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30 May 2007
...that the cabriole leg (pictured) is a furniture style occurring in ancient China and Greece that re-emerged in Europe around 1700 AD?
...that Thoroughbred horse trainer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. is a United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee and a recipient of South Carolina's highest civilian honor?
...that Yuri Izrael, Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported, and damaging to the Russian economy?
...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America and became one of the first noblemen in New France?
...that William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
...that the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto, Monaco's most famous beach?
...that Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate?
...that the words said by the Virgin Mary in Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation (pictured) are painted upside down so God can read them?
...that, aged 38 in November 1984, Bob Holland was the oldest Australian cricketer to make his Test debut in more than half a century?
...that the fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion?
...that the sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy, with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches?
...that the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?
...that Alfred Winslow Jones, father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist?
...that the medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church?
...that the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem lead to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
...that the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?
...that the United States Marine Hospital (pictured) in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
...that Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian, linguist and yogi taught the pop singer Madonna Sanskrit pronunciation?
...that Aluminaut, the world's first aluminum submarine, helped recover a lost atomic bomb?
...that not only have Isobel Joyce and her twin sister Cecelia played for the Ireland women's cricket team, three of their brothers have played for the men's team?
...that Judge Learned Hand showed his disrespect for U.S. District Judge Robert A. Inch by frequently referring to him in internal documents as "the Inchworm" or "Judge Millimeter"?
...that the first experimental reforestation station established in California was Henninger Flats in 1903?
...that Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
...that the OSA Group was the first association of architects to bridge Constructivism from art to architecture?
...that the Slovak Paradise National Park is home to over 2,100 species of butterfly, the highest concentration in Slovakia?

29 May 2007
...that while the earliest Syrian immigrants in the United States (pictured) arrived in the 1880s, most Muslim Syrian Americans arrived over eighty years later, after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
...that the Indian mobster turned Congress politician Pappu Kalani won two elections while in jail (1992-2001) for murdering gangsters related to don-turned-Shiv Sena politician Gopal Rajwani?
...that the company Leadership Dynamics was cited by psychologists as the first form of Large Group Awareness Training?
...that the catfish genus Steindachneridion was named for its discoverer, the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner?
...that William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress?
...that the Society for the Reformation of Manners, founded in England in 1691, included a network of "moral guardians" in London to gather information about moral infractions?
...that L.J. Cooke, the first coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, created the tradition of the Little Brown Jug, the oldest traveling trophy in college football?
...that the 240 mm M1 howitzer (pictured), popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", was the most powerful weapon deployed by US field artillery units during World War II?
...that an Anglo-Australian trade boycott was threatened in 1932-33 after Australian cricket captain Bill Woodfull was struck over the heart by a ball bowled by Harold Larwood according to England's Bodyline tactics?
...that the Discovery Institute conducts religious public relations campaigns to promote intelligent design and discredit evolution?
...that the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow?
...that during the 1990 New York Giants season, the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
...that the 16th-place of "Vjerujem u ljubav" in the semi-final of Eurovision 2007 marked the first time that Croatia had not reached the final since its independence?
...that vinkenzetting, or vinkensport (Dutch) is a 400-year-old pursuit in which male Chaffinches try to make the most number of bird calls?
...that the Great Western Railway operated road motor (bus) services in England and Wales from 1903 until 1933 as it was cheaper than building new railways?
...that some species of waterfowl lose all their flight feathers (pictured) at once while moulting, rendering them incapable of flight?
...that tajchy, a network of 60 water reservoirs and more than 100 km of channels, was built in the 1700s to drain flooded silver mines in Banská Štiavnica?
...that before 1954, public transport in Belfast consisted mostly of electric trams?
...that in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S.?
...that Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet's work so he could earn more from its sale?
...that Major League Baseball player Cass Michaels was given the last rites after being hit in the head by a career-ending pitch?
...that during the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian Regiment, formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army?
...that Sajjida Shah debuted for Pakistan's women's cricket team aged just twelve?
...that Wollongong Head Lighthouse is the only place in eastern Australia to have two lighthouses within close proximity?
...that Lieutenant General Charles Roadman II (pictured), the son of U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and command pilot Major General Charles Roadman, served as the 16th Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force?
...that Anthony of Kiev left his Kiev Monastery of the Caves when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
...that Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk, Medina and then Mecca, between 1980 and his death in 2007?
...that England has won six of the seven Women's European Cricket Championships to date?
...that Anthelm of Belley left his post as bishop of Belley in protest at the lifting of the excommunication of a count who had held one priest captive and murdered a second?
...that Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls?
...that the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster involved 30 tons of liquid steel at 1,500°C, engulfing a room full of workers?
...that James Madison's Report of 1800 was used to support the doctrine of nullification, despite his objection to that doctrine?

28 May 2007
...that Friar Camilo Henríquez (pictured), a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier?
...that Gay Talese's seminal 1965 magazine feature "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra?
...that Dr. Benjamin Bates gave up his practice to accompany Sir Francis Dashwood around Europe, but Dashwood died and Bates never received the huge payment he had been promised?
...that the German 502nd heavy tank battalion was the first unit to be issued the famous Tiger I heavy tank?
...that Pham Ngoc Thao, one of the key figures in South Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet Program, was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
...that the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree, to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?
...that Scottish-Russian photographer William Carrick pioneered Russian ethnographic photography (example pictured)?
...that World War II naval aviator William O. Gallery was one of three brothers who became US Navy rear admirals?
...that the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot?
...that Ernie Toshack debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?
...that Saalumarada Thimmakka was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway?
...that beneath Vienna's Judenplatz is an excavation that displays the remains of a medieval synagogue?
...that the Roman general Barbatio was beheaded for treason after his wife's indiscreet letter was intercepted by Emperor Constantius II?
...that the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur?
...that the external decorations of the Perugia Cathedral were never completed?
...that the mammals found in Senegal include the critically endangered Dama Gazelle (pictured)?
...that New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year?
...that the earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube?
...that in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada?
...that the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive, which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw?