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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the design for a new elementary school in his native Hyde Park, New York. |
| Screenwriter John Briley won an Academy Award for Gandhi and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. |
| The road over the Wilmot Pass (pictured) is not connected to any other road on the New Zealand network. |
| Afghani parliamentarian and Islamic feminist Shukria Barakzai began to campaign against multiple marriages when her husband took a second wife without telling her?. |
| famo is a type of music from Lesotho, named after the action of female dancers exposing their naked rear. |
| Yehoshua Zettler organized the September 1948 assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been sent by the U.N. Security Council as its mediator following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. |
| Steve McQueen's posthumous popularity led to the reintroduction of the TAG Heuer Monaco chronograph watch in 1998 and again in 2003. |
| The pirate Henry Strangwish had his image recorded by Flicke in 1554. |
| news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities". |
| In 1969, Ivar Orgland was the first foreigner to take a doctorate at the University of Iceland. |
| The blue runner is easily attracted to a variety of floating and underwater structures such as oil platforms (example pictured) and aquaculture structures. |
| Although the Quarter Horse Lightning Bar is known as a racehorse and father of racehorses, he won a roping contest once. |
| An illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Most Incredible Thing" was published during the Nazi occupation of Denmark that depicted a rabbi striking a semi-naked Aryan. |
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