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- ... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Theme and Variations (pictured) as a tribute to the imperial Russian ballet style?
- ... that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death?
- ... that City of Champaign v. Madigan was the first decision by an Illinois court addressing whether the private emails of government officials are subject to public disclosure?
- ... that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three commanderies, and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
- ... that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl?
- ... that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
- ... that the gill chambers of the tiger lucine, the dwarf tiger lucine, and the Pennsylvania lucine contain symbiotic bacteria which help them live in sediments not suited to other bivalves?
- ... that upon completing their apprenticeships, British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets?