Wikipedia:Today's second feature/July 25, 2005
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- ...that the Certosa di Pavia (pictured) was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?
- ...that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
- ...that as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
- ...that the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?
- ...that the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?
- ...that on October 5, 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?