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The oldest steam locomotive in Switzerland is an Engerth locomotive, a form of Articulated locomotive. 
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| William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence. |
| When Riaz Mohammad Khan stepped down as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, media speculated that he was sacked because he opposed the UN investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. |
| The thoroughbred horse Onion never won another stakes race after his upset defeat of Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap. |
| Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the only film in which Cilla Black has had a starring role. |
| During the summer the finetooth shark (pictured) is found exclusively in water less than 10 m (30 ft) deep. |
| The first use of the format of the advice column was in The Athenian Mercury in 1690. |
| Adam Davis was convicted of the murder of Vicki Robinson and is currently on Florida's death row. |
| The four-slide machine is an atypical type of stamping machinery that can produce 1,200 to 4,300 stampings per hour. |
| Although Mahfouz al-Walid was reported killed in 2002, it was not until 2007 that the Office of Foreign Assets Control acknowledged that his name was not an alias for Mohamedou Slahi. |
| A 1947 earthquake in the U.S. state of Wisconsin was strong enough to break a seismograph at Marquette University. |
| Polish merchant Jan Dekert was a vocal advocate for the enfranchisement of burghers during the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| Microsoft attempted to tap into the Chinese computing market in 1999 with a prototype computer known as Microsoft Venus. |
| 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso (pictured) is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history. |
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