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• ...that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
• ...that Princess Louise Marie of France, the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his queen consort Marie Leszczyńska, amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
• ...that the medieval Slavic Milceni tribe, ancestors of the Sorbs of Germany, are mentioned in The Song of Roland?
• ...that Maria Yakunchikova (pictured) was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe?
• ...that a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?
• ...that, in the "Tower of the League" at the Château de Tanlay in Burgundy, the agonists of the Wars of Religion are represented in the guise of Olympic deities?
• ...that the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor?
• ...that Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?
• ... that the suppression of a protest in Nagpur and Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across India to the rebellion?
• ...that the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States?
• ...that Marie Louise Élisabeth (pictured), later Duchess of Parma, was the eldest child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, had a younger twin sister of Henriette, was one of only two of Louis' children to be married, the other being her brother, Louis, dauphin de France?
• ...that the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States?
• ...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?
• ...that the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
• ...that the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church?
• ...that Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (pictured) kept her morganatic marriage secret from her father, Nicholas I of Russia, until his death in 1855?
• ...that the Greek colony of Phanagoria in present-day Russia was the seat of the last Bosporan kings, the capital of Great Bulgaria, and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II?
• ...that John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?
• ...that Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula?
• ...that before Newton's law of universal gravitation, the universe was thought to have an absolute centre called the Central Fire towards which that all objects must fall?
• ...that Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?
• ...that Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?
• ...that the Temple of Harmony, built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst, Somerset, England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome?
• ...that Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
• ...that Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season?
• ...that the National Liberal Party-Brătianu, created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania, became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
• ...that a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper?
• ...that the Dutch Reformed Church, (pictured) a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision?
• ...that Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reversed effect?
• ...that General A.D. McRae, the British Columbia industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
• ...that actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character in the 2004 film Shallow Ground that is naked for the duration of the film?
• ...that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?
• ...that the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France and England?
• ...that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
• ...that the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne (picture) houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?
• ...that "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
• ...that Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
• ...that the expression "simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife?
• ...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
• ...that "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
• ...that The Drifters' hit "Under the Boardwalk" was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
• ...that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
• ...that the Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn, was inspired by the famous cave off of Scotland?
• ...that The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy?
• ...that Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
• ...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage (pictured Image:Barrel House.jpg) have the lowest ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
• ...that the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
• ...that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
• ...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
• ...that the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?