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1. Franciszek Pipler: a Polish Holocaust historian who helped establish a more accurate number of victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps.
2. The European Union is not party to the International Criminal Court, but supports it and will cooperate with it.
3. The U.S. controls Omelek Island in the South Pacific. It is part of the Marshall Islands and is used for missile testing.
4. Herbert Brean was an American journalist and crime writer. Alfred Hitchcock based his film "The Wrong Man" on Brean's article for Life magazine, "A Case of Identity."
5. There is a song named "Song of Bernadette" which was written by Jennifer Warnes, Leonard Cohen and Bill Elliott. Jennifer Warnes was named Bernadette by her parents, but her siblings preferred Jennifer so her name was changed after a week.
6. In Quincy, Indiana a yearly picnic was held from 1870-1972. By the early 20th century this was an enormous event. In 1935 13,000 people attended.
7. The last woman hanged in Scotland was Susan Newell, who was hanged in 1923 after strangling her newspaper boy. She was caught trying to dispose of the body and tried to implicate her husband.
8. The China Youth Development Foundation has a program, "Project Hope," which seeks to help dropouts in poor regions return to school for at least an elementary education.
9. Susan Shelby Magoffin wrote a journal about her family's journey on the Santa Fe Trail in the 1840s which is a valuable historical record from the point of view of a woman.
10. Diarmuid Byron O'Connor is the artist commissioned to create the Peter Pan sculpture outside of the Great Ormond Street Hospital
11. Eleanor Roosevelt had a bodyguard, Earl Miller with whom she may or may not have had a romantic relationship.
12. Shaolin Kempo Karate is a hybrid martial arts form combining Shaolin Kung Fu, Karate, Kempo, Western Boxing, Jujitsu, Chin Na, and Mongolian Wrestling.
13.Pedro J. Ramirez is a Spanish journalist who founded the newspaper El Mundo. He is married to the designer Prada
14. Middleborough, MA passeda controversial law banning profanity in public with a fine of $20.
15. bat detectors help people detect the presence of bats by converting their echolocation signals to audible frequencies
16. The steel bib was Russian armor used in World War II. It was designed to protect against attack with the bayonet , small fragments, and 9-mm pistol bullets with lead cores
17. The 2011 Mangystau riots in Kazakhstan resulted in at least 14 deaths as protesters in the oil town of Zhanaozen clashed with police on the country's Independence Day.
18. Mahdia is an old Tunisian coastal city that was an important strategic point during the Crusades.
19. The Marriage Of Sir Gawain is an English Arthurian Ballad in which Gawain marries an ugly woman to free Arthur. When he gives her her own will she becomes beautiful.
20. Uncle Earl's Hot Dog Trials are held yearly in Louisianna. They judge dogs on their ability to contain and control a boar by baying in the boar's face.
21. Enemies, a season 3 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is the first episode in which Angelus is given as the name for the soulless, evil Angel.
22. Secrets of Radar Museum: London, Ontario Museum created to tell the story of the more than 6,000 Canadian World War II veterans who were recruited into a top-secret project during World War II involving radar. Their oath of secrecy was not fully lifted until 1991.
23. Kusum Kanguru: a mountain in the Himalayas that is very difficult to climb. Only 9 out of 22 attempts have been successful
24: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca: victims of the Manson murders
25: Harold Sumberg: violinist, teacher and conductor born in Rochester, NY. He was known for his collection of fine violin bows.
26. Upington Airport: an airport in South Africa with one of the longest runways in the world.
27. Pari passu: a latin phrase meaning "on equal footing"
28. Adelina Domingues: World's oldest person from May 28, 2002 until her death less than 3 months later.
29. Orestes: play by Euripides about Orestes after he has murdered his mother
30. Wales UFO sightings: In 2008 the crew of a South Wales police helicopter witnessed a UFO
31. Gravesend Airport, an RAF airport in Kent, England is now a housing development
32. Jaime Vendera is a voice coach who shattered a glass with just his voice on an episode of Mythbusters. It was the first time that was recorded on camera.
33. Lizzie Compton disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the Civil War and enlisted when she was only 14.
34. Muller is the most common surname in Germany and Switzerland. It means Miller in English.
35. Pedro Cavadas is a doctor known for pioneering surgeries such as keeping a patient's arm alive by temporarily implanting it on the patient's leg.
36. Beijing East Village: Named after the East Village in New York, an artistic community in Beijing during the 1990s
37. Haulander: German name for German settlers in Prussia and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
38. Farnham Castle- in Surrey, England. Was the home of Cardinal Henry Beaufort who presided over the trial ofJoan of Arc
39. Mary Francesca Bosworth writes books about gender and race in prison
40. Intrinsic finality is the idea that there is a natural good for all beings, and that all beings have a natural tendency to pursue their own good
41. The word pogrom, used to describe a violent riot aimed at massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews, only entered English in the 19th century to describe attacks on Jews in the Russian empire.
42. The political system in Uganda only started allowing multi-party politics in 2005. The Supreme Court ruled that the first election after this was marred by intimidation, violence, voter disenfranchisement, and other irregularities but upheld the results anyway.
43. Alan Lomax collected folk songs in the US starting in the 1930s. He did important work collecting the cultural songs of different cultures across the United States and creating radio shows to share them. Later moved to Europe to collect folk songs there.
44. Louise Noelle Malcles shares my birthday and was the first female librarian of note in France. She was awarded the Legion of Honour for her service to the profession of library science
45. Thomas Hancock founded the British rubber industry. He invented the masticator, a machine that shredded rubber scraps and which allowed rubber to be recycled after being formed into blocks or sheets.
46. Side-scan sonar is a system that creates images of large areas of the sea floor
47. The Nanjing Museum is one of the largest in China and is known for a large collection of Ming and Qing imperial porcelain.
48. Nuri al-Said was a controversial Prime Minister in Iraq appointed by the British. He was seen as too pro-British and was eventually killed trying to flee the country in disguise as a woman.
49. In 1885 there was a wave of anti-Chinese violence in the American territory of Washington
50. There is a community of Greeks in the country of Chile
