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The Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4 million men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 km wide. 
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| Kenneth St Joseph, who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging. |
| privateer racing team Primetime Race Group is the only team to race a Dodge Viper Competition Coupe in the American Le Mans Series. |
| Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli (pictured) opened a French brasserie in 1686 that was permitted by King Louis XIV. |
| In 1948, Dr. William Glenn and medical student William Sewell used ordinary laboratory components and an Erector Set to create one of the world's earliest artificial hearts. |
| During action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning". |
| When ill health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony. |
| Beta males of Paracerceis sculpta mimic females and gamma males mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising. |
| Ontario-based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history. |
| Listeners in the Klamath Falls, Oregon, area know radio station KRAT as "The Rat". |
| George Grosz's The Funeral is in part a depiction of the madness induced by syphilis. |
| Actress Emily Fowler (pictured) originated the male role of Hans in The Gentleman in Black by W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay. |
| Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves?. |
| country music singer Buck Owens' son Buddy Alan is also a country music singer. |
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