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| Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War. |
| A captain's clerk was a job, now obsolete, in the Royal Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records and correspondence, and his accounts for the Admiralty to approve. |
| Dylan McGrath's documentary The Pressure Cooker was criticised by Michelin star-winning French restaurateur Patrick Guilbaud but has been praised by L'Ecrivain owner Derry Clarke, a judge alongside Sammy Leslie on the Adare-produced Fáilte Towers. |
| Rafael Nadal is the first player to win five consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters. |
| Irving Phillips's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro. |
| The grey reef shark (pictured) is the first shark species known to perform a threat display to warn off divers who are too close. |
| "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon. |
| Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, by planning his escape from a mental hospital. |
| Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving. |
| Despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football, LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001. |
| Five Tango Sensations by the Kronos Quartet was the last studio recording by tango music legend Ástor Piazzolla. |
| The suburb of South Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand, contains one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world. |
| With his number one single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", Leon Ashley became the first country music artist to write, record, release, distribute and publish his own material. |
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