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| The medieval lituus, a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom. |
| The jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime. |
| The old flower spikes of Banksia benthamiana (pictured) may contain up to 130 follicles (seed pods). |
| During World War I, a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver?. |
| After facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled". |
| Two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones. |
| Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School. |
| Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members. |
| The 9th-century Sambisari Hindu temple (pictured) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was buried five meters underground for centuries. |
| The small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas. |
| Despite being a World Series of Poker bracelet event, the Casino Employee Championship receives little attention. |
| In 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition. |
| Sofia, New Mexico, was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States, and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia. |
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