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The first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio. 
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| As a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films. |
| John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York, village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute. |
| Aine Lawlor presents Morning Ireland, Ireland's most listened to radio programme. |
| A neutron monitor can only directly detect neutrons, but is used to indirectly detect cosmic rays, high-energy charged subatomic particles impacting the Earth's atmosphere from outer space. |
| University of Chicago football star Laurens "Spike" Shull died of wounds suffered rushing a machine gun nest at the Battle of Château-Thierry (pictured). |
| "The Great Gilroy", the leading scorer in college football in 1916, was charged in 1940 with stealing 35 shoe stitching machines from a Massachusetts factory?. |
| Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is a licensed race driver currently driving for Flash Engineering in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia. |
| While Justice Minister, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim lobbied for decriminalization of the use of marijuana. |
| In the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Ardingly, West Sussex, one gravestone depicts angels watching a skeleton stabbing a woman with a lance. |
| Alphonso Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, started a ferry in Oregon that ran from 1847 until 1954. |
| Ken Boyer and Clete Boyer are the only brothers both to have won Gold Glove Awards at third base. |
| Sir Frank Newsam took charge of the British recovery efforts after the North Sea flood of 1953 and "secured achievements that would have surprised Canute". |
| Unlike other king parrots, the male and female Moluccan King Parrot (pictured) are similar in appearance. |
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