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| Those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors. |
| Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional. |
| The edible fungus Polyozellus multiplex (pictured) has attracted research interest as a possible chemopreventative agent against stomach cancer. |
| Although Florida-based slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?. |
| The Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Three Men and Adena" was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 100 greatest television moments. |
| Under modern principles of vicarious liability in English law, employers are answerable for the intentional wrongdoings of their employees. |
| In 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique. |
| The Soviet Peace Committee, a peace movement created and sponsored by the Soviet Union, criticized Western policies but defended Soviet ones. |
| In 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West. |
| Although neodymium(III) chloride itself does not have strong luminescence, it serves as a source of Nd3+ ions for Nd:YAG lasers (pictured). |
| Radio and TV announcer Ken Roberts voiced the skit Love of Chair on the PBS show Electric Company, spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life. |
| The restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009. |
| Polish philosopher Władysław Heinrich wrote the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Polish Academy of Learning in 1898. |
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