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A captured German field artillery piece at Flesquières. The lone gunner of Flesquières is a possibly mythical German officer who is credited with destroying up to 16 British tanks at Flesquières, France, during the first day of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. British tanks were generally successful in their attacks on 20 November ...
The Monkey-man of Delhi, also known as the Face Scratcher ( Hindi: मुंहनोचवा, romanized : Munhanochava, Urdu: منھ نوچوا) or the Black Monkey ( Hindi: काला बन्दर, romanized : Kaala bandar, Urdu: سیاہ بندر) is an unknown anomaly which was reported to be roaming Delhi in mid-2001. The entire ...
4] Another version of the Lost Treasure of Lima claims it was buried in Tuamotu archipelago, part of the French Polynesia. From a 1939 book "The Treasure of the Tuamotus"..based on hearsay; Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition. An art project called Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition took place on Cocos Island in May 2014. A container with ...
The Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law. It is an agency of the Department of the Treasury and led by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ...
The White House travel office controversy, sometimes referred to as Travelgate, [1] [2] was the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton administration. It began in May 1993, when seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired. This action was unusual because executive-branch employees typically remain in their posts for many ...
The Omaha Claim Club was founded in 1854, the year the city was founded. Initially designed to protect the interests of 20 men, it grew to include almost two hundred settlers. The group used violent means to impose "frontier justice", including dunking in the frozen Missouri River, running off legitimate settlers, and other forms of vigilantism.
Legends of Catherine the Great. Catherine II, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias. During and after the reign of the flamboyant and powerful Empress Catherine II of Russia, whose long rule led to the modernisation of the Russian Empire, many urban legends arose, some legends based on true events, concerning her sexual behaviour.
The domestic cat has a smaller skull and shorter bones than the European wildcat. [48] It averages about 46 cm (18 in) in head-to-body length and 23–25 cm (9.1–9.8 in) in height, with about 30 cm (12 in) long tails. Males are larger than females. [49] Adult domestic cats typically weigh 4–5 kg (8.8–11.0 lb).