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| Barbara Margolis, creator of a Rikers Island restaurant training program, was held in such regard by inmates that her car was returned after prisoners learned it was stolen from a prison lot. |
| The invariant set postulate may help to resolve some of paradoxes of quantum mechanics aired in the Bohr–Einstein debates, using fractal geometry such as the Mandelbrot set (pictured). |
| Professional poker player Ilari Sahamies lost over US$3 million playing online poker while drunk, including more than $700,000 in a single day. |
| Bob Dylan sang his 1964 song "Chimes of Freedom" at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration. |
| Weston Dressler of the Saskatchewan Roughriders set 19 school records in football at the University of North Dakota. |
| The westernmost and easternmost points in the United States by travel, in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, are both named "Point Udall," after brothers Mo and Stewart Udall?. |
| During the 1700s, businesswoman Anna Krefting operated the largest ironworks in Norway. |
| No footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988. |
| Kenneth W. Winters, a member of the Kentucky State Senate from Murray, did not begin his legislative service until he was 70 years old. |
| The Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles have eight properties of cultural and natural heritage (Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout pictured) listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. |
| Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol. |
| In each Summer Olympic Games since 1992, the women's singles gold medalist in table tennis has also won gold in either the doubles or team competition. |
| The marbleized appearance of the granite siding on the Gerard Crane House in Somers, New York, is a naturally occurring feature of the locally quarried stone. |
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