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27 October 2006
...that Ming Hsieh, whose parents were persecuted under the Cultural Revolution, began learning electrical engineering from his father and went on to develop biometric technology that made him one of the richest people in the world?
...that National Park Seminary, in Forest Glen, Maryland, opened in 1894 as a finishing school, and that its architecturally whimsical campus was annexed by Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1942?
...that ocular ischemic syndrome, due to arterial hypoperfusion, could be an early warning sign of impending stroke?
...that the Råbjerg Mile, a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland, Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?
...that The Pizza Tapes contain the only known version of Jerry Garcia performing Amazing Grace which was only played after Tony Rice's wife requested it?
... that the Rus merchants travelling along the Volga trade route (pictured) brought goods from Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia as far as Baghdad?
... that a reservation, in international law, lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty?
... that the USMC Sergeant Major Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson received his nickname because of wearing on the sleeve of his uniform three diagonal stripes (hashmarks), indicating successful previous enlistments?
... that Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
... that Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to global warming?
... that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to be the first female monarch in Asia?
... that the Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and is the oldest building on Public Square?
... that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying?
... that Fort Randolph (pictured Image:Fort Randolph.jpg) was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?
... a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis?
... that a crow-stepped gable is a roof slope design arising in the Middle Ages which was decorative, but also facilitated access to chimneys for maintenance?
... that the Alba Bible, the first translation of the Old Testament into a Romance language, was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews?
...that Communist Romania's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca, arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu, was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison?
...that Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650?
...that Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States?
... that Lady Sybil Grant, the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, became an eccentric in her later years, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating with her butler though a megaphone?
... that pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias, the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention?
... that in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
... that wealthy ship owner Henry Hayman Toulmin gave away his 1860s UK shipping empire because none of his three sons were interested in following in their father's footsteps?
...that John Wilson Danenhower, survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?
...that Lee McClung, a College Football Hall of Famer, also served as Treasurer of the United States, advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitation grounds?
... that the constructor of two Polish submarines, Kazimierz Leski (pictured), became a spy during World War II and travelled across Europe disguised as a German general?
... that, at the conclusion of the Siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs in 968, the leaders of the two armies shook hands and exchanged their armour?
... that the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?
... that the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere, where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe, rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?
...that during the French Revolution, an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin?
...that Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers?
... that the Stonehaven Tolbooth (pictured100x100px|Stonehaven Tolbooth) attained its greatest notoriety when three local Episcopalian clergymen were imprisoned for holding services for more than nine people, a limit established to discourage the Episcopalian religion in the mid 1700s?
... that, in hyperbolic geometry, hypercycles are curves with constant distance from a straight line but are not themselves straight?
... that British free market economist Ralph Harris, considered to be an architect of Thatcherism, became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
... that the location for Janesville Mall was chosen so that shoppers could leave by taking a right-hand turn, as the developers' research showed that women preferred right-handed turns?
...that the Urdu movement, which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India, emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement?
... that, as a consequence of their victory in the Second battle of Polotsk (pictured ), the Russian army captured the French supply depot at Vitebsk and broke Napoleon's northern front in Russia?
... that knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms used to describe the two different sensations produced by tickling?
... that cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke showed that human beings are born with many innate skills?
... that the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada?
...that after receiving global media attention for pulling her kittens out of a burning garage, Scarlett the cat and her kittens received 7000 adoption requests?
...that the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival?
... that among the editors of Robotnik (pictured Image:Robotnik 28.10.1931.jpg), an underground newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, were Józef Piłsudski, future dictator of Poland, and Stanisław Wojciechowski, future president of Poland?
... that the Medici giraffe was the last live giraffe seen in Europe for almost 400 years?
... that Göran Malmqvist is a Swedish sinologist who in 1974 published a popular book called Chinese is not difficult?
... that during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
...that the monkey Ramu, from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
...that the Challenge Yves du Manoir, a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003, was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise?
...that maverick economic historian Umberto Meoli was imprisoned at the notorious Palazzo Giusti detention center, where a barely literate jail keeper would tell thirsty prisoners to "piss and drink"?