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| The first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station. |
| Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. |
| In 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff. |
| Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken. |
| A fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be actually be the missing head of a fossil plesiosaur Colymbosaurus. |
| The Purna-Kalasha (pictured), worshipped by Hindus as the Divine Mother, symbolizes mother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation. |
| Ratnakaravarni, the noted 16th century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings. |
| Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached. |
| Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England. |
| In Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church. |
| anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction. |
| The Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops. |
| The bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless?. |
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