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1
Diana
Exploded view of a
gear pump
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
...that the
rex Nemorensis was a
Roman
priest of
Diana who got his position by
killing the previous incumbent?
...that
Australian
author
Duncan Ball worked as an industrial
chemist and as an
editor before he became a full-time author?
...that
Aer Arann is the only scheduled
airline that uses
Waterford Airport , which lies close to
Tramore Bay in the
Republic of Ireland ?
...that
Takashi Sakai , an
Imperial Japanese Army
general during
World War II , was
sentenced to death on August 27, 1946 for
atrocities committed against civilians and
surrendered soldiers in
Hong Kong ?
...that
Szare Szeregi (
Polish for "Grey Ranks") was a
codename for the underground
Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego (Polish Scouting Association) during
World War II ?
...that the
Des Moines Register , "The Newspaper
Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the
sports sections on
peach -colored paper in 1999?
...that in the
Ulster Cycle of
Irish mythology ,
Ness' son
Conchobar mac Nessa was brought up as the son of the
druid
Cathbad , although the true father may have been her lover,
Fachtna Fáthach , the
High King of Ireland ?
...that
hose clamps are sometimes used as a more permanent version of
duct tape , and can be found mounting
signs and holding together emergency home
repairs ?
...that the
Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading
bird in the
stork family
Ciconiidae ?
...that the
Blue Eagles are one of only two professional
helicopter
aerobatics teams in the world?
...that
Labour 's
Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-
World War II
British
Member of Parliament , serving in the
House of Commons for just one day before his death in 1945?
...that 19th-century
photographer
Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress
Sarah Bernhardt 1500
USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
...that
Russian
singer and
actress
Alla Pugacheva has had a career lasting over 40 years, remaining one of the most
popular musical artists to this day?
...that
Washingtonia is a
genus of
palm and produces a
fruit , eaten by
Native American people as a minor food source and by
birds ? (picture)
...that
Salt is an ancient
agricultural town in west-central
Jordan , famous for the quality of its
grape
harvest , and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word
sultana ?
...that
folk singer /
guitarist
Nic Jones suffered multiple broken
bones and
brain damage after a serious
car accident in
February
1982 ?
...that
Labour
Member of Parliament
Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936
Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from
Tyneside to
London to demand jobs?
...that a
Bok globule , the dark cloud of dense
dust and
gas in which
star formation is taking place within the
H II region , was first observed by
astronomer
Bart Bok in the 1940s?
...that
L'Origine du monde ,
Gustave Courbet's most provocative
painting , remained in the privacy of its successive owners for almost 130 years before entering the
musée d'Orsay ?
...that
Mexican
pilot
Alberto Braniff was the first pilot to
fly a
plane over
Mexico City ?
...that the
British
ice hockey team The
Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks , and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks ?
...that
polymer banknotes are made from the
polymer biaxially-oriented
polypropylene (BOPP) and that they incorporate many
security features not available to paper
banknotes making
counterfeiting more difficult?
...that the
Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international
cricket's earliest
riots ?
...the fire from the
Weyauwega derailment on
March 4
1996 displayed fireballs up to 300
feet (90
m )?
...that
Repenomamus may have been the largest
mammal in the
Cretaceous period and is the only
mammal known to have eaten non-avian
dinosaurs ?
...that
BBC
television series
Watchdog helped uncover the
Hoover Company "free flights" scam?
...that
Untersturmführer was the first
commissioned officer rank of the German
SS ?
...that the
Chicken's Neck is a narrow strip of land 24 km in width connecting
India to its
north-eastern states ?
...that the
men's adventure
genre of
pulp magazine often featured
damsels in distress menaced by
Nazis ?
...that
melasma is a skin hyperpigmentation commonly affecting
pregnant women that is caused by the overproduction of
melanin ?
...that modern
baby monitors use
digital cameras similar to
web cams to watch the baby as well as listen to it?
...that
George Michael's song
I Want Your Sex touted
monogamy instead of
promiscuity ?
...that the term
United Nations Medal refers to over two dozen
international military awards which have been issued since
1950 ?
...that
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics , a major division of
Lockheed Martin , is manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced
military aircraft ?
...that
Jeopardy's cultural impact includes references or
parodies in no less than 64 feature
films and appearances on more than 10
television show episodes?
...that
gear pumps use the meshing of gears to pump fluid by
displacement ?
...that
Zentatsu Richard Baker was an influential
American
Zen priest who played a leading role in founding
Tassajara , the first
Buddhist training
monastery outside of
Asia ?
...that the
Pushkar Fair is the world's largest
camel /
cattle fair?
...that
DVD audio commentaries were introduced as
laserdisc features to appeal to movie fans?
...that
metal can grow
whiskers ?
...that the
U.S. federal government sold the disputed
Erie Triangle region to
Pennsylvania in 1792 so that
state would have a freshwater port?
...that
Bewitched actress
Elizabeth Montgomery made her acting debut as a regular on her father's popular series
Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952?
...that
Katsushika Hokusai created the
woodblock print
The Great Wave off Kanagawa , the most famous artistic depiction of a
tsunami ?
...that Justice
Leila Seth was the first woman
judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become
Chief Justice of
India ?
...that before building his first
railroad
steam locomotive , in 1832,
Matthias W. Baldwin was apprenticed as a jeweler and devised and patented a method for applying
gold plating ?
...that
Thomas Lord started
Lord's Cricket Ground , the home of
cricket in 1814?
...that the highlight event of the
World Cricket Tsunami Appeal is a two-match
one-day international series between a World XI and an Asian XI?
...that
Quebec -born singer
Alys Robi had a
lobotomy in 1952 following a
mental breakdown ?