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| Women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India. |
| Because Seattle's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set. |
| Prior to Singapore's first Formula One race in 2008, the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973. |
| The cost of operating mine ventilation fans can account for one-third of the entire electrical power cost for a typical underground mine. |
| In the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball, Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship. |
| The unusual breeding season of the Monteiro's Storm-petrel was the first clue that led to the cryptic species' recent discovery by scientists. |
| operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15. |
| Parikrama, an integral part of Hindu ritual, involves walking around a sacred object or place, as Ganesha (statue pictured) walked around Shiva in legend. |
| Before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers, and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects. |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.12, the last trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the intended replacement of the 1920s Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8, was only built in a prototype before the German invasion of Norway halted work. |
| Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council. |
| The Tamil film Meera based on the life of poetess-saint Mirabai was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage. |
| Former Ohio House of Representatives minority whip and current U.S. House candidate Steve Driehaus coordinated the largest U.S. professional exchange program with the "new" South Africa. |
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