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+[[Image:William Blake 002.jpg|100x100px|"The Ghost of a Flea", c.1819-20, by William Blake]]
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+{{*mp}}... that [[William Blake]]'s painting '''''[[The Ghost of a Flea]]''''' ''(pictured)'' caused some contemporaries to believe that he was a madman?
-{{*mp}}... that the [[cruise ship]] '''{{MS|Astor}}''' ''(pictured)'' was ordered in 1985 as an [[ocean liner]] for [[Safmarine]]'s [[United Kingdom|UK]]–[[South Africa]] service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Jacob Earl Fickel]]''' is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?
-{{*mp}}... that a [[riot]] at [[Paducah, Kentucky]]'s '''[[Lloyd Tilghman House|Woolfolk Home]]''' led to [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s promotion above his superior officer, [[Brigadier General]] [[Charles Ferguson Smith]]?
-{{*mp}}... that [[India]]'s '''[[Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar|Sir Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar]]''' was the first President of the [[United Nations]] [[Economic and Social Council]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[India]]<nowiki>'s</nowiki> '''[[Kanjli Wetland]]''', a manmade [[wetland]] created in 1870, has been recognised by the [[Ramsar Convention]] for its rich [[biodiversity]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[LAPD Air Support Division]]''' in [[Los Angeles]] is the nation's largest municipal airborne [[police|law enforcement]] organization?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[1855 Wairarapa earthquake]]''' was the most powerful earthquake in [[New Zealand]]?
-{{*mp}}... that after his [[diagnosis]] with [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]], tributes to '''[[Allan Rosenfield]]''' included a song dedication by [[Bono]] at a [[U2]] concert?
+{{*mp}}... that Scotsman '''[[Adam Menelaws]]''' became the ''de facto'' leading architect of the [[Russian Empire]] when he was around seventy years old?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Clärenore Stinnes]] was the first person to [[circumnavigate]] the world by automobile in an '''[[Adler_(automobile)|Adler Standard 6]]'''?
-{{*mp}}... that in his 1933 essay '''''[[In Praise of Shadows]]''''', [[Junichirō Tanizaki]] includes [[monastery]] [[toilet]]s in his reflections on [[Japan]]ese [[aesthetics]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[California Milk Processor Board]] spent [[US$]]1.5 million in 2002 to popularize the [[Latin American cuisine|Latin American]] drink '''[[licuado]]''' as a way to [[Got Milk?|promote milk consumption]]?
-{{*mp}}... that in 1917, [[baseball]] managers [[John McGraw]] and [[Christy Mathewson]] were arrested after a game for '''[[Sunday baseball games|playing on Sunday]]'''?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Egyptian Communist Organisation]]''' was nicknamed "Mishmish", meaning [[apricot]] in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]?
+{{*mp}}... that an outer jacket, '''[[magoja]]''' was introduced to [[Korea]] after the king's father, [[Heungseon Daewongun]], returned from [[Manchuria]] in 1887?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Wishram village|Wishram Indian Village Site]]''' is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?
+{{*mp}}... that horror novelist [[Anne Rice]] has cited the 1936 film '''''[[Dracula's Daughter]]''''' as an inspiration for her own [[homoerotic]] vampire fiction?
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