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| In 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes. |
| Inflatable and wooden dummy tanks (pictured) were used in Operation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence. |
| Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times. |
| Land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle. |
| In Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty. |
| During the War of 1812, Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams. |
| General Ziauddin Butt, former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999. |
| By the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete. |
| The Flammulated Flycatcher (pictured), a tyrant flycatcher endemic to Mexico, was eventually placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus because of its broad bill. |
| The Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939. |
| The 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film. |
| Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi. |
| In 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan. |
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