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| Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school. |
| In 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris. |
| Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music. |
| Šalata is the first neighborhood in Croatia to use digital homes. |
| The 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai. |
| Due to disappointing previous tests, the third prototype of Avro 533 Manchester plane (example pictured) was never fitted with engines. |
| mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003. |
| Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007. |
| In the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India. |
| The 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing My Way. |
| When the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia. |
| The 30 Rock episode "Secrets and Lies" was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. |
| cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot. |
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