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The present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar. 
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| The 1828 Hunterdon County Courthouse was the site of the "Trial of the Century" of Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder. |
| Despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun. |
| The earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951. |
| Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions. |
| Egan-Sud, Quebec, a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality. |
| The 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey, but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven. |
| Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent". |
| Underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia's Ewens Ponds. |
| Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years. |
| The deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata (pictured), initially described by the Tyrolean naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca. |
| The Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system. |
| The phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog". |
| The seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel". |
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