This day in history: Did you know...

Sunday, 12 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the Loreto Church and the St. Anthony Shrine (pictured)are known as the "twin churches of Sampaloc"?
... that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru?
... that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River?
... that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
... that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One's progress from multiple fatalitiesper season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna, its most recent?
... that Jovan Albanez was the first commander of the Serbian Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army?
... that in the 1990s, Little Crooked Run was considered to be Class A Wild Trout Waters, despite being infertile and acidic?

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