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| Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s. |
| Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941. |
| De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years. |
| The U.S. Supreme Court case Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands. |
| Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels created illustrations of the life of the nuns of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs (pictured), shortly before it was closed on the orders of Pope Clement XI. |
| The white kunzea was among the first Australian plants introduced to cultivation in England. |
| Tony Spear, a leader of the Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the Google Lunar X Prize. |
| The England national football team has only had fifteen managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946. |
| Award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google". |
| The death of Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff. |
| The Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line. |
| At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States, and is the longest river valley on the North American continent. |
| The two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state. |
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