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[[Image:Korean.cuisine-Andong.jjimdalk-01.jpg|100x100px|Andong jjimdak]] |
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[[Image:Panorama Nydeggbruecke Bern.jpg|120px|The Untertorbrücke in Berne, Switzerland, as seen from the Nydeggbrücke]] |
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{{*mp}}... that '''[[Andong jjimdak]]''' ''(pictured)'' is a [[Korean cuisine|Korean]] [[jjim|steamed dish]] originated in the city of [[Andong]], and made with seasoned chicken, vegetables, and noodles in [[soy sauce]]? |
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{{*mp}}... that [[author]]-[[illustrator]] '''[[Polly Dunbar]]''' has been selected by ''[[The Times]]'' as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008? |
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{{*mp}}... that '''[[Roy Staiger]]''' played for both [[New York City|New York]] [[Major League Baseball]] teams, the [[New York Mets|Mets]] and [[New York Yankees|Yankees]], but for no other Major League teams? |
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{{*mp}}... that [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] aircraft, including the one that located the [[German battleship Bismarck|''Bismarck'']], were permitted to fly across [[Irish neutrality in World War II|neutral Irish territory]], using the '''[[Donegal Corridor]]'''? |
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{{*mp}}... that the child duo known as the '''[[Aquatots]]''' planned to swim the [[English Channel]] in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments? |
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{{*mp}}... that although '''[[Mackerel scad]]''' are found from [[Nova Scotia]] to [[Rio de Janeiro]], they do not seem common in the [[Gulf of Mexico]]? |
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{{*mp}}... that after the '''[[Battle of Chmielnik]]''', a major victory for the [[Mongols]] during their [[Mongol invasion of Poland|invasion of Poland]], inhabitants of [[Kraków]] abandoned their city? |
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{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Power Memorial Academy]]''' basketball team, led by [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers? |
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{{*mp}}... that [[Wales|Welsh]] [[comedienne]] '''[[Gladys Morgan]]''' was renowned for her toothless, ear-splitting, infectious laugh? |
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{{*mp}}... that, because '''[[Li Xian (chancellor)|Li Xian]]''' would not flatter him, the [[Tang Dynasty]] [[chancellor of Tang Dynasty|chancellor]] [[Yang Guozhong]] blamed torrential rains near the capital [[Chang'an]] on divine displeasure with Li Xian? |
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