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| The idiom kick the bucket probably comes from a method of suicide in the middle ages. |
| Lionel Pincus, who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library, including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. |
| The 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento, California, effectively ended land speculation in the region. |
| Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction. |
| Before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981. |
| The tutor of Peter the Great, Nikita Zotov, became the "Prince-Pope" of The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters. |
| One theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows (pictured) were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings. |
| At the 1929 Rose Bowl, Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety, in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech. |
| The abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film. |
| The Mayor of Danzig, Conrad Letzkau, was treacherously murdered in 1412 by the Teutonic Knights for his support of Poland and refusal to pay taxes. |
| The former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York's stockade to be settled. |
| When appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice. |
| Edward R. Tinsley, who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association. |
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