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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. / - 0 / 0

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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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