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| Verne Meisner and his son Steve were the first polka music artists to win the Wisconsin Area Music Industry award. |
| carrier pigeons, known as the Bavarian Pigeon Corps, were fitted with chest-mounted cameras and sent behind enemy lines for aerial reconnaissance by the Bavarian Army in the early 1900s. |
| Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals. |
| The Holt-Bragg Bridge will be named after the family who perished when the previous bridge collapsed during the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms. |
| The Agricultural Museum was the first agricultural periodical journal published in the United States. |
| George Chesworth was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sorties against the Chinese in the Korean War. |
| The tiny rare green Mystery Orchid, Cooktownia robertsii, was named after Cooktown and its discoverer, Lewis Roberts, and is the only member of the genus Cooktownia. |
| Chelsea Bridge was little used at night when it first opened, because of its owners' policy of only turning the lighting on if Queen Victoria was spending the night in London. |
| The Neher-Elseffer House (pictured) is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary frame houses near Rhinebeck, New York. |
| Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Upper Pine Bottom State Park. |
| During the offseason, Canadian football linebacker, Raymond Fontaine, works as a roughneck in the Alberta oil fields. |
| The Manning–Kamna Farm near Hillsboro, Oregon, has ten buildings that were included in the National Register of Historic Places, including a privy. |
| Tautiška giesmė, a poem by Vincas Kudirka written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Varpas newspaper, became the Lithuanian national anthem. |
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