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- 22:42, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- ...that tourism in Cameroon (bush taxi pictured) centers around wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and gorillas?
- ...that Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?
- ...that Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on Canadian currency?
- ...that Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw?
- ...that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
- ...that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole, one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?
- ...that French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France?
- 13:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- ...that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (pictured) was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
- ...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
- ...that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
- ...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
- ...in 1293, the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights?
- ...that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
- ...that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?
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