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The case Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract law. 
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| When the Four Mile uranium mine commences operations in 2010, it will be the first new uranium mine in Australia for nearly ten years. |
| The St. Johns River was Florida's first tourist attraction and the primary travel route to the more remote parts of the territory before it was developed. |
| When Captain Robert Corbet suggested that captains be allowed to flog lieutenants, Rear-Admiral Edward Buller (pictured) declared that admirals should therefore flog captains. |
| One mixed martial arts fight at the Insomnia Summer Show in Satu Mare, Romania, lasted only seven seconds. |
| The cam follower, which is a specialized type of roller bearing designed to follow cams, was invented in 1937 by the McGill corporation. |
| Immigration Equality has been the main advocate for the Uniting American Families Act to give same-sex couples the same status as heterosexuals under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. |
| The Hunt-class destroyer HMS Badsworth was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire and adopted by the town of Batley, following a Warship Week campaign in March 1942. |
| Ziegfield Girl Susan Fleming found Harpo Marx, despite his non-speaking film persona, to be "a warm, fun, darling man to talk to", and they married in 1936 after she had proposed to him three times. |
| An Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse. |
| The Southern sennet, a member of the Barracuda family, has been linked to ciguatera poisoning. |
| John P. Charlton invented the first private postal card (pictured) in 1861. |
| French philosopher Denis Diderot posed naked for a Berlin innkeeper's wife?. |
| Three conclavists—personal aides to cardinals during a papal conclave—have gone on to be elected Pope. |
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