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| The Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback. |
| The Chick House (pictured) is the only 19th century hotel building still standing in the city of Rockford, Illinois. |
| autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey's 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia. |
| Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author. |
| The Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998. |
| Four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935. |
| By using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years. |
| Wurzbach Parkway, an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways. |
| Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe. |
| Baduanjin qigong (pictured) is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise. |
| More than 75% of kraft pulp is bleached without chlorine. |
| A graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s. |
| Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches. |
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