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| 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. |
| Female professional wrestler Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring because she had a match afterward. |
| for a period of 100 days, families featured on the television series The 100 Mile Challenge were not allowed to consume any food or drink grown or produced more than 100 miles from their home. |
| Nguyen Van Tuong helped install and depose three Vietnamese emperors in the space of a year. |
| No services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist, the oldest church in Somers, New York, for almost 80 years. |
| Most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. |
| SS Archimedes (pictured), built in 1839 by Henry Wimshurst, was the world's first propeller-driven steamship. |
| German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking, under the pseudonym Collofino. |
| A year after the American Civil War ended, discharged soldiers had conflicts with local policemen in Memphis, which escalated into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history. |
| The Indian Economic Intelligence Council is chaired by the Finance Minister. |
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