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| While serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear. |
| The Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818. |
| military sociology, one of the branches of sociology, looks at issues such as gender, minorities and power in the military. |
| The stages-of-growth model describes the changing role of information technology in organizations. |
| ice hockey goaltender Paddy Moran (pictured) aggressively defended the area in front of his net by using his stick to slash opposing players near his net and exhaling at them while chewing tobacco. |
| David Nichtern, who wrote "Midnight at the Oasis", is the son of the first female to win a Tony Award. |
| Sidney Weighell, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, played professional football with Sunderland for two seasons as an inside left. |
| While setting a Guinness World Record for distance travelled by a solar vehicle, the University of Waterloo's Midnight Sun VII was twice mistaken for a UFO. |
| The "Madame Marie" mentioned in the 1973 song 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) by Bruce Springsteen was a real-life fortune teller on the Asbury Park boardwalk. |
| Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for Swansea and cricket for Glamorgan at St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired. |
| The Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly, convening from 2007 to 2008, was the first since 1989 in which the Democratic party controlled both houses of the state's legislature. |
| John Buckler created 13,000 drawings and paintings of historic British buildings, such as Ely Cathedral (pictured). |
| New Year's Revolution (2005) was the first pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment to be held in Puerto Rico. |
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