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The Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's French neoclassical building was built to commemorate the centenary of the independence of Chile. 
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| The first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails, and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent. |
| John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act. |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured), founder of the Republic of Turkey, established the first commercial Turkish winery in 1925. |
| naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species. |
| In 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight jails across Italy, supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act. |
| The Polish side tried to keep the Suwałki Agreement limited in scope so that it would not interfere with the planned Żeligowski's Mutiny. |
| korovai is a traditional Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids. |
| Paul Casanova drove in the winning run in a game that is considered the longest in Major League Baseball history at 6 hours, 38 minutes. |
| American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion". |
| The semantron, intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls. |
| Former Michigan Wolverines rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis, Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons, but three were in a single game. |
| The Stelo (plural: Steloj ) was a monetary unit in the Esperanto movement from 1945 to 1993. |
| Luigi Sturzo, a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Italian People's Party (1919–1926), collaborated with the OSS while in exile in the United States. |
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