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| An area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest erased in the 1980s at the orders of Nicolae Ceauşescu was called Ceauşima by the Bucharest residents. |
| It is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer—mizrah— with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, passages from scripture, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places. |
| Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90. |
| General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942. |
| four years before her death, Madame de Pompadour paid almost 1,000,000 livres to buy the Château de Menars , selling some pearl bracelets to meet the first payment. |
| In 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal, the result of a single badly adjusted compass. |
| Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature. |
| The Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular. |
| Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, despite battles between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, Russian, Polish, German, and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands. |
| Artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard. |
| The Västgötalagen, a text describing medieval provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature to survive in its entirety. |
| The Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces. |
| Picardo Farm, one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden. |
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