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{{*mp}}...that [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s '''''[[Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate]]''''' (''pictured'') is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Thomas de Dundee]]''', later [[Bishop of Ross]], was one of three men from the small [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scottish]] [[burgh]] of [[Dundee]] studying [[Roman law]] at the [[University of Bologna]] at the same time in the later 13th century? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Yorkshire Museum]]''' paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in [[Yorkshire]] using a [[metal detector]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that at '''[[Bougon]]''', a [[prehistory|prehistoric]] [[tumulus|burial mound]] in [[France]], archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three [[trepanation]]s during his lifetime? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Mormon]] settlers on the 1879 '''[[San Juan Expedition]]''' to establish a colony in what is now southeastern [[Utah]] spent several months widening a "[[Hole in the Rock (Road)|'''Hole-in-the-Rock''']]" for the passage of wagons? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[St Lawrence's Church, Stoak|St Lawrence's Church]]''', a [[listed building]] in [[Stoak]], [[Cheshire]], [[England]], has a [[Tudor style architecture|Tudor]] [[hammerbeam roof]], a [[Jacobean architecture|Jacobean]] [[altar]], a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] [[pulpit]], an [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan]] [[Chalice (cup)|chalice]] and [[chair]]s from the time of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that the development of the '''[[Lockheed XF-104]]''', a single-engine, high-performance, [[supersonic]] [[interceptor aircraft]] [[prototype]], earned aircraft engineer [[Clarence Johnson|Kelly Johnson]] his first [[Collier Trophy]] in 1958? |
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{{*mp}}...that in '''[[Bigby v. Dretke]]''', the [[defendant]] put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge [[Testimony|testified]] the [[assault]] did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Elizabeth F. Ellet]]''' was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the [[American Revolutionary War]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Pat Patterson (coach)|Pat "Gravy" Patterson]]''', the head coach of the [[Louisiana Tech University]] from [[1968]] to [[1990]], was the winningest baseball coach in the state's [[history]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Kenneth Lockwood]]''', one of the first six [[United Kingdom|British]] prisoners at [[Colditz]] in 1940, remained a [[prisoner of war|POW]] until the castle was liberated in April 1945? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Nigeria]]n businessman '''[[Alhassan Dantata]]''' was the wealthiest person in [[West Africa]] at the time of his death in 1955? |
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