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| The former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become a honorary aide-de-camp to King George V. |
| Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's (pictured) film directing debut was on Torment, a 1944 film about a sadistic Latin teacher. |
| In 1979, two men (Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz) were arrested as part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter, drawing parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| The Banner of Poland, despite its 1000-year old history, is not officially considered a Polish national symbol. |
| Helmholtz pitch notation was developed by German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch. |
| El Güegüense, a theatrical play written by an anonymous author in the 16th century, is considered to be the first literary work of Nicaragua. |
| Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein. |
| The urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics. |
| Edward Kozłowski, the second Polish-American bishop, died just one year after his appointment. |
| Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions for both the most cited case of that court and the controversial overturning of a voter approved ballot measure. |
| The Jurassic limestone formations of the Polish Jura Chain (pictured) upland contain some 200 caves. |
| The Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Krakow in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising. |
| At 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa. |
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