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...that Bellot Strait km passage of water separating Somerset Island from the northernmost point on mainland North America ? October 1, 2006
...that only 48 hat-tricks FIFA World Cup , spanning 700 matches and 18 editions of the tournament? October 11, 2006
...that Beaumont House (pictured ) was constructed for Augustus Short , the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral ? January 13, 2007
...that Sir Samuel Davenport South Australian parliamentarian , had an electoral district named after him? January 16, 2007
...that the Australian steamer TSS Kanowna (pictured ) was requisitioned twice during World War I , first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship ? January 18, 2007
...that the Loch Arkaig treasure specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at Loch Arkaig (pictured ) in the Scottish Highlands ? February 1, 2007
...that the non-fiction book Inside Scientology Olympia Press , was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials? February 17, 2007
...that during the 100 point game Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match? February 17, 2007
...that the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope footrace held at Mount Cameroon , was first held in 1995? February 24, 2007
...that Henry le Chen sheriffdom by King Edward I , despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of King John , whom Edward deposed? February 24, 2007
...that Chip Berlet 's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party lawsuit involving the FBI ? February 25, 2007
...that A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology ? February 27, 2007
...that the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins
...that the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building 1973 , was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan , the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty? March 3, 2007
...that the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion Canadian libraries during 1974 ? March 4, 2007
...that after the publication of the non-fiction book Cults of Unreason UFO cults ? March 8, 2007
...that Scieno Sitter content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology , was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge
...that somewhere between 25–33% of Icelanders Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki , and the subsequent famine ? April 20, 2007
...that Alex Leake £ 10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season? August 29, 2007
...that Michelle Rocca girlfriend of singer Van Morrison , was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971? August 30, 2007
...that Iftikhar ad-Daula Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099 , surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard? August 30, 2007
...that a rock-cut basin legend ? August 30, 2007
...that during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea ? August 30, 2007
...that McGregor Lake reservoir in Southern Alberta , receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin? August 30, 2007
...that the Board of Trustees Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769? August 30, 2007
...that Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era Frederick J. Pack
...that Clarence Herbert Smith (pictured) , who invented the stump-jump plough under the direction of his brother , later produced the machine for sale because the patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse? August 31, 2007
...that David Fung Rachmaninoff 's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age? August 31, 2007
...that New Zealand 's North Island Robin subspecies of the New Zealand Robin , but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene ? August 31, 2007
...that Gord Bamford country music singer , was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville during 2007? September 1, 2007
...that the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem 's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks Buddhist protestors in Huế , Vietnam in 1963? September 4, 2007
...that the Mayslake Peabody Estate (pictured ) , built for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement? September 21, 2007
...that the only remnants of Mecklenburg Castle castle located in present-day Germany , are parts of an earthen wall (pictured ) ? September 22, 2007
...that the wine -producing region of Blackwood Valley longest continually flowing river in Western Australia ? October 18, 2007
...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$ 1.7 billion in insured damages? October 29, 2007
...that the Fightmaster Cup golfing tournament for one-handers? November 7, 2007
...that the shrimp scad (pictured ) was first scientifically described by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål in 1775, who mistook it for mackerel ? November 18, 2007
...that the northern whiting pictured invasive species in the eastern Mediterranean , having passed through the Suez Canal as part of the Lessepsian migration ? November 19, 2007
...that historian Holden Furber Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered the Second World War ? November 19, 2007
...that American academic Jackson Bailey Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1988, the highest possible honor given by Japan to a foreigner? November 19, 2007
...that following his term as Mayor of Boston , Frederick O. Prince Boston Public Library 's McKim Building in Copley Square ? November 19, 2007
...that Julius Garfinckel department store Garfinckel's , died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday? November 19, 2007
...that Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls Coldstream Guards to have won the George Cross , the highest civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations ? November 19, 2007
...that three out of every seventy-seven rainbow runners (pictured ) have five spines , as a result of not being born with the normal six? November 20, 2007
...that at the time of his death, A. Ronald Walton language programs than anyone else in the world? November 21, 2007
...that Gordon K. Douglass Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American ? November 24, 2007
...that a series of storms Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history? November 25, 2007
...that Richard Whitaker correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation ? November 27, 2007
...that at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792 ?
...that Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket umpires ?
...that Jack Brod tenant of the Empire State Building , New York City , at the time of his death in 2008? January 25, 2008
...that the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane cyclone to make landfall in Cuba , with a low atmosphetic pressure reading of 928 mbar ? March 3, 2008
... that Court Avenue Ohio , was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete ? October 18, 2008
... that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor ? October 18, 2008
... that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind ? October 18, 2008
... that United States Army officer James H. Trapier P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War ? October 19, 2008
... that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review , even though they were only able to publish a single issue? October 19, 2008
... that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper Salem , gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers ' Sunlight soap ? October 19, 2008
... that because the Foulées du Gois road running race is held on a tidal causeway , participants are sometimes forced to swim to the finish line? August 27, 2009 Total: 66
