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| The primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson's film Assassination. |
| The Cape Kumukahi Light (pictured) was saved from destruction in the 1960 eruption of Kilauea when the lava flow parted and went to either side of it. |
| Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey. |
| The album Ritual by Jape recently won the Choice Music Prize. |
| The Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb, was a scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military. |
| The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for discovering the concept of MRI. |
| Triple quartets from Finland's oldest choir Akademiska Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki. |
| L-form bacteria are regarded either as insignificant laboratory curiosities, or important but unappreciated causes of disease. |
| The New York Philharmonic featured cellist Lorne Munroe as a soloist more than 150 times. |
| anethole, cause of the ouzo effect (pictured) in anise-flavored alcoholic beverages, yields a derivative drug that may be used in novel self-microemulsifying drug delivery systems. |
| When the German U-boat UB-13 sank the neutral Dutch ocean liner Tubantia in March 1916, one of the German excuses was that the torpedo had been fired ten days before and just happened to hit the ship. |
| The Oslo Tramway reached its greatest length with the opening of the Sinsen Line in 1939. |
| Chris Mullin was named the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year three consecutive times from 1983 to 1985. |
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