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The postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu. 
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| St. Paul's (Zion's) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Red Hook, New York, converted to Lutheranism from the German Reformed Church when they could not find a new pastor. |
| Robert Despenser, a royal steward under King William II of England, derived his surname from his office which was also known as dispenser. |
| Despite a buildup that lasted nearly two years, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh's (pictured) 2008 presidential campaign officially lasted two weeks. |
| Leucopaxillus albissimus, one of the larger mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a fruiting body unusually resistant to decay. |
| John Houghtaling created the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, which reached its peak of popularity in the 1960s, earning US$2 million in gross revenue each month, 25 cents at a time. |
| Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work. |
| Wade Walker helped smuggle the 1963 Mississippi State basketball team out of the state to play a racially integrated opponent in violation of a court order. |
| The 1963 Leopold Report was written in response to the controversial killing of an estimated 4,309 elk in Yellowstone National Park by the U.S. National Park Service. |
| The new Puzhal Central Prison is the largest prison in India and provides relatively more facilities to inmates. |
| Dan Povenmire was at a Wild Thyme restaurant in South Pasadena, California, when he first drew the character Phineas Flynn. |
| Relative to its body size, the horn shark (pictured) has the strongest known bite of any shark. |
| Tamazight language cannot grammatically express an equivalent to the English phrase "who saw what?". |
| baseball player Don Kelly was drafted by the Detroit Tigers, made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and later played his first game as a Tiger against the Pirates. |
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