that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland? that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah? that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University? that the European Commission-funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages? that Julius Achon was the first Ugandan athlete to win a gold medal at the World Junior Championships? that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot, produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009? that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet, and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award? that the morning sun star 's (pictured) predatory attacks on other starfish are not always successful, as the velcro star and the rainbow star fight back and the slime star emits repellent mucus?
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that Wikimedia UK was initially denied charitable status by the British government on the basis that providing free access to information on its own was not a charitable purpose? that during the Philippine–American War, the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives? that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors? that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies? that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve? that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory? that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries, its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body? that the 52-Hertz whale is known only by its unique sound (listen, speeded up ten times to 520 hertz), the only one of its kind ever recorded, and has been called the loneliest whale in the world?
that Purshottam Solanki, the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat, allegedly caused a loss of ₹400 crore ( US$72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs? that the ASA ruled that the New Labour, New Danger adverts portrayed Tony Blair as "dishonest and sinister"? that Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing? that CNN International has been accused of suppressing the documentary iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring to appease the Bahraini government? Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing? that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks, but finished third in the St. that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie? that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974? that since 1979, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Peshawar is the only direct market for gemstones from Pakistan (example pictured) and Afghanistan? This page should be archived once a month.
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