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Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra. 
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| grosgrain ribbons or textiles finished by calendering become the thin, glossy and papery fabric known as moire (pictured). |
| Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl. |
| Although the design of the Livingston County Courthouse was chosen in part for its fireproof qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915. |
| The authorship of the Instructions of Kagemni is attributed to a vizier of the fourth dynasty of Egypt, even though the earliest source is the Prisse Papyrus of the twelfth dynasty. |
| Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977. |
| Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West. |
| The Lebanese are the most numerous community in Uruguay after the Spanish and Italians. |
| Tinker Air Force Base was hit by two tornadoes in six days in 1948, the second of which (damage pictured) was heralded by the first tornado forecast in history. |
| The prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009. |
| The skin colour of the Pokémon Jynx was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist. |
| Carl Daniel Ekman, who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house. |
| In 2009 the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, named the late folklorist J. Frank Dobie to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor. |
| In 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted. |
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