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| conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing". |
| computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets. |
| Although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems. |
| The Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively. |
| Sadamu Shimomura, the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan. |
| The Flagellation of Christ first appears in art (example pictured) in the 9th century. |
| The High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. |
| Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War. |
| The September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus. |
| biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering". |
| The 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender. |
| Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university. |
| "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog. |
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