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| Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, later becoming a Major League Baseball player. |
| Harriman Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania, originally built to house workers of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, was the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC in World War I. |
| In 1994, Joseph Takahashi and his collaborators identified the genetic basis for circadian rhythms in mammals. |
| Sultan Ghari (pictured), built in 1231 for Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish, was the first Islamic mausoleum in the "funerary landscape of Delhi". |
| The host of The Political Cesspool was described as "ecstatic" that the show was included on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Watch List. |
| The South Fallsburg, New York, Hebrew Association Synagogue has a full sukkah in its basement. |
| Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years. |
| The film Best: His Mother's Son was made in 2009 without the consent of George Best's family. |
| Hartvig Andreas Munthe, an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905, only to die three months later. |
| The original radio studios of the station now called KLMG were located in California's Old Sacramento State Historic Park. |
| R. Thamaraikani punched former Agriculture minister Veerapandi Arumugam during a debate in the Tamil Nadu state assembly in 1999. |
| After an engagement (pictured) initiated by HMS Cleopatra, captained by Sir Robert Laurie, the larger French frigate Ville de Milan captured her attacker, but was so badly damaged in the battle that both ships were later captured in turn by HMS Leander. |
| Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores. |
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