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| Gunnar Heiberg advocated dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, but was dissatisfied that Norway subsequently became a monarchy. |
| HMS Pique's service with the Royal Navy lasted for just three years after her capture in 1795 by HMS Blanche. |
| American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000. |
| "One Rainy Wish" was one of Jimi Hendrix's many songs inspired by dreams. |
| Former USAF officer David P. Cooley who was the chief test pilot for the F-117 Nighthawk died in March 2009 while testing the F-22 Raptor. |
| Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds. |
| There are more than thirty works attributed to Michael Sittow, but only three (one pictured) have been verified as his. |
| quarterback Scott Zolak was a waterboy at Ringgold High School as a boy when Hall of Famer Joe Montana was the quarterback. |
| The Nevada Brewery’s storage cave, used for aging casks of ale, was originally connected to other parts of Nevada City, California, via tunnels. |
| The Polish literary critic Ostap Ortwin would wake up the people of Lwów by loudly threatening futurism in the middle of a night and then abuse the policemen who’d ask him for identification. |
| Greg Monroe was the sixth Georgetown Hoya to win the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year award. |
| A year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper. |
| The British lion tamer and politician John Smith Clarke cured Lenin's dog of an illness. |
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