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| Ilsa Konrads, former editor of Belle, was an Australian Olympic swimmer who set 12 world records. |
| The Callippic cycle was a 76-year cycle used to align the lunar calendar with the solar year more accurately than the famous Metonic cycle. |
| The Capitoline Games of Ancient Rome became so popular that the Romans counted periods of time by them, rather than their previous unit of lustrum. |
| In order to subdue the heresy of Imiaslavie, the Russian Empire sent two transport ships and a gunboat to Mount Athos in Greece, and stormed the St. Panteleymon Monastery. |
| camelot is a woven fabric that might have originally incorporated camel or goat hair. |
| Jesuit Filippo Salvatore Gilij proposed one of the earliest classifications of South American language families. |
| The movie Spy Game depicts a burn bag, albeit used in an unintended manner. |
| The Sansenke, or "three houses of Sen," the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, are all associated with 16th-century tea master Sen no Rikyu and his descendants. |
| People with a Schatzki ring can develop sudden crushing chest pain, often termed the "steakhouse syndrome", if they do not chew their food properly. |
| One of the Sunken Forests of New Hampshire off the coast of Rye, New Hampshire, hasn't been above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since 1978. |
| Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki, a peasant, became a Polish national hero after he captured a Russian cannon during the Battle of Racławice. |
| an unnamed hurricane in October, 1804 brought up to three feet of snow to parts of New England. |
| The University of Liberia, founded in 1862, is the oldest institute of higher learning in West Africa. |
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