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| Moth Ki Masjid (pictured) was a new type of mosque built in 1505 by Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during Sikander Lodi's reign in the fourth city of medieval Delhi of Delhi Sultanate. |
| The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists?. |
| Critically-acclaimed Bolivian Aymara painter, Alejandro Mario Yllanes, disappeared from New York after winning, but not claiming, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1946. |
| Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks. |
| The film version of Hello, Dolly used Garrison Landing, New York, for scenes set in 1890 Yonkers. |
| Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt was the first woman to throw a shot put more than 19 meters in the Summer Olympic Games. |
| Singer Matthew West's song "The Motions" was "brought to life" for him after having vocal surgery. |
| Peter Gummer, founder of Shandwick, went to Selwyn College, Cambridge wanting to be a priest. |
| In 1867, the Oregon Iron Company (furnace pictured) became the first company to smelt pig iron west of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company. |
| Timbaland's "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic was Canada's longest-running chart-topping single in 2007. |
| Polish Jesuit and missionary Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki introduced the knowledge of logarithms to China in the mid-17th century. |
| Even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work. |
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