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The bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track (pictured) in Lake Placid, New York was the first track to host the bobsleigh and luge world championships outside of Europe, doing so in 1949 and 1983, respectively. 
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| The University of Oregon's Pacifica Forum hosted a lecture in which the speaker referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as a "moral leper and a communist dupe". |
| The French Breton-Pretot machine (pictured) was an armoured wire-cutting tractor developed in early 1915, and a predecessor to the tank. |
| The first class of United States Navy destroyers were designated torpedo boat destroyers?. |
| The Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia. |
| Los Angeles Lakers point guard Nick Van Exel was fined $25,000 and suspended seven games by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for shoving referee Ron Garretson into the scorer's table. |
| carucage, a medieval English land tax, was first collected in 1194 in order to raise funds for the ransom of King Richard I of England. |
| Robert Seddon, captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident. |
| One of the tasks of the Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board is to prevent conveyancing monopolies developing in England and Wales. |
| In 2007 Major General Graham Binns signed the document that handed control of Basra back to the Iraqi people. |
| Kutani ware (pictured), first produced about 1656 near the current city of Kaga, is a type of Japanese porcelain known for its use of multicolored glazes in bold designs. |
| Michael Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon, whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part). |
| American historian Claude H. Van Tyne won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History for The War of Independence. |
| turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East. |
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