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...that the pioneer American airman Lowell Smith participated in the first mid-air refueling, the first aerial circumnavigation and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?
...that the Playhouse Square Center, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the second largest theater complex in the United States?
...that Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology?
...that the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day 1927 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi?
...that Clement, Bishop of Dunblane, (pictured) was the first Dominican friar to obtain a bishopric in the British Isles?
...that Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
...that the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot?
...that Bangsa Malaysia, a policy seeking to create a unified national identity for all citizens of Malaysia, has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution?
...that West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League, despite its capacity of 120,000?
...that fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried a chance for escape
...that David O. Cooke (pictured), a civilian administrator in the U.S. Department of Defense for over 45 years, was colloquially known as the "Mayor of the Pentagon" because of his managerial duties?
...that in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone, but lost it due to a positive doping test?
...that, in the 1950s, Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan was in charge of expelling opponents of the Communist regime from the University of Bucharest?
...that the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?
...that Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?
...that the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City was host to the world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" from the window of his room on Armistice Day?
...that a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen-gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?
...that after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II, Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
...that the Eskaya tribe are the object of international archeological studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?
...that Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the St Stephan church (

pictured) in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?

...that the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars?
...that Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?
...that American actor David Holt was reduced to starring in the drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple?
...that the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison?
...that Juan N. Méndez (pictured) took up the post of interim President of Mexico for three months to allow then-President Porfirio Díaz to personally lead his forces against a partisan uprising?
...that, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043), hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX's daughter?
...that in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean?
... that the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan houses the only SR-71B Blackbird in existence?
...that Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera?
...that Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
...that the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania?
...that Native Hawaiians used Mamane (pictured) wood for thatching poles, spades, spears, sled runners, firewood, symbols of authority and to ward off evil?
...that many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources?
... that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?
...that the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales?
...that controversy has arisen over the interpretation of Robert Baden-Powell's opinions on religion in Scouting?
... that Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society?
...that the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót, a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday?
...that during the Rus'-Byzantine War in 907 Oleg of Novgorod reportedly circumvented the chaining of the Bosporus by putting his ships on wheels and sailing them overland (pictured) to Constantinople?
...that the town of Scone was the coronation site of Kings of Scotland for several centuries?
...that in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?
...that in the Sso rite of the Beti of Cameroon, one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?
... that at Masa, an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef, Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?
... that the earthquake-proof designs of the Nagoya TV, Tsutenkaku, the Sapporo TV, the Beppu, and the Tokyo Towers were all engineered by Tachu Naito?
...that former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko?
...that the Southern Islands of Singapore (pictured) are being developed into a getaway for the ultra-wealthy, similar to Dubai's Palm Islands?
...that South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
...that after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party, Austrian politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography?
...that Ming Dynasty general Gang Bing castrated himself and placed his severed organs under Emperor Yongle's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?
...that in the Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert (pictured) defeated a much stronger British force?