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| The tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon, is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum. |
| Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, Finland's Honorary Consul to Oslo, was held almost three years in a concentration camp during World War II. |
| Several types of Turkish carpets are now named after Renaissance artists who depicted them in paintings (example pictured). |
| Ward Van Orman was denied the 1925 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning for landing his balloon not on land, but on the deck of a ship?. |
| The library system of the University of Toronto is the fourth-largest academic library in North America. |
| actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges, with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children. |
| The Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco. |
| Fatma Aliye Topuz, whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer. |
| When architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed his American System-Built Homes, he produced over 900 working drawings, which was more than he made for any other project. |
| After being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting. |
| environmentalists and ranchers worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore riparian areas in the Trout Creek Mountains (pictured) of southeastern Oregon. |
| The application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash. |
| charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda. |
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