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| The 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team's Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song "The Victors". |
| Eleven of the Twelve Heavenly Generals at Shin-Yakushi-ji temple (hon-dō pictured) in Nara, Japan, are made of clay and date to the 8th century while the wooden statue of Haira was made in 1931. |
| Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?. |
| The Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon. |
| Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill, and that each mill could drive the other's machinery. |
| The Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat, 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975. |
| The Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible. |
| film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California. |
| Nils Kjær (pictured) had success on Scandinavian stages with his comedy Det lykkelige valg. |
| A modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009. |
| Arne Bonde stepped down as editor of Verdens Gang due to his own sentiment that he was not young enough for the newspaper. |
| Although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York, ten years later the census recorded only two. |
| The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall. |
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