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The French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944. 
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| double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock. |
| The Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons Sheep Ahoy, A Sheep in the Deep, and Don't Give Up the Sheep were censored by ABC to remove a dynamite stick, a smoke break scene, and a spanking scene respectively. |
| The shrimp scad (pictured) was first scientifically described by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål in 1775, who mistook it for mackerel. |
| In 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence. |
| Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric. |
| Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages. |
| Chris Dodd's 2008 presidential campaign has been endorsed by three members of the famed Kennedy family, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI), Edward Kennedy, Jr., and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. |
| Myles Rudge wrote the lyrics to three Top 10 novelty songs in the 1960s, "Hole in the Ground", "Right Said Fred", and "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam". |
| In Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat. |
| Attempts to soften the harsh tannic nature of the Tannat wine grape led to the development of the winemaking technique of micro-oxygenation. |
| According to Jainism, the first Purva of ancient knowledge would take a volume of ink equal to an elephant to write, whereas the last would require the ink volume of 213 elephants. |
| 12,000 people paid 25 cents to view Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes (pictured), a ten-foot-wide landscape painting exhibited in 1859. |
| In 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon. |
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