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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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