This day in history: Did you know...

Monday, 1 December 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that scholars believe the relief carvings on the 12th-century Old Bridge (piers pictured) in Hasankeyf, Turkey, depict the page corps of Artuqid ruler Qarā Arslān?
... that although it outnumbered its attackers at the Battle of Nam Bac, the Royal Lao Army was routed by the People's Army of Vietnam?
... that Cologne-born character actor Erwin Hiller, portraying the FrenchmanMarcel Hillaire, toured U.S. college campuses with a one-man stage show celebrating French literature?
... that the Northern Ice Field on Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest glacial remnanton the mountain with an area of 0.95 km² (0.4 sq mi)?
... that the Pettakere cave in Indonesia has hand print paintings estimated to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old?
... that Fu Buqi was one of only two disciples that Confucius praised as a junzi in the Analects?
... that nasal dwarfgobies live for only three months?

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