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...that Gatke Hall (pictured), a former post office, was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at Willamette University?
...that the founding of Phenomena Research Australia, in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947, was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
...that Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by the New York Times?
...that until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism?
...that poet Anna Williams's works include the whimsically titled On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon?
...that the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?
...that the Achelous-class repair ship USS Atlas (pictured) was used to repair damaged landing craft after D-Day in 1944?
...that a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware, a metal handicraft of Karnataka, India?
...that United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol?
...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
...that the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
...that orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall , is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?
...that Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
...that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
...that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
...that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
...that ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language, seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
...that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
...that the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses?
...that Japanese painter Takeuchi SeihM (work pictured) was one of the first to receive Japan's Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
...that the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?
...that a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki?
...that the term "a feather in your cap" comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
...that the teponaztli (pictured) is an Aztec wooden slit drum?
...that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
...that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
...that no two of the more than 1000 windows in the Waldspirale residential complex (pictured) in Darmstadt, Germany are identical?
...that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture (in the present-day Netherlands) lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
...that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
...that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
...that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
...that Mormon leader Charles Shreeve Peterson (pictured) was the first settler of Utah's Morgan Valley?
...that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?
...that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?
...that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?
...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indianas Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
...that the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
...that the Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
...that 18% of all deaths occuring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
...that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
...that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"?
...that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look," a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
...that the pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman (pictured) is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
...that the port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon?
...that Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled?
...that Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
...that participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
...that Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
...that Edward R. Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
...that the attack transport USS Bayfield (pictured) served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944?
...that there are 618 species of birds in Belize?
...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
...that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
...that the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish research institute on modern Polish history, has been in a center of recent Polish politics?
...that the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
...that when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
...that the Oxtotitlán grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of Olmec culture paintings (pictured)?
...that ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes?
...that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
...that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios?
...that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
...that nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
...that the Japanese diplomat Tatsuo Kawai (pictured) was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
...that the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic?
...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandson of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
...that Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods, and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills?
...that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?
...that a cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals (pictured)?
...that reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept?
...that Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
...that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?
...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?

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