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After six long years of war, today in 1945, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies. There are 1 849 IMAX theatres around the globe. The largest is in Sydney, NSW. In the 16th Century, learning was considered to be 'children's work'.  The nation's 2 996 dry cleaning establishments clean up a $1 billion a year. Time is a great teacher but it ultimately kills all of its students.  The given name Earl comes from the Old English word meaning 'nobleman'.  According to StatsCan one of out every five  stalking victims will be physically assaulted. Smiles denote pleasure, sociability, happiness, joy or amusement. This is Independence Day for  212,742,631  Pakistanis, celebrated since 1947. 7.5 billion humans smile in the same language. Basal, reflex and psychic are the three types of tears. China, Turkey and Iran produce most of the world's watermelons. With the flourish of a pen, FDR signed the US Social Security Act, today in ...

The wire hanger is 150 years old. Web crawler Google was initially introduced to the public as BackRub.  This is Veterans’ Day in the Netherlands.  0.3% of our forests are harvested yearly; we are the world’s #1 exporter of softwood lumber. Hanging: a suspended sentences. Today in 1898, the first Express left St. Johns at 19h20; it arrived in Port-aux-Basques the next evening. Psychology has ten main branches.  Celery leaves are herbs; celery seeds are spice.  The surnames Baxter and Brewster described women who made beer.  My neighbour takes psychotropic meds—it’s better than stealing them.  Doctors prescribe antidepressants to 5.5% of us; the ratio is five times higher in NL than BC.  Dance is choreography, repertoire of movement, historical period or place of origin.  Next year, 100% State of Tasmania’s power will be 100% sourced from renewable energy. On this date in 1962, the Champlain Bridge opened...