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Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics
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Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons
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...that
Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240, securing the future of the Mali Empire?

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D-Day
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shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics
through their wastewater?
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
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Prince Eugén, the youngest son of king Oscar II
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Perthes disease
as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
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Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I?
...that the
Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s
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...that Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century?
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one-day international
status for the next four years?
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El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali
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Metropolitan Police Force for six months before he was killed by an IRA
gunman?

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...that panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
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read music
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...that after
New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called 'the blacklist
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Vikings and have been used for more than a thousand years by the fishermen of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
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...that
, is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?
...that the
Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, covering over 100,000 topics?
...that J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International?

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Malinké griots
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pilot and equestrian
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Historical Atlas of China
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...that in
1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?

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meters above sea level
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...that the
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
...that the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?

...that the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel in a politically and religiously conservative direction?
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Buckingham Palace Gardens
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Japanese American Fred Korematsu
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Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe
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One Night In Bangkok", from the musical Chess, gained new-found popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz
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1160 BC for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea, is the earliest known geologic map
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Ronin
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cameraman
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Article I or Article III tribunal
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Krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993
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thoroughbred horse racing
immortality by a few inches?
...that
football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981
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...that
Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism
to become their 13th summer camp?
...that "
E.Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon
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