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The Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell. 
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| Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling. |
| The Imperial German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz (pictured) was nearly destroyed when a shell from HMS Lion penetrated a gun turret and caused a flash fire during the Battle of Dogger Bank. |
| The larvae of some species of the checkered beetle family Cleridae can consume several times their own body weight. |
| Eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire. |
| Johan Wollebæk and Jens Bull led the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm during World War II, when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden. |
| Most families celebrate Gotcha Day on a day other than April 1st. |
| SubGenius artist Joe Riley made masks and prosthetic makeups for gore movies as well as art and designs for children's animation franchises. |
| After a recent re-analysis, a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba. |
| Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota. |
| Despite its name, the mangrove whipray (pictured) does not usually inhabit mangroves. |
| Nils Yngvar Ustvedt, physician and member of the Norwegian Parliament, advised his son Hans Jacob Ustvedt against becoming a politician?. |
| The first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School. |
| Thored, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings. |
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