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| San Pedro Atocpan hosts a festival every year devoted to mole sauce. |
| Driving for Polestar Racing Group, Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America. |
| Mushet steel was the first tool steel and later led to the discovery of high speed steel. |
| Music producer Bill Szymczyk got started in music engineering while working on SONAR for the United States Navy. |
| gopchang jeongol (pictured), a spicy Korean casserole made by boiling beef tripe, vegetables, and seasonings in beef broth, is a popular dish when drinking alcoholic beverages in South Korea. |
| The Fossil Cabin in Wyoming was built of dinosaur bones and was billed by its builder as "the building that used to walk". |
| John Wick, who passed on information that led to an ongoing scandal about expenses of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, once commanded the Royal Army Ordnance Corps's Mobile Bath Unit. |
| As'ad Pasha al-Azm, governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha. |
| In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse. |
| In 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession. |
| The railroad station in Dilley, Oregon, was built 23 years after the railroad reached the community. |
| The Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?. |
| A critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s. |
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