This day in history: Did you know...

Saturday, 13 December 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Edward Middleton Manigault was possibly inspired byfireworks on the Hudson River (pictured)?
... that Mexico never paid China the $3 million indemnity it agreed to after the deaths of 300 Chinese immigrants in the 1911Torreón massacre?
... that the Bhushi Dam was built to supply water to steam engines of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway?
... that Bucko by Erika Moen and Jeff Parker was published as a webcomic before being published as a physical graphic novel?
... that between 1875 and 1899, the architecture firm Habershon and Fawcknerdesigned and laid out Cardiff's working class suburb of Splott, creating more than 1,700 houses?
... that most of the Stony Creek watershed is forested, but nearly a third is barren land?
... that in 1809 the French frigate Junon was captured by the British, then recaptured by the French and set on fire?

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