Ingenpedia:Did you know/January 14, 2021

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 * ... that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
 * ... that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
 * ... that in Canadian football, the phrase "being as wide open as a church door on a Sunday morning" was coined by broadcaster Ernie Calcutt?
 * ... that television station WKAB-TV of Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before the company that owned it got into financial difficulties and WKAB went off air?
 * ... that M. P. Alladin depicted rural Indo-Trinidadian life in his art, and has been credited with giving "a new dignity" to the subject?
 * ... that a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French ship Euryale considered whether Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
 * ... that the Lectures on Theoretical Physics are based on thirty years of lectures given by Arnold Sommerfeld, a man Wolfgang Pauli once described as "the epitome of the scholar and the teacher"?
 * ... that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording?


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