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The Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk. 
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| water supply and sanitation in Uganda are recognized as key issues under the government's 2004 national "Poverty Eradication Action Plan". |
| The new Maoist-led government seeks to scrap Nepal's 1950 treaty with India, which sought to build strong Indo-Nepal relations to counter perceived threats from China. |
| ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter. |
| international airport project MIHAN in Nagpur is the biggest economical development project currently underway in India in terms of investment. |
| The Pickle Barrel House (pictured), a cabin built of two large barrels, is based on comic strip characters that were two inches (5 cm) tall and lived in a pickle barrel. |
| The Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. |
| English musician and composer Charles Frederick Horn served as personal music tutor to Queen Charlotte. |
| The City of Los Angeles has 186 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Equality North Carolina was successful in getting the 2008 edition of the State Personnel manual to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity. |
| The 1948 Tamil film Chandralekha had the longest sword-fight sequence in any Indian film. |
| During World War I, a torpedo struck the ocean liner SS Kroonland (pictured) without exploding. |
| Bolton Hall, the community center for a Utopian community formed in 1913 in the foothills north of Los Angeles, was later used as a jail. |
| New Zealand currently has free trade agreements with Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Chile and China. |
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