Random Fact: New! Grab iGoogle gadget for FactsCollection.com!
Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud. 
/
- 0 / 0
/ - 0 / 0 Facts in category: ALL
| Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time. |
| The British Army during the Napoleonic Wars increased in size from 40,000 regular troops to over 250,000. |
| Uri-On (pictured), created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his debut novel This Side of Paradise in a successful attempt to convince Zelda Sayre to marry him. |
| Compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight. |
| Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas. |
| In optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium. |
| a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was not the worst ever seen along the road. |
| Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party. |
| Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York. |
| Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University. |
| A German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Constitution of the German Empire. |
| In 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology. |
Page 969 of 2206
