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+{{*mp}}... that topics of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Coleridge]]'s ''(pictured)'' '''[[Samuel Coleridge's early life|early poems]]''' include: '''[[Easter Holidays|holidays]]''', '''[[Dura Navis|cannibals]]''', '''[[Songs of the Pixies|pixies]]''', '''[[Pain: Composed in Sickness|pain]]''', '''[[Monody on the Death of Chatterton|suicide]]''', '''[[On Receiving an Account|loss]]''', '''[[Lines Written at Shurton Bars|bars]]''', '''[[The Destruction of the Bastile|prison raid]]''', '''[[Lines on an Autumnal Evening|women]]''', '''[[Religious Musings|God]]''', '''[[To the River Otter|an Otter]]''', '''[[To Fortune|gambling]]''', '''[[Ode on the Departing Year|farming]]''', '''[[On Quitting School|school]]''', '''[[To a Young Ass|asses]]''', and '''[[The Destiny of Nations|Joan of Arc]]'''?
-{{*mp}}... that, like the related [[cookiecutter shark]], the '''[[kitefin shark]]''' ''(pictured)'' sometimes feeds by taking bites out of animals larger than itself?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Washington State Route 106]]''' has been renumbered four times over a 49-year period from 1915 until 1964?
-{{*mp}}... that at the age of seven, '''[[Zach Bonner]]''' founded the '''[[Little Red Wagon Foundation]]''' to aid the 1.3&nbsp;million [[homeless]] children in the [[United States]]?
+{{*mp}}... that both of the [[Kaiserliche Marine]]<nowiki>'s</nowiki> '''{{sclass|Odin|coast defense ship|1}}s''' were rebuilt as freighters after the end of [[World War I]]?
-{{*mp}}... that [[Plácido Polanco]] became the first '''[[List of Gold Glove Award winners at second base|Gold Glove winner at second base]]''' to post an [[error (baseball)|errorless]] season in {{mlby|2007}}?
+{{*mp}}... that in 1947, [[University of Michigan]] [[basketball]] player '''[[Mack Supronowicz|Mack "Soup" Supronowicz]]''' was hailed as "the greatest cage prospect in college history"?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Thomas Bertie]]''' was one of three future admirals who served together on {{HMS|Seahorse|1748|6}} in 1773, the others being [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Horatio Nelson]] and [[Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet|Thomas Troubridge]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Japanese pop]] rock singer [[Yui (singer)|Yui]]'s "'''[[Again (Yui song)|Again]]'''" has the highest opening week sales for a female act in 2009?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Cyclone Nancy]]''' of the [[2004–05 South Pacific cyclone season]] was one of four severe tropical cyclones to impact the [[Cook Islands]] during the span of a month?
-{{*mp}}... that journalist and novelist '''[[Gerd Grønvold Saue]]''' is also a former board member of the [[International Peace Bureau]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Heinz Award]]''', named in honor of the late [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] [[John Heinz]], is worth [[USD|$]]250,000?
+{{*mp}}... that '''''[[The Meaning of Life (TV series)|The Meaning of Life]]''''' series featured filmmaker [[Neil Jordan]]'s account of having met his dead father on an aeroplane?
-{{*mp}}... that a critical [[software bug|bug]] in the [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] game '''''[[Class of Heroes]]''''' was found only days before manufacturing began?
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