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| 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. |
| Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?. |
| New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake. |
| The Hutchinson County Historical Museum, which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927. |
| Tom Paton, a member of the Montreal hockey club, was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup in 1893. |
| The Gateway Protection Programme provides the opportunity for an annual quota of 750 especially vulnerable refugees selected by the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom. |
| The band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace. |
| With a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth. |
| 1975's Tropical Storm Hallie existed as three types of cyclones: subtropical, tropical, and extratropical. |
| During the mutiny at the Nore, Captain William Hotham and Admiral Adam Duncan had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships. |
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