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| The Basilica of the Holy Blood (pictured) in Bruges is known as the repository of a venerated phial said to contain a cloth with blood of Jesus Christ, brought to the city by Thierry of Alsace after the Second Crusade. |
| Winfried Freudenberg was the last person to die in an attempt to escape across the Berlin Wall. |
| An appeals court overturned one formulation of the toothpaste tube theory in administrative law. |
| quarterback Mark Vlasic was injured when, after Iowa beat Michigan on a last second field goal, a mob tore down the goalpost in celebration. |
| Garrett's Miss Pawhuska, a Quarter Horse racehorse, lost a match race by running over a stake 50 yards from the finish line. |
| The pose of the goddess in Hans Holbein the Younger's Venus and Amor closely echoes that of Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. |
| The earliest commentary on a part of Maimonides' transforming work of Jewish philosophy, The Guide for the Perplexed, was written by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Tabrizi, a Persian Muslim. |
| Skytterdalen near Sandvika, Norway, is so named because it was the site of a sport shooting field. |
| Richard B. Dominick, an amateur lepidopterist, collected over 25,000 moths over ten years at his Wedge Plantation (pictured) in South Carolina. |
| Former You're a Star winner David O'Connor participated in the 2004 Karaoke World Championships in Finland, placing sixth. |
| The giant pulses of PSR B1937+21, the first discovered millisecond pulsar, are the brightest radio emission ever observed. |
| Jørgine Boomer, born and raised in a remote valley in Norway, rose to prominence as an executive at the Waldorf-Astoria, befriending a generation of celebrities. |
| The United States Lebanese cuisine restaurant chain Aladdin's Eatery has grown to more than 20 sites from an initial $10,000 in 1994. |
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