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Church of St. Casimir
- ... that Victor Cordella designed around twenty churches in Minnesota, including the Church of St. Casimir (pictured)?
- ... that the Spring Willow Society probably staged the first full-length Shakespearean play in China?
- ... that La Querida in Palm Beach, Florida, served as the Winter White House for President John F. Kennedy?
- ... that residents of Tudor City once put themselves in front of a bulldozer to prevent a park there from being demolished?
- ... that the logo of the South Korean company LG is based on an ancient roof tile?
- ... that abortion in the United Arab Emirates has been described by Newsweek as less restrictive than some American states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
- ... that opera singer Susan Botti performed an Olympic jingle for Kodak to pay for graduate school?
- ... that a 15th-century cause célèbre saw a duchess dead, innocents hanged, villains and sorcerers drawn and quartered, and eventually the king's brother executed in a butt of malmsey?
- ... that the black molly might not be a black molly?
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Sam Nujoma
- In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.
- Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma (pictured) dies at the age of 95.
- A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
- The 49th imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, Aga Khan IV, dies at the age of 88 and is succeeded by his son, Aga Khan V.
- Eleven people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
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