The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption (pictured) in Washington was the first major volcanic eruption to occur in the U.S. since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.
People who suffer from anosognosia deny or do not know that they have relatively significant challenges such blindness or paralysis.
A howdah is is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as camels, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people or for use in hunting or warfare.
As at June 2013, South Korean based Hyundai Motor Company owned around 33% of Kia Motors, the second largest car manufacturing company also in South Korea.
William X of Aquitaine (1099 - 1137), father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a noted patron of troubadours and also was both a lover of the arts and a warrior.
Albert R. Broccoli, born in the borough of Queens, New York City in 1909, produced Dr. No and remained involved with the James Bond series until his death in 1996.
The 1st US federal penitentiary building was completed at Leavenworth, Kansas in 1906.
Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High, a Canadian-American adult animated television series that aired for one season (November 2002 – April 2003) on MTV and Teletoon.
The UN founded the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 1975 and included a timetable for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories by 1 June 1977.
The creator of the American television drama series True Blood is Alan Ball, based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in north-western Louisiana and centres on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly quality.
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