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-[[Image:Charles Frederick Field.jpg|100x100px|Charles Frederick Field]]
+[[Image:John Everett Millais The Black Brunswicker.jpg|100x100px|"The Black Brunswicker", 1860, by John Everett Millais]]
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-{{*mp}}...that '''[[Charles Frederick Field]]''' ''(pictured)'' was the basis for Inspector Bucket in [[Charles Dickens]]'s novel ''[[Bleak House]]''?
+{{*mp}}...that the soldiers of the '''[[Black Brunswickers]]''' ''(pictured)'' dressed entirely in black and wore hats with [[Totenkopf|Death's Heads]] on them to reflect their commander's hatred for [[Napoleon]]?
-{{*mp}}...that '''[[Leela Majumdar]]''', author of children's books, translated [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' and [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' into [[Bengali language|Bengali]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''''[[Sorubim]]''''' is a [[genus]] of [[catfish]] with [[shovel]]-shaped long [[nose]]s?
+{{*mp}}...that despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of [[Venezuela]]n citizens have '''[[Water supply and sanitation in Venezuela|access to potable water]]''' and 71% have access to [[sanitation]]?
-{{*mp}}..that '''[[Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta]]''' is an ancient [[Sumer]]ian tablet describing how [[Enmerkar]] of [[Uruk]] forced the people of [[Aratta]] to contribute materials for the [[ziggurat]]s he was building?
+{{*mp}}...that during the [[Holocaust]], [[Order of Friars Minor Capuchin|Capuchin friar]] '''[[Père Marie-Benoît]]''' created fake [[passport]]s and [[baptism]] certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of [[Jewish people|Jews]] out of [[Southern France]]?
-{{*mp}}...that the modern meaning of "'''[[ballad (music)|ballad]]'''", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from [[Tin Pan Alley]] and [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] composers?
-{{*mp}}...that [[NASA]] conducts field trials, called '''[[Desert Research and Technology Studies|Desert RATS]]''', for new technologies for [[extra-vehicular activity|manned exploration]] of the surface of the [[Moon]], [[Mars]], or beyond?
+{{*mp}}...that '''''[[chal]]''''' is a traditional [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] drink made from fermented [[camel]]'s milk, which is popular in [[Central Asia]], as well as in the [[Middle East|Near East]]?
+{{*mp}}...that an [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit|appellate court panel]] immediately freed [[Wisconsin]] [[civil servant]] '''[[Georgia Thompson]]''' on conclusion of [[oral argument]]s, an almost-unheard of occurrence?
+{{*mp}}...that the bestselling [[1906]] erotic novel '''''[[Josephine Mutzenbacher]]''''' is thought to have been written by [[Felix Salten]], the author of ''[[Bambi, A Life in the Woods|Bambi]]''?
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