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| Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club. |
| The distinctive foliage of Hydrangea radiata, a shrub of the southern Appalachians, is dark green on one side but silvery white on the other. |
| The 1973 parliamentary election was the last to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge was accused of plagiarism over his poem "Hymn Before Sunrise". |
| The German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917. |
| The State Capitol of Pennsylvania (pictured) is the third capitol building to be in Harrisburg, after the first one burned down in 1897 and the second was deemed "ugly" by its designer. |
| psychologist Sidney W. Bijou would not punish his 15-year old son for a joyriding arrest as he "had punishment enough", his son recalling that "it can pay off to have a psychologist for a father". |
| The Habeas Corpus Act 1862 was passed to prevent Britain's courts from issuing writs of habeas corpus in British colonies and dominions. |
| The New Jersey version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship is one of at least five championships that share the same name. |
| Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland was a political hostess who introduced the dahlia to the United Kingdom in 1804. |
| In the mid-1880s, Nelson's Greenbrier Distillery dwarfed Jack Daniel's in its output of Tennessee whiskey. |
| The French won a victory over the Royal Navy in a naval battle off Cape Breton during the American Revolutionary War. |
| Both Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers. |
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