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| The northern half of Oklahoma State Highway 95 was once part of U.S. Route 56. |
| Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida, and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida's medical benefits. |
| Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighborhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata, India. |
| The SS Tararua sank off the Catlins in 1881, in New Zealand's worst civilian shipping disaster. |
| German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s. |
| Cyclone Elita in January 2004 crossed Madagascar three times, an unusual event but not unprecedented. |
| Robert McGill Loughridge co-authored the English and Muskogee Dictionary in 1890, the first English dictionary of the Creek language. |
| The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul (pictured) was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old. |
| The Right Revd Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism. |
| London's Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress Moll Davis, a mistress of King Charles II. |
| Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio. |
| The Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by World War I hero Alvin York. |
| Iranian dutar player and vocalist Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient Azeri stringed instrument the gopuz. |
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