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| safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times. |
| In 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War. |
| Billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan. |
| Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks. |
| Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity. |
| The new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara. |
| A silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several before being determined to be a complete fabrication. |
| Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office. |
| Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby. |
| The United Overseas Bank's 20-story Bangkok headquarters (pictured) is shaped like a robot. |
| The haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon. |
| The Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States. |
| Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes. |
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