Did you know,

 Did you know,

that Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia? 

that the names of several side roads and buildings along the A1206 (bridge pictured) in London relate to the Isle of Dogs' connection with the shipping industry?

 that Vasily Bakalov oversaw the design of weapon systems to destroy tanks, such as the 9M113 Konkurs, and to protect tanks, such as the Drozd?

 that Newsweek described the Goucher College campus in Towson, Maryland, as "unusually bucolic"?

 that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon, France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties?

... that the church of Santa Maria della Purità in Rome was managed by caudatari, priests whose main task was to carry the trains of the pope or cardinals?

that Samuel Bacon, government agent on the first American Colonization Society expedition, died of "actual exhaustion" soon after arriving in Africa?

that The Myth of the Eastern Front explores the parallels between the myth of the clean Wehrmacht and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
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