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4 hours ago · History. The World Curling Championships began in 1959 as the Scotch Cup. The Scotch Cup was created by Toronto public relations executive and former sports journalist Stanley D. Houston on behalf of the Scotch Whisky Association, a client of Houston's agency Public Relations Services Limited, which was looking to generate increased North American exposure for its products.
1 day ago · John Wilkes Booth – Abraham Lincoln assassin. Lizzie Borden – central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Butch Cassidy – train and bank robber. Albert Fish – famed child serial killer. Jesse James – train and bank robber.
1 day ago · From ancient times to early modern era. Italy was unified by the Roman Republic in the latter part of the third century BC. For 700 years, it was a de facto territorial extension of the capital of the Roman Republic and Empire, and for a long time experienced a privileged status but was not converted into a province.
1 day ago · First Lady of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992) First Lady of the United States (1993–2001) U.S. Senate (2001–2009) Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee (2005–2007) U.S. Secretary of State (2009–2013) Higher education. Wellesley College ( BA) Yale University ( JD) Prior public experience.
4 hours ago · Astrophotography, the photography of celestial objects, began in 1840 when John William Draper took an image of the Moon using the daguerreotype process. On 17 July 1850, Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory , also with a daguerreotype.
4 hours ago · Vontae Davis Joe Flaherty John Barth Joseph E. Brennan O. J. Simpson Robert MacNeil Ron Thompson Whitey Herzog Bob Graham Dickey Betts Daniel Dennett Terry A. Anderson Cecil Williams Marla Adams Zack Norman Paul Auster Duane Eddy. April 1 Lou Conter, 102, naval commander, last survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona (b. 1921)
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