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| Actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924. |
| McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama. |
| Arses lorealis is the scientific name for a bird commonly known as the Frill-necked Monarch. |
| miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplants rather than for bacon. |
| John Heald, the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter. |
| The pencil skirt was popularised by French designer Christian Dior in the late 1940s. |
| As a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics. |
| Contrary to popular myth, Robert E. Lee's face is not carved on the back of the 1920 statue of Abraham Lincoln (pictured) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.. |
| A rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women. |
| Isabella Grinevskaya was lauded by Leo Tolstoy for her play "Báb". |
| During her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training. |
| The stations Mortensrud on the Østensjø Line, Forskningsparken on the Sognsvann Line, Nydalen, Storo and Sinsen on the Ring Line and Husebybakken have opened after the Oslo T-bane was declared completed with the reopening of Stortinget in 1987. |
| Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark's autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn". |
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