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Bartmann jugs in situ on the Dalarö wreck

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-[[File:KoishikawaArtillery1882.jpg|100x100px|Japanese artilleryman, c. 1882]]
+[[File:Dalaro_wreck_1.jpeg|100x100px|Bartmann jugs ''in situ'' on the Dalarö wreck]]
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-{{*mp}}... that the 19th-century '''[[artillery of Japan]]''' ''(example pictured)'' utilized widely disparate technologies, from primitive [[wooden cannon]] to state-of-the-art [[Armstrong gun|breech loader]]s?
+{{*mp}}... that the cargo of the '''[[Dalarö wreck]]''' ''(pictured)'', sunk in the [[Baltic Sea]], included coal and several '''[[Bartmann jug]]s'''?
-{{*mp}}... that [[Norway|Norwegian]] professor of [[bacteriology]] '''[[Sverre Dick Henriksen]]''' was an honorary member of the [[Chamber of Physicians and Dentists|Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists]], despite having never worked in [[Poland]]?
+{{*mp}}... that three-time [[All-American]] '''[[Eddie Mahan]]''' was named by [[Jim Thorpe]] as the greatest [[American football|football]] player of all time?
-{{*mp}}... that Severe Tropical '''[[Cyclone Keli]]''' was the first recorded [[tropical cyclone]] to form within the [[Pacific Ocean|South Pacific Ocean]] in June?
+{{*mp}}... that [[William Blake]]'s unfinished manuscript '''''[[An Island in the Moon]]''''' contains early versions of three of his famous ''[[Songs of Innocence]]''?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Henry Dorling]]''', step-father of cookery writer [[Mrs Beeton]], was the first Clerk of the Course of [[Epsom Downs Racecourse|Epsom Racecourse]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[waviness]]''' of [[bearing ball]]s and [[race (bearing)|bearing races]] surfaces is one of the reasons for bearing noise and vibrations?
-{{*mp}}... that the farmland at '''[[Ramstad]]''', [[Norway]], was affected by the 19th-century construction of both the [[Drammen Line]] and the [[European route E18]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the '''[[1986 Vrancea earthquake]]''' in [[Romania]], which damaged roughly 55,000 homes, was felt as far north as [[Poland]] and as far southeast as [[Italy]]?
-{{*mp}}... that in 1974, '''[[Louis-Gaston Mayila|Louis Gaston Mayila]]''' became Deputy Personal Adviser to the then [[President of Gabon]], [[Omar Bongo]]?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Francesco Torniello]]''' was the first to define the [[Point (typography)|point]] as a unit of measurement in typography?
+{{*mp}}... that the position of '''[[Clerk of the Parliaments]]''' has existed in [[England]] since at least 1315?
-{{*mp}}... that the treadmill '''[[Treadmill with Vibration Isolation System|COLBERT]]''' (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill) aboard the [[International Space Station]] was named after political satirist [[Stephen Colbert (character)|Stephen Colbert]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the rule of the '''[[Palacio del Sal|Salt Hotel]]''' is "don't lick the walls"?
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