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The earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube. 
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| In the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". |
| Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006. |
| the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era. |
| During the Soviet era the only country that fashion designer Slava Zaitsev (pictured) was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist country. |
| The spermaceti beam press exhibited at the Nantucket Whaling Museum is the only one in the world still in its original location. |
| Chinese actress Zhang Yuqi was first discovered because of a role she played in a 30-second Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial. |
| The American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley. |
| Irv Hall's 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career. |
| Washington State Route 113 was given to Clallam County in 1955, only to be given back to the state in 1991. |
| Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist. |
| Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed with pens dipped in the Syng inkstand (pictured). |
| The bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell, had groupies posing as band member's wives?. |
| Though the Raša River in Croatian Istria is less than 30 km (19 mi) long, it has formed a political boundary for much of the last two millennia. |
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