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| The Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth. |
| Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, Miss Colombia's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena's first female farm owner. |
| The fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship. |
| New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl. |
| Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola. |
| The Battles of Corbridge were important in deciding the fate of the Viking kingdom of York and the Anglo-Saxon earldom of Northumbria. |
| The original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an "idyllic refuge of inspiration" for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s. |
| Bridei III's victory in the Battle of Dunnichen led to the expulsion of Northumbrians from southern Pictland. |
| The United States Department of Justice attorney James A. Baker, who has defended Bush administration intelligence policy in Congressional testimony and court cases, is not related to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. |
| The name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as *Perkwunos. |
| The Svinesund Bridge crosses the border between Sweden and Norway. |
| The Visiting Forces Agreement allows U.S. soldiers accused in Filipino crimes to stay under U.S. custody until the trial is over. |
| The Zograf Monastery on the Holy Mountain was burnt down by a Catalan pirate raid in 1275. |
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