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| The World War Memorial, built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia, was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States. |
| When called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting, Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to "desertion". |
| Charles Darwin suspected some saxifrages to be protocarnivorous plants. |
| The Kentucky Railway Museum (pictured), next door to an historic hotel, features the official state locomotive of Kentucky, a "Jim Crow" car, a four-star hotel on rails, and the only gas-powered motor rail car in the southeastern United States. |
| Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography, later adapted into a one-woman play, called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy. |
| Li Ning was made a crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, but his mother, a consort, had to settle for a much lesser honour. |
| Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on "Unplayed Piano", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing". |
| Ernie Vick was an All-American football center while enrolled at the University of Michigan medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to practice with the team. |
| After King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053. |
| Akanthosuchus, an extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene, is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor. |
| Christ Bongo was one of only three Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. |
| In addition to designing postage stamps (pictured), Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani. |
| An anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era. |
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