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+[[File:Laguna de Paca-El Inca durmiendo.jpg|100x100px|Laguna de Paca|alt=Village in wooded setting with hills]]
-[[File:A6 13 Javorova Kosa 130109.jpg|100x100px|Javorova Kosa Tunnel|alt=Tunnel portal, variable traffic signs indicating traffic flow direction and speed limit enforced are visible at the tunnel entrance and to the side of the road]]
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-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Javorova Kosa Tunnel]]''' ''(pictured)'' caved in during construction, requiring removal of {{convert|400|m3|abbr=off}} of rock and soil before the work could resume?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Jauja]]''', located near '''[[Laguna de Paca]]''' ''(pictured)'', was the capital of [[Peru]] before the founding of [[Lima]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[French people|French]] [[comedy]] [[actor]] [[Louis de Funès]] made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in '''''[[The Temptation of Barbizon]]'''''?
-{{*mp}}... that the anonymous 6th-century treatise '''''[[About the Mystery of the Letters]]''''' interpreted the three Greek numeral signs [[Digamma]] (6), [[Koppa (letter)|Koppa]] (90) and [[Sampi]] (900) as mystical symbols of the [[Holy Trinity]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[James Kennedy Patterson]]''', the first president of the [[University of Kentucky]], once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team]]''' is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the [[1998–99 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team|1998–99 team]] won two games in the [[1999 National Invitation Tournament]]?
+{{*mp}}... that native [[Pennsylvania]]n '''[[Alexander Fulton (Louisiana)|Alexander Fulton]]''' named the [[Louisiana]] city that he founded, [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], after himself?
-{{*mp}}... that the deciding game of the '''[[UAAP Season 67 men's basketball tournament|2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals]]''' was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the [[Thrilla in Manila]] at the [[Araneta Coliseum|same venue]]?
-{{*mp}}... that [[baritone]] '''[[Georges Baklanoff]]''' created the title role in [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]'s ''[[The Miserly Knight]]'' at the [[Bolshoi Theatre]], [[Moscow]] in 1906?
+{{*mp}}... that the generation of '''[[Husák's Children]]''' was named after a [[Gustáv Husák|communist president]] of [[History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)|Czechoslovakia]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals]]''', [[Shropshire]], has been the [[chancel]] of a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] church, the south [[aisle]] of a 19th&nbsp;century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Philadelphia School of Circus Arts]]''' teaches [[static trapeze]], [[corde lisse]], [[Aerial hoop|lyra]], [[unicycling]], [[tightwire]], and [[Chinese acrobatics]]?
-{{*mp}}... that when a [[diabetes|diabetic]] passenger needed an emergency stop on a [[JetBlue]] flight, '''[[David Barger]]''', now the company's [[Chief executive officer|CEO]], personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Prince Abbas Hilmi]]''', a great-grandson of both the [[Mehmed VI|last Ottoman sultan]] and the [[Abdülmecid II|last Ottoman caliph]], was the first foreign member of the [[London Stock Exchange]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Grandview Apostolic Church]]''' was the second-oldest [[church (building)|church]] in [[Brown County, Indiana]], until it was [[arson|burned]] last July?
-{{*mp}}... that after recovering from [[poliomyelitis|polio]] as a 12-year old, '''[[Leo Byrd]]''' went on to win a gold medal with the [[United States men's national basketball team|United States men's basketball team]] at the [[1959 Pan American Games]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the father '''[[Snares Snipe]]''' looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the mother takes care of the second?
+{{*mp}}... that physician '''[[Charles de Lorme]]''' (1584–1678) prescribed an [[antimony|eye cosmetic concoction]] to French kings [[Henry IV of France|Henry&nbsp;IV]] and [[Louis XIII of France|Louis&nbsp;XIII]] as a medicine?
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