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| Mary Roberts was the first recorded female miniaturist in the American colonies. |
| The Air Battle of El Mansoura in the Yom Kippur War involved nearly 180 aircraft in a continuous engagement lasting 53 minutes. |
| In June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans, thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis. |
| extracts from the elastic saddle fungus can dissolve fibrin blood clots. |
| Richard Upjohn's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House, the oldest in Garrison, New York, were removed by a later owner. |
| opera singer Richard Suart, known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan, has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera. |
| World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker's memoirs influenced 1930s "flying pulp" magazines such as Flying Aces. |
| The Persian embassy to Europe in 1609–1615 (pictured) was led by the enturbaned English adventurer Robert Shirley. |
| Karsten Solheim's invention of the modern lob wedge golf club may have come from experimentally gluing a potato chip to a straw. |
| When the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship. |
| Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. |
| The fungus Helvella acetabulum resembles a cabbage leaf. |
| Because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC's Lost as Charles Widmore, the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway. |
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