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| Sesame Street's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role. |
| The Simca Aronde (pictured) was named after the French word for swallow, a bird which appeared on the Simca logo when the model was presented. |
| A school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus. |
| Canadian scientist Shiv Chopra was terminated from Health Canada for informing the Senate of the health effects of Bovine Growth Hormone. |
| Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week. |
| Complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum. |
| Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book. |
| The six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses. |
| The Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma, who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994. |
| cursed soldiers is the name for Polish resistance members who fought against the Soviet Union and Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II. |
| In 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings. |
| The gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline. |
| The image of Benjamin Franklin familiar on the U.S. hundred dollar bill (pictured) was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis. |
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