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Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period. 
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| The 1959 Mexico hurricane is the only known Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5. |
| Edward George Honey is credited with first proposing the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day. |
| New Orleans Creole chef Leah Chase's Dooky Chase Restaurant has had an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s and was a gathering place for leaders of the civil rights movement. |
| Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia, which provides for Bumiputra policies (quotas and other affirmative action for ethnic Malays and other indigenous peoples of Malaysia), remains in force even though it was intended to be a temporary provision. |
| Both Charles Dibdin and Ira Aldridge were famed for their portayals of the black servant Mungo in the comic opera The Padlock. |
| Sir Collingwood Schreiber played a key role in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and now has a township named after him. |
| Witty was a self-replicating computer worm that was the first worm to attack the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms. |
| Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem "Danny Deever" caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as "Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song". |
| In the past five years, Colin Campbell, a former ice hockey defenceman and coach, handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi. |
| The Buner reliefs depict scenes of ancient Greeks in India during the 1st century. |
| Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels, the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of all African American performers. |
| Bill the Goat, the mascot of the United States Naval Academy, first appeared at a Navy Midshipmen football game in 1893. |
| Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay Peninsula or Malaysia in general. |
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