EmpHeir : Facts: Did you know!

... that the Kollegienkirche (pictured in 1712), the church of the University of Salzburg built by Fischer von Erlach, was the venue for a Hofmannsthal premiere and a Sciarrone opera?
... that the Lynnwood Convention Center was rejected by voters on three occasions in the 1980s and 1990s, before it was finally built in 2005?
... that Claude Henderson was the first cricketer to sign a Kolpak contract?
... that George Morison Robertson, a Scottish expatriate in Hawaii, married a shipwrecked Englishwoman from Australia?
... that Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Abe Lincoln in Illinois was written as a riposte to isolationists in the United States?
... that all 300 special edition copies of SimetriSiti, an album by Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, sold out in 20 minutes?
... that Alaska P. Davidson was the first female FBI special agent?
... that the Minar in the centre of the Sassanid circular city of Gōr may have been an observation tower, a water tower, part of a temple, a symbol of the new government, or a combination of these?

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