Medallion: Did you know

...that the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-shaped pottery (pictured)?
...that R. C. Evans, an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, became the leader of a schismatic sect in 1918 after concluding that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet?
...that Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne, becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance despite having no particular military ability?
...that Mary Howitt wrote "The Spider and the Fly" (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian Anderson?
...that the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984?
...that a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?

...that Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines?

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