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... that the stone men, horses, &c. (example pictured) of Japan's kofun may have been inspired by the spirit paths of China?
... that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio?
... that urbanists have used hive cities from the science-fiction universe of Warhammer 40,000 as an example of how vertical cities could become dystopian?
... that the Philippine embassy in Pretoria responded to a South African newspaper's denunciation of horse fighting in the Philippines by saying that the practice was already illegal?
... that artisan baker Jules Rabin was inspired to bake bread after a 1971 visit to a commune in France where "they didn't speak of bread as holy, but they treated it as a holy object"?
... that Tout est lumière, a setting by Maurice Ravel for soprano, choir and orchestra of a poem by Victor Hugo, earned Ravel a place in the second round of the 1901 Prix de Rome?
... that Tommy Cronin played both basketball and football in high school, in college, and professionally?
... that the grave of a Dutch officer and his dog who were killed in the Battle of Nanggulon is a designated cultural object in Indonesia?
... that Cowboy Wheeler was a Reimer Wiener?