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...that Jim Roper was credited with
NASCAR's first Strictly Stock (now
NEXTEL Cup) win after apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was found to have illegally modified springs?
...that
Duke Kahanamoku won the 100m freestyle at the
1912 Olympics after the eventual silver medallist Cecil Healy lobbied against Duke's semifinal disqualification for turning up late?
...that the unanimous decision Holmes v. South Carolina (reversing the conviction of a man who was barred from arguing that another man committed the crime) was the first decision written by
Samuel Alito as a
Supreme CourtJustice?
...that Domenico Gabrielli, one of the first composers to write solo music for the
violoncello, was himself a virtuoso cello player and earned himself the Italian dialect nickname Minghino dal viulunzeel among his contemporaries?
...that
Dominicanbaseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in
1952, hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
...that Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a marine salvage and construction firm, investigated the
USS Maine sinking in 1898, sank the
USS Moody in 1933, and raised the Normandie in 1943? (pictured: MC&S Salvage Tug)Salvage tug Relief
...that in the 1848 Moray Firth fishing disaster on the east coast of
Scotland, 124 boats sank and 100 fishermen perished, leading to a major redesign of fishing boats in the following years?
...that chaki(pictured), tea caddies for
Japanese tea ceremonies, are traditionally made from
wood,
bamboo, or
ceramic, and are classified by material, shape and the type of
tea they are designed to hold? A red lacquered chaki
...that Ernst Reuter, after having not been approved by the
Soviets as the elected mayor of post-war
Berlin, became the first mayor of the non-Soviet controlled part of the city,
West Berlin?
...that ship tracks(pictured) are
clouds that form around the
exhaust released by ships and appear as long strings over the ocean? Ship tracks over the western Atlantic Ocean
...that although the director of
Bollywood comedy Malamaal Weekly has offered money to anyone who can show that it is not an original work, several reviewers have labelled it a
remake of Waking Ned?
...that the 44 hour and 54 minute transit time of the 1905 Scott Special between
Los Angeles, California, and
Chicago, Illinois, wasn't beaten in regular railway operations until the 1937 launch of the Super Chief? Santa Fe promotional publication for the Scott Special