Did you know...: Did you know~10

...that the Battle of Tarawa at Tarawa Atoll was the first time in World War II that the American forces faced serious opposition in an amphibious landing?
...that at the height of the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II, food supplies were rationed to "three boiled sweets, half a sardine and a spoonful of jam a day"?
...that Shuri Castle, designated a national treasures of Japan and used as a military headquarters during World War II, was shelled by U.S. Navy ships (including the USS Missouri) for three days, and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
...that Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe once said that "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled" and was the designer of Big Ben?
...that the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market?
...that the political party at European level, an organization in the European Union eligible to receive EU funding, is recognized in the Maastricht Treaty and the draft European Constitution?
...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
...that the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113-m long sculptural frieze?
...that dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag?
...that SV40, a type of polyomavirus, replicates in the kidneys of monkeys without causing disease but causes sarcomas in hamsters?
...that Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?
...that California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?
...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
...that Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysorys shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
...that the 1939 Battle of Halhin Gol between Soviet Red Army and Japanese Guandong Army soldiers in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have contributed to the Japanese decision to carry out the attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C. was designed by Glenna Goodacre, who also designed the Sacagawea dollar?
...that there are many uses of trigonometry range from music theory to number theory?
...that Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht?
...that the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney?
...that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?
...that the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity?
...that a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?
...that the Honolulu Police Department became a deputized military force during World War II?
...that a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body styles?
...that both Cliff Warner and Nina Cortlandt and Greg and Jenny Nelson are considered soap opera supercouples?
...that while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not re-elected by his constituents?
...that the California Gull is the state bird of Utah?
...that the flags of the six Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism?
...that the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?
...that the Kármán line dividing the Earth's atmosphere and outer space is defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale as 100 km above mean sea level?
...that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
...that the Brown Dog affair, a Edwardian-era vivisection cause célèbre, led to massive riots?
...that the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
...that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a Lee Teng-hui's visit to Cornell University in the New York?
...that king Naresuan ruled Thailand at its greatest territorial extent?
...that the Union Pacific Railroad still has offices in the historic Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot?
...that the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems?
...that automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
...that in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories?
...that Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark, apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?
...that Hurricane Audrey, which killed 390 in Louisiana in 1957, was one of the first hurricanes observed by weather radar?
...that in linguistics, the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses?
...that the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie) originated in Australia?
...that the Great Basin tribes of North America began the Ghost Dance movement?
...that "manscaping" is a neologism referring to the practice of men shaving their body hair?
...that Jacaranda grows almost everywhere in the world that does not have frost?
...that since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian redback spider, one of the venomous Widow spiders of the Latrodectus genus?
...that the 1922 Ruhr Red Army uprising was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
...that unplesant postoperative nausea and vomiting complications can be controlled in part using Ondansetron?
...that the Royal Poinciana has been called the most colorful tree in the world?

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

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