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-[[Image:Faa pitot static system.JPG|100x100px|Pitot-static system]]
+[[Image:DeKalbEgyptian3.jpg|100x100px|Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, Illinois]]
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-{{*mp}}...that an aircraft's '''[[pitot-static system]]''' ''(pictured)'' allows a pilot to know its [[airspeed]], [[Mach number]], altitude, and altitude trend?
+{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois)|Egyptian Theater]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[DeKalb, Illinois]] is purportedly haunted by [[ghost]]s?
+{{*mp}}...the '''[[14th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)|Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division]]''' made [[Jiaozi|Chinese dumplings]] a specialty of [[Utsunomiya, Tochigi|Utsunomiya]] upon returning from [[Manchuria]]?
-{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Oxford University Ice Hockey Club]]''' claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
-{{*mp}}...that during the 1933 '''[[Simele massacre]]''' nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 [[Assyrian]] villages were destroyed?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Iya Abubakar]]''', a [[Nigeria|Nigerian]] [[mathematician]], served as his country's [[Minister of Defence]]?
-{{*mp}}...that award-winning Japanese novelist '''[[Tachihara Masaaki]]''' was a [[Zainichi Korean]], whose works were strongly influenced by [[Zeami]]'s traditional Japanese [[Noh]] dramas?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe]]''', a [[Munro]] in [[Scotland]], is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
-{{*mp}}...that most of the numerous '''[[Jarlabanke Runestones]]''' were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Ovidiu Pecican]]''' co-wrote a [[textbook]] of [[History of Romania|Romanian history]] that caused a national scandal?
+{{*mp}}...that a '''[[protoplanetary nebula]]''' is a short-lived phase of [[stellar evolution]]?
-{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Land Coastal Defence]]''' that defended the [[Poland|Polish]] coast during the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|German invasion of Poland]] was subordinate to the [[Polish Navy]], not the [[Polish Army|Army]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet|Rolf Dudley-Williams]]''' helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working [[jet engine]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[John Casor]]''' was the first known [[slavery|slave]] in the [[Thirteen Colonies]] and his owner was a fellow [[Black people|Black person]]?
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