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...that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?

...that Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?

...that the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?

...that the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?

...that the first plate of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III?

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