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When Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so. 
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| Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science, but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs. |
| Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 which relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man. |
| Having observed the four sights as a young prince, Gautama Buddha (statue pictured) realized the sufferings in life and started an ascetic life against his father's wish. |
| The term maverick, referring to an animal without a brand, came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle. |
| Norwegian politician Lars T. Platou was an electrical engineer and farmer by occupation. |
| Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York, is so small it has never had its own rabbi. |
| protected areas of Sri Lanka such as Sinharaja Forest Reserve account for 26.5 percent of the total area of Sri Lanka. |
| During the First Great Migration, the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi, moved to Albany, New York, with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District. |
| The Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. |
| American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale, whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens. |
| Zen master Línjì Yìxuán (pictured) once jumped up, grabbed a monk, shouted at him, and then called him a "shit stick" in an episode of Dharma combat. |
| Over 100 countries are represented and almost 170 languages are spoken in the ethnic enclaves of New York City. |
| The linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century Siraya people of Taiwan. |
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