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| as a schoolboy, former Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King attended what is now Suddaby Public School. |
| The sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation. |
| British graphic designer Alan Fletcher designed the logo of 84 dots used by Reuters from 1965 to 1992, the "V&A" logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, and the "IoD" logo of the Institute of Directors. |
| Mexican scientist José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (pictured) published work showing that the hallucinogenic effects of the pipiltzintzintli plant are due to natural causes, not the work of the devil. |
| The Russian émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov earned a living by working as a tax collector and hosting a show at the Radio Liberty. |
| hemosuccus pancreaticus, a rare cause of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, can cause silver-coloured stools if the bleeding source obstructs the common bile duct. |
| Wavefront Technologies developed some of the very first off-the-shelf computer animation software, for which it received Academy Awards. |
| A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a tool largely developed in the USA for analysis of real estate toxic liability, but its use has spread to much of the developed world. |
| The Swallow's Nest (pictured), constructed in 1911-1912 and located on top of a 40 meter cliff in Crimea, Ukraine, is a medieval-type castle which has survived an earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale? (Image:Yalta swallowcastle.jpg. |
| Italy's 1957 Eurovision entry, "Corde Della Mia Chitarra", was so long that it resulted in the introduction of length restrictions for competing songs. |
| Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt. |
| Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up. |
| Every proposal made by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 was defeated when placed before the voters. |
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