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- ... that during development of the M8 rocket in 1941, Leslie Skinner (pictured) built the first prototypes with casings made from old fire extinguishers?
- ... that when the Ubina Hoard was looted on the day after excavations had started, members of the Estonian Defence League were dispatched to guard it?
- ... that Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells is a term given to people, traditionally ascribed as being from Royal Tunbridge Wells, who write letters of incensed conservative moral outrage?
- ... that the January 1868 death of a Romanian nationalist monk just days after he had been elected deputy sparked an antisemitic riot?
- ... that Ocosta Elementary School in Westport, Washington, has the first public tsunami refuge built in the United States?
- ... that the Indonesian kingdoms of Gowa and Talloq imported ceramics on a scale that, according to archaeologists Bulbeck and Caldwell, "beggars imagination"?
- ... that Paul Éluard's poem "Liberté", an ode to liberty written in occupied France, was distributed by parachute from British aircraft?