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| Due to their rich biodiversity, Sri Lanka montane rain forests are a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of endemic species. |
| The poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls. |
| Salutat (pictured) is an 1898 Thomas Eakins painting of a boxer, considered one of his finest achievements in figure-painting. |
| In one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths, the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring. |
| Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government. |
| Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage. |
| A 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the "cartoonish" sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero. |
| Despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification, the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival. |
| Poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Norwegian. |
| The video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version. |
| Architect Arieh Sharon (pictured), who had been a beekeeper on a kibbutz, later led a 180-person commission to plan the development of Israel. |
| The red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times. |
| Apolinary Hartglas was a leader of Polish Jews, a Zionist activist, and a deputy to the Polish Sejm during the interwar period. |
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