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Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen. 
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| The Nazi concentration camp Grini was built as a women's prison. |
| Law professor Paul Steven Miller, who has a type of dwarfism, was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
| There has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka, India since the 1990s. |
| The Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was disbanded in 1999 despite only having started work in April 1991. |
| optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians (dispersive prism pictured). |
| In the Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a reality TV game show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?. |
| In a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training. |
| The Financial News competed with its rival the Financial Times by attacking companies which advertised there. |
| The BBC Radio 4 sitcom Newfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago. |
| Barry Wood, who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist, was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences. |
| A version of the maple bacon donut (pictured) served up in an Omaha, Nebraska, bakery is based on a simple concept: breakfast combined into one item that you put in your mouth. |
| Hal Lubarsky outlasted 6,300 other players at the World Series of Poker despite playing blind. |
| The Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £50,000 from its performances. |
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