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After Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick, most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business. 
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| When he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent. |
| Jimi Hendrix originally wanted to cover Bob Dylan's "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" from the John Wesley Harding album, but covered "All Along the Watchtower" from the same album instead. |
| Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s. |
| The South Dakota-class battleships are considered to be the best "treaty battleship" ever built. |
| Marxist sociology, despite Marxist influences on the Russian Revolution, has been suppressed in the Soviet Bloc, while flourishing in the West. |
| Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II. |
| The Clinton Avenue Historic District has the greatest concentration of 19th-century rowhouses (pictured) anywhere in Albany, New York. |
| Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed "American Express" in reference to the credit card company. |
| The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize. |
| The British boyband One True Voice split up in 2003 despite reaching the top ten with their first two releases. |
| obesity in Australia was made a "national health priority" by the government in 2008, officially elevating awareness to the same level as other health risks like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. |
| Fernand, Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders. |
| The Ducati 98, called the racy motorcycle brand's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s. |
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