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| The Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat. |
| Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China. |
| The Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England. |
| Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season. |
| The submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige. |
| In 1977, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns. |
| Of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles. |
| The Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman. |
| Junípero Serra and Juan María de Salvatierra have both been called "the apostle of California," for their work establishing Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California, respectively? right|100p. |
| Thomas Vorster, an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa, was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto. |
| The Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk. |
| After the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California, the archbishop resigned. |
| Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally. |
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