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+[[File:Brpbdvt.jpg|100x100px|Bhadra Dam|alt=a large concrete dam holds back a lake, with green hills in the background]]
-[[File:Batavia Cemetery Caretaker House Oct 09.JPG|100x100px|Maintenance shed in fall|alt=A one-story yellow wooden building with a pointed roof held up by columns at the front and a small addition on the left in a cemetery. In the front is a wooden door with "1823" on it. It is autumn, and the ground and roof are covered with yellow fallen leaves. A tree with yellow leaves and an American flag are visible in the background.]]</div>
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-{{*mp}}... that the maintenance shed ''(pictured)'' at New York's '''[[Batavia Cemetery]]''' was originally a bank building?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Bhadra Dam]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Karnataka]] inundates a reservoir which has a gross irrigation potential of 162,818&nbsp;hectares (402,330&nbsp;acres)?
-{{*mp}}... that during the '''[[Siege of Güns]]''', Captain [[Nikola Jurišić]] and his garrison of 800 [[Croats]] held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]]?
+{{*mp}}... that, between 1970 and 2006, 306 '''[[Fatality statistics in the Western Australian mining industry|fatalities occurred]]''' in the [[Western Australia|Western Australian]] [[Mining in Western Australia|mining industry]]?
-{{*mp}}... that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the '''[[Harriman (Erie Railroad station)|Harriman Erie Railroad station]]''' after the cops shot his leg?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Al-Wasat Party]]''', officially established in the wake of the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]], is the first [[List of political parties in Egypt|legal party]] in [[Egypt]] with an [[Islam]]ic background?
-{{*mp}}... that the British [[destroyer]] '''[[HMS Hostile (H55)|HMS ''Hostile'']]''' had to be [[Scuttling|scuttled]] on {{Nowrap|23 August}} 1940 by her [[sister ship]], {{HMS|Hero|H99|6}}, after striking a [[naval mine|mine]] off [[Cap Bon]] which broke her back?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Stan Brakhage]]'s 1981 film '''''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981 film)|The Garden of Earthly Delights]]''''' was created by pasting [[montane|montane zone]] vegetation directly onto strips of clear [[film leader]]?
-{{*mp}}... that in the roof of the chapel of '''[[St Michael's Church, Berechurch]]''', [[Essex]], are carvings of the [[emblem]]s of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry&nbsp;VIII]] and [[Catherine of Aragon]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the ruins of '''[[St Andrew's Church, Covehithe]]''' in [[Suffolk]] are threatened by [[coastal erosion]]?
-{{*mp}}... that German-born U.S. soldier '''[[John Schnitzer]]''' received the [[Medal of Honor]] along with First Lieutenant [[Wilber Elliott Wilder|Wilber Wilder]] for rescuing a wounded comrade during battle with the [[Apache]] Indians in 1882?
+{{*mp}}... that racing driver [[Glen Kidston]] was the only survivor of '''[[1929 Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 crash|the crash]]''' of a [[Lufthansa|Luft Hansa]] [[Junkers&nbsp;G&nbsp;31]] in 1929?
-{{*mp}}... that the [[eucalyptus]] '''[[El Grande (tree)|El Grande]]''', [[Australia]]'s largest tree, was accidentally killed by forest officials?
+{{*mp}}... that before '''[[Amanda Staveley]]''' reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York|Prince Andrew]], she was a model and [[St Catharine's College, Cambridge|Cambridge]] student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?
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