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Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720. 
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| Non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication. |
| Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg. |
| The Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops. |
| Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain. |
| The reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford (pictured) has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef". |
| According to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire". |
| Actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy. |
| The loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history. |
| One of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire. |
| gridiron football player Lenny Walls recorded multiple tackles in every game he played for the Calgary Stampeders in 2008. |
| Papuan King Parrots (pictured) often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest. |
| Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006. |
| Species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid. |
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