User:Samuel Blanning/DYK

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• ...that Livadia Palace, a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, was the setting of the 1945 Yalta Conference between the Big Three?
• ...that Höhlgangsanlage 8 is a system of underground tunnels, over 1km in length, built in Jersey during World War Two by the German occupying forces?
• ...that General of the Army Dmitry Pavlov (1897-1941) was the highest ranking Soviet military commander executed for military incompetence during the Second World War, but was later exonerated?
• ...that forensic electrical engineering is a branch of forensic engineering, whose primary role is to investigate, whether a fire was caused by the failure of an electrical appliance?
• ...that nearly 250,000 people had to be evacuated for up to five days while the toxic chemicals and rail lines, which were spilled during the Mississauga train derailment of 1979, were being cleaned up?
• ...that according to the Marlovian theory, William Shakespeare was only a pseudonym of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, who faked his death in 1593 to keep writing as Shakespeare?