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The Hudson's Bay Company's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario's first English settlement originated. 
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| 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". |
| Scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode "JJ" were shot at the show's own offices. |
| The 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time. |
| Donold Lourie, a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
| The funding for the German König class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's threat of resignation. |
| The Gothic Revival-style Jones House (pictured) is the second oldest brick house in Pontiac, Illinois. |
| During the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death. |
| The University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history. |
| After 30,000 people visited the Roman-era mosaic in Lod in one weekend, it was reburied to prevent damage until the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center opened. |
| The first upper division college was the College of the Pacific. |
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