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| Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation. |
| Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage, was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston. |
| Gladstone's Land (pictured) is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. |
| Singaporean conscript Dave Teo gained national headlines when he went AWOL with an SAR-21 assault rifle and was subsequently caught in an upscale shopping district twenty hours later. |
| The exploits of the 6th-century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus. |
| An aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter. |
| During the Italian War of 1542–1546, the population of Toulon, France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base. |
| Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected. |
| The 74181 chip (pictured) greatly simplified the development and manufacture of computers during the late 1960s and 1970s. |
| John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria and that his nickname was "Equity Jack". |
| Olegarius, Archbishop of Tarragona, became a canon priest when he was only ten years old. |
| Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania. |
| Luzerne County Commissioner, former professional athlete and University of Michigan Wolverine offensive lineman, Greg Skrepenak, was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame. |
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