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| Her controversial publication of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the women's suffrage movement. |
| Terrence Wheatley and teammate Sammy Joseph were the first two freshman cornerbacks to start at the same time in Colorado Buffaloes history. |
| The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system. |
| The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese. |
| In the 2009 Indian parliamentary election, Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal. |
| "Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897. |
| The 1927 British AJW Summit v-twin motorcycle was capable of 161 kilometres per hour (100 mph)?. |
| Donald G. Fink, later to become a prominent electrical engineer, was selected as the best orator in his county at a high school competition. |
| Human skin flora includes roughly 1,000 species of bacteria. |
| Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870. |
| Before Tommy Walker became a footballer he was a champion sprinter. |
| The Bulgarian villages of Mezek and Matochina, situated near the borders with Greece and Turkey, both have medieval castles (Matochina fortress pictured). |
| Henri Pinault, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu, was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983. |
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