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| Lithuanians initially viewed Nazi Germany's invasion in June 1941 as a liberation from Soviet rule, but soon began to resist, forming the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania. |
| Elwood Haynes invented stellite, built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles, and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration. |
| At the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, only 10% of the original railway system was open. |
| Insects such as Calliphora livida (pictured), Oiceoptoma noveboracense, Cynomya cadaverina, Protophormia terraenovae and various species in the genus Hydrotaea can be used by forensic entomologists to determine the post-mortem interval of corpses. |
| The South Park episode "Margaritaville" portrays Kyle as a Jesus-like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession?. |
| Mick Rathbone, now Everton F.C.'s head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C.. |
| Because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy. |
| Frédéric Chopin once said the middle section of his Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op 48, No. 2 should be played as if "a tyrant commands, and the other asks for mercy". |
| American inventor and engineer Robert Fulton negotiated a bounty of £40,000 for the first decked ship destroyed in the Raid on Boulogne in 1804. |
| With her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction". |
| Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado. |
| Australian First World War soldier Percy Black (pictured) was described by Australian war historian Charles Bean as "the greatest fighting soldier in the A.I.F.". |
| The Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax, was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax, in 2008. |
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