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| The Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal, was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents. |
| Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893 for his achievements in international arbitration. |
| Some species in the lichen genus Sticta (Sticta hypochra pictured) can be used to assess the age of forests. |
| Despite serving in the Grand Fleet for a year, the only enemy warship destroyed in World War I by United States Battleship Division Nine was sunk entirely by accident. |
| The Trithemius cipher, created by Johannes Trithemius, is vulnerable to attack because it lacks a key, which is said to break a rule of cryptology called Kerckhoffs' principle. |
| Alfred Madison Barbour was the superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory during John Brown's raid in 1859. |
| The Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea. |
| The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company was founded by American Civil War veteran Colonel Eli Lilly. |
| As of 2006, the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography contained 13,500 author biographies. |
| Anna Maria Rückerschöld was an early Swedish cookbook author who also argued that middle class women should be entitled to an education in household matters. |
| The protein ASF/SF2 (molecular image pictured) is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1. |
| The Gruban v Booth case was so popular that the barristers had difficulty making to their way through the crowds to the court on the last day?. |
| Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals set the record of the highest Nielsen rating for any NBA game. |
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