Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
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| Accidental Discoveries: The True Stories Behind Five of Our Favorite Products |
| Not all of the world's most brilliant innovations were intentional. In many cases, an accident or mistake led to some creative thinking, which eventually became a new, hot product. Such is the case with these products. |
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| Ferdinand & World War I |
| World War I was started by an almost insignificant event -- if such an event can be called insignificant. But the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the ignition of the tinder that surrounded the dynamite which turned into World War I. |
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| You Live Where? Weird Town Names |
| All of the towns and cities listed below are actual names of real towns and cities – there is one for each state. 1. Burnt Corn, Alabama 2. Shishmaref, Alaska 3. Cockscomb Butte, Arizona 4. Weiner, Arkansas 5. Hooker, California 6. Bonanza, Colorado 7. Giants Neck, Connecticut |
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| First Successful “Temporary Insanity” Plea in the United States |
| US Representative Daniel E. Sickles is the first defendant known to have won an acquittal of a first degree murder charge with a plea of not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. In 1859 he shot and killed Philip Barton Key, the son of composer Francis Scott Key, in broad daylight. |
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