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| The Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War. |
| Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all. |
| The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that recruited women, in order to alleviate manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles during World War II. |
| Each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil. |
| On January 21, 2006 Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism. |
| The Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture. |
| The Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama. |
| The National Resources Commission controlled 70% of Chinese industry in Republican China. |
| The Soviet general Valentin Varennikov, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, was eventually acquitted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma. |
| Through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup, Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the internet, and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work. |
| The first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia, Nikolay Mordvinov, started his career serving on English ships in America. |
| The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall,Derbyshire. |
| The postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco, once sliced a Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like automobile. |
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