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The first mass transport to Auschwitz concentration camp consisted of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow prison. 
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| The Oslo square Eidsvolls plass has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway". |
| Sol Rosenberg, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, established an international steel company in his adopted city of Monroe, Louisiana. |
| Official turnout in the 2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum was 99.95% in Khenchela but only just over 11% in Tizi Ouzou Province. |
| Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote. |
| While most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons. |
| In 2002, the submersible Pisces V (pictured) and her sister vessel discovered a Japanese midget submarine in Pearl Harbor, the first vessel to be sunk during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| During World War I, Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons. |
| The Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride. |
| All postal voting was used in the 2003 Gateshead Council election and saw the third highest turnout in the 2003 United Kingdom local elections. |
| Charles Guth offered to sell Pepsi Co. to Coca-Cola, but they did not even make a bid. |
| In a review of David Jordan's debut album, Set the Mood, it was suggested that the singer could have been cloned from the DNA of Lenny Kravitz, Prince and Michael Jackson. |
| The United States Department of Labor first began tracking discouraged workers in 1967 and found 500,000 at the time. |
| The remains of a cannon ball can still be seen in the wall of Moni Gonia Monastery from an Ottoman attack during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869. |
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