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| "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. |
| The Royal Navy has tended to name its fireships (examples pictured) after subjects related to volcanoes or fire. |
| The purse won by a claimed horse in a claiming race usually goes to the former owner. |
| After some members of the Guamanian Congress refused to attend a joint session, Governor Charles Alan Pownall removed them from office. |
| Both solvent-shared and contact ion-pairs of magnesium and sulphate ions are present in sea-water. |
| In 1917, engineer William Ruthven Smith drew a 6,000-foot (1,800 m) anti-submarine net across the channel at Hampton Roads. |
| Michael Scott pretends to fire Pam Beesly as a prank in The Office episode "Casual Friday", which is a reference to a similar scene in the show's first episode. |
| Gene Lees wrote the English language lyrics to Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado" on a bus travelling to Belo Horizonte. |
| The Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 resulted in the failure of the Duke of Buckingham to occupy the French island of Ile de Ré and support the Siege of La Rochelle. |
| Henrietta Johnston (work pictured) was the first recorded female artist and the first pastelist to work in the English colonies in America. |
| George Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties, was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Parrot and vice king Charles Crawford, whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang". |
| One can list every positive rational number without repetition by breadth-first traversal of the Calkin–Wilf tree. |
| Tyler Shanabarger's death was believed to be caused by sudden infant death syndrome until his father confessed to the murder. |
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