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| New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky. |
| The USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005. |
| Gordon Dam (pictured), a 140-metre (460 ft) tall arch dam on the Gordon River, is the tallest in Tasmania, Australia. |
| natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars. |
| Alojz Rebula was a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain. |
| Polyandrococos, a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil, is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum. |
| When the senior officials Yuan Qianyao, Song Jing, and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen. |
| Etta Palm d'Aelders, whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat, François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution, might have been an agent for the Dutch government. |
| Seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast. |
| When Norman Rockwell's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, the Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character. |
| The Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood (pictured) is the oldest authenticated and extant work of Paolo Uccello. |
| Despite its name, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes does not contain a volume about badminton. |
| Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana. |
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