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| William Butler Yeats originally published the poem "On being asked for a War Poem" under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916. |
| Hel Fortified Area was in 1939 the last place of Poland to surrender to the invading Wehrmacht, and during World War II it was used as a Kriegsmarine base. |
| Carlton Skinner commanded the first racially integrated United States warships, and later served as Guam's first civilian governor. |
| The heroic Greek marble Gaddi Torso (pictured) in the Uffizi, Florence, was so admired in the Italian Renaissance that it was never "restored" by completing it. |
| Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II?. |
| The early 20th-century diaries of German ornithologist Bernhard Hantzsch influenced British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow. |
| Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world. |
| Bulgarian zoologist Ivan Buresh, dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology", was the son of a Czech zincographer. |
| Oregon radio station KKRB won New Music Weekly magazine's "Adult Contemporary Radio Station of the Year" New Music Award in 2006, 2007, and 2008. |
| cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map. |
| The Office episode "Cafe Disco" includes cameos by series writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg at an office dance party. |
| In the early history of Chianti (bottle pictured), the wine was white and not red. |
| KDMN (now KSKE) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God's. |
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