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* ... that the '''[[Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory]]''' was used as a marketing tool, with an image of the factory ''(pictured)'' on every cereal packet it produced until 1960? |
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* ... that the sprinter [[Peter Norman]] requested that he be left off the '''[[Victory Salute (statue)|Olympic Black Power Statue]]''' so that others could stand in his place? |
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* ... that a Japanese [[samurai]] was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope Benedict XVI]], nearly 400 years after his execution during the '''[[Great Martyrdom of Edo]]'''? |
* ... that a Japanese [[samurai]] was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope Benedict XVI]], nearly 400 years after his execution during the '''[[Great Martyrdom of Edo]]'''? |
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* ... that the [[Picts]] disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the '''[[Battle of Dollar]]'''? |
* ... that the [[Picts]] disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the '''[[Battle of Dollar]]'''? |
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* ... that [[Isaac Watts]], the "father of English hymnody", described '''[[Come, O thou Traveller unknown|one of Charles Wesley's hymns]]''' as "worth all the verses he himself had written"? |
* ... that [[Isaac Watts]], the "father of English hymnody", described '''[[Come, O thou Traveller unknown|one of Charles Wesley's hymns]]''' as "worth all the verses he himself had written"? |
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* ... that '''[[Mindar|a Buddhist android preacher]]''' regularly gives sermons on the ''[[Heart Sutra]]''{{-?}} |
* ... that '''[[Mindar|a Buddhist android preacher]]''' regularly gives sermons on the ''[[Heart Sutra]]''{{-?}} |
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* ... that the '''[[Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory]]''' was used as a marketing tool, with an image of the factory on every cereal packet it produced until 1960? |
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* ... that '''[[Keaton Bills|Bills]]''' plays for the [[Buffalo Bills|Bills]]? |
* ... that '''[[Keaton Bills|Bills]]''' plays for the [[Buffalo Bills|Bills]]? |
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1930s Nabisco Shredded Wheat advertisement
- ... that the Nabisco Shredded Wheat Factory was used as a marketing tool, with an image of the factory (pictured) on every cereal packet it produced until 1960?
- ... that the sprinter Peter Norman requested that he be left off the Olympic Black Power Statue so that others could stand in his place?
- ... that a Japanese samurai was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, nearly 400 years after his execution during the Great Martyrdom of Edo?
- ... that the Picts disappeared from the historical record after the devastation suffered following the Battle of Dollar?
- ... that the operators of a Wisconsin radio station received unsolicited checks and food deliveries?
- ... that the classicist Adam Parry said that he had only ever considered three careers: academia, law and beachcombing?
- ... that Isaac Watts, the "father of English hymnody", described one of Charles Wesley's hymns as "worth all the verses he himself had written"?
- ... that a Buddhist android preacher regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra?
- ... that Bills plays for the Bills?