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Roosevelt's Top Cottage (pictured) has been the only house designed by a U.S. President, although no President has stayed there overnight?...that Commander Reinhard Hardegen deliberately placed his U-boat in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?...that the under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?...that the Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?...that college football running back Butch Woolfolk was named MVP of both the Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl in the same year?...that the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares (pictured) was a 1970s fashion fad?...that Jaroslav Jiřík became the first player from an Eastern Bloc nation to play in the National Hockey League when he appeared in three games with the St. Louis Blues in 1970?...that the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?...that Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, as the first Health Minister of Bangladesh, worked to eradicate mosquitoes from that country?...that when yellow crystals of mosesite, a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury, are heated to 186oC, they become isotropic?...that Joseph R. Bodwell, the 40th governor of Maine, worked on the farm and also as a shoemaker when he was a child?...that systematic mapping of the Michelangelo quadrangle on Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring impact basins, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet...that a team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II?...that crystals of Paulingite, a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River, form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron?...that scarps, ridges, and troughs, such as the 650 km long and 2 km high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater, are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury?...that in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan, who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist?...that the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme (pictured) is a preserved railway in France that has dual gauge track with four rails?...that the visual novel Myself ; Yourself was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes?...that a nutating disc engine is a novel internal combustion engine comprising fundamentally only one moving part?...that Jamie Morris of the Washington Redskins, originally considered too short to be a running back, holds the NFL record for the most rushing attempts in a game with 45?...that the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System?...that before penning Number Ones for Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts, country music songwriter Neil Thrasher charted a country single in 1997 as half of the duo Thrasher Shiver?...that the Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales?...that the Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces?...that Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was an unpaid assistant to the Quartermaster General during World War I, and won the Distinguished Service Medal for reorganizing the U.S. Army's supply system?...that the bells of St Giles Church in Wormshill, England were restored in 1995 after a collection started in 1944 with only ten shillings?...that when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them?...that in Steve Morrison's first year as Brother Rice defensive coordinator they won a MHSAA football championship and in his first year as Western Michigan linebacker coach one of his linebackers led the nation in sacks?...that the Kuiper crater in the Kuiper quadrangle, named after after Dutch American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (pictured), has the highest albedo recorded on Mercury?...that recent studies estimated that 34% of total electricity consumption in the Dominican Republic was not paid for, as poor service and high prices have induced theft through illegal connections and non-payment of electricity bills?...that Shaun Alexander, the 2005 NFL MVP Award winner, was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft?...that Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?...that the amorphous phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners?...that the Transcontinental Motor Convoys inspired Dwight D. Eisenhower to support the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956?...that Garter King of Arms William Segar (pictured) was imprisoned for confirming a coat of arms to someone who was not a gentleman?...that the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties?...that the Caloris Basin on Mercury, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System, is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta?...that former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?...that in 1886, Wilhelm Steinitz won the first official World Chess Championship?...that the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría?...that British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry refused treatment for bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag?...that the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?...that HMS Benbow's (pictured) class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns?...that former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives—first as a Democrat, and nearly 30 years later as a Republican?...that Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?...that José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?...that jerrygibbsite ((Mn,Zn)9(SiO4)4(OH)2) is a rare mineral of which there are only five known samples in the world?...that the first volume of printed strips from the furry "Slice-of-life" webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work"?...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice?...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?...that the US Coast Guard cutters Seneca and Ossipee endured a collective total of five torpedo near misses in World War