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| Newspaper writer Constance Drexel gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of Philadelphia's Drexel family. |
| tax rates in Switzerland are set by voters through instruments of direct democracy. |
| The Photuris pennsylvanica (pictured), a species of lightning bug, is Pennsylvania's state insect. |
| The U.S. and Canadian ships escorting the British merchant ships of Convoy ON-67 in 1942 had one working radar between them, lacked sufficient binoculars and had never operated together before. |
| Jerzy Sosnowski, a top Polish spy in Weimar Germany, caused two of his two lovers, each a German noble woman, to be executed by the axe. |
| In 1965 Rankin M. Smith, Sr. paid a then unprecedented 8.5 million dollars for the ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, a team in the NFL. |
| The silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history. |
| Not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials. |
| The Russian Tax Code was hastened into legislation in 1998 due to a growing financial crisis. |
| The rare fallopian tube cancer is more prevalent in carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 mutations. |
| Stencils known as Empègue (pictured) were placed by youths on houses in Beauvoisin, France in August 2000. |
| Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. |
| pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America. |
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