Did you know...: Did you know~3

...that ice hockey goaltender Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in National Hockey League history?
...that Monique Serf was only ten years old when she went into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II?
...that in the 1930s, the paramilitary fascist organization called the New Guard was present in Australia?
...that Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
...that the United States Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California?
...that until the 1930s, methanol was the most widely used antifreeze?
...that the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois was intended to rival New York City's Metropolitan Opera House?
...that NASA offers interested individuals opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the Space Shuttle called Getaway Specials?
...that Dido-class cruisers fought in the Battle of Cape Matapan, Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Normandy, and Operation Torch?
...that Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC TV movie The People, starring William Shatner?
...that Anne Isabella Milbanke was certain her husband, Lord Byron, had gone mad?
...that the Kharoṣṭhī script was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BCE until around the 3rd century CE?
...that the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock?
...that Oregon Ballot Measure 51, if it had passed, would have repealed Oregon's Death with Dignity Act?
...that, in the U.S. Navy, advancement to Petty Officer First Class is dependent on time in service, performance evaluations, and rate examinations?
...that Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High?
...that Signing Exact English is easy for parents and teachers of deaf children to master quickly?
...that Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, founded the American Red Cross nursing service?
...that the Persian king Cyrus the Younger invented the scythed chariot?
...that there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays, but that meteors may be the cause?
...that Ferryland was the first permanent European colony in Newfoundland?
...that the nucleus accumbens is a collection of neurons in the basal forebrain of reptiles, thought to be linked to reward responses?
...that construction of the Second Avenue Subway in New York City began in 1919?
...that the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion?
...that at 107 grams, the brains of spider monkeys are twice the size of howler monkeys of equivalent body size?
...that the Britain's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group?
...that people who suffer from anosognosia, sometimes seen following traumatic brain injury, either deny or are not aware of their disabilities, including cases such as blindness or paralysis?
...that Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada?
...that siblings raised separately may experience genetic sexual attraction if they meet as adults?
...that according to the ancient doctrine of signatures, the plant hepatica was useful for treating liver disorders?
...that Cathy Guisewite, the cartoonist of the Cathy comic strip, named "food, love, mom, and work" as her title character's "four basic guilt groups"?
...that Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England?
...that the Soviet Union named 12 cities and the Brest Fortress "Hero Cities" for valor during the Great Patriotic War?
...that in Vajrayāna Buddhism, a Wisdom King is the third tier of deity, after buddhas and bodhisattvas?
...that Comiskey Park was the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball until its demolition in 1991?
...that a thirty-second note or demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for ¹⁄₃₂ the duration of a whole note?
...that "Persian violet" is another name for cyclamen?
...that ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the pharaoh Hatshepsut?
...that the Pointer Sisters music group combined elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, scat and be-bop?
...that the United Nations established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 1975?
...that the Venetian language, spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, is also spoken in the Mexican village of Chipilo near Puebla, where many Venetians immigranted in 1882?
...that collard greens are used in the Portuguese-Brazilian soup caldo verde ("green broth")?
...that Hong Kong is made up of 236 islands and many peninsulas?
...that the ancient Greek historian Polybius was also a cryptographer, inventing the Polybius square?
...that William X of Aquitaine, father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a noted patron of troubadours?
...that the term Apostolic Fathers refers to the generation between the Apostles and the Church Fathers?
...that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb led the successful initial German assault on Leningrad in 1941, but was relieved of duty by a distrustful Hitler?
...that Albert R. Broccoli produced the 1962 film Dr. No and remained involved with the James Bond series until his death?
...that the epic poems Beowulf and Judith were written in Late West Saxon?
...the ember days were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer in the liturgical year of the Western churches?

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

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