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| Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera once served on the committee that designed the Buddhist flag (pictured) in 1885. |
| Shadow Hare is a real-life superhero who wears a cape and mask while fighting crime in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| The capture of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire from the Spanish Empire in 1574 decided that North Africa would be under Muslim rather than Christian rule. |
| Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain is the first record to result from the long and fruitful collaboration between American composer Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet. |
| Baroness Crawley first became involved in politics while seeking funding for a youth theatre she ran. |
| The City Hall Post Office and Courthouse in New York City, designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett, was known as "Mullett's Monstrosity" until it was torn down in 1939. |
| The Council of Bourges in November 1225 has been called the "fountainhead" of representational democracy in Western Europe. |
| The largest striped bass ever caught in California, weighing 67.5 pounds (30.6 kg), was found in the O'Neill Forebay Reservoir in August 2008. |
| The Buddhist temple of Ta Som (pictured) near Angkor, Cambodia, was built in the 12th century by the Jayavarman VII to honour his father Dharanindravarman II. |
| One of many examples of territorial evolution of the Caribbean is that France sold the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy to Sweden in 1784, who in turn sold it back to France in 1878?. |
| In 1978, Franklin Jacobs high jumped 59 centimeters (23 in) above his own height, setting an indoor world record that lasted a day, and a height differential record that still stands. |
| Woolmer Forest, a former royal hunting forest in Hampshire, is the only site where all twelve species of amphibians and reptiles native to England are found. |
| American painters Robert Feke and Benjamin West were strongly influenced by the technique and compositions of English-born painter John Wollaston. |
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