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Henrietta Johnston (work pictured) was the first recorded female artist and the first pastelist to work in the English colonies in America. 
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| Italian mezzo-soprano Flora Perini (pictured) originated the role of the Princess in the world premiere of Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. |
| The book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts. |
| Les West's cycle racing career spanned 47 years from 1960 to 2006, and included two victories in the Tour of Britain. |
| The Minatogawa Man is among the oldest complete skeletons of modern humans recovered in East Asia. |
| Painter T. E. Breitenbach's work Proverbidioms appeared on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210. |
| The park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand, Norway, was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers. |
| Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia. |
| French explorer Robert de LaSalle (pictured) was murdered by a member of his own expedition while trying to locate the Mississippi River in 1687. |
| The mysterious rebel known as The Hidden claimed to be a secret prince given a divine revelation to save Spain in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods. |
| Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck. |
| The human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system. |
| Phil Johnson and Cotton Fitzsimmons are the only Sacramento Kings head coaches to have won NBA Coach of the Year. |
| The 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years. |
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