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| University Park at MIT includes the building in which Fig Newtons were originally made. |
| Harriot Stanton Blatch helped revive the American women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century, by involving working class women. |
| pretelescopic astronomy was practiced nearly two millennia prior to the introduction of the telescope. |
| Subroto Mukerjee, the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, died of choking in a Tokyo restaurant. |
| The Polski Fiat 125p (pictured) was made by then Polish state-owned manufacturer FSO car factory under a license agreement with the Italian company Fiat. |
| Indian trade unionist Dutta Samant led an estimated 200,000 workers on a year-long strike in 1982, causing the exodus of the textile mill industry from Mumbai. |
| España Boulevard, the main street of Sampaloc, Manila, is notorious for its waist-deep floods during the Philippine typhoon season. |
| Catherine the Great named the Pella Palace after the birthplace of Alexander the Great, hoping that it would become the favorite lodging of her own grandson Alexander. |
| life chances is a probabilistic concept introduced by sociologist Max Weber to determine the likely outcomes of an individual's life, on the basis of certain underlying factors. |
| The first simulated patient was trained to act as if he had paraplegia and multiple sclerosis, in order to teach medical trainees. |
| The execution of Chunee the elephant (pictured) on 1 March 1826 became a cause célèbre, leading to the founding of the Zoological Society of London. |
| The dispute regarding the distribution of the Zira and Firozpur administrative districts to India was settled as part of an agreement between the governments of India and Pakistan in 1960, thirteen years after partition. |
| Clara the rhinoceros, the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times, became famous during a seventeen year tour of Europe from 1741 to 1758. |
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