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... that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed,
stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
... that the Berlin Circle in
New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
... that the Turin-Milan Hours(
pictured) is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections?
... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état,
Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched
wine cellar stocked with vintage
wines and
whisky dating to the 1890s?
... that flushwork(
example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of
flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in
East Anglia?
... that the Virginidsmeteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?
02:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Mount Garmo in the
Pamir Mountains(
pictured) has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of
calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish
Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in
Sweden in the early 1900s?
... that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the
Olympic truce, the
Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
... that
feministJo Freeman was moved from
Mississippi by the
SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
... that the Phylax Society, the first
German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
... that the citizens of
Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a
committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?
... that The Corporate Center in
Danbury,
Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?