Wikiaira: Mount Triumph

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

... that Mount Triumph (pictured) in North Cascades National Park is well-known among regional climbers for its lack of easy climbing routes?
... that the father and son combination Cecil Fielder and Prince Fielder each won a Silver Slugger Award at first base?
... that a Fairey Swordfish from HMS Archer was the first aircraft ever to land on Ascension Island?
... that Sultan Ali of Johor signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over Johor?
... that, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the eldest son of Earl Siward of Northumbria, Osbeorn, died in battle against King Macbeth of Scotland in 1054?
... that in 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Davis v. Beason that it was acceptable to prohibit religious polygamists from voting?
... that a sub-marine eruption near the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga began spewing steam, smoke, pumice, and ash thousands of feet into the sky on March 16, 2009?
... that the Borromeo String Quartet uses laptops instead of paper sheet music when they perform?

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