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"Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois. 
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| singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt, formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt, has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon. |
| East Dereham Windmill (pictured) was sold to Breckland District Council in 1978 for £1. |
| Wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?. |
| The loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd. |
| The tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower. |
| The mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey. |
| As a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state. |
| For about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal. |
| Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem. |
| Four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker. |
| The closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska. |
| Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent. |
| Amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest. |
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