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The Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression. 
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| Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs. |
| The Federal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulating campaign finance in U.S. federal elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971. |
| Joseph E. Widener, a major figure in U.S. Thoroughbred horse racing, lost his elder brother and nephew in the Titanic disaster. |
| Male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism. |
| The Australian steamer TSS Kanowna (pictured) was requisitioned twice during World War I, first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship. |
| Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. |
| South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers. |
| The National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions. |
| The Nikolayevsk Incident, in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island. |
| Trachodon, despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth which include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens. |
| Michael Beetham, World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force. |
| The prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations. |
| Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate. |
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