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==Did you know...==
==Did you know...==

*... that [[Abhaswaras]] are Hindu deities described in [[Rgveda]]?
*...that '''[[Frances Siedliska]]''' (''pictured'') founded 29 communities of the [[Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth]] between 1875 and 1902?
*...that '''[[Frances Siedliska]]''' (''pictured'') founded 29 communities of the [[Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth]] between 1875 and 1902?
{{*mp}}...that '''[[Randi Weingarten]]''', the openly [[gay]] president of the [[United Federation of Teachers]], has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in [[New York City]] business?
{{*mp}}...that '''[[Randi Weingarten]]''', the openly [[gay]] president of the [[United Federation of Teachers]], has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in [[New York City]] business?

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  • ...that a high speed tablet press (animation shown) can punch out over one million tablets an hour?
  • ...that Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers?
  • ...that opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months?
  • ...that the Cottonmouth jack is so named because of its pure white tongue and mouth?
  • ...that in 1916, footballer Bob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?
  • ...that prehistoric frog Beelzebufo may have grown to over 40 cm (16 in)* (size comparison pictured), larger than any living frogs, and is called "the Frog from Hell" by the media?
  • ...that two years after masterminding the murders of backpackers David Wilson, Mark Slater and Jean-Michel Braquet, Sam Bith was made a general in the Cambodian Army?
  • ...that Francie Kraker Goodridge, who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?
  • ...that M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a half-mile until 1996, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station?
  • ...that when Galway Councillor Fintan Coogan was re-elected in 1999 after a three-day count, the Irish Times reported his victory under the headline "City's Lazarus claims resurrection status as he defeats provider of fish"?
  • ...that a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s?
  • ...that the people of Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as "Pitts' Folly"?
  • ...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 in Chester, England to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
  • ...that the sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
  • ...that four of the five ships operated by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
  • ...that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
  • ...that twelve floors in Springleaf Tower (pictured), a skyscraper in Singapore, were sold at S$225 million in October 2007, while nine months earlier, they were sold at S$134 million?
  • ...that the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine?
  • ...that in the Japanese theatrical art known as Taishū engeki (pictured), it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yen on gifts for the performers?
  • ...that Crookham Village, a village in England dates as far back as the Domesday Book, although the village did not become separate entities until the founding of the Christ Church in 1840?
  • ...that "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake?
  • ...that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811, which lasted for three days and burned down the whole Podil neighborhood of Kiev, was children playing with fire?
  • ...that halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl, deciding the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
  • ...that the small private rooms called cabinets, gave rise to the political sense of cabinet, after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?
  • ...that Miś Uszatek, a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish TV?
  • ...that paintings by Henry Howard (pictured) in the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" in Green Park had to be saved by the cavalry from "the multitudes of idle and dissolute spectators"?
  • ...that Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
  • ......that Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
  • ...that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or even scoring tools for tests in education?
  • ...that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
  • ...that Juliusz Wertheim, a Polish pianist, conductor and composer, was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein, considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
  • ...that Heimir was a Gothic hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
  • ...that when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl, the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?
  • ...that during the construction of Samsung Hub (pictured), a high-rise commercial building in Singapore, the building sunk on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months?
  • ...that American painter George Cooke's Interior of St. Peter's Rome (pictured), measuring 17 by 23.5 feet, was the largest oil painting of its time, and still ranks among the world's largest?
  • ...that the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous?
  • ...that the USA's first locally designed jet engine, the Lockheed J37, spent ten years in development but was never used on a production aircraft?
  • ...that ethnographer Eric Mjöberg, leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
  • ...that Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old shot put world record by almost twelve inches at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was African-American?
  • ...that the fungus Boletus luridus may cause nausea and vomiting if consumed with alcohol, or not thoroughly cooked?
  • ...that outspoken British judge Melford Stevenson once described a case before him as a "pretty anaemic kind of rape" because the accused's ex-girlfriend was the victim?
  • ...that two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
  • ...that director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China?
  • ...that Czar Peter I of Russia not only stayed as a blacksmith's personal houseguest at what is now called the Czar Peter House in Zaandam, but also paid a widow boarding there to move out so there would be room for him?
  • ...that Pandora Jewelry's charm bracelets feature a patented thread system that allows beads to be evenly spaced across the band?



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