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The 18th century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pictured) was buried in a communal grave. 
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| Ralph Carpenter's restoration of Hunter House, a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition, was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age". |
| The Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| The Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid switched allegiance from Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs was its editor. |
| The 1988–89 Swift Current Broncos was the first Western Hockey League team to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup (pictured) without losing a playoff game. |
| The Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines. |
| Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet. |
| Five members of the Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 world championship team, including Pat Burrell, were also first-round draft picks of the franchise. |
| John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Yehoshua Cohen, the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte, later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion. |
| In his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement. |
| Hugh Foliot took custody of Hereford Castle in 1223 as part of Hubert de Burgh's takeover of power from Peter des Roches. |
| The Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings. |
| As a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran (pictured) could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords. |
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