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| An inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and recounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor. |
| Peter Knowles, a popular English football player, voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness. |
| Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence. |
| The Altdeutsche Tracht (example pictured), a Renaissance-influenced fashion, was popular in Germany during the last years of the Napoleonic wars as a sign of resistance against "French fashion foolishness". |
| On January 30, 1996, in separate incidents, three commuters in a 90-minute period fell into the gap at the Syosset LIRR railway station due to icy platform conditions. |
| When the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster, killing six people. |
| Anthony Baldinucci, a Jesuit priest, often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions. |
| bioethical questions result the research of medical research scientists (pictured) working with animals and animal products, such as stem cells. |
| The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles. |
| The Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943. |
| A 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman. |
| Matild Manukyan, a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner. |
| Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria. |
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