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...that retired General Counsel Alberto J. Mora of the U.S. Navy championed an effort within the Defense Department to end coercive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay?
...that "ultra" was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists?
...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
...that Television House on Kingsway in London served as the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion, Independent Television News, the TV Times magazine, Associated TeleVision and Thames Television between 1955 and the early 1970s?

...that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention a xylophone made out of wood and straw?
...that Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was established as the public broadcaster for the British Zone of Germany after World War II?
...that Salleh Abas was sacked as the Lord President of Malaysia for clashing with the government on the independence of the Malaysian judiciary?
...that the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalry units fought on both sides?
...that the Provençal women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries were known as trobairitz?
...that Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI, was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany?
...that the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
...that the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?

...that Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
...that Syed Hussein Alatas is a Malaysian academic who formed two political parties before going on to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya?
...that the terms of the 1991 Sino-Russian border agreement between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China took over 6 years to implement?
...that the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the largest student organizations in the United States?

...that the Elfin-woods Warbler, an endemic bird of Puerto Rico first observed in 1968, is the last New World warbler to be discovered?
...that Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television?
...that The Silent World, an Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau, was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color?
...that until the late 1980s, the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?

...that a female Western harvest mouse can potentially give birth to as many as forty to sixty offspring in a single year?
...that the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004?
...that French spacing, the typographical practice of adding two (rather than one) spaces after a full stop, is a result of the monospaced fonts used by typewriters?
...that major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System?

...that the Verneuil process, used in ruby synthesis, is considered as the founding step for modern industrial crystal growth technology?
...that Round the Bend was a children's television programme that was televised for three years on Children's ITV, but was supposedly cancelled as a result of Mary Whitehouse calling it politically incorrect?
...that the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority not only promotes Malaysia to foreign investors, but also handles tasks such as the extension of business visit visas?
...that the Teach First organisation which helps top graduate students teach in some of the most deprived areas in London and was inspired by Teach for America, is now expanding to Manchester and Israel?
...that the Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City went from haven for prostitution to Presbyterian chapel in the span of one year?
...that the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin, and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski, is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
...that Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
...that between 1922 and 1926, the Soviet Union was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal?

...that the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
...that Hochtief AG, the company that moved the Abu Simbel temple complex to save it from the Aswan High Dam, also built the Führerbunker, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide?
...that Alfred the Great's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum, the Viking ruler of East Anglia?
...that Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?

...that the Russian officer Leonid Gobyato is credited with having invented man-portable mine mortars?
...that in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., the judge ruled that the video game Donkey Kong could be considered a parody of King Kong?
...that a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari, was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal?
...that the Majlis Amanah Rakyat operates several educational institutes and offers several scholarships for the benefit of Bumiputra students in Malaysia?

...that a mountain ash growing in the small Australian town of Thorpdale, Victoria once held the record for the tallest tree in the world?
...that Maj. Henryk Sucharski, one of the commanders of the defence of Westerplatte during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabre in captivity?
...that the Detroit neighborhood of Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant?
...that the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action?

...that the Preobrazhenka Cemetery in Moscow originated in 1771 as an Old Believer monastery under the guise of a plague quarantine?
...that Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia?
...that in Russian Orthodox bell ringing, the bells are never pealed, but only tolled?
...that Ernest Rogers Millington, former "Baby" of the British House of Commons, is one of only two living former MPs to have been elected before the 1945 UK general election?

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