This day in history: Did you know...

Sunday, 19 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that the first U.S. revenue stamps (example pictured) were issued in 1862 to raise money for the American Civil War?
... that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic ofAfrican sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo?
... that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after theNobel Prize ceremony?
... that the composer Joseph Maria Wolfram became mayor of Teplice?
... that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine, a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine's horses and pulled his carriage home?
... that certain crabs injected with calitoxin, found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica, are paralysed within one minute?
... that Cindy Smart knows five languages and basic mathematics, but is "a little creepy"?

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