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-[[Image:Revolutionary Romania by C D Rosenthal.jpg|right|100x100px]]
+[[Image:HMS Vandal.jpg|100x100px|HMS Vandal]]
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-{{*mp}}...that the [[England|English]]-born activist '''[[Maria Rosetti]]''' (''pictured'') was the model for [[Constantin Daniel Rosenthal]]'s [[National personification|personification]] of [[Romania]]?
-{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Palacio de los Capitanes Generales]]''' was commissioned by the Governor of [[Havana]] but took so long to build that another five Governors had come and gone before it was completed?
+{{*mp}}...that the [[British U class submarine|U class submarine]] '''[[HMS Vandal (P64)|HMS ''Vandal'']]'''  (''pictured'') had the shortest career of any [[Royal Navy]] submarine, being lost with all hands just four days after its commission?
-{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Jews in Pagan Armenia]]''' were deported from [[Palestine]] to [[Armenia]] by [[Tigranes the Great]]?
+{{*mp}}...that Canada's first female [[columnist]] wrote under the [[pseudonym]] '''[[Faith Fenton]]''' so she could retain her [[day job]] as a [[teacher]]?
-{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Evelyn tables]]''', acquired by [[John Evelyn]] in [[Padua]] in 1646, are thought to be the oldest [[anatomy|anatomical]] preparations in [[Europe]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Kumortuli]]''' neighbourhood of [[Calcutta]] supplies images of [[Durga Puja|Goddess Durga]] to [[Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin|Indian communities]] in about 90&nbsp;countries?
-{{*mp}}...that an [[effigy mound]] in the shape of a turtle is located in the '''[[Beattie Park Mound Group]]''' in downtown [[Rockford, Illinois]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Chen Wen Hsi]]''' was the first [[Singapore|Singaporean]] [[artist]] to be conferred an [[honorary doctorate]] by the [[National University of Singapore]]?
-{{*mp}}...that [[Saionji Kinmochi]], the 11th [[Prime Minister of Japan]], was a member of the '''[[Saionji family]]''', a line of court nobles stretching back to the 12th century?
+{{*mp}}...that the 2005 [[docudrama]] '''''[[The Burnt Theatre]]''''' is set in [[Cambodia]]'s Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?
-{{*mp}}...that the capital city '''[[Chang'an]]''' during the Chinese [[Tang Dynasty]] (618-907 AD) had 111 [[Buddhist]] [[monastery|monasteries]] and 41 [[Daoist]] [[abbey]]s within its walls?
+{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Robert Weber Round Barn]]''' is one of 31&nbsp;[[round barn]]s constructed in a four county area centered on [[Stephenson County, Illinois]]?
-{{*mp}}...that [[Russia]]n [[poet]] '''[[Dmitri Prigov]]''' wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as [[samizdat]]?
+{{*mp}}...that the city of '''[[Piteşti]]''' was the original site of [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] activities in [[Romania]]?
+{{*mp}}...that the [[espionage|spy]] [[Aldrich Ames]] handed over [[United States|U.S.]] secrets to the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]]s at the '''[[Brickskeller]]''' saloon near [[Dupont Circle]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]?
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