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| Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996. |
| alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics. |
| The fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels. |
| 5-HT3 antagonists, effective for treating the nausea and vomiting of chemotherapy, have no effect on motion sickness. |
| John J. Clague won the Logan Medal, the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada, in 2007. |
| The Green Knight (pictured) of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange color. |
| Nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature. |
| like Aphrodite bathing in the sea at Paphos, Hera too renewed her maidenhood annually, in the spring of Kanathos. |
| The Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989. |
| The Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806. |
| Although it was not particularly well-known in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages. |
| In the Roman Empire, ten-year celebrations called "decennalia" originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him. |
| Many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri in Egypt (papyrus pictured). |
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