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As a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran (pictured) could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords. 
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| The Russo-Japanese War vintage Japanese cruiser Yakumo (pictured) was the only warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from prizes-of-war) to have been built in Germany. |
| 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center. |
| Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup. |
| World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes. |
| In order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each. |
| Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ, at a length of nearly three hours. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright's 1915 Emil Bach House (pictured) in Chicago was originally a "country home" that now stands on a busy city street in the Rogers Park neighborhood. |
| Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines. |
| The Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois, a design by architect John S. Van Bergen, has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building. |
| Males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape. |
| Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism, and later became an architect. |
| religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism, Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism. |
| The 1909-built Wright-Bock Fountain, (pictured) attributed to both Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Bock, was completely replaced with a replica in 1969. |
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