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Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II.
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| Liz Swaine was a locally well-known television news anchor who quit to become a mayoral executive assistant and later ran for mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| The custom of collecting a feudal aid from a vassal originated in the 11th-century France, in the County of Anjou. |
| Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Williamson underwent two Tommy John surgeries. |
| Honewort, growing in the Avon Gorge near Bristol, was one of the first rare plants to be documented in Britain, by William Turner in 1562. |
| Actress Nancy Andrews won a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in 1949. |
| The Baroque church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi (pictured), which houses the hearts of 25 popes, was presented to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by Pope John Paul II. |
| According to legend, Fabian was selected as pope because a dove landed on him. |
| Damian Sims and Fred Reid spent a year out of football before being recommended to their current CFL teams. |
| Through extensive studying of the pathophysiology of hypertension, it was discovered that hypertension can be caused by genetic inheritance. |
| Rachael English, presenter of the Irish radio news programme Five Seven Live, was joined on the show by her father, who provided Cheltenham horse racing tips for her listeners. |
| Fluxus 1, an artists' book produced by the Lithuanian-American artist George Maciunas, was assembled over a period of 13 years. |
| Former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea piloted PBY Catalina flying boats for the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. |
| The Elmendorph Inn (pictured) is the oldest building in the village of Red Hook, New York. |
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