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| 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. |
| The 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname. |
| The geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy (pictured). |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday. |
| Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm by local officials. |
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