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Hooks

John A. Manke with a Northrop M2-F3

• ... that John A. Manke (pictured) was the first person to achieve supersonic speed in a lifting-body aircraft?
• ... that the announcement of Werewolf Gorge, an upcoming roller coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, was timed to coincide with the rising of a blue moon?
• ... that one of archivist Jessy Randall's poems was added to the side of sanitation trucks in Sydney?
• ... that Ives's Overture in G minor has been described as "hardly recognisable as the work of Ives"?
• ... that the bird keeper of Duck Island Cottage was also tasked with maintaining bomb-disposal equipment?
• ... that Indonesian diplomat Abdullah Kamil was detained by Dutch, and later British, colonial authorities?
• ... that The Boy at the Back of the Class was described as "a nightmare to adapt for the stage"?
• ... that strontium in human teeth found at Barsinia matched that of local rodents, indicating that its inhabitants did not marry outsiders?
• ... that a church in San Francisco begins weekly services by sounding a conch shell?