This day in history: Did you know...

Thursday, 25 December 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that during its occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Empire of Japan issued both gulden and roepiah (example pictured)?
... that New York Giants safety Nat Berhe is the first player ofEritrean descent to be drafted into the NFL?
... that the Derbendcis Ottoman constabulary units were so poorly motivated that the Ottomans had to hire mercenaries to ensure their loyalty?
... that it was theorized that Ukrainian-American rapper Your Old Droog was actually Nas secretly recording under an alias?
... that a group of Swedish businessmen spent more than $2.5 million to renovate the Lady Hutton?
... that after its closure, Dr. Holbrook's Military School served as headquarters of a New York Guard regiment protecting the Croton Aqueduct during World War I?
... that the wife of sculptor Jacob Epstein hoped that he would have an affair with his Kashmiri model Sunita Devi or her sister?

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