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| Although the summit of underwater volcano Loihi is 969 metres (3,180 ft) below sea level, it is still twice as tall, measured from the base of its southern flank, as Mount St. Helens ever was. |
| bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India, circa 300 CE. |
| The Showtime television series Dexter has won two Primetime Emmy Awards. |
| The tough skin of the cowtail stingray (pictured) is used to polish wood. |
| Two psychedelic frogfish were recognized as "something different" in 1992, but were not declared a new species until this year. |
| Samuel Brand, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany, was officially the first immigrant to enter Israel after its creation. |
| election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean. |
| American baritone James Billings has portrayed more than 175 opera roles on stage during his long career. |
| The 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals. |
| Interstate Commerce Commissioner John H. Marble died in 1913 following an attack of acute indigestion after only eight months in office. |
| The librettists for Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d’argent, Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, also wrote the librettos for Gounod’s Faust and Offenbach’s Les contes d'Hoffmann. |
| Attempts to reintroduce a species of thick-billed parrot (pictured) into Arizona have so far failed. |
| Alan Landers, who was featured in Winston cigarette ads, became an anti-smoking advocate calling himself the "Winston Man" and died of laryngeal cancer after a longtime 2½-pack-per-day habit. |
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