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... that galbitang (pictured), a Korean soup made from beef short ribs called galbi, is a representative dish served at wedding receptions in South Korea?

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-[[File:Mount_Triumph_25911.JPG|100x100px|Mount Triumph from the southeast]]
+[[File:Korean soup-Galbitang-02.jpg|100x100px|Galbitang]]
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-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Mount Triumph]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[North Cascades National Park]] is well-known among regional climbers for its lack of easy [[Rock climbing|climbing routes]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[galbitang]]''' ''(pictured)'', a [[guk|Korean soup]] made from [[Galbi|beef short ribs]] called ''galbi'', is a representative [[Korean cuisine|dish]] served at [[Marriage in South Korea|wedding receptions]] in [[South Korea]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Future of newspapers|the future of American newspapers]]''' is in doubt: as of 2005, an estimated 70 percent of older Americans read a newspaper daily, while fewer than 20 percent of younger Americans did?
-{{*mp}}... that the [[List of second-generation Major League Baseball players|father and son]] combination [[Cecil Fielder]] and [[Prince Fielder]]  each won a '''[[List of Silver Slugger Award winners at first base|Silver Slugger Award at first base]]'''?
-{{*mp}}... that a [[Fairey Swordfish]] from '''[[HMS Archer (D78)|HMS ''Archer'']]''' was the first aircraft ever to land on [[Ascension Island]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Kristian Kristiansen (writer)|Kristian Kristiansen]]''''s main literary work is a trilogy about a boy growing up in an [[orphanage]] in the late 1600s?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''{{SS|Batavier II|1897|2}}''' and '''{{SS|Batavier V|1902|2}}''', of the [[Holland|Dutch]] '''[[Batavier Line]]''', were captured, released, and later sunk by four different [[submarine]]s?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Sultan Ali of Johor]]''' signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over [[Johor]]?
-{{*mp}}... that, according to the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', the eldest son of Earl [[Siward, Earl of Northumbria|Siward of Northumbria]], '''[[Osbeorn Bulax|Osbeorn]]''', died in battle against King [[Macbeth of Scotland]] in 1054?
+{{*mp}}... that, fourteen years after the release of their debut album, [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band '''[[Iced Earth discography|Iced Earth]]''' charted on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] for the first time?
-{{*mp}}... that in 1890, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in '''''[[Davis v. Beason]]''''' that it was acceptable to prohibit religious [[polygamy|polygamists]] from voting?
+{{*mp}}... that the 1908 '''''[[Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau]]''''' was the first journal of [[comparative law]] in the [[United States]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[British people|British]] [[anthropologist]] '''[[Kathleen Gough]]''' and her husband were believed to be on the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s [[watchlist]] due to their alleged [[Marxist]]  leanings?
-{{*mp}}... that a sub-marine eruption near the '''[[Hunga Tonga|Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha{{okina}}apai]]''' [[volcano]] in [[Tonga]] began spewing steam, smoke, [[pumice]], and ash thousands of feet into the sky on March&nbsp;16, 2009?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Borromeo String Quartet]]''' uses [[laptop]]s instead of paper [[sheet music]] when they perform?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[mockumentary]] '''''[[Male Restroom Etiquette]]''''' is the most viewed ''[[The Sims (series)|Sims]]'' video on [[YouTube]]?
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