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| 1961's Hurricane Tara was one of the deadliest Pacific hurricanes on record. |
| Greater Manchester bus route 192 was the first in the UK to have solar powered on-street ticket machines. |
| The subscription service BoardEx provides information on the world's business directors and senior managers, including their salaries, bonuses, and incentive pay. |
| The 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon (pictured), was the first auto race in the United States. |
| Tom Bunn served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly at the same time as his older brothers Stan and Jim?. |
| Allison Bradshaw's mother, tennis player Valerie Ziegenfuss, was one of the Original 9 who established the basis for the WTA Tour. |
| According to the former mayor of the commune of Adjohoun, Gerard Adounsiba, the 2008 Benin floods were the "largest humanitarian crisis to date" to affect the region. |
| Lizzie Lloyd King, the alleged murderess of Charles Goodrich, consumed flakes of the victim's desiccated blood during a police interrogation. |
| Haitian expatriate artist Edouard Duval-Carrié criticized the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier by creating artwork that parodied Duvalier. |
| Damon E. Allen led the successful campaign by the Kentucky Optometric Association to empower optometrists in the state to prescribe medication for patients. |
| The plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane of the Earth as it orbits the Sun. |
| Horatio Nelson called Skeffington Lutwidge, his commander on two separate occasions, 'that good old man'. |
| Former United States President George H.W. Bush is a member of the invitation-only Alibi Club in Washington, D.C.. |
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