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The Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination. 
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| Carl Bødtker was a popular radio presenter for children during the early days of Norwegian broadcasting. |
| The Confederate Monument (pictured) in Augusta, Kentucky, is a gravestone placed forty-one years after the soldiers it honors died. |
| lacrosse coach "Father Bill" Schmeisser was known for carrying an umbrella on the sidelines regardless of the weather, reasoning that, "This way I know it won't rain". |
| The 1960 indie film Weddings and Babies is considered to be the first fictional movie to be shot with a camera that recorded synchronized sound. |
| In 1853, Ole Thomesen signed the contract to build the paddle steamer Skibladner, which is still in operation in Norway. |
| The Vassar Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York, now used for a local arts center, is on the former site of a brewery. |
| After his death, the amateur manga collection of the manga critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa was made into a library by his alma mater, Meiji University. |
| Some grass-endophyte symbioses produce loline alkaloids that are insecticidal and deterrent to various insects. |
| Time magazine editor Otto Fuerbringer was responsible for the controversial 1966 "Is God Dead?" cover. |
| The epaulette shark (pictured) can survive for an hour without oxygen. |
| Ray H. Altman, as a Kentucky state representative from tobacco-growing Taylor County, opposed a bill in 1990 to ban smoking zones for students in public schools. |
| Rock band 21 Demands made chart history after finishing as runners-up in the fifth series of You're a Star, featuring 1992 Eurovision winner Linda Martin as a judge. |
| The real name of Hagop Hagopian, the leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, was revealed only after his assassination in Athens in 1988. |
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