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the Buddhist Library (pictured), which is located in a shophouse, is Singapore's first dedicated Buddhist library and is unique in that it is neither an association nor a temple.
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| At least eleven of the twenty electors of the papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France. |
| Mary Lou Forbes, whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize, had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled. |
| SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy. |
| American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s. |
| while filming Skins episode "Katie and Emily", actress Kathryn Prescott genuinely punched her co-star by accident during a fight scene. |
| The eruption of Amak Volcano in about 2550 BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology. |
| Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War. |
| The Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate, built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta, was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect. |
| In the 1970s, female professional wrestler Betty Niccoli helped lift the New York State Athletic Commission's ban on women's wrestling. |
| According to Big Bang cosmology, neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe about one second after the Big Bang. |
| U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey (pictured) entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign. |
| Australian jazz singer Grace Knight, ex-Eurogliders, organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. |
| Davidson Ditch was inspected by engineers working on problems faced by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. |
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