
...that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as a translator for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
...that Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
...that eight of Australia's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II, in the so-called Morotai Mutiny?
...that Gavroche (pictured), a character from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris?
...that most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units?
...that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
...that the Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum?
...that the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow?
...that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill?
...that the Gate Church of the Trinity (pictured), originally constructed as an ascetic Kievan Rus' style church, is now lavishly decorated with Ukrainian Baroque style ornaments?
...that two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?
...that in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
...that the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
...that Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
...that the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?
...that the enzyme neprilysin (pictured) degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
...that 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?
...that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
...that the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture?
...that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
...that a series-parallel graph (pictured) is a mathematical model of series and parallel electric circuits with two different nodes called source and sink, indicating the direction of the electrical current flow?
...that the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses?
...that some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of Black haw to prevent abortions?
...that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?
...that at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, Yipsi Moreno became world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999?
...that Latvian composer Jzeps V+tols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (pictured), where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev?
...that Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City, the largest community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains?
...that William Clowes Ltd.'s installation of noisy, steam-powered printing presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner William Clowes to court?
...that the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows?
...that the Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the American Physical Societys March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations on superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM?
...that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe (pictured) in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
...that the South African record set in 2001 by All-African shot put champion Burger Lambrechts was subsequently annulled because of a positive doping test?
...that since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults?
...that the Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?
...that early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?
...that Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz's The Laws of Pesachconsidered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jewsstarted as a privately distributed newsletter?

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