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The threatened noonday globe land snail (pictured) is known only from a two-mile-long area inside the gorge of the Nantahala River in North Carolina. 
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| Former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Isaac Blackford (pictured) described the court's decisions in an eight-volume work that earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone". |
| J. Curtis Counts, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration, first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?. |
| President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona was ridiculed by Soviet propaganda for fleeing the country across the shallow Liepona rivulet in the aftermath of a Soviet ultimatum. |
| Despite being excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV, Prospero Colonna was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope. |
| An 11-time NFL Pro-Bowler's mother was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court. |
| The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications was cited as "a major driving force" behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom. |
| Sri Lankan Minister Maithripala Sirisena escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber in 2008. |
| Every major street in New York's Downtown Albany Historic District (17th-century map pictured) has a major building as a focal point. |
| genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu, inspiration for M. Butterfly, had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son". |
| The Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize. |
| On July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991. |
| The NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture. |
| shed is a weaving term for the temporary separation in warp threads so the shuttle with the weft can go through. |
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