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Edward Payson Chapin (pictured) was wounded twice in the American Civil War and promoted to brigadier general four months after being killed in action. 
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| When classicist Bernard Knox was selected for the 1992 Jefferson Lecture (the U.S.'s highest humanities honor), he gave his speech the "provocative" title "The Oldest Dead White European Males". |
| The original radio studio building of KOBB (then called KBMN) in northern Bozeman, Montana, now serves as a small casino. |
| Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank, after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station. |
| The peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich (pictured) would be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for his last meal and is sometimes referred to as an "Elvis sandwich". |
| The beard of Greek cardinal Basilios Bessarion was partly responsible for the defeat of his candidacy in the papal conclave, 1455. |
| surform tools can shape materials as diverse as automobile repair plastic body filler and elephants' hooves. |
| The Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch, a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, is the first film project from Google's philanthropic division Google.org. |
| The Chinatown in Mexico City may be the world's smallest. |
| Jan Piekałkiewicz, a leading Polish statistician, became the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate, and died at the hands of Nazi Germany. |
| When Farleigh Hungerford Castle (gateway pictured) was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king. |
| In only his second mixed martial arts fight, the 2006 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, Joe Warren, defeated former champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto. |
| Although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the report and Act disagreed in many ways. |
| Bruce Springsteen's song "For You" is about a woman who has attempted suicide. |
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