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• 5 April 2006
• ...that the Nigerian Baptist Convention is the third largest Baptist convention of the Baptist world?
• ...that Nig Cuppy, having scored five runs against the Chicago Colts on August 9 1895, holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball game?
• ...that the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?

• ...that Philip J. Perry, the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is the son-in-law of Vice President Dick Cheney?
• ...that the irony mark is an atypical punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some French artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?
• ...that the Karoo National Park in South Africa is a leading force in the resettling of the Black Rhinoceros and Riverine Rabbit back into the wild?
• ...that the Millennium Monument in Novgorod, weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history?
• ...that American painter Julian Scott entered the Third Vermont Regiment during American Civil War at the age of 15 and four years later was awarded the Medal of Honor?

• ...that videokeratography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea?
• ...that the Northland Center opened in 1954 and was the United States' first suburban shopping mall?
• ...that the Mutsun language became an extinct Native American language in 1930 mainly because of the Spanish missionaries who made the Mutsun learn the Spanish language?
• ...that the Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W, was built in part by a female welder?
• ...that the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?
• ...that the decoration of the 9th-century Asturian La Cava Bible is limited to four crosses, elaborate initials, and frames surrounding explicits and titles?

• ...that the song Justified and Ancient, by The KLF (and their alias The JAMs), featured regularly in their work from 1987 to 1991, and was a statement of rebellion inspired by characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy novels?
• ...that the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites, were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts?
• ...that Sir Richard Wild, at the age of 54, was the youngest Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1875?
• ...that the Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated in 1656 as a domestic church of Patriarch Nikon?
• ...that the Autumn of Nations, which began in Poland, marked the end of the Cold War?
• ...that Kajetan Sołtyk, 18th century Bishop of Cracow, an important politician in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was eventually declared insane by his political opponents and removed from power?

• ...that Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?
• ...that the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
• ...that the Foxglove was chosen as the county flower for four different U.K. counties in a competition run by the plant conservation charity Plantlife in 2002?
• ...that after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans?
• ...that at the end of World War II, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb?
• ...that the city of Tashkent was formerly surrounded by a 25-kilometer-long wall featuring twelve city gates?

• ...that Dining in refers to a formal military dinner, a practice thought to have begun in 16th Century England in monasteries and universities, adopted by the British Army during the 18th Century and revived in the U.S. Military during World War II?
• ...that Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico?
• ...that while noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the hybrid vehicle in moderate speed operation?
• ...that while the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches, 1959's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?
• ...that the Russian imperial Field Marshal Peter Lacy started his military career at the age of 13, defending Limerick during the Williamite war in Ireland?
• ...that before restoring ferry service across the Hudson River between Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice?

• ...that although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael, a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
• ...that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?
• ...that in 1827, the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny?
• ...that the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?
• ...that Saint Jack, a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location, was banned in the country until 2006?
• ...that the Ostrog Bible of 1580 was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in a Slavic language?

• ...that the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?
• ...that Werowocomoco was the chief village of the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia where Captain John Smith of Jamestown was rescued from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan?
• ...that the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
• ...that Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland, is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising?
• ...that the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902?

• ...that the first Slavonic translations of the Bible were prepared by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century?
• ...that the level of copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an "individual expression of thought"?
• ...that there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor in the Year of the Six Emperors (AD 192–193)?
• ...that the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980, leaving several incomplete junctions, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
• ...that J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg?

• ...that the term Cicisbei refers to legal and generally respected companions and often lovers of married women in eighteenth-century Italy?
• ...that researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars?