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Instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes. 
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| Since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day. |
| As GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season. |
| Non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication. |
| Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg. |
| The Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops. |
| Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain. |
| The reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef". |
| According to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire". |
| Actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy. |
| The loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history. |
| One of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire. |
| gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008. |
| Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest. |
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