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| The day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort (pictured), Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties. |
| Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic. |
| The 40th Grey Cup in 1952 was the first time this Canadian football championship was broadcast on television. |
| The Janus Man, a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every single year from 1982 to his death in 2006. |
| Former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. |
| A timber in Nutley Windmill, an open trestle post mill in Sussex, England, has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70. |
| Bert Haney (pictured) lost an election to the U.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. |
| astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmets that acts as a nose scratcher and that the manufacturing process used to create silent velcro for the U.S. Army is a military secret. |
| The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
| The Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people. |
| The first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan. |
| The assembly location Arkils tingstad may have been made to Christianize the Vikings who lived in its vicinity. |
| The theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers. |
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