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-[[Image:Der heilige Paul mit zwei Schwertern - Springinklee.jpg|100x100px|St. Paul with two swords - Springinklee woodcut]]
+[[Image:Virginal.jpg|100x100px|The virginals, a keyboard instrument]]
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-{{*mp}}... that [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s [[pupil]] '''[[Hans Springinklee]]''' is best known for his [[woodcut]]s ''(example pictured)''?
+{{*mp}}... that one theory why the '''[[virginal]]''' ''(pictured)'' was so called is that the [[keyboard instrument]] was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Tourism in Tunisia|Tunisia's tourist industry]]''' is said to benefit from its [[Mediterranean]] location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from [[Western Europe]]"?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Pasco-Kennewick Bridge (1922)|Pasco-Kennewick Bridge]]''' in [[Washington]] was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of [[stock]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[cholesterol embolism]]''' may result from common medical procedures such as [[coronary catheterization]], and can cause [[acute renal failure|kidney damage]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[W. Jasper Blackburn]]''', a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[newspaper]] [[publisher]] in [[Louisiana]], was acquitted by a one-vote margin&mdash;and thus spared execution&mdash;of having printed  [[counterfeit]] [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[currency]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the 1974 film '''''[[Lost in the Stars (film)|Lost in the Stars]]''''', set in [[apartheid]]-era [[South Africa]], was actually shot in [[Oregon]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the church tower for the '''[[Fourth Universalist Society of New York]]''' is the "high-tech command center" for [[NBC]]'s coverage of the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''''[[Leurospondylus|Leurospondylus Ultimus]]''''' was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a [[plesiosaur]]?
-{{*mp}}... that over fifty surrendered [[U-boat]]s were gathered at '''[[HMS Ferret (shore establishment 1940)|HMS ''Ferret'']]''' awaiting disposal in [[Operation Deadlight]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Huckleberry Trail]]''' takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this [[rail trail]] was constructed?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Howlin' Dave]]''' was credited with introducing [[Pinoy rock|Filipino rock music]] to Filipino radio listeners?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Miriam Ben-Porat]]''' was the first woman appointed to the [[Supreme Court of Israel]] and the first woman to serve as [[Israel]]'s [[State Comptroller of Israel|State Comptroller]]?
-{{*mp}}... that [[Oregon]]'s '''[[Collier Memorial State Park]]''' has a [[logging]] museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "[[skidder|high wheel]]s", steam-powered "[[donkey engine]]s", and antique [[saw mill]] machinery?
-{{*mp}}... that [[anaesthetic]] pioneer '''[[Joseph Thomas Clover]]''' anaesthetised [[Florence Nightingale]], [[Napoleon III]] and the future king [[Edward VII]] during his career?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Winston Churchill]] was an Honorary [[Colonel]] in the "[[Queer]] Objects On Horseback"—[[pseudonym|better known]] as the '''[[Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars]]'''?
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