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| In 1901, after the death of John Flint Kidder, president of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, his widow took over, becoming the first female railroad president. |
| Before the Revolutionary War, Fenwick Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina, was called Johns Island Stud because of its thoroughbred horses. |
| The father-and-son architects Amon and Amon Henry Wilds—leading figures in Brighton's development—used the ammonite capital as their signature device as a pun on their first names. |
| The inscriptions in Hieronymus Bosch's Ecce Homo are used to convey their conversation like speech balloons in comics. |
| 1996 Yukon election candidate Lois Moorcroft received less than a third of the votes, but still won her seat in the Legislative Assembly. |
| The wind engine (pictured) at Crux Easton, Hampshire, was built in 1891 by John Wallis Titt. |
| ship's doctors were originally termed surgeons in the Royal Navy and were paid £5 for every 100 cases of venereal disease they treated. |
| Operetta: A Theatrical History, written by operetta scholar and historian Richard Traubner was described as the "ultimate love letter to operetta". |
| The Roşia Poieni copper mine represents the largest copper reserve in Romania and the second largest in Europe. |
| Despite not playing as a high school junior in 1999, American football cornerback Brock Williams still led Notre Dame defenders in playing time in 2000. |
| In 1993 almost 10 per cent of Canada's GDP was made up of municipal government spending. |
| The translation of The Lord of the Rings by Andrey Kistyakovsky and Vladimir Muravyov is the first official Russian language translation of the novel. |
| The Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 passed both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously. |
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