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...that the Russian Byzantine historian Alexander Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to defect in 1925?
...that the House of La Tour d'Auvergne held three ducal titles in the Peerage of France - those of Duc de Bouillon, Duc d'Albret, and Duc de Château-Thierry?
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...that Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
...that the Joyous Entry ("Blijde Inkomst") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant, compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta?
...that as a child, B. A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer?
...that you can find the acceleration and the displacement of a moving object by analyzing its velocity vs. time graph?
...that the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?
...that the John Lennon song "Beautiful Boy" features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué?
...that the earliest known patrilineal ancestors of the Romanov dynasty of Russian tsars were a certain boyar Andrei, nicknamed "The Mare," and his son Fyodor, nicknamed "The Cat"?
...that the Don Cossack rebel Stenka Razin was quartered alive at the Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow on June 6, 1671?
...that the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran was launched to secure oil for Britain and provide a route for Lend-Lease supplies desperately needed by the Soviet Union during World War II?
...that soul singer Bettye LaVette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
...that the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions, described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions?
...that Christopher Columbus's journal is housed in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, in a building by Juan de Herrera that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
...that Frisian literature refers to written works produced in West Frisian, a language spoken primarily in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands?
...that the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolò Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?
...that in an effort to generate listenership for his Top-40 radio station WHB, owner Todd Storz coordinated a treasure hunt that caused traffic tie-ups across the Kansas City metropolitan area?
...that according to Noongar culture, the Wagyl is a snake-like Dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning Rivers and other waterways around present-day Perth and the southwest of Western Australia?
...that Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis?
...that the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
...that the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson, who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind?
...that the Soviet singer Lidia Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942?
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...that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the labor movement there?
...that Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829?
...that Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena?
... that according to legend, the Teufelstritt (Devil's Footstep), in the Munich Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany, marks the spot where the devil stood when he thought that the builder had constructed a cathedral with no windows?
...that the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland?
...that in the mid-fourth millennium BC, at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria, hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
...that in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?
...that the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was the first entirely air-conditioned modern office building on record?
...that the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942?
...that the United States Air Force does not own the copyright to its official service song, "The U.S. Air Force"?
...that Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally?
...that the Russian puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov owned one of the largest collections of puppets in the world?
...that after the first demonstration by members of Católicos por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, the archbishop resigned?
...that the Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk?
...that Thomas Vorster, an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa, was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto?
...that Junípero Serra and Juan María de Salvatierra have both been called "the apostle of California," for their work establishing Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California, respectively? right|100px
...that the Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman?
...that of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles?
...that in 1977, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns?
...that Momotus is a genus of green and blue birds with raquet-shaped tails?
...that the submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige?
...that Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005–06 West Indian cricket season?
...that the Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England?
...that Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?
...that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?
...that there have been many castaways both in fiction and on real desert islands?
...that Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent?
...that leaders of Workers Resistance, a Trotskyist group in Ukraine, set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?
...that The Clash's song "English Civil War," warning against the rise of far right groups in Britain, was adapted from a popular American Civil War song?
...that Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to a government in Australia?

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