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| 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. |
| Diana Golden, who lost a leg to cancer at the age of 12, was named female skier of the year in 1988 by the United States Olympic Committee. |
| St Mary's Church in Sompting—one of 26 extant places of worship in the Adur district of West Sussex—has an 11th-century tower with the only Rhenish helm (pictured) in England. |
| Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German?. |
| Robert Leiber, Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII, advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade". |
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