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+[[File:Bhikshatana Shiva.JPG|100x100px|Bhikshatana|alt=Stone sculpture of a nude, four-armed man with a deer, dwarf and woman]]
-[[File:Trilobite - Bumastus reconstruction 3d.jpg|100x100px|An artist's reconstruction of ''Bumastus''|alt=A specimen of ''Bumastus'' crawling along the sand beneath shallow water]]
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+{{*mp}}... that [[Tevaram|Tamil devotional poetry]] describes how clothes of married women slipped off at the sight of the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] god [[Shiva]] appearing in the form of a '''[[Bhikshatana|naked beggar]]''' ''(pictured)''?
-{{*mp}}... that the extinct [[trilobite]] '''''[[Bumastus]]''''' ''(artist's rendition pictured)'' was named after its resemblance to large [[grape]]s?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Indianapolis Art Center]]''' was founded in 1934 as a [[Works Progress Administration]] project?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Barend Joseph Stokvis]]''', a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease [[porphyria|acute porphyria]] in a 1889 study?
+{{*mp}}... that the first phase of '''[[Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012|Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign]]''' was announced via a video message?
-{{*mp}}... that '''''[[Supernatural (Des'ree album)|Supernatural]]''''', a 1998 album by British singer [[Des'ree]], sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album ''[[I Ain't Movin']]'' sold over a million copies?
-{{*mp}}... that artist '''[[Charles Alston]]'''{{`s}} bust of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] was the first image of an [[African American]] displayed at the [[White House]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Pedro Virgili]]''', from '''[[Vilallonga del Camp]]''', was one of the most prominent royal surgeons of [[Spain]] in the 18th century?
-{{*mp}}... that [[RCA]] used its '''[[Triniscope]]''' [[color television]] design during [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] meetings, even though it was clear it would not be accepted?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Spring Creek Site]]''' in western [[Michigan]] is a [[type site]] for [[Odawa people|Ottawa]] pottery?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Edward J. Burke]]''' coached the [[Drexel Dragons]] men's basketball team to their first [[1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|NCAA Tournament]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Alaungpaya]]''' was a village headman who founded the [[Konbaung Dynasty]] of [[Burma]], and unified the country for the third time in its history?
+{{*mp}}... that up to 200 people played a game of [[association football|football]] on land near '''[[Brothertoft]]''', [[Lincolnshire]], in the 1760s as a protest against [[enclosure]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Dickshooter, Idaho|Dickshooter]]''' was named for Dick Shooter?
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