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| Legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop. |
| If a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system. |
| Jamie M. Morin (pictured) was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget. |
| SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace". |
| 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". |
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