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| Former Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired in 2001 after seventeen NCAA Division I tournament appearances, the second-most of any head coach. |
| Jodhpur Group - Malani Igneous Suite Contact, a National Geological Monument at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, represents the last phase of igneous activity of Precambrian age. |
| At the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College, making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States. |
| The gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies. |
| Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League, but later became a substance abuse counselor. |
| In the Vyadha Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work. |
| soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000. |
| The Old Cathedral of Cuenca (pictured) carries a memorial plate indicating that its belltower is more famous than the Egyptian pyramids. |
| According to the magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet?. |
| The German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens. |
| Mortuary Affairs, within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps, is tasked with the retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel. |
| Ray Pickerell secured 17 first-place race wins on a Norton Dunstall motorcycle in 1968. |
| Conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello. |
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