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Lord Francis Douglas fell 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to his death shortly after sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured). 
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| Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary, a diary he kept until three days before his death. |
| Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana. |
| In his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base. |
| The Canary Islands are one of the few places left where there are still substantial numbers of angelsharks (pictured), once common all around Europe. |
| Oscar Mayer, maker of hot dogs and processed meats, was led by three generations of Oscar Mayers as chairmen, founder Oscar F. Mayer, his son Oscar G. Mayer, Sr. and grandson Oscar G. Mayer, Jr.. |
| A selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that does not fray or come unraveled. |
| In summer 2008, future Memphis Grizzlies draft pick Sam Young, then a player for the University of Pittsburgh, slept at the school's basketball arena for a month. |
| The National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War, in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine. |
| The Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city. |
| Later Verdens Gang editor-in-chief Oskar Hasselknippe was a sub-editor in the newspaper Ringerikes Blad under editor Kaare Filseth before an intermezzo in Milorg. |
| After overcoming Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, K-Bob's Steakhouse (sign pictured) still operates in mostly smaller cities in the cattle country of New Mexico and Texas. |
| The diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?. |
| IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time. |
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