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| Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County, Kentucky, considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government". |
| The Indian Defence Intelligence Agency was established because of intelligence lapses during the Kargil War. |
| When the horse in her first maquette of The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill's ranch to her studio in New York. |
| professional wrestler Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. wrestled for a year before his father, Rayo de Jalisco, Sr., found out. |
| The largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns. |
| Surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink?. |
| 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal. |
| The players selected for the 1935 College Football All-America Teams included SMU's "Iron Man" Wetsel, Stanford's "Vow Boy" Bobby Grayson, military historian Jac Weller, aspiring G-Man Paul Tangora, Charles Wasicek of the "unbeaten, untied and uninvited" Colgate team, Minnesota's "battering ram fullback" Sheldon Beise and tackles Ed Widseth and Dick Smith, Cal end Larry Lutz, Ohio State end Merle Wendt, Princeton second-generation All-American Gilbert Lea and Walter Winika, the first Rutgers varsity athlete killed in World War II. |
| At the Battle of Cape Finisterre, HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another. |
| When Khirbat al-Minya, an Umayyad-built palace near the Sea of Galilee, was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort. |
| The longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg). |
| Judge William C. Conner ruled that $2 million in lost cash was worth $634.90. |
| On 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River. |
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