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Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964. 
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| Air Vice Marshal Frank Bladin (pictured) was nicknamed "Dad" for the concern he showed for the welfare of his personnel. |
| John B. Watson and Harvey A. Carr conducted a study called the kerplunk experiment, so named because of the sound the rat made when hitting the end of a maze. |
| The marine fish Caranx sansun, first described in 1775, has no common name, has no known holotype, and is labeled a nomen dubium as the correct identification is unlikely to be made. |
| Asbjørn Kjønstad has been referred to as the "father of the smoking ban" in Norway. |
| Operation Bayshield was the first machinima work to use digital assets not provided by the video game in which it was created. |
| After subduing most of the Hejaz, Qatada ibn Idris went on to become the Sharif of Mecca establishing a tradition of sharifs descended from him to rule the city until 1925. |
| During the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts. |
| Shitou Xiqian was an obscure Zen teacher during his life but is now considered one of the two ancestors of all existing branches of Zen. |
| The site of Riddle Ranch (pictured) in eastern Oregon was a Native American settlement for over 1,000 years. |
| Shortly before the 1989 Revolution, current Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu was questioned at length by the Securitate for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built?. |
| There is more potential for ullage development in wines bottled with long corks than in wines with short corks because wine is lost through absorption into the cork. |
| A promising anti-cancer drug, swainsonine, causes pea struck in Australia, locoismo in Argentina, and locoweed poisoning in North America. |
| al-Mansur Ibrahim, the Ayyubid governor of Hims, ended Khwarezmid power in Syria after defeating them in a battle near Lake Hims. |
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