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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Essjay controversy]]''' ''(Essjay pictured)'' centres around an editor and administrator of the [[English Wikipedia]] who was exposed as having forged his credentials and faked having a [[doctorate]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Charles E. Peterson]]''' is widely considered to be the "godfather" of [[historic preservation]] in the [[United States]]? |
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{{*mp}}...that [[Lance Armstrong]]'s [[autobiography]], '''''[[It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life]]''''', headed the [[New York Times Best Seller list]], and was the [[William Hill Sports Book of the Year]] in 2000? |
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{{*mp}}...that the best-selling [[United Kingdom|British]] author '''[[Edwy Searles Brooks]]''' is estimated to have published 800 [[adventure novel]]s, including the ''Norman Conquest'' and ''Ironsides Cromwell'' serialized novels, under several [[pseudonym]]s? |
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{{*mp}}...that the '''[[Area Boys]]''' are a gang of [[Nigeria]]n [[street children]] and teenagers who roam the streets of [[Lagos]] [[extortion|extorting]] money from passers-by? |
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{{*mp}}...that '''[[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]]''', author of the 1973 novel ''[[Das Boot]]'', refused to give his [[Expressionist]] paintings to a museum unless it would also display his collection of curiosities? |
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{{*mp}}...that the [[United States]] [[National Weather Service]]'s '''[[StormReady]]''' program has been credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in [[Van Wert County]], [[Ohio]] in 2002? |
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- ...that the Essjay controversy (Essjay pictured) centres around an editor and administrator of the English Wikipedia who was exposed as having forged his credentials and faked having a doctorate?
- ...that Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic preservation in the United States?
- ...that Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, headed the New York Times Best Seller list, and was the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000?
- ...that the Area Boys are a gang of Nigerian street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by?
- ...that Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the 1973 novel Das Boot, refused to give his Expressionist paintings to a museum unless it would also display his collection of curiosities?
- ...that the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program has been credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County, Ohio in 2002?