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- ... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) depicts an Indian emperor shooting arrows at a personification of poverty?
- ... that people in the 1980s expressed interest in buying Chicago's James Charnley House only because they wanted to see the interior?
- ... that most sports fans are male, and class distinctions also influence which sports people follow?
- ... that a diamond named after Sienna Spiro sold for $3.4 million in June 2021?
- ... that David D. Demarest was the first professor of pastoral theology and sacred rhetoric at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary?
- ... that Nachi Gordon was one of the youngest agents to sign an NBA player?
- ... that Jim Photoglo wrote the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' in the Dark" and joined the band – almost 30 years later?
- ... that scholar Axinte Frunză wanted Romania to join the Central Powers in 1916, espousing "a vision that was profoundly anti-statist (with hints of anarchism), populist, and virulently anti-Russian"?
- ... that an effort to ban one German political party revealed that it was so heavily infiltrated that the German government partially controlled it?