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| The Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country, used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days. |
| The Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project that allows members of the public to help classify previously unseen images of galaxies. |
| The Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry, Sankaty, set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades is actually the work of Hippolytus of Rome, but was considered Josephus's by his translator William Whisto. |
| The 1993 film Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone, was based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip, who had a cameo appearance in the film. |
| The Polish-Teutonic War of 1519-1521 was the last of the Polish-Teutonic Wars, and ended with the Prussian Homage (pictured). |
| The unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta. |
| The Shuguang spacecraft was designed by the People's Republic of China with the goal of achieving a manned space flight in 1973. |
| The hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock's neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage. |
| Besalú was an independent county from 988 to 1111, when Ramon Berenguer III inherited it, annexing it to the County of Barcelona. |
| The United States Army formed 106 tank destroyer battalions in World War II, all of which were disbanded by 1946. |
| After seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it. |
| The 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet, awarded on July 17, 2007, is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds. |
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