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The Kryvbas economic region in Ukraine is one of the largest iron ore and steel industry centers in Europe. 
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| Indian businessman Ness Wadia, a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab, is the great-grandson of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. |
| The only surviving structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad is a train station that is now the town hall of Coudersport, Pennsylvania. |
| Henry Jenkins of Bolton-on-Swale, Yorkshire is said to have lived to the age of 169. |
| Canaiolo was included in the 19th-century Chianti recipe to add fruitiness and soften the tannins of Sangiovese, much like Merlot's role in Bordeaux wine blends. |
| Tsar Alexander III is said to have held the collapsed roof of the royal car on his shoulders while his family escaped the Borki train crash site (pictured) uninjured. |
| The lead character in the Mozart opera Don Giovanni calls out for a glass of Marzemino in the final banquet scene before he is carried down to hell. |
| Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" made her the first non-North American act to reach number-one on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2008. |
| The Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea. |
| Saucon Valley Country Club has hosted five USGA golf tournaments, and is the site of the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship. |
| An alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain. |
| The 1987 roguelike computer game NetHack was named differently from its predecessor, Hack, because Hack creator Andries Brouwer "...may eventually release a new version of his own". |
| In the United States, 88 percent of public employees are covered by a defined benefit pension plan. |
| elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, found mostly among young captive Asian elephants (pictured), can have a fatality rate of up to 90%. |
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