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| Beaufort Island in Antarctica's Ross Sea was named for Sir Francis Beaufort in 1841. |
| Unsinkable Sam was a ship's cat of both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War who survived the sinking of all three ships on which he served. |
| The United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes. |
| According to an Iroquois legend, a woman eating roasted acorns intimidated an evil spirit of the tribe known as The Flying Head so much he never returned. |
| Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely deaf. |
| The US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Bexar (pictured), Bottineau, Bollinger and Rockwall all participated in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946. |
| The boundary between Sudan and Ethiopia was defined for the region near the Pibor River in 1899 by Major H.H. Austin and Major Charles W. Gwynn of the British Royal Engineers. |
| Newly crowned Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund's grandmother competed at Miss America 1944. |
| The Japanese destroyer Matsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission. |
| Jerry Dybzinski's baserunning error in game four of the 1983 American League Championship Series ultimately cost the Chicago White Sox both the game and the series. |
| Barry Coe, the winner of the Golden Globe award for "most promising" actor, missed out on becoming the fourth Cartwright brother on the television series Bonanza because of reported friction on the set. |
| Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel, towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam, began to paint with his toes. |
| So far, 350,000 people have been relocated in Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works, and 250,000 more will be affected in the future. |
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