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Mexican professional wrestler La Sombra made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen.
Eddisbury hill fort, the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them.
ice calving (pictured) in Greenland results in over 12,000 icebergs each year.
Nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus.
Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip.
In 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap".
The MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle launch.
Canadian football wide receivers and Murray State University graduates Andrew Nowacki and Jason French caught touchdown passes nearly one minute apart.
The President's Surveillance Program, authorized by George W. Bush, included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified.
The Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas.
Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance"?.
Martin Siem was among the leaders of the naval intelligence organization RMO in Norway during World War II.
plug and feather, still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone.

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