User:Bill william compton/DYK
... that
Dear Friend Hitler
, an Indian film, centres on letters written from
Mahatma Gandhi
to
Adolf Hitler
?
... that
Qatar
sent only male athletes to the inaugural
Asian Para Games
?
... that India's
national badminton team
reached the quarterfinals
at the 2011 Sudirman Cup
despite winning just one match?
... that in the
2011 Asian Athletics Championships
,
Mayookha Johny
became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
... that
Amitabh Bachchan
is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the
National Film Award for Best Actor
(
India
), winning two awards?
... that
East Timor
made its debut in the
Asian Games
in
2002
, just after four months of its declaration of independence?
... that England ranked first in the
2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table
?
... that Ifeany Otounye of the
Turks and Caicos Islands
set a new
national record
for long jump in the
2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
?
... that Heamasi Sekona of
Tonga
won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight class of
boxing
in the
2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
without winning a single bout?
... that
Afghanistan returned to the Asian Games
after the
fall of the Taliban government
in the midst of
ongoing war
?
... that a
female taekwondo fighter
, who wore a
headscarf
under her helmet, won the sole medal for
Afghanistan at the 2002 Asian Games
after the fall of the
Taliban
?
... that
Malaysia
won all but one gold medal at the
badminton events
of the
2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
?
... that
Monmouth Town Council
(town hall pictured)
was created because of a monopoly on trade?
... that
India
won only 9 medals in the
2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
, comparing with 76 medals in the
previous edition
of the
Games
?