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| Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research. |
| The bill of the Magpie Duck (pictured) becomes green as the bird gets older, and its black crown may go completely white. |
| The Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China. |
| The Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which occupied the building for its first six months. |
| British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP, and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death. |
| 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands. |
| The Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations. |
| The Columbia detatchment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia. |
| Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood. |
| The Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls. |
| Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington. |
| Areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres. |
| The Empire Gallantry Medal's design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence. |
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