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- ... that Arthur Streeton's 1896 painting 'The purple noon's transparent might' won critical acclaim at the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London?
- ... that Toshio Hosokawa composed several operas based on Japanese Noh theatre, including Vision of Lear after Shakespeare?
- ... that mathematicians disagree about whether a proof in Georg Cantor's first set theory article actually shows how to construct a transcendental number, or merely proves that such numbers exist?
- ... that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia, despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust?
- ... that seven of eight major bridges on Washington State Route 504 were destroyed by a lahar during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens?
- ... that Wang Enduo survived breast cancer to become an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences?
- ... that 79 years after Herbert Maryon and Joseph Alderson discovered one of Britain's earliest known metal objects in the Kirkhaugh cairns, a group including Alderson's great-grandsons discovered another?
- ... that Tracy LaQuey Parker received more than 5,000 emails over two days in 1997 because of spoofing?