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Current time: 17:56, 20 September 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 17 hours ago() |
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- ... that Patrick J. Hessian (pictured), the 16th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, earned the Soldier's Medal for disarming a suicidal soldier who was holding a live grenade with the pin pulled?
- ... that Rolling Stone listed Ácido Argentino as the most essential album of Argentine heavy metal?
- ... that people of the Zenú culture built canals in the La Mojana wetland area of Colombia long before Spanish arrival?
- ... that Kaylee Bryson was the first female driver to advance to the A-Main feature race at the Chili Bowl Nationals?
- ... that the Villa of Augustus was found buried beneath another villa?
- ... that every summer, the Suiattle River dirties the Sauk with glacial debris?
- ... that architect Donald MacKay designed a fire station which later burnt down in the Great Seattle Fire?
- ... that according to legend, after one of the Earl de Grey's parrots was killed, the other never spoke again?