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| José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire, but it was dissolved before he was able to participate. |
| The original mission of the Cini Foundation included the rehabilitation of its homebase, the island of San Giorgio Maggiore of Venice. |
| The National Review called David Mendell's biography Obama: From Promise to Power "the single best source of background information on our new president". |
| Lactarius pallidus is typically found half-buried in leaf litter at the base of beech or birch trees. |
| When Elton Wieman moved east to play football for the University of Michigan in 1915, the Los Angeles Times called it "a calamity of almost national importance". |
| Prior to the mid 19th century, the tannic Italian wine Barolo (pictured) was made as a sweet wine. |
| Mark Shepherd, who served as CEO of Texas Instruments where he spearheaded development of the firms' integrated circuits, constructed a vacuum tube at the age of six and a radio a year later. |
| In 1114, a combined fleet spearheaded by the Republic of Pisa launched a crusade against the Muslim Balearic Islands. |
| Children's novel Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter, set in Nordy Bank on Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire, was awarded the 1964 Carnegie Medal in Literature. |
| Marshall Loeb, managing editor of Fortune, called his colleague Daniel Seligman, author of 400 of the magazine's Keeping Up columns, "an acerbic slayer of (mostly liberal) prig-headedness". |
| The Morison equation, an equation in fluid dynamics introduced in 1950, is used in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures. |
| Norwegian long jumper Nils Uhlin Hansen was killed as a saboteur in World War II. |
| The Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of the two tunnels that make up the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. |
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