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| 1.5 million people logged on to the website of the cheddar cheese Wedginald to watch it mature. |
| Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Pratt Russell is remembered with a building named in her and her husband's honor at St. Paul's College. |
| Lawrence Olson, who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history, deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy. |
| James Blake Miller, made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the "Marlboro Marine", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news. |
| A schoolboy's work gives an insight into life at Thomas Rossell Potter's country school "The Hermitage" (pictured) in 19th century England. |
| After the Champagne region, the Loire Valley produces more sparkling wine than any other region in France. |
| The indologist Ernest Bender also published work on the Cherokee language. |
| Lord Uxbridge's leg became a tourist attraction after the Battle of Waterloo. |
| Since humidity and the cold climate inhibited its production in the Low Countries, salt was imported from Iberia in the Middle Ages. |
| The air-date of "The Beginning of the End", the fourth season premiere of the television series Lost, means that the season may be interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike even if a settlement is reached. |
| Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes. |
| 7th-century duke Waldalenus traded off with the Church his firstborn son against his wife's miraculous fertility. |
| The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women. |
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