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-[[File:Peacocke-Travellers Bungalow, Sispara.jpg|100x100px|Traveller's Bungalow, Sispara]]
+[[File:Korean.costume-Wonsam-for.Queen.Joseon-01.jpg|100x100px|Wonsam]]
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-{{*mp}}... that a [[Lithography|lithograph]] ''(pictured)'' of '''[[Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke|Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke]]''''s painting of the [[Sispara#Sispara_bungalow|new bungalow]] at '''[[Sispara]]''' in [[India]] was published nine years after the [[Sispara#Sispara_ghat|Sispara ghat]] mountain trail was completed in 1838?
+{{*mp}}... that a '''[[wonsam]]''' ''(pictured)'' was a female ceremonial  [[Hanbok|robe]]  for the queen, royalty, and [[Yangban|nobility]] during the [[Korea]]n [[Joseon Dynasty]], though [[sangmin|commoners]] could wear it for their wedding?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] [[Triple Crown (rugby union)|Triple Crown]] winner '''[[Norman Biggs]]''' was killed after being struck by a [[arrow poison|poison arrow]] while on military duty in [[Northern Nigeria]]?
-{{*mp}}... that, although it is traditionally classified as a [[transition metal]],  in '''[[compounds of zinc|forming compounds]]''' the element [[zinc]] has similarities to the [[alkaline earth metal]]s?
+{{*mp}}... that prior to the '''[[1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake]]''', [[earthquake lights]] were sighted?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[John Biehl]]''', a [[Chile]]an [[Minister (government)|government minister]] in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for [[Costa Rica]]n president [[Óscar Arias]] to win the 1987 [[Nobel Peace Prize]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the Grenville Canal on the [[Ottawa River]] in '''[[Grenville, Quebec]]''', Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the [[War of 1812]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Flying Officer]] (later [[Air Commodore]]) '''[[Frank Lukis]]''' was one of the original twenty-one officers in the [[Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] when it was formed in 1921?
+{{*mp}}... that though fruiting as a typical "[[little brown mushroom]]", '''''[[Inocybe lacera]]''''' is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive [[spore]]s?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Jens-Anton Poulsson]]''' was awarded the [[War Cross with Sword]] for his actions in the [[Norwegian heavy water sabotage]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Hungary|Hungarian]] '''[[István Major]]''' held the [[high jump]] record at the [[European Indoor Championships in Athletics|European Indoor Championships]] from 1972 to 1977?
-{{*mp}}... that following a number of '''[[2008–2009 Irish banking crisis|recent banking controversies]]''', [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] ruling party [[Fianna Fáil]] was overtaken in [[opinion poll]]s by the country's [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] for the first time in history?
+{{*mp}}... that five [[UH-1 Iroquois]] helicopters of the '''[[Experimental Military Unit]]''' were shot down by a single [[Viet Cong]] soldier armed with an [[AK-47]] rifle?
-{{*mp}}... that when '''[[Gordon Wilkie]]''' and his [[Michigan Wolverines]] teammates scored 21 points in a single [[ice hockey]] game against [[Ohio State University]], their coach threatened to bench anyone else who [[running up the score|scored]]?
-{{*mp}}... that some living people claim to have traced their '''[[Descent from Adam and Eve|genealogy back to Adam and Eve]]'''?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Humphrey Stafford, 1st Earl of Devon|Humphrey Stafford]]''', who was killed by a mob, was only [[Earl of Devon]] for three months?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[pre-Columbian]] [[Zapotec civilization|Zapotec]] storm god '''[[Cocijo]]''' was said to have created the world from his breath?
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