User:SamWigley
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- ... that Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
- ... that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
- ... that Arthur Byron Coble's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
- ... that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
- ... that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
- ... that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
- ... that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?
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United States Army forces target railway cars south of Wonsan, North Korea, an east coast port city, during the Korean War. Trains in North Korea were targets of attack by U.S. and other U.N. forces, so much so that both military and civilian trains often had to wait out the daylight hours in tunnels. Photo credit: United States Army Recently featured: Types of mustard – United States Capitol dome, 1846 – Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, 1945 |
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