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| Medical doctor A.C. Steckle (pictured) gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team. |
| American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back?. |
| The New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired covers nearly ninety percent of its operating expenses with income from lands held in trust for it by the State Land Office. |
| The works of Romanian sociologist and novelist Dan Lungu refer to concealed communist-era phenomena, such as the working class practice of stealing state property. |
| Following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent. |
| Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues". |
| While training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc. |
| The velvet belly lantern shark (pictured) has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc. |
| The Four-State Tornado Swarm of 1787 is considered to be the earliest example of a tornado outbreak on record. |
| It was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University. |
| The core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent. |
| The British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services. |
| The Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia. |
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