Did You Know………..

Did you know…

From Wikipedia’s newest content:

Old Dominion Bank Building, now museum of fine arts

  • … that the Athenaeum (pictured) museum of fine arts in Alexandria, Virginia, was built in 1851 as a bank, where Robert E. Lee had an account?
  • … that when he was an educator, Texas State Representative Dan Kubiak published Ten Tall Texans, biographical sketches of, among others, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, and Sam Houston?
  • … that Kitty Carlisle, H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, June Lockhart, and Robert Trout were among the participants in Who Said That?, the 1948–55 television game show based on quotations in the news?
  • … that with support from the Iraqi government, magazines and audio cassettes produced by the exiled Libyan National Movement were smuggled into Libya during the 1980s?
  • … that Oklahoma football coach Robert “Doc” Erskine traveled more than 15,000 miles as a scout during one season?
  • … that after an unexploded bomb burst through her bedroom wall, a resident of Hillingdon Court told staff it was time she went to the air-raid shelter?
  • … that Iran is currently the only country in the world that legally allows a person to trade their kidney for monetary compensation?