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| The unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie, India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916). |
| Josef Pleskot designed the administrative building of the ČSOB Bank, the first European building awarded the gold certificate of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. |
| The Big Apple dance was popular at the Big Apple Club, an African-American night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue. |
| Actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo. |
| Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis. |
| Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine (pictured) 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. |
| In 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream. |
| The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra participated in recording of the Vendetta album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty. |
| Robert Isabell had four tons of glitter dumped on the floor of Studio 54 for a 1970s New Year's Eve party, which owner Ian Schrager described as like "standing on stardust". |
| Antique china dolls were predominantly made in Germany in the 1800s. |
| Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings. |
| The Victorian-style White-Pool House, built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa, Texas. |
| In the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (commemorating stamp pictured) were cancelled during 1962–1963. |
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