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...that Russian General Denis Davydov (pictured) was also a celebrated poet who created a specific genre, known as hussar poetry?

Russian general Denis Davydov
...that the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies, that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation?
...that during the 976-9 civil war in the Byzantine Empire, military support provided by Georgian prince David III of Tao was crucial to Emperor Basil II's continued reign?
...that three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
...that Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
...that Russian modernist writer Aleksey Remizov (pictured) was also an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this medieval art form in Russia?

Aleksey Remizov
...that the 1040-foot-long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway?
...that German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?
...that the Namibian city of Otjimbingwe was the capital city before the modern capital, Windhoek, replaced it in 1892?
...that the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band played a record-setting 10-hour drum roll in 1934?
...that Russian courtier Ivan Betskoy (pictured) was rumoured to have been not only Catherine the Great's confidant but also her father?

Ivan Betskoy
...that the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
...that Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII?
...that Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel, is the deepest underground station in Japan?
...that tradition traces Clan Drummond, a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire, to Hungarian origins?
...that the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (pictured) in Sofia, Bulgaria is a reorganized Ottoman mosque, built on the site of an Early Christian temple?

Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church
...that because straw-processing was very important to the town, Twistringen's 750^th anniversary was celebrated by building the world's largest straw hat, at over 5 m (16 ft) wide?
...that CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
...that Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis?
...that Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
...that Belton House (pictured), a Carolean country house in Lincolnshire, was featured as the residence of Fitzwilliam Darcy's aunt in the TV version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?

Belton House
...that Hewlett Packard's popular LaserJet 4 range of printers included the LaserJet 4LC, the first printer designed exclusively for the Chinese market?
...that the Malay word Merdeka has been used in both Singapore and Malaysia to describe the campaigns for self-government and independence in both countries?
...that the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
...that science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment, and that many of its writers are translated into foreign languages—with the notable exception of English?
...that the recordings of Pyotr Leshchenko (pictured), "the King of Russian Tango", were banned in the Soviet Union as counterrevolutionary?

Pyotr Leshchenko
...that Szinva Terrace, the newest public square in Miskolc, Hungary, features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
...that the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
...that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
...that the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia, Count George Brasov, died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?
...that Muhammad had the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir expelled from Medina, their men killed, and their wives and property divided among his followers, choosing for himself the widow of the tribe's slain treasurer?

Submission of the Banu Nadir
...that Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
...that Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero, which premiered in 1625, was the first opera written by a woman?
...that with the coming of Tropical Storm Henri, parts of Red Clay Creek in Delaware experienced a 500-year flood?
...that the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?
...that the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada?
...that the Stinkpot turtle (pictured) deters predators by releasing a musky smell from glands under its shell?

"Stinkpot" turtle
...that polyphenol antioxidants are a class of over 4,000 nutritionally-derived chemicals linked to immune system and cardiovascular health, due to their cellular role of oxidative species scavenging?
...that Chile's current Interior Minister, Andrés Zaldívar, was also a senator and cabinet member in pre-Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime?
...that Typhoon Patsy was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
...that although the Constitution of Singapore had been revised in 1958 to implement self-government for the then British colony of Singapore, self-government was only officially achieved with the Singapore general election of 1959?
...that English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
...that Hickman's potentilla (pictured) is a rare plant discovered by Alice Eastwood, who climbed six floors through a burning building in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to save her specimens?

Hickman’s potentilla
...that Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma, and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution?
...that the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
...that John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex, which is currently building the new Wembley Stadium in London?
...that Ewale a Mbedi may have been the first Duala leader to trade with Europeans in Cameroon?
...that offspring of the Blue Wildebeest can stand seven minutes after birth and run with the herd at two hours old?