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+[[Image:Viburnum plicatum Mariesii C.jpg|100x100px|Viburnum plicatum Mariesii]]
-[[Image:AMiBA 1.jpg|100x100px|AMiBA, a Cosmic Microwave Background experiment located in Hawaii, during construction in June 2006]]
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+{{*mp}}... that [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[Plant collecting|plant collector]] '''[[Charles Maries]]''' introduced over 500 species of plants to England, including ''[[Viburnum plicatum]] "Mariesii"'' ''(pictured)'' which was named after him?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[AMiBA]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a [[radio telescope]] located on [[Mauna Loa]] in [[Hawaii]] that is being used to observe the [[Cosmic Microwave Background]] and the [[Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect]] in [[Galaxy groups and clusters|clusters of galaxies]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Mickey Rooney]] won a [[Golden Globe]] Award in 1964 for his  [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[sitcom]] '''''[[Mickey (TV series)|Mickey]]'''''?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Moshe Landau]]''', who presided over the [[Eichmann Trial]] as a [[Supreme Court of Israel]] judge, later headed a commission that investigated the [[Israel Security Agency]]?
-{{*mp}}... that although the official government death toll of the '''[[1997 Ardabil earthquake]]''' was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Australia]]n politician '''[[Greg Pearce (politician)|Greg Pearce]]''' was a director of [[Clean Up the World]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from [[Perth Airport]] to '''[[Rottnest Island Airport]]''', a distance of {{convert|32|km}}?
-{{*mp}}... that [[Tang Dynasty]] general '''[[Li Na (Tang Dynasty)|Li Na]]''' was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under [[siege]] by another general, Liu Qia?
+{{*mp}}... that actress-singer '''[[Anabela]]''', who represented [[Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest|Portugal]] in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1993|1993 Eurovision Song Contest]], just finished playing the role of [[Maria von Trapp]] in the Portuguese production of ''[[The Sound of Music]]''?
-{{*mp}}... that four of the [[candidates]] for either [[Governor of American Samoa|Governor]] or [[Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa|Lt. Governor]] in the '''[[American Samoa gubernatorial election, 2008|2008 American Samoa gubernatorial elections]]''' have ancestral ties to the [[Manu'a Islands]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[U.S. Route 151 in Iowa|U.S. Route 151]]''' stretches {{convert|108|mi|km}} across [[Iowa]] to the [[Wisconsin]] border?
-{{*mp}}... that charges of firebombing department stores against four [[Ecuador|Ecuadoreans]] were dismissed after the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] corroborated information first printed in articles by '''[[Paul L. Montgomery]]''' in ''[[The New York Times]]''?<!--HooksEnd-->
+{{*mp}}... that former [[Governor of the Bank of England]] and [[Lord Mayor of London]] Sir '''[[Richard Levett]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s country house, [[Kew Palace#Queen Charlotte's Kew Palace|Kew Palace]], was subsequently sold to the [[British Royal Family|Royal Family]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[American Student Assistance]]''' is the oldest [[Surety|guarantor]] of [[student loan]]s in the United States?<!--HooksEnd-->
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