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Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984, had its world premiere in 2005. 
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| The porcelain set Elka (pictured) by the Czech designer Jaroslav Ježek was awarded the Grand Prix in design at the Expo '58 in Brussels. |
| When Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club, his "transfer fee" was a round of 52 pints of beer?. |
| Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd, who claimed to be King of Wales. |
| radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon, was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy. |
| Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, into a thriving industrial town. |
| Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics, making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player. |
| Following the upgrade of two Oslo T-bane lines, all aging T1000 trains of the system can be replaced by MX3000's. |
| Jack Grout, a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus. |
| The only American ship larger than a destroyer to survive the Dutch East Indies campaign was the light cruiser Marblehead (pictured). |
| The Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground. |
| H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India, owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV, and of Vasanth & Co, one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu. |
| Grand Funk Railroad's epic 1970 song "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War. |
| The coprophilous mushroom Conocybe rickenii may be found in large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil. |
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