This day in history: Did you know...

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

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... that scholars concluded that The School Sayings of Confucius(1895 cover pictured) was a 3rd-century forgery, before similar texts were discovered in tombs dating centuries earlier?
... that ornithologist and professor of wildlife management A. William Schorger presented Lawrence College with the skin of the only cougarever preserved in Wisconsin?
... that libraries in Brighton and Hove include a former pub, a former vicarage, and part of a lido?
... that in Welsh legend, Saint Aelhaiarn was raised from the dead with his eyebrow replaced by an iron pike spike?
... that the pond at Westmoreland Park in Portland, Oregon, was planned to be used as an ice rink during winter?
... that James Wood Bush was one of more than 100 Native Hawaiians who fought in the American Civil War while Hawaii was still an independent kingdom?
... that the National Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of hopeless cases, has many devotees among students and those reviewing for board examinations in the Philippines?

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