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Albert Tangora
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Albert Tangora
(pictured)
, one of the most successful competitive typewriter
speed typists
, once had his hands insured for US$100,000?
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Aujourd'hui
was executed by firing squad in 1944?
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Michael Jurgens
never lost in 42 high school varsity games?
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Shiva
was cut short by the death of its lead vocalist?
- ... that the 1972 Finnish film
The Sheep Eaters
gathered more than a million viewers opposite the
1975 Ice Hockey World Championships
match between Finland and the Soviet Union?
- ... that according to second-century AD Greek rhetorician
Athenaeus
, the
Phoenicians
played a flute-like instrument called the
gingras
in their mourning rituals?
- ... that
55 Broad Street
, a skyscraper in the
Financial District
of Manhattan, was called "an unlovable building in an unlivable neighborhood"?
- ... that when
Sithu Pauk Hla
was appointed the governor of
Yamethin
, he was also given command of a 50-strong company of
war elephants
?
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Today's featured picture
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HMS
Malabar
was a 74-gun
ship of the line
of the
Royal Navy
, launched in 1818 at
Bombay Dockyard
. In 1838,
Malabar
ran aground off
Prince Edward Island
in British North America and was damaged, with the loss of two crew members. She was refloated later that year and towed into
Three Rivers
in
Lower Canada
. In August 1843,
Malabar
, under the command of
Sir George Sartorius
, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the
United States Navy
sidewheel frigate
USS
Missouri
at
Gibraltar
, taking aboard about 200 of that ship's survivors.
Malabar
was converted to a
hulk
in 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and was renamed
Myrtle
in 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in 1905. This
lithograph
from around 1843 shows the crew of
Malabar
watching as
Missouri
explodes and burns in the distance.
Lithograph credit:
Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton
, after
Edward Duncan
and
George Pechell Mends
; restored by
Adam Cuerden
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