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| William E. Baxter Jr. vs. the United States determined that since poker was a game of skill, poker winnings should be treated as earned income instead of unearned income. |
| Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, Turkey, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents sentenced, is a five-star hotel today. |
| heddles (pictured) have an integral role in weaving, and one loom will use several hundred at once. |
| Socialist Paulina Veloso, exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile, has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents, including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006–2007. |
| If all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101. |
| Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940. |
| The ten cannons of Fort Guijarros, built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay, California, have been fired in action only twice since. |
| Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary. |
| After the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District (pictured) was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile. |
| Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake. |
| Malheur Reservation in the U.S. state of Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876. |
| botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 (pictured) was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition. |
| Gamma, a gamma-ray telescope, was launched on 11 July 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?. |
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