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| Magat Dam was at one time Southeast Asia's largest multipurpose dam. |
| Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again. |
| At 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929. |
| Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power. |
| The Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon, was designed by Conde McCullough who was both a bridge engineer and an attorney. |
| sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres. |
| Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany, has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses. |
| Kevin O'Brien (1955–2008), an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City. |
| "4 Mots sur un piano", which deals with the theme of a romantic relationship between two men and one woman, was the fifth best-selling single of 2007 in France. |
| The Chigi vase is the earliest representation of the ancient Greek hoplite phalanx. |
| The Tang Dynasty chancellor Chen Xilie first endeared Emperor Xuanzong by explaining the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching to Emperor Xuanzong. |
| Davison's Mill, Stelling Minnis, was the last windmill in Kent working commercially by wind when it closed in the autumn of 1970. |
| William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct. |
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