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| The cohort model in psycholinguistics attempts to describe the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon in terms of how speech stimulates neurons. |
| The nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa. |
| Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament. |
| Although Antonio Maria Bononcini's 1718 opera Griselda was successful, his older brother, Giovanni Bononcini, composed a more popular version in 1722. |
| The chaplain of the Regiment de la Rey (badge pictured) of the South African Army once convinced two German soldiers that World War II had ended and then captured them with his officer's cane as his only weapon. |
| ATIC, a balloon-borne detector flying over Antarctica, recently found excess cosmic ray electrons that might provide evidence for dark matter consisting of Kaluza-Klein particles. |
| Publisher and biographer Newman Flower was criticized by some contemporaries for sanitizing aspects of his subjects' personal lives. |
| The 30-storey former AMP Building in Perth was the tallest building in the Western Australian city when it was completed in 1975. |
| Vivaldi's opera Griselda is based on the folklore character Griselda as told by Giovanni Boccaccio in the The Decameron. |
| suffragette Lady Constance Lytton carved the letter "V" (for "Votes for Women") into her breast using a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin. |
| Houston attorney Joe Rollins successfully defended the city in a suit regarding cost overruns and construction delays at Bush Intercontinental Airport. |
| The Indian Antarctic Program has two permanent bases in Antarctica and has sent 27 expeditions to the continent since 1981. |
| William Herschel's 40-foot telescope (pictured) was the largest telescope in the world for 50 years. |
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