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... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument (pictured) outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?

... that former Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs set the NCAA Division I-A record for consecutive American college football games with a rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl?

... that the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario?

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-[[Image:SMS Hindenburg sunk.jpg|100x100px|SMS Hindenburg sunk in Scapa Flow]]
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-{{*mp}}... that 52 ships of the German [[High Seas Fleet]] were successfully '''[[Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow|scuttled in Scapa Flow]]''' ''(example pictured)'' in 1919, but many were later [[marine salvage|salvage]]d?
+{{*mp}}... that although on private property, the '''[[Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville|Unknown Confederate Dead Monument]]'''  ''(pictured)'' outside [[Perryville, Kentucky]] was built by the federal government sixty-six years after [[Battle of Perryville|the battle]]?
+{{*mp}}... that former [[Virginia Tech Hokies football|Virginia Tech]] [[running back]] [[Lee Suggs]] set the [[NCAA]] [[Division I]]-A record for consecutive [[College football|American college football]] games with a [[Rush (American football)|rushing]] [[touchdown]] (27) in the '''[[2002 San Francisco Bowl]]'''?
-{{*mp}}... that [[New York]] abstract painter '''[[Dennis Ashbaugh]]''' is one of the first artists to employ [[DNA]] marking patterns in [[painting]]s?
-{{*mp}}... that according to [[Franz Oppenheimer]]'s book '''''[[The State (book)|The State]]''''', the purpose of the political [[state]] is to establish and enforce [[class division]]s between conquerors and the dominated?
+{{*mp}}... that the geologic features located within the '''[[Eramosa Karst]]''' are considered to be the best example of [[karst topography]] found in the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Ontario]]?
+{{*mp}}... that before earning a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] at [[New School for Social Research]], [[science writer]] '''[[Mary Batten]]''' worked as a library clerk at the [[New York Public Library]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[James Ludington]]''' never lived in [[Ludington, Michigan]] – the town that bears his name?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[Japanese popular culture|Japanese]] [[visual novel]] '''''[[Eternal Fantasy]]''''' consists of an [[overworld]] map and a combat system, typical of [[console role-playing game]]s, other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?
-{{*mp}}... that although the '''[[longfin trevally]]''' is a prized [[table fish]] in [[Thailand]] and [[Cambodia]], it is overall too rare to sustain commercial [[fisheries]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Ronald Ribman]]''''s play ''The Journey of the Fifth Horse'', based on a short story by [[Ivan Turgenev]], won an [[Obie Award]] and starred a young [[Dustin Hoffman]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Pico Canyon Oilfield|Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield]]''' was the first commercially successful [[oil well]] in the [[Western United States]] and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
-{{*mp}}... that many '''[[slogan (heraldry)|slogans]]''' and several [[motto|mottoes]] currently used in [[heraldry]] originated as [[battle cry|war cries or battle cries]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park]]''' is the first only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the [[Vietnam War]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[liver biopsy]]''' (obtaining a tissue sample from the [[liver]]) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of [[hepatitis]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the only trio of brothers to appear in a [[Major League Lacrosse]] game as members of the same team are '''[[Michael Peyser|Michael]]''', '''[[Gregory Peyser|Gregory]]''', and '''[[Stephen Peyser]]''' of the [[New Jersey Pride]]?
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