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| 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. |
| The poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954. |
| Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome. |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris. |
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