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Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. 
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| Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season. |
| Captain William Mounsey, in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne, captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse. |
| The Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, but has been on campus longer than all but one other building. |
| Kang Hye-jeong made her feature film debut in the 2001 science fiction film Nabi, winning Best Actress at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. |
| On Jackie Robinson Day of 2007, more than 200 baseball players wore number 42 in honor of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's (pictured) major league debut. |
| virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. |
| Swaminarayan's biography, Satsangi Jeevan, comprises of 19,387 Shlokas among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes. |
| King's Mill on the River Trent was used to grind flints for the pottery industry. |
| Ole Hovelsen Mustad, namesake of the company O. Mustad & Son, also served one term in the Norwegian Parliament. |
| The Oregon State Bar was the first bar association in the U.S. to provide complete access to all attorney records it keeps, but only after a lawsuit. |
| The Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language. |
| Tam Spiva, from a family of small-town newspaper publishers, wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben. |
| After the standardisation of the German Shepherd Dog, other herding dogs in Germany became known as Old German Shepherd Dogs which is now the name given to a rare modern breed (pictured). |
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